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Submissions from 2024
End-of-Life Patient Communication: Exploring Comfort, Communication and Education of Healthcare Professionals For End-of-Life Care, Madison Gremillion
Exploring Open Education Advocacy: Stakeholder Strategies to Build a Campus Culture of “Open”, Nancy Henke, Molly Jameson, and Ethan Roth
Effects of Emotional Intelligence and Social Support on the Relationship Between Childhood Maltreatment and Disordered Eating, Rachel Kilby
History of Physical Neglect and Current Food Insecurity: Moderation by Mental Health Symptoms, Brooke Welsh
Dissertations from 2023
Factors Impacting the Mental Health Stigma in the African American Community with a Focus on African American Males, Juniel Figures
Individual Differences in Numerical And Verbal Abstraction and the Ability To Draw Inferences From Text, Anna Christine Johnson
Inter-Police Interactions and Mental Health Attitudes, Isaiah A. Jonas
Third-Party Tools for K-12 Educators, Ashlee Kemp
How Does Childhood Maltreatment Relate to Emotion Regulation and Academic Resilience Among College Students, Tiffany Lopez
Emotion Regulation as a Mediator Between a History of Childhood Maltreatment and Present Levels of Self-Compassion, Jessica Renaud
Anxiety Among Females with ADHD Affecting Their Academic Success in College, Kendra Roth
Evaluating the Impact of a Certificate In College Teaching Program on Graduate Students’ Pedagogical Metacognition And Teaching Knowledge, Audrey Jannine Tocco
An Update on the Abbreviated Math Anxiety Scale: Current Evidence of Reliability, Edward Worden
Dissertations from 2022
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
Theatre As a Form Of Healing, Stephen Contreras
Misinformation of Mental Health on Social Media and How it Affects Those Who View it, Kathryn Johnson
Exploring Formative Versus Summative Assessment Models on Creative Mindset Development, Dylan Patrick James Kriescher
Impact of Social Media on Mental Health: A Look At Cohort Differences, Mireya Marquez
Project-Based Learning in Introductory Psychology: Modern Adaptations To an Academic Classic, Colton R. Olson
Pregnant in Prison: Comparing National Standards to the Policies and Programs of State Prisons, Savannah Danielle Rivera
The Influence of Personality on the Effects of Nature Exposure Among College Students, Marshall Seiken
Social Media and Body Image: Social media intensity and self-perceived body image, Claire Sharp
Theses from 2021
Demographic Predictors of Math Anxiety in Elementary School Children, Melissa Flowerdew
The Effects of Mindfulness Interventions on Undergraduate Students' Math Anxiety, Elysia Garza
Childhood Maltreatment, Mental Health, and Interpersonal Conflict in Current Adult Relationships, Julia Rosales
Is Testing a Laughing Matter? Achievement Effects via Working Memory And Humor Relevance, Ivan Jay Wayne
Satanic Ritual Abuse From Then to Now: The Impact of the Controversies of the 1980s and 1990s on the Treatment for Survivors of Extreme Abuse, Mary Catherine York
Submissions from 2020
Childhood Emotional Abuse in Relation to Certain DSM Disorders, Kerigan Flynn
The Role of Random Drug Testing in Family Reunification: More Questions Than Answers, Alejandra Long
If You Build It, Will They Come? an Autoethnographic Account of Starting a School and Year One, Courtney Rae Luce
Dissertations from 2019
It’s All Fun and Games Until Someone Learns to Read, Then It’s Educational: Children’s Librarians as Literacy Educators, Louise F. Benke
Mechanisms Underlying the Testing Effect, Mary Chapman
People With Mental Illnesses Who Face Coercive Interrogation: The Capability of Jurors to Consider the Totality of the Circumstances, Kathryn Derby
Increasing Undergraduate Student Engagement in Academics: An Ecological Momentary Intervention, Kerry Douglas Duck
Group Differences in Motivation and Achievement Outcomes Within a First-Year Seminar, Selani D. Flores
Pre-Test Processing Differences of Test Anxious Students, Michelle M. Garcia
Child Maltreatment and Physical Health in Emerging Adulthood: Relationships with Physical Activity and Health Risk Behaviors, Susannah Marie Moore
Effects of Teacher Attitudes on Academic Growth and Connectedness for Students with Learning Disabilities: a Quantitative Case Study, Emily Ellen Moulton
Student Motivation in Education: An Intervention in Real-Time, Maddison North
Childhood Maltreatment and Working Memory: Considering the Influence of Anxiety and Emotion Dysregulation, Mackenzie Ann Peake Pohja
Associations Between Emotional Regulation, Risk Taking, and College Adaptation, Alexa J. Pellegrino
Perceived effectiveness of active music therapy for Alzheimer's language deficits, Alana Reed
Seductive Details in Educational Materials: Exploring Attention Distraction Using Eye-Tracking, Matthew A. Swaffer
Submissions from 2018
The Role of Self-Worth in the Development, Expression, and Recovery of Disordered Eating, Including Food Addiction, Madison Rose Buhre
Permeating Presence: Examining the Effects of Mindfulness-Trained Supervisors on Employee Performance, Pearl Marquez
Stigma Surrounding Mental Illness and Its Reduction: What Sort of Information Is Most Effective?, Natalie S. Tanner
Dissertations from 2017
Transformative Experiential Impacts on Students: An Intervention, Stacy R. Bailey
Increasing Reflexivity in Service Learning Through Arts Based Research, Lindsay A. Beddes
Gifted Students’ Perceptions of Empowerment Within High School Classrooms, Amy Karol Graefe
Dissertations from 2016
Social Capital Made Visible: a Case Study of Professional Learning Communities in Early Care and Education, Wendy Bickford Allen
A Reliability Generalization of the Parental Authority Questionnaire, Lynn M. Dean
Social-Cognitive Influences Regarding Persistence and Achievement of Nontraditional Students In Higher Education, Kristy Renee Dykema
Sex Education Programs, Motivation, and the Seeking of Educational Versus Erotic Material: a Comparison of Abstinence Only Until Marriage and Comprehensive Programs, Paul Dale Kleinert
A Monte Carlo Simulation Comparing the Statistical Precision of Two High-Stakes Teacher Evaluation Methods: A Value-Added Model and a Composite Measure, Bryden Michael Spencer
Dissertations from 2015
The Role of Information and Reflection in Reducing the Bias Blind Spot: a Cross-Cultural Study, Wejdan Shukri Felmban
Redesign Program for Community College Developmental Education Students: Learning through the Sense of Belonging, Elizabeth JK James
Heroes and Horses: Veteran and Equine Experiences with Equine Facilitated Learning and Therapy, Karen Elizabeth Krob
A day without laughter is a day wasted? The relationship between different types of humor and different educational outcomes, Moshe Machlev
Dissertations from 2013
Why Do Some Succeed? The Impact Of Goal Orientation And Need For Closure On Learning And Engagement In A Problem-Based Learning Environment, Cassendra M. Bergstrom
Defining and measuring teacher legitimacy, Douglass Martin Drake
Mental state understanding during aging: an examination of cognitively effortful and cognitively efficient mechanisms, Rena A. Kirkland
Enhancing early childhood teachers' reflective capacity, Karen Magee Koski
Dimensions of self-regulated learning and academic achievement in college students, Nasar Said
Evaluation of the effect of a digital mathematics game on academic achievement, Christine M. Wale
Dissertations from 2012
Learning to spike in volleyball with verbal and visually-enhanced feedback, Michael Claude Rhoads
Dissertations from 2011
Power dynamics and questioning in elementary science lessons, Lori Ann Reinsvold
Preservice teachers' self efficacy and knowledge of emotional and behavioral disorders, Shani Shillingford
Direct and indirect effects of social class on career expectations and likelihood of compromise in an adolescent sample, Sarah Wilson
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
Critical multicultural education for social action, Jan Ricketts Ferrari
Parental involvement and expectations of children's academic achievement goals in Botswana: parent's perceptions, Keinyatse Kgosidialwa
Dissertations from 2009
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
Conceptual integration analysis of multiple instructional metaphors, Robert Johnson
Effect of music education on early adolescents' adaptive skills, health-enhancing behaviors, and self-efficacy, Kimberly Ann Root Wilson