• The Impact of Student’s Home Language on Performance and Participation in International Baccalaureate Coursework 

  Foster, Kristian L. (2023)

  Students must have a working understanding of the language of instruction to be successful in school. In the United States, English is the predominant language of instruction, and students who come from homes where a ...

• Faculty Identity Development Through Story: A Narrative Study in a Higher Education Context 

  Lucchi, Addison Michael (2023)

  Many higher education faculty members are not trained to teach during their graduate study; thus, faculty development programs (FDPs) can provide systematic opportunity for teaching training. While FDPs are prevalent in ...

• A Narrative Case Study Exploring The Preparation Experiences of Novice Teachers In Urban Elementary Schools 

  Brewington, Hailee A (2023)

  Literature has shown that qualified, effective, and confident teachers are the number one predictor of student success inside the classroom. Students in urban schools experience a greater number of inexperienced or qualified ...

• From P.E. to Protests: the History of Dance Activism in Academia: 1920–2022 

  James, Tobin E. (2023)

  Throughout history, dance has been regarded as an act of rebellion. This art form has persisted to become a means for the common person to demonstrate impassioned objections to issues from racism and religious oppression ...

• An Educational History of Immigrant and Refugee Children in Kansas City 

  Watts, Paula D'Introno (2023)

  This is an educational historiography of immigrant and refugee children who resettled with their families in Kansas City, Missouri, after the Immigration and Naturalization Act of 1965. The dissertation concludes with a ...

• Exploring the Lived Experiences of Students who have Overcome Academic Probation 

  McDonald, Cynthia E. (2023)

  Students placed on academic probation are at a greater risk of not completing a four-year degree in higher education. This qualitative study applied Schlossberg’s Adult Transition Theory to understand the experience of ...

• Segregation, Transformation, and Urban Education: A History of Attaining Racial Equity in the Hickman Mills C-1 School District 

  Franklin, LaTanya C. (2023)

  This dissertation examines the history of racial segregation in Kansas City, Missouri, leading to the creation of the Hickman Mills C-1 Racial Equity Policy. The study’s six chapters present an analysis of the history of ...

• A Quantitative Examination Of Community College Students' Self-Efficacy Inside Mathematics Pathways 

  Miller, Kimberley Lee (2023)

  The purpose of this quantitative study was to measure the change in mathematics self-efficacy of students enrolled in a college mathematics course at a community college in Missouri. The change was measured over a single ...

• The Impact of High School Internships on College and Career Readiness 

  McQuinn, Sarah Beth (2023)

  If students are not able to access internships or career-based programming, they are likely to not acquire skills necessary to be college and career ready. In short, an abundance of research supports the problem of limited ...

• Post-intentional phenomenology inquiry to explore white educators’ stories of developing a critical consciousness of race 

  Opara, Erin Elizabeth (2023)

  The current makeup of the PK-12 educational workforce is largely White persons. However, the demographic makeup of the student body is soon to be a majority of students of color. This is problematic due to the disproportionate ...

• What Makes Us Human? A Grounded Theory Study Examining Educators’ Emotional Evolution in the Classroom 

  Jinkens, Kelsey (2022)

  Emotions are ubiquitous in education. However, most discussion of emotional learning and development is focused on the student. Yet, teachers are human and experience strong emotions in their work. This research sought to ...

• El Centro, Inc.: An Historical Research Study 

  La Faver, Leah Suzanne (2022)

  This historical research study examined the history of El Centro, Inc. in Wyandotte County, Kansas, from its origins in 1972 until 2019. The social, political, legal, and economic contexts surrounding the organization’s ...

• The Relationship Between Student Performance on ALEKS Software and Standardized Tests 

  Isgandarli, Elyar (2022)

  Educational technology is evolving and growing at a faster pace than ever before. Such fast-paced growth makes it difficult to evaluate and measure its effectiveness in a timely manner and creates a need for independent ...

• Stability in the Storm: The History of Kansas City Kansas Public Schools 1902–1986 

  Thompson, Yolanda Kaye (2022)

  The history of Kansas City Kansas Public Schools (KCKPS) is rich, and it is not as well-known as the history of Kansas City Public Schools in neighboring Missouri. KCKPS had its own unique journey that magnified the ...

• The Ordinance Project: Commemorating Kansas City's LGBTQ Landmark Legislation 

  Williams, Austin Randall (2021)

  This project documents the efforts of Kansas City activists, organizers, and politicians who successfully fought for the passage of a municipal nondiscrimination ordinance in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The ordinance ...

• Outside the Lines: How Moberly Junior College Basketball Players Negotiated Social and Racial Norms of Little Dixie On and Off the Court, 1955-1967 

  Byland, James F. (2021)

  Moberly, located in the north central Missouri region historically known as “Little Dixie,” has deeply rooted practices concerning racial relations and its own unique history around integration. The Moberly Greyhounds ...

• African American female millennials' sense of self in higher education support roles 

  Branch, Breann Lajune (2020)

  Historical and cultural images may influence younger African American women’s sense of self in higher education (HE) support roles. However, Black women’s spirits of survival and resiliency have passed from generation to ...

• A Heuristic Narrative Inquiry on the Conceptualization and Cultivation of Relational Trust Between Secondary Teachers and Administrators 

  Moore, Stephen J. (2020)

  The interactions of teachers and administrators may not account for as much time as the interactions between teachers and students, but there is great potential value in examining this relationship and examining its ...

• Is That Racist? One White Family Interrogating Whiteness and Constructing Antiracist Curriculum 

  Thomas, Rhianna Kay (University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2019)

  Despite attempts by white teachers and families to avoid talk about race (Apfelbaum, Paulker, Ambady, Sommers, & Norton, 2008; Bartoli, Michael, Bentley Edwards, Stevenson, Shor, & McClain, 2016; Boutte, López-Robertson, ...

• Learning to Walk the Walk: Narrative Exploration of Diversity Training for Higher Education Teaching 

  Holt, Lorie A (2020)

  Today’s higher education classrooms are made up of an increasingly wide variety of students with varying life and cultural influences, learning styles, ages, ethnicities, sexual orientations, and spiritual beliefs. A large ...

View more