This study examined relationships among executive function (EF), mindfulness, emotional control, impulsivity, and alcohol use in a college sample. Students (N=155) were administered objective performance measures in three theoretical domains of executive function. These included Switching (measured by the Wisconsin Card Sort Test and Iowa Gambling Task), Inhibition (measured by the Stroop Color-word Test, the Go/No-Go task and the Continuous Performance Task), and Updating (measured by the N-...
Matthew Iwaniec.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Meil, William Committee members: David LaPorte; John Mills.
Psy.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2017.
English

This study aimed at bringing administrators, teachers and students into the conversation of integrating TELL. By exploring their understanding and beliefs about using technology and by also making a connection to their actual practices, the study shed a light on the importance of considering all three groups into the planning and use of technology to enhance language learning. This study explored three different areas in relation to technology-enhanced English language learning within a Saudi...
Bader Ahmad Algubaisi.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Porter, Curtis Committee members: Gloria Park; Daniel Weinstein.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2017.
English

This study explored how rural, secondary public school teachers, viewed by their administrators as caring and responsive to students' cultures, perceived they used, valued, and developed efficacy in using contextual and cultural responsiveness to improve students' learning experiences. The rural minority-majority Florida site was of interest because the intersection of a majority of students from diverse linguistic, economic, racial, and ethnic backgrounds with students minoritized by ruralne...
Diane Z Onorato.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Helterbran, Valeri R. Committee members: Shirley Johnson; Mark Twiest.
D.Ed. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2017.
English

In this dissertation, the author investigates the efficacy of an embedded tutoring intervention designed to improve students' mindsets and writing performance. The dissertation uses Dweck's (2006) mindset theory as a theoretical framework to understand how students' beliefs concerning the malleability of their writing abilities affect them as writers. By using a replicable, aggregable, data-supported (RAD) research design, the author investigates the degree to which engineering students' mind...
Laura Kate Schubert.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Rafoth, Ben Committee members: Sharon Deckert; Dana Driscoll; Kurt Schick.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2017.
English

Young women's sexualities are influenced and limited by cultural discourses of acceptable sexual behavior. The aims of this study were to: 1) understand the discourses around female sexuality that currently operate in the lives of young adult women and color their constructions of "good" sex; 2) develop and implement a workshop for college-age women that provides an opportunity for participants to critique existing discourses around female sexuality and discuss wider possibilities for sexual ...
Camille Joi Interligi.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: McHugh, Maureen C. Committee members: Beverly Goodwin; Anson Long.
Psy.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2017.
English

The creation of an academic American Sign Language (ASL) dictionary to inform signers of ways to approach an academic style of written English is an important tool to help deaf students enter into the First-Year Composition (FYC) community within postsecondary education programs and institutions. While the Deaf community is in need of a dictionary specifically for its ASL users, the difficulty of compiling a dictionary in ASL is challenging because large corpora of written texts in ASL do ...
Gretchen Thom Cobb.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Crane Bizzaro, Resa Committee members: Glenn Anderson; Patrick Bizzaro; Sharon Deckert; Gian Pagnucci.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2017.
English

The purpose of this study was to explore and describe health education competency activities in both classroom and clinical settings within school nurse certification programs. Health education competency was explored within the context of and as defined by the American Nurses Association (ANA) and the National Association of School Nurses (NASN) Standards of School Nursing Practice and Professional Performance (SOSNP). A qualitative multiple case study design utilized interviews with facul...
Melinda S Barrett.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Chunta, Kristy S. Committee members: Dianna Rupert; Teresa Shellenbarger.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2017.
English

This research addresses moral decision making and the experience of public school principals. It also explores the possible influence mentoring has on principals' abilities to confront complex decisions when clear ethical choices do not exist. This study incorporates a survey methodology, exploring the relationship between principal mentoring programs and schemas of morality in principals' decision making. I used the Defining Issues Test-2 (Bebeau & Thoma, 2003; Rest & Narvaez, 1998) as the q...
Wendi J Kiley.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Anderson, John A. Committee members: Valerie Gunter; J. Mabry.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2017.
English

The purpose of this study was to develop and administer an intervention that provides education about common behavioral disorders, as well as evidence-based strategies to address related problems in the classroom in a convenient format. The aims of the current study were to increase teacher knowledge of ADHD and ODD and self-efficacy in classroom management, as well as modify attributions for child behavior to increase positive intervention selection. Due to difficulty with in-service teacher...
Melissa Webb.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Knight, Laura Committee members: Pearl Berman; Lisa Newell.
Psy.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2017.
English

This qualitative case study explores how five multilingual student writers (re)negotiate their multilingual literacies histories with emergent U.S. academic writing conventions as part of a first-year multilingual composition (FYMC) class. In pursuit of examining this (re)negotiation, first, I define multilingual literacies as nomadic (Ciolfi & de Carvalho, 2014) and rhizomatic (Amorim & Ryan, 2005; Deleuze & Guattari, 1987; Lian, 2011) by nature, and complicate this relation by considering t...
Maria Y Prikhodko.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Bhattacharya, Usree Committee members: Gloria Park; Curtis Porter.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2017.
English

Although intercultural communication has long been a vital issue, accelerating globalization and immigration over the past century have increased its importance. Therefore, it is imperative that education and training in intercultural communication are created and continually evaluated for effectiveness. One effective new strategy is the use of technology in this type of training. This study examines the effectiveness of using HERO I® to enhance intercultural communication skills. HERO I® ...
Ahmed K Yousof.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Lenze, James Committee members: Nurhaya Muchtar; B. Wilson.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2017.
English

The aging population with complex health needs is growing. Nursing programs are challenged to educate student nurses competent and willing to meet this specific population's needs. Research on ageism supports the presence of aging bias. Possible negative attitudes towards older persons by nursing students is a concern for nurse educators. Nursing education literature describes how nursing students' attitudes on aging may affect career choices and the quality of health care provided to olde...
Elaine B Little.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Gropelli, Theresa Committee members: Christoph Maier; Teresa Shellenbarger.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2017.
English

This project studies the patterns of two parallel narratives (traditional vs. marginalized student perspectives) in the literary genre of campus novels in three representative periods over the 20th Century to understand how shifts in higher education over that time period have affected American academics and culture and how students' experiences in higher education, as a rite of passage into society, have also shifted. Using campus novels of both the master narrative and of marginalized cult...
Jeffrey S Markovitz.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Downing, David Committee members: Thomas Slater; Lingyan Yang.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2017.
English

Incivility in the nursing literature is a term used to identify situations where distractions or discord invade the learning atmosphere. Nursing student incivility is an ongoing problem in nursing education and may cause disruption or conflict in the learning environment. Students deserve a learning environment free of distractions or harassment. Additionally, the instructor should be able to teach in a productive, positive learning environment. Many researchers have examined the impact of ...
Lee Ann Leech.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Paquette, Kelli R. Committee members: Theresa Gropelli; Laura Strong.
D.Ed. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2017.
English

Studies have suggested that the impact of formal and informal mentoring programs have had a positive impact on young African American males from K-12. However, at the college level, African American males, in the United States, struggle to stay in college. African American males have been underachieving educationally, since slavery was abolished and to this date over 67.6 percent of freshmen, African American males, fail to graduate from colleges and university throughout the country. Through...
Allen Lane Sr.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Helterbran, Valeri R. Committee members: Shirley Johnson; Kelli Paquette.
D.Ed. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2017.
English

Numerous anthologies and critical treatises on poetry over the last two decades have weighed in on the possible dissolution of what many critics see as the two major camps of American poetry (the mainstream and the experimental), questioning the camps' viability and porous natures. In 2009 W.W. Norton & Co. published the anthology American Hybrid edited by Cole Swensen and David St. John. It marked neither the first attempt to anthologize a murky blending of mainstream and experimental poetry...
Brian Russell Lutz.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Sherwood, Kenneth Committee members: Christopher Kuipers; Todd Thompson.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2017.
English

Each of the primary texts I examine-The Deputy by Rolf Hochhuth (1964), The Sunflower by Simon Wiesenthal (1969), The Portage to San Cristobal of A.H. by George Steiner (1979), Sophie's Choice by William Styron (1979), Europe Central by William T. Vollmann (2005), The Kindly Ones by Jonathan Littell (2006), and Either/Or by Thomas Keneally (2007)-offers narrative depictions of Holocaust perpetrators that resist monolithic or absolutist presentations of evil. By deliberately frustrating our e...
Adam M Wassel.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Berlin, Gail Committee members: Tom Slater; Michael Williamson.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2017.
English

This dissertation explores the identity enactments (Bucholtz & Hall, 2005) of 14 multilingual university writing center tutors and multilingual student writers who use English and Putonghua to negotiate their interactions. The study is situated within sociocultural theory (Vygotsky, 1978) and uses ethnographic methods such as observation, interviews, and conversation analysis to more fully describe the participants' writing center tutorial interactions. The research site is in Macao, a Specia...
Alice Shu-Ju Lee.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Deckert, Sharon K. Committee members: Gloria Park; Ben Rafoth.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2017.
English

Many medieval authors worked with the ideas of identity, at times giving way to the creation of nationalism. Depictions of national identity and nationalism varied depending upon author and time period, especially within literature from the Lowland region. This literary borderland identity was ever-evolving as the political environment over the course of the 14th and 15th centuries fluctuated and varied depending upon who was in power, the author's political ties, and the geographic and cultu...
Ruth M. E Oldman.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Berlin, Gail I. Committee members: Christopher Orchard; Michael Williamson.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2017.
English

This study examines how mother-daughter relationships in white culture differ from mother-daughter relationships in minority cultures, specifically Chicano, Asian American, and African American culture, due to white culture's lack of appropriate esteem for the role of mothering. Mother-daughter relationships in minority cultures tend to be much stronger due to a cultural reverence of motherhood, resulting in less mother-blame and mother-guilt. Fictional and non-fictional representations of ...
Charity L Gibson.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Watson, Veronica Committee members: Tanya Heflin; Mike Sell.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2017.
English

This qualitative case study explored the perceived experiences and outcomes of writing in a hybrid model of instruction in a large suburban high school. In particular, the impact of a hybrid model on the writing process and on future writing performance were examined. In addition, teacher expectation and teacher attitude and their impact upon students were areas that emerged as significant during the study. The study incorporated both student and teacher data to give a full picture of the stu...
Jason F Keiner.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Kerry-Moran, Kelli Jo Committee members: Jo-Anne Kerr; Mark Twiest.
D.Ed. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2017.
English

According to the National School Board Association (2017b), school boards have a responsibility to foster high student achievement in their districts. The percentage of Pennsylvania public schools meeting student performance targets has steadily declined since the 2010-2011 school year. While many factors contribute to student achievement, the Pennsylvania School Board Association (2017b) reports that a school board that governs effectively has a positive effect on student achievement. Using ...
Aiko M Maurer.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Piper, David Committee members: Crystal Machado; Joseph Marcoline.
D.Ed. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2017.
English

A number of states and organizations have begun to add cross-content technology elements to their educational standards, providing teachers opportunities to use social media communication (SMC) technology in teaching and learning. Specifically, in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the PA Core Standards, which are adapted from the national Common Core Standards, require students to use technology. The standards explicitly include the use of the Internet, to publish and edit students' writing i...
Brett C Tozer.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Sibert, Susan M. Committee members: Laura Strong; Daniel Wissinger.
D.Ed. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2017.
English

The purpose of this qualitative case study was to explore the perceptions of what contributes to NCLEX-PN success rates within a high performing Practical Nursing program in Pennsylvania. To satisfy this purpose, the Pine County Community College Practical Nursing program was selected for the case study based upon a NCLEX-PN success rate of 100% for the past 10 out of 11 years. Although the literature is saturated with specific academic elements such as admission policies, standardized testin...
Lisa M Shustack.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Paquette, Kelli Committee members: Theresa Gropelli; Meghan Twiest.
D.Ed. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2017.
English