| Date of Defense | Name | Title |
| November 20, 2009 | Shelley Mathias | A Study of the Relationship Between Foundational Per Pupil Investment and Student Outcomes |
| November 3, 2009 | T.C. Fuller | No Safe Alternative: The Power of Personal Narrative in Educating Law Enforcement Officers in Implementing Deadly Force |
| August 27, 2009 | Jean Olson | Eductional Experiences of High Performing Adolescents: In their own words. |
| July 23, 2009 | Martha Dubuque | Using Local Assessment Data To Inform Instruction: A Qualitative Study of Classroom Practices and School Procedures |
| June 5, 2009 | Sandy Lathem | Digital Storytelling and Literacy Development: A Mixed Method Study of Twelve Vermont Teachers |
| May 29, 2009 | Lisa Vallee Driver | A Case Study: Motivational Profiles and Reading Achievement of 5th-8th Grade Struggling Readers At A Northern Vermont Middle School |
| May 21, 2009 | Kristy Gallup-Ellis | Developing a Commitment to Change Through Collaborative Inquiry: What Teachers Need to Know About Reading Comprehension to Engage in Formative Assessment |
| May 7, 2009 | Kelly Rossiter | Environmental Studies Program Graduates As Leaders in Regional Environmental Nonprofits: What Sustains Them and What Influence Did Their Education Have On Them As Committed Environmental Profesionals? |
| March 27, 2009 | Stacey Miller | 310: One University Leaders' Critical Reflection of Body Image Through the Lens of Transformational Learning |
| March 26, 2009 | DeMethra Bradley | Outside Second-Generation, Inside First-Generation: Shedding Light on An Invisible Population in Higher Education |
| March 25, 2009 | Kathy Leo-Nyquist | Exploring Counter-Culture Professional Development Through Participant Narratives: It Changes Who You Are |
| March 25, 2009 | Mike Schultz | Elucidating the Role of the University CEO's Spouse in Development, Alumni Relations and Fund Raising |
| March 23, 2009 | Sandra Stanley | Education Policy For The 21st Century: A Post-Modern Perspective of Governance and Community |
| March 23, 2009 | Geraldine Knortz | A Case Study: Assessing The Validity And Reliability Of The Multidimensional Sportspersonship Orientation Scale Among College Athletes |
| March 20, 2009 | Loralyn LeBlanc | Implementing Response to Instruction (RtI): A Cross Case Analysis of Three Schools |
| March 19, 2009 | Megan Ohler | One Too Many: College Students Share Their Experiences of Being Deemed Intoxicated Beyond Control |
| March 18, 2009 | Erika Nestor | Evaluating the Effectiveness of a Heterosexism Workshop on the Attitudes and Behaviors of College Students |
| March 16, 2009 | Michael Cronogue | Revitalizing the Society of Saint Edmund: The Journey of a Religious Leader |
| March 4, 2009 | Karen Kurzman | Writing For Understanding: Reflections On Classroom Writing Strategies |
| February 6, 2009 | Kathleen Brinegar | "I Feel Like I'm Safe Again": The Middle School Experiences of Immigrants In A Multilingual/Multicultural Setting |
| January 23, 2009 | Matthew Messier | Challenging Critical Thinkers Toward Discovery: Empowering Mainstream Social Studies Pedagogy |
| January 22, 2009 | Marion Anastasia | Assessment for Learning: Transformation of Teachers' Practices Enacted in Classrooms and Teacher Learning Communities |
| December 11, 2008 | Mary Lucia Razza | Service Learning and Oral History: Tools of Engagement |
| October 22, 2008 | Jill Moffitt | Recreating Retention: Student Satisfaction Through Participation In Campus Recreation |
| September 5, 2008 | Laurie Hodgedon | To Love and Hate Every Moment of the First Year of Teaching: A Case Study of Beginning Teachers in Three Schools |
| May 13, 2008 | Karen Tyler | Exploring Why Students Stay in School: Inuit Perceptions of Modern Guideposts (Nutaaq Inuksuit) That will Help Students Stay in High School |
| April 7, 2008 | Ruth Young | Everyone’s Child: Perceptions about the Relationship between a Primary School and a Village in Rural Kenya |
| April 3, 2008 | Carol Vallett | Exploring a Relationship Between Organizational Virtuousness and Organizational Culture in Higher Education |
| March 21, 2008 | Judy Branch | Cultivating eXtension Communities of Practice |
| March 21, 2008 | Seth Marineau | Substance and Development of the Aspirations of Rural High School Students |
| March 19, 2008 | Merryn Rutledge | Sense Making and Dialogue in the Interorganization Setting |
| March 19, 2008 | Edorah Frazer | Unlearning Racism: A Candid Self-Study by a European American Educational Leader |
| March 17, 2008 | David Bergh | Celebrating the "Invisible Middle": Successful First-Generation and Low Income College Students |
| March 17, 2008 | Edith Munene | Examining the Web of Bio-Psychosocial Associations Between Multiple Risk Behavior Attributes, Depressive Symptoms And The Social Environment Among Adolescents: The Factor Structure of the 2007 Vermont Youth Risk Behavior Survey |
| March 6, 2008 | Beth Cheng Tolmie | Vermont Agency of Human Services, Field Services Division: A Case Study of Organizational Change Strategies and Outcomes |
| March 3, 2008 | Jessica Jette Cota | Academic Challenges for Children with ADHD: Imlicatins for School-based Practice |
| February 19, 2008 | Linda Hunter | Exploring the Benefits of Storytelling in Undergraduate Nursing Education |
| January 23, 2008 | Penelope Nolte | A Chorus of Voices: Re-Examining Focus Group Data For Evidence of Personal And Institutional Change |
| November 29, 2007 | Amy Demarest | Shared Purpose: How Teachers Engage the Local Environment and Community to Design Meaningful and Democratic Curriculum |
| October 30, 2007 | Matthew MacNeil | The Preparedness of Vermont Foster Youth for "Aging Out" of State's Custody: A Vermont Research Parnership Study |
| September 27, 2007 | Judith Shaw | How Partnerships Improve Child Health Care: Perspectives From Child Health Leaders |
| September 27, 2007 | Andrea Grayson | Reaching Students Where They Live: A Quantitative Analysis of Undergraduate Media Usage in 2007 |
| August 27, 2007 | Ellen Rowe | Perceptions of UVM Extension Children, Youth and Families At Risk Professionals As A Learning Organization |
| July 12, 2007 | James Burns | The Relational Work of Middle Grades Teachers: From Advisory to Caring Dispositions |
| June 1, 2007 | Cynthia Belliveau | Thickening the Experience: Using the Dewey Cooking Lab as a Model for Interdisciplinary Learning in Contemporary Higher Education |
| May 17, 2007 | Ellen Thompson | The Literacy Professional Development Provider: Roles, Perspectives, and Contexts |
| May 16, 2007 | Elise Guyette | The Story of Lincoln Hill, 1790-1870: From the Dustibins of History into the Classroom |
| May 14, 2007 | JoAnn Taft-Blakely | Policy Governance Implementation from the Board Members' Perspective |
| April 2007 | Gerald Bernard | Servant Leadership and Transformational Leadership as Predictors of Follower Trust and Satisfaction |
| April 2007 | Peter Evans | Searching for Indicators of Student Success: The Stories of Engagement in Learning of One High School's Highest Achieving Students |
| April 2007 | Vicki Wells | Educational Support Teams: Towards More Consistent and Effective Teams Across One Supervisory Union |
| April 2007 | Harriet Williams | Capturing the Experiences of Millennial First-Generation College Students |
| April 2007 | Zelda Zeleski | Resolving Disputes in Special Education without Due Process Hearings: A Study of Three Vermont School Systems |
| March 2007 | Kenneth Becker | The Women's Agricultural Network: Pedagogy and Epistemology in Support of Women's Learning in Non-Formal Adult Education |
| March 2007 | Anne Murphy | Toward More Inclusive Tests for Students Who Need Oral Accommodation: Investigating Item Design on a Standardized Mathematics Test |
| March 2007 | Alvin Sturdivant | On My Journey Now: An African American Search for Direction, Definition and Destiny in the Academy |
| February 2007 | Ellen McShane | The Next Wave: First-Generation, Limited-Income Students Becoming Leaders |
| January 2007 | Kami Patrizio | Mentor Teacher Development in a Secondary Professional Development School |
| December 2006 | Mark Aliquo | Predicting Regional Technical Center Enrollment In Vermont Using Binary Logistic Regression |
| May 2006 | Paul Foster | Stakeholder Perceptions of Effective School Leadership: Findings from England and United States |
| April 2006 | Bryan Dague | Sheltered Employment, Sheltered Lives: An Agency's Journey To Community Inclusion |
| April 2006 | Wendy Hovey | Exploring Community Engagement in School District Consolidation: A Case Study of One Supervisory Union in Vermont. |
| April 2006 | Catherine Nicholas | Making It Work: Lessons Learned From Women Who Are Successful PhD Educators in Academic Medicine |
| March 2006 | Sally Madiera | Reclaiming Ourselves as Educators: The Power of Reflection, Conversation, and Community |
| March 2006 | Shelley Vermilya | Writing for Our Lives: Constructing a Pedogogy of Liberation and Passion |
| February 2006 | Patricia Morgan | Parent and Student Perspectives on Vermont's School Choice Policy |
| October
2005 |
Kristin Gehsmann |
Becoming More Effective in the Age of
Accountability: A High-Poverty School Narrows the Literacy Achievement
Gap |
| September 2005 |
Brit-Maike Garland | Queer Transracial Adoptive Motherhood: Talking Back |
| September 2005 |
Marilynn Davis |
Feminist Teachers and Gender Equity Instruction |
| June 2005 | Jude Newman | Fostering Change: A
Case Study of One District's Local Assessment Development |
| June 2005 |
Tammy Ouellette | Educating All Students: A Policy Implementation Study of Vermont Schools' Efforts to Improve Their Educational Capacity |
| May 2005 | Fran Bisselle | Exploring Intersectoral Teacher Belief Systems |
| April 2005 | Scott Connolly | The Relationship Between Income Level and Receptivity to Youth Tobacco Prevention Messages |
| April 2005 | Linda Howe |
Northeastern
Extension Faculty Supervisors and Their Use of Mentoring to Bring About
Employee Development and Organizational Change |
| April 2005 |
Colleen MacKinnon | Renovating Schools for New Technologies: Educator and Architect Perspectives |
| April 2005 |
Robin Hood | Finding Hope and Meaning in Poverty and Tragedy: An Educational Leader's Story |
| April 2005 |
Monika Baege | Family Process Influences on the Resilient Responses of Youth |
| April 2005 | Martha Beede |
A Narrative of
Humanistic Education:Finding Hope and Meaning through the Living
History of the Odenwaldschule and the Ecole d'Humanite |
| April 2005 | Ann Morgan | Student Mobility in Vermont Schools: A Multilevel Evaluation of Educational Equity |
| March 2005 | Kerry Landers |
Low-Income Students
at an Elite College |
| March 2005 |
Leslie Beatson |
Learning Together:
Exploring the Influence of a Professional Learning Community on Women
Administrators' Self-perception, New Learning and Practice |
| March 2005 | Andrea McManus | Reclaiming A Lost Self Through Scholarly Personal Narrative Writing: A Meta Analysis For Educators |
| March
2005 |
Robbe Brook |
Making a Difference:
A Case Study of
Vermont Superintendents |
| March 2005 |
Peter Blackmer |
Negotiating
Identities: A Critical Ethnography Of Gay And Lesbian Employees In The
Vermont Higher Education Workplace |
| March 2005 |
Kim Martin-Anderson |
A Mother's Journey in
Student Affairs |
| March 2005 |
Carol Eckels |
The
Relationship Of Language Abilities To Mathematics Achievement As
Demonstrated By Student Performance On The Primary Observation
Assessment And New Standards Reference Exam In Mathematics |
| March 2005 |
Richard Rebmann | Leadership and the Search for Meaning and Self-Knowledge: An Integration of Life and Learning |
