- The influence of supervision on school psychologists' sense of self-efficacy
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The purpose of this study was to investigate the connections between supervision and school psychologists' self-efficacy. The sample consisted of 206 practicing school psychologists (168 females, 38 males). Participants completed a demographic survey and a measure of self-efficacy, Huber Scale of Self-Efficacy for School Psychologists. Among participants in the study, professional supervision was not as accessible to school psychologists as administrative supervision. Of those who receive pro...
Lisa Weed Phifer.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: McGowan, Mark R. Committee members: Lynanne Black; Timothy Runge.
D.Ed. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2013.
English
- Intersections of aesthetics, ethics, and politics: coetzee, beckett, and kafka
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Since the Enlightenment, the realms of aesthetics, ethics, and politics have often been separated into isolated areas of study. Art and literature were often viewed in a post-Kantian light as disinterested and transcendent, rising above the material complications of the ethical and political worlds. But there have also been significant counter-movements to these dominant forms of aesthetic idealism. In the twentieth century, literary giants such as Franz Kafka and Samuel Beckett began tacklin...
Eric Paul Meljac.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Downing, David Committee members: Brian Macaskill; Mike Sell.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2013.
English
- Is it still a sexual offense if society doesn't find it offensive? cultural constructions and rape proclivity
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Because rape statistics on college campuses remain shockingly high, prevention of rape is crucially important. However, in order to prevent rape, individuals must first understand the factors that influence a person's likelihood to rape (i.e. a person's rape proclivity). Cultural constructions of rape, sexuality, and gender roles contribute to the continued prevalence of rape in our society. The current study utilized a sample of 153 undergraduate students to examine the relationships between...
Beth A Bliss.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: McHugh, Maureen C. Committee members: Pearl Berman; Margaret Reardon.
Psy.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2013.
English
- 'knowledge growth': a multiple case study of english literature graduates' learning experiences for teaching composition
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This multiple case study investigates the learning processes of postsecondary English literature graduates who teach composition to diverse student groups. Since the context of study in English literature graduate programs concentrates on literature and literary theory, the interest of this study examines how teachers learn to teach composition with little preparation or training. Three southeastern universities were chosen as investigative sites which provided a sample of diverse teachers an...
Kathleen A Richards.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Park, Gloria Committee members: Sharon Deckert; Nancy Hayward; Linda Norris.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2013.
English
- Listening to students & answering the call: one woman's writing, responding, and reflecting
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This study is my attempt to consciously reflect on what is at hand in one student's work. I set out to learn about how students react to responses they receive. As I read portfolios at the end of the semester, Sapphrikah chose me through her amazing ability to consciously reflect and grow as a writer, activist, and womyn. By examining Sapphrikah's work, I learned about how my teaching hindered her development as a writer. I also learned what Sapphrikah respects in response and responders, val...
April Zosia Sikorski-Julier.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Williamson, Michael M. Committee members: Brian Huot; Gian Pagnucci.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2012.
English
- The lived experience of at-risk nursing students enrolled in a required course to improve nclex-rn® success
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Each year, thousands of nursing students take standardized exit examinations. Those students who do not meet a specified benchmark score may be required to complete remediation before graduation or before taking the licensure examination. Students who are considered to be at-risk for failing the NCLEX-RN ® exam, based on standardized exit exam scores, are sometimes required to participate in courses specifically designed to assist them to be successful on the licensure exam. No previous st...
Shelly Lynn Moore.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Poorman, Susan G. Committee members: Michele Gerwick; Theresa Gropelli; Melissa Mastorovich.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2013.
English
- Long-serving rural superintendents of western pennsylvania: a descriptive case study of the factors that may influence their longevity
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The state of Pennsylvania comprises 500 school districts. Each district is required to have a superintendent of schools. Now, more than ever, the work portfolio of U.S. school superintendents is increasingly diverse. In an occupation enjoying very little security, having fewer benefits than similar jobs in the private sector, and facing increased criticism in addition to greater complexities (J. Byrd, C. Drews, & J. Johnson, "Factors Impacting Superintendent Turnover: Lessons From the Field,"...
Shawn Lewis Kovac.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Kaufman, Cathy Committee members: George Bieger; Joseph Marcoline.
D.Ed. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2013.
English
- Making meaning of adversity: experiences of women leaders in higher education
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Despite the fact that women now earn more bachelor's, master's and doctorates than men, a gender gap for women leaders persists in the field of higher education. Women hold only 26 percent of all college and university presidencies with a large variance by type of institution. Women lead 33 percent of associate's level institutions but only 22 percent of doctorate-granting institutions. Extensive research has demonstrated that women aspiring to and serving as leaders face many barriers. The o...
Amy B Diehl.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Boser, Susan Committee members: Kathryn Bonach; Dana Hysock Witham.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2013.
English
- Management practices of student-run broadcast radio stations: a national review of contemporary college radio
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Radio stations owned by colleges or universities have been in existence since the earliest days of the medium, but little research has been conducted on college radio stations. Even less has focused on campus stations that are led primarily by students. This study examined management practices of student-led FM college radio broadcast stations in the United States and provides a contemporary review of the programming, practices, and challenges associated with today's campus stations. The stud...
Ronald K Raymond.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Wilson, B. Gail Committee members: Mary Beth Leidman; Zachary Stiegler.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2013.
English
- Metacognition and learning to read: an examination of the metacognitive strategies fifth grade students use before, during, and after reading
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Students who have the ability of working through text, while at the same time comprehending what they read, increase the likelihood of school success and lifelong learning (Johnson, 2006). In primary grades, teachers understand that students are learning how to read and in intermediate grades, students are reading to learn new knowledge about a particular content area (Jacobs, 2006). Students who have mastered and internalized reading strategies may comprehend the content (Schoenbach et al....
Dana Ann Keck.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Bieger, George R. Committee members: Anne Creany; Kelli Paquette.
D.Ed. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2012.
English
- Middle level science: a mixed-methodology study of the impact of the pennsylvania system of school assessment (pssa) on curriculum and instruction
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Using a mixed methodology approach, this study examined the impact of the implementation of the science PSSA on the curriculum and instructional practice of eighth-grade teachers. It was hypothesized that despite the specter of PSSA influence on the academic climate, teachers are not necessarily influenced to change instructional practices, even if the curriculum has changed. A tripartite framework of change theory, motivational theory, and efficacy beliefs provided the lens through which thi...
Patricia Sarappo Britton.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Heltebran, Valeri R. Committee members: Kelly Heider; Meghan Twiest.
D.Ed. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2013.
English
- Military leadership in combat
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The purpose of this study is to examine both effective and non-effective leader behaviors exhibited by leaders in the U.S. Army while in combat and under enemy fire. A secondary goal is to determine whether characteristics of combat leadership are present or evident in all forms of leadership. Specifically, leader behaviors will be identified by using a stratified sample of soldiers, noncommissioned officers, and commissioned officers, all with varying degrees of experience, years of service,...
Paul R Bollinger.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Kuffner-Hirt, Mary Jane Committee members: Dighton Fiddner; Christina Jeffrey.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2013.
English
- A mixed-methods study: motivational aspects of a summer reading program for young adolescents with low reading achievement
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Throughout the United States, school districts are integrating programs into their reading curricula in response to an increased focus on reading achievement. While many school districts are implementing successful remedial and after-school programs, their approach does not include providing literacy instruction for students during summer vacation. Thus, during the summer months, learners with low reading achievement lose literacy skills gained throughout the school year. This mixed-metho...
Brianna R Strahler.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Helterbran, Valeri R. Committee members: George Bieger; DeAnna Laverick.
D.Ed. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2013.
English
- A mixed-methods study of early intervention implementation in the commonwealth of pennsylvania
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Children grow and change more rapidly during the first eight years of life than any other time in their life span. Progression through the physical, cognitive, and social-emotional developmental stages varies for each individual child. Children with atypical development experience a wide spectrum of variability in their development. Over the past several years the Office of Special Education, the Division for Early Childhood Education of the Council for Exceptional Children, and researchers a...
Janet Anne Mattern.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Hannibal, Mary Anne Committee members: Becky Knickelbein; Jennifer Rotigel.
D.Ed. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2013.
English
- Moving toward critical counter-spaces: volitional movements in american women's writing, 1839-1900
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Drawing from contemporary spatial theories, this dissertation examines how nineteenth-century women writers use movement in their texts to resist dominant spatial ideologies, re-map physical spaces, and transform social relations. Lefebvre's triadic definition of social space allows scholars to analyze how the material and the ideological construct social relationships. Spatial theories also emphasize that physical movements are significant in spatial transformations because movements initiat...
Michelle Gaffner Wood.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Thompson, Todd N. Committee members: David Downing; Veronica Watson.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2013.
English
- Mutuality as a means of overcoming student resistance
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Mutuality practice in the composition classroom attempts to create equal subject positions between teachers and students, mitigating the effects of dominant power structures inherent to an authority-driven classroom while showing teachers that their students are fully capable, though fledgling, members of an academic community. Understanding how those mutuality practices create and maintain equal subject positions currently falls under the theoretically broad category of critical pedagogy and...
John Leonard Reilly.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Bizzaro, Patrick Committee members: David Wallace; Michael Williamson.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2012.
English
- National board certified teachers in pennsylvania: a study of motivation and persistence
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This descriptive study identifies: 1) the factors which motivated Pennsylvania teachers to begin the National Board Certification process; 2) the factors of persistence which led teachers to successful achievement of National Board Certification and; 3) the personal transformation which took place in the process. Quantitative and qualitative methods were employed in the study. The study population was 497 teachers in Pennsylvania who successfully attained National Board Certification. The gro...
Ronald Jay Starnes.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Rutter, Alison; Millward, Robert Committee members: Douglas Lare.
D.Ed. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2013.
English
- Orientalism, occidentalism, and the language of conciliation: political discourses in the 9/11 novel
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This dissertation examines the 9/11 novel for evidence of the continuities of Orientalism, for an intensified resistance to Orientalism, and for a new discourse of conciliation. The analysis primarily employs Said's Orientalism as the theoretical framework to study the selected texts. Said's Orientalism looks at how the colonial relationship manifests itself in cultural representations. He claims that Western discourse creates prejudices against non- Western cultures by putting them in the cl...
Bahramand Shah.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Orchard, Christopher Committee members: Todd Thomspon; Lingyan Yang.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2013.
English
- Pastors' experiences of role expectations
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Pastors and ministers in Christian congregations experience the role expectations of multiple constituents. The literature on clergy roles and role expectations indicates that the role of pastors and ministers has developed and changed. The existing literature also indicates a lack of role consensus and the presence of role conflict and overload. These factors have contributed to many pastors experiencing a lack of job satisfaction and also the experience of stress, and many have left vocatio...
W. Alan Robinson.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Anderson, John A. Committee members: Barbara Denison; Wade Seibert.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2012.
English