SFSU1001 – Ed.D. Dissertations

Ed.D. Program Dissertations

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Dissertations Graduating Class of 2019

Charles La Von Cole III: Beyond Grit and Resilience: How Black Men Impacted by the Crack Epidemic Succeeded Against the Odds and Obtained Doctoral Degrees

Added a year ago by Ed.D Department
Tabitha Conaway: "You Gotta Care": Hearing the Stories of Previously Incarcerated Youth in Community College

Added a year ago by Ed.D Department
Landon Hill: Re-Thinkin' Language Rules: Psychological and Educational Impacts of African American Students Navigating Various Language Practices

Added a year ago by Ed.D Department
Mary Jennifer Reynolds: “Supporting Girls Towards the Development of Positive Mathematical Identity”

Added a year ago by Ed.D Department
Marilyn Jones: “The Comeback Queens: Understanding Black Women’s Transition from Incarceration to Higher Education”

Added a year ago by Ed.D Department

DISSERTATIONS GRADUATING CLASS OF 2018

Ronald J. Andrade - The Influence of Validation on Academic Outcomes for Oceania Community College Students

Added over a year ago by Ed.D Department
Gina Carole Baleria: Counteracting Othering: Increasing Belonging & Curiosity to Improve Student Success

Added over a year ago by Ed.D Department
Jack Ballard: Anti-racist Leadership in a High Performing Public High School: A Design-based Study of Detracking Mathematics

Added over a year ago by Ed.D Department
Wissem Bennani: Contributors to the Successful Transfer of Community College Students

Added over a year ago by Ed.D Department
Donald I. Frazier, Jr. - Power, School, Culture, and Exclusion: The Socio-academic Realities of Four Under-credited Black Male Youth

Added over a year ago by Ed.D Department
Jose R. Lopez - The Effects of Service-Learning on the Academic Success of First Generation College Students

Added over a year ago by Ed.D Department
Roam Romagnoli: Decarcerating California: A Critical Trans Politics Approach to Expanding Incarcerated Students' Access to Upper-Division Coursework

Added over a year ago by Ed.D Department
Arielle Smith: Social Reproduction in the Community College Classroom

Added over a year ago by Ed.D Department

Dissertations Graduating Class of 2017

Melissa Cervantes: Increasing The Academic Success of Latino Transfer Students: Evaluating the GANAS Program

Added over a year ago by Ed.D Department
Heather Clary-Wheeler - Incorporating Successful Black and Latinx Student Voice at Suburban Schools: White Principals as Anti-Racist Leaders

Added over a year ago by Ed.D Department
Alejandro Guerrero: Identifying Transformative Teaching Practices for Chican@/Latin@ Community College Students

Added over a year ago by Ed.D Department
Nolan Higdon - Effective Critical Media Literacy Pedagogy in Higher Education: Turning Social Justice Theory into Practice

Added over a year ago by Ed.D Department
Katrina Keating: Noncognitive Variables for Placement: A Randomized Control Trial

Added over a year ago by Ed.D Department
Nancy Martinsen: Supporting Pacific Islander Student Success in Higher Education through Culturally Sustaining Leadership

Added over a year ago by Ed.D Department
Vanessa Mercado - Food and Housing Insecurity Among Students at a Community College District

Added over a year ago by Ed.D Department
Laurie Murdock - Exploring Teacher Learning Processes Within a Community of Practice to Serve Latina/o Biliterate Students

Added over a year ago by Ed.D Department
Robert Nakamoto - Toward a Racial Equity Bias: Critical Self-Knowledge (CSK) in Response to Implicit Bias

Added over a year ago by Ed.D Department
Marlai Ouch: Patterns Of Academic Success Of Southeast Asian Americans

Added over a year ago by Ed.D Department
Joshua Pong - Effects of a Comprehensive Array of Dropout-Prevention Interventions: Responders vs. Non-Responders

Added over a year ago by Ed.D Department
Janelle Christine Waldrep - Transforming Education Abroad for First-Generation Students: Leadership, Student Voice, and Policy Change

Added over a year ago by Ed.D Department
Marla Williams - Dollars and Sense: Examining Academic Investments in Urban Continuation School Programs

Added over a year ago by Ed.D Department

DISSERTATIONS GRADUATING CLASS OF 2016

Trisha Gonzales-Waters - Therapeutic Classrooms as Social Emotional and Academic Refuge: A Teacher Research Study

Added over a year ago by Ed.D Department
Julie L. Jang - Special Education Transition: Preparing Students with Learning Disabilities for Post-Secondary Education

Added over a year ago by Ed.D Department
David Lee - Study of the Predictive Value of the Test of Online Learning Success

Added over a year ago by Ed.D Department
Clyde Henry Lewis - Uncharted Path: Understanding the Experiences of First-Generation Students on Their Journey Toward the Education Doctorate in the California State University System

Added over a year ago by Ed.D Department
Lillian Elizabeth Marrujo-Duck - Talking Ourselves into Outcomes: Teaching, Learning, and Equity in California Community Colleges

Added over a year ago by Ed.D Department
Billy J Martin : A Case Study Investigation of Practices and Beliefs of Teachers at a Stem-Focused Elementary School

Added over a year ago by Ed.D Department
Angela Meeker - “Just Showing Our Culture": Latino/a Students Constructing Counter-Stories Through Baile Folklorico

Added over a year ago by Ed.D Department
Valerie Royaltey-Quandt - Preparing Educational Leaders for Queer Inclusion in Schools

Added over a year ago by Ed.D Department
Holly Royaltey - Level Up: Dual Enrollment in Avid and International Baccalaureate Diploma Programs

Added over a year ago by Ed.D Department
Janine Saunders - Educational Experiences of Incarcerated Youth: Doing School While Doing Time

Added over a year ago by Ed.D Department
Supinda Sirihekaphong - Resurfacing Race: Recruitment and Retention of Faculty in California Community Colleges

Added over a year ago by Ed.D Department
Maia Christine Steward - Collective Critical Conversations: Addressing Equity in Teacher Induction Programs

Added over a year ago by Ed.D Department
Timothy Weekes - Characteristics of High-Performing California Charter Schools Serving Low-Income Minority Students

Added over a year ago by Ed.D Department

DISSERTATIONS GRADUATING CLASS OF 2015

Lorri Capizzi - AB 97 Implementation for Students in Foster Care: A Case Study of Three School Districts

Added over a year ago by Ed.D Department
Omar Murillo - Family Away from Home: Support Systems for Multigenerational Hispanic Students at a Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI)

Added over a year ago by Ed.D Department
Courtney Rudd Paulger - Voices of Successful Women Advanced Technological Education Graduates: Counternarratives

Added over a year ago by Ed.D Department
Mark Reibstein - Amplifying Teacher Voice: Veteran High School Teachers During CCSS Implementation

Added over a year ago by Ed.D Department
Nancy Villacaña Reyes - The Desire to Persist: Voices of First Generation Latino Community College Students

Added over a year ago by Ed.D Department
Kathleen Claire Schoenecker - Implementing Student Success and Support Program Services in a California Community College District

Added over a year ago by Ed.D Department
Christine Solari - “It's Tensious Work": A Case Study of Anti-Racist Educators

Added over a year ago by Ed.D Department
Mary Streshly - Change Leadership and Female Superintendents

Added over a year ago by Ed.D Department

Dissertations Graduating Class of 2014

Diana Balgas - Predictive Factors in Baccalaureate Degree Attainment Among Latin@ College Students

Added over a year ago by Ed.D Department
Darren Timothy Battaglia - Teacher and Organizational Characteristics Predict Teacher Retention

Added over a year ago by Ed.D Department
Eric Blancaflor Claravall - Creating and Sustaining Classroom Knowledge Through Teacher Research: Morphology as Design Intervention for Struggling Learners

Added over a year ago by Ed.D Department
Megan Corry -The Evolution of Crisis at City College of San Francisco

Added over a year ago by Ed.D Department
Meredith Dillon: Male Pacific Islander Student-Athletes at the California Community College

Added over a year ago by Ed.D Department
Ana Maria Gutierrez - Bridging the Community College Divide: Developing Homegrown Educators in Salinas

Added over a year ago by Ed.D Department
Jeanine Roxane Hawk - Show Me the Money: Investment in Equitable Outcomes for California Community College Students

Added over a year ago by Ed.D Department
Carol Hill - Putting the Community in Community Schools

Added over a year ago by Ed.D Department
Armineh Noravian: Building Technical Capital Among Community College Students in Advanced Technological Education

Added over a year ago by Ed.D Department
Avani Patel - An Evaluation Study of Ravenswood's Youth Transitioning To and Through High School

Added over a year ago by Ed.D Department
Carissa Purnell - Amor Sin Condiciones: The Impact of Culturally Responsive Pedagogy on Latin@ Students

Added over a year ago by Ed.D Department
Kelvin Quan - Academic Journeys of Chinese American High School Girls and Their Immigrant Parents

Added over a year ago by Ed.D Department
Rebecca Wong: Factors Promoting the Adoption of Acceleration Among Community College Mathematics Faculty

Added over a year ago by Ed.D Department

Dissertations Graduating Class of 2013

Lael Adediji: Transfer Students: Actions for Success and Perceptions of University Support

Added over a year ago by Ed.D Department
Jeffery D. Alves - Technology Practices of High School Social Science Teachers in Socioeconomically Diverse Classrooms

Added over a year ago by Ed.D Department
Blanca Estela Artega: "It's About Being Genuine and Having Heart": Latinos' Perspectives of College Counseling

Added over a year ago by Ed.D Department
Brenda S. Bachechi - How Teacher's Efficacy Impacts Their Attitude Towards the Inclusion of All Learners

Added over a year ago by Ed.D Department
Kathrina Anderson Bell - Similar Goals and Dueling Agendas: Perceptions of Campus Internationalization and Equity Policy

Added over a year ago by Ed.D Department
Tom Drescher - The Impacts of Differential Resources in California Basic and Elementary School Districts

Added over a year ago by Ed.D Department
Lisa R. Everett: Re-Envisioning Professional Development: A Case Study of a California Community College

Added over a year ago by Ed.D Department
Jacqueline Felbinger: Examining the Association Between District Size and the Opportunity Gap: A Mixed Methods Study

Added over a year ago by Ed.D Department
Andrea Claire Goldfien: Planting Seeds for Implementation: Expanding Access Through Community College Stem Bridge Programs

Added over a year ago by Ed.D Department
Julissa Mendoza Gonzalez - Harvesting Hope Through La Corrida: The Experiences of Highly Mobile Migrant High School Students

Added over a year ago by Ed.D Department
Rama Ali Kased: Countering Oppression: Examining Metro's Model of Social Justice Education

Added over a year ago by Ed.D Department
Macheo Kahil Payne: The Three Commitments: Critical Race Theory and Disproportionate Suspension of Black Males

Added over a year ago by Ed.D Department
Richard P. Ramos: Stopping at the Starting Line: College Students Who Assess But Don't Enroll

Added over a year ago by Ed.D Department
Damien Maurice Robinson: Out of the Mouths of Babes: Hope & Hopelessness in Middle School Students of Color

Added over a year ago by Ed.D Department
Tara Aimee Taupier: "Good Learning": Effective Instructional Practices as Identified by Suburban Students of Color

Added over a year ago by Ed.D Department
Anjanette Winckler: The Rolle of the Principal at High-Performing Title I Schools

Added over a year ago by Ed.D Department

Dissertations Graduating Class of 2012

Lisa Marie Andrew: Professional Development that Prepares Administrators to Lead Organizational Change

Added over a year ago by Ed.D Department
Scott Charles Cline: Impact of the Institutional Financial and Process on Students of Color

Added over a year ago by Ed.D Department
Jefferson Lee Flowers: Understanding and Unlocking the Potential of Online Academic Advising

Added over a year ago by Ed.D Department
Theresa Earnshaw Hansen: Promising Pedagogical Practices in African American Learning Communities

Added over a year ago by Ed.D Department
Jeanne Louise Knapp: An Analysis of Environmental Sustainability Instruction in California Public High Schools

Added over a year ago by Ed.D Department
Savita Malik: Engaging in the Beautiful Struggle: Influence of Faculty Learning Communities on Teaching

Added over a year ago by Ed.D Department
Joseph Michael McCreary: One School's Journey Through Understanding and Implementing Culturally Relevant Teaching Practices: A Principal's Perspective

Added over a year ago by Ed.D Department
Deepa Mukherjee: Implementation and Impact of State-Mandated Interventions for Schools in Program Improvement

Added over a year ago by Ed.D Department
Roseann Myers: Promising Student Services Practices in the African American Learning Community

Added over a year ago by Ed.D Department
Victoria Quijano: Writing in the Disciplines: A Student of an Upper Division Writing Assessment Policy at SFSU

Added over a year ago by Ed.D Department
Laurie Ann Scolari: First-Generation Students of Color: Easing Their Transition to Community College

Added over a year ago by Ed.D Department
Darrick Arthur Smith: Staff Culture and School Transformation: Enabling at a Small School for Equity

Added over a year ago by Ed.D Department
Lygia Marie Stebbing: Supporting Diversity in the Early Childhood Workforce

Added over a year ago by Ed.D Department
Kelly Michelle Stuart: Taking Science to Afterschool: Supporting Identity Development for Low-Income Latino Youth

Added over a year ago by Ed.D Department
Patricia Sullivan - A Trail of Breadcrumbs: Black Early Childhood Education Student Success in Higher Education

Added over a year ago by Ed.D Department
Lisa Thomas: A Phenomenological Study: An Analysis of No Confidence Votes Among Presidents in California Community Colleges

Added over a year ago by Ed.D Department
Sharon Turner: Community Based Organizations as Initiators of Partnership with Community Colleges

Added over a year ago by Ed.D Department
Lorianne Renee Ventura: Impact of Timing of Algebra on Future Mathematics Achievement

Added over a year ago by Ed.D Department
Maria D. Villanueva: Transforming Parents, Students, and Community: A Case Study of the Madres Involucradas Program

Added over a year ago by Ed.D Department

Dissertations Graduating Class of 2011

Arlene Sudaria Daus-Magbual: Courageous Hope: Critical Leadership Praxis of Pin@y Educational Partnerships

Added over a year ago by Ed.D Department
Lawrence Harris Edwardson - Adult ESL Learner Transition: Insights into Participation in a Community of Practice

Added over a year ago by Ed.D Department
Luis Escobar: Breaking Barriers: A Qualitative Study of the Educational and Social Transformational Experiences of Latino Males

Added over a year ago by Ed.D Department
Vidrale Franklin: The Perspectives and Experiences of African American Female Elementary School Principals

Added over a year ago by Ed.D Department
Michael Gallagher: Compassion, Accountability, and Collaboration: Effective Teachers in High Poverty Schools

Added over a year ago by Ed.D Department
María Angélica García - Ser Educada: The Persistence and Resistance Strategies of First-Generation Latinas

Added over a year ago by Ed.D Department
Raymond Kaupp: The Gap Between Latino and White Student Achievement in Online Classes

Added over a year ago by Ed.D Department
Amy Lee: Negotiating Space: Critical Race Counterstories of First-Generation College Students of Color

Added over a year ago by Ed.D Department
Pamela Mery: A Mixed Methods Study of a Statistics Pathway for Community College Students Placed into Developmental Mathematics

Added over a year ago by Ed.D Department
Susan Ann Myers: Community College Counseling, Student Education Plans, and Educational Outcomes: A Quantitative Analysis

Added over a year ago by Ed.D Department
Michael Reimer: An Investigation into the Efficacy of the Algebra Project

Added over a year ago by Ed.D Department
Albert F. Rosell: Transformation Under a Regime of Accountability: A Case Study of a Bay Area School

Added over a year ago by Ed.D Department
Anita Bennett Sunseri - The Impact of Thinking Maps on Elementary Students' Expository Texts

Added over a year ago by Ed.D Department
Carla Chávez Torres - Participatory Action Research: Reflection on the Process of Change, Attitudes, and Pedagogy Towards Teaching English Language Learners

Added over a year ago by Ed.D Department
David Wick: Study Abroad for Students of Color: A Third Space for Negotiating Agency and Identity

Added over a year ago by Ed.D Department

Dissertations Graduating Class of 2010

Deborah Budd: Institutional Effectiveness and the Relationship to African American and Latino Transfer Rates

Added over a year ago by Ed.D Department
Michelle Donohue-Mendoza: The Supervision and Career Advancement of Women in Higher Education Administration

Added over a year ago by Ed.D Department
Janet Egiziano: How Gendered Values Impact Institutional Effectiveness: A Case Study of Leadership

Added over a year ago by Ed.D Department
Matthew Harris: Impactful Student Learning Outcomes of One-to-One Student Laptop Programs in Low Socioeconomic Schools

Added over a year ago by Ed.D Department
Matthew Kritscher: How Peer Mentors Affect the Persistence of Community College Students of Color

Added over a year ago by Ed.D Department
Vincent Matthews: The Impact of Results Based Budgeting on the Oakland Unified School District

Added over a year ago by Ed.D Department
Alexis Montevirgen: Consciousness, Resistance, and Praxis: Counter-Narratives of Transformative Leaders of Color

Added over a year ago by Ed.D Department
Newin Paul Caccam Orante: Transformative Leadership and Resistance: (Re)Constructing Self as Leader in Today's Community College

Added over a year ago by Ed.D Department
Curt Sanford: Inquiries into L2 Writing Practice: Professional Learning Communities in Community College ESL

Added over a year ago by Ed.D Department
Stacey Shears: Understanding African American Community College Transfer Students' Experiences: A Qualitative Case Study

Added over a year ago by Ed.D Department
William Watson: Latino Educational Attainment in a California Community College: The Impact of Social Capital

Added over a year ago by Ed.D Department

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