Explore master's theses and doctoral dissertations from graduates of the URI Feinstein College of Education.

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Theses/Dissertations from 2014

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THE COLLEGE EXPERIENCE OF COMMUTER STUDENTS AND THE CONCEPTS OF PLACE AND SPACE, Marissa Weiss

Theses/Dissertations from 2013

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Girl Talk: Analyzing Discourse Among Urban Middle School Girls, Carey Delauder Bledsoe

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CONNECTING SCHOOL AND CHILD WELFARE SYSTEMS TO STUDENTS IN FOSTER CARE: AN EMPOWERING INTERVENTION, Tonya Glantz

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Teacher Attitudes: The Effects of Teacher Beliefs on Teaching Practices and Achievement of Students with Disabilities, Mary Klehm

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GENDER-TWISTING AND BROS TALKING: DISCURSIVE PERFORMANCE OF GENDER, POWER, AND RECOGNITION IN THE SEX ED. CLASS, Odile Mattiauda

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THE DEVELOPMENT AND VALIDATION OF THE FAMILY EXPERIENCES WITH AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDERS (FEASD) SCALE, Adam Moore

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Teachers Developing Exemplary Inquiry Practices: Three Longitudinal Case Studies, Sara B. Sweetman

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Professional Development in Historical Inquiry: Exploring Changes in Two Social Studies Teachers' Knowledge, Beliefs, and Practices, Thalia Wood

Theses/Dissertations from 2012

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Beyond the Black Horizon: Perspectives of African American Collegians Who Studied Abroad, Aaron Ian Bruce

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Voices Silenced, Voices Heard: Exploring Status, Discourse, and Learning in Middle School Discussion Groups, Laura A. Chiaravalloti

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GENDERED PATTERNS IN HIGH ACHIEVEMENT IN MATHEMATICS FOR GRADES 4, 6, AND 8, Laura J. Falvey

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TIME FOR LEARNING: UNDERSTANDING STUDENTS’ PERSPECTIVES TOWARD LEARNING IN EXPANDED LEARNING TIME REFORM, Kris A. Monahan

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THE DIALECTICS OF TEACHER CHANGE WTIHIN A COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE, Armand R. Pires

Theses/Dissertations from 2011

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Theoretical Frames and Teaching Styles of Physical Therapy Faculty Who Lead International Service-Learning Experiences, Jennifer Gail Audette

Theses/Dissertations from 2010

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Making waves with critical literacy: A teacher researcher study around the texts, contexts, and recontextualizations of an upper middle class public high school, Carolyn Fortuna

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Literacy coaching: The role of reflective thought in teacher decision making, Patricia Jane May

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An empathetic approach to Physical Education Teacher Education, Tony Monahan

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Possessing new worlds: Eliciting abstract thought and empathic response through image construction, Nancy Noonan

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The role of pedagogical documentation in developing young children's thinking processes, Leslie A. Sevey

Theses/Dissertations from 2009

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Making room for one another: Practicing dynamic and designed dialogicality in a kindergarten classroom, Gerri August

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The effects of a peer-mediated intervention on language and reciprocity in young children with social communication disorders, Sharon Bissonnette

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Exploring some inattended affective factors in performing nonroutine mathematical tasks, John D. Butler

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Children of possibility: Children's musicking in communities of practice, Kimberly Cotter-Lemus

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The Relationship Between Assistive Technology State Standards for Teachers, Assistive Technology Implementation, and Student Performance in the Context of Evidence-Based Practice, Elizabeth Minchin Dalton

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A quantitative study of the summer slide in science of elementary school students, Giovanna Guadagno Donoyan

Theses/Dissertations from 2008

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Short title: Teacher-student epistemological interplay, Donald Bruce Bierman

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The opportunity to learn: Identification and measurement of school conditions that contextualize student achievement, Amy L. Burns

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An investigation of communication patterns and strategies between international teaching assistants and undergraduate students in university-level science labs, Barbara Elas Gourlay

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Beyond reflection of job performance: An investigation of how initial status teachers reflect on practice to address the educational needs of their students, Andrew Peter Kelley

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Hegemonic struggles in one high school classroom: A Critical Discourse Analysis of high school students' democratic dialogue, John A. Walsh III

Theses/Dissertations from 2007

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Managed chaos: An ethnographic study of special education teacher practice, Lisa A. Ferrelli

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Examining the effectiveness of a school-based mental health center's services, Sally A. Mitchell

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Student engagement in a 7th/8 th grade social studies, ESL classroom, Julie Nora

Theses/Dissertations from 2006

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The relationship between tactical knowledge and tactical performance for varying levels of expertise, Robin Kirkwood Auld

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The incorporation of communicative language teaching into the elaboration of interactive software for ESL/EFL learning, Vladia Borges

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Determining the effects of a foundations of education/diversity preparation class on the multicultural knowledge, skills and dispositions of preservice teacher applicants, Christine M. Wilson

Theses/Dissertations from 2005

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The effects of a kit-based science curriculum and teacher characteristics on students' attitude toward science, Sharon K. Lee

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The relationship between school and independent educational evaluations: Issues in identification and eligibility for students with learning disabilities, Marie A. Lynch

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Restructuring school: Improving K-8 science teaching and learning in schools through systematic professional development, Diana Catalina Siliezar

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Youth in action: A study of developing citizen identity, Joyce L. Stevos

Theses/Dissertations from 2004

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Issues of gender and peer collaboration in a problem-solving computer activity, Laurie E. Center

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Teacher collaboration: Learning from inclusion dyad dialogues, Carol Ann Frisk

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The factors that influence middle-level teachers to incorporate community service-learning into the curriculum, Andrea J. Hainey-Turcotte

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Freedom's children: Fifth graders' perceptions of the effects of peace education in the form of Kingian nonviolence, Sylvia Carolle Spears

Theses/Dissertations from 2003

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Personalizing the school environment: Teacher-based advisory programs that support student adjustment and academic outcomes, Caroline Johnson Caswell

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Creativity in the time of accountability: Lessons from three middle schools, Kevin Michael Hurley

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The relationships between metacomprehension strategy awareness, student reading performance and comprehension strategy instruction, Diane Elliott Kern

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The personalization of the school environment: The relationship of students' access to support from an adult with student adjustment outcomes and experiences of school climate, Arthur William Lisi Jr.

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The Embedded Writing Institute: A study of professional development, Beverly A. Paesano

Theses/Dissertations from 2002

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A study of the relation between reading achievement and less-than-proficient urban adolescent readers' world view of reading, Gerardine Cannon

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Peer group instructional conversation: Collaboration in context, Linda Greene Capalbo

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The effect of an integrated curriculum on fourth graders' achievement in and attitude toward music instruction, Shirley E. Lacroix

Theses/Dissertations from 2001

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The influence of teacher response on African American students' codeswitching, Celeste Minor Bowler

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An analysis of Rhode Island child opportunity zones through the lens of whole-school change, Susan Patricia Casey Torrey

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Providing phonemic awareness instruction to pre-first graders: An extended-year kindergarten program, Thomas Terrence Cleary

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Technology Assisted Life Stories, Gary R. Harlow

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Gender roles and science beliefs and their relationship to science interest, Judith Jean Paolucci

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The relationship between teachers' theoretical orientations to reading and their verbal feedback to students during oral reading, Kathleen A. Swann

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The effectiveness of transitional bilingual education on the reading performance of Cape Verdean students from Crioulo-speaking homes, Kay Helene Wood

Theses/Dissertations from 2000

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Emergent readers' joint text construction: A descriptive study of reading in social context, Mary Lee Prescott Griffin

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Understanding children's perspectives: Sixth graders talk about their art, Christine Anne Mulcahey

Theses/Dissertations from 1999

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Comparing the achievement of eighth-grade boys and girls on norm referenced and performance tests in language arts, reading and mathematics, Helen Christina Barboza

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By whom and how is service-learning implemented in middle-level schools involved in documenting school improvement: A quantitative study of opportunity-to-learn conditions and practices, Anne M. Seitsinger

Theses/Dissertations from 1996

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The Curriculum of Consciousness: The Disciplines from the Greeks to Post-Modernity, Daniel Novak

Theses/Dissertations from 1995

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Personality Type and Medical Specialty Choice, Ann M. Ronan

Theses/Dissertations from 1992

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The Coping Strategies of Taiwanese Students at an American University, Litsong Lu

Theses/Dissertations from 1991

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A Study of the Effect of Individual Learning Objective Conferences on Understanding of Self in a Structured Experiential Learning Program at the University of Rhode Island, Lynn Gaulin

Theses/Dissertations from 1990

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The Relationship Between Locus of Control, Gender and Field of Study Among Graduate Students at the University of Rhode Island, Mary Fetherston

Theses/Dissertations from 1988

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An Error of Preoperative Instruction, Elaine Caragianis

Theses/Dissertations from 1965

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The Views of Rhode Island Junior and Senior High School Directors of Guidance Regarding Group Counseling, Ann Marie Nunes

Theses/Dissertations from 1964

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Counseling Role Perceptions of United States Navy Chaplains, Thomas Barclay Uber

Theses/Dissertations from 1962

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Interpretation of the First Grade Program to the Public Through the Medium of the Press, Claire Andrews

Theses/Dissertations from 1961

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A Comparison of the Characteristics and Scholastic Achievement Between the Transient and Permanent Children in Grades Four, Five and Six in North Kingstown, Gabriella Hamilton Adams

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A Study of the Use and Non-Use of Anecdotal Records in Elementary Schools, Sylvia Antonelli

Theses/Dissertations from 1960

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A Comparison of Acceptance Attitude of a Selected Group of Teachers and Counselors, Donald Herman Anderson

Theses/Dissertations from 1959

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The Construction of a Mathematical Manual to Serve Secondary Schools with Particular Reference to Those of North Kingstown, Leroy Edwin Algren

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Group Discussion as a Medium for Qualifying Concepts of Social Behavior in the Junior High School, Jack Randall

Theses/Dissertations from 1955

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An Investigation Into the In-Service Training of the Teachers in Providence, Rhode Island, Dorothy Mary Alexander

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Predictors of Scholastic Success at the University of Rhode Island, James Wilson Eastwood

Theses/Dissertations from 1954

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A Project in Civic Education in Elementary Schools Through Pupil Participation, Mildred Claire Alger

Theses/Dissertations from 1951

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The Disorganization of Certain Portuguese Families in American Society, Manuel M. Cabral