More commonly, English as an additional language (EAL) students are being taught writing by teachers from across the curriculum, yet these teachers have not been the subject of many studies. The few studies that have been done provide evidence that some writing across the curriculum (WAC) teachers felt they were not prepared to teach EAL students, and some teachers asked for assistance. However, more research needs to be done to understand the situation. For this reason, this study was conduc...
Nathan Lindberg.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Park, Gloria Committee members: David Hanauer; Bennett Rafoth.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2016.
English

Fitspiration, or fitness inspiration, features images of sculpted and fit yet also thin women engaged in exercise, often with motivational words meant to encourage the viewer. These images frequently objectify women. As objectification has become commonplace in society, women can internalize this message and see themselves from an outsider's perspective, thereby engaging in self-objectification. Self-objectification (SO) has been categorized as both a temporary state and an enduring trait. ...
Julia Kathryn Chasler.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: LaPorte, David Committee members: Anson Long; Margaret Reardon.
Psy.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2016.
English

This study compared the reading motivation, sense of classroom community, and reading comprehension of fourth grade students who responded to literature circle prompts on a blog to those students who responded traditionally, using pencil and paper. A sequential, mixed-methods study was employed in which surveys, measuring reading motivation and classroom community, were administered before reading an assigned novel and beginning literature circle work and again after reading the text and comp...
Adrienne A Monaghan.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Paquette, Kelli R. Committee members: Susan Fello; Susan Sibert.
D.Ed. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2016.
English

With the proliferation of mobile devices and wireless Internet, mediated content continues to become a large part of every child's emotional and social experiences. Content such as this becomes moral teachers as children grow and learn how to live and act in society. Noting that media texts can serve as one source of such modeling, this study questions the manner in which children's media model ethical behavior to young audiences. Specifically, this dissertation employs Vogler's 12-step He...
Nicholas Artman.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Stiegler, Zachary Committee members: Mark Piwinsky; Jay Start.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2016.
English

This study examines the perceived intellectual and dispositional takeaways for high school alumni who had been peer tutors in their secondary context. The research question which drove this study was, "What abilities, values, and skills do tutors develop from their experience as peer tutors and how, if at all, have they used those abilities, values, and skills in their lives beyond high school?" The findings come from the completed surveys of 63 high school tutor alumni who all tutored at a l...
Andrew L Jeter.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Rafoth, Bennett A. Committee members: Sharon Decker; Richard Kent; Gian Pagnucci.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2016.
English

The poetry of Robert Morgan, Kay Stripling Byer, and Ron Rash unites the places along the Blue Ridge Parkway in the southern Appalachian mountains. Their voices, which grow from the hollers of this unique bioregion, sustain the people, culture, history, and values of a time and place that are changing beneath their feet. Beginning with the literary legacy of Thomas Wolfe and continuing on to explore the ideas of solastalgia and topophilia as motives to write poetry, and poesis as a means to p...
Alana Dagenhart Sherrill.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Sherwood, Kenneth Committee members: Patrick Bizzaro; James Cahalan; David Downing; Todd Thompson.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2016.
English

Sexual script research has frequently examined the affective experiences of hooking up but has neglected to investigate the influence of gender role adherence in the decision to engage in these increasingly common sexual encounters. This quantitative descriptive design and survey data collection study examines the differences between the contemporary script of hooking up and the traditional dating script. The study assesses the relationship between conformity to feminine norms, sexual history...
Rebecca Shayne Pearlson.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: McHugh, Maureen C. Committee members: Beverly Goodwin; Anson Long.
Psy.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2016.
English

Schools across America are faced with implementing new English Language Arts Standards due to the new standards reform movement that has swept across the nation with a current 42 state adoption rate. New standards often equate to new curriculum and instructional practices that are allegedly effective if the programs and practices are adhered to with fidelity. The purpose of this study was to examine a National Blue Ribbon elementary school recipient that has demonstrated consistent academic ...
Todd Dishong.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Marcoline, Joseph F. Committee members: Robert Millward; Kelli Paquette.
D.Ed. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2016.
English

This study uses the control-value theory of achievement emotions as a framework to examine how writing center peer tutors respond cognitively, affectively and behaviorally to student writers' negative achievement emotions toward the writing students bring to the writing center. The study is informed by recent scholarship that asserts that sometimes when students visit the writing center, they feel a variety of emotions toward their writing, some of which are negative achievement emotions that...
Jennifer Follett.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Rafoth, Bennett A. Committee members: Rebecca Babcock; Gian Pagnucci; Gloria Park.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2016.
English

The present study investigated the impact of having access to a school-based Parent Resource Center (PRC) on parents' perceptions of school climate and students' academic achievement at two Title I elementary schools in a suburban school district in Georgia. Parents completed Yale University Comer School Development Program's School Climate Survey, Parent-Version Revised and provided input concerning their awareness of the PRCs and usage of the centers. Students' English/Language Arts (ELA) a...
Cherisse Le'Fay Chisolm.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Black, Lynanne Committee members: Roger Briscoe; Joseph Kovaleski; Mark Staszkiewicz.
D.Ed. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2016.
English

Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) are linked to poor adult health (Felitti et al., 1998; Brown et al., 2010). Research on ACEs exposure in college students is lacking. This study examined the impact of ACEs, health risk behaviors, and resiliency factors on objective and subjective measures of health in college students. ACEs and health risk behaviors emerged as significant predictors of both measures of health. However, when resiliency factors were accounted for, gender and life satisfacti...
Irina Khrapatina.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Berman, Pearl Committee members: Krys Kaniasty; John Mills.
Psy.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2016.
English

It is rarely challenged that deficits in working memory during childhood are related to academic difficulties. Poor working memory is linked to difficulties focusing, remembering and completing classroom instructions, planning and organizing information, solving problems, and monitoring progress during complex tasks. Researchers have consistently demonstrated a relationship between working memory and reading ability. Moreover, it is well established that students who have deficits in reading ...
Geneel A McKenzie.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: McGowan, Mark Committee members: Roger Briscoe; Timothy Runge; Mark Staszkiewicz.
D.Ed. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2016.
English

This narrative inquiry introduces the rich story of prison writing, by and through highly successful career prison writers that have, and continue to publish their writing behind bars. They narrate their lives, design artistic and expressive works relating to their circumstances and environments, draft various legal and other relevant documents, craft essays and editorials, and write to make change and leave legacies of hope and redemption. While this document is from the point-of-view of a c...
Alva Natalie Ramon.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Pagnucci, Gian S. Committee members: Dennis Giever; Lilia Savova.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2016.
English

This meta-analysis examined the efficacy of CASEL SELect programs when used with minority students from high-poverty communities. Based on a review of the literature, prior evidence provided support for the efficacy of these programs (Conduct Problems Research Group, 1999; Domitrovich, Cortes, & Greenberg, 2007; Reid et al., 2007). The Hedges and Olkin meta-analytic approach was used for the current study (Johnson, Mullen, & Salas, 1995). Findings from the meta-analysis supported three of ...
Byron M McClure.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: McGowan, Mark Committee members: Joseph Kovaleski; Timothy Runge; Mark Staszkiewicz.
Ed.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2016.
English

The purpose of the qualitative research study was to investigate how proficient and non-proficient fifth grade students comprehend digital text material in regard to overall retention. Twenty-eight fifth grade students from an elementary school in northeastern Pennsylvania participated in this study. Those who fit specified criteria including the following were invited to participate in the study: student is in fifth grade in the specified elementary school, does not receive Special Educat...
Melissa J Martinez.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Millward, Robert; Sutton, Rhonda M. Committee members: Douglas Lare.
D.Ed. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2016.
English

This descriptive study investigates the relationships between athletic training students' perceptions of their undergraduate program director's leadership behaviors (model, inspire, challenge, enable, and encourage) and overall athletic training program success (measured by the Board of Certification examination performance specifically program first-attempt pass rates). The study attempts to recognize relationships and define specific leadership behaviors of program directors within their ed...
Jacqueline Durst.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Piper, David Committee members: Kelli Paquette; Mark Twiest.
D.Ed. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2016.
English

This study examined the impact of age at school entry on academic achievement in third grade as measured by the Pennsylvania System of School Assessments (PSSA). In addition, the relationship between kindergarten entry age and the need for special education services in third grade was investigated. The sample consisted of 1039 third grade students from five different suburban school districts who took the 2014 PSSA. A three-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) was used to analyze the data and det...
Angela J Hughes.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Black, Lynanne Committee members: Becky Knickelbein; Joseph Kovaleski; Christoph Maier.
D.Ed. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2016.
English

The purpose of this study was to determine teacher perceptions of the impact of four-year preschool programs on a child's academic and social skills. The population included 800 kindergarten teachers within various districts across the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. One hundred sixty-seven kindergarten teachers from various districts responded to the study. This study focused on kindergarten teacher perceptions of preschool on skills related to general readiness, reading, language, writing, ma...
Amy L Larcinese.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Millward, Robert E. Committee members: DeAnna Laverick; Kelli Paquette.
D.Ed. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2016.
English

This study was to examine self-efficacy perceptions of elementary teachers, kindergarten through fourth grade, and determine whether or not teacher self-efficacy perceptions differ related to classification area of district, certification held and experience of working with students with emotional and/or behavioral disorders (E/BD). In addition, this study analyzed if differences in the above three mentioned areas impact the teacher's perception in regards to providing effective classroom man...
Jenifer R Pappasergi.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Kerry-Moran, Kelli Jo Committee members: Joseph Marcoline; Susan Sibert.
D.Ed. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2016.
English

In this study, I use a blended-genre approach to reading canonical literature and art in the United States during the antebellum period. Acknowledging that the mediums of art and literature are both narrative-driven and dependent upon techniques of visualization, I examine works that show marked hybridity of form, identifying artists and writers practiced in synthesizing media and genres to create hybridized texts. I suggest that reframing the aesthetic canon to include a blended-genre paradi...
Ellen Hallstrom Ryan.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Thompson, Todd Committee members: David Downing; Christopher Orchard.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2016.
English

There is an absence of research examining the relationship between the experiences that occurred while holding formal student leadership positions and leadership identity development. This study will investigate if leadership can be learned through the lenses of the leadership experience of men who hold the formal student leadership position of chapter president within their local chapters of their national social fraternal organization. The design of the study is quantitative in nature and...
Joseph Rosenberg.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Piper, David Committee members: Kelli Paquette; Mark Twiest.
D.Ed. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2016.
English

This dissertation is a literacy-and-identity study (Moje & Luke, 2009) of four women who have recently earned PhDs in English with doctoral training in composition, are working in higher education as composition teachers, and are writing for academic publication. Situated theoretically within the social-practice perspective of academic literacies (Lillis & Scott, 2007) and of writer identity as a discoursal construct (Ivanic, 1998), this dissertation uses a case study design (Stake, 1995, 200...
Kathleen Vacek.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Park, Gloria Committee members: Sharon Deckert; Ben Rafoth.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2016.
English

The purpose for this study was to explore the relationship between economic and noneconomic indicators and their influence on student achievement in Pennsylvania. The secondary purpose was to discover perceived barriers to student achievement and provide recommendations from experts about methods to improve student success by overcoming both economic and noneconomic factors. The economic indicators included in this study are basic education funding, district wealth (MV/PI), average daily memb...
Michael E Sable.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Piper, David Committee members: Kelli Jo Kerry-Moran; Joseph Marcoline.
D.Ed. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2016.
English

The purpose of this study is to explore the effects on the social dominance orientation of undergraduates in general liberal education courses of a film traditionally used to teach or complement instruction on diversity and social justice. It aims to fill a noted gap in the media effects, social sciences teaching, and social dominance orientation literatures. As an experimental study, the present research is employing a pre-test/post-test design to measure effects of watching a film on view...
Brian C Johnson.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisors: Muchtar, Nurhaya Committee members: Mark Piwinsky; Zachary Stiegler.
Ph.D. Indiana University of Pennsylvania 2016.
English