- The 21st century addiction: user generated content dependency and media aesthetic expectations as experienced through youtube
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This 40-item survey study evaluates perceptions of user generated content (UGC) as found on YouTube by undergraduate college students at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. A random sample of 182 volunteer undergraduate students over the age of 18 completed an online survey to investigate if less or more dependent users (as defined by fulfilled needs such as information seeking, entertainment, interpersonal utility, etc.) affected one's UGC aesthetic preferences of sound clarity, editing sty...
Matthew T McKeague.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Leidman, Mary Beth Committee members: Jay Start; Zachary Stiegler.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2011.
English
- Admissions policies governing the declaration of academic major and academic advising models relating to student outcomes in higher education
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The purpose of this study was to analyze admissions policies pertaining to the declaration of academic majors for incoming students and structures of academic advising at American universities and how they relate to student outcomes. The student outcomes considered for the study were first to second year retention rates and graduation rates. Students may not choose their major based on research or facts and allow external influences to guide their selection. Traditional aged college s...
Heather A Workinger.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Mabry, J. Beth Committee members: Holley Belch; D. Heckert.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2011.
English
- An analysis of criminal situations: decision making and other contextual factors of robbery and assault
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Research concerning the situational context in which crime occurs has taken a back seat to the study of criminality in criminological research. The purpose of this study was to examine the situational context of robbery, attempted robbery, assault, and avoided violence situations. Offenders from four western Pennsylvania county jail facilities were surveyed June through October 2010 concerning the contextual information in these types of situations in which they had been participants. This st...
Kendra N Bowen.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Roberts, Jennifer J. Committee members: Bitna Kim; Jamie Martin; Shannon Phaneuf.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2011.
English
- The archaeological and postcolonial transformation of the discourse of orientalism from renaissance to restoration drama
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This dissertation, based on Foucauldian analysis of discourse, comparatively explores the dramatization of the Turk and Moor on the Renaissance versus Restoration stages and identifies the political, religious, and cultural transformation and modification to the discourse of Orientalism from Renaissance to the Restoration periods. The development, in Restoration drama, of the concept of the "cultural renegade"-or what I call the "Restoration gone cultural revolutionary protagonist," who is a ...
Hussein A Kaream Hussein Alhawamdeh.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Shafer, Ronald G. Committee members: Michael Williamson; Lingyan Yang.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2011.
English
- Assessment and intervention practices for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (adhd): a national survey of school psychologists
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This study examined school psychologists' assessment and intervention practices regarding ADHD. Five hundred school psychologists who practiced in a school setting and were regular members of the National Association of School Psychologists were randomly selected to complete and return a questionnaire titled Assessment and Intervention Practices for ADHD: A National Survey of School Psychologists. The instrument, which collected data on demographics, assessment practices, diagnostic practic...
Timothy J Borick.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Levinson, Edward M. Committee members: William Barker; Victoria Damiani; Joseph Kovaleski.
D.Ed. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2011.
English
- An assessment of the impact of functional literacy initiatives for women groups towards sustainable livelihoods in the savelugu/nanton district of ghana
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Most microcredit institutions focus on giving out credit to their clients with the assumption that these clients have the capacity and ability to manage the credit efficiently and the human capital to operate efficiently. There is evidence to show that most women in the Savelugu/Nanton district of Ghana have access to credit but lack the functional skills to be more effective in the utilization/management of the credit. It was the purpose of this study to determine and address the gap or link...
Adams Mashoud Mohammed.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Tidwell, Monte Committee members: George Bieger; Jeffrey Ritchey.
D.Ed. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2011.
English
- Attaining a stars 3 rating in keystone stars programs: child care preschool teachers' perceptions of quality
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In the United States, child care has been a "patchwork" because it is provided through various organizations with no universal coordination to ensure affordability, accessibility, or quality (Zigler et al., 2009). This is the case despite research indicating that high-quality child care is beneficial to children and society (Harrison, 2008; Schweinhart, 1993). Several states have implemented quality rating improvement systems to support child care programs in elevating the quality of their ...
Michelle L Amodei.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Jalongo, Mary Committee members: Susan Fello; Sue Rieg.
D.Ed. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2011.
English
- Attitudes and reality: the impact of perceptions of police on students' victimization reporting behaviors
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The present study attempted to accurately measure crimes that occur on a college campus and whether students' perceptions of police influenced their decisions to report their victimization. A specific emphasis was placed on sexual assaults. Previous research has examined the reporting of sexual assault (Bachman, 1998; Sampson, 2002), sexual assault among university students (Fisher, Cullen & Turner, 2000; Ward et al., 1991), and perceptions of police by university students (Griffith, Hueston,...
Jennifer (Jenephyr) Veronica James.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Lee, Daniel R. Committee members: Dennis Giever; Alida Merlo; Shannon Phaneuf.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2010.
English
- Being and writing with others: on the possibilities of an ethnographic composition pedagogy
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This dissertation uses theoretical explorations and participant conversations to consider the constitutive possibilities of ethnographic writing that works between students, faculty, and communities and uses those possibilities to describe the philosophy and key elements of an ethnographic composition pedagogy. The project begins with an exploration of the emergence of contemporary ethnographic theory and practice in ethnography's fields of origin, and follows with an investigation of ethn...
Elizabeth A Campbell.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Pagnucci, Gian S. Committee members: Patrick Bizzaro; Elizabeth Chiseri-Strater.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2011.
English
- Beyond the gaze: post-foucauldian surveillance in fictive works
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This dissertation illustrates the evolution of surveillance theory as well as the social and political implications that have emerged as a result of continual developments in digital technology through the analysis of fiction and film. Moving forward from the foundation of surveillance studies that Foucault established, this dissertation traces the Foucauldian concepts of panopticism, their application to literature and film, as well as the evolution of these theories in a modern context. I...
William Michael Dickey.
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Advisors: Orchard, Christopher R. Committee members: Kenneth Sherwood; Thomas Slater.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2010.
English
- Blue ribbon sentencing: judicial decision-making and situated identities
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This study examines judicial decision-making in the Wisconsin circuit courts through the sentencing decisions of incarceration type and sentence length to describe the social construction of sentencing processes within the courtroom workgroup environment. An electronic and traditional mail survey design was utilized to gather information from judges about their sentencing practices to determine whether situated identity theory aids in the understanding of sentencing decisions. Analysis incl...
Jennifer L Huck.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Lee, Daniel R. Committee members: Dennis Giever; Bitna Kim; Beth Mabry.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2011.
English
- Case studies of multidisciplinary child abuse case review teams and their leaders in children's advocacy centers in pennsylvania
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Child abuse is a multi-system problem in that different agencies are charged with different responsibilities in its investigation, evaluation, intervention and treatment. This study explored the roles and relationships of team leaders and team members on child abuse case review teams in Children's Advocacy Centers (CACs) in Pennsylvania. The CAC model has been shown to be a successful collaborative community response to child abuse. This study reviewed the historical background of child abuse...
Teresa M Smith.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Heasley, Robert Committee members: Betsy Crane; Wade Seibert.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2011.
English
- A case study of allegheny county, pennsylvania's mental health court: balancing therapeutic jurisprudence and public safety
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When support mechanisms that keep mentally ill offenders from committing crimes break down, many of these special offenders have been incarcerated, contributing to a decline in their welfare and problems for society upon their release. Like drug courts, mental health courts arose in response to a crisis, allowing these offenders to be diverted from jail and instead directed to appropriate treatment and supports, along with intensive probationary controls. Restorative justice and therapeutic...
Melanie Pallone.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Hanrahan, Kathleen Committee members: Erika Frenzel; John Gibbs; Alida Merlo.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2011.
English
- A case study of general george gordon meade: a leadership perspective through the lens of good work
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Just four days after being ordered to command of the Union's Army of the Potomac, George Gordon Meade defeated Robert E. Lee at the Battle of Gettysburg, a critical victory in the war. Nevertheless, he has been unjustly maligned, even though he rose to a high rank in spite of obstacles and controversy. Under constant attack and criticism by certain members of Congress and the press, Meade's reputation was so severely damaged that it still has not recovered in spite of recent research that lar...
Theodore George Pappas Jr.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Millward, Robert Committee members: George Beiger; Joseph Marcoline.
D.Ed. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2011.
English
- A case study of two vertical leadership teams for the purpose of school improvement
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The purpose of this study was to examine the process of two public school reform teams to identify if and how changes were made to the organizational, cultural, and social systems considered critical to systemic transformation. School reform is an endeavor in nearly every school district and leadership approaches to improve the educational system have varied over the past three decades from the study of a single individual to multiple contributors. This study provides a qualitative case st...
Tammy S Wolicki.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Kaufman, Cathy Committee members: George Bieger; Monte Tidwell; Joseph Werlinich.
D.Ed. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2011.
English
- Challenges of cross-cultural translation of american literary works into arabic: harriet beecher stowe's "uncle tom's cabin" as a case study
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This dissertation explores the challenges of cross-cultural translation of American literary works into Arabic which, I argue, have prevented many nineteenth-century literary works from being translated into Arabic. I have used the Arabic translations of Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin and an abridged English text accompanying one of the translations as a case study. Since most of the Arabic translations of English and especially American literary works are merely linguistic oriente...
Abeer Abdulaziz Al-Sarrani.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Dandurand, Karen Committee members: Karen Dandurand; Veronica Watson; Lingyan Yang.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2011.
English
- The change process: a study of the move to block scheduling in five pennsylvania high schools
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The process of large-scale change is difficult in any organizational structure, and this is particularly true in the field of education. This qualitative study investigated the change process used by five high schools in eastern Pennsylvania while initiating, implementing and sustaining a large-scale change from traditional to block scheduling. This study looks at the entire large-scale change process from inception through evaluation. Through the lens of the large-scale change to block sched...
Howard S Lessel.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Bieger, George R.; Smeaton, Patricia S. Committee members: Patricia Pinciotti.
D.Ed. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2011.
English
- Changes in community behavioral healthcare organizations subsequent to the implementation of medicaid managed care
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The purpose of this study is to gather information about the organizational impact of Medicaid managed care on Community Behavioral Health Organizations (CBHOs). In particular, the study seeks to identify specific survival strategies utilized by CBHOs in light of the implementation of Medicaid managed care. It also seeks to determine if survival strategies have a positive effect on CBHO survival. The implementation of Medicaid managed care programs for mental health services is a relativel...
Anna Marie Williams.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Boser, Susan Committee members: Alex Heckert; Thomas Nowak.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2011.
English
- Claiming their right to write: linguistically and culturally diverse learners across a secondary curriculum
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Linguistically and culturally diverse (LCD) students in U.S. high schools are often enrolled concurrently in English Language (EL) classes and general education classes. In both learning environments, students are expected to communicate through writing. The writing development of LCD students, however, is not always consistent across the curriculum. In part, this is due to the complex nature of the secondary educational environment where these students' writing is often overshadowed by "the ...
Sarah Henderson Lee.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Park, Gloria Committee members: Sj Miller; Lisya Seloni.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2011.
English
- Clinical usefulness and common profiles of the mmpi-2 rf in child custody assessment
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The current study looked at the revised version of the MMPI-2 (The MMPI-2 RF) to ascertain whether this version of the instrument could provide increased interpretability, as well as information useful to a child custody evaluation. To accomplish this, past MMPI-2 answer sheets completed by child custody litigants were converted to the RF version. Results from an ANOVA, which was completed to compare the MMPI-2 and RF validity scale T scores, revealed a significant difference, indicating grea...
Heather Rehil.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: LaPorte, David J. Committee members: John Mills; Margaret Reardon.
Psy.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2011.
English