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CAN SELF-ORGANIZING TEACHER GROUPS REDUCE TEACHER ISOLATION?
(2024-03-07)This study investigates the conditions fostering self-organized teacher groups within schools and their relationship to reducing teacher isolation. Utilizing a mixed-methods approach involving 663 online surveys and 18 ... -
Environmental Health Inequalities and Discriminatory Zoning: Identifying Systemic Barriers for Environmental Health Equity through Community-Engaged Research
(2024-05-10)Environmental justice research has exposed that environmental health inequalities persist for historically redlined communities due to proximity to heavy industrial areas. Communities of color are systematically exposed ... -
How do teachers with different certification statuses describe their ability to deliver Culturally Responsive Instruction? A qualitative inquiry
(2024-05-10)Culturally Responsive Teaching is an approach that attempts to integrate students’ cultural backgrounds and experiences into learning processes. Some education reformers argue that student needs are best met when teachers ... -
Bowing Drills: Highly Adaptable Exercises for All Ages
(2024-05-11)In the orchestral string world, the left-hand is primarily responsible for pitch while the right-hand is accountable for much of the remaining elements of music including tone, dynamics, articulations, and phrasing. While ... -
COMMUNITY-DRIVEN DECISION-MAKING IN COLLECTIVE IMPACT GROUPS: A PHENOMENOLOGICAL STUDY
(2024-05)This phenomenological study focused on better understanding the experience of participating in community-driven decision-making within collective impact groups. Through interviewing both collective impact facilitators ... -
Visual and Musical Disability Narratives in How to Train Your Dragon
(2024-05-11)In recent decades, the field of disabilities studies has shifted from solely a medical outlook to a more rounded approach of how disability is constructed culturally and socially. With this change, disability scholars aim ... -
Views From the Saddle: Empathy and Romanticization in Oral Narrative and Multispecies Communication
(2024-05-10)In the summer of 2023, I traveled to Wyoming to conduct fieldwork while working on a dude ranch as a wrangler. The research I conducted had two particular focuses: the learned narratives that wranglers shared with guests ... -
THE IMPACT OF THE PLAY TO LEARN ACT IN 1st, 2nd, AND 3rd GRADE CLASSROOMS: A MIXED-METHODS STUDY
(2024-05-10)In the field of early childhood education, child-centered pedagogies have significantly decreased in favor of greater use of adult-directed learning as the high-stakes testing era has proliferated (Miller & Almon, 2009). ... -
Does Acute Melatonin Supplementation Affect Cerebrovascular Reactivity in Healthy Young Adults?
(2024-05-10)Melatonin receptors have been found in the cerebrovasculature in animal models, and melatonin has been shown to improve systemic vascular control. While there is a correlation between low melatonin production and cardiovascular ... -
The Pleasure Placebo: The Roles of Religion and Gender in Sexual Enjoyment
(2024-05-10)This project focuses on how religious factors relate to heterosexual, cisgender people’s attitudes about gender dynamics and their experiences of sexual enjoyment and well-being. I conduct three related analyses, and each ... -
Sustaining Professional Growth with a Side-to-Side Pedagogy: A Qualitative Case Study of the National Writing Project Focused on Seven Teacher Consultants
(2024-05-10)In a qualitative case study, this research focused on the professional growth of National Writing Project (NWP) Teacher Consultants (TCs). The overarching question, In what ways have experiences with the National Writing ... -
Self As Praxis: Centering Teacher Identity in Instructional Practices in the Secondary Science Classroom
(2024-05-10)The adoption of Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) and NGSS-like standards necessitates significantly different ways of thinking about K-12 science instruction as well as corresponding instructional approaches to ... -
Discovering Accessible Data Visualizations for People with ADHD
(2024-05-10)There have been many studies on understanding effective data visualizations regarding general users. However, we have a limited understanding on how people with ADHD comprehend data visualizations and how it might differ ... -
LATIN AMERICAN MUSIC IN THE WIND BAND REPERTOIRE: HISTORICAL CONTEXT, LATIN AMERICAN RHYTHMS, AND INTERPRETATIVE STRATEGIES
(2024-05-11)The rich and diverse musical heritage of Latin America offers an attractive repertoire for wind bands that deserves greater recognition in the United States. Despite proximity and cultural exchange, many exemplary works ... -
Illusions of Progress and Decline in Colonial India: Evolution and degeneration in the works of Pramatha Nath Bose, c. 1910-1930
(2024-05-11)In this thesis, I consider the views of Pramatha Nath Bose (1855-1934) as an example of Hindu revivalist appropriations of evolutionary ideas and degeneration to advance anticolonial, socially conservative politics in early ... -
MODULATING LATTICE OXYGEN ACTIVITY OF CA2FE2-XMXO5 BROWNMILLERITE FOR PRODUCTION OF HIGH PURITY HYDROGEN FROM BIOMASS RESOURCES
(2024-05-11)Chemical looping (CL) technology offers a promising avenue for producing high-purity hydrogen with inherent CO2 separation. A critical challenge lies in identifying oxygen carriers with high performance and sustained ... -
An Analysis on Luis Humberto Salgado's Works for Cello and Piano
(2024-05-11)Luis Humberto Salgado was an Ecuadorian pianist and composer who wrote in a variety of instrumental settings, including two works for cello and piano. Although he composed the Caprice and Sonata for Cello and Piano over ... -
AN ORCHESTRATION ANALYSIS OF KEVIN WALCZYK’S CONCERTO GAUCHO FOR TRUMPET AND WIND ENSEMBLE (2007) IN CONTEXT WITH THE CONCERTO GENRE FOR BANDS FROM 1990 TO 2009
(2024-05-11)Kevin Walczyk’s (b. 1964) Concerto Gaucho for Trumpet and Wind Ensemble (2007) represents a significant development of original literature for soloist and full band orchestration. While the twentieth-century band movement ... -
Team Viability’s Outcome-Input Role in Team Effectiveness: A Meta-Analytic Attempt to Disentangle the Confounding Nature of Commonly Used Scales
(2024-05-10)The purpose of this study is to examine the unique role of team viability within an input-mediator-output-input (IMOI) framework of team effectiveness. Using meta-analytic estimates, I empirically tested the relationships ...