- Discursive constructions of korean identity: university eil learners in an online community
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This qualitative study focuses on a community of online English learners at a Korean university. The study seeks to explore how the learners construct their Korean identities and how they feel about the effect of mastering English on their Korean identities. The study involves both online writing on various topics and one-on-one dialogues between the researcher and the learners. The data suggest that among the learners there is a considerable tension along three ideological dilemmas or dic...
Frank W Concilus.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Nienkamp, Jean Committee members: Sharon Deckert; Bennett Rafoth.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2008.
English
- The effect of active learning exercises on academic performance and nonintellectual learning factors
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The current study examined the effect of an active learning-based teaching method on nonintellectual learning dispositions in students enrolled in general psychology. Expected outcomes included improvement in student nonintellectual learning factors, as well as improvement in student academic performance. Two graduate student instructors and four courses of general psychology were recruited for participation. SAT scores, course grades, student ratings of teachers, and measures of nonintell...
Danielle R DeLong.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Husenits, Kimberely.
Psy.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2008.
English
- Effective graduation proficiency assessment: parents' perceptions of high -stakes vs multiple assessment as a predictor of future success
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This qualitative cross-focus group study investigates how two very different measures of proficiency serve as a bridge to post-graduation success in one small Pennsylvania School District. Attitudes and experiences of parents of students who demonstrated proficiency on the State tests are compared and analyzed with those of parents of students who demonstrated proficiency on a local, holistic proficiency assessment model. The collected data shows that students represented in the differen...
David A Crumrine.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Crop, Cathy Kaufman Committee members: Joseph Marcoline; David Piper.
D.Ed. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2008.
English
- The effects of supplemental instruction in phonological awareness on the skills of kindergarten students
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This project examines the effects of supplemental instruction in phonological awareness, home literacy activities, sex, and environmental factors on the emerging literacy skills of kindergarten students. Research indicates that the foundation for good reading begins to develop well before school through interaction between children and their home and community environments. The linguistic richness of a child's early environment as well as their ability to access that environment are factors i...
Sally King Shanahan.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Black, Lynanne Committee members: Becky Knickelbein; Joseph Kovaleski; Mark Staszkiewicz.
D.Ed. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2008.
English
- The effects of two -way mirrors, video cameras, and observation teams on clients' judgments of the therapeutic relationship
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Mirrors, video cameras, and live supervision are used throughout the country to train psychologists. Although this training equipment has been shown to increase self-focused attention, little is known about how this might affect the client's perceptions of the therapeutic relationship. In order to do so, subjects were divided into two different setting groups: Full Training group in which the participant is exposed to all equipment (i.e., two-way mirror, video-recording equipment, and observa...
Amy E Ford.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Robertson, Donald U. Committee members: Maureen McHugh; John Mills.
Psy.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2008.
English
- The emergence of a pioneer: the manipulation of hagar in nineteenth-century american women's novels
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In nineteenth-century America, the Biblical figure of Hagar appears frequently, in both art and literature. In literature, Hagar serves as the main character in many sentimental or domestic novels written by and/or about women of the South during the mid-nineteenth-century, where the racial climate from the 1830s through the 1850s became extremely tense over the institution of slavery, as evidenced in many sentimental novels from the 1850s to the latter part of the century. This study will ...
Lynne T Jefferson.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Dandurand, Karen Committee members: Ronald Emerick; Joyce Russell.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2008.
English
- Emerging health trends and behavior risk factors for chronic disease risk in rural and urban pennsylvania: implications for health education
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The purpose of this study was to gain a greater understanding of the health access and utilization, health risk and preventive behaviors, chronic diseases, and selected public health issues for rural and urban residents of Pennsylvania. Only by the examination of these factors of health can policy makers and health providers make connections and understand the recommendations of implementing health education to prevent the onset of chronic diseases. It is not enough to recognize the data alon...
Kristine Marie Zaragoza Anderson.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Yan, Wenfan Committee members: George Bieger; Monte Tidwell.
D.Ed. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2008.
English
- An examination of the anxiolytic effects of interaction with a therapy dog
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Animal-assisted therapy (AAT) involves a goal-directed intervention in which an animal is an integral part of the treatment process. The use of AAT is becoming increasingly popular in a variety of fields, including mental health care. Anxiety is one of the primary psychological constructs that has been addressed through the use of AAT in the mental health field. Although there is a wealth of anecdotal information and supposition to support the use of AAT, as well as some research, there remai...
Tiffani Dawn Morgan.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Husenits, Kimberely Committee members: Mary Jalongo; Cora Lou Sherburne.
Psy.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2008.
English
- Expatriate spaces, ex -soviet places: narratives of americans abroad in turn -of -the -millennium post -communist europe
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The arrival of countless young North Americans into post-Cold War Central and Eastern Europe coincided with a U.S. recession, the collapse of Soviet influence in the former Warsaw Pact countries, and the consequential easing of travel restrictions. I show how overlooked narrative representations of sojourning Western twentysomethings carving out a space for themselves and negotiating their role in a newly internationalized place demonstrate a redefining of the American expat identity as a per...
Burgsbee Lee Hobbs.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Cahalan, James M. Committee members: Gail Berlin; David Downing.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2008.
English
- Faulty vision and hearing in the novels of anne tyler
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The purpose of this dissertation is to examine the motifs of seeing and hearing in the novels of Anne Tyler. Tyler recurrently exposes her characters' strengths and weaknesses through his/her ability, or inability, to see and/or hear. All of Tyler's main characters possess a deficiency that obstructs both his/her view of him/herself and the world that he/she resides in. As each character struggles in the search for self, the search is often obstructed by family history, the structure of th...
Angelique Hobbs Medvesky.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Emerick, Ronald Committee members: Susan Comfort; Karen Dandurand.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2008.
English
- Film in composition: developing critical thinking skills through the study of film in first -year composition
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Film in composition: Developing critical thinking skills through the study of film in first-year composition presents an investigation of the application of film study in college writing instruction. The first two chapters argue for the inclusion of film in the teaching of writing; explore the cultural, social, and political relevance of film for the field of composition; and present a review of the theoretical and pedagogical applications of film study in secondary English and first-year wri...
Beatriz Amaya-Anderson.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Rafoth, Bennett A. Committee members: Linda Norris; Thomas Slater.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2008.
English
- Gender and justice: an examination of *policy and practice regarding judicial waiver
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The current study addressed the issues of gender and racial differences in judicial waiver decisions in one state. The study provides an examination of existing juvenile justice research, and augments a neglected area of research regarding girls and judicial waiver. The present research examines the variables that influence the judicial waiver decision for girls and explores the differences between girls and boys who were judicially waived to adult court. This study analyzed Arizona Juveni...
Alison S Burke.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Merlo, Alida V. Committee members: Erika Frenzel; Kathleen Hanrahan; John Lewis.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2008.
English
- Historical case analysis of esl staff development for mainstream content area teachers in a pennsylvania school district
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This study is an analytical critique of English as a second language (ESL) staff development based on an informed understanding of the field of teacher training that considers the diversity within perceptions and perspectives of the stakeholders. The importance of context will be explored in the district's ESL staff development programs from 2000-2005; in order to evaluate the future needs in mainstream teacher training. The research sites include an elementary, middle and a high school loc...
Holly Sue Hudspath-Niemi.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Hanauer, David I. Committee members: Richard McCallum; Gian Pagnucci.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2008.
English
- Hopkins verbal learning test -revised: standardization data of percentage retention and comparison of retention rates with logical memory subtests of the wechsler memory scales -revised
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The purpose of this study was to determine the utility of the Hopkins Verbal Learning Test-Revised (HVLT-R), as a brief neuropsychological screening measure of immediate and delayed verbal memory in a mild traumatic brain injury sample. From an archival database, the neuropsychological test scores of a total of 698 subjects with a recent mild-TBI were selected for the study. Age and education effects were analyzed with nonparametric measures. Correlations between the neuropsychological tas...
Stephen Fink.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: LaPorte, David J. Committee members: Michael Franzen; Dasen Luo.
Psy.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2008.
English
- The impact of retention on student educational outcomes: a five year study of a group of retained and socially promoted fifth graders
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Accountability has become a major focus in educational reform and an increasing number of states and school districts are adopting policies to end social promotion. These policies generally include mandatory retention for students who fail to meet cut-off scores on high-stakes tests. Despite compelling evidence to the contrary, educators believe that underachieving students need, or deserve, to be retained and will benefit from repeating a grade. Using archival data from a large urban sch...
Deborah Anne Houck.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Rafoth, MaryAnn Committee members: William Barker; Joseph Kovaleski; Edward Levinson.
D.Ed. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2008.
English
- Improved critical thinking skills as a result of direct instruction and their relationship to academic achievement
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This experimental study examined the effect of direct instruction in critical thinking on the critical thinking ability and academic achievement of Freshman students being tutored in repeat courses at a rural southeastern Pennsylvania university. This study used the Thinker's Guides, based on Richard Paul's model of critical thinking, and the Rationale Argument Mapping Program, based on the research of Tim van Gelder. Subjects' abstract reasoning and problem solving skills were measured by th...
Sherlynn C Bessick.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Rafoth, Mary Ann Committee members: William Barker; Betty Finney; Edward Levinson.
D.Ed. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2008.
English
- In search of one's pack: a narrative study of a working -class woman in the academy
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Utilizing an autobiographical approach by comparing and contrasting my story with other scholars' stories whose social-class backgrounds are similar to mine, and by analyzing this information through the works of scholars whose research has helped others working in the fields of composition and teaching, I explore the crisscrossing of the female sex, working class, and academia. This exploration attempts to uncover the influences of social class and gender on an academic from a working-class ...
Elaine M Kelly.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Hurlbert, Claude M. Committee members: Lynne Alvine; Gian Pagnucci.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2008.
English
- Intimate partner violence on campus: a test of social learning theory
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The current study sought to examine the theoretical field of intimate partner and domestic violence research. The research focused on integrated social learning, power-control, and fundamental components of intergenerational transmission and male-support theories. The use of the Conflict Tactic Scale (CTS 2), Seller's (2003) social learning subscale, and a combination of measures of power-control theory were used to determine the relative strength of learning, power, and male social networks ...
Keith J Bell.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Gido, Rosemary Committee members: Erika Frenzel; Maureen McHugh; Alida Merlo.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2008.
English