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Dissertations

Dissertations completed by doctoral students at the University of Northern Colorado. Older dissertations can be found using the library catalog.

Dissertations from 2012 2012

"It Was Beautiful, But It Wasn't Supposed To Be There": Spirituality In The Work Lives of Higher Education Administrative Leaders, Laura Beer

Voice of a Fifth-Year High School Student: An Exploration Of The Journey To Achieving A Diploma, Joan L. Bludorn

Shaping Attitudes Towards Psychological Services, Lisa M. Bobby

Look inside firefighter families: a qualitative study, Catherine Phillips Carrico

Development of the simulation thinking rubric, Jessica Doolen

Educational experiences and the professional reintegration of registered nurses returning for baccalaureate degrees, Katrina Sue Einhellig

Finding pedagogical strategies for combined classical and jazz saxophone applied studies at the college level, Ulf J. Eriksson

Equity and charter schools in public education, James Bradford Every

Cultural diversity and the experiences of Alaska native nursing students, Margaret Gilmon

Perceptions of special educators on disproportionate representation, Troy Daniel Gonzales

Interregnum: an original work incorporating archaic compositional elements, with a study of "Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis" by Ralph Vaughan Williams, Alta E. Graham

Million dollar plus donors within intercollegiate athletics: A qualitative analysis of donor motivations, Nancy Carol Hixson

Road less travelled: tracing the path of first-generation students from rural areas to college, Michelle C. Hodsdon

Relationship among self-esteem, romantic attachment, gender, and safe sex behaviors in emerging adults, Erica L. Hope

Attitudes of Taiwanese employees toward their support co-workers with intellectual disabilities, Tsu-Hsuan Hsu

Taiwanese Master of Business Administration (MBA) students' attitudes toward people with disabililties, Ying-Ting Huang

Male counseling students' perceptions of female clients, peers, and faculty, Jody L. Huntington

Musical signification of three Jungian archetypes found in children's opera, Jeff Kensmoe

Study of two biblical choral symphonies with an original composition, Gregory Klug

Study exploring the relationship between personal trauma, gender, and the experience of vicarious trauma among counseling professionals, Kristin Danielle Kushmider

Supervision in applied counseling settings: a socially constructed grounded theory, Thomas D. Lonneman Doroff

Dissociative experiences, subclinical anxiety and perceived level of psychological distress in a nonclinical population, Denise L. Lucia

Using the learners-as-ethnographers approach to enhance intercultural learning among American college students learning Chinese as a foreign language, Minhui M. Lu

Experimental investigation of hand and finger usage in braille reading, Loana K. Mason

Investigation of preservice teachers' perceptions of locus of control, self-regulation, and motivation in online learning, Sung-Ho Min

Examination of selected choral music of Judith Bingham, Marjorie A. Monroe-Fischer

Night music: The twentieth century nocturne in piano teaching, Jessica L. Murdock

Learning to spike in volleyball with verbal and visually-enhanced feedback, Michael Claude Rhoads

Resiliency with pre-adjudicated females, Lori Ann Romont

Response of riparian areas of the shortgrass steppe to anthropogenic disturbance and assessment of students' changed understanding of ecosystem reclamation through experience, Michael Henry Schiebout

Development of Mennonite music in the Congo: A study in musical thought, Jill Michelle Schroeder-Dorn

Professional basketball consumer behavior: an analysis of the NBA servicscape, atmospheric music and attendee attitudes, emotional responses, and behaviors, Crystal Southall

High-fidelity simulation in nursing practice: the impact on nurses' knowledge retention, satisfaction, and self-confidence, Nicole Decuir Square

Theater percussion: developing a twenty-first-century genre through the connection of visual, dramatic, and percussive arts, Julie J. Strom

I still have to overcome just being captured inside myself: The experience and meaning of peritraumatic tonic immobility among survivors of sexual violence, Sunda Friedman TeBockhorst

Principal leadership and the Colorado Innovation Schools Act of 2008, Margaret A. Walsh

Social involvement, existential awareness, and perceived vulnerability in older adults, Maria Zarlengo

Dissertations from 2011 2011

Students' knowledge construction and attitudes toward synchronous videoconferencing in an online collaborative problem-based learning environment, Chatchada Akarasriworn

Song Cycles for Soprano by Richard Pearson Thomas, Laura Faith Bateman

Predictors of Performance In A Professional Counselor Masters Program, Mya M. Bethune

Qualitative analysis of variables that contribute to the academic success of freshman student-athletes at a football championship subdivision university, Lori L. Braa

Baccalaureate nursing student civic engagement study, Lori A. Brown

Multi-language education for indigenous children in Taiwan, Cheng-Kan Chen

Vocabulary acquisition in learning English as a second language: examining the involvement load hypothesis and language anxiety with Taiwanese college students, Hsin-Chia Cheng

Relationship between parent involvement and preschool children's social competence and learning behaviors, Amanda DeWar

Consumer attitudes toward naming-rights sponsorships in college athletics, Terence Eddy

Transition to adulthood for students with significant disabilities: culturally diverse parent perspectives, Kara Francine Halley

"I think of myself as a talented writer:" understanding fifth and sixth grade students' self-concepts in writing, Bonita L. Hamilton

Cultural competence and racist attitudes of direct patient care registered nurses in a midwestern state, Linda K. Hardy

General fan perceptions of rival teams in intercollegiate athletics, Cody T. Havard

Experimental infection of Jamaican fruit bats (Artibeus jamaicensis) with Tacaribe virus, Ann C. Hawkinson

Analysis of fringed myotis (Myotis thysanodes), with a focus on Colorado distribution, maternity roost selection, and preliminary modeling of population dynamics, Mark Andrew Hayes

Do our children add up? A meta-analysis of the longitudinal effects of kindergarten schedule and mathematic achievement, Anita Hill

Instructor-initiated questions and student participation in college classroom discussion, Christopher Hill

Theoretical approach to legitimizing collaboratively constructed knowledge: a content analysis of Wikipedia science articles based on accidental collaboration, James Patrick Hutchinson

Impact of military deployment on college adjustment, Ann Marie Ingala

Effects of transforming growth factor beta1 on Hantavirus cardiopulmonary syndrome, Stephanie Flynn James

Effect of exercise on cardiac function and doxorubicin accumulation in left ventricular tissue of rats, Brock Thomas Jensen

Comparison of levels of empowerment and clinical decision-making in senior bachelor of science nursing students enrolled in a curriculum based on a caring nurse theorist and a curriculum not based on a caring nurse theorist, Karen M. Johnson

Nursing educator's experiences in implementing the American Association of Colleges of Nursing's accreditation standards related to cultural diversity education, Molly Kuhle

Attitudes toward multimedia (karaoke) and popular culture when learning English as a foreign language in Taiwan, Chen-Yin Lee

Self-efficacy and retention among ethnically diverse nursing students, Jacqueline Carol Lewis

Stories of anti-racist white feminist activists: "a conversation with myself", Christina Linder

Beyond sentiment: a descriptive case study of elementary school teachers' experiences selecting children's literature for read-alouds, Stacy Mae Loyd

Interest-based instructional strategies secondary teachers use to promote student engagement and how administrators support their work, Dawn Marie Macy

Ethnography of early childhood temperament and goodness of fit in the classroom, Tiffani Sue Martin

Effect of teacher collaboration and co-teaching on the response to reading intervention of elementary-aged students with learning disabilities, Jennifer Brinker McCammon

Evaluation of the performance of a random coefficient regression model cumulative summation control chart under varying model conditions: with human services applications, Christopher John McKinney

Media portrayals of athletes in televised sports: a content analysis of ice hockey broadcasts during the 2010 Winter Olympic Games, Heather A. Muir

Wisdom of the counselor and the counselor's perception of the therapeutic working alliance, Linda Carlyn Osterlund

Camouflage: the experiences of low-income business college students, Scarlett Ponton de Dutton

Power dynamics and questioning in elementary science lessons, Lori Ann Reinsvold

Diagnostic capability of school psychologists in the identification of autism, Jennifer Dawn Ries

Comparison of multivariate methods for measuring change from pretest to posttest, Justin Leslie Rogers

Students' experiences of seeing the whole of a clinical situation, Mary Kay Rolloff

Experiences of senior administrators in creating performance excellence in Thailand's private universities, Sarun Saifah

Response to intervention: teachers' needs for implementation in gifted and talented programs, Stephen Matthew Seedorf

Evolution and development of wing form, body size and flight in large- and small-bodied fruit bats (Artibeus jamaicensis and Carollia perspiciillata), Jason B. Shaw

Preservice teachers' self efficacy and knowledge of emotional and behavioral disorders, Shani Shillingford

Examining The Relationships Among Efficacy, Burnout, And The Teaching Pyramid Model, Becky Jean Steensen

Evaluating the role of perceived access to support and school safety in adolescent exposure to trauma: a mixed methods study, Amanda H. Stoeckel

Transformational learning for organizational change: exploring employee experiences with a student affairs workplace professional development program, Katherine Erin Vahey

Analysis of selected choral works of David Conte utilizing ensemble accompaniment, Marlen Dee Wilkins

Direct and indirect effects of social class on career expectations and likelihood of compromise in an adolescent sample, Sarah Wilson

Qualitative comparison of the perceptions of victims and school authorities on early adolescent female bullying, Chaitra Elizabeth Wirta-Leiker

Exploration of concise redundancy in online multimedia learning, Yu-Feng Wu

Establishment of western music in Thailand, Jittapim Yamprai

Qualitative study: people with disabilities and internal barriers to work, Patricia Ann Yeager

Transcriptions of renaissance and baroque polyphony for high school band, Laura E. Zamzow

Transformation of Arabidopsis thaliana with heat stress-related genes from a Copaifera officinalis expressed sequence tag library, Samuel R. Zwenger

Dissertations from 2010 2010

Measuring University Students' Perceptions of Characteristics of Ideal University Instructor in Saudi Arabia and the United States: An Application of Nonparametric Item Response Theory Study, Hesham Yahya Aljubaily

Mathematics self-efficacy and calibration of students in a secondary mathematics teacher preparation program, Joseph Champion

First-Generation Faculty: A Phenomenological Exploration of Their Motivations for Mentoring First-Generation Students, Sarah M. Chase

First-again generation: a qualititative study of first-generation college student siblings whose grandparents attended college, Rene Couture

Qualitative and quantitative inquiry into the affective domain of preservice teachers enrolled in children's literature courses, Jennifer Augusta Davis-Duerr

Principals' perceptions of distributed leadership in an elementary school setting, David Dwain Eggen

Cognitive load impacts of assistive technology devices used by sighted teachers in training during literary Braille instruction, Charles Redden Farnsworth

Critical multicultural education for social action, Jan Ricketts Ferrari

Meaningful parental involvement in the migrant education program: a view through the lens of six migrant parents, Mary Ellen Good

Investigation into the relationship between critical thinking skills and clinical judgment in the nurse practitioner student, Karen L. Gorton