The present study investigated the effects of number presentation format on imperception rates on a modified version of the Palm Form Recognition (PFR) Task of the Quick Neurological Screening Test-II. The moderator variables of preferred number writing style, age, and sex were explored. The sample consisted of parent volunteered eight to twelve year old students from the second, third, fourth, and fifth grades in two rural school districts in Pennsylvania. Ninety total participants were r...
Shannon L Harmon.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Barker, William Committee members: Victoria Damiani; Edward Levinson; Gurmal Rattan.
D.Ed. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2008.
English

Children with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) experience significant difficulties in the domains of attention, hyperactivity, and impulsivity. This constellation of symptoms not only has a negative impact on the child's life by creating difficulties in school and peer relations, but also is associated with difficulties within the home. In fact, having a child with ADHD is correlated with significant increases in the amount of stress that parents experience. Studies have indica...
Jenna Lynn Dubbs.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Robertson, Donald Committee members: Kimberely Husenits; Gordon Thornton.
Psy.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2008.
English

My first experiences in teaching basic writing to students who were enrolled in the college's remedial writing program met with abject failure. I could not get past the overwhelming lack of academic ability on the part of most basic writers, and as a result, I suffered in the classroom along with my students. As the number of students who entered our college doors underprepared for college level work increased, I began to question the effectiveness of my teaching because it focused on student...
Peggy L Johnson.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Hurlbert, Claude Mark Committee members: Gian Pagnucci; Bennett Rafoth.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2008.
English

Relative to Curriculum-Based Assessment (CBA) and the Pennsylvania System of School Assessment (PSSA), this study sought to determine whether a school district's CBA reading scores were predictors for the PSSA reading scores for a grade-level cohort of students. Those CBA reading scores were collected in fourth through seventh grades; while the PSSA measure was a scaled score earned on the eighth grade reading measure. The sample included 268 eighth grade students who were roughly 48% male, 2...
Mary E. Armstrong Rauch.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Levinson, Edward M. Committee members: William Barker; Victoria Damiani; Mary Ann Rafoth.
D.Ed. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2008.
English

Recent high-stakes accountability movements in education have significantly changed the role of the school principal. As the incongruence between principal preparation programs and successful principalships becomes more apparent, it is imperative that principal preparation programs evolve to meet the complex needs of today's principalship and prepare leaders for tomorrow's schools. This dissertation study explored the standards-based changes in principal preparation programs in Pennsylvania a...
Mark A Gross.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Millward, Robert E. Committee members: Cathy Kaufman; Wenfan Yan.
Ed.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2008.
English

This dissertation explores the extent and the ways Omani Muslim women's identity is affected when writing in English as a second language. This study seeks to gain insight into the relationship between these women's current lives and views and writing in ESL. The participants were Omani women with advanced levels of education. I used the qualitative research design as a method of collecting the data using an open-ended questionnaire and individual interviews. In sum, the results confirm t...
Zainab Mohamed Jabur.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Fontaine, Jeannine M. Committee members: Abbas Ali; Lynne Alvine.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2008.
English

This study attempts to understand the reasons behind premature termination from psychotherapy by children and their families. It attempts to supply research based recommendations for two different mental health settings in an effort to reduce the rate of premature termination that they experience from their programs. The programs that were examined were the Center for Applied Psychology at Indiana University of Pennsylvania (CAP) and the Community Guidance Center (CGC), both located in Indian...
Candice J Dunn.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Goodwin, Beverly J. Committee members: Kimberely Husenits; Ralph May.
Psy.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2008.
English

This study seeks to further understand the influence of personality on preferred leadership style by investigating the relationship between the Ohio State Model of Leadership and the 5-factor model of personality. Archival data, consisting of scores on the NEO PI-R and Leadership Opinion Questionnaire, and demographic information (age, gender, education level, prior managerial experience) for 296 job applicants was analyzed. Conscientiousness, Extraversion, and Neuroticism were hypothesized t...
Keith Alan Francoeur.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Robertson, Donald U. Committee members: Lynda Federoff; Dasen Luo.
Psy.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2008.
English

The current study examined the utility of Self-Trauma Theory for explaining the long-term impact of the experience of childhood physical discipline and/or psychological maltreatment. Specifically, the self-capacities of interpersonal relatedness, identity, and affect regulation were tested as mediators of the impact of child maltreatment on different tension-reducing behaviors in adulthood: substance use, aggression, and suicidality. Hierarchical regression analyses were used to examine data ...
Brian Allen.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Robertson, Donald U. Committee members: Lynda Federoff; John Mills.
Psy.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2007.
English

The reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary School Education Act has amplified the implications of including parents in the education process. The benefits of parental involvement coupled with the teachers' and parents' role in promoting involvement have been researched and studied for many years. Few studies focus solely on the principal's role in promoting parent involvement, however. This study will examine the specialized association and participation of rural elementary princi...
Alfonso Angelucci.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Kaufman, Cathy C. Committee members: David Piper; Wenfan Yan.
D.Ed. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2008.
English

The prevalence of substance abuse among rural adolescents has equaled or surpassed rates in urban youth, but rural substance abusers go untreated at rates twice that of urban populations. Cultural norms adverse to help-seeking, and low availability and accessibility of substance treatment in rural areas may effect treatment utilization. The primary purpose of this study was to assess rural adolescents' substance problem recognition and perceptions of substance abuse treatment availability and...
Jennifer Ann Simansky.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Roehrich, Laurie Committee members: Donald Robertson.
Psy.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2007.
English

The purpose of this case study was to understand the school-related factors that influence a student's ability to persist in high school despite having the characteristic risk factors of students who typically drop out of high school. This study explored stakeholder perceptions of two questions regarding student persistence: first, how social relationships with peers, faculty, and administration affect students' decisions to stay in school until completion, and second, what school-related fac...
Patricia T Mulroy.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Waters, Faith; Rieg, Sue Committee members: Patricia Smeaton.
D.Ed. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2008.
English

This project describes current general developmental and autism screening practices of pediatricians in the United States following the latest practice guidelines published by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) in November 2007. It compares results to data collected in previous surveys on this topic, which suggest that pediatricians are not following the AAP guidelines despite repeated recommendations to do so over the past 8 years. A 110-question web-based survey was made available t...
Victoria Moore Zeiger.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Kaniasty, Krys Committee members: Catherine Raeff; Cora Lou Sherburne.
Psy.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2008.
English

In providing a comprehensive investigation of alcohol, cigarette, and marijuana initiation among adolescents, the overarching goals of the research were to build upon extant findings and address important literature gaps. A four-fold purpose founded the study: (1) provide a systematic review of the soft drug initiation literature; (2) test a modified version of Kandel's (2002) drug sequencing hypothesis; (3) determine if predictors of soft drug initiation differ in kind or saliency by biologi...
Rebecca J Howell.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Myers, David L. Committee members: Dennis Giever; Jamie Martin; Jennifer Roberts.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2008.
English

This dissertation empirically assesses a computer-crime victimization model by applying Routine Activities Theory. Routine Activities Theory is arguably, as presented in detail in the main body of this study, merely an expansion of Hindelang, Gottfredson, and Garofalo's Lifestyle Exposure Theory. The components of Routine Activities Theory were tested via structural equation modeling to assess the existence of any statistical significance between individual online lifestyles, levels of comput...
Kyung-shick Choi.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Giever, Dennis Committee members: Daniel Lee; Randy Martin; Thomas Short.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2008.
English

This study was an investigation of the perceptions of university certification officers in teacher education in a state university system regarding university responses to accountability, standardized testing, predictive models, gatekeeping, and intervention strategies, and incorporates the issues of social justice and ethics. This study also includes the development of a predictive model to predict results on the Praxis II Elementary Education: Curriculum Instruction and Assessment (ELED:CIA...
Mary Lynn Barton.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Fennimore, Beatrice S.
D.Ed. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2008.
English

This study examined interrater reliability and potential sources of rater bias among teacher behavior ratings for adolescents with Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). The intent of the study was two-fold: (1) to assess the consistency between teacher behavior ratings for adolescents with ADHD, and (2) to explore potential sources of bias among teacher raters. In schools, intervention decisions for children and adolescents with ADHD are often based on rating scale data collecte...
Brandon K Schultz.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Kovaleski, Joseph F. Committee members: William Barker; Lynanne Black; Steven Evans.
Ed.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2007.
English

The proliferation of global English has resulted in the birth of a variety of Englishes that reflect localized and unique characteristics of language users. This qualitative study examined the understudied notion of Thai English from the perspectives of Thai professional writers. Grounded in the World Englishes framework, the central goal of this research agenda was to define Thai English. Data was drawn from face-to-face interviews conducted in Bangkok, Thailand from November, 2007 to Ja...
Adcharawan Buripakdi.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Hanauer, David I. Committee members: Sharon Deckert; Gian Pagnucci.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2008.
English

This study explores the issues of "being American" in light of race, class, gender, and sexuality, which construct contemporary American identity as represented in the plays of Suzan-Lori Parks, Wendy Wasserstein, and Tony Kushner. Whites, the economically privileged middle class, males, and heterosexuals constitute the American mainstream, and many (in)visible types of social discrimination and prejudice by the mainstream culture against "the others" exist in contemporary American society. D...
Yong-Nam Park.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Shafer, Ronald G. Committee members: Susan Comfort; Ronald Emerick.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2008.
English

Contemporary empirical leadership study (CLS) is beset with the inability to define its object efficiently. Consequently, CLS has generated hundreds of so-called leadership "definitions" with no end in sight, leaving the field in disarray. This situation of definitional indefiniteness is due to a lack of a fundamental (philosophical, non-empirical) theory of leadership articulating a universal leadership reality that grounds and provides referential stability for empirical study. This essay i...
Daniel H Clark.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Millward, Robert E. Committee members: George Bieger; Wenfan Yan.
Ed.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2008.
English

This mixed-method study addressed the following problem: What type of leadership is most appropriate to guide schools through the process of continuous rapid change required by the No Child Left Behind legislation and the twenty-first century while still performing well? It investigated a possible relationship between improved student achievement on state assessments, improved four-year graduation rate for high schools, improved attendance for schools without graduating classes, and the Leith...
Kathleen M Gulbin.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Waters, Faith; Rieg, Sue Committee members: Douglas Lare.
D.Ed. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2008.
English

This study assesses narrative representations of Euro-American and Native American travel and encounter in New Mexico. The primary purpose of the work is to explore the construction and authority of knowledge claims and identity through late nineteenth- and early-to-mid twentieth-century Euro-American and Native American travel to, and within, the contact zone of New Mexico. I examine Willa Cather's Death Comes for the Archbishop, Mabel Dodge Luhan's Edge of Taos Desert: An Escape to Reality,...
John E Dean.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Emerick, Ronald Committee members: Karen Dandurand; Lingyan Yang.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2008.
English

Gail Godwin's novels emphasize the forging of the female self/identity. Even Godwin's earliest critics stress the ways Godwin consistently chooses to portray female protagonists as complex female characters; as Godwin's critics point out, the crafting of female identity becomes central to the analysis and understanding of Godwin's "vision" of/for female identity. My analysis of Godwin's work extends from and beyond the groundwork laid by earlier critics. I contend that, even as Godwin's ear...
Renae Ruth Applegate House.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Emerick, Ronald Committee members: Karen Dandurand; Lingyan Yang.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2008.
English