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 2003

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Dissertation - Pacific Access Restricted: On the road to becoming: Exemplary teachers' perceptions of their development, Kathryn A. Theuer

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Dissertation - Pacific Access Restricted: Parenting practices for high -achieving preadolescent migrant education students, Bonnie Jeanne Thiele

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Dissertation - Pacific Access Restricted: An employee assistance program: A study of its scope, use, behavioral change, volunteerism, and confidentiality, Lynn Michael Tompkins

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Dissertation - Pacific Access Restricted: Factors leading to the retention of K–12 public school teachers: Why do they stay?, Cecilia Dolan Wiegand

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Dissertation - Pacific Access Restricted: Section 504: The attitudes and perceptions of elementary school administrators, Noreen Marie Williams

Theses/Dissertations from 2002

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Dissertation - Pacific Access Restricted: Mothers of children with autism: The relationship between knowledge of autism and stress, Masooma Almutairi

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Dissertation - Pacific Access Restricted: An examination of the relationship of leadership type to student academic performance in elementary schools of low to middle socioeconomic status, Linda Brandi Delehunt

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Dissertation - Pacific Access Restricted: An examination of why qualified African Americans do not pursue or ascend to the superintendency in California public schools, William J. Ellerbee Jr.

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Dissertation - Pacific Access Restricted: A political analysis of institutional control issues within the NCAA, Allison Freedman

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Dissertation - Pacific Access Restricted: The effects of extrinsic rewards on high school student attendance, Lawrence Michael Freise

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Dissertation - Pacific Access Restricted: An examination of strategies and techniques facilitated by urban middle school principals to increase student achievement in low -performing schools, Vivian Angelita Gayles

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Dissertation - Pacific Access Restricted: Supporting elementary science education for English learners: An evaluation instrument to promote constructivist teaching, Beatrice Lowney Gibbons

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Dissertation - Pacific Access Restricted: Literacy practices of Hispanic families with deficit factors whose children are successful in math and reading, Clare Denise Gist

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Dissertation - Pacific Access Restricted: Women superintendents in California: Characteristics, barriers, career paths and successes, Bindy K. Grewal

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Dissertation - Pacific Access Restricted: Gender differences in high school principals' leadership styles, Janie Diane Herndon

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Dissertation - Pacific Access Restricted: A comparative study of the assessment practices utilized by full -time faculty and adjunct instructors in preservice teacher education courses, Keyes B. Kelly

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Dissertation - Pacific Access Restricted: Academic resilience: A study of student perspectives on the impact of grade-level retention, Jan Alison Kendall

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Dissertation - Pacific Access Restricted: The relationship between interpersonal competence, participation in student government, and the learning goals of a university, Gregory Rahn Lehr

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Dissertation - Pacific Access Restricted: The perceptions and experiences of principals in increasing student achievement on the Stanford 9 Achievement Test at the middle school level, Shelly Danette Long

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Dissertation - Pacific Access Restricted: Case study of an urban high school teaching academy, Kristine Domoto Marubayashi

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Dissertation - Pacific Access Restricted: Student perceptions of good teaching practices, Shelly Jeanne Moreira

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Dissertation - Pacific Access Restricted: Adult attachment classification and foster mothers' perceptions of their relationship with their at-risk foster children, Charles O. Odipo

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Thesis - Pacific Access Restricted: A developmental conceptualization of the concerns of faculty members in higher education : implications for the design of faculty development programs, Jean Alberts Purnell

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Dissertation - Pacific Access Restricted: A study of the impact of California Proposition 227 on the identification and placement of English language learners in special education programs and services in California public schools, Geeta Rezvani

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Dissertation - Pacific Access Restricted: The influence of a freshman orientation course on the academic performance and retention of new community college students, Stacey Yolanda Robles

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Dissertation - Pacific Access Restricted: Veteran teachers, innovation and change: A study of veteran teachers in a beginning technology staff development program, Randolph Kevin Schultz

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Dissertation - Pacific Access Restricted: The relationships among psychosocial developmental status, self -esteem, locus of control, and teacher efficacy for teachers from preservice to experienced, Sharon Ann Marie Senior

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Dissertation - Pacific Access Restricted: A study of school principals and the promotion of nutritional health in middle grade schools, Barbara Shahid

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Dissertation - Pacific Access Restricted: A market analysis of parental decision -making in the selection of a private kindergarten in Taiwan, Miau Lin S. Shen

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Dissertation - Pacific Access Restricted: The transformation and development of Christian institutions of higher education, Mark Stewart

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Dissertation - Pacific Access Restricted: The relationship between teacher efficacy and student academic outcomes on curriculum-based measures, James S. Wallick

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Dissertation - Pacific Access Restricted: The relationship of Tech Prep programs to student enrollment and retention in a California community college, Sheila Denise White-Daniels

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Dissertation - Pacific Access Restricted: The perceptions of at risk students regarding their experiences in educational settings, Merrily Ruth Worrell

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Dissertation - Pacific Access Restricted: A descriptive study of Hmong youth gang members in the California Central Valley, Mai Xiong

Theses/Dissertations from 2001

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Dissertation - Pacific Access Restricted: Responsibility center management: A financial paradigm and alternative to centralized budgeting, Dennis John Bava

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Dissertation - Pacific Access Restricted: Teachers' perceptions of elementary school principals as instructional leaders in reading, Cindy Cheree Brownell

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Dissertation - Pacific Access Restricted: Comparison of two groups of Cambodian children in first and second language acquisition and school readiness, Beverly Ann Clark

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Dissertation - Pacific Access Restricted: Faculty evaluation of leadership styles and influence tactics of northern California college deans, Robert Kenneth Closson

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Dissertation - Pacific Access Restricted: An examination of strategic renewal techniques of private post -secondary liberal -arts colleges and universities, Gary Dean Cotton

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Dissertation - Pacific Access Restricted: The role of beliefs among community college teachers working in culturally diverse classrooms, Ana Maria de Barling

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Dissertation - Pacific Access Restricted: The education and empowerment of immigrant Latinos through talk radio, Graciela Leon Orozco

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Dissertation - Pacific Access Restricted: Comparative learning methods of cognitive computer -based training with and without multimedia blending, Fidel Michael Salinas Jr.

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Dissertation - Pacific Access Restricted: An exploration of specific personality factors as potential predictors of early adolescent substance use, Sandy Lee Schulte

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Dissertation - Pacific Access Restricted: “Take a solo”: An analysis of gender participation and interaction at school jazz festivals, Ella Nora Parks Steinberg

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Dissertation - Pacific Access Restricted: An investigation of the role of the principal in influencing the implementation of arts education programs, Jennifer Ann Marie Sunderland-Faukner

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Dissertation - Pacific Access Restricted: Grade retention: Issues, legislative actions, administrative challenges, alternatives and long-term effects, Memuriyil Mathai Thomas

Theses/Dissertations from 2000

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Dissertation - Pacific Access Restricted: MCMI-III profiles of pedophiles and victim selection, Marcia M. Asgarian

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Dissertation - Pacific Access Restricted: The development and testing of an interactive listening guide system for instructors of music appreciation, Derrill George Bodley

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Dissertation - Pacific Access Restricted: A case study and investigation of peers' attitudes toward poor and sheltered classmates, Jane Constance Burhoe

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Dissertation - Pacific Access Restricted: Barriers to advancement in higher education as perceived by women administrators in the California State University, Jessie Garza-Roderick

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Dissertation - Pacific Access Restricted: Perceived work-related stressors, personality, and degree of burnout in firefighters, Susan Erin Grundy

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Dissertation - Pacific Access Restricted: The impact of cohort support on learning to teach within California's District Intern Programs, Catherine Ann Lemmon

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Dissertation - Pacific Access Restricted: High school principals' perception of the usefulness of teacher evaluation for school improvement, Sharon Barker Loucks

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Dissertation - Pacific Access Restricted: Creationism and evolution: The role of Christian colleges in the preparation of public school teachers, Marvin Keith Mitchell

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Dissertation - Pacific Access Restricted: Data collection in program evaluation: A case study, Matthew B. Russell

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Dissertation - Pacific Access Restricted: Secondary special education teachers of Hispanic students with mild to moderate learning disabilities who are English language learners : their sense of efficacy and staff development needs, Rebecca Ruth Sapien-Melchor

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Dissertation - Pacific Access Restricted: Student retention in the comprehensive public high school: A study of female at -risk students, Lorena Annette Spitzer

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Dissertation - Pacific Access Restricted: Leadership principles and practices of the transformational superintendent, Diane Studley

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Dissertation - Pacific Access Restricted: Elementary school principals' perceptions of responsibilities and competencies for instructional leadership, Aaron T. Yamada

Theses/Dissertations from 1999

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Dissertation - Pacific Access Restricted: The relationships among gifted program placement, self -concept, and academic achievement of gifted ninth-grade students, Jose Manuel Avila

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Dissertation - Pacific Access Restricted: Processing disorders and the need to examine and standardize current assessment and identification procedures, Celeste Maria Carlson

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Dissertation - Pacific Access Restricted: The influence of charter school organization and governance on curriculum and assessment: A case study, Brenda Jane Chapman

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Dissertation - Pacific Access Restricted: Moral development of rehabilitation professionals and supervisors' assessment of success, Norman Earl Corson

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Dissertation - Pacific Access Restricted: Training low -income parents of first-grade students in paired reading: The effects on reading fluency and attitudes toward reading and school, Kathleen Hermsmeyer

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Dissertation - Pacific Access Restricted: Class size reduction: Effects on teacher attitudes toward students, training, and teaching methods, Mary Elizabeth Inchausti

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Dissertation - Pacific Access Restricted: Gender differences in mathematics performance: Walberg's Educational Productivity Model and the NELS:88 database, Rita Merklin Johnson

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Dissertation - Pacific Access Restricted: Perceptions of fatherhood in parenting manuals: A rhetorical analysis, Virginia Irene Luchetti

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Dissertation - Pacific Access Restricted: Factors influencing student choice to continue participation in an alternative education program, Douglas Lynn Martin

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Dissertation - Pacific Access Restricted: The effects of a Reading Styles program on historically underachieving Hispanic-American and African-American elementary school students, Cheryl Collins Meeker

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Dissertation - Pacific Access Restricted: The implementation of California's Senate Bill 1969: A case study of one school district's approach to the staff development and alternative certification, Sheilla Suzonn Meinyer Rocha

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Dissertation - Pacific Access Restricted: The comparative effects of single and yoked learning channel sets under overlearning and fluency training conditions on the retention of paired associate information, Steven Elliott Pedego

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Dissertation - Pacific Access Restricted: Electronic portfolios in teacher education, Carla Hagen Piper

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Dissertation - Pacific Access Restricted: Symptoms of attention deficit disorder, substance abuse, and comorbid correlates in adolescents, Jana Leigh Price-Sharps

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Dissertation - Pacific Access Restricted: An investigation of how non-tenured faculty members use the results of student /faculty evaluations to improve classroom instruction, Barbara Ray

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Dissertation - Pacific Access Restricted: An examination of the effect of a chronic disease on couples' sexual relationships, Doreen Ann Samelson

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Dissertation - Pacific Access Restricted: Treatment effectiveness of parent-child interaction therapy with physically abusive parent-child dyads, Sherri Yukiko Terao

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Dissertation - Pacific Access Restricted: K-12 principals' perceptions of the California Beginning Teacher Support and Assessment Program, Suzanne M. Tyson

Theses/Dissertations from 1998

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Dissertation - Pacific Access Restricted: The development of an everyday problem solving instrument in the educational assessment of incarcerated late adolescent and young adult males, Vanessa K. Adams

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Dissertation - Pacific Access Restricted: An investigation of African-American male high school students' perceptions of African-American male vice principals as role models, Bobbie Wilbon Berry

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Dissertation - Pacific Access Restricted: An examination of the prevalence rates of students with disabilities between special education local plan areas as a basis for policy development, Catherine Conrado

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Dissertation - Pacific Access Restricted: A survey of inclusive and selective music programs in California public secondary schools, Karen Sue Gardias

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Dissertation - Pacific Access Restricted: The relationship between self-actualization and aikido, Gary Hannon

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Dissertation - Pacific Access Restricted: The utility of philately in comparative education and the analysis of higher education systems, Debra Jean Luff

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Dissertation - Pacific Access Restricted: Faking good on the MMPI-2: A quantitative study, Elizabeth R. Maloney

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Dissertation - Pacific Access Restricted: The leadership styles of principals involved in a change process and their perceptions of bilingual education, Catherine E. Nichols

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Dissertation - Pacific Access Restricted: A study of elementary school district superintendents' perceptions of challenges related to the implementation of networked educational technology and Internet access for elementary schools, Robert William Price

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Dissertation - Pacific Access Restricted: Identity development of stigmatized adolescents, Maria F. Sanelli

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Dissertation - Pacific Access Restricted: Social problem solving ability and classroom social functioning in learning disabled adolescents and comparison peers, Karen Coleen Steele

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Dissertation - Pacific Access Restricted: A case study of the Arizona Boys Ranch educational program, Jeff Scott Tilton Sr.

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Dissertation - Pacific Access Restricted: Perceived training needs of special education teachers in California who were credentialed prior to September 1985 : how their skills compare with those required in the new California standards, Dora Ruiz Twigg

Theses/Dissertations from 1997

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Dissertation - Pacific Access Restricted: The relationship of coping style, depression and functional impairment in stroke patients and their caregivers, Cynthia L. Anderson

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Dissertation - Pacific Access Restricted: Item position effects and differential item functioning for African-American and White examinees completing the arithmetic reasoning subtest of the preliminary item tryout version of Form E of the General Aptitude Test Battery, Oyd Hugh Higgins II

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Dissertation - Pacific Access Restricted: An analytical comparison of the kindergarten through fourth-grade sections of the California Music Educators Association Music Education K-6 Scope and Sequence with the kindergarten through fourth-grade section of the National Standards for Arts Education, Martha K. Jorgensen

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Dissertation - Pacific Access Restricted: Thinking and writing development in the freshman year of a general education program, Sandra Lea Mahoney

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Dissertation - Pacific Access Restricted: The presentation of gender images in reading textbooks for early elementary school children, Hanna Zofia Nowakowska

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Dissertation - Pacific Access Restricted: The relationship between early maladaptive schemas and job burnout among public school teachers, George John Rittenmyer

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Dissertation - Pacific Access Restricted: Cross-age tutors: English as a Second Language students tutoring, Carlyn Syvanen

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Dissertation - Pacific Access Restricted: Teacher-student ethnicity, suspension/expulsion, and referrals to special education: Implications for African-American males, James Frank Thrasher

Theses/Dissertations from 1996

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Dissertation - Pacific Access Restricted: The reciprocal relationships among the school culture, leadership, and innovations in seven California model continuation high schools, Jorge Octavio Ayala

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Dissertation - Pacific Access Restricted: An analysis of student sexual harassment policies in central California schools, Margaret Ann Barnett