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A Defense Of Epistemic Invariantism And Intellectualism, Lucas Lockard

Wayne State University Dissertations

The traditional view of knowledge includes two plausible claims. The first claim is that the truth-conditions required to know some proposition p do not vary. So, for any two subjects who have the same epistemic position regarding p, either both know that p or both do not know that p. An implication of this invariantist position is that any difference in knowledge will be explained by a difference in their epistemic position. The second claim is that only epistemic or ‘truth-conducive’ reasons are relevant to considerations of knowledge. This intellectualist position has recently come under attack from those who argue …

Toward A Theory Of Work: Personal Responsibility, Self-Regulation, And Identity In The Age Of America’S Work Crisis, Katrina Newsom

Wayne State University Dissertations

ABSTRACT

TOWARD A THEORY OF WORK: PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY, SELF-REGULATION, AND IDENTITY IN THE AGE OF AMERICA’S WORK CRISIS

by

KATRINA NEWSOM

May 2018

Advisor: Dr. Sarika Chandra

Major: English

Degree: Doctor of Philosophy

Toward a Theory of Work: Personal Responsibility, Self-Regulation, and Identity in the Age of America’s Work Crisis examines how American culture grapples with work in the Postfordist era of production, particularly in the areas of ethnic, working-class, cultural, and literary studies. Specific to these areas are ideas of (personal) responsibility that take shape in concepts of self-regulation invented to function as both a direct and indirect redress …

Tomorrows Disability Officer - A Cornerstone On The Universal Design Campus ‘There Are No Strangers Here – Only Friends You Haven’T Met Yet” - W B Yeats, Mary Quirke, Patricia Mccarthy, Declan Treanor, Conor Mc Guckin

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This paper will explore the evolution of one of the key roles on campus for students with a disability in the context of Universal Design for Learning - that of the Disability Officer. The role of Disability Officer, while neither a teacher or a learner – is primarily occupied with all those engaged in making learning accessible. It is a role that is very much part of the learning experience for any student with a disability. The challenge for Disability Officers on a UDL campus is that while they are part of the learning environment on campus they - similar …

Universal Design In The Education System: Training Of Professionals As A Key To The Success Of A Tourism Without Exclusion, M. Dolores Muñoz De Dios, Yolanda M. De La Fuente Robles

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Abstract. Abstract, The World Tourism Organization promotes Accessible Tourism with aiming at developing the tourist industry through accessibility, sustainability and technology from a social innovation perspective, thus making it crucial for education institutions to take interest in all relevant changes brought about by the changing needs of society. Tourism is a key driving force regarding socioeconomic progress, as well as an activity that has comprehensive impact in all service areas. Therefore, taking into consideration that universal accessibility and design for all individuals makes life more confortable, it is essential to provide certain guarantees so individuals can live with full rights …

The Experiment Of Community Involvement In A Project Planning Within The Historical Context Of Rome City, Francesca Bozza

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The PhD student proposes a method of community involvement in the planning and in the regeneration of historical centers, in support of the city’s ac-cessibility and people’s well-being. The outcomes of the research are the analysis and the studies conducted over three years with people with sensory, physical and cognitive impairments on the sustainable mobility of historical spaces of Rome, thanks to an agreement between the Phd Student Start up Research Project fi-nanced by Sapienza, Università di Roma and the Municipality of Rome. Citizens are involved in the analysis process: they communicate their opinions, impres-sions, perceptions and needs related to …

Adopting More Diverse Models Of Organisation In Higher Education- The Implications For Institutional Strategy., Tom Doyle

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A universal approach to strategy formulation in higher education implies one that is fit for the many and complex contingencies faced by that institution. Reviews of current form of strategising indicate that the present approach to strategic management falls short of meeting that criterion. The paper suggests that this deficiency might be addressed by adopting a much more fluid perception of the university as an organisation and devising a form of strategic management that that takes greater account of the paradoxical nature of the institution and the environment in which it operates. It argues that deficiencies in the present form …

Designing The Transition To Higher Education For Students From Under-Represented Groups, Trevor Vaugh, Martha Brandes, Gemma Lynch, Olivia Mcneill, Alyssa Brigham

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Universities are increasingly seeking to open access routes and identify ways of encouraging under-represented groups to consider higher education as an option. This cohort of students often have distinct challenges associated with disability, maturity and socioeconomic disadvantage. Maynooth University, through the Maynooth University access programme (MAP) and the Launchpad Orientation Programme (Launchpad), has proven successful in supporting these groups, helping them transition into and through higher education. Unfortunately the challenges associated with under-represented groups can lead to increased, often unarticulated difficulties, resulting in greater reliance on services and higher dropout rates compared to the average student. We discuss here a …

An Analysis Of The Relationship Between Teacher Perception Of Community Support And Involvement At Their School And Student Rates Of Attendance, Graduation And Academic Proficiency, Sandra Hamer Smith

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The purpose of this study was to explore the relationships between educators perceptions of the quality of community support and involvement at their high schools and five longitudinally measured indices of school effectiveness. Given a sample of 248 Tennessee high schools, secondary data derived from the Community Support and Involvement subsection of the Teaching, Empowering, Leading, and Learning (TELL) Questionnaire Survey administered in 2013 were merged with concurrent student attendance, student graduation, and student achievement outcomes archived and made publically available on the Tennessee Department of Education website.After controlling for the impact of student and faculty demographic variables, hierarchical multiple …

Exploring The Effects Of Video Formats On Teaching, Social, And Cognitive Presence In Asynchronous Online Discussions, Michelle Rudolph

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Since student retention in online courses is related to the students community, this dissertation explores the effect of discussion board prompt format on students sense of community of inquiry (CoI). The quasi-experimental study design examined the participation levels, sense of CoI (i.e., social, teaching, and cognitive presence), and final grade of nontraditional, fully online undergraduate students in an entry-level graphic design course in the Graphic Arts Department at a fully online college. The study involved 90 undergraduate students in the Graphic Arts Department at a fully online college. The study consisted of four groups: one control group who experienced the …

Role Of Breastfeeding Duration, Maternal Smoking During Pregnancy, And Dna-Methylation For The Risk Of Eczema, Nandini Mukherjee

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Prior studies linking breastfeeding duration and maternal gestational smoking, respectively, to offspring eczema report contradictory findings. However, it is not known whether maternal gestational smoking and breastfeeding duration can jointly influence eczema and whether these exposures mediate their effect on eczema via DNA Methylation (DNA-M) of CpG (cytosine-phosphate-guanine) sites. With data from the Isle of Wight (IOW) birth cohort, UK, we first evaluated the combined effect of maternal gestational smoking and breastfeeding duration on eczema at ages 1-to-2 (n=980), 4 (n=902), 10 (n=966), and 18 years (n=929) using Generalized estimating equations (GEE). We found a protective effect of longer duration …

Diagnosticity And Effects Of Haptic Cues In Service Contexts, Subhash Jha

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While prior research has shown that haptic stimuli may influence many aspects of consumer behavior, the role of haptic cues in service context has not been explored. In two essays, this dissertation fills this void and finds that a simple haptic cue can positively influence perceptions and behavior in servicescape. Essay 1 examines the importance of haptic cues in shaping service quality perceptions. Through four studies - in the context of a bank, an airline, a restaurant and a health club - it extends understanding by examining the impact of different types of cues (e.g., hardness, weight, and texture) on …

The Linguistic Turn In Composition History And Students' Right To Their Own Language, Elizabeth 1. Baddour

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Elizabeth Baddour, Ph.D. The University of Memphis. May 2018. The Linguistic Turn in Composition History and Students’ Right to Their Own Language. Professor: Joseph Jones, Ph.D. “The Linguistic Turn in Composition History and Students’ Right to Their Own Language” examines the seventeen-year period of 1957 to 1974 to explore the role of what has been come to be known as the linguistic turn in making way for the acceptance of alternative dialects, affirmed with the Conference on College Composition and Communication’s (CCCC) Students’ Right to Their Own Language (SRTOL) Resolution in 1974. Linguistics was instrumental in enriching the ways writing …

Exploration Of The Experiences Of Self-Identified Lesbian Division I Student-Athletes In The United States, Meghan Pfeiffer

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In the world of Division I intercollegiate athletics, much remains to be understood about self-identified lesbian student-athletes experiences, educational practices, and conditions that promote their development. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to examine the academic and sport experiences of self-identified lesbian Division I student-athletes in the United States. In addition, the study aimed to understand how strategies used by lesbian Division I student-athletes helped establish or increase the level of comfortability and inclusivity within both environments. The research questions that guided this study were as follows: 1. How do self-identified lesbian Division I student-athletes experience their higher education …

Education On The Inside: Incarcerated Students' Perceptions Of Correctional Education Programs, Stephanie Cage

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The United States has alarmingly high incarceration and recidivism rates. Many of those incarcerated have less education than their general population counterparts. Correctional education programs have a proven ability to reduce incarceration and recidivism rates by helping rehabilitate people. Current research on incarcerated students primarily focuses on the external benefits of correctional education programs such as recidivism. A limited amount of research is represented in the literature on incarcerated students’ perceptions about their academic experiences. The purpose of this study was to explore incarcerated students’ perceptions regarding their correctional education experiences. The study particularly investigated students at a Louisiana correctional …

The Investigation Of The Relationships Between Teacher Job Satisfaction And Retention And Green's Four-Dimensional Model Of Educational Leadership, Susan Farris

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The purpose of this study was to investigate relationships between teachers perceptions of their schools implementation of Greens four-dimensional model of educational leadership, their level of satisfaction with their schools as a good place to work and learn and their intent to remain professionally employed there. Represented by responses to twenty items selected from the 2013 state-wide administration of the Teaching, Empowering, Leading, and Learning survey in Tennessee (TELL Tennessee), school-level means at 248 high schools were obtained for each of four five-item scales that were intended to measure each dimension of Greens model. Along with a grand mean computed …

Investigating L2 Writers' Investment Toward Constructing A Successful Writer Identity: Case Studies Of Arab Students From Saudi Arabia Studying In U.S., Badreyya Rashed Alkhanbooli

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This study focused on how three Saudi students at a University of Memphis in the U.S. constructed their academic writer identities. The purposes of this study, grounded in sociocultural, constructivism, and discourse theory, were to (a) understand how similar or different were the discourse writing practices in their L1 community (Saudi Arabia) to those writing practices in the L2 community (United States), (b) determine their individual investment in writing academic papers according to writing convention of the L2 community, and (c) elicit aspects of writer identity in their different academic papers written for different courses. I conducted a qualitative case …

An Experimental Study On The Effects Of The Showcase Assignment: Treating Public Speaking Anxiety Through The Use Of Experiential Learning And Self-Disclosure Theories, Amelia Sanders

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This experimental study reviewed the efficacy of a new classroom tool known as the Showcase Assignment. This assignment reduces public speaking anxiety in the public speaking classroom. This assignment asked students to pick a talent (poetry reading, singing, etc.) that is important to them in some way, give a brief description of what their talent is, disclose its importance to them, and perform it in front of the class. This study was based on literature related to communication apprehension, experiential learning and self-disclosure theories, and classroom environment. This study used pre-test post-test survey methodology of 179 students, split into treatment …

"Can You Hear Me Now?": The Role Of Hip-Hop In The Identity And Personal Epistemology Of Black Girls, Ashley Nicole Payne

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Hip-hop has been shown to be a significant force of identity, knowledge, and cultural development, particularly for Black youth (Brown, 2009; Emdin, 2010; Hill, 2009; Love, 2012). Building on research surrounding identity and knowledge development within hip-hop, this Black/hip-hop feminist research study seeks to understand the role that hip-hop plays in the lives, identity and personal epistemology of Black adolescent girls. The following research questions guided this study: (1) What role does hip-hop (i.e., rap, dance, and graffiti) play in the lives of Black girls? (2) How does hip-hop inform racial and gendered identity for Black girls? (3) How do …

The Relationship Between The Perceived Implementation Of Green's Four-Dimensional Model Of Educational Leadership And Students' Proficiency In Basic Skills, Josie Currie

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The purpose of this study is to investigate relationships between elementary-level educators perceptions of their schools implementation of Greens four-dimensional model of educational leadership and the percentage of students proficient in Language Arts and in Mathematics, averaged over three years. Represented by responses to twenty items selected from the 2013 state-wide administration of the Teaching, Empowering, Leading, and Learning survey in Tennessee (TELL Tennessee), school-level means at 1,187 elementary schools were obtained for each of four five-item scales that were intended to measure each dimension of Greens model. Along with a grand mean computed across all twenty items and denoting …

Effect Of Simulated Patients Versus Peer Role-Play On Physical Therapist Student Clinical Reasoning And Confidence, Jacque Lynn Bradford

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The use of simulated patients is a developing instructional strategy in physical therapy education (PTE) programs. However, it is unknown if using simulated patients during instruction yields better outcomes than the traditional use of peer role-play. This two-arm randomized, experimental design investigated the effect of type of simulation-based instruction, simulated patients compared to peer role-play, on clinical reasoning and confidence of students enrolled in an entry-level PTE program learning patient transfer skills. Upon the conclusion of two instructional sessions, clinical reasoning was measured by the Think Aloud Standardized Patient Examination (TASPE) during a simulation experience. Student confidence in performing future …

Three Voices, One Goal: A Narrative Study Of High School Facilitators' Experience In A Community Of Practice, Ebony Briggs

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Special education and general education teachers must work collaboratively in a single classroom that serves the diverse needs of all children due to federal regulations such as the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 and the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act of 2004. Evidence-based practices that foster collaboration are scarce. The purpose of this narrative inquiry research was to explore the perceptions of a team of educators which consists of a general education teacher, special education teacher, and an administrator on how their experience of participating in a community of practice is beneficial to addressing collaboration needs of team …

Cultural Influence On Employee Turnover: A Multi-Level Meta-Analytic Investigation, Qing Ma

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The present study meta-analytically analyzed the role of national culture in moderating relationships between turnover criterion (turnover behavior and turnover rates) and its correlates at the individual and collective level, and tested the relative strength of such relationships and cultural effects between levels. Results based on 175 independent samples (N=93113) from 26 countries indicate that relationship(s) of turnover criterion with a) job satisfaction and continuance commitment are stronger in individualistic countries, b) affective commitment is stronger in feminine countries, c) normative commitment is stronger in collectivistic countries, d) shared job attitudes is stronger in egalitarian countries, and e) job embeddedness …

Learning From Errors In The Adaptive Mathematics Tutoring System, Jun Xie

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Errors are considered to play a crucial role in facilitating self-reflection and knowledge acquisition. Nevertheless, nowadays how students benefit from errors in learning is still open to debate. That is, help is superior to practice for learning from errors or not. The goal of this dissertation is to systematically explore how students use help and practice to learn from errors in ALEKS (i.e. Assessment and LEarning in Knowledge Spaces), an adaptive math learning system. Based on the theoretical framework, the learning phase theory, this dissertation defined strategies to learn from errors in three types: help strategy (requesting worked examples in …

Measurement Of Organizational Commitment In Adjunct Instructors Teaching Within A Mid-South Community College System Based On Hiring Orientation Characteristics, Jennifer Lee Knott

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The United States community college student population is a broad demographic that continues to grow. The result is a higher demand for classes and an increasing reliance of college administrators on temporary, part-time adjunct instructors. Temporary employees are found to exhibit a low organizational commitment (OC) to their employers. The social exchange theory and the concept of reciprocity served as the framework for studying OC of adjunct instructors in a mid-south community college system. A regression analysis was conducted to examine the relationship between three hiring orientation characteristics and OC, while controlling for years of teaching experience. Each variable was …

Arachidonoyl Serotonin (Aa-5-Ht) Modulates Exploratory Anxiety-Related Behavior And Tunes Mesolimbic Dopamine Transmission, Timothy Glenn Freels

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Cannabinergic and vanilloidergic signaling are mechanisms of interest for the treatment of anxiety symptoms due to the anxiolytic properties of cannabinoid type 1 receptor (CB1R) activation and transient potential vanilloid type 1 channel (TRPV1) inhibition. Arachidonoyl serotonin (AA-5-HT), a dual fatty acid amide hydrolase and TRPV1 inhibitor provides an efficient means of modulating these systems. We therefore examined the effects of AA-5-HT on anxiety- and fear-like behaviors in male low (C57BL/6J; [B6]) and high (BALB/cJ; [BCJ]) anxiety mice in light/dark box (LDB), open-field (OF), and fear extinction (FE) paradigms. AA-5-HT (1 mg/kg) administration did not affect anxiety-related behaviors in the …

An Analysis Of The Relationship Between Teachers' Perceptions Of School Disciplinary Climate And Five Organizational Productivity Measures, Jason Bolden

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The purpose of this study was to investigate relationships between five school productivity measures at 248 Tennessee high schools and educators perceptions of these institutions climate for student discipline. Grounded in archived accountability information stored on the Tennessee Department of Education (TDOE) website, these five productivity measures were the student attendance, graduation, suspension, event dropout, and cohort dropout rates computed for the 2012-2013 academic year. For these same institutions, the perceived disciplinary climate was calculated from responses to a seven-item section on managing student conduct appearing on the 2013 state-wide administration of the Teaching, Empowering, Leading, and Learning survey in …

Development And Validation Of A Career Resilience Scale For Adults With Disabilities, Eric Suedmeyer

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Adults with disabilities face multiple internal, social, and systemic barriers that hamperefforts to attain and maintain meaningful employment. In order to achieve success in vocational pursuits, individuals with disabilities must demonstrate perseverance in the face of probable adversity; this construct is career resilience. No scale has been developed to measure a persons career resilience that is specifically tailored to people with disabilities. The purpose of this study was to develop an instrument to measure the career resilience of adults with disabilities. After creating the Career Resilience for Adults with Disabilities Scale (CRADS), two studies were conducted to evaluate the scale. …

Predictors Of Body Dissatisfaction In Trans Men And Women, Emily Lynne Brown

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Body dissatisfaction has been found to affect individuals regardless of gender or sexual identity. However, research on body dissatisfaction among transgender men and women is lacking despite findings that these individuals experience body dissatisfaction to a greater extent than cisgender men and women. This study used hierarchical regression to explore whether factors associated with Objectification Theory, ones experience of gender related violence, whether one has undergone medical transition, and the extent to one identifies with stereotypical feminine or masculine norms predicted body dissatisfaction in a sample of 140 transgender men and 94 transgender women women. Results suggest that factors related …

Polishing Gems: A Supplemental Curriculum For Developing The Musical Literacy And Musical Expression Skills Of Junior High Flute Students, Jennifer Lynn Amox

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This study determines the content for a supplemental curriculum designed to improve musical literacy and musical expression skills using the Arkansas School Band and Orchestra (ASBOA) all-state junior high flute etudes. It addresses the first two steps (analysis of practical problems and development of possible solutions) of a Design-Based Research (DBR) project. The author intends to address the third and fourth steps (iterative cycles of testing and refinement and reflection and enhancement) in future research studies. A pilot study identified technical and interpretive deficiencies exhibited in nine (N = 9) student audition recordings using excerpts from the ASBOA etudes. A …

Influence Of Quality Matters™ Professional Development On Faculty Members' Perceptions Of Design Standards And Their Course Development Abilities, Rhonda Gregory

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Distance education quality assurance is a concern throughout the literature. Standards such as the Quality Matters (QM) Higher Education Rubric, 5th edition, are meant to support course design quality assurance. Professional development is associated with quality assurance initiatives, including the goal to transform facultys instructional practices. Some community college faculty members who create online and hybrid courses participate in the Applying the Quality Matters Rubric (APPQMR) training to learn how to apply the QM rubric. While the literature provides many in-house training program evaluations, there is a research gap about community college faculty experiences in APPQMR and what influence it …