This study examined elementary school teachers' perceptions of technology after participating in a field test, the I3 Project. The study explored and assessed how elementary teachers reported technology in terms of knowledge, attitude, and technology implementation in the classroom. The results revealed that the technology experience, the I3 Project, had a strong positive impact on the teachers' technological literacy, their pedagogical knowledge of technology, their confidence in teaching...
Sandra E Cavanaugh.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Bieger, George R. Committee members: James Hooks; Mark Twiest.
D.Ed. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2009.
English

This study evaluates the ways gendered landscapes in postmodern novels by John Fowles and Julian Barnes challenge the reader-as-explorer's assumptions about gender's fluidity and craft what Sigmund Freud might call "polymorphous perversity." It examines how authors rely on Edenic images of landscape to shape the future and engender narratologically androgynous texts. Using ecofeminism and psychoanalysis as "lenses," I examine gendered geographical, national, and textual landscapes in several ...
Jill Elizabeth Wagner.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Wilson, Cheryl Committee members: Christopher Orchard; Mike Sell.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2009.
English

The present study attempted to understand how the backgrounds and current experiences of a number of Saudi Arabian EFL professionals in graduate school in the United States have influenced their English literacy development. The purpose of this qualitative study was to gain the Saudis' perspective on what helped or hindered them in acquiring and developing English as their second language, both in their home country and in the countries where they pursued advanced degrees in English, as well ...
Ghassan Mohammed Osailan.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Fontaine, Jeannine M. Committee members: Gary Dean; Michael Williamson.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2009.
English

This case study design evaluated the program outcome effects of a peer leader program within the First-Year Seminar (FYS) on first-to-second year persistence, grade point average performance and academic and social integration levels of first-year, fulltime students. Differences in the characteristics of students on gender and race on the outcome measures were also considered. Analysis from six-year institutional data indicated that the Peer Leader Component option had significant benefits...
Jessamine M Montero.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Yan, Wenfan Committee members: Cathy Kaufman; Robert Millward.
D.Ed. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2009.
English

Many alterations have been made to education in America to develop and improve quality, including changes to the master schedule. Various types of scheduling formats have been designed over the years to fulfill a variety of educational needs. The complex rationale for transitioning impacts the benefits a school can achieve from the scheduling format. One such format, block scheduling, allows educators to use multiple strategies to meet individual student needs and develop greater student und...
Lawrence Pryzblick.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Lare, Douglas; Marcoline, Joseph Committee members: David Rheinheimer.
D.Ed. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2009.
English

This dissertation explores the perceptions prevalent in the discourse community of English teachers in Thailand regarding the role of English and English Language Teaching (ELT). In particular, this study seeks to determine to what extent these perceptions show characteristics of de facto colonialism in the local ELT context, which is identified by critical applied linguists. The participants were Thai teachers of English from the lower northern region of the country. Data were derived fr...
Phongsakorn Methitham.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Fontaine, Jeannine M. Committee members: Sharon Deckert; Eugene Thibadeau.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2009.
English

This dissertation explored the meaning of power and voice through a participatory action research (PAR) project. The setting for the research was an Early Head Start program located in rural Western Pennsylvania. In this dissertation I explored whether and in what ways the principles of PAR contributed to impacting the strength of local voice in relevant dialogue and how those who participated in the PAR project perceived that their voice made a contribution. I also addressed the interconn...
Barbara A Feroz.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Boser, Susan R. Committee members: Robert Ackerman; Betsy Crane; Daniel Heckert.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2009.
English

The present dissertation offers a critical study of how two contemporary U.S. women writers critique, resist, dismantle and disrupt the hegemonic discourse that represents U.S. Third World women as a monolithic and homogeneous category. The unsettling of the monolithic image of U.S. Third World women is pursued through providing an analysis of the cultural imagery of gender, in which the focus is specifically on two key images: the veil and the house. In this research, I show how the two writ...
Mais Yusuf ALQutami.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Comfort, Susan Committee members: David Downing; Ronald Emerick.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2009.
English

Although incidents of child abuse and neglect are largely handled through child protection services agencies and juvenile dependency courts, criminal justice agencies have the authority and responsibility to intervene in cases of criminal child maltreatment (Brown & Riley, 1986). The magnitude and prevalence of child maltreatment within the United States is difficult to determine as no data system captures all forms of known maltreatment across various agencies who investigate abuse and negle...
Mari B Pierce.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Roberts, Jennifer J. Committee members: Timothy Austin; Erika Davis Frenzel; John Lewis.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2009.
English

Widespread concerns currently exist regarding our nation's ability to attract, educate, and retain talented, diverse individuals in STEM fields. These concerns are exacerbated by globalized competition and critical economic conditions. With these issues in mind, this instrumental case study was designed to examine the life story of Dr. Pauline Beery Mack in order to inform secondary and tertiary educational leadership in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). Dr. Mack's lif...
Winnifred Gail Younkin.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Kaufman, Cathy Committee members: George Bieger; Monte Tidwell.
D.Ed. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2009.
English

Peer reporting is a special type of ethical decision making behavior, and it has been one of the positive outcome behaviors investigated in the ethical decision making literature. Also, peer reporting is viewed as a supplementary mechanism to reduce unethical practices by the members of an organization (Trevino, Weaver, & Reynolds, 2006). However, there is little research concerning police officers' peer reporting of unethical behavior in the literature. Therefore, the purpose of this study i...
Vedat Kargin.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Merlo, Alida V. Committee members: Willard Austin; Daniel Lee; John Lewis.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2009.
English

The present study was proposed to examine the potential connections between litigation, performance on neuropsychological measures, individual factors, suspect motivation, and postconcussive symptoms, as well as the patterns in test selection and administration across this sample. A total of 318 cases met the inclusion criteria of individuals who received evaluations as a result of sustaining a traumatic brain injury. The following variables were examined: individual characteristics such as a...
Hey-Mi M Ahn.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Meil, William Committee members: Michaeal Franzen; Dasen Luo.
Psy.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2009.
English

The purpose of the study is to investigate the influence of two different expository structures, collection and problem/solution, on Taiwanese L2 readers' strategy use during their L2 English reading. The impact of two expository structures, collection and problem/solution, on Taiwanese L2 readers' strategy use during real-time reading is the main focus of the study. In Phase I, the administration of an English reading proficiency test to a sample of 479 students allowed me to identify 280 ...
Jiun-Iung Lei.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Fontaine, Jeannine Committee members: Gary Dean; Nancy Hayward.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2009.
English