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Advances In Student Self-Authorship: A Program Evaluation Of The Community Standards Model, Klinton E. Hobbs
Advances In Student Self-Authorship: A Program Evaluation Of The Community Standards Model, Klinton E. Hobbs
Theses and Dissertations
Universities are increasingly applying student developmental theories in a variety of contexts in order to better understand students and to accomplish institutional educational objectives. Robert Kegan's constructive-developmental theory has been utilized in the creation of the Community Standards Model, a program designed for use in university residence halls. The purpose of the Model is to promote student development from Kegan's third order of consciousness, in which student identity is based on a fusion of their peers' expectations and ideas, to the fourth order of consciousness, in which one becomes the author of his or her own values, beliefs, and ideals. …
Development Of The Postsecondary Student Survey Of Disability-Related Stigma (Ssdrs), John K. Trammell
Development Of The Postsecondary Student Survey Of Disability-Related Stigma (Ssdrs), John K. Trammell
Theses and Dissertations
Qualitative interviews of college students with disabilities indicated that students were reporting significant discrimination and disability stigma effects. Until recently, however, no formal instruments had been developed specifically to measure disability stigma in college students. The purpose of this study was to develop the Postsecondary Student Survey of Disability-Related Stigma (SSDRS), a Likert-type scale that measured amount of perceived stigma in college students with disabilities. The SSDRS was patterned after similar instruments developed to measure race-related stigma and other forms of perceived social discrimination, and was designed to be administered through disability support service offices. The SSDRS consisted of five …