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Dissertations from 2024

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An Improvement Science Study on the Impact of Community Building Circles on Teacher Efficacy and Discipline Referrals for African American Males, Katrina J. Bigham

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Using Improvement Science to Reduce Student Retention in High School Through School-Based Mentoring, Ellen B. Borland

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A Mixed Methods Study of South Carolina Reading Policy on Teacher Knowledge, Matthew Ferguson

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Creating a Culture of College and Career Readiness- Strategies and Interventions for African American Students, James R. Ford

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Factors Affecting Teacher Retention In A Selected South Carolina School District: Perspectives Of Administrators And Teachers, Alvilda Graham

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Students Willing and Ready to Motivate to Graduate: An Alternative Pathway to Graduation, Laura Lusk

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Using Improvement Science to Increase the Achievement Of Multilingual Learners, Jamie L. McCarthy

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Addressing The Black-White AP Participation Gap: An Improvement Science Project, Gales Scroggs

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Equipping Educational Leaders to Lead Data Democracies: A Case Study, Diane Sigmon

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Disrupting the Cascade: Using Improvement Science to Mitigate Negative Outcomes Associated with Exclusionary Discipline Practices in Schools, Katelyn Singleton

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Restoring Student Behavior: A Culturally Responsive Evaluation of Restorative Practices on Disproportionate Referral Data, Meredith Strmac

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Using Improvement Science and a Co-Teaching Model to Increase the Effects of Evidence-Based Reading Intervention for High School Students Reading Below Grade Level Proficiency, Ashley Vaughn

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Answering the Call: Harnessing Internal Boundary Spanning Infrastructure to Organize for Rural District Improvement, Cynthia Ward

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Improving Academic Attitudes and Motivation Using Literacy Learning in a Rural Literacy Intervention Classroom, Dannie Wilson

Dissertations from 2023

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The Effects of the ESOL Program on African American Vernacular Speaking Students Reading, Marquice Clark

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Restorative Practices: Implementing an Alternative to Disproportionate Out-Of-School Suspension and Expulsion Rates of Black Students, Ezra Cowan

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Leadership Matters: Developing and Growing Leaders to Lead High-Needs Schools, Mona Dickson

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The Use of the South Carolina School Improvement Model - Quick Cycles in Sixth-Grade Science Classrooms, Jennifer Gnann

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Efficacy Meets Inquiry: Impact of Lesson Study and Reflective Inquiry on the Development of Novice Teacher Self-Efficacy, Taylor B. Hering

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Annotations of Awareness: A Framework for Externalizing Thinking to Promote Metacognitive Discourse in High School English and Social Studies Classrooms, Todd Howard

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Intent Versus Reality: Examining Implementation of the Advisory Period at the Middle School Level, Jordan A. Hudson

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Teaching Them to Fish: Using a Districtwide System of Supports To Improve College and Career Readiness in a Rural School District, Lavonia Johnson-Davis

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The Effects of Math Pathways on Pupils in Poverty, Edward Kameen

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Managing Teacher Attrition: Improving Teacher Self-Efficacy Through the Implementation of Professional Learning Communities, Stephanie Peagler

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Use of Vocabulary Strategies to Aid English Language Learners in a General Education Biology Classroom, Virginia Perry

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Making the Move Toward Meaningfulness in Learning Activities: Enhancing Teacher Self-Efficacy in Student Engagement Through an Instructional Coaching Approach in Improvement Science, Maureen Tiller

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Implementation Of An Early College Design In A Rural High School: Empowering Place-Conscious Leadership To Affect Change And Overcome Barriers To Innovation, Michael Timko

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Leveraging Professional Learning to Impact Leadership of Technology Integration, Tennille Woodward

Dissertations from 2022

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Pedagogical Data Literacy With a Multi-Tiered System of Supports: A Mixed Methods Study of Teachers Using Data-Driven Reading Instruction in a Title I School, Paula Alexander

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The Effects of the AVID Program on Rural Student Growth in Middle Grades Mathematics, James Allen

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An Exploratory Study Using Improvement Science to Better Understand How Modeling the Inverted Pyramid Fosters Servant Leadership Characteristics in a Rural Public School District, Jennifer Anderson

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It’s Just an Idea: How Rural Teachers Implement Personalized Learning Within the Education System, Kedralyn L. Folk

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The Impact of Funds of Knowledge on Elementary Multilingual Learners’ Perceptions of Their Connection to Their Teacher and the Classroom, Kelli Lowe

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“This Is Anonymous, Right?” A Qualitative Study of Why Higher Education Students Cheat, Anne Marie Rogers

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Using Blended Learning To Support Students During the COVID-19 Pandemic To Increase Credit Recovery Passage Rates: A Mixed-methods Study, Anjail Salahudin-Bolden

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Increasing Classroom Teachers' Use of Linguistically Responsive Strategies to Support English Language Learners: A Mixed-Methods Study, Christie Shealy

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Building Teachers’ Cultural Capital in the Classroom: Using Funds of Knowledge to Support Multilingual Learners, Lindsey Skirtich

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Developing and Advancing the Listening Lift Program to Improve How Leaders Listen as a Means to Communicate More Effectively, Jeremy Spielman

Dissertations from 2021

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A Critical Analysis of the Discourse of Culturally Responsive Curriculum Within South Carolina’s Secondary U.S. History and Constitution Standards, James L. Goude

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Interventions to Increase Prospective Teacher Candidates' Praxis II Content Exam Scores, Takara Hart

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Personalized Professional Development Using Improvement Science: Induction Teachers’ Sense of Teacher Self-Efficacy, Natasha Yvette Harvin-Wright

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The Use of Improvement Science by a Principal to Increase Teacher Satisfaction and Teacher Retention Rates in an Elementary School Setting, Melissa Lynn LaBerge

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"All I Needed was Somebody to Talk to Me": Using Improvement Science to End Exclusionary Discipline Practices with Black Girls, Aubrey Moreland

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Impact of Interventions on Student Performance Among Eighth Graders in Algebra 1, Tiffany Osborne