Theses and dissertations produced by graduate students at Benerd College, Gladys L. Benerd School of Education and all previous iterations of the college.

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Theses/Dissertations from 2020

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Dissertation: The Pathways Program: Understanding the Effectiveness of a Structured and Support Based Standalone Dual Credit Program, Pablo Ortega

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Dissertation: CHARTER SCHOOLS’ ACCOUNTABILITY: A PROGRAM EVALUATION OF THE CHARTER OVERSIGHT UNIT OF THE CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION, Chaddrick L. Owes

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Dissertation: INFLUENCES ON DOCTOR OF EDUCATION STUDENTS WHO HAVE COMPLETED ALL PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS BUT DISSERTATION, Christopher Page

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Dissertation: THE EXPERIENCE OF THE LOCAL CONTROL ACCOUNTABILITY PLAN, Angela Carter Pascual

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Dissertation: Facilitating collaborative supervision in a university speech-language pathology clinic, Benjamin K. Reece

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Dissertation: USING COMMUNITY CULTURAL WEALTH NARRATIVES OF LOW-INCOME HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS IN A RURAL NORTHERN CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY, Rene Rodriguez Malamed

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Dissertation: What's Next? Improving an Out-of-School-Time Program for Social-Emotional Learning in an Elementary School, Karen Marie Sarafian

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Dissertation: Connections: Social media and parents raising children with profound multiple disabilities, Amy Ann Terra

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Dissertation: Relationships Between Religious Involvement, Stress, Depression, and Academic Performance of Graduate Students in Education, Jai Thao

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Dissertation: FIRST YEAR FEMALE ASSISTANT PRINCIPALS AT THE SECONDARY SCHOOL LEVEL: TRANSITIONS, PERSPECTIVES, ASPIRATIONS, Jennifer Tilton

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Dissertation: Understanding the Experiences of Underemployed First-Generation Hmong Graduates, Mong Vang

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Dissertation: Designing leadership: Using design thinking to create, practices, and implement a formal leadership development program, Jon Samuel Wedding

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Dissertation: MOVING QUICKLY: ONE STUDENT’S REFLECTIONS ON THE VALUE OF SECONDARY ACCELERATED LEARNING PROGRAMS, Rachel Marie West

Theses/Dissertations from 2019

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Thesis: Saudi Arabian Students in Postgraduate Dental Programs: Investigating Factors Associated with Burnout, Asiri Amal

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Dissertation: We (She, Me, Her) Are Not In Communication: An Autoethnography of a Black College Administrator, Tanya Anderson

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Dissertation: Rural Teachers' Perceptions of Collaboration and Professional Growth in Mathematics, Katherine M. Burns

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Dissertation: Visual arts: Teaching creativity from within, Del Camara

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Dissertation: Educational success of low-income and first generation college students in private colleges of China, Yinghui Chen

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Dissertation: How a Small Business Negotiates Digital Inclusion of People with Disabilities: A Case Study, Belo Miguel Cipriani

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Dissertation: Student perceptions of the Clip Chart Management System, Karin D. Compise

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Dissertation: PRESCHOOL TEACHERS IN SHANGHAI, CHINA: PRE-SERVICE PIANO SKILL DEVELOPMENT, PERCEPTION OF ADEQUACY, AND CURRENT INSTRUCTIONAL USAGE, Chenyan Dai

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Dissertation: The Chief Executive Officer of Charter Management Organizations and their Perspective on Instructional Leadership to Improve Student Achievement, Bryce Alan Geigle

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Dissertation: DISRUPTING THE PRISON-TO-PRISON PIPELINE: DOING RESTORATIVE IDENTITY WORK WITH OFFENDER-LABELED YOUTH, Jahmon Londre Gibbs

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Dissertation: The Associations Between the Perception of Helpfulness of Teacher Induction Programs, Teacher Self-Efficacy, and Anticipated First-Year Teacher Retention in Shanghai Public Primary Schools, Xiaotian Han

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Dissertation: Oral Health Care: An Autoethnography Reflecting on Dentistry's Collective Neglect and Changes in Professional Education Resulting in the Dental Hygienist Being the Prevention-focused Primary Oral Health Care Provider, Maureen Patricia McWeeney Harrington

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Dissertation: EFFECTS OF EYE TRACKING DURING INFANCY ON SOCIAL AMBIGUITY AND EMOTIONAL DISTRESS, Gabriela Hernandez

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Dissertation: THE INFLUENCES OF EARLY MOTHER-CHILD ATTACHMENT ND TEACHER-CHILD RELATIONSHIPS ON CHILDREN’S EMOTION REGULATION IN THIRD GRADE, Haijuan Huang

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Dissertation: The relationship between the CEFI, as a measure for executive function, and the BASC-3, as a measure of externalizing behavior, on school problems for children receiving special education services, David Looney

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Dissertation: The effects of attachment and alliances within the family on student/teacher relationships and disruptive behavior, Monika J. Mabe

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Dissertation: An autoethnographic study: An identity lost and a passage discovered, Simone Shonte Martinez

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Dissertation: NEAR MISS REPORTING: PERSPECTIVES ON WORKER CONVERSANCE OF INCIDENT EVENTS ACROSS TWO INDUSTRIES, Julia McGee

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Dissertation: Developing collective teacher efficacy in one urban low-income elementary school: A case study, Lori Ann Morgan

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Dissertation: Faculty adaptation to emerging instructional technologies in higher education, Marilyn Murrillo

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Dissertation: Improving Teacher Retention by Addressing Teachers' Compassion Fatigue, Jacquelyn Ollison

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Dissertation: Early Childhood Teacher Educators Perception of Their Own Critical Reflection on Race, Ethnicity, and Culture, Nicole Denise Porter

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Dissertation: Exploring the Attitudes and Beliefs of Audiology Students About People Who Are Deaf or Hard of Hearing, Nancy Grosz Sager

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Dissertation: KINDERGARTEN TEACHERS’ PERSPECTIVES ON AND USAGE OF PICTURE BOOKS IN EFL CLASSROOMS IN SHANGHAI, Yuan Shi

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Dissertation: Factors underlying high school mathematics teachers' perceptions of challenging math tasks, Mariya Anne Sullivan

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Dissertation: The effects of design thinking on students' career self-efficacy in career guidance courses, Zhongmiao Sun

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Dissertation: Early Care and Education Testimonios at the Borderlands, Jennifer Torres Siders

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Dissertation: Dialogue During Team Problem Solving Using Visual Representation Boundary Objects: A Case Study, Julie Marie Webb

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Dissertation: The Effects of the Flipped Classroom Model on Students' Learning in a College English Class in Shanghai, China, Xiaoying Wei

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Dissertation: EXPLORING LEADERSHIP IDENTITY DEVELOPMENT OF CHINESE GENERATION Z STUDENT LEADERS, Juan Mille Xu

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Dissertation: THE EFFECTS OF AN IDEAL-L2-SELF-BASED INTERVENTION ON SECOND LANGAUGE MOTIVATION OF COLLEGE ENGLISH MAJORS IN CHINA, Yue Yang

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Thesis: TEACHERS’ SELF-EFFICACY BELIEFS IN RELATION TO PERCEIVED ENGLISH PROFICIENCY AND TEACHING PRACTICES: AN INVESTIGATION OF CHINESE PRIMARY ENGLISH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE (EFL) TEACHERS, Yun Zhang

Theses/Dissertations from 2018

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Dissertation: Evaluating Dental Students’ Preferences of the Current Assessment Methods Used in Dental Education and their Impact on Learning Approaches, Hanadi Alenezi

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Dissertation: Psychological, Academic and Demographic Variables Affecting Students’ Academic Achievement Among First Year College Students in Saudi Arabia, Ahmed Alonazi

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Thesis: The Impact of Donald Trump’s Tweets on College Student Civic Engagement in Relation to his Perceived Credibility and Expertise, Thalia Bobadilla

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Dissertation: SCHOOL DISCIPLINARY RESPONSES TO UNEXCUSED ABSENCES, Zachary Boswell

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Dissertation: Formation of Professional Identity: Elementary Teachers Who Transition to University-Based Teacher Education, Patricia L. Burgess

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Dissertation: Effects of Sustained Attention on the Social Skills of Assertion, Cooperation, Self Control, and Peer Competence, Amy Jean Burns

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Dissertation: It is better: An autoethnographic study; "why" it is and the perceived protective factors along the way, Michael Dennis Cowan

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Dissertation: STUDENTS WITH AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER SUPPORT WHILE ATTENDING A FOUR-YEAR INSTITUTION OF HIGHER EDUCATION, Laurie J. Koehler Crawford

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Dissertation: Incivility and Abrasive Conduct in Institutions of Higher Learning and the Ombuds Role, Hector Escalante

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Dissertation: RATE OF GROWTH IN SPANISH-SPEAKING ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS RECEIVING INTERVENTION THROUGH MULTITIERED SYSTEMS OF SUPPORT, Diana Gilbert

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Dissertation: Increasing Blacks' Representation and Utilization on the Bone Marrow Registry: An action-oriented needs assessment, Indria Gillespie

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Dissertation: Social and Emotional Effects of a School Lottery on Gifted Adolescents: A Retrospective, Adrianne Michelle Go-Miller

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Dissertation: A case study on the perceived impact of elementary school departmentalization on teacher math self-efficacy, Rich Thomas Haley III

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Dissertation: Family child care providers' perceptions of quality of training in the early head start program, Carmen Zuleyma Hercules

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Dissertation: Testimonio of a Migrant English Language Learner (ELL), Steven Thomas Hoy

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Dissertation: Issues of equity among team members in special education: Voices of parents new to special education, Amanda R. Johnson

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Dissertation: West meets East: An exploration of the ways American university development officers can build guanxi with Chinese parents, Jinrui Zhang Mone

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Dissertation - Pacific Access Restricted: Balanced Literacy and its Impact on the Reading Development of African American Students, Kelley E. Odipo

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Dissertation: ROLES OF PARENTS’ CAPITALS IN CHILDREN’S EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES, Liping Pan

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Dissertation: Institutional diffusion and implementation of internationalization in higher education: A case study of G University, Yiwei Qiu

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Dissertation: ELEMENTARY TEACHERS’ PERCEPTIONS OF CHILDREN LIVING IN CONDITIONS OF POVERTY, Terri J. Robinson

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Thesis: The Influences of a Mariachi Education on Student Perceptions of Academic Achievement, Academic Attainment, and Student Engagement, Victoria Lynn Smith

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Dissertation: African American faculty: A study of their experiences related to intercultural competence at predominantly white institutions, Hervey A. Taylor III

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Dissertation: Applying Cooperative Development in Exploring College English Teaching in a Large Class Format in China, Fan Yang

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Dissertation: Co-Teaching: Loss of professional space from the perspective of special education and general education teachers, Cordelia Azumi Yates

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Dissertation: THE EFFECT OF AN ORFF-BASED CURRICULUM ON SOCIAL EMOTIONAL COMPETENCE OF MIGRANT CHILDREN IN A SUBURBAN KINDERGARTEN IN SHANGHAI, Yuanyang Yue

Theses/Dissertations from 2017

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Dissertation - Pacific Access Restricted: AVID's Effect on Metacognitive Development of 9th Graders in Two Comprehensive High Schools, Timothy A. Bugno

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Dissertation - Pacific Access Restricted: An investigation of the relationships between professional development, teacher efficacy and teacher stress among teachers in Shanghai public primary schools, Xun Bu

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Dissertation - Pacific Access Restricted: Individual and Organizational Factors That Influence Principal Longevity in Charter Management Organizations: Does Gender Matter?, Kat Ellison

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Dissertation - Pacific Access Restricted: Social and emotional learning: A case study of the practices and systems within a caring middle school community, Carla Ruth Clawson Hoffman

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Dissertation - Pacific Access Restricted: The Relationship Between Job Burnout of Kindergarten Teachers in Shanghai and their Personality Traits, Yue Hu

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Dissertation - Pacific Access Restricted: Impact of Group Mentoring on the Professional Development of Early Childhood Teachers in a Shanghai Kindergarten, Lingyun Lu

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Dissertation - Pacific Access Restricted: Charter Schools That Do Not Suspend, Nate Monley

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Dissertation - Pacific Access Restricted: Attitudes of chinese preschool teachers towards inclusion of students with special needs in relation to teacher self-efficacy and school climate, Chao Sun

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Dissertation - Pacific Access Restricted: Shanghai kindergarten teachers' beliefs about engagement in Developmentally Appropriate Practice in the context of educational reform, Bingjie Zou

Theses/Dissertations from 2016

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Dissertation - Pacific Access Restricted: The association between learning preferences and preferred methods of assessment of dental students, Phil Buchanan

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Dissertation - Pacific Access Restricted: Whiteness in Public School Administration: A Critical Narrative Approach to Understanding How Insider Superintendents Communicate With Their Administrative Staff Members, Michael K. Bunch

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Dissertation - Pacific Access Restricted: The mediating effect of resistance to peer influence on identity and future outlook by friendship quality in adolescence, Jessica M. Butelo

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Dissertation - Pacific Access Restricted: Autism spectrum disorder in kindergarten and transitional kindergarten: Teachers' self-perceived ability to meet the needs of students transitioning from early intervention behavior therapy programs, Shane P. Conklin

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Dissertation - Pacific Access Restricted: A Phenomenological Inquiry into the Process of Teaching Jazz Improvisation, Roger G. Coss

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Dissertation - Pacific Access Restricted: Women and Philanthropy in Higher Education: A Collective Case Study of Major Donors, Michele Lynn Lahti Tunnell

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Dissertation: Yuli's story: Using educational policy to achieve cultural genocide, Katrina Johnson Leon

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Dissertation - Pacific Access Restricted: Second language vocabulary acquisition through storybook reading for Chinese children, Ting Lyu

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Dissertation - Pacific Access Restricted: Curriculum, transition and employment of individuals with disabilities: Interconnections, relationships and perspectives, Darren Margie

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Dissertation - Pacific Access Restricted: A case study of key stakeholders' perceptions of the learning center's effectiveness for English learners at a district in Central California, Norma Leticia Nava

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Dissertation - Pacific Access Restricted: The effects of early services on the relationship between children with behavior problems and low IQ and maternal education, Kara R. Pancella

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Dissertation - Pacific Access Restricted: Influences of co-teaching in student teaching on pre-service teachers' teacher efficacy, Robin K. Perry

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Dissertation - Pacific Access Restricted: Factors Influencing College Readiness: Supports and Barriers Experienced by Academically Resilient First-Generation Hispanic Males, Amy C. Peterman

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Dissertation - Pacific Access Restricted: The Constructed Souls of the (Mis-Schooled) Black Males: Rediscovering and Exposing Greatness within Black Males, Lawrence A. Rasheed

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Dissertation - Pacific Access Restricted: Urban school challenges: Implementation and sustainability of positive behavioral interventions and supports, Christina N. Rusk

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Dissertation - Pacific Access Restricted: Moderating effect of teacher-student bond on the relationship between parent-child attachment and adolescent outcomes, Ella R. Sargent

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Dissertation - Pacific Access Restricted: Transitional Kindergarten teacher preparedness and staff development support, Allison Silva

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Dissertation - Pacific Access Restricted: TELLING THE “OTHER” STORY BEYOND THE “MODEL MINORITY” AND “JUVENILE DELINQUENT”: HMONG AMERICAN STUDENTS’ EXPERIENCES IN SECONDARY EDUCATION, Chanthou Thoeun

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Dissertation - Pacific Access Restricted: "I never seen myself going to college": An intimate inquiry of foster alumni in higher education, Melinda A. Westland

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Dissertation - Pacific Access Restricted: The effects of peer tutoring on first-grade middle school students' English reading achievement and self-esteem in China, Binbin Wu