Dissertations completed by doctoral students at the University of Northern Colorado. Older dissertations can be found using the library catalog.
Dissertations from 2013
The piano concertos of Edmundo Villani-Cortes, Thais Lopes Nicolau
The pursuit of high academic growth for gifted middle level learners, Linda Elizabeth Pfeiffer
Estimating pre-morbid intellectual functioning using the Das-Naglieri: cognitive assessment system, Amy Christine Rhodes
Goodness of fit statistics for mixed effect logistic regression models, Jalal Abdalla Saaid
The dimensions of self-regulated learning and academic achievement in college students, Nasar Said
An experimental study examining observational and objective methods of assessing effort in an undergraduate sample, Aaron Gabriel Schrader
Student Incivility: Nursing Faculty Lived Experience, Elizabeth Ann Sprunk
Double truncated poisson regression model with random effects, Abdalhalim M. Ali Suaiee
Communication and relationships of intercultural/multilingual couples: cultural and language differences, Nai Chieh Tien
Evaluation of the effect of a digital mathematics game on academic achievement, Christine M. Wale
An exploration of Latino student access to advanced placement curriculum, Susan Ann Walker
An in-depth exploration of successful weight loss management, Stephanie M. Witwer
Development and evaluation of a thermochemistry concept inventory for college-level general chemistry, David A. Wren
The nature of Arabic mothers' involvement in their children's mathematics education, Wafa Yacoub
An affine invariant signed-rank multivariate exponentially weighted moving average control chart for process location monitoring, Jamil H. Zeinab
Dissertations from 2012
An analysis of How National Basketball Association (NBA) Teams Use Social Media, Tariq Ahmad
The Nature of Implementing Response to Intervention in Fourth Grade, Maha ALSuliman
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
A look inside firefighter families: A qualitative study, Catherine Phillips Carrico
The 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
Million dollar plus donors within intercollegiate athletics: A qualitative analysis of donor motivations, Nancy Carol Hixson
The road less travelled: Tracing the path of first-generation students from rural areas to college, Michelle C. Hodsdon
The 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
A study of two biblical choral symphonies with an original composition, Gregory Klug
A 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
An experimental investigation of hand and finger usage in braille reading, Loana K. Mason
An 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
The 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
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
Baccalaureate nursing student civic engagement study, Lori A. Brown
Multi-language education for indigenous children in Taiwan, Cheng-Kan Chen
The 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
An analysis of fringed myotis (Myotis thysanodes), with a focus on Colorado distribution, maternity roost selection, and preliminary modeling of population dynamics, Mark Andrew Hayes
Instructor-initiated questions and student participation in college classroom discussion, Christopher Hill
A theoretical approach to legitimizing collaboratively constructed knowledge: a content analysis of Wikipedia science articles based on accidental collaboration, James Patrick Hutchinson
The impact of military deployment on college adjustment, Ann Marie Ingala
Effects of transforming growth factor beta1 on Hantavirus cardiopulmonary syndrome, Stephanie Flynn James
The effect of exercise on cardiac function and doxorubicin accumulation in left ventricular tissue of rats, Brock Thomas Jensen
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
An ethnography of early childhood temperament and goodness of fit in the classroom, Tiffani Sue Martin
The 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
The 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
A 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
The 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
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