In this dissertation, I examine adaptations of plays by Henrik Ibsen and Anton Chekhov by the celebrated contemporary Irish playwrights Brian Friel (1929 - 2015) and Frank McGuinness (b. 1953). Critics have analyzed some of the individual adaptations, but I connect the adaptations done by Friel and McGuinness, discovering deeper relationships between these Irish playwrights and Ibsen and Chekhov. Moreover, I interrogate how these adaptations function as a way of redefining Ireland; they repre...
Nancy Elizabeth Raftery.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Kuipers, Christopher Committee members: Roslyn Blyn-LaDrew; James Cahalan; David Downing; Todd Thompson.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2016.
English

Providing equitable education for all students is the responsibility of administrators, teachers, and parents. Even though the MTSS/RtII Framework has evolved from the RtI and RtII models, the basis is the same: intervening and identifying students' needs and analyzing data and programming instruction to meet all students' needs. Even though in the early stages of RtI gifted students were not included, recent literature has proven that it is a must for gifted success. When incorporating the ...
Tricia M Murin.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Marcoline, Joseph F. Committee members: Joseph Kovaleski; Sue Rieg.
D.Ed. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2016.
English

This project draws on hemispheric American studies, new historicism, and feminist scholarship to explore connections between the antebellum temperance movement and U.S. imperialism. Employing Amy Kaplan's concept of "manifest domesticity", I argue that white female authors used meanings ascribed to male frontier drunkards to argue for their own importance to the imperial enterprise. In Western texts by white women, the white female character becomes a necessary controlling and civilizing forc...
Sarah Elise Franzen Young.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Thompson, Todd N. Committee members: Tanya Heflin; Veronica Watson.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2016.
English

State-wide assessment practices began in accordance with the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB, 2001) as an attempt to quantify student achievement. The Pennsylvania System of School Assessment (PSSA) is a standards-based, criterion-referenced assessment utilized to monitor student achievement of academic standards as well as the efficiency of school programs in supporting student attainment of such standards (Pennsylvania Department of Education, 2014). Although the 500 Pennsylvania public scho...
Heather D Carr.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Barker, William F. Committee members: Lynanne Black; Joseph Kovaleski; Mark McGowan.
D.Ed. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2016.
English

International service-learning scholars state the need for more research on sustainable service programs (Cushman, 2002), service programs that are reciprocal (Welch, 2002), and instructor and community member perspectives (D'Arlach, Sanchez, & Feuer, 2009). As a result, I developed this study because I wanted to understand how sustainable international service-learning could be fostered through a redefinition of reciprocity, as well as a focus on locality. Because there has been less focus o...
Ravyn L McKee.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Park, Gloria Committee members: Gian Pagnucci; Curtis Porter.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2016.
English

The purpose of this study was to assess the effects of organizational environmental stressors on burnout, commitment, job satisfaction, and self-perceived health among federal probation officers, while controlling for the mediating effects of coping factors and support. In addition, I explored the effects of leadership training and leadership behaviors of top level administrators on the same outcomes. Of the criminal justice professions, probation, especially federal probation, has received t...
Erika L Farester.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Heckert, Alex Committee members: John Anderson; Michael Siegel; Christian Vaccaro.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2016.
English

The caregivers of children of incarcerated parents have been given a responsibility to ensure proper care of a child's physical, emotional, and mental needs. Poehlmann, Dallaire, Loper and Shear (2010) have indicated that children of incarcerated parents have risk factors that affect social and academic outcomes. These risks include substance abuse and future incarceration, as well as attendance difficulties and failure in school. The partnership between the family and the school setting may ...
Nikole Y Hollins.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: McGowan, Mark Committee members: Lynanne Black; Shannon Phaneuf; Mark Staszkiewicz.
D.Ed. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2016.
English

This dissertation applies my coined concept, "the ocularity of the self," which refers to how individuals constantly reconfigure their "lens" to the extent that the restructuring of their image results in acceptance of societal ocular dominance. Hence, the privileging of society's metaphorical eye over the individual's metaphorical eye, skews the acuity and validity of his or her self-image. I examine how the fiction and non-fiction prose narratives of Caribbean women authors Michelle Cliff, ...
Margaret Cox.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Yang, Lingyan Committee members: Susan Comfort; Mike Sell.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2016.
English

It was the intent of this qualitative multiple-case study to pinpoint the reasons for school success in the contemporary age of school accountability measured through the advancement of student achievement test scores. After reviewing the literature related to systemic change, successful organizations, and effective leadership a conceptual framework that was developed by Senge (2012) emerged. This framework defines the following five elements necessary for successful systemic change: (1) shar...
Michael A Minnick.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Millward, Robert E. Committee members: Joseph Marcoline; David Piper.
D.Ed. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2016.
English

The perceptions of six community college faculty members about the qualities of college-level writing were explored in a series of guided interviews conducted at Prairie Community College (a pseudonym) located in the central time zone of the United States. The study examined the perceptions of the six faculty members with regard to important characteristics of college-level writing, acceptable multiple discourses within college-level writing, and perceptions of faculty members from different ...
Nathan B Jones.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Rafoth, Ben Committee members: Sharon Deckert; Lilia Savova.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2016.
English

This qualitative case within a case study examined the support provided to a family of a toddler with an Autism Spectrum Disorder in the Early Intervention (Part C) Program. One contemporary team of providers consisting of a special instructor, speech and language pathologist, occupational therapist, and service coordinator, along with three family members participated in this research. The purpose of this study was to examine how providers supported the family of a toddler diagnosed with an ...
Melissa M Casses.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Paquette, Kelli R. Committee members: DeAnna Laverick; Joann Migyanka.
D.Ed. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2016.
English

Little is known about the inner workings of virtual schools, and despite this, increasing numbers of parents and students are choosing cyber school as their platform for their education. Growth in the number of cyber charter schools, and their enrollment, continue to climb higher despite limited evidence of their educational effectiveness. Indications are that cyber charter enrollment demographics, while being somewhat elusive, show that many cyber charter schools are enrolling a larger per...
William L Vitulli.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Lare, Douglas; Twiest, Meghan Committee members: Richard Otto.
Ed.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2016.
English

From medical problems, to psychopathology, to school shootings, the cost of the pain resulting from interpersonal ostracism and rejection is high. The suffering caused by being rejected and undervalued by others (i.e., social pain) has been shown to share a similar neural pathway as physical pain. DeWall et al. (2010) revealed that taking the over-the-counter painkiller (acetaminophen) deactivates these neural pathways following rejection as it does with physical pain. However, this effect ...
Peter Kozel.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Meil, William Committee members: William Farrell; John Mills.
Psy.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2016.
English

This study responds to a call for interventions aimed at combatting the sexualization of girls and women in society, an increasing problem with numerous, negative consequences for women, men, and society in general (Zurbriggen et al., 2007). The current study involved the development, delivery, and evaluation of an intervention meant to educate women about sexual objectification and its consequences and decrease women's reported enjoyment of sexualization. The intervention was grounded in fem...
Samantha R Sciarrillo.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: McHugh, Maureen C. Committee members: Jessica Miller; Laurie Roehrich.
Psy.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2016.
English

The purpose of this a two-phase explanatory sequential mixed-methods research designed study was to determine if a significant difference exists between four modalities of teaching reading: teacher-developed, Step by Step Learning, Inc. (scripted), other commercialized reading programs (non-scripted), or a combination of scripted/non-scripted programs on the reading ability of third-grade students as measured by the Pennsylvania System of School Assessment (PSSA). All 500 superintendents in t...
Jesse T Wallace III.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Piper, David M. Committee members: DeAnna Laverick; Kelli Paquette.
D.Ed. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2016.
English

Researchers have examined and researched most aspects of the educational experience. However, one component has been neglected, the syllabus, specifically the design of the syllabus. Syllabi are a common element found across institutions of higher education. The syllabus is utilized to provide students with key information regarding course expectations, however students are not necessarily reading or retaining this important information. Today's students communicate using multimodal means e.g...
Evelyn Anne Mocek.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Start, Jay Committee members: Anna Ortiz Juarez Paz; Mark Piwinsky.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2016.
English

Though various Big Five personality traits have been shown to be predictive of Emergent Leadership emergence within in person groups, the link between these had remained largely unstudied in online situations. Additionally researchers have found that situational factors can influence the expression of personality factors to a large extent. This study investigated the effects of the Big Five personality traits and Adverse Childhood Experiences on Leadership Emergence in an online violence prev...
Adam Clarke.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Berman, Pearl Committee members: Maureen McHugh; William Meil.
Psy.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2016.
English

The purpose of this correlational study was to determine whether a relationship existed between the physical and social elements of process quality within a preschool's language and early literacy environment and children's pre-reading and writing performance in the beginning of kindergarten in a rural school district. The study examined school readiness, quality preschool experiences, and early literacy development with theoretical concepts by Vygotsky providing the foundation for children's...
Cynthia Lynn Miller.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Pinciotti, Patricia; Bieger, George R. Committee members: Susan Harlan.
D.Ed. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2016.
English

Formalized police-probation/parole partnerships reached prominence in the mid-to-late 1990s elevated by the perceived successes of Boston's Operation Night Light, a component of the larger gun violence initiative known as CeaseFire (Braga, Kennedy, Waring, & Piehl, 2001; Corbett, 1998). Despite limited empirical evidence to confirm their impact on crime trends, Night Light programs were replicated elsewhere throughout the U.S. (International Association of Chiefs of Police [IACP], 2007a, 2007...
Adam K Matz.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Kim, Bitna Committee members: Timothy Austin; Alida Merlo; Jennifer Roberts.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2016.
English

This study examines the effort of Pennsylvania State University's image repair strategy during the Jerry Sandusky scandal. Utilization of a content analysis allowed for exploration into three sources of message content: traditional press releases, Facebook posts, and Twitter posts. Examination of the data suggests that Penn State University utilized similar image repair strategies on Facebook and Twitter (reduction and correction) while press releases used a more diverse selection of strategi...
Carrie L Scanlon.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Leidman, Mary Beth Committee members: Anna Ortiz Juarez-Paz; Zachary Stiegler.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2016.
English

The purpose of this quantitative study was to examine the relationship between high-school size, socioeconomic status (SES), and educational opportunities. The study examines whether our public education system is providing students an education of equal opportunity along with equal access to these opportunities. Data from public high schools (N=473) in Pennsylvania were collected. Total enrollment in grades 9-12 and the Market Value Personal Income/Aid Ratio (MV PI/AR) were used as independe...
Mark J Madson.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Smeaton, Patricia; Machado, Crystal Committee members: Douglas Lare.
D.Ed. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2016.
English

Simulation provides an avenue to prepare nursing students to provide high-quality nursing care in the complex health-care environment. Debriefing, an aspect of simulation, is used to enhance student learning through a reflective discussion. Limited empirical evidence suggests the best approach to debrief that best enhances nursing students' reflection. Reflection is paramount in developing the type of thinking required for nursing. This study examined the influence of high-fidelity simulat...
Taylor Fawn Edwards.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Shellenbarger, Teresa C. Committee members: Kristy Chunta; Christoph Maier.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2016.
English

USonian identity has been defined controversially since its inception. Its representatives have largely been independent, white, wealthy, male, and heterosexual. However, the actual population of the US is more diverse and possesses much more complex identities. Some of the identifying factors of USonians derive from the US tradition of self-making. Traditional US self-made narratives, as with larger definitions of US identity, lack a full inclusivity and nationally representative characters,...
Erin Mavis Guydish.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Thompson, Todd Committee members: David Downing; Mike Sell.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2016.
English