This dissertation explores how literacy instruction is organized for, taught, and experienced by five adolescent, African American, male students in an eighth grade English/Language Arts classroom. With this dissertation, ...

This study chronicled the intertextual links generated by 8 able readers as they read a five-passage tableau. Each reader silently read the passages and reported aloud their thoughts during a $2{1\over2}$ to 3 hour session. ...

When observations (trials) are nested within combinations of subjects and stimuli, crossed random effects models simultaneously take into account both fixed effects and random effects of the subjects and stimuli; however, ...

Utilizing a theoretical framework grounded in critical race theory and culturally relevant pedagogy, the purpose of this qualitative case study was to explore the perceptions of preservice teachers (in a four-year university) ...

While new patterns of scientific collaboration are now emerging such that scientists in advanced and emerging economies link with those in less developed economies, often based in global South, and generate significant ...

While the literature provides useful insights into the nature of experts, much less attention has been paid to how individuals become experts in their jobs in the first place and what they do with their domain-specific ...

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is one of the most prominent and widely recognized condition. The prevalence has increased drastically to 1 in 54 children, and with students demonstrating the largest increase. Many students ...

Augusta Braxston Baker (1911-1998) was a Black American librarian whose tenure within the New York Public Library (NYPL) system lasted for more than thirty years. This study seeks to shed light upon Baker’s educational ...

Historically caregivers of individuals with disabilities have engaged in individual (for their children) and systemic advocacy (for others). Although it is widely known that caregivers advocate for their school-aged children ...

This thesis explores whether or not the changing of students’ latent trait influences the power and the lag performance of a detection procedure based on Item Response Theory for successfully identifying a compromised item ...