This quantitative, correlational study investigated the effectiveness of cross-training as a strategy for reducing burnout and improving job satisfaction among public safety personnel. The research used ANOVA to compare burnout and job satisfaction among police, fire, and emergency medical service (EMS) personnel receiving cross-training with public safety personnel trained only in their functional task specialty. The investigation included assessing the effect of the demographic variables of... Peter N Starr. Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis. Advisors: Nowak, Thomas A. Committee members: Susan Boser; D. Heckert. Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2009. English
Education is a moral undertaking and superintendents are confronted with ethical dilemmas on a daily basis. Historical issues such as conflict of interest still linger but current issues aligned with school reform and precipitated by cultural diversity have also arisen. What variables are linked to the making of sound ethical decisions? Do more experienced superintendents make better decisions than less experienced superintendents? Do transformational leaders make better decisions than tran... Walter L Fitch. Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis. Advisors: Marcoline, Joseph F.; Yan, Wenfan Committee members: Cathy Kaufman; Susan Rieg. D.Ed. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2009. English
Creating and maintaining a positive school climate can affect an individual's attitude, their capacity to retain information, and their ability to perform at full potential within the school. In order to thoroughly understand the effectiveness of their educational program, school leaders must understand the role leadership and change has on the climate of the school and their school's ability to achieve Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP). This study explored the factors related to school climate ... Luke J Lansberry. Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis. Advisors: Millward, Robert Committee members: Cathy Kaufman; Wenfan Yan. D.Ed. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2009. English
The principal purpose of this dissertation was to develop and test a measure of self-control based on Hirschi's (2004) revised conceptualization of the central theoretical construct in Gottfredson and Hirschi's (1990) A General Theory of Crime. This study also tests the principal proposition of Gottfredson and Hirschi's (1990) general theory by using path analysis to examine the association between a measure of Hirschi's (2004) modified concept of self-control and self-reported deviance whil... Kimberly D Dodson. Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis. Advisors: Gibbs, John J. Committee members: Dennis Giever; Kate Hanrahan; Jamie Martin. Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2009. English
This correlational study examines three models of prediction with regard to 69 kindergarten and first grade students' later reading achievement on a third grade state assessment. The first model of prediction analyzed sex, age and maternal level of education as predictors of reading performance on the third grade Pennsylvania System of State Assessment (PSSA). The second model of prediction examined the ability of the Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills (DIBELS) Phoneme Segme... Kathleen J Nicholson. Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis. Advisors: Rafoth, Mary A. Committee members: William Barker; Edward Levinson; Gurmal Rattan. D.Ed. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2009. English
In response to the nursing shortage, nursing education programs are increasing enrollment and utilizing best practice strategies within the curricula to produce graduates prepared for success with their first attempt on the NCLEX-RN. The use of NCLEX predictor assessment products frequents the literature as a tool used by nursing education programs to assess student readiness for NCLEX-RN. The purpose of this mixed quantitative and qualitative study was threefold: to identify the frequency... Victoria Marie Hedderick. Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis. Advisors: Rieg, Sue Committee members: George Bieger; Kathy Kaufman. D.Ed. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2009. English
While much has been written on gothic and postcolonial literature respectively, postcolonial gothic as a field of analysis is still relatively new. Thus, literary research would profit from a comprehensive, cross-cultural genre analysis of postcolonial gothic. This dissertation, written from a postcolonial theoretical stance, holds that postcolonial gothic is a literature of resistance, one questioning the boundaries of history, gender, race, and social class. However, while postcolonial goth... Sheri Ann Denison. Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis. Advisors: Yang, Lingyan Committee members: Christopher Orchard; Cheryl Wilson. Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2009. English
This mixed-methodology study explores the ways in which Gender has been treated as a construct and variable in social science research. Through the application of a coding scheme based in the Integral model and Integral Methodological Pluralism (Esbjorn-Hargens, 2006; Wilber, 2006), a content analysis of recently published research in criminology, psychology, and sociology was conducted. A multi-stage analytic framework was then applied in order to identify the strengths and weaknesses of our... Jeffrey W Cohen. Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis. Advisors: Martin, Randy L. Committee members: Sean Esbjorn-Hargens; Erika Frenzel; John Gibbs; Jennifer Gossett. Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2009. English
