- Learning styles of efl saudi college-level students in on-line and traditional educational environments
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The primary purpose of this study was to examine Saudi EFL college students' perceptual learning styles in order to determine whether their perception of their learning styles is a predictor of academic persistence, satisfaction and success in different learning environments. Participants' perceptions about their learning styles in both online-based and class-based environments, and their resulting satisfaction/dissatisfaction and persistence/non-persistence decisions, were explored. This ...
Mubarak Alkhatnai.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Fontaine, Jeannine Committee members: Gary Dean; Michael Williamson.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2011.
English
- The listening strategies of tunisian university efl learners: a strategy based approach to listening to oral english texts
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Effective listening comprehension skills are important as the world becomes increasingly global and television, radio, and the Internet become forums for English communication. However, many countries, such as Tunisia, do not use English as a first or second language, but as a foreign language. Therefore, realizing the importance of English, the Tunisian government encourages university students to specialize in the English language. Universities students, who elect to study English, are requ...
James Mitchell Ishler.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Tannacito, Dan J. Committee members: Nancy Hayward; Ben Rafoth.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2010.
English
- Literacy experiences and cultural negotiations in transnational academic context: the case of israeli study abroad mba students in an american university
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This qualitative research examines literacy in a transnational setting. More specifically, this study explores the literacy experiences and cultural negotiations of 15 Israeli MBA study abroad students in an American University in three phases: the application process, the academic coursework, and the on-campus employment seeking. The multiple case study design utilized document and interview data analysis. This study elucidate that the participants' discourse is replete with myths, misconc...
Ayelet Sasson.
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Advisors: Hanauer, David I. Committee members: Sharon Deckert; Reuven Lehavy.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2010.
English
- Malingering by college students on evaluations for mathematics learning disabilities
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Academic accommodations for college students with learning disabilities are intended to ensure equal access to education, yet some accommodations, such as course waivers, are potentially advantageous to all students, with or without disabilities. This study sought to develop a method to detect malingering by college students on learning disability evaluations. A total of 57 volunteer students were divided into three groups: uncoached malingerers, coached malingerers and controls. They were ad...
Andrea L Sanders.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: LaPorte, David J. Committee members: Donald Robertson; Susan Zimny.
Psy.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2011.
English
- The measurement of beliefs, attitudes, and roles related to disability in a sample of rehabilitation professionals and clients
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Clients with disabilities participating in vocational rehabilitation services and vocational rehabilitation professionals providing services have each developed unique disability beliefs, attitudes, and roles as a result of their personal experiences, established values, and societal interactions. Identifying the beliefs, attitudes, and roles related to disability among clients and professionals may help improve client-professional relationships. My dissertation research measured the belie...
Melissa Murray.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Heckert, D. Alex Committee members: John Anderson; Rosalyn Darling.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2010.
English
- Men who mother and women who won't: birthing a new maternity
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Examining popular film, news stories, and relevant literature, primarily from America published in the 20th and 21st century, one can see the theme of motherhood is explored, revealing that men and women are often given messages that reinforce prescribed gender roles. Men who engage in maternal practices are often shown in one of three ways: as a source of horrifying potentiality; as an example of comedy; or, the most rare, as a real, working model of masculine maternity. Women, on the other...
Amy B Hagenrater-Gooding.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Emerick, Ronald Committee members: Karen Dandurand; Lingyan Yang.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2011.
English
- The mentoring of alternate route teachers in low socio-economic districts in northeastern new jersey
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Current research continues to report that novice teacher attrition rates are unacceptably high but that induction and mentoring may have an effect on retention. The purpose of this study was to examine a particular group of beginning teachers to determine how the induction experience of alternate route teacher candidates who work in low socio-economic, underperforming, urban areas in Northeastern New Jersey influenced their retention decision-making. Specifically, this mixed methods research ...
Steven LoCascio.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Whitehead, Andrew; Tidwell, Monte Committee members: Margot Waddington Vagliardo.
D.Ed. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2011.
English
- Millennials strike back: students' reports of knowledge transfer from high school to college
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This study examines the extent to which high school students from an affluent, college preparatory high school were able to transfer their knowledge about reading and writing from high school to college. The participants' perceptions of the transition from high school reading and writing to college reading and writing revealed that they did not perceive college work to be harder, but faster paced. They generally perceived similarities between high school writing and college writing; those s...
Jennifer Marie Holcomb Wells.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Rafoth, Bennett A. Committee members: Gian Pagnucci; Kathleen Yancey.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2011.
English
- Moving beyond "second" and "foreign": an examination of the discursive construction of teaching english and spanish
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This dissertation explores how teaching Spanish and English as second languages in the United States has been traditionally defined, the common assumptions that are held about each context, and the influence these assumptions have on instructional practices and student learning. In order to explore how teaching English and Spanish is constructed in a local context, I employ a Foucauldian discourse analytical approach in conjunction with ethnographic methods to provide detailed descriptions o...
Nicole M Houser.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Deckert, Sharon K. Committee members: David Hanauer; Nancy Hayward; Anne Pomerantz.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2011.
English
- The narrative of aging: the portrayal of the aged in toni morrison and ernest j. gaines
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Research on minority aging has been done extensively in many fields such as sociology, psychology, economics, medicine, and so forth. However, the research is still lacking in the literary field and, consequently, minority aging has too often been a missing trope in contemporary literary theory. Although historians, sociologists, and psychologists have largely overlooked the important roles that elderly blacks can play in society, the authors of fiction show that they are central in the commu...
Ihab M Freiz.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Emerick, Ronald R. Committee members: Karen Dandurand; Ronald Shafer.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2011.
English
- A new direction for composition pedagogy: implementing perspective pedagogy in the first-year research composition classroom
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This dissertation explores the process I took for developing perspective pedagogy, a pedagogical approach for teaching first-year research composition college courses. Theoretical foundations come from both composition and ethnography scholars and situate the pedagogy within its interdisciplinary walls. Specifically, perspective pedagogy asks that students examine local subcultures from many perspectives: observations, interviews, artifact collections, ethnographic photography, ethnographic ...
Joanna Nancy Paull.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Hurlbert, Claude-Mark Committee members: Nancy Hayward; Cindy LaCom; Gian Pagnucci.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2011.
English
- Non-traditional nursing students' perceived ability to form caring relationships
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The problem of this study was to examine Associate Degree non-traditional students' perceptions of their ability to form caring relationships upon entry to the nursing program and, to determine if those perceptions change as the student progresses through the nursing curriculum. Measures of association, such as participants' former career and perceived ability to form a caring relationship were completed. The Caring Ability Inventory (CAI) developed by Nkongho (1990) was administered to a c...
JoAnn Evanko Thistlethwaite.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Corbett, Frank Committee members: James Hooks; Kelli Paquette; Mary Williams.
D.Ed. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2011.
English
- Not just a feeling anymore: empathy and the teaching of writing
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Empathy has been studied in composition since the 1960s, although it has not yet been adequately defined or theorized. Compositionists tend to employ the common definition of empathy as a feeling of identification with others using the familiar metaphor "walking in another's shoes," derived from the liberal-humanist therapeutic paradigm of Carl Rogers and Abraham Maslow, which assumes a universal and transparent human experience. The purpose of this study is to develop a theoretical framework...
Janet M Lucas.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Rafoth, Bennett A. Committee members: Gian Pagnucci; Michael Williamson.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2011.
English
- Older home health registered nurses: work perceptions and satisfaction
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There is a current and growing nursing shortage in the United States, at the same time that more aging baby boomers require health services. This problem is further complicated by continued growth in the home health industry and an aging RN workforce. The purpose of this study was to understand the work perceptions of older home health nurses and identify ways to keep older home health RNs working when appropriate. My initial goal involved using a mixed methodology, including not only...
Therese L Rossman.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Snyder, Kay A. Committee members: Valerie Gunter; Daniel Heckert.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2011.
English
- An overview of language preservation at ohi:yo'., the seneca allegany territory
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This project seeks to discover and disseminate information pertaining to the language practices and values of a selected group of Onodowa'ga:' (Seneca) at Ohi:yo', or the Allegany Territory, in upstate New York. The goal is to find where the current practices and values are situated in the larger picture of Seneca preservation as well as the even broader frame of indigenous cultural preservation. This study is important for its contribution to the understanding of the broader issues of lan...
Melissa E Borgia.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Fontaine, Jeannine M. Committee members: Resa Bizzaro; Wallace Chafe.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2010.
English
- Parenting styles and criminal involvement: a test of baumrind's typology
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The current study sought to examine the relationship between perceived parenting styles and level of criminal involvement. Baumrind's typology of parenting styles is based on research conducted approximately 40 years ago (Baumrind, 1967, 1971, 1972; Baumrind & Black, 1967). Despite its longevity in the social sciences, the typology has enjoyed limited empiricism in the field of criminology. Four parenting styles form the crux of Baumrind's typology. These four styles: authoritarian, authori...
Jason D Spraitz.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Martin, Jamie S. Committee members: Kathleen Hanrahan; John Lewis; Jennifer Roberts.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2011.
English
- The perceived, conceived, and lived experiences of 21st century peer writing tutors
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This study addresses the current state of peer tutoring in writing by considering the contributions that scholars and tutors have made to our understanding of the intellectual and pedagogical experiences of peer tutors. In order to explore this topic, the study examines the everyday interactions of tutors through three different lenses: the perceived, conceived, and lived experiences of peer tutors. This dissertation argues that the ways that tutoring is perceived and conceived have had the g...
Brian J Fallon.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Rafoth, Ben Committee members: Michele Eodice; Gian Pagnucci.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2010.
English
- Perceived quality of interpersonal relations of students in an alternative center
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This study investigated the perceived quality of interpersonal relations (PIR) of students in an alternative center by using archival data from a questionnaire that had already been completed by the sample. Specifically, this researcher intended to determine if there was a difference between the PIR of students in an alternative school setting and that of typical students, as identified in the Clinical Assessment of Interpersonal Relations (CAIR) manual standardization sample. No direct re...
M. Alicia Bennett.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Kovaleski, Joseph F. Committee members: William Barker; Roger Briscoe; Edward Levinson.
D.Ed. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2010.
English
- The political tolerance of the "chosen people" in the current contexts of israel and the united states
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The concept of political tolerance is crucial for the existence of democratic societies. Although researchers have made important contributions, the available literature can be improved, primarily by using more complex measures of religiosity, such as those used when examining the association between religiosity and prejudice. This study examined the effect of demographic variables and religious-based variables on the political tolerance of two heterogeneous Jewish populations in Israel and...
Uzi Sasson.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Heckert, Daniel Alex Committee members: Thomas Nowak; Kay Snyder.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2010.
English
- Postcolonial moments in language politics: case studies on multilingual performances
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My dissertation on multilingual performance addresses language politics in relation to inter-racial, cross-gender, and border-crossing issues, all of which are pertinent to the ongoing history of postcolonialism. It is essentially a response to a crucial question in postcolonial studies, shared among prominent postcolonial scholars like Ngugi wa Thiong'o and Frantz Fanon: if a language has colonial history and has been used as a colonial instrument, what is the political status of the langua...
Wan-li Chen.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Sell, Mike Committee members: David Hanauer; Todd Thompson.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2011.
English