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Submit Your DissertationDissertations from 2026
AI YOU CAN TRUST: UNDERSTANDING THE ROLE OF STRUCTURAL ASSURANCE AND SITUATIONAL NORMALITY IN THE USE OF GENERATIVE AI, Olushola Bunmi Abayomi
ANALYSIS OF DATA DIFFICULTY AND REDUCING REJECT RATE FOR TRUSTWORTHY ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, Ayomide Afolabi
A DECOLONIAL FEMINIST INVESTIGATION OF ELECTORAL VIOLENCE IN JORDAN: CLASS, GENDER, AND SOCIOCULTURAL CAUSES, Heyam Alhameedyeen
Advancing Human AI Collaboration for Behavioral and Mental Health Identification, Abm. Adnan Azmee
Perceptions and Beliefs of a High School Geometry Professional Learning Community During Initial Implementation of Standards-Based Grading, Marcellyn E. Baker
Veteran Identity Strain Beyond the Honeymoon-Hangover Phase, LaFrance Ballard
Mining and Local Community Conflicts in Ghana: Understanding the Dynamics From a Political Ecology Perspective, Bright Bansah
Multimodal Deep Learning for Continuous Hand Motion Estimation Using Electromyography and Ultrasound Toward Dexterous Prosthetics and Adaptive Rehabilitation, Sulav Bastola and Sulav Bastola
Recruiting and Retaining Teachers in a Rural School District: A Case Study, Gerald J. Bavero
THROUGH THEIR LENS: CO-TEACHERS’ EFFECTIVE STRATEGIES THAT SUPPORT ELLs AND SWDs IN MATHEMATICS INCLUSION CLASSROOMS, Cheryl A. Bentham and Cheryl Bentham
From Evaluation to Expression: Exploring Review Activism in Response to Ownership Identity Signals, Davis Brown
A Case Study of Experiential Learning in a High-Poverty Middle School, Diona F. Brown
From Victimhood to Political Violence: A Psychometric Reassessment of Christian Nationalism, Aaron Moore Clarke
Secondary Teachers’ Perceptions of Social and Emotional Learning Through Choice Clubs, Alise Cremonini
The Digital Divide and Participation in Financial Services: A Self-Determination Theory Perspective, Melissa A. Cunningham-Sereque
The Role of Race in Consumer Responses to Social Media Influencer Transgressions, Vannesia Darby
A PHENOMENOLOGICAL STUDY OF THE LIVED EXPERIENCES OF AFRICAN AMERICAN FEMALE LEADERS IN PUBLIC K-12 SCHOOLS IN GEORGIA, Tyisha Davis
RURAL MIDDLE SCHOOL TEACHER PERCEPTIONS OF AI-GENERATED FEEDBACK, Chad J. DeWolf
STUDENT MOTIVATION IN WRITING, TECHNOLOGY INTEGRATION, AND MIDDLE GRADE PEDAGOGY, Carol M. Edge
AI-Customer Symbiosis: Driving Future Relationship Intentions Through Perceived Benefits and Relationship Satisfaction, Brad Eskridge
Opportunity Gap: The Correlations Between Resource Allocation and Student Achievement, Brian J. Etchison-Cook
Secondary Teachers’ Perceptions on the WIDA Framework to Support Academic Literacy in Multilingual Learners, Laura G. Faris
Restorying the Reader: Adolescent Narratives of Identity, Context, and Motivation, Jennifer R. Gardner
The Impact of Targeted Remediation on Reading Growth Among Remedial Middle School Students, Jennifer Givens
A Phenomenological Study of Teachers Who Use Oral Reading To Foster Student Reading Fluency and Engagement, Donyetta Grimes
EVALUATING THE IMPACT OF AUTOMATED SPEED ENFORCEMENT ON TRAFFIC OPERATIONS AND SAFETY IN SCHOOL ZONES: A COMPREHENSIVE CRASH AND SPEED ANALYSIS WITH PUBLIC PERCEPTION INSIGHTS, Sarala Gunathilaka
The Role of Diaspora Power Elites in Post-Conflict Statebuilding Parallel Bureaucracy As Capacity-Trapping in Somalia, Mohamed A. Hashi
Exploring Teachers’ Lived Experiences: The Impact of Wellness on Student Engagement and Behavior in Third-Grade Classrooms, Tiffany L. Jackson
Neuromorphic Visual Odometry and SLAM on Edge Devices, Guangyu Jiang
Walking a Tightrope: Social Studies Teachers in the Age of Divisive Concept Legislation, JORDANNA M. JONES
Can Artificial Intelligence Unbound Bounded Rationality? A Quantitative Analysis of AI-Augment Decision-Making in Conflict-Driven Environments, Zeynep A. Kelani
Examining Teacher Pedagogical Content Knowledge in Response to Student Interpretations of a Particulate-Level Animation, Tyler Kinner
Chilling or Galvanizing: Perceptions of Controversial Issues in the Social Studies Classroom, Patrick Leahy
Bridging the Gap: A Qualitative Case Study of Pre-K Teachers' Literacy Professional Development Needs in the Context of Georgia's Early Literacy Act (HB 538), Deborah Lissimore
The Comparative Impact of the Dot-Com Bubble, Great Financial Crisis, and COVID-19 on the Relative Properties of Management Earnings Guidance and Analyst Earnings Forecasts, Matthew E. Maylath
TEACHING DIFFICULT HISTORIES: AN EXPLORATORY CASE STUDY OF TEACHER EXPERIENCES AND STUDENT DEMONSTRATIONS OF HISTORICAL EMPATHY IN A CDF FREEDOM SCHOOL, Michael T. Miller
TEACHER EXPERIENCE AND PERCEPTION OF FEEDBACK LITERACY IN THE INTERNATIONAL BACCALAUREATE DIPLOMA PROGRAMME, Carla B. Mills
Perceptions and Practices: A Qualitative Study of Middle Grades Physical Science Teachers’ Knowledge and Use of Formative Assessment, Michelle Morgan
DO GENDER QUOTAS LEAD TO SUBSTANTIVE REPRESENTATION OF WOMEN IN AUTOCRATIC REGIMES? A CASE STUDY OF PAKISTAN, Rabia Mujahid
FEDERATED NEUROMORPHIC INTELLIGENCE: ADVANCING ROBUSTNESS, EFFICIENCY, AND CONTINUAL ADAPTATION IN EDGE ENVIRONMENTS, Manh V. Nguyen
Assessing the Validity of Large Language Models as Synthetic Survey Respondents: Autonomous Completion, Internal Consistency, and Demographic Fidelity, Nzubechukwu Ohalete
Examining Mathematics Teachers' Competencies For Facilitating Collaborative Learning in High School Settings, Tessy J. Pereira
Qualitative Phenomenography: Sustaining Motivations of Black Women Principals in PK-5 Title I Schools, Kahliah C. Rachel
Intelligent Robotic Characterization: AI-Augmented Digital Twins for Fault Diagnosis and Predictive Insights, Gershom Richards
A Cross-Cultural Comparison of Pre-Service Mathematics Teacher Preparation Approaches in Jamaica and Historical Black Colleges and Universities in the Southeast United States, Sandra Riley-Brown
Can Caregivers Really Have It All?: Identity Salience and Career Success, Jenna-Lyn R. Roman
The Effect of Client Power and Auditor Power on Auditor Negotiation Judgments, Lee Shinaberger
Constructing Female High School Students’ STEM Self-Efficacy: The Role of High School STEM Research Experiences, Hyunjin Son
Examining the Domestic Politics of Nuclear Policymaking in America: US Participation in Nuclear Agreements From 1948 to 2024, Stephanie A. Stapleton
Secondary Teachers’ Perceptions of Professional Development and Learning, Shannon Thompson Lawson
Gamification in High-School Classrooms: An Intrinsic Single-Case Study of Teacher Perceptions Engaging Self-Determination Theory, Ashley R. Vickers
Science for All: Utilizing Native and Everyday Language To Increase Academic Performance and Student Engagement for High School English Language Learners, Lashanda K. Whitworth
Exploring Alternative Curriculum Implementation in Special Education Settings, Amber R. Wilson
Defining My Country: An Appalachian Educator’s Autoethnography of Linguistic Erasure and AI, Kimberly B. Wright
Students’ and Teachers’ Perceptions of the Impact of I-Ready on Students’ Math Achievement, Tanisha L. Wright
Dissertations from 2025
The Impact of Flipped Classroom With Active Learning Model of Instruction in Teaching Stoichiometry in Chemistry Among Black and Brown Students, Lawrence Femi Akintokun
Summer Melt: The Transition of Rural Students to Post-secondary Schools, NiQuan Alston
Roses and Concrete: Black Teachers' Roles and Challenges in Marginalized Communities, Alyse N. Barry
What Is Your Why? An Exploration of Why Teachers Remain in the Professsion at an Urban Elementary School in the South., Malikah Bennett
Feature Significance and Explainability in Neural Networks, Sanad Biswas
BALANCERGNN: Balancer Graph Neural Network for Imbalanced Datasets, Mallika Boyapati
The Impact of Focused Specific Phonemic Awareness Instruction on English Language Learners in the Kindergarten Classroom, Bethany Brewer
The Impact of a Multilingual Learner Professional Development on Teacher Self-Efficacy and Student Perceptions of Teacher Support, Mark A. Bryan
Using Sustained Silent Reading in the Secondary English Language Arts Classroom To Increase Reading Engagement, Hannah S. Burwell
Immersive Learning in Action: A Qualitative Case Study of High School Teachers’ Experiences With Prisms Learning in Science and Mathematics, Hilary A. Cassidy
ONEMONEY - A Design Science Research Artifact for Mobile Remittances From the USA to Zambia, Owen Chilongo
Advanced Multimodal Planetary Surface Exploration for Scientific CanBots, Carrington Chun
Student Engagement in ELA Choice-Based Core Curriculum: A Case Study of the Dramatic Writing for Film, Television, and Theater Course, Brian Thomas Clements
An Endangered Profession: Elevating the Lived Experiences of Current and Retired Black Teachers in Georgia to Confront Retention Challenges and Reimagine the Legacy of Teaching, Thelma Sharese Colbert
A Phenomenographical Study of Rural Teacher Retention Before, During, and After the COVID-10 Global Pandemic, Stacey LB Collins
The Role of Teacher Leaders in Sustaining School Culture During Principal Transitions: A Case Study, Leah Curtright
We Speak Life Into Their Language: Black Educators’ Approaches to Linguistic Justice in Urban Secondary ELA Classrooms, LaKeisha A. Davis
Navigating the Intersection: Black Women’s Leadership Journey in Educational Technology, Monika Davis
Peer Mentoring and Teacher Collaboration: A Case Study of Practices and Self-Efficacy in a Rural Title I School, Whitney Ensley
Opening Access to Advanced Placement English, Tabitha J. Evans
Using Educational Communication Technology To Increase Parent Involvement and Build Parent Capacity at a Title I Elementary School: A Case Study, Mary E. Frankovsky
Educators’ Perspectives, Practices, and Implications of AI in Education for a Title I Middle School, Melanie N. Garland
Religious Tolerance: Lessons From the Land of Fire, Lon Gibson
Marginalization and Its Effect on Social Loafing in Online Virtual Teams, Nicolette Gordon
Quantifying Uncertainty in Image-generative Models, Nina Grundlingh
Teacher Perceptions of Culturally Relevant Pedagogy in High School Social Studies Classrooms: An Ethnographic Case Study, Sheronda L. Hardy
The Effects of Communication Mode Richness and Risk Priming on Auditors’ Skeptical Judgment and Action, Katie Harris
African American Males’ Academic Experiences While Enrolled in College Algebra, Willtresca N. Heppard-Streeter
Exploring the Impact of Leadership Styles on Teacher Self-Efficacy: A Comparative Case Study of Rural and Suburban High Schools, Stephanie Hill
Together We Can! High School Algebra PLC Members’ Experiences on Implementing New Curriculum and Its Impact on Their Self-Efficacy, Chasity L. Hughes
Dynafeat: Novel Framework for Dynamic Fusion for Emotion Adaptation and Transition in Real-Time Using Physiological Data, Namazbai Ishmakhametov
Explorations of Positive Behavior Interventions and Support Programs Through the Perspectives of Black Students at a Rural Middle School, Krystal Kendall
Religion, Identity, and Conflict in Christian-Muslim Interfaith Families Living in the U.S., Rita Kettani
Raise Your Digital Hand – Multilingual Learner Student and Teacher Perceptions of Live Digital Feedback, Naveed Khan
How New Mathematics Teachers Develop Teacher-Student Relational Pedagogy, Dustin Kinser
Middle School Teacher Perceptions of Digital Game-Based Learning in a 1:1 School District, Brennen Knight