The purpose of this qualitative study was to gain an understanding of secondary teachers' perception of the looping process. The research questions revealed teachers' opinions of the looping process and its impact on the overall educational experience. Participants within this study had experiences teaching within the looping process and within a customary one year teaching progression. Interviews were conducted with all participants. The interviews were transcribed and data analysis was ...
Dennis J Chakey.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Marcoline, Joseph Committee members: Cathy Kaufman; Robert Millward.
D.Ed. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2014.
English

This dissertation examines Salman Rushdie's major works for the ways that they consistently affirm the power of memory to construct a concrete, rooted identity for characters and nation-states despite the prerogative of migrants to translate themselves into new creations through a dismissal of the weight of the past. If "exile is a dream of glorious return," as one of his characters reflects in The Satanic Verses, few diasporic writers living today rival Rushdie for the singular inspiration h...
Stephen James Bell.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Yang, Lingyan Committee members: Christopher Orchard; Mike Sell.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2014.
English

Grounded upon a scholarly foundation laid by Wendy Bishop, Patrick Bizzaro, and Jason Wirtz, this performance-based study tests fifteen poetry writing strategies extracted from three experienced poets' self-reports on how to write poetry with the intention of developing a research method to test the reliability of using poets' self-reports in teaching creative writing. By reading what three expert-practitioners say they do when they write poetry (Fred Chappell's Plow Naked, Richard Hugo's The...
Jason Douglas Long.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Bizzaro, Patrick Committee members: Resa Bizzaro; Michael Williamson.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2014.
English

This study examined the perception of effective police academy training curriculum topics as reported by Pennsylvania municipal police officers. A second purpose explored the relationship between the police academy pedagogy and the perception of training adequacy that exists by individual officers. Using survey data from 152 municipal police officers this research found respondents have received the most adequate training in terms of knowledge, skills, and dispositions in the area of crimin...
Jonathan Wesley Wolf.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Kaufman, Cathy C. Committee members: George Bieger; Jennifer Rotigel.
D.Ed. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2013.
English

This dissertation documents the language and literacy histories of four multilingual Armenian immigrant women settled in the Los Angeles area of California. Via tools of linguistic (auto)biography and narrative inquiry, the participants worked collaboratively with the researcher to co-construct chronicles of their lives in multiple languages; the resulting narratives were then analyzed and interpreted through a critical, feminist lens to identify connections and intersections among the partic...
Kristene K McClure.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Park, Gloria Committee members: Lynne Alvine; Michael Williamson.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2014.
English

This dissertation investigates how the Victorian scientific revolution and its concepts of evolution are represented in select fiction of the period: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1818), H. G. Wells' The Time Machine (1895), The Island of Dr Moreau (1896), The Invisible Man (1897), The War of the Worlds (1898), Robert Louis Stevenson's Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886) and others. Starting from the theological and cultural controversies arising from the publication of Darwin's Origin of the S...
Jae-uk Choo.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Orchard, Christopher Committee members: Christopher Kuipers; Michael Williamson.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2014.
English

This study examines the relationship between student perceptions of university police and fear of crime through the utilization of a rational choice perspective. Over the last three decades, a plethora of research has explored fear of crime and factors related to its occurrence. However, a thorough review of the literature revealed a limited amount of studies that have examined the impact that fear of crime has on college students. Moreover, no studies were uncovered that utilize rational cho...
Justin Crowl.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Giever, Dennis Committee members: Timothy Austin; Rosemary Gido; Kathleen Hanrahan.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2013.
English

The purpose of this study was to determine the extent to which university students report having been weight-teased by basic education teachers and how that has affected their social, physical, and academic well-being in the university. Bandura's (1999) theory of triadic reciprocal causation served as a framework for developing this research. An explanatory mixed methods approach was used to examine university students' perceptions. The data collection consisted of a 22-question survey,...
Rebecca A Gallagher.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Paquette, Kelli R. Committee members: Frank Corbett, Jr.; Becky Knickelbein; DeAnna Laverick.
D.Ed. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2014.
English

This study was influenced by the researcher's personal interest in the topic as well as a pilot study he conducted; it produced results that inspired him to do further research. The Saudi Arabian Cultural Mission assisted in distributing the Qualtrics survey through their Facebook page and Twitter account. Thus, the researcher utilized a non-probability convenience and volunteer sample of 789 Saudi Arabian students studying in the United States. This study was guided by the Uses and Grat...
Ali Dhumayan Alanazi.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Piwinsky, Mark J. Committee members: Jay Start; Zachary Stiegler.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2014.
English

In the early 1990s the first charter school laws were established. Over the past two decades, charter schools have emerged as school of choice for many families, especially poor and minority families. The concept of having a choice in education is an important component to consider when examining the reasons that parents choose charter schools; especially for families that have not had a choice in the past. Seeking a choice in education is not a new phenomenon. Magnet schools and voucher p...
Danelle Marie Conner.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Tidwell, Monte Committee members: George Bieger; Kelli Kerry-Moran.
D.Ed. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2014.
English

The purpose of this qualitative study was to examine the perceptions of the elementary principals' and elementary teachers' experiences utilizing the Western Pennsylvania Principal's Academy Walkthrough Observation Tool as a meaningful tool for professional growth for during the years 2011 to 2013. The researcher utilized Charlotte Danielson's rubric on Growing and Developing Professionally to measure the connection between the Walkthrough Observation Tool and the lived experiences of element...
Rick A Walsh.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Kaufman, Cathy Committee members: Valeri Helterbran; Joseph Marcoline; Joseph Werlinich.
D.Ed. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2014.
English

The influence exerted by language tests on language teaching and learning has been called washback (Pearson, 1988). Although an increasing number of empirical washback studies have appeared after the call by Alderson and Wall (1993), the perspectives of the most immediate stakeholders, the test takers, are largely under-researched. Equally under-researched are the washback effects of language tests at the college level, since most reported research has been conducted on tests given before the...
Zhiling Wu.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Williamson, Michael M. Committee members: Jeannine Fontaine; Virginia Perdue; Lilia Savova.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2014.
English

This study examines the causes and cost of theft, both internal and external, at one particular specialty retailer and offers an explanation of motivation for those being caught committing internal theft. Historically, crime has been perceived as an activity of the nonworking or lower class members of society (Hollinger & Clark, 1983). Some still may not even consider illegal actions that occur during the course of business to be crimes at all (Kuratko, Hornsby, Naffziger & Hodgetts, 2000). C...
Dana N Baxter.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Giever, Dennis M. Committee members: Erika Frenzel; Daniel Lee; John Lewis.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2014.
English

In this dissertation, I argue that writing center scholarship has not yet fully conceptualized the kinds of knowledge and ability required for successful performance in peer tutoring. Because writing centers are often located outside of the disciplinary structures of the academy and, in most cases, rely on non-specialist peer tutors, tutoring has been characterized as a primarily generalist or amateur enterprise, set aside from more institutionally vetted forms of classroom instruction. As a ...
John Larkin Boyd.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Rafoth, Bennett A. Committee members: Gian Pagnucci; Michael Williamson.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2013.
English

This research is a dual-case study which specifically focuses on two rural two-year colleges in separate parts of the United States: one in the central Southern region, and the other in the Northeastern region. I wanted to focus on these colleges' writing placement and proficiency practices in relation to their respective missions and how they prepare students for work in a multiliterate, globalized new-capitalist workplace. This study examined the role writing placement and proficiency ass...
Melody Anne Wise.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Williamson, Michael M. Committee members: Sharon Deckert; Gian Pagnucci.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2013.
English