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Multimodal discursive teaching practices in a studio-based designed chemistry summer program
(2024-04-29)This study investigates the instructional practices of a chemistry professor during an immersion summer program, with a focus on employing multimodal discourse within a studio-based learning environment. For this study, ... -
Spotting virtue: the legibility of skin in early modern drama
(2024-04-29)This thesis traces how feminine virtue appears on the skin of early modern characters, especially in ways legible to other characters around them. In four tragedies— Shakespeare’s Othello and Hamlet, John Ford’s ‘Tis Pity ... -
Occupied joy: a practice of resistance, survival, and healing through the lens of Black and Palestinian liberation
(2024-04-29)Occupied Joy: A Practice of Resistance, Survival, and Healing Through the Lens of Black and Palestinian Liberation argues that Black and Palestinian radical joy is a vital tool and site of resistance alongside more visible ... -
Dissipating in the sublime: recovering our mattered vitality in the modern environmental movement, American ski culture, and the psychedelic counterculture for a posthuman ethic
(2024-04-29)Dissipating in the Sublime is a project of paradox: I argue that we need to lose our minds to develop an environmental conscience. I target the mind/body dualism at the heart of Western ideology by examining the phenomenon ... -
Science teacher perspectives on professional development
(2024-04-29)High school science teachers are a unique subset of teachers with distinctive PD needs in content, pedagogy, and technology, yet there is scant research about PD from the perspective of secondary science teachers. This ... -
Word density effects on phonological awareness in children who are deaf and hard of hearing
(2024-04-29)Phonological awareness skills are imperative for literacy and academic development. Current literature has shown us that children who are deaf and hard of hearing (DHH) struggle with phonological awareness. The current ... -
The traumatic blue sky: the psychological consequences of aerial combat in the twentieth century
(2024-04-25)“The Traumatic Blue Sky: The Psychological Consequences of Aerial Combat in the Twentieth Century” explores the medical problems that the United States’ Army Air Service and Army Air Forces faced in World War I and II. ... -
Brown erasure: Mexican Americans and the teaching of history in cold war Texas
(2024-04-25)This dissertation explores the white architects of curriculum and instruction in Texas, the Mexican experience and resistance to that curriculum, and the effect on identity and community formation that schooling played on ... -
Pre-service teachers' systems thinking about the nervous system
(2024-04-25)In an era of increasingly complex challenges, fostering holistic thinking among educators has never been more evident. This study explored the impact of a holistic approach to teaching the nervous system on pre-service ... -
The relationship between education and job satisfaction among police officers
(2024-04-25)Education requirements for police officers have increased since the 1920s and will likely continue to increase amidst calls for criminal justice reform. The effects of higher education are well documented, and findings ... -
Content validity assessment of items associated with CRNA turnover: an index development study
(2024-04-25)Objective: To establish content validity for instrument items associated with occupational turnover for certified registered nurse anesthetists (CRNAs). Methods: A panel of content experts in the field of nurse anesthesiology ... -
Faking it or making it: emotional labor, individual and organizational well-being in student affairs professionals
(2024-04-25)The study aimed to achieve two main objectives: first, to investigate the presence and nature of emotional labor within student affairs; and second, to explore the correlations between emotional labor and both individual ... -
Social norms, reference group specificity, and college students' COVID-19 vaccination intentions: Risk and efficacy perceptions as boundary conditions of normative influence
(2023)How social norms affect people¿s decisions to enact protective behaviors when they encounter danger is both theoretically and practically meaningful. This research investigated how social norms varying in referent group ... -
Time and change: A meta-analysis of temporal decisions in longitudinal studies
(1/19/2024)Longitudinal research has grown in popularity in the field of management and organizations. However, the literature has neglected to consider the important ways in which researchers' temporal decisions can influence observed ... -
Libyan Studies: A Call to Sociology
(2023)For decades Libya has been described by scholars and observers as a ¿stateless¿ society that lacks key institutions that define modern states, rendering the country a ¿pariah¿ and an exception. If, however, we take up the ... -
Prediction of Surface Water Temperature and Its Spatial-Temporal Variation Characteristics of 11 Main Lakes in Yunnan¿Guizhou Plateau
(2024)In the context of global warming, the lake surface water temperature (LSWT) exhibits a general upward trend. As an indicator of climate change, the surface water temperature of plateau lakes is particularly sensitive to ... -
Development of the Movement Pattern Observation Tool (MPOT) :An Observational Tool to Measure Limb Movements during Elementary School Recess
(4/20/2023)Background: The US Center for Disease Control estimates that only 24% of American elementary-aged children participate in the recommended 60 min of daily physical activity. As activity levels decline, elementary schools ... -
The Impact of Multiple Recesses on Limb Movement Patterns in Children: An Exploratory Study
(9/17/2023)Background: Inactivity levels among elementary-aged children are climbing at alarming rates, as only 24% participate in the recommended 60 minutes of daily physical activity. Limb movements during children¿s active time ... -
Differences in Relaxation and Imagery among NCAA Division I Sport Types
(11/13/2023)Athletes use psychological skills such as imagery and relaxation to decrease stress, cope with competitive anxiety, and achieve an optimal state of arousal. There is conflicting literature on how team and individual sport ...