Volume 11, Summer 2018
Elementary Candidates
Tylita Butler, Elementary school teachers’ views on students’ use of Black Vernacular English in the academic environment
Megan Capozzi, The impact of student-designed classroom libraries on reading engagement and attitudes
Maria Claudia Garcia-Rada, Lights, camera, reading: Improving reading comprehension through film
Kathleen La, Utilizing neuroscience education to enhance growth mindset and attitudes towards science
Sarah McCabe, The effect of teacher-led read-alouds on student engagement
JR Rhine, 21 st century literacy: The impact of e-books on independent reading interest and engagement
Samantha Sands, Face the music: Could song-based instruction impact student learning?
Stephen Swanson, Partners in learning: How cross-age peer mentoring of kindergartners affects reading self-efficacy and interest in fifth-grade students
Julie Verbos, Book buddies: Interaction and engagement during cross-age paired reading
Christina Wondoloski, “But how do you think this character felt?”: The effect of perspective-taking on first graders’ emotional intelligence
Hannah Yeager, The kids are all write: The effect of collaborative writing on scores and attitudes
Leana Zimmerman, Intrinsic motivation: Can student-generated illustrations help?
Secondary Candidates
Elizabeth Brown, Citizen science in the classroom: Data quality and student engagement
Nick Byrne, Intertextuality: The relationship between visual and textual literacies
Nick Conine, Bridging the gap: The impact of Web 2.0 technologies on parental involvement
Sasha Dulyachinda, Building community within the art classroom
Max Flerlage, The effects of inquiry-based learning on scientific communication skills
Lacey Gehring, Math anxiety: Causes from the student and teacher perspectives
Abbey Liverman, Real talk: Emerging themes in student-initiated conversations
Miranda McLain, To blog or not to blog: Current events in the high school English classroom
Natalia Ramos-Dompenciel, Equipping through education: vocabulary and structure acquisition to increase student spontaneity
Dennis Steiger, An unhappy medium: A case study of one student’s experiences with poetry
Daniel Skibicki, Increasing active engagement in the art classroom
Alli Szymanski, The pursuit of happiness: The effect of enjoyment on self-efficacy in English language arts