Dissertations completed by doctoral students at the University of Northern Colorado. Older dissertations can be found using the library catalog.
Dissertations from 2011
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
Transformational learning for organizational change: exploring employee experiences with a student affairs workplace professional development program, Katherine Erin Vahey
An 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
A qualitative comparison of the perceptions of victims and school authorities on early adolescent female bullying, Chaitra Elizabeth Wirta-Leiker
An exploration of concise redundancy in online multimedia learning, Yu-Feng Wu
The 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
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
The 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
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
The 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
An 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
A 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
A 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
A 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
The culture care meaning of comfort for ethnically diverse pre-licensure baccalaureate nursing students in the educational setting, Lynne K. Zajac
The 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
The Use of Performance Based Funding In A Sport Organization: A Case Study Of The United States Olympic Committee, James Thomas Binns
A 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
The 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
The existence of implicit racial bias in nursing faculty, Kathleen A. Fitzsimmons
The relationship between multiple indicators of wellness and parental stress in foster parents, Sarah Gillingham
An educational intervention to develop characteristics of transformational leadership in novice nurse managers, Mary Catherine Goetter
A 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
A 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
A comparison study of sponsorship effectiveness between on-site and web-based sponsorship activities, Issadee Kutintara
The expanded core curriculum and its relationship to postschool outcomes for youth who are visually impaired, Martin R. Monson
A comparison of three computational procedures for solving the number of factors problem in exploratory factor analysis, Adam Vincent Piccone
The effect of music education on early adolescents' adaptive skills, health-enhancing behaviors, and self-efficacy, Kimberly Ann Root Wilson