- The preceptorship experience of associate degree nursing students
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Preceptorship in nursing education, pairing a student with an experienced nurse in a clinical setting, is a popular method of clinical instruction that may be used throughout the nursing curriculum or as a culminating experience in the last semester of the nursing program. Although many studies have been conducted regarding the preceptor, preceptee, and their relationship, there is limited literature describing the associate degree student's perception of this experience. The purpose of this ...
Pamela J Chapman.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Poorman, Susan G. Committee members: Michele Gerwick; Edith West.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2017.
English
- The predictive nature of the phelps kindergarten readiness scale perceptual score and reading achievement: a mixed-methods study
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The purpose of this mixed-methods study was to identify and describe what correlations, if any, exist between the composite Phelps Kindergarten Readiness Scale (PKRS) score, the visual-perceptual subtest of the PKRS, and reading achievement by the end of grade one. The quantitative data used in this study were the PKRS scores from 421 students entering kindergarten in the 2013 and 2014 school years and the end of first grade Title I Reading rosters for the same cohort of students. The qualita...
Sarah Bond.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Rieg, Sue A. Committee members: DeAnna Laverick; Susan Sibert.
D.Ed. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2017.
English
- Presidential debates through the posterity lens: a content analysis of policy frames in u.s. presidential debates from 1960-2012
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This dissertation content-analyzed a sample of presidential debate transcripts from 1960-2012, to examine and measure the extent to which policy discussions and candidates' stances during debates reflect the aspirations of posterity. A fundamental American socio-cultural frame asserts that people desire that succeeding generations live better lives than their forebears. Though researchers agree that present day decisions and policies will have perhaps greater consequences on posterity than ev...
Beatrice N Epwene.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Leidman, Mary Beth Committee members: Jay Start; Zachary Stiegler.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2017.
English
- Promoting existential connection: development and evaluation of a workshop to reduce existential isolation
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This research had three goals. First, it aimed to replicate previous research that has uncovered relationships between existential isolation and psychological and physical health. Second, it examined gender in the context of existential isolation. Finally, it aimed to create a workshop designed to reduce existential isolation, and to evaluate its effectiveness. The research was comprised of three phases. Phase 1 was an online survey. During this phase, participants completed self-report me...
Abby E Costello.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Long, Anson E. Committee members: Laura Knight; Maureen McHugh.
Psy.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2017.
English
- Reading empire: (counter)narratives of 9/11
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My dissertation aims to provide an analysis of how select American and Pakistani writers in their fiction, since the fateful day in September 2001, have taken to investigate and analyze the tragedy within the contemporary and historical backdrop of US's hegemonic and imperial role in world politics. Hence, the impulse is to contextualize the tragedy within the broader framework of history-a history that is largely ignored in the dominant discourses. The narratives, thus written, are resistant...
Rubina Sheikh.
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Advisors: Comfort, Susan Committee members: David Downing; Thomas Slater.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2017.
English
- Reconceptualizing study abroad: american and japanese students' subjective construction of identity through language learning abroad
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Study abroad is an under-researched domain of language learning. Moreover, most investigations of this phenomenon adopt traditional structuralist approaches, wherein outcomes of study abroad are assessed solely in terms of proficiency gains as measured through conventional exams. The present study builds upon an emerging body of poststructuralist research that foregrounds connections between language study abroad and the reconstruction of learners' identities (e.g., Block, 2007; Kinginger, 20...
Tomoko Oda Nuske.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Hanauer, David I. Committee members: Stuart Chandler; Sharon Deckert.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2017.
English
- Revitalizing the forgotten heart of a small city: an exploratory case study of competing perceptions, experiences, and interests in downtown development
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Decades of population loss have weakened the tax bases of American cities across the Northeast and Midwest. Unable to repair deteriorating infrastructure and provide basic services, local governments have attempted to revitalize their downtowns, which in many cities contain few residents. A robust housing market is key to revitalization efforts because the presence of residents creates demand for shops and restaurants. However, commercial developers have been reluctant to build downtown housi...
Samuel L Frye.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Hildebrandt, Melanie Committee members: Valerie Gunter; J. Mabry.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2017.
English
- Safety prequalification factors for the selection of contractors within the steel industry
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The purpose of this study was to: examine whether safety criteria commonly applied in general industry for contractor selection is actually valued by steel industry safety professionals; identify if criteria commonly used for the selection of construction contractors, but infrequently observed for general industry contractor safety prequalification, is valued by steel industry safety professionals; and to understand how steel industry safety professionals value the services of third party con...
David Ward Wilbanks.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Janicak, Christopher A. Committee members: Wanda Minnick; Helmut Paschold.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2017.
English
- School-based implementation of a prevention of depression program with urban at-risk adolescents
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As schools become more increasingly involved in the provision of mental health services, the need for evidence-based therapeutic programs is crucial. This study is an investigation into the school-based implementation of a depression prevention course targeting students at-risk for depression in an urban school setting. Utilizing a convenience sample of adolescents who were randomly assigned to intervention and treatment-as-usual groups, pretest, posttest and progress monitoring measures of d...
Hortense Samantha Mowatt.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: McLaughlin, Courtney L. Committee members: Lynanne Black; Joseph Kovaleski; John McCarthy.
D.Ed. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2017.
English
- "some cosmic secret": the speculative fiction of jack london
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Throughout his career, Jack London composed many significant and influential works of literature, but his contributions to the speculative fiction genre have rarely been addressed in any sort of comprehensive critical manner. London employed his strengths as a socialist and naturalist, as well as his attitudes on the cultural issues of his time, to craft speculative fiction that was often rich with allegorical, dystopian situations in which mankind is required to consider the repercussions, b...
Jason Seals.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Thompson, Todd N. Committee members: David Downing; Thomas Slater.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2017.
English
- The story of them: outcomes of practicing autoethnography in undergraduate writing courses
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This study is an examination of the outcomes of practicing autoethnography, specifically in the context of first-year undergraduate, writing-intensive courses. The researcher recounts his initial, inspiring encounter with autoethnography and explores the possibility of its pedagogical application in composition instruction. Autoethnography is a form of qualitative inquiry that combines personal reflection, aesthetic representation, and academic research and analysis to study the self in re...
Justin B Hopkins.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Hanauer, David I. Committee members: Gian Pagnucci; Curt Porter.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2017.
English
- Stress and recent electoral reforms: a quantitative study of poll workers
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This study sought to assess how poll workers are affected by recent electoral reforms at the polling place, including voter identification, early voting, and Election Day registration. A political behavior theory, bureaucratic theory, and stress and coping theory provided a theoretical framework for the study. Quantitative methodology was used to explore secondary data collected by the United States Election Assistance Commission and primary data collected using a questionnaire administered t...
Eric F Bush.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Heckert, Alex Committee members: John Anderson; J. Mabry.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2017.
English
- Structures of terror in caribbean women's writing
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Situated within the transnational feminist movement which has gathered in response to the historical process of enclosure and regulation associated with capitalism, Caribbean women writers are uniquely positioned to bear witness or create resistance to the exploitation of their bodies and the environment under this system of slow violence. This dissertation takes up a queer eco- materialist feminist framework to explore the critiques and the methods of resistance to this system offered by Car...
Lauren E Shoemaker.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Comfort, Susan M. Committee members: David Downing; Tanya Heflin; Alexis Lothian.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2017.
English
- Student-centered englishes pedagogy: a case study exploration of a new orientation for u.s. composition
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This study addresses the language diversity in twenty-first century U.S. college composition classrooms by arguing that composition theory and pedagogy should expand beyond the prescriptive conflation of "the English language" and "Standard American English". Within the overarching discourses about three major constructs-Humanizing Pedagogy (Bartolome, 1994), the World Englishes ethos (e.g. Bolton, Graddol, & Meierkord, 2011; Bolton & B. Kachru, 2006), and the harm reduction model (e.g. Denni...
Melissa Elliott Lee.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Park, Gloria Committee members: Curtis Porter; Bennett Rafoth.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2017.
English
- Student perceptions of online writing center designs for fully online programs
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In this multiple-case study, the author investigated fully online students' perceptions of and experiences with asynchronous and synchronous writing support options of an institutional writing center and a commercial tutoring service. This dissertation used a multiple-case study design (Merriam, 1998, 2009; Yin, 2009) to ascertain which features of these writing assistance options fully online students perceive as the most and least helpful for improving their writing skills and why. Data sou...
Shelah Y Simpson.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Rafoth, Ben Committee members: Emily Heady; Gian Pagnucci; Gloria Park.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2017.
English
- Students talking about assessment: insights on program learning outcomes
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This study examines the student writer perspective of a first-year composition program's student learning outcomes. Student descriptions of learning are a valuable, yet often overlooked data source. The student voice broadens a first-year composition program's outcomes-based, student learning assessment process as program assessment data is often derived from the faculty perspective through analysis of student writing artifacts. This research project used learning outcome interviews based in ...
William J Donohue.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Pagnucci, Gian S. Committee members: Dana Driscoll; Bennett Rafoth.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2017.
English
- A study of grit and self-efficacy in students in developmental placements
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This mixed methods study examines the impact of grit and self-efficacy and the factors of these constructs on the performance of students at-risk. Grit was explored as a person's passion and perseverance toward a long term goal. Past research on this construct determined it to be predictive of success in many different contexts, not limited to student performance (Duckworth, 2016). Self-efficacy was evaluated using Vuong, Brown-Welty, and Tracz's adaptation of the College Self-efficacy Instru...
Luke E Faust.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Paquette, Kelli Committee members: David Piper; Meghan Twiest.
D.Ed. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2017.
English
- Swipe left or right but what happens for the rest of the night? a qualitative approach to understanding the life cycle of tinder relationships
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Research on relationship escalation, maintenance, and de-escalation has yielded important information on how relationships form successfully, the challenges of maintaining them, and the emotional impact the process can have for the parties involved. Technology has arguably altered the way in which individuals experiences the stages of a relationship but few studies have examined this area of communication. This dissertation explored the life cycle of relationships on Tinder. Three main the...
Rhiannon Briana Kallis.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Ortiz Juarez-Paz, Anna V. Committee members: Steven Kleinman; Zachary Stiegler.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2017.
English
- Toward a decolonial queer ecology: reparative reading of gothic and speculative fiction
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The issues that Gothic and speculative fiction most often confront deal with the deepest and darkest of human fears and concerns. Much Gothic and speculative fiction gets people to confront their fears in the way that it can address the problems of the present through imagined worlds. Might rethinking the value of imagined worlds move us toward a more-inclusive justice? This dissertation explores the human, human fears, and human imagination in Gothic and speculative colonial-themed texts to ...
Gregory Luke Chwala.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Comfort, Susan M. Committee members: David Downing; Ardel Haefele-Thomas; Alexis Lothian; Veronica Watson.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2017.
English