- "up the long, long street": the poetry, other writings, and life of donald junkins
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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
- "upon life and all its random injustice": the post-traumatic masculinity of superheroes, villains, and vigilantes in graphic novels, television, and cinema
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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
- The use of distance education for continued professional education by physical therapists in the state of pennsylvania
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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 use of instructional videos in k-12 classrooms: a mixed-method study
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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
- Use of social networking technologies: effects on college students' academic writing
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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
- Utility of the level of service inventory-revised (lsi-r) in predicting recidivism: do gender and offense type matter?
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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
- The utilization of technology-mediated evaluation tools to analyze learning efficiency through cognitive load and performance
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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
- Voices of change: a case study documenting the development of an organization and its culture
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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
- Weird mysticism: philosophical horror and the logic of negation in thomas ligotti, georges bataille, and e. m. cioran
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This dissertation will identify and evaluate a new category of transatlantic, twentieth-century literature by showing the influence of speculative writing on three intersecting critical categories: modern literature, apophatic mysticism, and philosophical pessimism. Historically, the idea of negativity has been approached by focusing on its relegation to one or another discipline. However, I will describe an innovative mode of negative writing that engages in an interdisciplinary type of inte...
Brad Baumgartner.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Sell, Mike Committee members: David Downing; Nicola Masciandaro; Eugene Thacker; Todd Thompson.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2015.
English
- When english is performed rather than spoken: the narrative inquiry of saudi m.a. students' experiences with pragmatic competence
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In this qualitative research study, the author investigated the pragmatic experiences of five Saudi graduate students as they were pursuing their Master's degrees in English in one American university. The author used narrative inquiry (Clandinin & Connelly, 2000) to co-construct the five participants' narratives in terms of sociality (type of interaction), temporality (time of interaction), and locality (place of interaction) dimensions. The study recalled the students' past experiences in S...
Fahad A Ben Duhaish.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Park, Gloria Committee members: Michael Williamson; Marjorie Zambrano-Paff.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2014.
English
- White double consciousness in lillian smith's "strange fruit," harper lee's "to kill a mockingbird," and geraldine brooks's "march"
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The concept of double consciousness may prompt people to think of how W.E.B. Du Bois used it in his discussion of the African American's divided psyche as a response to American racism. However, However, Toni Morrison (1992) acknowledged the value of the scholarship on the effects of racism on the servant's mind, but she urged scholars to also engage in an exercise of that would help theorize what racism does to the mind of the master. This dissertation is a part of the current conversatio...
Jean-Paul Konda Ntusi.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Watson, Veronica Committee members: Mike Sell; Todd Thompson.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2015.
English
- Women motorcycle passengers: the view from the backseat
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The present research explores the phenomena of women who ride as motorcycle passengers. The perspectives and experiences of women motorcycle passengers are documented through a two-staged qualitative research design supported by quantitative frequencies. The purpose of this research is to describe experiences and perspectives of women motorcycle passengers for use in developing hypotheses. A total of thirty-one participants and 107 survey respondents took part during the seven-month data coll...
Ginger L Bucher.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Hirt, Mary Jane Kuffner Committee members: David Chambers; Wanda Minnick.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2015.
English
- Working memory: the concurrent validity of the behavior rating inventory of executive function and the relationship between parent and teacher ratings and performance-based measures
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The primary purposes of this study were to investigate the concurrent validity of the Behavior Rating Inventory of Executive Function (BRIEF) with respect to the Woodcock-Johnson III Tests of Cognitive Abilities (WJ-III Cog),examine both teacher and parent ratings of working memory of at-risk students, and investigate parent and teacher differences in the ratings of male and female students. More specifically, this study examined whether the BRIEF rating scale can capture and accurately asses...
Ray M Milke.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Staszkiewicz, Mark Committee members: Lynanne Black; John Garruto; Joseph Kovaleski.
D.Ed. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2014.
English
- Writing for certainty: womens reformist exegesis in early modern england
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Although ontology has permeated discussions of early modern literature in recent decades, the related philosophical branch epistemology has received little critical attention in literary scholarship. However, epistemic foundations such as knowledge acquisition, confirmation, and conference, continuously influence the generation of ideas and textual production. This thesis locates the relationship between biblical exegesis and epistemology as crucial to the analysis of early modern English tex...
Angela Aliff.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Orchard, Christopher Committee members: David Downing; Michael Williamson; Adrian Wisnicki.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2016.
English
- Writing in fashion: an exploratory case study examining fashion faculty use of writing and the transmission of industry specific genres
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This dissertation explored the ways faculty report that they use writing in their fashion education courses at a publically funded post-secondary institution. This project also examined faculty beliefs about how writing will equip fashion students for their careers in the professional world. In order to accomplish these research goals, the researcher used a qualitative, single case study methodological approach. Multiple forms of data were collected and analyzed including focus group intervie...
Elizabeth Sara Whitehead.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Williamson, Michael M. Committee members: Sharon Deckert; Brian Fallon.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2015.
English
- Writing stories across languages: the exploration of students' books construction in an eap writing classroom
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This study explores the experiences of multilingual writers in an Intensive English Institute (IEI), English for Academic Purposes Program (EAP), composing short personal-narrative-based books. The short books consist of three components: a narrative chapter, a research chapter, and a foreword composed by a peer. The short book writing pedagogy, borrowed from the work of Dr. Claude Hurlbert and adapted to the EAP context, allows multilingual writers to compose work that is centered around the...
Maria Houston.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Hurlbert, Claude Mark Committee members: Sharon Deckert; Gloria Park.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2014.
English