- Screening for autism spectrum disorders: pediatric practices eight years after publication of practice guidelines
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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
- Sequencing and prediction of adolescent soft drug initiation: systematic review, quantitative investigation, and dual cross -validation
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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
- Structural equation modeling assessment of key causal factors in computer crime victimization
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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
- A study of the response to accountability and standardized testing in a state university system: predictive models, gatekeeping strategies, and intervention in teacher education
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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
- Teacher behavior ratings of adolescents with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (adhd): interrater reliability and sources of rater bias
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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
- Thai english as discourse of exclusion and resistance: perspectives of thai professional writers on the notion of thai english
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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
- "the melting pot where nothing melted": the politics of subjectivity in the plays of suzan -lori parks, wendy wasserstein, and tony kushner
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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
- Towards a grammar of leadership
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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
- Transformational leadership: is it a factor for improving student achievement in high poverty secondary schools in pennsylvania?
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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
- Travel to identity in the mid -nineteenth -to -mid -twentieth -century contact zone of new mexico: knowledge claim tests and platonic quests
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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
- Trinity of consciousness: body, mind, soul, and female identity in the novels of gail godwin
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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
- The united states postal service: a case study of large scale government transformation
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The challenge of replacing the baby-boomer generation of employees is beginning in government agencies as they face a "tsunami" of retirements. This generation forms the core of middle managers or supervisors that are essential to providing the continuity in government organizations that serve the needs of citizens on a daily basis, or most critically in times of crisis. This same generation of government employees worked through decades of change in public administration. The 80s private ...
Dale L Ferguson.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Kuffner-Hirt, Mary J. Committee members: David Chambers; Wade Seibert.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2008.
English
- University faculty's response to student loss by death or romantic break -up
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Coping with a significant loss is an issue that many college students will encounter while in an environment not conducive to the mourning process. As an institution that plays a large role in students academic and personal growth, universities need to be made aware of the unique challenges bereaved students face. This study was designed to assess university faculty response to and awareness of loss in college students. Types of loss assessed were the death of a family member, the death of a ...
Sarah E Dietz.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Thornton, Gordon.
Psy.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2008.
English
- University /k-12 partnerships: how one university impacted high school career decision -making programs
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Local universities and their surrounding school districts have much to offer one another. How universities and school districts work together to create programmatic change in career decision-making for the high school adolescent is unclear. Utilizing a case study approach, this study examined the relationship that exists between a university and two high schools. This was studied through the lens of career development with regard to high school students. This qualitative case study utilize...
Rodney R Troutman.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Bieger, George; Lare, Douglas Committee members: Kathleen Foster.
D.Ed. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2008.
English
- Unwanted sex versus rape: how the language used to describe sexual assault impacts perceptions of perpetrator guilt, victim blame and reporting
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A review of recent psychology and medical literature reveals that the term 'unwanted sex' has become commonly used in journals. Despite this, no universally held definition for the term could be found. Uses ranged from consensual, yet undesirable sexual intercourse, to rape. It was hypothesized that the term 'unwanted sex' may have different connotations than the word rape and impact perceptions of what occurred. It was also hypothesized that using the term 'unwanted sex' instead of rape woul...
Charity Wilkinson.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Husenits, Kimberly J. Committee members: Krystof Kaniasty; Elizabeth Kincade.
Psy.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2008.
English
- A view from eternity: the spiritual journey of emily dickinson
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A gap in the extant criticism of Emily Dickinson requires further discussion of the significance of her poetry. This study utilizes a theory of New Historicism to analyze Emily Dickinson's biography and body of work; it draws upon Dickinson's own poems and letters as well as critical, historical, social, political, and scientific sources. The study shows that the poet deliberately structured her lifestyle in a triangular configuration: she resided in her father's house; she developed her auth...
Sandra L McChesney.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Dandurand, Karen Committee members: Susan Gatti; Ronald Shafer.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2007.
English
- Virtue under fire: leadership attributes required in 21st century combat
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The purpose of this study is to examine sources of leader attributes and values of U.S. Army officers and to ascertain which attributes and values commissioned officers find most applicable to modern combat. The study compares the theoretical attributes taught in Army officer education programs with the attributes and values practiced by four commissioned officers in Iraq, Somalia, Rwanda, and Afghanistan. In narrative case study form, it presents a phenomenological exploration of the philoso...
Robert D Gibson.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Millward, Robert.
D.Ed. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2008.
English
- Willa cather's journalism and fiction: romancing the facts
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This four-part study of Willa Cather's journalistic and fiction writing examines the interplay between the two and argues that Cather applied the methods and characteristics of literary journalism or "New Journalism," a form of journalism that merges fact-based reportage with narrative style, decades before the terms were defined in the 1960s and 1970s. This long overdue stylistic study analyzes and historicizes the author's early professional newspaper and magazine writing and fiction w...
Laurie S Miller.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Gatti, Susan I. Committee members: Karen Dandurand; Christopher Kuipers.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2008.
English