Dissertations from 2025
Improving Rural Students’ Career Readiness Through Implementation of a Work-Based Learning Career Mentoring Program, Celeste D. Bearden
Are They Ready? Impacting Kindergarten Readiness Through the Science of Reading, Traci T. Boyles
Bringing to Life Our Mission and Vision: the Role of Professional Development in Instructional Technology, Katherine I. Britton
Engaging Minds: The Impact of Multimodal Instruction on Multiplication Facts, Ashleigh Cobey
Using Parent Empowerment Groups to Increase Academic Success in Kindergarten Multilingual Learners, Sarah C. Deloach
Engaging Minds: Assessing the Impact of Arts-Integration on Science Achievement and Engagement Using Planned Experimentation, Fonda G. DuPre
Using Coaching to Improve Co-Teaching Practices Through the Use of Improvement Science, Ashley D. Grech
Improving Reading Proficiency Through a Structured MTSS Framework: Bridging the Gap Between Evidence and Practice, Meghan N. Greer
Improving Retention of Students With Disabilities in Stem Through Math-Based Type Science Readiness, Eleni N. Koukoularis
Tiered Structured Intervention Program to Prevent Student Pushout in High School, Toshawnka T. Mahone
Exploring the Impact of Co-teaching on High School Math Achievement for Students with Disabilities, Josh T. Oxendine
Bringing Life to Our Mission and Vision: A Problem of Practice, Jessica Preisig
Mathematics Achievement: The Impact of Cooperative Learning Strategies on Math Anxiety and Self-Efficacy Among Adult Basic Education Students, Lacey H. Rogers
Studying the Impact of Co-teaching on Students With Disabilities Self-Efficacy in an Algebra 1 Course., Shannon E. Sharkey
From Collaboration to Achievement: Exploring Co-teaching as a Strategy to Close the Gap in Mathematics for Students With Disabilities, Lindsay L. Stewart
Implementing a Modified Schedule Program in South Carolina Schools: An Alternative Method to Graduate Students, Alexander J. Velasquez Escalona
Teacher Support and Professional Development Needs in a New Virtual Academy, Joshua Young
Dissertations from 2024
An Improvement Science Study on the Impact of Community Building Circles on Teacher Efficacy and Discipline Referrals for African American Males, Katrina J. Bigham
Using Improvement Science to Reduce Student Retention in High School Through School-Based Mentoring, Ellen B. Borland
"Don't Put Me Here To Meet A Quota": A Qualitative Descriptive Study Of Black Male Teacher Retention, Latresha Drummond
A Mixed Methods Study of South Carolina Reading Policy on Teacher Knowledge, Matthew Ferguson
Creating a Culture of College and Career Readiness- Strategies and Interventions for African American Students, James R. Ford
Factors Affecting Teacher Retention In A Selected South Carolina School District: Perspectives Of Administrators And Teachers, Alvilda Graham
Students Willing and Ready to Motivate to Graduate: An Alternative Pathway to Graduation, Laura Lusk
Using Improvement Science to Increase the Achievement Of Multilingual Learners, Jamie L. McCarthy
Addressing The Black-White AP Participation Gap: An Improvement Science Project, Gales Scroggs
Equipping Educational Leaders to Lead Data Democracies: A Case Study, Diane Sigmon
Disrupting the Cascade: Using Improvement Science to Mitigate Negative Outcomes Associated with Exclusionary Discipline Practices in Schools, Katelyn Singleton
Restoring Student Behavior: A Culturally Responsive Evaluation of Restorative Practices on Disproportionate Referral Data, Meredith Strmac
Answering the Call: Harnessing Internal Boundary Spanning Infrastructure to Organize for Rural District Improvement, Cynthia Ward
Improving Academic Attitudes and Motivation Using Literacy Learning in a Rural Literacy Intervention Classroom, Dannie Wilson
Dissertations from 2023
The Effects of the ESOL Program on African American Vernacular Speaking Students Reading, Marquice Clark
Leadership Matters: Developing and Growing Leaders to Lead High-Needs Schools, Mona Dickson
The Use of the South Carolina School Improvement Model - Quick Cycles in Sixth-Grade Science Classrooms, Jennifer Gnann
Efficacy Meets Inquiry: Impact of Lesson Study and Reflective Inquiry on the Development of Novice Teacher Self-Efficacy, Taylor B. Hering
Intent Versus Reality: Examining Implementation of the Advisory Period at the Middle School Level, Jordan A. Hudson
Teaching Them to Fish: Using a Districtwide System of Supports To Improve College and Career Readiness in a Rural School District, Lavonia Johnson-Davis
The Effects of Math Pathways on Pupils in Poverty, Edward Kameen
Managing Teacher Attrition: Improving Teacher Self-Efficacy Through the Implementation of Professional Learning Communities, Stephanie Peagler
Use of Vocabulary Strategies to Aid English Language Learners in a General Education Biology Classroom, Virginia Perry
Leveraging Professional Learning to Impact Leadership of Technology Integration, Tennille Woodward
Dissertations from 2022
The Effects of the AVID Program on Rural Student Growth in Middle Grades Mathematics, James Allen
It’s Just an Idea: How Rural Teachers Implement Personalized Learning Within the Education System, Kedralyn L. Folk
“This Is Anonymous, Right?” A Qualitative Study of Why Higher Education Students Cheat, Anne Marie Rogers
Using Blended Learning To Support Students During the COVID-19 Pandemic To Increase Credit Recovery Passage Rates: A Mixed-methods Study, Anjail Salahudin-Bolden
Increasing Classroom Teachers' Use of Linguistically Responsive Strategies to Support English Language Learners: A Mixed-Methods Study, Christie Shealy
Building Teachers’ Cultural Capital in the Classroom: Using Funds of Knowledge to Support Multilingual Learners, Lindsey Skirtich
Developing and Advancing the Listening Lift Program to Improve How Leaders Listen as a Means to Communicate More Effectively, Jeremy Spielman
Dissertations from 2021
Interventions to Increase Prospective Teacher Candidates' Praxis II Content Exam Scores, Takara Hart
Personalized Professional Development Using Improvement Science: Induction Teachers’ Sense of Teacher Self-Efficacy, Natasha Yvette Harvin-Wright
The Use of Improvement Science by a Principal to Increase Teacher Satisfaction and Teacher Retention Rates in an Elementary School Setting, Melissa Lynn LaBerge
"All I Needed was Somebody to Talk to Me": Using Improvement Science to End Exclusionary Discipline Practices with Black Girls, Aubrey Moreland
Impact of Interventions on Student Performance Among Eighth Graders in Algebra 1, Tiffany Osborne