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

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Dissertations from 2023

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A Moustakas Phenomenological Analysis of How Counseling Master’s Students Experience Instructor Use of Humor in The Classroom, Claire Gabrielle Critchlow

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The Inevitabilities of Activist Teaching: Exploring the Experiences of an Activist Latinx Teacher in United States Public Schools After the Coronavirus Disease of 2019 Pandemic, Simon Lewis Cropp

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Student Desire to Stay in a Program: The Influence Of Faculty Caring and Cultural Identification With Faculty, Elizabeth Ann Cunniff

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Dan Forrest’s the Breath of Life: A Podium Guide With a Study of the Compositional Techniques and the Integration Of Texts Used to Mirror The Emotional Arc of The Human Life Cycle, Brian Keith Dukeshier

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Diversifying Piano Pedagogy: A Comparative Study of Brazilian Piano Works And Established Piano Methods, Helber Fernandes Ribeiro

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The Lived Experience of Registered Nurses And Registered Midwives in St. Kitts and Nevis, Raiden Alexandra Gaul

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The Intersection of Queer and Atheist Identities: A Critical Inquiry, Jennifer Geiman

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Elementary Principals’ Perceptions of The Influence of the Coronavirus Pandemic On Their Professional Identities, Melissa Gibson-Steiner

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Meeting Free Appropriate Public Education and Least Restrictive Environment Requirements for Students With Disabilities During the Coronavirus-19 Pandemic: Implications for Special Education Directors, Vanessa Lee Giddings

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An Exploration of the Experiences of Preservice Special Education Teachers as They Engage In Explicit Instruction in the Area Of Culturally Responsive Teaching, Keshia Jenelle Green

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Latinx Mothers’ Experience During Their Children’s First Individualized Education Program Process, Briceida Guerrero

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Technology Integration in School-Based Physical Activity, Taemin Ha

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Effect of Exercise Training on Circulating Cancer-Associated Immune Cells in Breast Cancer Patients, Lea Haverbeck Simon

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An Investigation of State Teacher Licensure Renewal Policies Related to Students With Disabilities, Lindsey Evelyn Hayes

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Tiered Behavior Support to Promote Preservice Special Education Teachers’ Use Of Behavior Specific Praise, Kristy Cardillo Hynes

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Individual Differences in Numerical And Verbal Abstraction and the Ability To Draw Inferences From Text, Anna Christine Johnson

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An Exploration of the Pathway From Childhood Neglect to School Bullying Victimization, Natalie D. Johnson

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Men’s Feminist Identity Development: The Process and Critical Influences, Tiana Alexandria Kioko Johnson

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The Effects of Puberty Blocking Treatment (Gonadotropin Releasing Hormone Agonist) On Physical Activity and Reproductive Health in Young Female Rats, Brandon Creed Jones

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An Investigation Into What Contributes To High Rates of Preschool Inclusion In Rural Kansas School Districts, Lena Mae Kisner

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This Is Me: The Life and Music Of Emily Remler, Denin Michael Koch

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Effects of Exercise Training on Objective Measures of Sleep Quality and Markers of Peripheral Circadian Rhythm in Cancer Patients Undergoing Treatment, Luke Michael Krynski

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Let’s Take This Outside: Utilizing Outdoor Classrooms as a Response to The Coronavirus-19 Pandemic, Cortney Leigh Lamb

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Resilience in High-Achieving Music Ensemble Directors, Stacey Lynn Larson Dolan

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A Mixed-Methods Approach to Investigating Core Self-Evaluations, Ethnicity, and Perceived Discrimination Among Undergraduate Students, Rosa I. Law

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Impact of Coronavirus Disease 2019 on Secondary Market Ticket Price, Attendance Demand, And Fan’s Willingness to Pay: National Football League (NFL), Yo Han Lee

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Oikophilia: Relationships Among Life, Human Life, And Place in School Communities And Their Expressions in Curriculum, Mandi Leigh

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Regulators of Mast Cell Activation, David Lyons

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‘Poor Hockey Behaviors’: Athletes’ Moral Acculturation Experiences In Youth Hockey, Zachary Colter McCarver

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Intercultural Competence for Educators: A Phenomenological Study, Kathryn McClintock

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Resiliency in Families of Children With Low Vision, Deborah Lynn Mendoza

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The Impact of Hope on the Relationship Between Socioeconomic Context and Career Exploration, Hunter Christian Vincente Montoya

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Considerations and Pedagogical Approaches For Transitioning From Soprano To Mezzo-Soprano, Caitlin Hammon Moore

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Luciano Berio’s Six Encores Pour Piano: A Guide for Performance Preparation, Ivana Muncan

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Experiences of Middle School Students With Visual Impairments Accessing Technologies In Inclusive Classrooms, Anitha Muthukumaran

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Gendered Singing Training: A Comparison Of Estelle Liebling and Richard Miller’s Strategies for Teaching Across Fach., Kristi Muzzio

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Establishing Guidelines for Achieving Optimal Individual Posture In Hornists, Daniel Alan Nebel

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A Conceptual and Applied Analysis of Treating Severe Problem Behavior and Reducing The Need for Emergency Interventions, James Matthew Nuse

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Exploring the Relationship Among Clinical Judgment, Academic Resiliency, Student Predictors, and Exam Remediation in Prelicensure Nursing Students Preparing for Next Generation National Council Licensure Examination [For] Registered Nurses, James Franklin Oberlander

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Using Transformative Leadership To Understand White Male Community College Presidents and Their Efforts to Improve Outcomes For All Students, Ruthanne Keenan Orihuela

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Use Them or Lose Them: Inservice Teacher Perceptions Of the Usability and Sustainability of Facilitated Individual Education Program Meeting Training and Learned Techniques, Robin O'Shea

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Principals’ Leadership of the Integration Of the Neurosequential Model in Education, Alison Grace Ostrom

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Characteristics of Science, Technology, Engineering, And Mathematics Mentoring Relationship Practices In Secondary Education Settings: A Case Study, Bonnie Jeanne Palmer

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School Psychological Services Throughout The Coronavirus-19 Pandemic, Emily Kristine Phillips

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Chamber Music in the Dominican Republic: New Arrangements for Ensemble With Piano, Laura Gisselle Pimentel Ferreira

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Davidsbündler: Robert Schumann, Theodor Kirchner, and An Intimate Musical World, Dandan Liu Powell

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A Qualitative Case Study Into the Electronic Correspondence Between Fifth-Grade Students and Their College Mentors, Kevin Pribnow

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Exploring the Effects of Cannabidiol on Psychological Health, Cognitive Function, Neural Health, And Natural Killer Cells, Arjun Ramani

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Effect of Implementing Psychosocial Interventions as Pen Pals in General Chemistry, Kristofer Felix Kintner Reiser

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Self-Care, Stress, and School Burnout Among Graduate Students Preparing To Become Mental Health Practitioners, Melissa Rodriquez Estrada

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An Eye-Tracking Investigation of Consumer’s Real-Time Behaviors in Professional Minor League Hockey, Alicia B. Romano

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A Comparison of Registered Nurses’ Motivation and Knowledge Levels Between Gamified And Traditional Courses, Amanda Crim Rossley

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Sounds of Nature: A Jazz Suite for Saxophone and Orchestra, Matteo Sabattini

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A Word of Warning: Educational Activists And Public Instruction Conspiracy Theories, David Philip San Juan

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The Relationship Between Colorado Teacher Salary and Colorado Teacher Turnover, Jason Lee Seybert

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Making Meaning of Multimodalities In Teacher Professional Learning, Jonathan Doane Shaw

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An Examination of Musical Pitch/Color Correspondence in Music, Arts, And Non-arts Students and Adults, Luciano Silvestri Jr.

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Multivariate Hierarchical Generalized Linear Model for Intensive Longitudinal Data With Incorporation of Outcome Variability As a Predictor, Maryam Skafyan

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Swimming in the Third Stream: A Performance Guide For David Baker’s Singers of Songs/Weavers of Dreams For Cello and Percussion, Kelsey Linnea Smith

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Bangkokscape: An Original Composition For Ensemble, Attakorn Sookjaeng

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College Sexual Assault, Career Adaptability, And Grit: A Moderation Analysis, Patricia Danielle Sparks

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Development of Nursing Clinical Judgment Using Lasater’s Clinical Judgment Rubric, HollyAnne Heaton Springer

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Examining Middle Eastern Influences on Jazz In the 1950s and 1960s, Sopon Suwannakit

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The Experiences of Black Diplomat Families In United States Sponsored American International Schools, Teneshia A. Taylor

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The Effect of Parceling on the Measurement Invariance of Us Students’ Trends in International Mathematics And Science Study (Timss) 2015 Math Attitude Scores, Kritika Thapa

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Evaluating the Impact of a Certificate In College Teaching Program on Graduate Students’ Pedagogical Metacognition And Teaching Knowledge, Audrey Jannine Tocco

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“Just Go for the Lie”: A Critical Autoethenographic Study of a White Female Elementary School Principal, Christie Michelle Toliver

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Inward and Onward: An Autoethnography on the Lived Experience of Love, Loss, and Grief in a Doctoral Program, Laura A. Watts

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Chemistry Instructors’ Perspectives On Incorporating Climate Change Instruction in Undergraduate Chemistry Courses, Patrick Wilson

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Interruptions and the Novice Emergency Nurse: A Focused Ethnography, Lisa Ann Winchester

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A Current Wave of Development: Examination of Positive Youth Development and Identity in the Junior Lifeguard Program, Danielle Nicole Wong

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Pedagogical Approaches to Polytempor- Ality and Form Process in György Ligeti’s éTudes Pour Piano, Premier Livre, Dielan Wu

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Synthesizing Eastern and Western Musical Idioms In The Context of the Piano Concertos With The Traditional Chinese Orchestra: An Analytical Study of Selected Works, With Performance Considerations, Shuang Zhang

Dissertations from 2022

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An Efficient Computational Method for Causal Inference in High-Dimensional Data: Neighborhood-Based Cross Fitting, Oluwagbenga David Agboola

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An Ensemble Machine Learning Approach To Causal Inference in High-Dimensional Settings, Sami Saad Alanazi

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Toeplitz Matrix-Based Goodness of Fit Test Statistics for Vector Autoregressive Moving Average Models, Hanadi Yahia Alomari

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Middle School Students’ Perceptions, Experiences, And Behaviors Towards Using a Virtual Reality Application to Build Molecules, Dalal Za'al Ali Alrmuny

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Disability Identity: An Investigation of The Relationship Between Stigma, Quality Of Life, and Psychological Distress, Tyler Ray Anderson

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It’s More Than Nursing: The Experiences Of Psychological Safety of Pre-licensure Nursing Students Who Identify As Black, Indigenous, And People of Color, Melissa Marie Anozie

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Comparing Collegiate Coaches’ and Players’ Perceptions of the Coaches’ Multicultural Competence, Lee Arakawa

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Overcoming Inner and Outer Constraints To Enhance Emerging Adult College Students’ Eudaemonic Well-Being: A Mixed Methods Study, Maha Ben Salem

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Mathematical Knowledge for Teaching In Co-teachers at the Post-secondary Level: A Cognitive and Enacted Approach, Lida Marie LaVelle Bentz

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Stealth Dyslexia: Cognitive and Achievement Profiles Of Gifted Students With Dyslexia, Anne Hardy Boris

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Is It My Job? How Emotions and Identity Development Drive White Senior Student Affairs Officers to Claim Responsibility for Creating Equity on Campus, Morgan J. Bradford Diaz

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A Portraiture of Two Tribal College Leaders, Jessica Jasmine Buckless

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Expanding the Conceptualization And Applied Role of Shame, Nathaniel Michael Burrow

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Self-Care, Anticipated Stigma, and Personal Therapy in Mental Health Professional Trainees, Morgan Condie

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Clinician Experiences With Conducting Suicide Risk Assessments and Interventions, Sydney Lee Cople

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Animal-Assisted Interventions in Supervision: A Collective Case Study, Connie Elizabeth Couch

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College Students’ Perceptions of the Desert Canyons of the Colorado Plateau, Jeremy Roger Deem

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“I Just Want to Play”: Methodological Considerations For Including Older Adults in Co-creation of Research With A Focus on the Meaning of Activity for Residents of a 55+ Active Adult Master Planned Community, Becky Alice De Oliveira

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“Beginning, Again and Again”: The Experiences Of Excellent White Educators In Diverse Urban Schools, Christopher DeRemer

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School Leadership Through the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Phenomenological Study, Deanna Kay Dykstra-Lathrop

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The Impact of Rater Effects on Decision Consistency And Decision Accuracy Under the Many-Facet Rasch Measurement Framework, Haussohou Daniel Edi

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“Ici on Chante en Français”: Giving A Voice to Cajun Culture, Tessa Espinosa

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Opportunities to Learn the General Education Curriculum: Literacy Instruction For Students With Significant Support Needs in Inclusive Settings, Heather Leigh Fitzpatrick

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Exploring Sex Differences in the Effect of Cannabidiol on Physical Activity, Cognition, Psychological Wellbeing, and Inflammatory and Neural Health Biomarkers, Victoria Flores

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Predicting Nurse Faculty Intent to Stay: A Quantitative Study of Contributing Factors and Their Influence, Erica Frost

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Development of the Teaching Twice Exceptional Students Scale, Michelle Ann Godzinski

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Investigating Novice Nurses’ Perceptions Of Academic Dishonesty During Nursing Education, Christy Michelle Gough