Interpersonal violence is considered to be a major public health concern; education efforts are necessary to involve citizens in reducing violence. This study examined the effectiveness of a violence prevention education program administered at the collegiate level. The program consisted of traditional classroom learning combined with an online learning component using Facebook. The goals of this curriculum were to teach students the warning signs of violence, including those related to gener...
Rachel Posner LeMay.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Berman, Pearl Committee members: Anson Long; Maureen McHugh.
Psy.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2015.
English

It was the intended purpose for this research to explore, using the National Survey of Student Engagement, (NSSE), whether or not 1:1 initiatives have an effect on engagement of university first year students. The findings support previous research demonstrating increased student engagement in a technology-rich environment. Another noteworthy finding proved to be the significant difference of male respondents reporting increased engagement, in comparison with female respondents within the sam...
James R Bosco.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Kerry-Moran, Kelli Jo Committee members: George Bieger; Crystal Machado.
D.Ed. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2015.
English

The present study examined whether mindfulness or empathy is a better predictor of homophobia. Mindfulness training has been shown to impart a wide range of physical, emotional, and mental health benefits to practitioners, not the least of which is an increase in empathy. Research has also shown that developing empathy is one of the most effective ways to reduce prejudice. This study hypothesized that mindfulness should be at least as effective as empathy in predicting scores on a homophobia ...
Thomas R Wahlund.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Long, Anson E. Committee members: Beverly Goodwin; John Mills.
Psy.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2014.
English

This study examined the relationship between members of Generation Y and their usage of the internet for the purposes of being informed about crime; as well as how this would influence their perceptions of possible likelihood of victimization utilizing a pair of scales developed by Crowl (2013). The framework for this examination is that of Gerbner and Gross's (1978) cultivation theory, in which the more time a person spends absorbed in a type of media, the more they will come to rely upon it...
Philip Wagner.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Frenzel, Erika Committee members: Jennifer Gossett; Kathleen Hanrahan; John Lewis.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2015.
English

This study looks at how three feminist non-profits use writing as a vehicle to support women and strengthen their voices. It re-examines the metaphor of "voice" in writing instruction through a lens for feminist advocacy and offers suggestions for writing instruction that are grounded in feminist theory and advocacy. The project points to ways for instructors to give greater consideration to their female students' experiences and material lives amidst writing instruction. The narrative in...
Karen Sorensen-Lang.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Hurlbert, Claude Committee members: Gian Pagnucci; Nancy Welch.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2014.
English

As the use of technology and innovation continues to boom, educators have been slow to accept and use new technologies in their classrooms. National and state technology initiatives support the use of technology in teaching practice. Teachers, however, are not using technology as much as expected. Teacher surveys' indicate that educators and their students are not using available technologies as much as initially expected (Clausen, Vilberg, Murry, Meidl, & Sochman, 2011;"Teachers' use of educ...
Adam C Coffman.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Lare, Douglas; Helterbran, Valeri Committee members: Richard Otto.
D.Ed. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2014.
English

While a considerable amount of research exists on teacher efficacy, few researchers have explored teacher efficacy at the secondary level in an inclusive classroom. Since teachers face many challenges in the classroom, several variables may exist as to what impacts a general education teacher's efficacy, particularly when working with students with specific learning disabilities (SLD). Using a quantitative methodology involving a cross-sectional design, this exploratory study examined what ...
Laura C Moran.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Anderson, John A. Committee members: John Dellegrotto; Valerie Gunter; J. Mabry.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2015.
English

In this study, the researcher qualitatively investigates the perceptions of six Saudi EFL teachers on the importance of intercultural communicative competence (ICC) in the Saudi EFL educational context. The study's participants were male Ph.D. students in an English Department at a university based on the United States. The focus was to explore the factors that may have contributed to the absence of classroom instruction and materials that aim to develop students' ICC in Saudi EFL education e...
Basim Mohammed Al Hasnan.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Savova, Lilia P. Committee members: Patrick Bizzaro; Michael Williamson.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2015.
English

This study examines the impact of technology on at-risk digital natives who have transitioned from high school to college, at a regional campus of a Midwestern Pennsylvania University. While the term digital native has become widely used by technology commentators, the author has introduced a new term, "at-risk digital natives," to the world of academia and information communication technology. An "at-risk digital native" is defined as a subset of the digital native generation who is at-ris...
Malaika M Turner.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Leidman, Mary Beth Committee members: Melvin Jenkins; Jay Start.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2015.
English

Social class is often defined as one's income, occupation status, and education level. This definition fails to examine the culture that is created within each social class background. Class plays an important role in communication style, worldviews, hobbies, rules for interaction, one's access to valued resources, such as education and medical care, and more. Diversity trainings and the research literature have been criticized for ignoring the diversity of social class, and how these differe...
Andrea Denise Poet.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: McHugh, Maureen Committee members: Anson Long; David Myers.
Psy.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2016.
English

This mixed-method study investigates the level of financial literacy in junior and senior-level college students and the effect on subsequent student debt. Two-hundred-fifty-four junior and senior level students at Indiana University of Pennsylvania were surveyed using the Jump$tart Coalition® for Personal Financial Literacy college survey and seven students participated in a focus group session. Analysis of this research determined that level of financial literacy is not an effective pr...
Patricia Curran McCarthy.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Piper, David M. Committee members: Cathy Kaufman; Kelli Paquette.
D.Ed. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2015.
English

Supervision through evaluation is effective if it has a positive impact on teacher performance and student achievement (Danielson, 2001; Marzano, Frontier, & Livingston, 2011; Tucker & Stronge, 2005; Wright, Horn, & Sanders, 1997). The purpose of this study was to examine teacher and administrator perceptions of how the addition of student achievement data as a component in teacher evaluation in the Pennsylvania Educator Effectiveness System motivated self-reflection and change in teacher pra...
John W Zesiger.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Helterbran, Valeri Committee members: Joseph Marcoline; Meghan Twiest.
D.Ed. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2015.
English

Despite the ratification of Nineteenth Amendment, women were still regulated by traditional sexual roles and granted few opportunities. Patriarchal ideology had not changed, and society had made little advancement toward gender and social equality. Females remained confined within institutions of marriage and motherhood while the media reported that women, at last, had everything they wanted, including self-fulfillment and personal freedom. This dissertation examines the fiction of Do...
Claire Louise Englehart.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Slater, Thomas Committee members: Lynne Alvine; Chauna Craig; David Downing.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2015.
English

School psychologists routinely spend their time evaluating students with disabilities, but there is also a need to remember the unique needs of gifted students. Among these is an objective, culturally-fair measure of rates of acquisition and retention, which is one of the criteria which should be investigated when determining whether or not students meet criteria as gifted. These constructs have not been consistently defined, nor have specific means of assessing them been fully validated. ...
Michael T Paff.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Kovaleski, Joseph F. Committee members: Joel Erion; Timothy Runge; Mark Staszkiewicz.
D.Ed. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2014.
English

The present study examined how Korean professors understand the Korean culture of assessment. Grounded on the evaluation of the testing culture, the study also analyzed the underlying ideologies in the Korean testing culture from historical perspectives and investigated the possibility of implementing a writing performance assessment tool as an option for changing the backdrop of the Korean testing culture. The analysis of the findings revealed three underlying ideologies in the Korean cu...
Youn-Kyoung Lee.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Hanauer, David I. Committee members: Sharon Deckert; Gloria Park.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2014.
English

During the Harlem Renaissance, art, music, and literature flourished. One woman responsible for the success of many black writers during the period of 1920-1933 was the exceptionally talented Jessie Redmon Fauset. Not only was she an important writer, but an astute scholar as well. This dissertation explores the role of marriage versus female autonomy in Jessie Redmon Fauset's four novels. During the early twentieth century, it was unheard of for black women to aspire to a life where sove...
Michelle Eileen Banks.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Yang, Lingyan Committee members: Melvin Donalson; David Downing; Tanya Heflin.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2015.
English

This life-and-works dissertation traces the poetry and other writings of Donald Junkins from his boyhood growing up in Saugus, Massachusetts to his Emeritus years in Deerfield. Because Junkins's poetry has remained close to the events of his life and he has expressly stated that he wrote poems so that he could understand his life, a biographical approach was a natural fit for exploring his poetry. I situate my approach to Junkins's life and work in the contexts of biography, Formalism, New ...
Bradley Roy McDuffie.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Yang, Lingyan Committee members: James Cahalan; David Downing; Kenneth Sherwood.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2015.
English

In this dissertation, I will trace masculine representation from the moment of national trauma inflicted by 9/11 up through the present, wherein post-traumatic and posthuman masculinity has been used as coping mechanisms for unrealistic expectations of gender. In particular, I aim to discuss film, television, and graphic novels as overlapping visual media, rather than as independent genres, because filmmakers and graphic novelists alike are concerned with story telling through cinematic techn...
Shana Marie Kraynak.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Slater, Thomas Committee members: Christopher Kuipers; Kenneth Sherwood.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2015.
English

Physical therapists are licensed in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands. The State Board of Physical Therapy within each state regulates licensure and the majority of the states mandate continuing professional education (CPE) as a requirement for renewal. In Pennsylvania, the practice act was amended on July 4, 2008 requiring physical therapists to complete 30 hours of CPE during each biennial renewal period. This new act became effective December 22, ...
Christine Romani-Ruby.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Bieger, George R. Committee members: Cathy Kaufman; Robert Millward.
D.Ed. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2014.
English

The purpose of this study was to explore the use of instructional videos in K - 12 classrooms. This study sought to determine how often the use of instructional videos occurred in K - 12 classrooms, how the instructional videos were used, teachers' perceptions of the advantages and disadvantages of using instructional videos, and the frequency with which the cognitive theory of multimedia learning recommendations were included in the design of the videos that were being used. A mixed-m...
Carleen Allison.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Rotigel, Jennifer V. Committee members: George Bieger; Mary Jalongo.
D.Ed. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2015.
English

This study investigated college students' Facebook use pattern, examined the relationship between their Facebook use and academic writing performance, and explored their perceptions about Facebook use and academic writing. Both quantitative and qualitative instruments were used for data collection. Among the 236 participants, 220 (93.2%) of them were Facebook users, of whom 215 responses were kept for the final analysis. It was found that first-year college students were frequent Facebook us...
Huachuan Wen.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Bieger, George R. Committee members: Anne Creany; DeAnna Laverick; Susan Sibert.
D.Ed. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2015.
English

The creators of the LSI-R contend that this risk assessment is a `gender neutral' tool while feminist scholars remain skeptical as to the LSI-R's empirical ability to predict female recidivism as the tool was developed on male-centered theories. Research findings on the gender effect on the predictive validity of LSI-R are mixed. Very little research is available as to the effect of offense type on the tool's predictive utility. Using the disaggregated data by gender and offense types, ...
Ashley Leigh Dickinson.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Kim, Bitna Committee members: Timothy Austin; Jennifer Gossett; Alida Merlo.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2014.
English

Through prior research the need for tools to evaluate teaching and learning efficiencies have had little progress in defining, measuring or recording the processes when utilizing technology-mediated devices (Hoffman and Schraw, 2010). Through applications of mental effort and performance, researchers such as Paas (1992 & 1993), and Chen, Chang and Yen (2012) have contributed to the measurement processes of learning efficiency. This study was designed to test the theory that technology-me...
Laura E Wilson.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Lenze, James Committee members: Nurhaya Muchtar; Anna Ortiz.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2015.
English

Many great contributions have been made to the scholarly literature related to the field of organizational change. Though these contributions provide significant breadth and depth of knowledge, absent is the proverbial road map created by organizations that have successfully developed, led, and assessed the progress of significant organizational change. To create this map, this study examined a change initiative that resulted in the development of both an organization and its culture. That jo...
Patrick M Mulvihill.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Kaufman, Cathy C. Committee members: Robert Millward; Jennifer Rotigel.
D.Ed. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2015.
English