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Education Systems Improvement Science

Theses from 2024 2024

A Mixed Methods Study of South Carolina Reading Policy on Teacher Knowledge, Matthew Ferguson

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

Equipping Educational Leaders to Lead Data Democracies: A Case Study, Diane Sigmon

Restoring Student Behavior: A Culturally Responsive Evaluation of Restorative Practices on Disproportionate Referral Data, Meredith Strmac

Using Improvement Science and a Co-Teaching Model to Increase the Effects of Evidence-Based Reading Intervention for High School Students Reading Below Grade Level Proficiency, Ashley Vaughn

Theses from 2023 2023

The Effects of the ESOL Program on African American Vernacular Speaking Students Reading, Marquice Clark

Restorative Practices: Implementing an Alternative to Disproportionate Out-Of-School Suspension and Expulsion Rates of Black Students, Ezra Cowan

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

Annotations of Awareness: A Framework for Externalizing Thinking to Promote Metacognitive Discourse in High School English and Social Studies Classrooms, Todd Howard

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

Making the Move Toward Meaningfulness in Learning Activities: Enhancing Teacher Self-Efficacy in Student Engagement Through an Instructional Coaching Approach in Improvement Science, Maureen Tiller

Implementation Of An Early College Design In A Rural High School: Empowering Place-Conscious Leadership To Affect Change And Overcome Barriers To Innovation, Michael Timko

Leveraging Professional Learning to Impact Leadership of Technology Integration, Tennille Woodward

Theses from 2022 2022

Pedagogical Data Literacy With a Multi-Tiered System of Supports: A Mixed Methods Study of Teachers Using Data-Driven Reading Instruction in a Title I School, Paula Alexander

The Effects of the AVID Program on Rural Student Growth in Middle Grades Mathematics, James Allen

An Exploratory Study Using Improvement Science to Better Understand How Modeling the Inverted Pyramid Fosters Servant Leadership Characteristics in a Rural Public School District, Jennifer Anderson

It’s Just an Idea: How Rural Teachers Implement Personalized Learning Within the Education System, Kedralyn L. Folk

The Impact of Funds of Knowledge on Elementary Multilingual Learners’ Perceptions of Their Connection to Their Teacher and the Classroom, Kelli Lowe

“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

Theses from 2021 2021

A Critical Analysis of the Discourse of Culturally Responsive Curriculum Within South Carolina’s Secondary U.S. History and Constitution Standards, James L. Goude

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