Integrating technology into the classroom has been an enduring topic in the field of education for decades. While the technology types may have changed from slide projectors and calculators, to laptops and smart phones, preparing preservice teachers to integrate technology in the classroom is a constant in teacher education programs. The pace for which technology advances has forced teacher educators to reconsider how to better prepare future teachers. Attention has shifted from preservice te...
Leanne Spazak.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Helterbran, Valeri R. Committee members: George Bieger; Kelly Heider.
D.Ed. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2013.
English

There has been a significant amount of research regarding simulation use in nursing education; however, there is limited research available regarding the replacement of traditional clinical with simulated clinical. This research included a mixed-method design formulated to determine Pennsylvania Practical Nursing Programs' current simulation usage and Pennsylvania Practical Nursing Directors', Assistant Administrators', and Faculty Members' perceptions regarding replacing a portion of tradit...
Cynthia A Cornelius.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Bieger, George R. Committee members: Michele Gerwick; Jennifer Rotigel.
D.Ed. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2012.
English

This study of literature and film is one of the triumphs over obstacles by sideshow performers with rare physical afflictions, commonly known as "freaks." These people provide great opportunities for understanding those outside normative culture. Many have used their physical conditions to educate the public, which has been the function of sideshow since its inception. In fact, cultural analysis through gaze theory supports the argument that freaks are not merely objects of the gaze to be con...
Stacey Leigh Mascia.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Slater, Thomas Committee members: Kenneth Sherwood; Todd Thompson.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2013.
English

This quantitative study explored self-reported orientation and organizational socialization experiences of new student affairs professionals through a survey instrument constructed by the researcher and administered online. Individuals who identified themselves as entry level professionals through membership of the American College Personnel Association were invited to respond to the online survey. The survey examined if there was a relationship between orientation and organizational socializ...
Amy L Cotner-Klingler.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Rotigel, Jennifer Committee members: George Bieger; Kelli Jo Kerry-Moran.
D.Ed. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2013.
English

The purpose of this study was to examine parents' perceptions of their role in supervision of their children's use of technology and their reported responses to events in which their children are cyberbullying oppressors, victims, or bystanders. The theoretical perspectives such as Bronfenbrenner's (1979) ecological theory, Bandura's (1977) social learning theory, and Crick and Dodge's (1994) social information processing theory served as framework for developing the research. An explanato...
Emily L Levine.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Fennimore, Beatrice S. Committee members: Kelli Paquette; Sue Rieg.
D.Ed. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2013.
English

This study was designed to explore five Korean NNESTs' L2 pragmatic competence and its relationship with their teaching experiences using DCT questionnaires of English request. This study in particular examined (1) five Korean NNESTs pragmatic competencies in English requests, (2) the relationship between their English teaching and learning experience and L2 pragmatic competence, and (3) their perceptions and attitudinal changes toward English education in terms of cross-linguistic/cross-cult...
Seung Ku Park.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Park, Gloria Committee members: John Branscum; Michael Williamson.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2012.
English

The purpose of this mixed method study was to determine teacher perceptions of fitness testing and the relationship between fitness testing to their students making lifetime fitness goals. The first phase of the study consisted of a quantitative survey. From among the high school physical education teachers currently teaching in two Eastern states, 43 participated in this study by responding to the 27 question survey. The second phase of the study consisted of qualitative telephone interviews...
Jennifer Thorp.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Fennimore, Beatrice S. Committee members: Christine Black; Valeri Helterbran.
D.Ed. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2013.
English

The Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills (DIBELS) benchmarks are frequently used to make important decision regarding student performance. More information, however, is needed to understand if the nationally-derived benchmarks created by the DIBELS system provide the most accurate criterion for evaluating reading proficiency. The DIBELS benchmarks are calculated based on performance with a nationally-normed standardized achievement test (Good et al. 2011b). Therefore, it may n...
Matthew R Ferchalk.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Runge, Timothy J. Committee members: Joseph Kovaleski; David Lillenstein; Mark Staszkiewicz.
D.Ed. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2013.
English

This dissertation addresses two limitations in recent scholarship on the representations of Islam and Muslims in nineteenth-century British literature. It implements a literary critique of the epistemological nature and repercussions of some of these representations from a nuanced historical perspective. And it recovers and recommends for serious scholarly study pertinent texts that are at present neglected or uncanonized. The importance of such texts lies in their subversive nature: the repr...
Ghada Al Abbadi.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Orchard, Christopher Committee members: David Downing; Kay Snyder; Michael Williamson.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2012.
English

This study evaluated how comic books and graphic novels enhanced the reading comprehension of the students enrolled in the intermediate reading course at Western Pennsylvania Community College. The three research questions are: (1) How can a developmental reading course make use of comics as a learning tool? (2) What impact does reading comics have on developmental students' Nelson Denny reading scores? (3) What impact does reading comics have on developmental students' attitudes toward readi...
Brian Patrick Burke.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Pagnucci, Gian Committee members: Chris McCarrick; Gloria Park; Michael Williamson.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2012.
English

Students' initial eagerness and excitement for learning to read are evident when they enter primary grades. Their levels of enthusiasm for reading diminish through elementary (Eccles, Wigfield, Harold, & Blumenfeld, 1993; Mazzoni, Gambell, & Koreamaki, 1999) and middle school (McKenna & Kearn, 1990; Oldfather & McLaughlin, 1993) years. These decreases in motivation result in undesirable learning environments, environments that rely heavily on proficient literacy levels for knowledge acquisiti...
Karen Louise Matis.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Helterbran, Valeri R. Committee members: George Bieger; Kelli Paquette.
D.Ed. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2013.
English

The number of young children with autism is ever-increasing, and school psychologists are more frequently required to identify these students. Valid screening tools are needed in order to focus school psychologists' time on those students in need of intensive evaluations in Early Intervention programs. The purpose of this study was to examine the utility of the Modified Checklist for Autism in Toddlers (M-CHAT; Robins, Fein, & Barton, 1999), an autism screening tool, for preschool-age student...
JoAnna R Cogan-Ferchalk.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Kovaleski, Joseph F. Committee members: Lisa Newell; Timothy Runge; Mark Staszkiewicz.
D.Ed. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2013.
English

The No Child Left Behind Act has profoundly impacted public schools throughout our country. All school personnel must work together thoughtfully and diligently to address the mandates set forth by this federal law. As reforms are initiated and instructional programs are restructured, this qualitative multiple-case study examines supervisory practices utilized in four elementary schools in South Western Pennsylvania and how these practices influence organizational learning. A qualitative me...
Ronald J Yasher.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Kaufman, Cathy C. Committee members: Otto Graf; Joseph Marcoline; Sue Rieg.
D.Ed. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2013.
English

This study measured the effects of The Crucible culminating event of U. S. Marine Corps recruit training on recruits' values of Honor, Courage, Critical Thinking, and Identity as Marines as part of the broader socialization process that occurs through the organizational context of U. S. Marine Corps boot camp. This study involved a sample of 248 U. S. Marine Corps recruits. The research design used in this study produced cross-sectional time series data. From a 47-question survey tool wi...
Michael D Becker.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Mabry, Beth Committee members: John Anderson; Wade Seibert.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2013.
English

This dissertation is a bounded case study that examines the attitudes and perceptions of Teaching Assistants (TAs) in Composition about their TA preparation in an independent writing program at a large public research university in California. Specifically, this study focuses on TAs who were pursuing Ph.D.s in either English Literature or Composition. Given that TAs' preparation for teaching first-year Composition is traditionally held within English departments, TAs commonly hail from either...
Jennifer Kathleen Johnson.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Hurlbert, Claude M. Committee members: Jeannine Fontaine; Gian Pagnucci.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2013.
English

This dissertation applies a mixed-methods approach to the question "Where does writing end?" in an academic context, specifically that of college composition classrooms on the developmental and freshman composition levels at a U.S. community college. In this dissertation, I define what an "academic" essay is, and then I use both post-process composition theory and reader-response theory to explore multiple ways to answer the question "Where does writing end?" in a college composition classroo...
Julie Anne Peluso Quinn.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Hurlbert, Claude M. Committee members: Patrick Bizzaro; Michael Williamson.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2012.
English

Many main stream religious denominations are alarmed about the constant decreasing of membership in their congregations. Small rural churches are experiencing a shift in attendance in which the members of the congregation are getting older and no new members are being received. Strategies to reach out to a younger generation seem to fail and discerning the strategies to be used to accomplish the goal is a complex paradigm. The purpose of this study was to identify the attributes that co...
Brunilda Martinez.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Anderson, John A. Committee members: Barbara Denison; Valerie Gunter.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2013.
English