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For Women Of Missoula: Menstruation And Refugees, Bella M. Spencer

Undergraduate Theses, Professional Papers, and Capstone Artifacts

Stigmatization, lack of accessible menstrual products, and an overall misconstrued sense of menstruation impact menstruators at a disproportionate rate. When delving into the literature, we found that refugee women not only faced stigmas and a lack of access to menstrual products and education, but also ran into cultural barriers and differing attitudes on menstruation. To address this issue, we formulated the idea of a menstrual drive. Instead of focusing on refugee menstruators as a whole, our focus will be the refugee population in Missoula, MT. We recognize that the stigmatization of menstruation is an ongoing global issue that affects many …

Teacher-Led Active Classroom Breaks To Improve Student On-Task Behavior: A Dose-Response Study, Abbey M. Riese

All Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Other Capstone Projects

Active Breaks (AB) are a classroom management strategy to increase student on-task behavior in elementary-aged general education populations. ABs are defined as short bouts of physical activity that take place between academic instructional periods. Research has focused on breaks with a dosage ranging from 4- to 15-min, with demonstrated positive effects. The current study aimed to address several gaps in the literature related to teacher implementation of breaks, dosage of breaks, and assessment of teacher and student acceptability and perceptions of ABs. The impact of teacher-led ABs on student on-task behavior was examined across two 3rd grade general education classrooms …

Giving Retakes Their Best Chance To Improve Learning., Thomas Data Guskey

Educational, School, and Counseling Psychology Faculty Publications

Assessment retakes can improve student learning if educators clear up a few misconceptions and avoid common missteps.

License Agreement, Lipscomb University

Policies and Forms

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Career Readiness For First Year General Education Students: A Curricular Pilot, Meredith Michaud, Sarah Dougher, Sarah Wolf Newlands, Alexander Sager, Connie Tran, Dana Lundell

University Studies Faculty Publications and Presentations

In winter 2023, University Studies formed a working group to develop and pilot embedded career readiness within first year general education courses. The working group collaborated to create and pilot the curriculum in spring 2023. After the pilot, the working group collected and analyzed student, faculty, and mentor observations and course evaluation data, identified key themes, made recommendations, and created an online repository and website interface for career readiness curriculum and resources.

The working group and pilot participants successfully developed curriculum and piloted it in their courses, gained feedback and insight from students, mentors, and faculty, and created resources for …

Lovingkindness Meditation: Effects On Teacher Burnout, Emotion Regulation, And Teacher-Student Interaction Quality, Maria Haji-Georgi

Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)

The quality of teacher-student interactions has important implications for students’ learning and development. The high demands placed on teachers can contribute to teacher stress and burnout, which have negative consequences on teacher well-being, retention, classroom climate, and instruction, impacting student outcomes. Research suggests that teachers’ well-being and social-emotional competence underlie their capacity and ability to effectively facilitate healthy teacher-student interactions and manage the classroom environment. The goal of this study was to test whether a brief and daily practice of lovingkindness meditation could reduce teacher burnout, improve emotion regulation, and enhance the quality of teacher-student interactions. This study’s sample included …

Synergic Concepts And Lexical Idiosyncrasies As Means Of Reconceptualization To Develop Bilingual Pragmatic Competence : A Study Of Sequential Bilingual Students In Different Sociocultural Contexts, Truong My Hanh Dinh

Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)

This dissertation uses the Conceptual Blending Hypothesis from the socio-cognitive method presented and refined by Kecskes (2002, 2004, 2007, 2010, 2020) to explain how the lexical choice of bilinguals differs across sociocultural situations. Quantitative (lexical density, lexical diversity, and lexical sophistication) and qualitative (lexical concepts) processes demonstrate this variance. Hence, the thesis shows the interplay between two aspects of the bilingual’s word choice, namely conceptualizing and selecting words in the linguistic system, which influence word choice in context (i.e. individual words via words used in essay writing). It is hypothesized that a conceptual blending of the sociocultural loads of the …

Sexual Reproductive Health Of Asian Indian American Women, Pooja Chugh-Clayton

Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)

Asian Indian Americans (AIA) represent the least understood ethnic minority regarding sexual health practices in the United States and the fastest growing population among all Asian groups. Public health practitioners face gaps in understanding communication styles and perceptions concerning sexual and reproductive health within the AIA community. Current researchers strongly associate transparency and openness in parent-child relationships as attributable to better and healthier sexual attitudes and choices in young adults (Romo et al., 2011). Sexual and reproductive health information traditionally stems from one's parents. Little is known about parent-child communication regarding sexuality and reproductive health within the Asian Indian community …

Elementary Students Co-Constructing Meaning During Read Alouds With Picture E-Books, Colleen Marie Monaco

Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)

Educators need to provide students with opportunities to engage with digital texts to support their development in becoming digitally literate (Plowman et al., 2012). The purpose of this practitioner research inquiry was to explore how teachers can support readers in the meaning-making process during read alouds with picture e-books, which contain multimodal, digital features that can encourage interactions with readers and texts (Aliagas & Margallo, 2017; Schugar et al., 2016). I drew on post-humanism and multimodal literacy to examine these research questions: (1) What multimodal features invited the third-grade students and me to interact with one another and picture e-books …

College Decisions And Earnings Over The Life Cycle: The Effects Of Timing, Ruirui Sun

Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)

Using a rich and unique nationally representative sample of a cohort of young adults selected in the late 1970s and surveyed routinely through the 2010s, this study characterizes patterns in college enrollment with respect to the timing of initial enrollment, enrollment interruptions, and graduation (or non-completion) and investigates the relationship between such timing decisions and earnings trajectories from high school graduation to more than 30 years later. The study relies on information collected through the U.S. Department of Labor’s National Longitudinal Study of Youth 1979 (NLSY79) with details on college attendance, work and earnings at each follow-up, background characteristics on …

Evaluating Effects Of Teleconsultation On Knowledge And Implementation Of Self-Monitoring With Students With Autism Spectrum Disorder, Ericka Lynn Pier

Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of teleconsultation on knowledge and implementation of self-monitoring interventions with students with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in a general education classroom setting. Participants were special education teachers employed at a public elementary school in the Capital Region of New York State, who work with at least 1 student with a disability classification of Autism. It was hypothesized that participants’ knowledge of self-monitoring interventions with students with ASD would increase following participation in a virtual in-service training, and that participants would report greater implementation of self-monitoring interventions with their elementary-age students …

Classification Accuracy Of I-Ready Diagnostic For High-Stakes Exam Outcomes For Elementary School Students, Kayla Campana

Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)

The purpose of the present study was to compare the classification accuracy of a previous year’s end-of-year state assessment, a computer-adaptive diagnostic assessment (i-Ready), and the combination of the previous year’s end-of-year state assessment with the following year’s i-Ready performance to predict the rate of students passing or failing the following year’s end-of-year state assessment in English Language Arts (ELA) and math. This was conducted to determine whether i-Ready as an additional screening measure is necessary to identify students who are at-risk of failing the upcoming end-of-year assessment and are in need of tiered intervention supports, or if the previous …

The Effects Of Sources Of Revenue On Efficiency In Higher Education In The United States, Dan Phung Nguyen

Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)

This study has as its aim an exploration of the effects of sources of funding on efficiency in higher education. The question of interest in this study is the extent to which differences among campuses in “demand-side” revenue as a share of all revenues is associated with differences in efficiency, by type of college or university and over time. This is an empirical study, relying on quantitative analysis of campus-level information to explore the associations of interest. The study extends conventional measures of instructional efficiency, both by attributing portions of resources in student services, academic support and institutional support to …

Expectations For Success Impact On Achievement, Gregory Fields

Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)

EXPECTATIONS FOR SUCCESS IMPACT ON ACHIEVEMENTABSTRACT The intransigence of the achievement gaps in schools in this nation and in the school districts in which I served as a building administrator or district support staff member was the motivation for conducting this examination of the role of expectations for success relative to achievement on assessments. This study investigated the possible associations of how different categories of expectations for success, racial demographics, and school contexts may provide insight into persistence of racially identified achievement gaps and in confounding efforts to narrow those gaps. In addition, this study differed from numerous studies, some …

Building And Sustaining Trust During The Covid-19 Pandemic: Lessons In P-12 Educational Leadership, C. Fred Engelhardt Jr.

Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)

Trust has been called the “lubricant for social and interpersonal interactions” and “vital for individuals working together to create effective systems.” Organizations were challenged with considering how to adapt and innovate practices during COVID-19 in order to achieve their purpose and mission, continue their effectiveness towards that end, all while being cognizant of the health and safety of their members. Educational institutions were concurrently required to adopt remote instructional practices, adhere to strict safety and health measures, consider the effects of social-emotional health, while encouraging the ongoing learning of students. Courageous building principals and district leaders encouraged new practices, supported …

The Field Of International Education: Identifying Discrete Knowledge Communities, 2000-2019, Chengyan Meng

Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)

This study seeks to identify Knowledge Communities (KC) in the field of InternationalEducation (IE). Kuhn’s concept of research paradigms (2012), Crane’s theory of scientific communities (1988), and Linkvist’s theory of knowledge communities (2005) provide theoretical basis of this study. Using a novel, mixed methodology – bibliometrics and content analysis – this study identifies KCs among both IE researchers and practitioners. Researcher Knowledge Communities (RKCs) were identified using the research Community Model (RCM) developed by Klavand and Boyack (2009, 2010, 2017, 2019, 2020) and data from all journals and books published between 2000 to May 2019 and catalogued in Scopus. Practitioner …

Understanding The Short-Term And Long-Term Academic Outcomes Of College Students Displaced By Natural Disasters: A Statistical Case Study, Lourdes Rebecca Hann

Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)

This study seeks to understand the effectiveness of impact mitigation strategies developed to assist college students displaced by institutional closure following a natural disaster. A case-study approach focuses on a subset of students displaced by Hurricane Katrina, who enrolled at Syracuse University for the Fall 2005 semester. The study found that Katrina students who availed themselves of this opportunity resided in zip codes with relatively high household incomes when compared to non-Katrina transfer students and therefore were likely to be from households of higher socioeconomic status. The study also found that there was no international student representation in the sample …

Mindfulness And The Making Of Meaning In The Lives Of Teachers, Matthew Mcnaught Livingston

Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)

This dissertation examines the effect of a Buddhist-based program of mindfulness, taught as part of the curriculum of a graduate program, on the relationship of teacher-practitioners with their work. Collecting data on the experiences of three cohorts over a nearly three-year period, this longitudinal case study examines the experiences of participants through the lens of the Mindfulness to Meaning Theory. The results of the study indicate that eudaimonic meaning, the importance of a life lived well, virtuously, and in a way that is perceived as suitable to one’s values, ideals and expectations (Ryff, 2014; Fowers, 2016) is important in both …

Understandings Of Audience In First Year Composition, Mary Josephine Morgan

Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)

While understanding the concept of audience is an important step in learning to write, few studies have explored how student writers conceptualize audience in academic and nonacademic settings. This dissertation explores how college students enrolled in a first-year composition course conceptualize and operationalize audience and examines how the school context mediates students’ knowledge of audience. Nine students participated in the study, and data was collected from semi-structured interviews, classroom observations, and relevant documents. Findings suggest that student conceptions of audience are more sophisticated and complex than previously thought. Additionally, students used a variety of strategies to analyze and adapt their …

Effects Of Mobile Technology Distraction On College Students' Recall Test Performance: A Meta-Analysis, Quan Chen

Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)

Mobile technology distraction refers to cognitive distraction due to both attention dividing and attention switching between off-task mobile technology activities (e.g., texting and emailing) and learning activities (e.g., attending to lectures and reading textbooks). Given the prevalence and complexity of mobile technology distraction, this meta-analysis aims to statistically synthesize empirical findings from 27 experimental studies and estimate the effects of mobile technology distraction on college students’ recall test performance. The overall analysis of combined recall scores indicated a significant negative medium-sized effect of mobile technology distraction, Hedges’s g = -0.59, under the Robust Variance Estimation (RVE) model. The subgroup analysis …

The Power Of Place, And How It Helps To Shape Our Society, Emma Mei Kudelka

First-Year Summer Reading Program Essay Contest

This piece was created to explain the values of the power of a place, and how it relates to Illinois Wesleyan’s enriching and diverse curriculum through an analysis of various liberal arts texts.

The Impact Of Professional Development On Specially Designed Instruction For Students With A Specific Learning Disability, Stacy H. Huffman

Doctor of Education Dissertations

This research study, rooted in the theoretical framework of phenomenology, examined the impact of professional development related to specially designed instruction for students with a learning disability in reading. Teachers of students who had mastered at least 50% of their IEP goals in reading or had exited from special education services were the participants in this study. In addition to the teachers, administrators and district staff who worked with these teachers and students were included. Through a mixed methods research design, 47 participants were surveyed using Qualtrics, and 14 participants were interviewed. Findings demonstrated that professional development related to specially …

Middle School Teacher Perceptions Of The Impact Of The Covid-19 Pandemic, Sherria La Vonne Grubbs

Doctor of Education Dissertations

This paper examines the perceptions of middle school teachers on the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on student achievement, attendance and enrollment, mental health, and social and economic factors. Allowing the voices of the middle school teachers to be heard was important to this study because it helped to identify some key themes of the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on education. For this qualitative research study, a survey was created with Google Forms and a focus group discussion was implemented using the zoom platform to gather and collect data for this study. 67 middle school teachers were invited to …

Navigating Through Systems That Create Inequities: Elementary Teacher Perceptions, Sarah Rector

Doctor of Education Dissertations

This qualitative case study was designed to explore elementary teacher perceptions of what it means to provide an equitable education for their students. These perceptions allow educational leaders insight into how teachers navigate systems that create inequities and what professional development may be needed to further support equitable learning in the classroom. K-5 certified teachers were interviewed twice to gather data on their understanding of educational equity and the correlation between classroom and state testing. Four findings emerged from this study: (a) educators believed that providing an equitable education would create successful adults, (b) educators gained cultural experiences by having …

Teacher Perceptions Of The Connections Between Social And Emotional Learning And Student Success, Beth Ann Hoistad Washle

Doctor of Education Dissertations

This qualitative study was about teacher perceptions of how incorporating social and emotional learning addresses the social-emotional needs of students and relates to student success. Teacher perceptions help inform educational leaders and policy makers about the impact social and emotional learning can have on students and their success. The findings of this study led to three emerging themes. Those themes were teachers believe (a) there needs to be direct instruction in social and emotional skills; (b) social and emotional learning helps students academically by becoming self-driven, taking ownership of their learning and actions, building confidence, and persevering through challenging work; …

(2023) Alexander Von Humboldt: Explorer, Naturalist, And Environmental Pioneer (2019) By Danica Novgorodoff, Peter Shea

Collected Papers of Peter Shea

As a young boy, Alexander Von Humboldt came up with divergent questions about the birds and mountains and animals he saw, and brought all those questions together under two big questions that stayed important for him over a long life: “How are these things different?” and “How are they nevertheless connected?” As the reader watches Humboldt looking at a hawk and a mouse, volcanoes and farmland, palm trees and pine trees, Europe and Ecuador, Europeans and Indigenous people, one comes to expect what he will say: “They are different, and yet they are connected.” This idea is much bigger than …

The Agile College: How Institutions Successfully Navigate Demographic Changes, Andrew J. Cornelius

Growth: The Journal of the Association for Christians in Student Development

Andrew J. Cornelius reviews The Agile College: How Institutions Successfully Navigate Demographic Changes by Nathan D. Grawe, published by John Hopkins University Press, 2021.

Growth: 22 (2023)

Growth: The Journal of the Association for Christians in Student Development

The full issue of the twenty-second edition of Growth: The Journal of the Association for Christians in Student Development.

The Lived Religious Experience Of Black Students At A Southeastern Cccu Institution, Harold Goss

Growth: The Journal of the Association for Christians in Student Development

The overall purpose of this qualitative study was to better understand the religious experiences of Black students at a Council for Christian Colleges & Universities (CCCU) institution. The researcher interviewed 22 participants at a private Christian university and analyzed the data using in vivo coding, constant comparison, and thematic analysis. Findings suggest formal religious activities that are required and presumed by the institution to be nurturing can have the opposite effect for some Black students at the institution. The researcher identified three major themes regarding how Black students perceive and experience religious activity. The themes provide helpful insight regarding participants’ …

Embodied: Transgender Identities, The Church, And What The Bible Has To Say, Kaleigh Richardson

Growth: The Journal of the Association for Christians in Student Development

Kaleigh Richardson reviews Embodied: Transgender Identities, the Church, and What the Bible Has to Say by Preston Sprinkle, published by David C. Cook, 2021.