In the current age of accountability, there are increasing pressures on building principals to raise standardized test scores. School administrators must identify and implement effective leadership practices that will exert a positive influence on classroom instruction and ultimately enhance student achievement. Research has shown the leadership practices of school principals have significant effects on student learning (Blase & Blase, 1998; DeMoss, 2002; Leithwood & Riehl, 2003; Waters, Marz...
Jacie Maslyk.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Jalongo, Mary Renck Committee members: Valeri Helterbran; Kelli Paquette.
D.Ed. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2012.
English

The present study explores nine L2 mature writers' transition between different academic environments, and seeks to create more meaningful grounds for teaching academic ESL writing in the U.S. and college writing in Taiwan. The approach of this study is influenced by Hirvela and Belcher's (2001) reading of terms they define as voicist-in other words, terms that refer to voices and identities. The study results have highlighted some of the major challenges of academic writing Taiwanese L2 writ...
Shu-Fen Yeh.
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Advisors: Fontaine, Jeannine M. Committee members: Sharon Deckert; Michael Reed.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2012.
English

The purpose of this study was to add to the criminological research on the topic of reentry. This study was conducted to examine the process of reintegration from female ex-offenders' perspectives as they move through reintegration programming. Specifically, this study was concerned with the barriers women face as they return to society and whether or not reentry programming makes them feel as though they are successfully prepared to return to society. To address the research questions, a ...
Lisa Marie Carter.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Davis-Frenzel, Erika Committee members: Rosemary Gido; Kathleen Hanrahan; James Wells.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2012.
English

Jean-Dominique Bauby, Julia Tavalaro, and Philippe Vigand each composed hauntingly beautiful memoirs-The Diving Bell and the Butterfly , Look up for Yes, and Only the Eyes Say Yes, respectively-after being afflicted with locked-in syndrome following strokes. They were also each at one point considered completely vegetative and unaware of themselves or their surroundings. This very unique perspective, what Bauby calls "the harsh light of disaster," distinctively situates them in the field of l...
Henry C Stewart.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Cahalan, James M. Committee members: Susan Comfort; Christopher Kuipers.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2012.
English

The study examines influential factors of rape myth acceptance among 615 college students. Research suggests that the rate for sexual assault in the United States can range from 5% to 22% of the female population (Fisher, Cullen, & Turner, 2000; Kilpatrick, Best, Veronen, Amick, Villeponteaux, & Ruff, 1985; Mustaine & Tewksbury, 2002; Russell, 1984; Sorenson, Stein, Siegel, Golding, & Burnam, 1987; Tjaden & Thoennes, 1998; 2006). Historically, the sexual assault rates for college women are ...
Katie Herman Swope.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Merlo, Alida V. Committee members: W. Austin; Bitna Kim; Shannon Womer Phaneuf.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2012.
English

A provincial definition of reflection has taken root within the discipline of Composition. The discipline's initial conception of reflection was inspired by the writing of John Dewey from the early 20th century. As the teaching of Composition within higher education subsequently became more widespread, ways in which mainstream Compositionists taught reflection, ironically, became narrower. The narrowing of the definition of reflection has led most Compositionists to value the reflection that ...
John Henry Guelcher Jr.
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Advisors: Pagnucci, Gian S. Committee members: Bob Mayberry; Bennett Rafoth.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2012.
English

Cultural mismatch between providers and patients in the United States emerges as a major factor affecting the health of minority populations. Hispanics are the largest and fastest-growing minority group and are at risk for major healthcare disparities resulting from the lack of Hispanic healthcare personnel. The dearth of Hispanic nurses in practice creates an emergent need to increase Hispanic student recruitment and retention rates. Numerous healthcare organizations charge nursing education...
Cristina Perez Stearns.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Shellenbarger, Teresa C. Committee members: Christoph Maier; Nashat Zuraikat.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2012.
English

Improving retention remains a major objective of institutions of higher education. Retaining at-risk students has proved particularly challenging and increasingly important because often these students are members of underrepresented populations, such as first generation and minority students, among others. Undeclared students may be at increased risk of early departure from college because they may not have the advantages of frequent formal and informal faculty contact that declared studen...
Virginia Reiner.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Tidwell, Monte; Eshun, Sussie Committee members: Renee Boburka; Joseph Miele.
D.Ed. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2012.
English

This study examines the religious beliefs of Christopher Marlowe by studying the inter-relationship between Renaissance understanding of 'atheism' - conveyed through contemporary treatises and grounded in humanism's challenge to Judeo-Christian traditions, its representation in modern biographies of Marlowe, as well as the plays themselves - Dido, Queen of Carthage (c. 1586), Tamburlaine, Part 1 (c. 1587), Tamburlaine, Part 2 (c. 1587-1588), The Jew of Malta (c. 1589), Doctor Faustus (c. 15...
Nouh Ibrahim Saleh Alguzo.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Orchard, Christopher Committee members: Susan Comfort; Michael Williamson.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2012.
English

Teacher supervision is closely related to teachers' professional development and effective teaching as well as students' learning. This study is grounded in critical/feminist theory. It offers a rhetorical analysis of the phenomenon of teacher inspection and the role of liberatory education and critical pedagogy in combating oppression, and it lays the foundation for a subsequent empirical examination as much rhetorical research does. For teacher inspection to achieve its end (improving stu...
Ibrahim Ashour.
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Advisors: Bizzaro, Patrick A. Committee members: Crystal Machado; Michael Williamson.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2011.
English

This dissertation outlines the need for greater understanding of the issue of risk to the researcher and methods employed for managing safety while conducting fieldwork. Researchers are sometimes put in dangerous situations while conducting research. The concept of risk to the researcher refers to the possible harm that may occur while in the field or after leaving the research project. This includes physical/health, emotional, legal, and personal/professional risks. The dissertation explores...
Patricia L Brougham.
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Advisors: Austin, Timothy Committee members: Rosemary Gido; Shannon Phaneuf; Jennifer Roberts.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2012.
English

This dissertation examines an emergent subgenre of Gothic fiction geographically situated in the Rust Belt region of the United States related to anxieties stemming from the socioeconomic conditions of the area. The novels examined are Stewart O'Nan's Snow Angels, Tawni O'Dell's Back Roads and Coal Run, Russell Banks's Affliction, and Richard Russo's Empire Falls . The Gothic is a mutable genre that transforms itself and manifests in new contexts when social anxieties arise and need to be...
Matthew Martin Holman.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Wilson, Cheryl Committee members: Ronald Emerick; Susan Gatti.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2012.
English

In this dissertation project, I focus on four major twentieth-century African-American literary figures: Countee Cullen, Harlem Renaissance poet; Adrienne Kennedy, noted playwright; Ernest Gaines, southern novelist; and, Chester Himes, detective/crime fiction writer. My interest in these four artists coincides with contemporary concerns regarding the state of black America, particularly black men. Hopefully, my investigations of these artists' works will provide greater insights into the emot...
Marsha I Walker.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Sell, Michael Committee members: David Downing; Susan Gatti; Veronica Watson.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2012.
English

Employing needs analysis, the purpose of this qualitative study was to explore the Second Language Literacy (SLL) needs of Saudi translation students at the College of Languages and Translation (CLT), King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Four sources were examined toward this aim: documents, current students, graduates (professional translators), and faculty members. The documents included two translation job descriptions and 20 translation job announcements. Eighteen participants affi...
Sami Abdulaziz Ben Salamh.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Fontaine, Jeannine M. Committee members: Gary Dean; Michael Williamson.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2012.
English

The genesis of the self-fashioning of the nineteenth-century American woman lies in the convergence of contemporary theoretical concerns and thoughts about women derived from the classical philosophical works of Hippocrates, Plato, Aristotle, early American philosophers, and religious leaders. Closer examination of these philosophies in characterizations of women in American woman's literature in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries reveals the ways in which women view the possibilit...
Mary Dillow Stewart.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Slater, Thomas J. Committee members: David Downing; Timothy Sweet.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2011.
English

A close examination of the garden and nature settings in ten of Shakespeare's plays reveals the spiritual effects of the Henrician Reformation on English men and women. Through a historical lens and inferred Elizabethan theological assumptions, such examination tracks the development of an individual and personal relationship with the God of Christianity. Although the obvious relationship of Shakespeare's garden settings to the Garden of Eden has been previously examined, to this date connect...
Debra Lee Frances.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Shafer, Ronald G. Committee members: James Cahalan; Christopher Kuipers.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2012.
English

This dissertation focuses on the autobiographical narratives of John Marrant, George White, and John Jea as expressions of black radical evangelicalism. The study argues that their narratives articulate and extend a black identity-politics, largely through a religious/Christian discourse, in ways that subvert, challenge, and revise hegemonic conceptions of religion, race, and subjectivity circulating in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. In addition to revealing the politic...
Lars Olaf Johnson.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Thompson, Todd Nathan Committee members: Mike Sell; Veronica Watson.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2012.
English

Researchers have consistently found that public attitudes toward sex crimes are characterized by fear and an extreme degree of punitiveness. However, much of this research has assessed attitudes toward "sex offenders" rather than opinions toward different types of offenses and offenders. In fact, previous research on public opinion about crime has revealed that punitiveness tends to vary in accordance with the amount of information provided and the complexity of questions asked. Few have exam...
Laura L King.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Roberts, Jennifer J. Committee members: Dennis Giever; Jennifer Gossett; Kathleen Hanrahan.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2012.
English

Intervention programs for juvenile offenders must be built on sound theoretical knowledge and designed for one of a number of specific reasons. Among these reasons are those programs developed with the goal of deterring offending through the development of competencies or other life knowledge, which, once gained, will assist offenders in becoming productive members of society. One such program is the Facts of Life, created by Ramm (2003) and based on a theory developed by Ramm and Czetli (200...
Jeremy Olson.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Martin, Randy L. Committee members: Dennis Giever; Daniel Lee; Jennifer Roberts.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2012.
English

This is a qualitative study of the social history of the field of second language writing (SLW) during the Process Era (1976 to present) when the number of English language learners at North American colleges and universities grew rapidly and dramatically. The premise of this study is that scholars are important subjects of investigation. Their influences, experiences, social interactions, and the underlying sociopolitical landscape shaped the way in which ideas about L2 writing were constru...
Karen Ann Power.
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Advisors: Tannacito, Dan J. Committee members: Chris Hall; Michael Williamson.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2012.
English

This study examined the relationship between digital piracy and social learning theory. To the knowledge of this researcher, only one study had tested a full model of social learning theory in relation to digital piracy (Skinner and Fream, 1997). The current study expanded on past work by testing all four components of social learning theory (differential association, differential reinforcement, imitation, definitions). In addition, to being a full test of the theory this dissertation made m...
Joshua L Smallridge.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Roberts, Jennifer Committee members: Timothy Austin; Jennifer Gossett; Kathleen Hanrahan.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2012.
English

The dissertation's subject is the California State University (CSU) English Council, an affiliate of the National Council of Teachers of English established to support the English Studies faculty of the twenty-three campuses of the CSU. This study relates the history to date of the Council, but its particular focus is on English Council's consideration of remediation and access for underserved students within composition studies; these issues developed into substantial conflicts between the C...
Kathleen J Klompien.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Hurlbert, Claude M. Committee members: David Downing; Gian Pagnucci.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2012.
English

This study determines the strengths and weaknesses of the Special Education Competencies for School Leaders framework as adopted by the Pennsylvania Department of Education. The perspectives of Special Education Advisers (individuals with significant experience in serving students with disabilities) are gathered through semi-structured interviews. This research was designed to (a) identify special education challenges facing school administrators from the viewpoint of special education advise...
Matthew Richard Conner.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Kaufman, Cathy C. Committee members: Valeri Helterbran; Joseph Marcoline.
D.Ed. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2012.
English

My intent for this study is to broaden an understanding of Lillian Hellman's written works and her life by dealing with Hellman's politics against an ideology of Colorism. Colorism constructs a world where people of color are otherized, alienated, theorized, and organized by the color white/whiteness over other colors/nonwhites. This study investigates how Hellman's sociopolitical conscience and responsibility are constructed in her works and how these beliefs are reflected in her written wor...
Seung-hye Joo.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Comfort, Susan M. Committee members: David Downing; Ronald Emerick.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2012.
English