- "for love of grace": evolving evocations of grace in the literature of renaissance england
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During the Reformation, grace occupied a new spotlight in the people's religion, and their understanding of it took on new dimensions in several areas. Grace offered salvation as a gift, out of which good works would proceed as a natural outcropping. Grace, in other words, became the means by which man linked up with God and, as a powerful team, moved forward. Overtly religious writers tackled grace head-on, but all of them encounter grace differently. John Bunyan, for example, relies on h...
Coral Allyn Norwood.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Shafer, Ronald G. Committee members: Christopher Kuipers; Allyn Ricketts.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2011.
English
- Generational diversity in associate degree nursing students: teaching styles and preferences in pennsylvania
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Nursing educators face the challenge of meeting the needs of a multi-generational classroom. The reality of having members from the Veteran and Baby Boomer generations in a classroom with Generation X and Y students provides an immediate need for faculty to examine students' teaching method preferences as well as their own use of teaching methods. Most importantly, faculty must facilitate an effective multi-generational learning environment. Research has shown that the generation to which a ...
Jennifer V Kitko.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Tidwell, Monte Committee members: George Bieger; Anne Creany.
D.Ed. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2011.
English
- Genre awareness among thai efl readers and writers at a thai university: a qualitative study
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This qualitative study explores genre awareness of a specific group of Thai EFL learners in a Thai university context. It aims to examine the impact of explicit writing instruction on the target genre on the learners' awareness of genre, as well as the relationship between the learners' previous reading-writing experiences and their writing of the target genre. Multiple qualitative data collection methods were employed in the study: class observation, semi-structured interviews of teache...
Korakote Natiladdanon.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Fontaine, Jeannine M. Committee members: Nancy Hayward; Mary Jalongo.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2011.
English
- Getting to the pds core, cultivating the fruit of a school-university partnership: collaboration, professionalism, and instructional practice
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The purpose of this study was to examine if professionalism and instructional practice of in-service teachers have been influenced due to the collaboration created by a Professional Development School (PDS) partnership. Within 15 elementary schools in Northeastern Pennsylvania, this researcher explored the perceptions of all teacher groups and building level administrators who have worked at a PDS site. Data were gathered using a survey distributed to 601 staff followed by a one-time intervie...
John Taylor Burrus.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Tidwell, Monte; Rutter, Alison Committee members: Marilyn Narey.
D.Ed. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2011.
English
- Gossipmongers: interest in gossip as a function of gender and mode of transmission
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The present study examined gender differences in interest in gossip transmitted among friends, or transmitted publicly. Women are stereotyped as gossips, yet empirical research on gossip is limited. Recent research on gossip emphasizes the functions of gossip, arguing that gossip is not trivial and is not necessarily negative. Both women and men were hypothesized to be interested in gossip, but women were hypothesized to be more interested in gossip than men, especially for private forms of g...
Jennifer Lee Hambaugh.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: McHugh, Maureen C. Committee members: Beverly Goodwin; Tara Johnson.
Psy.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2011.
English
- "hey lady, you're hot!" emotional and cognitive effects of gender-based street harassment on women
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On a daily basis, women in public places are the targets of cat calls, crude comments, and all other manner of behaviors which have been labeled street harassment. The current study seeks to add to the sparse data regarding women's experiences of street harassment by using an experimental between-groups design to measure the emotional and cognitive effects of witnessing street harassment in a short film clip. While participants in the experimental group watched a film clip of a woman being ha...
Harmony B Sullivan.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: McHugh, Maureen C. Committee members: Anson Long; Margaret Reardon.
Psy.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2011.
English
- A historical analysis of the chinese and english tests of the joint college entrance examinations in taiwan from 1954 to 2008
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It has been claimed that language testing is not only a method to assess test-takers' language ability; it can also become a medium to promote ideological positions via the contents of the test, which may compel test-takers to adjust their learning as they prepare for the tests. In particular, the contents of a given test may reinforce or promote knowledge of a specific culture. This research examines the contents of the Chinese and English tests in the Joint College Entrance Exam (JCEE),...
Shu-Fen Cheng.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Fontaine, Jeannine M. Committee members: Gloria Park; Xi Wang.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2011.
English
- "i always wanted to be a ho when i grew up:" narrative clarifications of walters' criminal thinking styles
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This dissertation employs a qualitative research design by exploring the narratives of female drug offenders involved in a drug-crime lifestyle. In-depth interviews were conducted to examine the subjective experiences of 26 women and their overall perception of the drug-crime lifestyle. The sample was drawn from a population of recovering addicts who frequented a rehabilitative agency in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The findings provide a subjective view of female drug addicts and through an ...
Ebony M English.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Austin, W. Timothy Committee members: Rosemary Gido; Kathleen Hanrahan; Jamie Martin.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2011.
English
- Identification of the institutional factors within state systems of higher education in the middle eastern states region for the adoption of webinars
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This benchmark study uses five research questions to examine the institutional factors that impact professors' adoption of webinars to deliver courses. A 62-item questionnaire was used to structure telephone interviews with senior instructional technology administrators from 54 participating colleges and universities located in the Middle Eastern States Region. The 20-minute interviews focused on four areas: institutional organization, faculty characteristics, technical infrastructure, and th...
Karl F Roeper.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Dudt, Kurt P. Committee members: Luis Almeida; Richard Lamberski.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2011.
English
- Impact and implications of litigation on small rural school districts: a study of selected western pennsylvania public school superintendents' perception and knowledge of school law
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The need for superintendents to respond correctly to the myriad of legally charged situations is vital to the success of a school district. In small rural school districts, without the benefit of extensive financial resources or large administrative bureaucracies, many of the day-to-day legal challenges are handled solely by the superintendent of schools. The study presents the perception and knowledge of at least fourteen public school superintendents, their views of the numerous legal chall...
Henry D Sinopoli.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Bieger, George R. Committee members: Cathy Kaufman; Joseph Marcoline.
D.Ed. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2010.
English
- The impact of an urban immersion field experience on teacher candidates' concerns regarding teaching in urban districts: a cross-university comparison
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The role of public education in the United States is to provide all children with equal access to quality education. However, the United States is experiencing a massive achievement gap. Large populations of students from diverse backgrounds, such as those found in urban districts, continue to suffer from achievement gaps perpetuated by the fact that urban districts are often forced to hire under-prepared educators that lack commitment to urban education. Teacher preparation programs have ...
Stacie M Wolbert.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Tidwell, Monte Committee members: George Bieger; Kelli Kerry-Moran.
D.Ed. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2010.
English
- The impact of cultural dimensions and the coherence principle of multimedia instruction on the achievement of educational objectives within an online learning environment
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The purpose of this study was to gather information about how individuals from two different cultural dimensions (Hofstede, 2001) score on three differently designed e-learning modules. Specifically, this investigation sought to understand whether individualist undergraduate and graduate students learn differently from instructional content designed according to the coherence principle than collectivist undergraduate and graduate students. Each of the three e-learning modules shared the same ...
Bradley E Wiggins.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Partridge, Allen Committee members: Mark Piwinsky; Jay Start.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2011.
English
- The impact of the family development credentialing program on school readiness: outcomes in family support
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Empowerment initiatives like the Family Development Credential (FDC) and Family Support (FS) program demonstrate how strengths-based practice can be used to help family workers become successful in partnering with families to help them reach their goals. As these two initiatives converged in Allegheny County Pennsylvania in 2005, families, workers, advocates and policy-makers in FS aimed to improve the skills of workers and improve School Readiness outcomes for children by increasing parent i...
Jean P Harvey.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Heasley, Robert L. Committee members: John Anderson; Barbara Mooney.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2011.
English
- Independent restaurant employee job satisfaction in college towns
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The current study begins to close a gap in the restaurant industry literature that fails to recognize the independently operated restaurants as a viable resource for industry data. The majority of employee job satisfaction literature in the restaurant industry gathers data from corporate run, chain restaurants. This study aims to bring the independent restaurants to the forefront of industry discussions in regards to employee job satisfaction of front-of-the house (FOH) employees in full-serv...
Lisa M Dupnock.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Nowak, Thomas Committee members: Valerie Gunter; Alex Heckert.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2010.
English
- Instructional supervision: a descriptive study focusing on the observation and evaluation of teachers in cyberschools
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Since 1996, K-12 schools are increasingly moving from a traditional, face-to-face educational environment to an online learning environment utilizing technologies to deliver instruction primarily via the Internet. As this trend continues, administrators familiar with traditional supervisory methods will observe and evaluate teachers of online learning as per state and local mandates. The rapid growth of online learning is outpacing federal, state and local instructional supervision policy, cr...
Gregory Charles Farley.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Creany, Anne; Lare, Douglas Committee members: Joseph Ashcroft.
D.Ed. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2010.
English
- International mail order brides: a narrative inquiry investigating the lives of six female second language learners, their literacies and their acquisition of the english language
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This study focuses on the population of women voluntarily entering the United States via arranged, often through the Internet, marriages. A congressional report (Immigration and Naturalization Services 2006) on "International Matchmaking Organizations" reports that the number of immigrants coming to the United States with a "K-1 fiancee visa", the temporary visa status used to have a non-native individual enter the United States for the purpose of marriage, to be growing rapidly. Of these ind...
Elizabeth Rafferty Duncan.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Tannacito, Dan J. Committee members: Gary Dean; Gian Pagnucci.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2011.
English
- An interrupted time series analysis of the state college nuisance property ordinance and an assessment of rental property managers as place manager/intimate handler of offender
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This research involves a legal impact study of the State College Nuisance Property Ordinance and an assessment of State College Rental Property Managers in the role of place manager/intimate handler of offender. The impact of the Ordinance was assessed by employing an interrupted time series design which examined five years of pre-ordinance violations against five years of post-ordinance violations. The assessment of State College Rental Property Managers in the role of place manager/intimate...
Gregory M Koehle.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Martin, Randy L. Committee members: Kate Hanrahan; John Lewis; Jennifer Roberts.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2011.
English
- Investigating the relationship between the cognitive and affective components of empathy and frontal lobe functioning in college students
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Prior research has implicated the frontal lobes and associated executive functions in clinical populations showing impairment in empathy, including those diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder, traumatic brain injury, and fronto-temporal dementia. Limited research has investigated executive abilities and variability in empathy in the normative population. The current investigation evaluated empathy and executive functioning in 219 male and female college students. Empathy was evaluated u...
Alicia Puskar.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Meil, William Committee members: Krzysztof Kaniasty; David LaPorte.
Psy.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2011.
English
- Juvenile justice frontline worker turnover in a private nonprofit organization
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Private nonprofit juvenile justice organizations are facing a workforce crisis because of the high turnover of their frontline staff. Since frontline workers have a direct impact on youth and families in the juvenile justice system, their stability in agencies is critical for achieving good outcomes. Yet researchers have conducted few studies to understand turnover in the field of juvenile justice, particularly with private nonprofit agencies. This study provides a unique, in-depth, longitudi...
Richard Dirk Matson.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Snyder, Kay A. Committee members: Robert Heasley; Daniel Heckert.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2011.
English
- L2 writing in the l1 composition course: a model for promoting linguistic tolerance
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The present language attitude study documents the perception of L2 writing on the part of a group of L1 students taking composition at an American university and it inquires into the impact that learning about linguistic diversity could have on these attitudes. The participants were 202 college students divided into the experimental and the control group. The experimental group participated in a two-week intervention during which they discussed linguistic diversity and became familiar with L2...
Ana Maria Wetzl.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Hanauer, David I. Committee members: Gian Pagnucci; Gloria Park.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2011.
English