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

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.
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Advisors: Kovaleski, Joseph F. Committee members: William Barker; Roger Briscoe; Edward Levinson.
D.Ed. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2010.
English

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.
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Advisors: Heckert, Daniel Alex Committee members: Thomas Nowak; Kay Snyder.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2010.
English

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.
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Advisors: Sell, Mike Committee members: David Hanauer; Todd Thompson.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2011.
English

Use of discourse markers (DM) in the ordinary conversation of English language learners (ELL) remains a relatively unexplored area. This qualitative research study examines, in unplanned speech, the occurrence and use of DMs which are defined as a set of linguistic items functioning in the cognitive, social, expressive, and textual domains establishing coherence within discourse (Bright, 1992). Grounded in relevancy theory (Sperber & Wilson, 1995) the main goal of this research is to explore...
Rachel Adams Goertel.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Tannacito, Dan J. Committee members: Sharon Deckert; Michael Williamson.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2011.
English

This study uses quantitative and qualitative designs to examine if motivations for choosing a teaching career influence the intention to teach or not to teach in urban settings, and if a short-term urban field experience has significant impact on the change in the motivations as well as the intention to teach in urban settings. Overall, pre-service teachers in the study chose a teaching career due to the influence of such factors as beliefs of teaching ability, intrinsic, social, and perso...
Yong Yu.
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Advisors: Bieger, George R. Committee members: Monte Tidwell; Larry Vold.
D.Ed. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2011.
English

The purpose of this study was to investigate the levels of teacher efficacy reported by student teachers upon completion of the student teaching experience and to better understand the perceptions held by the student teachers regarding the roles the university supervisor played. The roles played by the supervisor focused on the levels of support and challenge. These two concepts (levels of support and challenge) refer to the types of actions of the university supervisor which either affirms...
Dawn Michelle Detruf Turkovich.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Bieger, George Committee members: James Hooks; Monte Tidwell.
D.Ed. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2011.
English

The purpose of this study is to develop a preadmission predictive model of student success for prospective first-time African American college applicants at a predominately White four-year public institution within the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education. This model will use two types of variables. They are (a) cognitive variables (i.e., SAT score, ACT score, high school GPA, high school rank, advance placement/college credit and ranking of high school), (b) non-cognitive variables ...
M. William Redmond Jr.
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Advisors: Anderson, John A. Committee members: George Bieger; Lisa Shibley.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2011.
English

Teacher preparation programs that are linked to Professional Development School (PDS) partnerships address the complexity of classrooms by embedding the learning of teaching in authentic contexts. This study investigated the preparation, perceptions, and professional paths of East Stroudsburg University's (ESU) elementary education (ELED) professional development school beginning teachers. ESU ELED PDS graduates' perceptions of self-efficacy in the categories of teaching behaviors, responsi...
Jodi A Sponchiado.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Pinciotti, Patricia; Hannibal, Mary Anne Committee members: Alison Rutter.
D.Ed. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2011.
English

Previous research has demonstrated a relationship between cannabis use and several aspects of psychosis (development, decreased age of onset, exacerbation of symptoms and increased relapse). Unanswered questions concern whether there are ages of vulnerability for cannabis exposure. Further, despite gender differences in the development, age of onset, severity and overall course of psychosis, no research has examined the effect of cannabis exposure and psychotic-like experiences (PLE) across g...
Erica R Barnes.
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Advisors: LaPorte, David J. Committee members: Laura Knight; William Meil.
Psy.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2011.
English

The purpose of this study is to examine the influence of personal and professional ethics on the leadership of public school superintendents. A multi-case, qualitative research design was used to gather data from four practicing public school superintendents. Transformational leadership theory and the three pillars of ethics of leadership identified by Bass and Steidlmeier (1998) served as the theoretical framework from which the data were viewed. The population and sample for this study w...
Brian J McDermott.
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Advisors: Helterbran, Valeri R. Committee members: Cathy Kaufman; Sue Rieg.
D.Ed. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2010.
English

This study looks at cases of 'reflection' where the subject or topic in question involves an individual's focusing on her own learning, metalinguistic development, and cognitive processes such as regulation and control of cognitive functions including selection, application and awareness of learning strategies. The study shows what advanced graduate students do metacognitevely in reflective documents, and how they have come to understand metacognitive reflection, including in reflective assig...
Liliya S Bormotova.
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Advisors: Fontaine, Jeannine M. Committee members: Lynne Alvine; Lilia Savova.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2010.
English

This is an autoethnographic inquiry into the quest to nurture and sustain a character that embodies White, privilege-cognizant antiracism (Bailey, 1998). Situated in a constructivist paradigm of inquiry and using a variety of qualitative methods for data collection, this research examined the researcher's own life pursuit of an antiracist identity. Data collected from guided interviews, archival documents, and daily journaling and field notes were subjected to multiple iterations of inducti...
Daniel Mark Welliver.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Boser, Susan Committee members: Kay Snyder; Veronica Watson.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2011.
English

Many colleges and universities are engaged in developing enrollment strategies in higher education that focus on student retention. Using concepts based on Astin's (1993) theory of involvement and Tinto's (1975) theory of social interaction, this study focused on how participation in recreation center activities is related to the academic success (GPA) and retention of undergraduate students. Astin argues that students learn from becoming involved, and Tinto's retention model places great im...
Douglas S Knepp.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Nowak, Thomas Committee members: John Anderson; Robert Kostelnik.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2011.
English

This study examined the level of digital literacy held by pre-service education majors (N = 101, Male = 30, Female = 71) enrolled in one of three digital instructional technology courses as a western Pennsylvania university. All measurement was done prior to any digital literacy instruction. The study investigated how the participants' levels of the eight multiple intelligence learning styles correlated with their level of digital literacy as determined by the Instant Digital Competence Ass...
Chad D Sherman.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Lenze, James S. Committee members: Luis Almeida; Richard Lamberski.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2011.
English

This quantitative study evaluates the impact of using robotics as a content organizer to teach a mathematic concept between math and technology education classes in a middle school of the students beliefs and interests toward STEM concepts. The analysis was based upon pre and post belief and interest survey responses by the participating middle school students. Ten schools from Pennsylvania participated in the study over the spring semester of school in 2010. Twenty teachers (one mathematic...
Stephen H Whitehead.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Kerry-Moran, Kelli Jo Committee members: James Hooks; Joseph Marcoline; Christian Schunn.
D.Ed. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2010.
English

My dissertation primarily reaffirms the multicultural identity of the American society based on the polyethnic structure of the population and widely recognized contributions of minorities to the social and cultural development of the United States. However, my dissertation forewarns against the separatism and isolationism the discourse of multiculturalism may engender; and it subsequently assumes that multiculturalism should be viewed not as an end as but as a means to the higher causes of h...
Hussein Hasan Zeidanin.
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Advisors: Yang, Lingyan Committee members: Suzan Comfort; Karen Dandurand.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2011.
English

This study examines the cultural and historical constructs of the patriarchal father, the dutiful daughter, and the "Cult of Southern Womanhood" that have impacted the depiction of the relationship between fathers and daughters in the works of southern writers Shirley Ann Grau, Gail Godwin, and Alice Walker. The authors illustrate fathers who influence their daughters by supplying their needs and supporting their desires, but also of fathers who have hindered the emotional growth of their dau...
Barbara C Taylor.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Emerick, Ronald R. Committee members: Karen Dandurand; Kelly Heider.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2011.
English

This dissertation explores the interaction between academic prose and the effect of writing different text types, focusing on Japanese poetry, haiku. Specifically, this intervention study focuses on a Japanese EFL university as this is the cultural context and investigates the integration of first language (L1) linguistic and cultural knowledge with second language (L2) literacy work from the perspective of looking across the curriculum at different genre writing. This empirical study emp...
Atsushi Iida.
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Advisors: Hanauer, David I. Committee members: Patrick Bizzaro; Lisya Seloni.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2011.
English

This study explores Kyrgyz immigrants' English language learning experiences and how those experiences affected their acculturation processes in the United States. Since adult immigrant learners' second language acquisition mingles with the social and cultural aspects of their lives, it was important to explore Kyrgyz participants' English language learning processes in various social contexts in order to understand how these contexts affected immigrants' abilities to learn the target languag...
Roza Kazakbaeva.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Hayward, Nancy Committee members: Jeannine Fontaine; Lilia Savova.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2011.
English

As a composition teacher and scholar, I have often found myself frustrated with peer review sessions in my composition classes, a frustration scholars such as Harris (1992), VanDeWeghe (2004), and Miller (2005) have noted is common for writing teachers. Online fanfiction groups, however, often use peer review as a central practice of their communities. This study analyzed fanfiction groups in order to see how feedback is used within these groups and how that feedback shapes the practices of t...
Chad Eric Littleton.
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Advisors: Rafoth, Bennett A. Committee members: Nancy Hayward; Gian Pagnucci.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2011.
English

Using a mixed-method case study to investigate the self-efficacy beliefs of speech-language therapists in Pennsylvania, this study examined their beliefs and variables perceived to influence speech-language therapists' self-efficacy with regard to their ability to collaborate with regular education classroom teachers. Data from surveys and information from semi-structured interviews were used to answer the following two research questions: (1). What are the self-efficacy beliefs of speech-la...
Donna L Hopstetter.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Vagliardo, Margot W.; Marcoline, Joseph Committee members: Teri Burcroff; Joyce Burgener.
D.Ed. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2011.
English

This study sought to examine the relationship between employee deviance within restaurants and the components of social learning theory. The behaviors examined in this research were based on the research of Robinson and Bennett (1995, 2000) who defined employee deviance as two different categories of behavior-one directed against the organization (organizational deviance, production deviance, and property deviance), and the other directed against coworkers (interpersonal deviance). Whi...
Katherine Pantaleo.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Martin, Jamie Committee members: Timothy Austin; Erika Frenzel; Jennifer Roberts.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2011.
English