Dissertations completed by doctoral students at the University of Northern Colorado. Older dissertations can be found using the library catalog.
Dissertations from 2023
Let’s Take This Outside: Utilizing Outdoor Classrooms as a Response to The Coronavirus-19 Pandemic, Cortney Leigh Lamb
Resilience in High-Achieving Music Ensemble Directors, Stacey Lynn Larson Dolan
Oikophilia: Relationships Among Life, Human Life, And Place in School Communities And Their Expressions in Curriculum, Mandi Leigh
REGULATORS OF MAST CELL ACTIVATION, David Lyons
‘Poor Hockey Behaviors’: Athletes’ Moral Acculturation Experiences In Youth Hockey, Zachary Colter McCarver
Intercultural Competence for Educators: A Phenomenological Study, Kathryn McClintock
Resiliency in Families of Children With Low Vision, Deborah Lynn Mendoza
The Impact of Hope on the Relationship Between Socioeconomic Context and Career Exploration, Hunter Christian Vincente Montoya
Considerations and Pedagogical Approaches For Transitioning From Soprano To Mezzo-Soprano, Caitlin Hammon Moore
Luciano Berio’s Six Encores Pour Piano: A Guide for Performance Preparation, Ivana Muncan
Experiences of Middle School Students With Visual Impairments Accessing Technologies In Inclusive Classrooms, Anitha Muthukumaran
Gendered Singing Training: A Comparison Of Estelle Liebling and Richard Miller’s Strategies for Teaching Across Fach., Kristi Muzzio
Establishing Guidelines for Achieving Optimal Individual Posture In Hornists, Daniel Alan Nebel
A Conceptual and Applied Analysis of Treating Severe Problem Behavior and Reducing The Need for Emergency Interventions, James Matthew Nuse
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
Using Transformative Leadership To Understand White Male Community College Presidents and Their Efforts to Improve Outcomes For All Students, Ruthanne Keenan Orihuela
Principals’ Leadership of the Integration Of the Neurosequential Model in Education, Alison Grace Ostrom
Characteristics of Science, Technology, Engineering, And Mathematics Mentoring Relationship Practices In Secondary Education Settings: A Case Study, Bonnie Jeanne Palmer
School Psychological Services Throughout The Coronavirus-19 Pandemic, Emily Kristine Phillips
Chamber Music in the Dominican Republic: New Arrangements for Ensemble With Piano, Laura Gisselle Pimentel Ferreira
Davidsbündler: Robert Schumann, Theodor Kirchner, and An Intimate Musical World, Dandan Liu Powell
A Qualitative Case Study Into the Electronic Correspondence Between Fifth-Grade Students and Their College Mentors, Kevin Pribnow
Exploring the Effects of Cannabidiol on Psychological Health, Cognitive Function, Neural Health, And Natural Killer Cells, Arjun Ramani
Self-Care, Stress, and School Burnout Among Graduate Students Preparing To Become Mental Health Practitioners, Melissa Rodriquez Estrada
An Eye-Tracking Investigation of Consumer’s Real-Time Behaviors in Professional Minor League Hockey, Alicia B. Romano
A Comparison of Registered Nurses’ Motivation and Knowledge Levels Between Gamified And Traditional Courses, Amanda Crim Rossley
Sounds of Nature: A Jazz Suite for Saxophone and Orchestra, Matteo Sabattini
A Word of Warning: Educational Activists And Public Instruction Conspiracy Theories, David Philip San Juan
The Relationship Between Colorado Teacher Salary and Colorado Teacher Turnover, Jason Lee Seybert
Making Meaning of Multimodalities In Teacher Professional Learning, Jonathan Doane Shaw
An Examination of Musical Pitch/Color Correspondence in Music, Arts, And Non-arts Students and Adults, Luciano Silvestri Jr.
Effect of Exercise Training on Circulating Cancer-Associated Immune Cells in Breast Cancer Patients, Lea Haverbeck Simon
Multivariate Hierarchical Generalized Linear Model for Intensive Longitudinal Data With Incorporation of Outcome Variability As a Predictor, Maryam Skafyan
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
Bangkokscape: An Original Composition For Ensemble, Attakorn Sookjaeng
College Sexual Assault, Career Adaptability, And Grit: A Moderation Analysis, Patricia Danielle Sparks
Development of Nursing Clinical Judgment Using Lasater’s Clinical Judgment Rubric, HollyAnne Heaton Springer
Examining Middle Eastern Influences on Jazz In the 1950s and 1960s, Sopon Suwannakit
The Experiences of Black Diplomat Families In United States Sponsored American International Schools, Teneshia A. Taylor
Evaluating the Impact of a Certificate In College Teaching Program on Graduate Students’ Pedagogical Metacognition And Teaching Knowledge, Audrey Jannine Tocco
“Just Go for the Lie”: A Critical Autoethenographic Study of a White Female Elementary School Principal, Christie Michelle Toliver
An Examination of Support Provided to Students Attending Two Performing Colorado High Schools With a Significant Percentage Of Students Experiencing Poverty, Rebecca Albert Vollrath
Inward and Onward: An Autoethnography on the Lived Experience of Love, Loss, and Grief in a Doctoral Program, Laura A. Watts
Chemistry Instructors’ Perspectives On Incorporating Climate Change Instruction in Undergraduate Chemistry Courses, Patrick Wilson
Interruptions and the Novice Emergency Nurse: A Focused Ethnography, Lisa Ann Winchester
A Current Wave of Development: Examination of Positive Youth Development and Identity in the Junior Lifeguard Program, Danielle Nicole Wong
Dissertations from 2022
An Efficient Computational Method for Causal Inference in High-Dimensional Data: Neighborhood-Based Cross Fitting, Oluwagbenga David Agboola
An Ensemble Machine Learning Approach To Causal Inference in High-Dimensional Settings, Sami Saad Alanazi
Toeplitz Matrix-Based Goodness of Fit Test Statistics for Vector Autoregressive Moving Average Models, Hanadi Yahia Alomari
Middle School Students’ Perceptions, Experiences, And Behaviors Towards Using a Virtual Reality Application to Build Molecules, Dalal Za'al Ali Alrmuny
Disability Identity: An Investigation of The Relationship Between Stigma, Quality Of Life, and Psychological Distress, Tyler Ray Anderson
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
Comparing Collegiate Coaches’ and Players’ Perceptions of the Coaches’ Multicultural Competence, Lee Arakawa
Person-Oriented and Variable-Oriented Statistical Approaches to Understanding At-Risk, Online High School Students: Predictions Of Academic Outcomes and The Moderating Role Of Protective Factors, Amanda Renee Atwater Jacobs
Overcoming Inner and Outer Constraints To Enhance Emerging Adult College Students’ Eudaemonic Well-Being: A Mixed Methods Study, Maha Ben Salem
Mathematical Knowledge for Teaching In Co-teachers at the Post-secondary Level: A Cognitive and Enacted Approach, Lida Marie LaVelle Bentz
Stealth Dyslexia: Cognitive and Achievement Profiles Of Gifted Students With Dyslexia, Anne Hardy Boris
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
Conducting a Needs Assessment to Inform The Development of a Burnout Mitigation Program for Critical Care Nurses, Leighann Marie Brock
A Portraiture of Two Tribal College Leaders, Jessica Jasmine Buckless
Expanding the Conceptualization And Applied Role of Shame, Nathaniel Michael Burrow
Self-Care, Anticipated Stigma, and Personal Therapy in Mental Health Professional Trainees, Morgan Condie
Clinician Experiences With Conducting Suicide Risk Assessments and Interventions, Sydney Lee Cople
Animal-Assisted Interventions in Supervision: A Collective Case Study, Connie Elizabeth Couch
College Students’ Perceptions of the Desert Canyons of the Colorado Plateau, Jeremy Roger Deem
“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
“Beginning, Again and Again”: The Experiences Of Excellent White Educators In Diverse Urban Schools, Christopher DeRemer
School Leadership Through the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Phenomenological Study, Deanna Kay Dykstra-Lathrop
The Impact of Rater Effects on Decision Consistency And Decision Accuracy Under the Many-Facet Rasch Measurement Framework, Haussohou Daniel Edi
“Ici on Chante en Français”: Giving A Voice to Cajun Culture, Tessa Espinosa
Opportunities to Learn the General Education Curriculum: Literacy Instruction For Students With Significant Support Needs in Inclusive Settings, Heather Leigh Fitzpatrick
Predicting Nurse Faculty Intent to Stay: A Quantitative Study of Contributing Factors and Their Influence, Erica Frost
Investigating Novice Nurses’ Perceptions of Academic Dishonesty During Nursing Education, Christy Gough
Investigating Novice Nurses’ Perceptions Of Academic Dishonesty During Nursing Education, Christy Michelle Gough
Lived Experience of Reintegration Among Involuntarily Separated Operation Enduring Freedom (Oef) And Operation Iraqi Freedom (Oif) Era Veterans, Austin Deshon Hamilton
Political Astuteness of Nurse Educators, Gail Marie Hanson Brenner
Mothers’ Perspectives on Language And Literacy Development in Children With Disabilities Adopted From China, Jessica B. Hovland
Investigating Nurses’ Career Choice Through The Social Congnitive Career Theory’s Self-Management Model, Tina Howard
An Elementary School Principal’s Practices And a Reduced Equity Gap: A Case Study, April Hrovat
Enhancing Perspective-Taking Skills In Youth With Autism, Angelica Coumanova Kim
Are Natural Killer Cells Novel Mediators of The Effects of Cannabidiol on Mental Health, Sleep Quantity, Sleep Quality, And Immune Function?, Jacob Norbert Kisiolek
The Social Ecology of Academic Achievement: Risk and Protection, Jannessa Lynn Kitchin
Exploring Formative Versus Summative Assessment Models on Creative Mindset Development, Dylan Patrick James Kriescher
Comparing Teacher Induction Programs, Catherine Teresa Linhardt
Exploring Teacher Self-Efficacy in Nurse Educators: A Mixed Method Study, Wendi Noelle Liverman
Development of Geoscience Interest and Identity Of Female First-Generation Undergraduate Geoscience Students, Dina London
Factors Influencing Political Self-Efficacy And Political Astuteness in Undergraduate Nurse Educators, Mark William Longshore
Mindfulness, Self-Compassion, Gratitude, and Burnout: A Structural Equation Model, Allegra Rose Lyon
Examining the Effect of Gratitude On Intolerance of Uncertainty And Loneliness, Adam John Paul MacKenzie
Evidence-Based Equity in Chemical Education, Anna Margiotta
Entre Dos Mundos: Understanding the Experiences Of Latinx Adolescent Language Brokers, Miranda Kristine Martino