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Assessing Design Quality In Online Courses At A Public University, Anthony Kiech
Assessing Design Quality In Online Courses At A Public University, Anthony Kiech
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This research assesses the extent to which asynchronous online STEM courses at a public university integrate Merrill's First Principles of Instruction. Through a quantitative content analysis of thirty unique online courses within the College of Arts and Sciences, the study investigates the extent, if any, to which these courses embody principles such as problem-centered learning, activation, demonstration, application, and integration. A validated survey instrument, Course Scan, was used for evaluation and indicated a low extent of Merrill's First Principles of Instruction in the sample courses. Methodology, including the investigation plan and instrumentation, are shared. Results are shared, indicating low implementation …
Unraveling The Black Superwoman: Identifying Successful Higher Educational Leadership Pathways For Black Women Navigating Barriers In Southern Medical Colleges, Latoya R. Windom
Unraveling The Black Superwoman: Identifying Successful Higher Educational Leadership Pathways For Black Women Navigating Barriers In Southern Medical Colleges, Latoya R. Windom
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This research is necessitated as Black women continue to face unique and significant challenges in educational leadership. Supported by Black Feminist Theory, this study explores the successful leadership pathways of Black women in medical higher education while navigating barriers. The goal is to promote the inclusion of Black women in medical education and leadership positions by utilizing three core tenets of Black feminism – intersectionality, lived experiences/storytelling, and Black women as agents of knowledge (Black feminist epistemology). This groundbreaking study challenges the dominant narrative and discourse surrounding Black women's experiences in medical higher education. The personal stories shared by Black …
Associations Of Maternal Cigarette Smoking In Pregnancy With Early Smoking Initiation And Asthma Development In The Offspring, Testing The Intermediate Role Of Dna Methylation And The Role Of The Glutathione S-Transferase (Gst) Gene Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (Snps), Parnian Kheirkhah Rahimabad
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Maternal cigarette smoking during pregnancy (MSP) is a global health concern, with approximately half of smoking women continuing this habit throughout pregnancy. Epidemiological studies link in-utero exposure to cigarette smoke to detrimental outcomes, including an increased risk of asthma and smoking initiation in the offspring. While epidemiological research has shown the negative impacts of MSP, the underlying mechanisms remain elusive. Epigenetic modifications, specifically DNA methylation (DNAm), have been suggested as a mediator of the association between MSP and adverse health outcomes in the offspring. MSP has been associated with alterations in offspring DNAm. There is, however, limited understanding of individual …
Avenue Breakdown: Black Music And The Recording Industry In Shreveport, 1948-1988, John Michael Shaw
Avenue Breakdown: Black Music And The Recording Industry In Shreveport, 1948-1988, John Michael Shaw
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Although there has been some scholarship in regard to country music in the city of Shreveport, Louisiana, as well as research into the lives of Jimmie Davis and Huddie Ledbetter, no comprehensive research into the city’s rich Black music scene has heretofore existed. Furthermore, the area has been home to a number of Black artists about whom little has been written. This dissertation attempts to document Shreveport’s Black music scene, both in live performance and recording, during a forty-year period stretching from 1948 to 1988. These years interestingly coincide with the opening and closing of an iconic record shop and …
The Prevalence Of Aces Among Foster Parents In Alabama, Levonna S. Davis
The Prevalence Of Aces Among Foster Parents In Alabama, Levonna S. Davis
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Abstract Highlights: Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) affect 63.9% of the U.S. population, slated to cause detrimental impact on physical health, mental health, and social outcomes to include parenting behaviors; however, a thorough assessment of its impact on foster parents is minimal. Foster parents are subject to ACEs, which in turn, may impact foster care placement outcomes. Objectives: To examine the prevalence of ACEs among foster parents in Alabama and the relationship between ACEs, foster parent characteristics, and some foster care placement outcomes such as length of placement and number of placements per foster parent. Participants included 52 licensed foster parents …
Steffen Schleiermacher's Twelve Soundscapes Inside The Piano: A Performance And Teaching Perspective, Daryl Francisco Rojas Rojas
Steffen Schleiermacher's Twelve Soundscapes Inside The Piano: A Performance And Teaching Perspective, Daryl Francisco Rojas Rojas
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ABSTRACT Rojas, Daryl F. D.M.A. The University of Memphis. March, 2024. Steffen Schleiermacher’s Twelve Soundscapes Inside the Piano: A Performance and Teaching Perspective. Advisor: Dr. Jonathan Tsay. This document presents the living German composer and pianist Steffen Schleiermacher’s Twelve Soundscapes Inside the Piano as a tool for intermediate level pianists who would like to incorporate unconventional piano techniques in their repertoire. It also provides a technical and pedagogical analysis for pianists and teachers who would like to learn more about a composer who is relatively unknown in the US. This document includes a brief biography and artistic background of the …
Who Said I Was A Cookie, Madison Ashley Hunter
Who Said I Was A Cookie, Madison Ashley Hunter
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Who Said I Was A Cookie is a poetry collection filled to the brim with fear-stained journal entries, calling-my-mama-for-the-5th-time-today rants, prayers about finding home within myself, half completed checklists as soundtracks and the sting of their cry for wanting to be whole, and satirical and soul immersing questionnaires. Readers receive a golden ticket to the party where every version of myself finally meets one another and devises a plan to ignore the false flavors of Black womanhood that people have menacingly mixed for me to embody while also baking the version of myself I desire to be. This is a …
A Pxrf, Ftir And Sem/Eds Analysis Of The White Pigment On White Cross-Lined Ware, Rachel Pinkman
A Pxrf, Ftir And Sem/Eds Analysis Of The White Pigment On White Cross-Lined Ware, Rachel Pinkman
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The current study will examine the composition of the pigment used for decorating a type of Predynastic Egyptian ceramic vessels known as “white cross-lined ware” or “C-ware.” Two collections of white cross-lined ware have been analyzed by visual analysis, portable x-ray fluorescence (pXRF), Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) and scanning electron microscopy with an electron dispersive x-ray spectroscopy (SEM/EDS). The composition of this pigment may help scholars understand and recognize trade networks within and/or outside of Egypt, the types of materials Egyptian potters used and if different pigment recipes were employed for C-ware at different Predynastic sites. Furthermore, the identification …
Structural Facilitation: Unraveling Social Worker's Covert Strategies For Overcoming Obstacles In The Memphis, Tn Housing System, Kelsey Ellen Hill
Structural Facilitation: Unraveling Social Worker's Covert Strategies For Overcoming Obstacles In The Memphis, Tn Housing System, Kelsey Ellen Hill
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This thesis explores the professional and personal identity of social workers in the context of restrictive policies and procedures within housing service institutions. Social workers play a crucial role in rehousing the unhoused, alongside providing knowledge, advocacy, and emotional support. However, they often face challenges such as being overworked, underpaid, and undervalued, leading to workforce attrition. In this study, social workers grapple with the dilemma of adhering to jurisdictional boundaries or bending the rules to achieve client success, which can create a conflict between personal beliefs and professional duties. The research investigates how personal experiences influence social workers' decisions to …
Development Of Novel Controllers To Address The Misalignment Problem Of Dynamic Wireless Charging Of Electric Vehicles, Md Sadiqur Rahman
Development Of Novel Controllers To Address The Misalignment Problem Of Dynamic Wireless Charging Of Electric Vehicles, Md Sadiqur Rahman
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Dynamic wireless charging (DWC) of electric vehicles can greatly reduce "short driving range" concern. There are two types of DWC systems, namely road coil to vehicle charging and vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) charging. Lateral Misalignment (LTM) occurs when the primary and secondary coils fail to align properly. Conventional controllers cannot perform well in higher misalignment scenarios. In this work, a model predictive controller has been implemented to nullify the LTM effect on the road coil to EV system. For V2V-DWC charging, three different controllers, namely the PI controller, simple non-linear equation-based controller, and Fuzzy Logic Controller have been developed, to mitigate the …
Death Of The Subject: Heidegger And Foucault On Subject And Subjectivity, Qiuyue Chen
Death Of The Subject: Heidegger And Foucault On Subject And Subjectivity, Qiuyue Chen
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The discourse on subjectivity, a central theme in philosophy, has garnered attention from thinkers like Heidegger and Foucault. Heidegger critiques subjectivity through a lens of metaphysics and ontology, while Foucault examines it as a social construct. This thesis aims to analyze their critiques and find common ground. The first chapter delves into Heidegger's critique of Cartesian subject and subject-object dualism in Being and Time and Being and Truth, arguing it obstructs a comprehensive understanding of human existence. In the second chapter, Foucault's analysis of subjectification, notably in The History of Sexuality, illustrates how the process of subjectification shapes self-knowledge and …
Comparative Landscape Genetics And Dynamics In Demography Within Sympatric Ursids In Southeast Alaska, Philip Russell Douchinsky
Comparative Landscape Genetics And Dynamics In Demography Within Sympatric Ursids In Southeast Alaska, Philip Russell Douchinsky
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The landscape along the northwest coast of North America structures species populations in and around Southeast Alaska. Brown bears (Ursus arctos) and American black bears (U. americanus) are sympatric in this region. They are similarly sized omnivores and interspecific competition directly affects the resources available to each species as brown bears are larger, more aggressive, and can competitively exclude; however, black bears can better utilize dispersed food sources. Within this system I asked two questions about brown and black bears in Southeast Alaska. The first question had two parts; how has the environment structured gene flow in both species, and …
Optimal Floating Platform Design For Offshore Energy Systems, Chandler Shaw Cain
Optimal Floating Platform Design For Offshore Energy Systems, Chandler Shaw Cain
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A comprehensive study was performed on the hydro-structural design exploration of floating platforms for offshore energy systems using shape parameterization and dynamic system design optimization techniques. The study aims to develop a novel design framework that optimizes the structure of the platform for stable dynamic responses to ocean waves, ensuring that the motion of the platform as well as its acceleration are reduced when compared to the simple designs currently employed, while ensuring satisfactory geometrical constraints. The study delves into the free-form design of the outer columns of the floating platform beyond conventional predefined shapes to enhance the overall performance …
But I Couldn’T Keep It To Myself: James H. Cone’S Articulation Of Resistive Prophetic Rhetoric, Diarron B. Morrison
But I Couldn’T Keep It To Myself: James H. Cone’S Articulation Of Resistive Prophetic Rhetoric, Diarron B. Morrison
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James H. Cone is widely considered to be a forefather of Black Liberation Theology. Over the course of almost 50 years, he established himself as one of the world's most important theologians and a prophetic voice against anti-blackness and other forms of oppression in America. While his theology and career have received much well-deserved attention from religious historians and theologians, very few projects have engaged Cone rhetorically. This dissertation will examine Cone’s first four books: "Black Theology and Black Power", "A Black Theology of Liberation", "The Spirituals and the Blues", and "God of the Oppressed." Using his final and unfinished …
Treatment Credibility, Outcome Expectations, The Therapeutic Alliance, And Therapist Empathy: Construct Explication Via Model Testing, Andrew Snell
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The construct validation process helps clarify the associations among observable indicators and unobservable phenomena—called constructs. Sometimes, factor-analytic data reveal that indicators of supposedly separate constructs are instead manifestations of the same construct. Previous research has shown moderate-to-strong correlations among indicators of several constructs believed to account for differences in psychotherapy outcome (viz., treatment credibility, outcome expectations, the therapeutic alliance, and therapist empathy). One possibility is that research participants who evaluate the psychotherapeutic process do not distinguish these concepts and, instead, provide evaluations based on general sentiments. The present study used a confirmatory-factor-analytic design and data from five psychotherapy process studies …
Examining The Relationship Of Cultural Sensitivity, Self-Esteem, And Cultural Identities, Jeanneka Black
Examining The Relationship Of Cultural Sensitivity, Self-Esteem, And Cultural Identities, Jeanneka Black
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This study examines qualities of self-esteem and its relationship to the process of self-reflection and sensitivity development. The intercultural sensitivity development model highlights the exploration of cognitive and affective processes as the catalyst for promoting willingness, adaptability, and ongoing curiosity to account for the limitations of present approach to multicultural training. Self-reflection is required to process thoughts and emotions, but self-esteem may serve as the barrier or facilitator of this effort. A moderately positive relationship was found among the total score for intercultural sensitivity and self-esteem. Relationships among the demographic variables of race/ethnicity, sexual orientation, religious/spirituality, age ranges, educational level, …
Command Of The Winds: An Examination Of Earth Mother And Great Serpent Iconography, Melinda Alaine Martin
Command Of The Winds: An Examination Of Earth Mother And Great Serpent Iconography, Melinda Alaine Martin
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Mississippian cosmoscapes provide a perceived, yet concealed, existence of spiritual realms inhabited by other-than and more-than human-beings who interact, influence, and interfere with the tangible landscape through natural and material contexts. To conceptualize the world around them, Mississippian ritual practitioners focused on a tripartite cosmological organization: an Above World, Middle World, and Beneath World realms. Within each of these “worlds”, multiple other-than and more-than-human-beings possessed powers, which allowed them to influence the Middle World of humans and their lived experiences. A duality exists between Earth Mother (Above World), who commands vortexes or tornadoes, and the Great Serpent (Beneath World), who …
Structure Of A Sequence With Prescribed Zero-Sum Subsequences In Rank Two Abelian Groups, John Ebert
Structure Of A Sequence With Prescribed Zero-Sum Subsequences In Rank Two Abelian Groups, John Ebert
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Let $G=(\mathbb Z/m\mathbb Z) \oplus (\mathbb Z/n\mathbb Z)$ where $1
Nursing Professionals' Attitudes That May Impact Diagnostic Outcomes Among Patients With Disabilities, Louvisia Conley
Nursing Professionals' Attitudes That May Impact Diagnostic Outcomes Among Patients With Disabilities, Louvisia Conley
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People with disabilities have been identified as representing the largest marginalized group worldwide. A negative attitude towards people with disabilities has been an extended paradigm in American society. Improving the treatment of people with disabilities has led to national policy and legislation changes. However, health inequities continue to be a significant issue faced by people with disabilities. Bourdieu's Theory of Practice provided the theoretical basis for this research. Using the Scale of Attitudes Toward Disabled Persons survey, this quantitative descriptive research aimed to examine factors that may impact attitudinal barriers among three groups, graduate nursing students, current practicing nurses, and …
Her Journey. Her Way. Understanding The Development Of Career Self-Efficacy Through The Connect Mentoring Program For Women Faculty In Stem: A Case Study, Teresa Marion Theiling
Her Journey. Her Way. Understanding The Development Of Career Self-Efficacy Through The Connect Mentoring Program For Women Faculty In Stem: A Case Study, Teresa Marion Theiling
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The Connect STEM Mentoring Program aims to provide professional and career connections to women in STEM. As a product of an ADVANCE grant funded by the National Science Foundation, this program strives to promote advancement for women in STEM. As a male- dominated field, women in STEM commonly face barriers to advancement opportunities which can negatively impact a woman’s career self-efficacy. This single-embedded case study seeks to understand how and why, if at all, the Connect STEM Mentoring Program develops career self- efficacy in career advancement for mid-level and senior-level female faculty members. The study investigates faculty members’ participation in …
Rhetorics Of Impurities: Exvangelicalism As Excavating And Encountering Purity, Karly Poyner-Smith
Rhetorics Of Impurities: Exvangelicalism As Excavating And Encountering Purity, Karly Poyner-Smith
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This dissertation explores purity discourse through the lens of the ExVangelical movement. Using mixed methods, this inquiry employs critical qualitative research to examine how ExVangelicalism uses the roles of identification, place, and space to critique purity’s oppressive categorizations. In doing so, ExVangelicals represent a theoretical rhetoric of impurities in which purity is continuously excavated and encountered. Based on a queer feminist reading of ExVangelical texts, this dissertation presents three frameworks in which to reorient ExVangelicalism as a post-purity movement. First, through ExVangelicalism, purity is examined through rhetorics of identification, place, and space. Second, as a post-purity movement, ExVangelicals partake in …
Factors Associated With Youth’S Perceptions Of Parenting: The Role Of Social Ecological Assets, Anissa Garza
Factors Associated With Youth’S Perceptions Of Parenting: The Role Of Social Ecological Assets, Anissa Garza
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Minimal research has examined factors that contribute to youth’s perceptions of maternal parenting practices. The current study included 263 mother-youth dyads. Mothers were aged 23-64 (Mage=36.42, SD=7.89, 82.9% Black) and youth were aged 8-17 (Mage=12.11, SD=2.77, 88.2% Black, 58.9% girls). A multivariate linear regression was used to examine how youth’s behavior problems and internal, peer, school, and community assets were related to their perceptions of positive and negative maternal parenting, while accounting for youth age, gender, socioeconomic status, and maternal adversity exposure. The model was significant (F(9, 236)= 7.24, p<.001, R2=.22) for positive parenting perceptions and for negative parenting perceptions (F(9, 236)=6.76, p<.001, R2=.21). Younger age, more internal assets, and more community assets were related to greater positive parenting perceptions, while more behavior problems and fewer community assets were related to more negative parenting perceptions. Findings could inform the development of family-focused, multisystemic interventions that enhance the mother-child relationship.
The Devil Is In The Details: An Analysis Of The Satanic Panic, Travis James Brooks
The Devil Is In The Details: An Analysis Of The Satanic Panic, Travis James Brooks
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The Satanic Panic was a period lasting from the early 1980s to the mid-1990s characterized by a series of modern-day witch trials. “Satan hunters,” emboldened by the rise of the New Right in 1980, persecuted hundreds of day care operators. Their actions propelled a Satanic conspiracy theory into the cultural mainstream and has had a lasting impact on conservative politics. This project explores how the Satanic Panic came to be, how it advanced and functioned, and how it ended. It also examines question and information often left out of Satanic Panic historiography, such as what Satanism actually is and the …
Implementation Of A Hybrid Method To Estimate Real-Time Unsteady Flow Discharge, Timothy Lake Belles
Implementation Of A Hybrid Method To Estimate Real-Time Unsteady Flow Discharge, Timothy Lake Belles
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Knowing discharge in real-time is important for the operation of features like locks and dams, or for river forecasting. However, only river stage can be measured regularly, with a high enough frequency to effectively monitor conditions in real-time, so methods are needed to compute discharge based on observed stage. There are two common approaches for calculating real-time discharge: the rating curve and slope-area methods. A modified hybrid approach, developed by Hunt et al., combined with the Jones formula for calculating unsteady flow discharge, was tested to estimate discharges on the Lower Mississippi River, USA, at Hickman, KY; Memphis, TN; and …
Controlling Light-Matter Interactions In The Linear And Nonlinear Optical Regimes, Bryson Joseph Krause
Controlling Light-Matter Interactions In The Linear And Nonlinear Optical Regimes, Bryson Joseph Krause
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The progression of materials science has led us down a path of rich discovery in the realm of nanophotonics. Recent strides in metamaterials and plasmonics research have allowed for an unprecedented control of light-matter interactions beyond the diffraction limit of visible light. Currently, there is a great push to improve the ability and flexibility of metamaterials and nanophotonic structures to manipulate and amplify electromagnetic waves. Researchers are seeking to find efficient, scalable and cost-effective methods to produce these materials with a broad range of tunability. In these efforts, the scope of optics research has naturally begun to shift from the …
Hybrid Truck Platooning Network Design, Vasileios Liatsos
Hybrid Truck Platooning Network Design, Vasileios Liatsos
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The scope of this research is to benchmark the various parameters that affect the implementation of truck platoon concept and the quantification of (any) monetary savings under the assumption that technological advancements and new or updated infrastructure (e.g., dedicated truck corridors) will allow implementation. Cost savings considered in this research are easily verifiable as they are solely derived from driver compensation savings (i.e., fuel savings, emissions reduction, and insurance savings are not considered). At this direction, they are proposed two platoon scheduling problems. The initial mathematical model considers a restrictive case of truck platooning (a.k.a. Caravanning Network Problem), where all …
The Life, Career, And Teaching Of Michele Zukovsky, Adam Marc Alter
The Life, Career, And Teaching Of Michele Zukovsky, Adam Marc Alter
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Michele Zukovsky, former principal clarinet of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, is a legend in the clarinet world. During her fifty-four-year tenure with the orchestra she performed with many of the greatest musicians of the twentieth century and in numerous world premieres. She is the longest serving woman woodwind player in the history of the orchestra. John Williams wrote and dedicated his only clarinet concerto for her. Many of her students from her years of teaching at CalArts, Azusa Pacific University, and the University of Southern California have gone on to have careers of their own as teachers and performers. This …
Fidelis Zitterbart Jr.: The Man And The Music—An Introduction To Fidelis Zitterbart Jr. And His Sonatas For Viola And Piano Nos. 23, 28, And 33, Sarah Lyle Padilla
Fidelis Zitterbart Jr.: The Man And The Music—An Introduction To Fidelis Zitterbart Jr. And His Sonatas For Viola And Piano Nos. 23, 28, And 33, Sarah Lyle Padilla
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Fidelis Zitterbart Jr. (1845-1915) was a composer living and working in Pittsburgh, Pa. around the turn of the twentieth century. He left behind a substantial number of unpublished manuscripts, which now reside in the Hillman Library at the University of Pittsburgh and are also available in that library’s digital archives. Among the manuscripts are a dozen or so sonatas for viola and piano written between 1875 and 1910. The purpose of this project was to create editions of several of these sonatas for viola and piano, and to surround them with relevant historical, theoretical, and performance background. This document provides …
The Role Of Dna Methylation And Parental History On Wheezing Trajectories In Children, Donald Eugene Warden
The Role Of Dna Methylation And Parental History On Wheezing Trajectories In Children, Donald Eugene Warden
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Asthma and wheezing present public health changes that manifest during early childhood. This dissertation utilizes longitudinal data within the Isle of Wight Birth Cohort (IOWBC) third generation to explore the development of early childhood wheezing phenotypes, their implications for asthma development, including environmental and epigenetic factors. Children in the F2-generation (n=611) of the IOWBC were followed-up at 3, 6, 12, 24, 36, and 72 months, and the incidence of wheeze subtype (general, infectious, and non-infectious) were used in group-based trajectory models to identify phenotypes of early childhood wheezing. These trajectories were examined as predictors of asthma diagnosis, lung function, and …
Transforming College And Career Readiness: A Case Study Of An Innovative High School Model In Tennessee, Chelsea Dyan Rose
Transforming College And Career Readiness: A Case Study Of An Innovative High School Model In Tennessee, Chelsea Dyan Rose
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The purpose of this qualitative case study on implementing the Innovative High School Models Grant was to examine administrators’ and teachers’ experiences integrating college and career readiness programming into Career and Technical Education (CTE) pathways. Forward-thinking leadership and strategic partnerships were key to the initiative's success, enhancing teacher quality, industry involvement, student impact, and campus culture. Using Vroom’s Theory of Expectancy Value as the framework, the study explores motivational factors and expected impacts driving the work. Recommendations include prioritizing teachers and leadership development, diversifying early postsecondary opportunities, and ensuring staff capacity for student support. The study’s insights may inform best …