Dissertations completed by doctoral students at the University of Northern Colorado. Older dissertations can be found using the library catalog.
Dissertations from 2010
Investigation into the relationship between critical thinking skills and clinical judgment in the nurse practitioner student, Karen L. Gorton
Perceived parenting style and its relationship to hopefulness, happiness, and optimism in a college student sample, Sarah Griess
Comparison of teaching strategies on teaching drug dosage calculation skills in fundamental nursing students, Jaclynn Suzanne Huse
Meaningful learning development in student nurses: the traditional nursing care plan versus the concept map care plan approach, Deborah Sue Karns
Parental involvement and expectations of children's academic achievement goals in Botswana: parent's perceptions, Keinyatse Kgosidialwa
Current practices in leadership development for front-line nurse managers, Bret Lyman
Factors that promote success in large enrollment general chemistry courses taught with clickers, James Richard MacArthur
Implementing a new curriculum: reflections of a physical education teacher, Matthew Daniel Madden
School principals: illuminating the behaviors and practices of effective school principals in challenging public school contexts, Sophia Deborah Marsh Masewicz
Paradigm for effective pre-college classical guitar methodology: a case study of two models of effective instruction, Renthungo Merry
Process, perspectives, and benefits of animal assisted therapy, Laurie Christine Paquette
Proportional signs in the works of Heinrich Schutz, Jang Woo Park
Unitive/mystical experiences and life changes, Susan F. Schneeberger
Professionials' perceived qualities for collaborative parent and professional partnerships, Shawn R. Sweet Piantoni
Validation study of the planning, attention, simultaneous, and successive (PASS) theory and its relationship to reading achievement in adults, Justin Moore Walker
Organic chemistry preconceptions and their correlation to student success, Jodie T. Wasacz
Comprehensive model for vicarious traumatization: examining the effect of therapist, work, and supportive factors on vicarious traumatization, Amy Marie Williams
Voices of well doctoral students: a case study exploration into the possibilities of academic and personal success, Patricia Anne Witkowsky
Impact of debriefing sessions following viewing of recorded high fidelity simulation scenarios on knowledge acquisition, self-confidence, and satisfaction: a quasi-experimental study, Kristen D. Zulkosky
Dissertations from 2009
Use of Performance Based Funding In A Sport Organization: A Case Study Of The United States Olympic Committee, James Thomas Binns
Joint model of a longitudinal process and informative time schedule data, Michael Bronsert
Exploring challenge by choice in an adventure setting, Daniel Lyons Chase
Preschoolers' understanding of the relationship between perceptual access and accuracy of knowledge: a study of 4- and 5-year-olds' judgments about model peers, Kathryn Ann Cooper
Functioning of global fit statistics in latent growth curve modeling, Kathryn K. DeRoche
Fantasy sport consumer behavior: an analysis of participant attitudes and behavioral intentions, Brendan Dwyer
Sensitivity comparisons and average run lengths of the MEWMS and MEWMV control charts using individual observations with singular mean shifts and variance changes, Chad Edgar Eshelman
Existence of implicit racial bias in nursing faculty, Kathleen A. Fitzsimmons
Relationship between multiple indicators of wellness and parental stress in foster parents, Sarah Gillingham
Educational intervention to develop characteristics of transformational leadership in novice nurse managers, Mary Catherine Goetter
Postmodern story of meaning making in a residence life organization: a transformational change process, Pamela Graglia
Assessing recall, conceptualization, and transfer capabilities of novice biochemistry students' across learning style preferences as revealed by self-explanations, Jacqueline Hilsenbeck-Farjardo
Conceptual integration analysis of multiple instructional metaphors, Robert Johnson
Exploring how resident advisors create meaning of their paraprofessional fall training and its transfer: a constructivist case study, Dean F. Kennedy
Comparison study of sponsorship effectiveness between on-site and web-based sponsorship activities, Issadee Kutintara
Expanded core curriculum and its relationship to postschool outcomes for youth who are visually impaired, Martin Monson
Comparison of three computational procedures for solving the number of factors problem in exploratory factor analysis, Adam Vincent Piccone
Effect of music education on early adolescents' adaptive skills, health-enhancing behaviors, and self-efficacy, Kimberly Ann Root Wilson
Voices of striving elementary readers: an exploration of the enhancement of struggling reader research through portraiture methodology, Roland Kerry Schendel
Traditional and nontraditional preservice elementary teachers' perceptions about mathematics and mathematics teaching, Anna Marie Wheeler
Dissertations from 1992
A Comparative Study of the Marital Relationships of Parents of Chronically Ill and Non Chronically Ill Children, Molly Smith Allen
Dissertations from 1987
From manpower to mindfulness: the high tech culture of emergence and its implications for education, Gordon F. Dveirin
Dissertations from 1981
Dissertations from 1977
Survey of children's analogical abilities for ages 2-15, Denyse Claire DuBrucq, 1937-
Dissertations from 1971
Investigation of the use of the Wyoming VERB network to teach elementary science, Catherine Herndon Wiegand