Educational Leadership Studies Dissertations Titles, 1938-2012
(Major Professors in Parentheses)
UK students, staff and faculty may read the dissertations from 1996 to the present.
| Academic Year | Graduate | Dissertation Title |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | Xavier J. Webb (Nash/Royal) | Measuring Job Satisfaction Among Kentucky Head Principals Using the Rasch Rating Scale Model |
| 2012 | Randy Napier (Bjork) | The influence of corporate leadership and management on a public school district |
| 2012 | Deborah Murray (Bjork) | Diffusion of key health messages in the community utilizing the cooperative extension service: Are social networks among family and consumer sciences extension agents a factor in the diffusion of health information dynamic |
| 2011 | Charles Hamilton (Bjork) | Perceptions of Kentucky high school principals and superintendents on the role of the superintendent influencing principal instructional leadership. |
| 2011 | Amelia Brown (Bjork) | College Decision-Making Process of Students from Rural Areas in Kentucky |
| 2011 | Lisa Eddy (Rous) | The Effects of Mobility on Student Achievement |
| 2011 | Brenda Voris (Bjork / Browne-Ferrigno) | Teacher Efficacy, Job Satisfaction, and Alternative Certification in Early Career Special Education Teachers |
| 2010 | Dale Winkler (Bjork) | Teacher Attitudes Toward the Consequences of Pay for Performance Incentives |
| 2010 | Thomas Aberli (Browne-Ferrigno) | Job Satisfaction and Professional Growth Experience of Urban School Administrators |
| 2010 | Charles Duane Crowe (Björk) | A Comparison of Student Achievement in Language Arts Between Heterogeneously Ability-Grouped and Homogeneously Ability-Grouped Students in the Same High School Setting |
| 2010 | Alyce Emerson (Harris/Logan) | Dropout Prevention: A Study of the Transition Education Program in the Fayette County Public Schools |
| 2010 | Margaret Quintero (Björk/Rous) | School Climate and Teacher Empowerment in Small Learning Communities |
| 2010 | Rebecca Simms (Hausman/Browne-Ferrigno) | An Analysis of the Outcomes of Dual Enrollment Participants in Kentucky Community & Technical Colleges: 2001-02 to 2007-08 |
| 2009 | Steven Estep (Björk) | Teacher Practices in a High Performing, Appalachian Rural High School |
| 2009 | Greg Finkbonner (Björk) | A Comparison of Student Achievement Between Highly Qualified and Non-Highly Qualified Teachers in Kentucky |
| 2009 | Mary Katherine Griffin-Jenner (Hausman) | Work-Based Learning: Who's Participating and Why? |
| 2009 | Shannon Harr (Björk) | Predicting Student Persistence Using Developmental Educaton Courses |
| 2009 | Carol Patrick (Hausman) | A Comparison of Achievement Gains for Full-day and Half-day Kindergarten Students |
| 2009 | Glenda Patton (Björk) | Exploring the Leadership Styles of Community-Based Early Childhood Education Program Director |
| 2009 | Jennifer Robinson (Björk) | Teacher Leadership and School Reform: A case Study of the Accelerating Student Achievement Project in a Central Kentucky School District |
| 2009 | Antonio Shelton (Rous) | Accessing the Superintendency: Identifying the Assets of an African American, Female Superintendent |
| 2009 | Lisa S. Allen (Hausman) | Differentiating Professional Development for Teachers: How Teachers Develop and Implement Professional Growth Plans |
| 2009 | Kathlyn Burkhardt (Hausman) | The Effect of Out-of-School Suspension on the Academic Achievement of Secondary Students |
| 2009 | Carmen Coleman (Hausman/Björk) | Principal Attitudes Toward Pay for Performance Incentives for Teachers |
| 2009 | Anthony Donkor (Björk) | Parental Involvement in Education in Ghana: The Case of the Hope International School |
| 2009 | Amy Galloway (Hausman) | Teacher Attitudes Regarding What should be Included in a Performance Pay Model by Teacher and School Background |
| 2009 | Robert Hall (Hausman) | Parental Choice of Nondenominational Christian Education: Reasons for Choice, Exit, and the Types and Sources of Information Used |
| 2009 | Francis O'Hara (Logan/Hausman) | Kentucky's Response to the Vocational Education Act of 1963: Leadership for the Development of a Unique System of Secondary Area Technology Centers |
| 2009 | Johnathan K Rogers (Hausman) | The Relationship Between School Culture and Student Academic Achievement |
| 2009 | Mike Sander (Hausman) | CATS as a Predictor of Student Success in Post-Secondary Education |
| 2009 | Anna Marie Tracy (Hausman) | Analysis of ESL Teacher Endorsement Effects on English Language Learners' Student Achievement and English Language Acquisition |
| 2009 | Sheli L Wilson (Hausman) | The Effects of the Emotional Intelligence of Elementary School Principals on Student Achievement |
| 2008 | Laura Michelle Blake (Hausman) | Teacher Quality: The Impact of Accreditation and Institutional Quality on Teacher Inservice Placement and Student Achievement |
| 2008 | Patricia C Watson (Björk) | Principal Leadership: A Case Study of a District Leadership Academy |
| 2007 | Nathan Robert Ambrose (Knoeppel/Logan) | Overcoming Barriers to Student Achievement: A Cross-case Analysis of How High Poverty Schools Become High Achieving Schools |
| 2007 | Janet Marlene Ratliff (Björk) | The Impact of Differentiated Compensation on Special Education Teacher Retention in a Public School District in North Central Kentucky |
| 2007 | Kelly S Mullins (Browne-Ferrigno/Rinehart) | Kentucky Community and Technical College System From Inception to 2005 |
| 2007 | Debra Plank White (Rinehart/Björk) | The Influence of High School Setting on Kentucky Students Completing a Baccalaureate Degree |
| 2007 | Bonnie Nicholson (Logan) | Consolidation of a Coimmunity and Technical College |
| 2007 | Lucinda T. Sanders (Scollay) | Not for Them: Women and the Public School Superintendency |
| 2007 | Rita J. Prichett (Scollay/Tice) | The Battle Between Promise and Privilege: The History of women's basketball at the University of Kentucky 1972-2002 |
| 2006 | Virginia Hess (Björk/Browne-Ferrigno) | The Effects of Differentiated Compensation on Teacher Retention in a Hard-to-Staff Urban Middle School |
| 2006 | Barry Pelphry (Björk) | A Case Study of Kentucky's First African American School Superintendent |
| 2006 | Matthew DeMattina (Logan) | Student Perceptions of Online Learning as a Delivery System for a Work-Related Continuing Education Course: A Case Study |
| 2005 | Michael Gam (Scollay) | Power, Politics and the Restructuring of Higher Education Governance in Kentucky |
| 2005 | Donna Kerley (Rinehart) | Exploring Connections Among Relational Trust, Teacher Efficacy, and Student Achievement |
| 2005 | Deborah Mapp-Embry (Logan) | Teacher’s Sense of Efficiency and African American Student Engagement: A Case Study of Classes in a Selected Kentucky Middle School |
| 2005 | Dennis Shoulders (Lindle) | The Perceived Role of the Superintendent in School Board Member Development |
| 2004 | Terry Brown (Scollay) | The Nature of Alternative School Programs in Kentucky: An Exploratory Study |
| 2004 | Susan Compton (Björk) | Barriers to Women in the Superintendency in Kentucky |
| 2004 | John D. Dobbs (Rinehart) | The Role of Effective Schools Correlates Among Alternative Placement Programs in the Prediction of Dropout Rates in Kentucky Public High Schools |
| 2004 | Susan Foust McDonald (Lindle) | Barriers to Women in the Superintendency in Kentucky |
| 2003 | Lana Lewis Bastin (Lindle) | Professional Development and Teacher Learning Styles: Selected Kentucky Teachers' Perceptions About School-based or State-Designed Professional Development |
| 2003 | Robert J. Bell (Björk) | The Relationship Between the Politics of Superintendency - Board Relations and Professional Socialization of Superintendents in Kentucky |
| 2003 | Richard Elliott Day (Scollay) | Each Child, Every Child - From Equity to Adequacy in Kentucky Schools: The Legacy of the Council for Better Schools |
| 2003 | Jone J. Goodman (Björk) | Principals' Perspectives on Interagency Collaboration |
| 2003 | Karen Marie Heim-Baugh (Björk) | A Case Study of Inter-institutional Collaboration in a Middle School |
| 2002 | Susan Foust McDonald (Lindle) | What Do Kentucky Principals Do with State Mandated Assessment Results: A Multiple Case Study of Three Elementary Schools in One District |
| 2002 | Henley McIntosh (Rinehart) | Descriptive Profile of Parental Involvement in Selected Kentucky Middle Schools |
| 2002 | Jerry Wallace Ralston (Rinehart) | Adequacy and Equity of Facility Funding for the Kentucky Public School System |
| 2002 | Rodney Dean Grusy (Logan) | Precision Farming in Kentucky: Evaluating Public and Private Sector Influence on the Adoption Decision |
| 2002 | John Mathew Mowbray (Logan) | Factors Affecting Turnover of County Extension Agents in the University of Kentucky Cooperative Extension Service |
| 2002 | Barbara Herndon Vick (Rinehart) | Comparisons of Student Achievement in Kentucky School Districts Allocating Minimum and Above Minimum Levels of Instructional Funds During the Late Years of Systemic Reform |
| 2001 | Beth Shanks Rous (Lindle) | Instructional Leadership in Kentucky Public Preschool Programs: Teacher Perceptions of Leader Instructional Influence |
| 2001 | Brenda Hauser (Rinehart) | A Comparison of Principal Perceiver Themes Between Highly Successful and Less Successful Principals in a Selection of Public Elementary Schools in Kentucky |
| 2000 | Abolfazl Gholamimehra (Byers/Warner) | An Assessment of factors Affecting the Competency of Agricultural Mechanization Programs and Teachers in the Islamic Republic of Iran |
| 2000 | Doris Barlow (Logan/Harris) | Kentucky's Star Professional Development Network: Perceptions of Effectiveness in Improving Student Achievement in Low-Performing Schools in 1996-1997 |
| 2000 | Lori Henderson (Van Meter) | The Development of an Elementary School's Consolidated Plan for Improvement: A Case Study of a Newly Established Kentucky School-Based Decision-Making Committee Structure |
| 2000 | Lonnie Laney (Rinehart) | Investigating Scores From Students With Special Needs On The Outcome Of A Statewide Accountability System: The Study Of One Rural Kentucky School District |
| 2000 | Sam Rich (Lindle/Scollay) | Teacher Job Satisfaction as it Relates to School-Based Decision Making in Three Western Kentucky Elementary Schools: Perceptions of a New Element in Teaching |
| 2000 | Margarita Rupp (Van Meter) | Expanding the Concept of Effective Schools: Measuring the Instructional Environment for Learning. |
| 2000 | Alesa Walker (Lindle) | One School's Experience with School-Based Decision Making: Perceptions of School Climate |
| 1999 | Arthetta Jane Browning (Scollay / Rinehart) | Questions of Equity: Kentucky Authentic Assessment Reading and Mathematics Results Compared by Sex and Location |
| 1999 | Patricia Coon-Knochelmann (Rinehart) | Micropolitical Behaviors of Principals in Rewarded and Sanctioned High Schools in the Reform State of Kentucky |
| 1999 | John T. Decker (Scollay) | An Examination of Kentucky School Districts's Instructional Per Pupil Expenditures and Academic Performance at the Eighth Grade Level in Mathematics and Reading |
| 1999 | Alvan Cordell Hadley, Jr. (Van Meter) | The Association of Military Colleges and Schools of the United States (AMCSUS) and the Struggle for the Survival of Military and Preparatory Schools in America |
| 1999 | Marian Siler Sumner (Lindle) | An 'Attitude Disability' or a 'Pecular Bent of Genius?': An Exploratory Study of Selected Kentucky Middle Schools' Discipline Policies and Practices |
| 1999 | Nancy Rebecca Waldrop (Scollay) | The Office of Education Accountability: The Crucible of Kentucky Education Reform |
| 1999 | Teresa Taylor Wallace (Van Meter) | Motivation Levels and Factors Influencing the Motivation of Teachers in Differing Circumstances of Teaching Based on Herzberg's Motivator-Hygiene Theory |
| 1999 | Zella Faye Wells (Rinehart) | Kentucky Intern Principals and Assistant Principals: Job Responsibilities and Work Differences |
| 1998 | Ora J. Cobb (Lindle) | Analytic Approach for Middle School Principals in Raising KIRIS Achievement Scores: A Case Study of At-Risk Students Participating in Selected Intervention Strategies |
| 1998 | Terri J. Cox-Cruey (Scollay) | District Technology Coordinators: Change Agents in Kentucky's Age of Technology |
| 1998 | Karen Patrice Frohoff (Lindle) | The Roles of Special Education Administrators and Principals in Kentucky |
| 1998 | Charlene Walters Jacobs (Harris) | Effect of Age on Motivation and Individual Motivation Factors of County Extension Agents in Kentucky |
| 1998 | Tony Thomas Ross (Rinehart) | Exploring Connections among Teacher Empowerment, Teacher Efficacy, Transformational Leadership, and Student Achievement |
| 1998 | Crickette Elizabeth Todd (Van Meter / Logan) | Superintendency Turnover in Kentucky in the Aftermath of Statewide Systemic Education Reform |
| 1997 | Mark Richard Brown (Russo) | School-Based Decision Making and the Implementation of Instruction, Scheduling, and Assessment Practices in Kentucky Middle Schools |
| 1997 | Becke Joceil Cleaver (Lindle) | The Response of Two Kentucky Urban School Districts' Central Administrations to Imposed Systemic Reform |
| 1997 | Jackie A. Kearns (Lindle) | The Role of the Elementary Principal in the Professional Development of Teachers: A Multiple Case Study |
| 1997 | Robert John Storer (Van Meter) | Leadership Characteristics of Public High School Principals in School-Based and Non-School-Based Decision-Making Schools in Kentucky: Exploring the Concept of Transformational Leadership |
| 1997 | Carolyn Wells (Van Meter) | Changes in the School Superintendency in Kentucky in the Aftermath of Mandated Statewide Education Reform: Perceptions of Role Incumbents |
| 1996 | Kasundra D. Cyrus (Harris) | Family Resource and Youth Service Center Coordinators: An Identification of Leadership Roles |
| 1996 | Dale D. Duvall (Rinehart) | School Districts' Per Pupil Instructional Expenditures and Student Academic Performance at the Fourth-Grade Level in Mathematics and Reading as Measured By the Kentucky Instructional Results Information Assessment Program |
| 1996 | Patricia Kay Gilmore (Van Meter) | Evaluation of the Science Component of the K-3 Partnership for Reform Initiatives in Science and Mathematics in Kentucky |
| 1996 | Cathy Sue Jording (Rinehart / Johnson) | Kentucky Primary Programs: Principals' Beliefs About Early Childhood Education and Selected Demographic Characteristics |
| 1996 | Michael W. Kessinger (Rinehart) | 1996Districts Per Pupil Instructional Expenditures and Academic Performance at the Twelfth Grade Level in Reading and Mathematics as Measured by the Kentucky Instructional Results Information System Assessment Program |
| 1996 | Bonnie M. Sigafus (Scollay) | The Complexity of Professional Life: Experiences of Adult Students Pursuing a Distance Learning Doctoral Program in Educational Administration. |
| 1996 | Russell Wall (Rinehart) | School-Based Decision Making and the Empowerment of Kentucky's Secondary School Teachers. |
| 1996 | Rosa Lee Weaver (Van Meter) | Innovation Propensity of Teachers and their Acceptance and Implementation of the Primary School Programs in Kentucky |
| 1995 | J. Paige Carney (Steffy) | The Use of Effective Change Characteristics in Implementing Kentucky's Primary Program: A Case Study |
| 1995 | George Joseph Gerl (Van Meter / Scollay) | Leadership Behavior and School-Based Decision-Making Council Member Satisfaction in Kentucky High Schools |
| 1995 | Robert Stephen Hutton (Scollay) | Leadership Behavior and School-Based Decision Making Council Member Satisfaction in Kentucky Elementary Schools |
| 1995 | Mary Margaret Kindel (Van Meter) | Computer Attitudes and Use of Public Secondary School Teachers in Kentucky |
| 1995 | Carolyn Sue Martin (Van Meter) | The Process of School-Based Decision Making in Selected Kentucky High Schools Operating with Mandated SBDM Councils |
| 1995 | Cynthia Marie Mason (Rinehart) | An Examination of Kentucky Public Secondary Teachers' Perceptions Toward Their 1994-95 Professional Development Experiences |
| 1995 | Clifford Bernard Perkins, Jr. (Lindle) | A Study of the Relationships of Gender, Ethnic Origin, and Student Program Classification and Scores on the Battelle Developmental Screening Inventory as They Relate to Preschool Programs in Kentucky |
| 1995 | John Cosby Settle (Steffy) | An Exploratory Case Study of Professional Development and Other Critical Elements in the Implementation of the Primary Program in Eight Kentucky Public Elementary Schools |
| 1995 | Sandra Fey Kestner (English) | A Study of Selected Programmatic and Personal Factors Associated with Reading and Math Achievement Scores of Adult Basic Education Students in Kentucky |
| 1994 | Ray Vaughn Read (Van Meter) | Principals' Perceptions of the Policy Development Process of School Councils in Kentucky |
| 1994 | David C. Schadler (Scollay) | Leadership Behavior and School-Based Decision-Making Council Member Satisfaction in Kentucky Middle Schools |
| 1993 | Keen Johnson Babbage (Van Meter) | District Policies Establishing School-Based Decision-Making in Selected Kentucky School Districts - Process, Procedures, and Implementation |
| 1992 | Fred Raymond Bassett (Van Meter) | Student Dropout Prediction: Examining School District and Individual School Variations in Reference to a Common Predictor Model |
| 1992 | Pamela Rogers (Faber) | The Perceptions of Kentucky Elementary Teachers Serving on School Councils Regarding Decision Making Authority of Teacher and School Councils |
| 1992 | Paul Arthur Weaver (Van Meter) | The Whitley County Story: A Case Study of State Intervention into a Poor, Rural Appalachian Kentucky County School District |
| 1991 | Raul Fernando Lagos (Faber) | A Comparative Study of the Personnel Evaluation Standards of the Joint Committee on Standards for Education Evaluation and the Standards Used in the State of Kentucky and in Selected School Districts |
| 1991 | Angela Wilkins (Faber) | Parenting and Family Life Skills Education: A Study of the Legislative Mandate and Model Curriculum Development in Kentucky |
| 1990 | Marlene DoraEthel Helm (Ogletree) | The Relationship of Participation in Extracurricular Activities to Self- Concept and Achievement Among Students in Junior High School in Fayette County, Kentucky |
| 1990 | Michael Leon Hicks (Ogletree) | A Comparative Study of Kentucky Teachers' Perceptions of Their Freedom to Make Educational Decisions |
| 1990 | Josephine Ann Orange (Van Meter) | Instructional Leadership of Kentucky School Principals in Elementary Schools of Various Effectiveness. |
| 1989 | Victor Ballestero (Ogletree) | A study of the relationship between teachers' perceptions of selected school factors and student academic achievement in selected elementary schools in Fayette County, Kentucky |
| 1989 | Helen Faye Harrah (Ogletree) | A Comparison of Locus of Control, Dogmatism, and Receptivity to Change Among Elementary and Secondary School Teachers in Three Designated Regions in the State of Kentucky |
| 1989 | Thomas Richard Mowery (Ogletree) | A Descriptive Study of the Extent of Kinship in Kentuckys' Public Schools. |
| 1989 | Molly Jane Sullivan (Faber) | Reasons Given by Parents for Transferring Students from Public to Private Schools in Fayette County, Kentucky. |
| 1989 | Karla Marie Thompson (Van Meter) | An Evaluation of the Provo City, Utah School Districts Elementary Writing Program: Examining a Process Approach to Writing |
| 1988 | Ricardo Almeida-Uranga (Ogletree) | An Input-Output Study of the Kentucky Education System |
| 1988 | Charles Anthony Guarino (Faber) | Employment Status of Mildly Handicapped Students Who Graduated from Vocational, Academic, and Occupational Work Experience High School Education Programs |
| 1988 | Glenn Ronald Hickey (Van Meter) | School Programs for At-Risk Students: A Case Study of Project Transition, a Kentucky Alternative In-School Program for Eighth Grade Students. |
| 1988 | Larry Eugene Kelsch (Van Meter / Ogletree) | Gender Difference Treatment of Students in Vocational Education: An Examination of Teacher-Student Interactions in Kentucky Secondary Vocational Education Classrooms |
| 1988 | William Jesse Lacefield (Ogletree) | Kentucky School Board Members' Perceived Involvement in Policy-Formulation and Policy-Implementation Relative to Selected Tasks |
| 1988 | Michael Erwin Norman (Faber) | Identification of Important Competencies for Special Education Administrators and the Degree to Which Those Competencies Were Addressed in Preservice Training Programs as Perceived by Special Education |
| 1988 | Michael Lee Wells (Ogletree) | The Relationships Between Sixth Grade Students' Perceptions of Selected School Factors and Their Academic Achievement in Selected Fayette County, Kentucky Elementary Schools. |
| 1988 | Marium Williams (Van Meter) | Early Childhood Educational Intervention: An Analysis of Nicholas County, Kentucky Head Start Program Impacts From 1974-1986. |
| 1987 | Sally Ann Henry (Ogletree) . | A Study of the Relationships Among Selected Factors Affecting Kentucky Teachers' Instructional Technology Use in the Elementary Classroom. |
| 1987 | Norma Jean Wacaster (Faber) | Project Vision: A Study of the Development of a School-Based Partnership at the State Level |
| 1986 | Meredith Kay Adler (Faber) | Relationships Between Labeled Emotionally Handicapped and Non-Labeled Students in Perceptions of School Climate, Alienation, Teacher-Student Relation- ships, and Opportunities for Participation in Ext |
| 1986 | Judy Lynn Archer (Faber) | The Staff Development Needs of School Food and Nutrition Program Managers in the State of Georgia. |
| 1986 | Myron David Barnett (Van Meter) | Kentucky Elementary and Secondary Principals' Reactions to Performance- Based Pay for Teachers |
| 1986 | John H. Brock (Faber) | A Study of the Relationship of Pupil Achievement Test Scores to Pupil Expenditures and Selected District Socio- economic Variables |
| 1986 | Franklin Lyles Foster (Faber) | Stress Perception Among Kentucky Secondary School Principals. |
| 1986 | Richard Hughes (Ogletree) | A Study of the Relationship of School Climate, Managerial System, Pupil Control Ideology, and Student Academic Progress in Selected Kentucky Secondary Schools. |
| 1986 | Susan Louise Leib (Ogletree) | The Development of a Special Program Planning Paradigm and Its Application to Three Special Programs Designed and Implemented by the Kentucky Department of Education. |
| 1986 | Bernard Irvin Minnis (Faber) | An Analysis of Biracial Learning Teams and Their Effect on Cross-Racial Relationships. |
| 1986 | William Glenn Smith (Ogletree) | Kentucky School Board Members' Perceived Involvement in Policy-Determination and Policy-Execution Relative to Selected Tasks. |
| 1985 | Sarah Monita Laws (Faber) | Relationship Between Teacher Perceptions of Principal Leader Behavior and Teacher Attitudes Toward Evaluation in Kentucky Public Schools |
| 1985 | Charleen Margaret McAuliffe (Faber) | A Study of Perceptions of the Essential Task of Elementary Principals as Reported by the Elementary Principals and Central Office Staff Members of the Catholic Schools of the Archdiocese of Louisville |
| 1985 | Stanton Anthony Simandle (Faber) | Teacher Pupil Control Ideology as a Predictor of the Responsiblity Teachers Assume for Student Academic Success and Failure. |
| 1984 | Robert Sherrill Boggs (Faber) | An Analysis of the Cost-Quality Relationships in Selected Elementary Schools in Kentucky |
| 1984 | Carol Deen (Faber) | Compatability of Vocational Preferences and Volunteer Placement as a Factor in Volunteer Job Satisfaction. |
| 1984 | Nak Jin Moon (Faber) | An Analysis of Problems in Participatory Decision-Making by Elementary School Teachers. |
| 1984 | Mary Eve Proffitt (Ogletree) | Parental Involvement and Perceptions of Schools |
| 1984 | Ruby Kathy Smoot (Faber) | A Study of the Leadership Behavior of Florida Extension Administrators |
| 1984 | Ronald John Snavely (Faber) | Performance Appraisal of Public School Superintendents: A Survey of Current Evaluation Practices in the United States |
| 1983 | Leo Floyd (Faber) | The Impact of Busing on Student Achievement. |
| 1983 | Ralph Waldo Nevels (Ogletree) | The Relationship Between Teacher Professionalism and Job Satisfaction. |
| 1983 | Rita Carole Price (Faber) | The Relationship Between Education Level of Superintendents and Their Leadership Behavior. |
| 1982 | David Barrow Jenks (Ogletree) | A Study of the Adoption of a State Mandated Citizenship Education Course in Kentucky by the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education in 1979. |
| 1982 | Ben Richard Oldham (Ogletree) | The Longitudinal Effects of Pupil Retention Practices in the First Three Grades. |
| 1982 | Ronald Stephen Pelfrey (Ogletree) | Factors Influencing High Ability Students in Fayette County to Pursue Four Years of Mathematics. |
| 1980 | Donald Lee Martin, Jr. (Kincheloe) | The Relationship Between Certain Family, Personal, and Other Characteristics of Drop-Outs in Kentucky Public Schools. |
| 1980 | Garnet Worthington (Faber) | Study of the Perception of the School Superintendent's Role Expectations. |
| 1979 | Gayle Ecton (Faber) | A History of the Lincoln School, Simpsonville, Kentucky 1966-70 |
| 1979 | Francine Dawn Edwards (Kincheloe) | A Model of the Information Flow in Which the Principal is the Central Figure. |
| 1979 | Paul Wesley McNeill (Faber) | School Desegregation in South Carolina 1963-70 |
| 1979 | Sharon Imogen Robinson (Faber) | An Analysis of Administrator Discretion and Its Impact on Black Student Suspensions. |
| 1978 | Dana Frank Beane (Faber) | A History of Efforts by the Kentucky Education Association Toward Passage of a Professional Negotiations Law in the Kentucky General Assembly, 1968-76. |
| 1978 | Louis Henry Polsgrove (Kincheloe) | An Analysis of the Administrative Procedures and Informational Items Utilized in the Selection of Kentucky Teachers. |
| 1978 | Jude Thaddeus Sorapuru (Faber) | The Leader Behavior of Inner City and Outer City Senior High School Principals: Expectations and Perceptions of Teachers, Principals and Parents in New Orleans. |
| 1978 | Stephen Woods Towler (Kincheloe) | The Disequalization Effects and Subsequent Equalization Potential of the Three Permissive Non-Property Taxes in Kentucky. |
| 1977 | Norman Dean Osborne (Ogletree) | A Study of the Relationship of Suspended and Non-Susp. H. S. Stds. in Terms of Std. Perceptions of Sch. Climate, Alienation, Std. Deviant Behavior, Teacher-Student Relationships, and the Extent of Vol |
| 1976 | Shelley Ann Cohen (Faber) | A Technique for Analyzing the Training Needs of Staff Members in an Alternative Program. |
| 1976 | Joel Peter Henning (Faber) | The Levenswelt as Explicated by Phenomenologists as a Base for Development of a Theory of Educational Administration. |
| 1976 | Martha Louise Redden (Faber) | An Investigation of Mainstreaming Competencies of Regular Education Teachers. |
| 1976 | Booker Taliaferro Rice (Faber) | The Revision and Extension of a Cost- Effectiveness Model and Its Application. |
| 1976 | Lowell Kendrick Scott (Kincheloe) | The Charismization of Routine: A Study of the Relationship Between Tenure and the Charismatic Authority of Kentucky Public School Superintendents |
| 1976 | John Marshall Thompson (Faber) | School Desegregation in Jefferson County Schools. |
| 1975 | James A. Barber (Faber) | A Study of Changes in the Building Principal's Leader Behavior as Perceived by Superordinates, Subordinates, and Selves that Result from Instructional Planning, Monitoring and Feedback Processes. |
| 1975 | C. Michael M. Brooks (Kincheloe) | The Financial Feasibility of a State Insurance Fund for Kentucky's Public Schools. |
| 1975 | Billy Hugh Chandler (Kincheloe) | A Survey and Analysis of Kentucky Public School Principals' Perceptions of Crucial Professional Negotiation Issues. |
| 1975 | Lawrence Daniel Patterson (Faber) | A Survey and Analysis of Kentucky Principals' Preferred Role in Professional Negotiations. |
| 1975 | Joong Shik Shin (Faber) | A Study of the Relationships Among the Principals' Leadership Style, Teachers' Need-Orientation, and the Degree of Teachers' Satisfaction with Their Principal's Job Performance. |
| 1974 | Carl Banks (Faber) | Perceptions of the Secondary School Held by Higher and Lower-Income Students and Teachers in Selected Schools in Eastern Kentucky. |
| 1974 | Jesse Keen Cabler (Faber) | The Task of the Kindergarten: Goal Perceptions, Teachers, and Parents of Kentucky's 100 Pilot Kindergarten Units. |
| 1974 | Faurest Earl Coogle (Kincheloe) | Instructional Freedom and the Influence of Organizational Characteristics as Perceived by Teachers in Kentucky Sec- ondary Schools. |
| 1974 | L. Marie Doyle (Faber) | The Public School Merger Issue in Jefferson County Kentucky. |
| 1974 | James Raymond Harper (Ogletree) | An Analysis of the Orientation of Teachers, Principals, and Superinten- dents in the Public Schools of Kentucky. |
| 1974 | Billie Wayne Rideout (Ogletree) | A Study of the Relationship of Size of High Schools. |
| 1973 | Roland Charles Haun (Kincheloe) | Organizational Factors Related to Positions on Collective Negotiation Taken by Chairmen of Local School Boards and Presidents of Local Education Associations. |
| 1972 | Kenneth Nelson Kron (Faber) | Culture Shock and the Transfer Teacher |
| 1972 | John Henry Vansant (Ogletree) | Perceptions of the Secondary School Held by Higher and Lower-Income Students and Teachers in Selected Schools in Eastern Kentucky |
| 1971 | James Verner Bolen (Ogletree) | The Relationship Between Schools with Self-Induced Educational Innovations and Schools with Externally Introduced Educational Innovation with Regard to Organization Climate |
| 1971 | Sam Brown, Jr. (Ogletree) | Democratic Management: Implications for Local School Administration in Educational Planning |
| 1971 | Robert Norris Cocanougher (Street) | The Relationship Between Teacher Militancy and Career Patterns of Teachers |
| 1971 | Albert J. Hauselman (Ogletree) | Personality and the Choice of Undergraduate Major: A Test of Holland's Theory. |
| 1971 | Marcus Ray Kelly (Ogletree) | Pupil Tutoring in Reading of Low- Achieving Second Grade Pupils by Low-Achieving Fourth Grade Pupils |
| 1971 | Hall M. Kinney (Ogletree) | Perceptions of Citizen School Study Committees |
| 1971 | Bruce Alvin Peseau (Ogletree) | An Assessment of the Quality of Quick Quantitative Judgements Among Educational Finance Specialists |
| 1971 | Everett Earl Pfansteil (Ogletree) | A Discriminant Analysis of the Orientation of Principals and Teachers in Changing and Stable Schools. |
| 1971 | Leonard Donald Ralph (Street) | A Study of the Effects of an In-Service Involvement on Selected Characteristics of Teachers. |
| 1971 | Roy Vance Ramage (Street) | The Organizational Identification of a State's Public School Administrator in Relation to Selected Personal Variables and to Selected Organizational Variables. |
| 1970 | Reedus D. Back (Ogletree) | The Relationship of Selected Administrator and School Factors to Change in the Schools. |
| 1970 | Willard David Bostwick (Cierley) | The Coopertive Education Coordinator in American Institutions of Higher Education: A Proposed Guideline for Academic Preparation. |
| 1970 | Walter Marcum (Kincheloe) | A Study of Pre-Student Teaching Professional Laboratory Experiences at a Southern University. |
| 1970 | George Clark Overstreet (Ogletree) | A Study of Teacher Characteristics in Changing and Stable Schools. |
| 1970 | Julius C. Powell (Kincheloe) | Means Used in Selecting States to Finance Plant Expansion of Public Higher Education Academic and Service Facilities |
| 1970 | Gerald Lee Varland (Kincheloe) | Assessibility of the Public Schools in Kentucky for Research Purposes. |
| 1970 | Hayes Edward Wilcox (Kincheloe) | The Relationship of Financial, Personnel, and Attitudinal Variables to Negotiated Agreement Items in Twelve Public School Districts in Michigan. |
| 1969 | Russell Bowen, Jr. (Ogletree) | A Comparative Analysis of the Perceptions of the Role and Functions of Counselors, Directors of Pupil Personnel, and Social Workers, Held by Principals, Teachers, and Pupil Personnel Specialists in Secondary Schools. |
| 1969 | Seth Farley (Street) | The Administration of Pupil Personnel Services: A Model Development and Its Applications to Kentucky Schools. |
| 1969 | Joseph Donlan Gormley (Kincheloe) | Dogmatism and Change in Teachers. |
| 1969 | Patrick Edward Napier (Ogletree) | The Relationship of Origin and Tenure of Superintendent to the Organizational Climate of Selected School Districts in Kentucky. |
| 1969 | Ronnie Nevil Sutton (Street) | A Comparative Study of the Adademic Performance of University of Kentucky Community College Transfer and Native Students Initially Matched on Six Characteristics. |
| 1969 | Joseph Wise (Kincheloe) | The Normative Role of the Classroom Teacher. |
| 1968 | Charles William Burkett (Ogletree) | Kentucky School Administrators as Innovators. |
| 1968 | Morris Klair Caudill (Cierley) | Superintendents' and School Board Members' Conceptions of Restrictions on Selected Federal Aid Programs for Public Schools in Kentucky. |
| 1968 | Ernest Ray White, Jr (Kincheloe) . | A Comparative Analysis of the Administrative Structures and Operation of Educational Cooperatives. |
| 1967 | Ray Alexander, Jr. (Cierley) | A Study of the Organizational Patterns and Operational Procedures of the Student Teaching Programs in Kentucky. |
| 1967 | Leonard Edsel Burkett (Ogletree) | An Analysis of the Conditions and Practices of Kentucky Boards of Education in Relation to Certain School District Factors. |
| 1967 | Arthur Leon Cotterill (Ogletree) | Administrative Practices and Student Dropouts in Selected Kentucky School Districts. |
| 1967 | Billy Kenneth Gordon (Kincheloe) | Dogmatism, Philosophy, and Leader Behavior of School Administrators. |
| 1967 | William Nelson Pafford (Cierley) | Relationships Between Innovation and Selected School Factors. |
| 1967 | Samuel Sears, Jr. (Ogletree) | The Relationship Between Teacher Dogmatism and Philosophical Orientation and Selected Teacher and District Characteristics. |
| 1967 | Murrell Presley Stewart (Ogletree) | Teacher Participation in the Administration of Four Eastern Kentucky School Districts. |
| 1967 | Barbara F. Tea (Cierley) | A Comparative Study of Certain Characteristics of Graduates Who Began the Professional Education Sequence at the Lower Division Level with Those Who Began at the Upper Division Level. |
| 1966 | Thomas P. Collins (Cierley) | A Study of the Freshman Composition Program at the University of Kentucky and Six of Its Affiliated Community Colleges. |
| 1966 | P. David Landers Evans (Cierley) | A Study of the Desirability, Use and Helpfulness of Certain Selected Orientation Practices in Selected and Private Schools. |
| 1966 | Claude P. Frady (Cierley) | Profile of the Kentucky Public Senior High School Principal. |
| 1966 | Ottis Murphy (Street) | A Comparison of Certain Social Characteristics of Accepted and Rejected Referrals for Vocational Rehabilitation Services. |
| 1966 | Ozias Pearson (Cierley) | Effects of Group Guidance Upon College Adjustment. |
| 1966 | John Haub Pollock (Cierley) | Variations in Perceptions of Educational Issues Among Administrators, Supervisors, and Teachers. |
| 1966 | Richard Monroe Sellers (Ogletree) | A Study of Organization Patterns and Administrative Practices in Physical Plant Development in Selected Institutions of Higher Learning. |
| 1966 | Lee Allen Torrence (Sorenson) | A Study of Factors Associated with Negro Teachers' Attitudes and Opinions Toward Faculty Desegregation. |
| 1966 | David B. Watts (Cierley) | A Study of Social Characteristics Affecing Certain Over-Achieving and Under- Achieving Rural High School Senior Boys as Compared to Their Urban Counterparts. |
| 1965 | Keith E. Davis (Cierley) | A Study of Train Pattern Affecting the Academic Performance of Forty Selected High School Subjects in Fayette County, Kentucky. |
| 1965 | Drewey Meece, Jr. (Ogletree) | A Study of Relationship Between Certain Personal and Professional Variables and Time Spent in Lesson Preparation by Kentucky Teachers. |
| 1965 | Eddie W. Morris (Ginger) | Factors Related to Faculty Desegregation in Public Schools. |
| 1964 | William Taylor Simpson (Ginger) | A Comparative Study of Certain Characteristics of Selected Under-Progressing and Over-Progressing Boys in Five Kentucky High Schools. |
| 1964 | Robert Clay Needham (Street) | A Comparative Study of the Acadamic Adjustment and Success of Native and Two-Year Transfer Students in the Senior Colleges of Kentucky. |
| 1963 | Charles R. Berryman (Cierley) | Attitude Toward Democratic Teaching and Democratic Performance of Student Teachers Under Various Placement Condititons. |
| 1963 | Robert Newman Grise (Street) | The English Teacher in Kentucky: A Study of the Academic and Professional Preparation of Public High School Teachers of English in Kentucky. |
| 1963 | James H. Powell (Meece) | A Study of the Factors Involved in the Failure and Subsequent Success of a Noted Tax for School Buildings in Five Selected Counties in Kentucky. |
| 1963 | Sidney Ray Simandle (Ginger) | A Cooperative Effort to Improve the Selective Admission and Retention of Teacher Candidates in a State. |
| 1962 | Thomas J. Norris (Cierley) | A Procedure for Determining Junior College Curricula. |
| 1962 | Charles Leland Smith (Cierley) | Significant Differences Between High- Ability Achieving and Non-Achieving College Freshman as Revealed by Inter- view Data. |
| 1961 | Fred Edmonds (Meece) | A Study of the Competencies of General Supervision and an Assessment of the Supervisor Preparation Programs in Five Kentucky Colleges in Terms of Competency Development. |
| 1961 | John Thomas Smith (Meece) | Programs of Preparation for School Administration in Negro Graduate Schools. |
| 1960 | Frank D. Bean (Eckel) | The Interrelationships of Organized Subsystems and Certain Other Community Subsystems in Five Communities in Kentucky with Implications for Educational Administration. |
| 1960 | Robert L. Goodpaster (Meece) | A Study of Policies and Procedures for Determining Salaries and Promotions in Rank for the College of Arts and Sciences, University of Kentucky. |
| 1960 | Horace Edward Tate (Eckel) | Some Characteristics and Perceptions of the Negro Undergraduate at the University of Kentucky. |
| 1959 | John E. Barrows (Meece) | Southern Education Foundation: The Role of Philanthropy in Education. |
| 1959 | Fred Anton Bunger (Meece) | The Influence of Certain Cultural Forces Upon the Academic Success of First- Semester Freshman at the University of Kentucky. |
| 1959 | Joseph T. Conforti (Meece) | The Influence of Certain Cultural Forces Upon the Academic Success of First- Semester Freshman at the University of Kentucky. |
| 1959 | Clyde L. Orr (Albright) | An Analytical Study of the Conference of Presidents of Negro Land-Grant Colleges. |
| 1958 | Russell Renz (Albright) | Self-Directed Learning for Educational Leadership. |
| 1958 | Frank H. Stallings (Albright) | A Study of the Effects of Integration on Scholastic Achievement in the Louisville Public Schools. |
| 1957 | Charles Ambrose (Meece) | Work of the Visiting Teacher in the Schools of Louisville, Kentucky. |
| 1957 | Wilbur Tincher, Jr. (Albright) | An Evaluative Study of the Personnel Policies and Practices in the Public Institutions of Higher Education in Tennessee. |
| 1956 | James Bernard Graham (Eckel) | Factors Involved in the Decision-Making Process on Local Issues in Five Selected Communities of Kentucky with Implications for Educational Administration. |
| 1956 | George Hopkins (Eckel) | The Critical Requirements for Services of State Departments of Education as Reported by Local School Administrators |
| 1956 | Pat Waterfield Wear (Dickey) | The Secondary School in Kentucky as Revealed by the Use of the Evaluative Criteria. |
| 1955 | Palmer L. Hall (Eckel) | A Comparison of the Social Standing and Leadership Importance of the Leaders in Five Selected Communities with Implications for Educational Administration. |
| 1953 | Stanley E. Hecker (Eckel) | A Study of Early School Leavers in Kentucky. |
| 1952 | John Henry Boyd (Hopper) | A Proposed Foundation Program for Distributing State School Funds to the Local School Systems in Kentucky. |
| 1951 | Raymond Dudley Johnson (Hopper) | The Role of the School in the Community. |
| 1951 | Robert Lee Mills (Meece) | A Method of Measuring the Financial Ability of Kentucky School Districts to Support an Educational Program. |
| 1951 | Clarence T. Sharpton (Hopper) | The Role of the State Department of Education in the Public School Guidance Program. |
| 1950 | Adron Doran (Meece) | The Work of the Council on Public Higher Education in Kentucky |
| 1950 | Lyman Vernon Ginger (Hartford) | A Study of the Elementary School Principalship in Kentucky. |
| 1950 | Chester Coleman Travelstead (Meece) | Adult Education in Kentucky. |
| 1949 | Harold P. Adams (Cherry) | An Approach to the Development of a Program in In-Service Education for Public School Superintendents in Kentucky. |
| 1947 | Frank Graves Dickey (Seay) | Developing a Program of Supervision for Kentucky. |
| 1943 | George Robert Boyd (Seay) | The Construction of an Instrument for Measuring Attitudes Toward Desirable Food Practices. |
| 1940 | Charles C. Graham (Adams) | The Teaching of General Science |
| 1940 | Presley M. Grise (Ligon) | A Study of the Relationships of Written Compositional Ability of High-School Graduates |
| 1939 | Luther Martin Ambrose (Ligon) | The County Academy System in Kentucky |
| 1938 | Leonard Ephriam Meece (Chamberlain) | Negro Education in Kentucky |
