The purpose of this qualitative case study was to examine one public elementary school in Spokane, Washington that has received significant complex trauma professional development training provided by Washington State ...

The need for a more highly educated nurse workforce has never been more evident as researchers are beginning to examine the effect of higher levels of nursing education and skill mix on nurse-specific indicators of patient ...

This dissertation includes two studies to explore the application of task engagement principles in foreign language instructional design and practice. The first study explores how task engagement principles can be integrated ...

This dissertation seeks to address the facilitation of difficult knowledges in the classroom. I employ constructs of poststructural feminism to critique rationalist-only frameworks that limit the forms of knowledge that ...

The purpose of this study was to describe hermeneutic phenomenological research on the Washington State University Clothesline Project (1993–2012) and ekphrasic artefacts about the experience of interpersonal violence, ...

This study looked at how white antiracism activism is portrayed to children through one of the most popular literacy tools, the picture book. Both written text and images in children's literature can contribute to ...

Over the past two decades public schools have faced an unrelenting demand for reform. In response to this call for change, researchers have identified two strategies that hold great promise – organizational mindfulness and ...

This study investigated how African American high school boys and girls differ in academic self-efficacy expectations, racial identity, academic performance, and educational expectations, and how well academic self-efficacy ...

With a new level of importance being placed on the evaluation of principals, this study specifically examines the process used to evaluate principals. Data were analyzed to determine if the principal evaluation process ...

This research investigated a new instructional design model intended to provide higher education faculty with guidance that will contribute to their successful design of a hybrid course. The goal of this research was to ...