Theses & Dissertations Digitization Project

William & Mary Libraries worked for two years on a project to digitize and catalog W&M dissertations and theses going back to 1920 and up until 2015.  The project helps to accomplish many goals:

  • share the developments and research conducted here with scholars around the world
  • preserve the scholarly record
  • increase the impact of theses and dissertations
  • raise the profile of graduate students
  • grow the reputation of William & Mary
  • demonstrate the institution’s impact on local and global communities

As of October 22, 2018, you are now able to view the dissertations and theses included in this retrospective project as well as those which have been submitted electronically since 2016 in W&M ScholarWorks, the university's open access institutional repository.

Below, please find a list of W&M theses and dissertations which have been digitized as part of this retrospective conversion project . The information includes the authors associated with the project, along with their degree-granting department and year of completion. If you wrote a thesis and/or dissertation between 1920 and 2015 would like to opt-out of the project by restricting access to your work to on-campus access only, then you will need to contact scholarworks@wm.edu with your name, date of graduation and thesis or dissertation title. Theses and dissertations will continue to be made available through interlibrary loan (ILL) to other libraries, as they were when they were available in print. If you are a copyright holder for one of these works, and would like to provide additional information about a work, or discuss rights and access to the work, please contact us at scholarworks@wm.edu.

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Title Author Department Year Degree
Students exiting preschool special education : a six-year examination of eligibility patterns and performance Powers, Elisabeth Murphy, 1953- Education 2000 Doctor of Education
Academic freedom and faculty careers : a case study of four Nobel prize laureate exiles 1930-1940 Norton, Timothy Dale, 1955- Education 1995 Doctor of Education
A case study of three transpersonal psychotherapists and their Bhakti and Karma approaches to transpersonal psychotherapy Connor, Edward H. Education 1999 Doctor of Education
Predictors of role conflict, role ambiguity, and propensity to leave among academic department secretaries Vrooman, Rona J., 1953- Education 1990 Doctor of Education
The prediction of academic performance of open admissions students at Virginia State University Tambe, Joseph T., 1928- Education 1982 Doctor of Education
Jumping off the couch : infusing creativity into counselor education Lawrence, Christopher, Education 2012 Doctor of Education
Content analysis of principal job descriptions and principal evaluation instruments of K-12 public education in Virginia Catano, Nancy Irene Glick. Education 2002 Doctor of Education
The effect of an Adlerian-based group counseling/education program on the self concept, locus of control, and family environment of alternative high school students Spencer, Thelma. Education 1986 Doctor of Education
The effects of a beginning art history class on selected aspects of creative disposition and verbal expressiveness in college students Kaplan, Leslie Schenkman, 1946- Education 1977 Doctor of Education
Effects of sexual guilt upon affective responses to subliminal sexual stimuli Magri, Michael Barton, 1946- Education 1979 Doctor of Education
The use of active memory encoding strategies by thought disordered and non-thought disordered schizophrenics Abramczyk, Lois, 1942- Education 1977 Doctor of Education
Reactions to spousal death resulting from cancer : a descriptive study of anticipatory grief and the cognitive appraisal of the loss of a spouse Elison, Jennifer Claire Kinyon, 1957- Education 1991 Doctor of Education
A comparison of elementary, middle, and high school principals' teacher selection practices and perceptions of teacher effectiveness Grove, Sharmaine Denise, 1971- Education 2008 Doctor of Education
Advanced learner perceptions of psychological well-being and school satisfaction in two educational settings Robertson, Janice C. Education 2010 Doctor of Education
A study of teacher's instructional planning as revealed by an analysis of objectives, strategies and indicators of student achievement Davis, Barbara Sewell, 1940- Education 1992 Doctor of Education
D-Q University : a history and case study Berger, Mary Josephine, 1942- Education 1994 Doctor of Education
President J.A.C. Chandler and the first women faculty at the College of William and Mary Whittenburg, Carolyn Sparks, 1946- Education 2004 Doctor of Education
Faculty perceptions of selected characteristics of full-time students attending Rappahannock Community College, fall quarter 1975 Prater, Oscar L., 1939- Education 1977 Doctor of Education
A critical examination of practices and perceptions of current performance evaluation models for theatre arts teachers in Virginia Nowacek, Shelley L. Education 2008 Doctor of Education
Use of visualization in the treatment of substance abusing adolescents Cook, Candice. Education 1996 Doctor of Education
A balancing act : Division III student-athletes time demands and life roles Hoover, Daniel R. Education 2012 Doctor of Education
Language disability and measures of intelligence in handicapped children : a comparison of the McCarthy scales of children's abilities and the Leiter international performance scale Vulpe, Shirley-Ann German, 1939- Education 1983 Doctor of Education
A study of the relationship of achievement motivation to attribution and activity characteristics of military wives Fineran, Linda Joseph, 1950- Education 1979 Doctor of Education
The relationship between a locality's fiscal capacity and its per pupil expenditure in the Commonwealth of Virginia as a result of the 1988 funding formula change Mehaffey, Mary Messer, 1948- Education 1993 Doctor of Education
Nursing in the university : an historical analysis of nursing education at the Virginia Commonwealth University/Medical College of Virginia School of Nursing Bampton, Betsy A. 1937- Education 1987 Doctor of Education
The relationship of job preview to absenteeism, turnover, and job satisfaction of public school teachers Hedley, Harold Hastings, 1947- Education 1985 Doctor of Education
Development of the Chae Optimal Supervision Environment Test Chae, Ki Byung, Education 2013 Doctor of Education
A comparison of counselor, principal and teacher perceptions of the role and function of the school counselor in Virginia public secondary school Thompson, Rosemary A. Education 1986 Doctor of Education
A validity study of the control/nurture dimensions of the Sale-Hendrin model of structural family therapy Mahan, Robert George, 1949- Education 1992 Doctor of Education
Institutional image : a case study of George Mason University Acosta-Lewis, Elizabeth Anne, 1958- Education 1989 Doctor of Education
The relationship between teachers' computer self-efficacy and technology integration in a school district's Bring Your Own Technology initiative Ellis, Ashley F., Education 2014 Doctor of Education
A study of the evaluation procedures for professional development among public school districts in Virginia Bryant, Colleen Cannington, 1956- Education 2007 Doctor of Education
Overdue : a policy analysis of college library operation programs Grunder, Henry Dale, 1937- Education 1988 Doctor of Education
Selected personality characteristics as correlates of effective school principals Shahmouradian, Elizabeth Jean, 1940- Education 1992 Doctor of Education
Modest pioneers : a study of a sample of the first-female class at the University of Virginia, 1970-1974 Robertson, Louise Lilley, 1953- Education 1986 Doctor of Education
The relationship between teacher verbal feedback, aptitude, and academic instrinsic motivation Wickwire, Ann Jenkins, 1946- Education 1992 Doctor of Education
Making routine curriculum changes at the College of William and Mary in Virginia : are faculty influenced by trends in students' pursuits? Pratt, Anne M., 1947- Education 1984 Doctor of Education
Racial issues in white dyads : an investigation of Helms's interaction model Ochs, Nancy G., 1939- Education 1992 Doctor of Education
The relationship of personality to ability-achievement of college freshmen Cooper, Carolyn I. Allen, 1942- Education 1979 Doctor of Education
Demographic and clinical characteristics as predictors of the reinstitutionalization rate of emotionally disturbed adolescents Hopewell, Lou Ross. Education 1980 Doctor of Education
A national study of professional standards in special education teacher preparation programs using the standards adopted by the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education and the Council for Exceptional Children Waegerle, Dawn Colleen Johnson, 1955- Education 1990 Doctor of Education
Policies and practices of coordination and cooperation between the public community colleges and the public senior colleges and universities in Virginia Finley, Donald James, 1939- Education 1976 Doctor of Education
Rape myth acceptance, hypermasculinity, and demographic characteristics as correlates of moral development : understanding sexually aggresive attitudes in first year college men Tatum, Jerry Lee, 1973- Education 2007 Doctor of Education
An evaluation of the academic outcomes of the Upward Bound program at Virginia Union University Laws, James Edward. Education 1996 Doctor of Education
A paradigm shift in progress : the impact of work hour reform on the operative volume of surgical residents Mendoza, Kathryn A., 1965- Education 2004 Doctor of Education
Student trust in teachers and its relationship to student identification with school, student perceptions of academic press, and achievement Bankole, Regina A., 1966- Education 2010 Doctor of Education
A study of the relationship between the importance of certain feedback sources and classroom teacher performance Helliesen, Mary Tillotson, 1943- Education 1978 Doctor of Education
A comparison of the effects of the Couple Communication II Program and a Family of Origin Workshop on marital satisfaction and individual autonomy Chambers, Floyd Allen, 1928- Education 1986 Doctor of Education
The effect of therapist's gender on outcome of behavioral treatment with agoraphobics Tiffany, Linda Williamson, 1951- Education 1987 Doctor of Education
A study of the relationship of selected variables to grade point average in general biology at Thomas Nelson Community College Spencer, Turner McKinley, 1935- Education 1975 Doctor of Education