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Student Voice Initiative: Exploring Implementation Strategies, Blaine G. Alexander Dec 2017

Student Voice Initiative: Exploring Implementation Strategies, Blaine G. Alexander

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Student voice is the process of allowing students to work collaboratively with adults to produce a learning culture that is conducive for optimum growth in every student. In a traditional setting, the adults make the decisions and the students are passive observers in the learning process. Data has shown that this traditional culture is not advantageous to student learning for all students. Research has shown that students are seven times more academically motivated when they have the opportunity to have a voice in their personal learning process (Quaglia, 2016). This case study centered on the Northeast Arkansas Regional Student Voice …

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The Fight For Personhood, Legal Capacity, And Equal Recognition Under Law For People With Disabilities In Israel And Beyond, Arlene S. Kanter, Yotam Tolub Dec 2017

The Fight For Personhood, Legal Capacity, And Equal Recognition Under Law For People With Disabilities In Israel And Beyond, Arlene S. Kanter, Yotam Tolub

Cardozo Law Review

When Rachel contacted Bizchut, the Israel Center for Human Rights of People with Disabilities, she was in the hospital in the final stages of terminal cancer. At seventy years old, she had no family, her condition was deteriorating, she had begun to use a wheelchair, and she was in a great deal of pain. In the past, she had been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia. Her doctors refused to release her from the hospital without the appointment of a guardian. Rachel had no guardian and she did not want one. Rachel was an intelligent and realistic woman who knew that if …

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Source Credibility And Cybersecurity Behaviors, Bracken Sallin Dec 2017

Source Credibility And Cybersecurity Behaviors, Bracken Sallin

Perpetua: The Journal of Undergraduate Research at UAH

In an increasingly interdependent society characterized by omnipresent online communications, Information Systems security research is an important contributor in helping protect people and organizations from cyber-attacks. Cyber-attacks are increasing in their number and scope. In May 2017 a series of ransomware attacks affected hundreds of thousands of computers across the globe, causing significant loss of business. Understanding how people interact with IT threats is an integral step to cyber-security. In this paper, I modify and extend the model developed by Liang and Xue in their Technology Threat Avoidance Theory to evaluate the effects of source credibility on computer user’s behaviors.

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The Developmental Importance Of Success And Failure Experiences At Summer Camp, Cait Wilson, Jim Sibthorp Dec 2017

The Developmental Importance Of Success And Failure Experiences At Summer Camp, Cait Wilson, Jim Sibthorp

Journal of Youth Development

Young people can learn from success and failure. Such experiences are useful in developing skills (e.g., perseverance and coping), and remain essential facets of youth programming. However, success and failure can also impede development. Appraisal theory has been used widely to examine youths’ experiences with success and failure in school and sport, yet summer camps represent an important setting where success and failure may look and feel different. In camp settings success or failure are often more subjective and less dependent on objective performance indicators such as grades, wins, or losses. Because of these contextual differences, little is known about …

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Understanding The Adjustment Needs Of International Graduate Students At Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Mehrete Girmay Dec 2017

Understanding The Adjustment Needs Of International Graduate Students At Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Mehrete Girmay

Dissertations

AN ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION OF Mehrete Girmay, for the Doctor of Philosophy degree in Health Education, presented on September 18th, 2017 at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. TITLE: UNDERSTANDING THE ADJUSTMENT NEEDS OF INTERNATIONAL GRADUATE STUDENTS at SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY CARBONDALE MAJOR PROFESSORS: Drs. Sosanya Jones and Juliane Wallace In the recent decades, the United States has attracted the highest numbers of international students to attain an education with the majority of students sojourning from China, India, and South Korea (Valenzuela, Palacios, & Intindola, 2015). It is important that the particular needs of this population are understood and met by …

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The Impact Of The Critical Factors For The Transfer Of Knowledge On Opportunities And Strategic Success, Salah Al-Din Al-Kubaisy, Rana Falah Hasan Dec 2017

The Impact Of The Critical Factors For The Transfer Of Knowledge On Opportunities And Strategic Success, Salah Al-Din Al-Kubaisy, Rana Falah Hasan

Journal of Economics and Administrative Sciences

The current research discusses “The impact of the critical factors for the transfer of knowledge on opportunities and strategic success ", the attention have been increased on knowledge transfer and strategic success subjects because on being one of the important and contemporary issues, which have a significant impact on the existence of organizations and its future. The research aims to identify the critical factors for knowledge transfer in private high education environment which enables (the college community surveyed) to achieve strategic success, also the research sought to answer questions related to research problem by testing a number of major and …

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Transferability: The Application Of Information Literacy Competencies To Academic Area-Of-Interest Course Research Paper Among Adult College Students In An Undergraduate Liberal Arts Program, Lilleth C. Beckford Dec 2017

Transferability: The Application Of Information Literacy Competencies To Academic Area-Of-Interest Course Research Paper Among Adult College Students In An Undergraduate Liberal Arts Program, Lilleth C. Beckford

Education Doctoral

This non-experimental exploratory sequential study was undertaken to assess the extent to which adult students can transfer and apply information literacy competencies, based on the AAC&U Information Literacy VALUE Rubric, to a research paper required in an area-of interest, intermediate or advanced level course. Participants were enrolled in an undergraduate liberal arts college degree program in a school designed on the andragogical model of adult education. Participants had completed a 2-credit information literacy course during a previous semester. To ascertain the students’ information literacy competencies, course research papers were assessed using three of the five components of the rubric. The …

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An Ethnographic Study About The Lived Experiences Of Transracial Adoption From A Haudenosaunee Adult Adoptee Perspective, Tricia Lyman Dec 2017

An Ethnographic Study About The Lived Experiences Of Transracial Adoption From A Haudenosaunee Adult Adoptee Perspective, Tricia Lyman

Education Doctoral

Promoting transracial adoptions became common in attempting to assimilate American Indians into European American culture. These adoptions were authorized by the United States Government through the 1978 Indian Child Welfare Act. This research focused on how American Indian transracial adoptees developed a Haudenosaunee cultural identity after being adopted by a European American family. The ethnographic study was conducted with Haudenosaunee adult adoptees to explore their lived experiences. Face-to-face semi-structured interviews were used to guide the conversation about the degree to which each participant developed a cultural identity as a Haudenosaunee. Qualitative methods were used for data analysis. The study discovered …

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The Impact Of A Diagnosis Of Autism Spectrum Disorder On Nonmedical Treatment Options In The Learning Environment From The Perspectives Of Parents And Pediatricians, Cecilia Scott-Croff Dec 2017

The Impact Of A Diagnosis Of Autism Spectrum Disorder On Nonmedical Treatment Options In The Learning Environment From The Perspectives Of Parents And Pediatricians, Cecilia Scott-Croff

Education Doctoral

The purpose of this qualitative study was to identify the impact of a diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder on treatment options available, within the learning environment, at the onset of a diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) from the perspective of parents and pediatricians. Utilizing a qualitative methodology to identify codes, themes, and sub-themes through semi-structured interviews, the research captures the lived experiences of five parents with children on the autism spectrum and five pediatricians who cared for those children and families. The researcher utilized the theoretical frameworks of behaviorist and psychologist, B. F. Skinner, as well as psychologist Uri …

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High School Stress And Cheating: Developing An Understanding Of The Factors That Influence Stress And Cheating In High School Students, Raymond W. Kilmer Iii Dec 2017

High School Stress And Cheating: Developing An Understanding Of The Factors That Influence Stress And Cheating In High School Students, Raymond W. Kilmer Iii

Education Doctoral

The culture of high school is increasingly dominated by grades, pressure to get into an elite college, and meeting personal expectations as well as those of parents, teachers, and peers. This quantitative action research study examines the relationship between demographic variables, such as gender, grade level, and course load, and the constructs of high school student perceived level of stress, sources of stress, and attitudes about academic integrity. In addition, the present study creates a model that explains how these variables predict the frequency students use academically dishonest behaviors. The study used archival data from a district sponsored survey. Results …

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A Rape Culture Or Rape Crisis: The Impact On First Year College Students Knowledge, Attitudes, And Behaviors After Participating In A Mandatory Sexual Violence Prevention Program, Sandra S. Vazquez Dec 2017

A Rape Culture Or Rape Crisis: The Impact On First Year College Students Knowledge, Attitudes, And Behaviors After Participating In A Mandatory Sexual Violence Prevention Program, Sandra S. Vazquez

Education Doctoral

Sexual violence has become a national crisis for higher education institutions. The Department of Education charged institutions with providing sexual violence prevention programming to all incoming first year students. Given the serious of this matter, this research study sought to explore the knowledge, attitudes and behaviors of first year college students concerning sexual assault from a socio-ecological perspective as a way to gain information on how to build comprehensive and successful prevention programs. The study utilized a qualitative content analysis methodology to interpret participant responses from gender specific focus groups. Participants consisted of two female groups and two male groups …

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Relationship Between Self-Compassion, Self-Perception, And Stuttering Severity, Colleen Hogan Dec 2017

Relationship Between Self-Compassion, Self-Perception, And Stuttering Severity, Colleen Hogan

Graduate Independent Studies - Communication Sciences and Disorders

The present study investigated the possibility of a relationship between self-compassion, self-perception, and stuttering severity in adults who stutter. Four adults who identify as people who stutter were administered the Self-Compassion Scale, the Self-Perception Profile for Adults, the Overall Assessment of the Speaker’s Experience of Stuttering, and the Stuttering Severity Instrument. Results indicated a negative correlation between stuttering severity and self-compassion. A relationship was found between self-perception and stuttering severity and self-compassion in only one participant. It was concluded that practices of self-compassion may be beneficial in speech therapy for adults who stutter, and that both self-perception and self-compassion scales …

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The Role Of Wisdom Leadership In Increasing Job Performance: Evidence From The Egyptian Tourism Sector., My Haddoud, Elbaz Ahmed Dec 2017

The Role Of Wisdom Leadership In Increasing Job Performance: Evidence From The Egyptian Tourism Sector., My Haddoud, Elbaz Ahmed

Plymouth Business School

The paper aims to explore the intervening role of wisdom leadership in the link between leadership styles and employees’ team performance, in the context of travel agents. Drawing on the leadership theory and the strategic leadership model, we develop an integrative model exploring the relationships between four distinct leadership styles and their influence on employees’ satisfaction and team performance, through the mediating role of wise leadership. Using data collected from 505 travel agents operating in Egypt, we show that not all leadership styles have a positive influence on employees’ satisfaction. We also show that a positive influence takes place through …

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Irish Workplace Behaviour Study, M Hodgins, L Pursell, V Hogan, Et Al Dec 2017

Irish Workplace Behaviour Study, M Hodgins, L Pursell, V Hogan, Et Al

Plymouth Business School

This study replicated the BWBS in Ireland, employing the same questionnaire and sampling methodology, in order to establish the prevalence of negative acts in the workplace in a nationally representative sample of Irish employees. The focus of the study is workplace ill treatment received at least once over the previous two years. Workplace ill treatment takes many forms. Workplace bullying is perhaps the most well researched aspect of workplace ill treatment, and has become the dominant way of conceptualising trouble at work. Workplace bullying is a problem for practitioners, academics, and most significantly, it is a problem for those who …

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Introduction Of Videotaping Of Interrogations And The Lessons Of The Imaichi Case: A Case Of Conventional Criminal Justice Policy-Making In Japan, Setsuo Miyazawa, Mari Hirayama Dec 2017

Introduction Of Videotaping Of Interrogations And The Lessons Of The Imaichi Case: A Case Of Conventional Criminal Justice Policy-Making In Japan, Setsuo Miyazawa, Mari Hirayama

Washington International Law Journal

Malcolm M. Feeley examined cases of criminal justice reform in the United States, where reforms can be conceived and initiated in a very open structure, but implementation of the introduced reforms can be handed over to highly fragmented implementers. The story of mandatory videotaping of interrogations and accompanying changes in Japan demonstrates the reform process at the other end of the scale, where the members of the criminal justice establishment can exert a strong influence even at the conception and initiation stages, and have even stronger control at the implementation and routinization stages. We believe that Feeley’s theoretical framework can …

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Uncloaking The Traffickers: Why The Communications Decency Act Needs To Be Amended To Reach Culpable Website Owners And Their Ilk, Gavrielle Kube Dec 2017

Uncloaking The Traffickers: Why The Communications Decency Act Needs To Be Amended To Reach Culpable Website Owners And Their Ilk, Gavrielle Kube

Journal of International Business and Law

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Changes In Functional Neural Network Organization During Working Memory Task Performance: Effects Of Age And Task Practice, Thang Manh Le Dec 2017

Changes In Functional Neural Network Organization During Working Memory Task Performance: Effects Of Age And Task Practice, Thang Manh Le

Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions)

The notion that cognitive processing is not only reflected by regional changes in neural activity in the brain but also by global changes in functional connectivity pattern has greatly motivated the network approach in examining the neural substrates of cognition and their relationship with behavior. Recent human neuroimaging evidence suggests specific cognitive processes may involve distinct spatiotemporal patterns of functional connectivity across task conditions. For instance, increased cognitive demand has been shown to evoke greater network integration while changes in functional network architecture have been associated with shifting between cognitive states. However, little is known about individual differences in the …

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Assertion And Its Many Norms, John N. Williams Dec 2017

Assertion And Its Many Norms, John N. Williams

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

Timothy Williamson offers the ordinary practice, the lottery and the Moorean argument for the ‘knowledge account’ that assertion is the only speech-act that is governed by the single ‘knowledge rule’ or norm, that one must know its content. I show that the emptiness of the knowledge account renders mysterious why breaking the knowledge rule should be a source of criticism. I then argue that focussing exclusively on the sincerity of the speech-act of letting one know engenders a category mistake about the nature of constraints on assertion. For Williamson and those in his tradition, assertion alls under purely epistemic norms. …

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Big Data In Social And Psychological Science: Theoretical And Methodological Issues, Lin Qiu, Sarah Hian May Chan, David Chan Dec 2017

Big Data In Social And Psychological Science: Theoretical And Methodological Issues, Lin Qiu, Sarah Hian May Chan, David Chan

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

Big data presents unprecedented opportunities to understand human behavior on a large scale. It has been increasingly used in social and psychological research to reveal individual differences and group dynamics. There are a few theoretical and methodological challenges in big data research that require attention. In this paper, we highlight four issues, namely data-driven versus theory-driven approaches, measurement validity, multi-level longitudinal analysis, and data integration. They represent common problems that social scientists often face in using big data. We present examples of these problems and propose possible solutions.

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Is Agent-Neutral Deontology Possible?, Matthew Hammerton Dec 2017

Is Agent-Neutral Deontology Possible?, Matthew Hammerton

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

It is commonly held that all deontological moral theories are agent-relative in the sense that they give each agent a special concern that she does not perform acts of a certain type rather than a general concern with the actions of all agents. Recently, Tom Dougherty has challenged this orthodoxy by arguing that agent-neutral deontology is possible. In this article I counter Dougherty's arguments and show that agent-neutral deontology is not possible.

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The Diffusion Of Tolerance: Birth Cohort Changes In The Effects Of Education And Income On Political Tolerance, Philip Schwadel, Christopher R. H Garneau Dec 2017

The Diffusion Of Tolerance: Birth Cohort Changes In The Effects Of Education And Income On Political Tolerance, Philip Schwadel, Christopher R. H Garneau

Department of Sociology: Faculty Publications

Political tolerance—the willingness to extend civil liberties to traditionally stigmatized groups—is pivotal to the functioning of democracy and the well-being of members of stigmatized groups. Although political tolerance has traditionally been more common among American elites, we argue that as tolerance has increased, it has also diffused to less educated and less affluent segments of the population. The relative stability of political attitudes over the life course and the socialization of more recent birth cohorts in contexts of increased tolerance suggest that this diffusion of tolerance occurs across birth cohorts rather than time periods. Using age-period-cohort models and more than …

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Macro-Level Diffusion Of A Methodological Knowledge Innovation: Research Synthesis Methods, 1972-2011, Laura Sheble Dec 2017

Macro-Level Diffusion Of A Methodological Knowledge Innovation: Research Synthesis Methods, 1972-2011, Laura Sheble

School of Information Sciences Faculty Research Publications

Use of research synthesis methods has contributed to changes in research practices. In disciplinary literatures, authors indicate motivations to use the methods include needs to (a) translate research-based knowledge to inform practice and policy decisions, and (b) integrate relatively large and diverse knowledge bases to increase the generality of results and yield novel insights or explanations. This review presents two histories of the diffusion of research synthesis methods: a narrative history based primarily in the health and social sciences; and a bibliometric overview across science broadly. Engagement with research synthesis was strongly correlated with evidence-based practice (EBP), and moderately with …

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Class Notes, Georgia Southern University Dec 2017

Class Notes, Georgia Southern University

Arts & Humanities: News & Publications (2009-2023)

No abstract provided.

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From Colorado To Ghana: Both A Neighbor And A Different World, Katherine Skowronski Dec 2017

From Colorado To Ghana: Both A Neighbor And A Different World, Katherine Skowronski

Jesuit Higher Education: A Journal

No abstract provided.

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Young Adult Literature And Empathy In Appalachian Adolescents, Kelsey R. Kiser Dec 2017

Young Adult Literature And Empathy In Appalachian Adolescents, Kelsey R. Kiser

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Based on recent research concluding that fiction can increase empathy, this project examines how multicultural young adult literature may encourage empathy in Appalachian adolescents. Empathy encourages prosocial behaviors, but evidence suggests that young adults’ ability to empathize has declined in recent decades. In addition, Appalachia in particular is still a relatively homogenous region as it is majority white, protestant Christian, and heteronormative. Because of this, young adults in Appalachia may encounter few diverse perspectives in real life; multicultural young adult literature can provide diverse perspectives with which teenagers can empathize in a region where they might not have similar opportunities …

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The Relationship Of School-Community Partnerships With Act Benchmark Scores In Rural Tennessee Schools, Kari Eubanks Dec 2017

The Relationship Of School-Community Partnerships With Act Benchmark Scores In Rural Tennessee Schools, Kari Eubanks

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this quantitative study was to determine if a relationship existed between the quality of school-community partnerships and the average score of each ACT subtest for rural Tennessee high school students. Specifically, the researcher examined the following school-community partnerships: business partnerships, university partnerships, service learning partnerships, school-linked service integration, and faith-based partnerships (Sanders, 2006). Administrators from 62 rural Tennessee high schools rated the partnerships present in their schools using the Improving Community Partnership Quality rating scale developed by Sanders (2006). Each of these ratings was compared to the participating school’s mean score for each ACT benchmark to determine …

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Book Review: Small Teaching: Everyday Lessons From The Science Of Learning (Lang, J.M., 2016, Jossey-Bass), Christina J. Davison Dec 2017

Book Review: Small Teaching: Everyday Lessons From The Science Of Learning (Lang, J.M., 2016, Jossey-Bass), Christina J. Davison

All Works

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The Relationship Between Teacher Self-Efficacy And Student Discipline Referrals Written By Secondary Teachers From A Rural School District In A Southern State, Edwin Laughter Dec 2017

The Relationship Between Teacher Self-Efficacy And Student Discipline Referrals Written By Secondary Teachers From A Rural School District In A Southern State, Edwin Laughter

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

The purpose of this quantitative correlational study was to determine the strength of the relationship between teacher self-efficacy and discipline referrals. Participants completed the Teachers’ Sense of Efficacy Scale, which was used as an operational definition of teacher self-efficacy. A Spearman’s correlation coefficient measured the relationship between the predictor variables: classroom management, student engagement, and instructional strategies, and the criterion variable of discipline referrals. Criterion variable data consisted of collected discipline referral records of participants from the participating school district. Data on predictor variables were measured by participant responses on the Teachers’ Sense of Efficacy Scale, which include the three …

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Teacher Efficacy Of Secondary Special Education Science Teachers, Celeste Bonton Dec 2017

Teacher Efficacy Of Secondary Special Education Science Teachers, Celeste Bonton

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

Students with disabilities are a specific group of the student population that are guaranteed rights that allow them to receive a free and unbiased education in an environment with their non-disabled peers. The importance of this study relates to providing students with disabilities with the opportunity to receive instruction from the most efficient and prepared educators. The purpose of this study is to determine how specific factors influence special education belief systems. In particular, educators who provide science instruction in whole group or small group classrooms in a large metropolitan area in Georgia possess specific beliefs about their ability to …

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The Impact Of Financial Aid On Graduation Rates For First-Year Developmental Community College Students In North Carolina, Eric Douglas Barnes Dec 2017

The Impact Of Financial Aid On Graduation Rates For First-Year Developmental Community College Students In North Carolina, Eric Douglas Barnes

Doctoral Dissertations and Projects

One of the most significant issues in post-secondary education is persistence. In community colleges, retention and graduation rates are very low. This is especially true for students enrolled in developmental English, reading, and/or math courses. The low cost of community college tuition and fees combined with financial need-based programs in the form of Pell Grants, give all students, including students academically unprepared who require developmental courses, access to a college education and the means to persist and complete a degree program. However, despite the financial resources, these students are not persisting and completing a degree program. This study will be …

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