- An examination of the relationship between supervision and self-efficacy in early career school psychologists, school psychology interns, and practicum students
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The purpose of this study is to explore the relationship between self-efficacy and supervision in early career school psychologists and school psychology graduate students who are currently completing either their practicum or internship experiences. The sample consisted of practicing early career school psychologists (ECPs) and school psychology graduate students (50 ECPs, 34 graduate students). Participants completed a demographic survey and the Huber Inventory of Self-Efficacy for School P...
Felicia M Kaas.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: McGowan, Mark R. Committee members: Lynanne Black; Joseph Kovaleski; Courtney McLaughlin.
D.Ed. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2017.
English
- Examining the role of orthographic coding ability in elementary students with previously identified reading disability, speech or language impairment, or comorbid language and learning disabilities
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The purpose of this study was to examine the role orthographic coding might play in distinguishing between membership in groups of language-based disability types. The sample consisted of 36 second and third-grade subjects who were administered the PAL-II Receptive Coding and Word Choice Accuracy subtest as a measure of orthographic coding ability. Disability groups included No Disability, Reading SLD, and Speech or Language Impairment. Results showed that orthographic coding ability was corr...
Erin Kathleen Haugh.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: McGowan, Mark Committee members: Lynanne Black; Timothy Runge; Mark Staszkiewicz.
D.Ed. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2017.
English
- Examining the significance of scaffolding on student teachers' written reflections: a qualitative case study
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The purpose of this study was to examine the impact that questioning and prompting, based on a researcher-developed framework, had on the content and depth of student teachers' written reflection journals. Analysis of student teachers' written reflection journals and interviews with student teachers and cooperating teachers were used to describe the perceptions the participants had surrounding reflection as a professional practice. Smyth's (1989) levels of reflection were used to develop the ...
Jana Ashley DelMarcelle.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Rieg, Sue A. Committee members: Julie Ankrum; Susan Sibert.
D.Ed. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2017.
English
- An exploration into the potential career effects from middle and high school mathematics experiences: a mixed methods investigation into stem career choice
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This mixed methods research study examined the effects of middle and high school mathematics experiences on students' choice of college major, particularly whether students decided to major in a STEM field. Social cognitive career theory was used to examine potential influences of mathematics self-efficacy and how those influences and mathematics self-efficacy levels affected students' career choices. The purpose of this study was to uncover middle and high school experiences that could be ...
Elizabeth M DeThomas.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Paquette, Kelli R. Committee members: Kelly Heider; Sue Rieg.
Ed.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2017.
English
- An exploration of the relationships among trait mindfulness, executive function, and alcohol use
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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
- Exploring and understanding of administrators', teachers', and students' expectations and actual use of technology-enhanced language learning in a saudi tertiary context
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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
- Exploring secondary teachers' use of culturally responsive teaching in a diverse rural school district
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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
- Exploring the connections between students' mindsets and their writing: an intervention study with a course-embedded writing tutor
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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
- The "finding what feels good" workshop: re-imagining the discourse of young adult female sexuality
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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
- Habitus of deafhood: compiling a corpus-based academic asl dictionary using the sociolinguistic practices of deaf individuals
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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
- Identification of health education competency in school nurse certification programs: multiple case study
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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
- The impact of principal mentoring programs on the moral judgment of school principals
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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 impact of teacher education in adhd and odd on perceived efficacy, proposed interventions, and behavior attributions
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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
- International multilingual student writers' (re)negotiation of their languages and literacies practices in a first-year multilingual composition class
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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
- An investigation into the use of hero i®, a videogame for interpersonal communications in enhancing intercultural competency
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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
- An investigation of the most influential factors predicting nursing students' knowledge and attitude toward older persons
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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
- Loneliness in the gold: the american campus novel and the corporatization of the university
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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
- Male nurse educators' lived experiences with nursing student incivility
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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
- Mentoring at the college level: a qualitative study examining the perceptions of african american men who hold a four-year degree and are professionally employed
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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
- Millennial poetics: an analysis of hybridity in 21st century american poetry
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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