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"Seasoning Mercy with Justice": Considering Gender, Risk and Recidivism in the Punishment and Supervision of Female White Collar Offenders
(2014-12)
This study examined the impact of risk factors and existing federal sentencing policies and practices on the likelihood of recidivism for female white collar offenders. The research combined and expanded prior literature ...
The Impact Of Instructional Technology Training And Support: A Case Study Of A Technology-Rich School
(2014-05-09)
Despite the increase in technology available to classrooms, results of the research on the impact of technology on student achievement have been mixed at best. Studies consistently show that if technology is effectively ...
Expanding the Spectrum of Attitudes Toward the Death Penalty: How Nondichotomous Response Options Affect Our Understandings of Death Penalty Attitudes
(Criminal Justice Review, 2014-06-01)
Advancement Via Individual Determination in the Suburban High School: An Evaluation of the Jenks High School AVID Program
(2014-05)
This program evaluation examines the Advancement Via Individual Determination (AVID) program at Jenks High School in Jenks, Oklahoma. AVID is a college readiness program designed to prepare underachieving high school ...
Assessment of Elder Mistreatment in Two American Indian Samples: Psychometric Characteristics of the HS-EAST and the Native Elder Life–Financial Exploitation and –Neglect Measures
(Journal of Applied Gerontology, 2014-04-01)
Although elder mistreatment among ethnic minorities is increasingly gaining attention, our empirical knowledge of this phenomenon among American Indians remains quite limited, especially with respect to measurement. The ...
Investigating Procrastination and Delay from a Self-regulated Learning Perspective
(2014-05-09)
Previous research shows that academic procrastination is maladaptive and is associated with negative learning outcomes such as decreased self-regulation, motivation, and grades. However, some recent research suggests that ...
Undergraduate Conductors’ and Conducting Teachers’ Perceptions of Basic Conducting Efficacy
(2014)
The purpose of this study was to examine undergraduate conductors’ and conducting
teachers’ perceptions about basic conducting efficacy. At the beginning and end of the semester, undergraduate students (N = 19) enrolled ...
Minutes of a Regular Meeting, The University of Oklahoma Board of Regents, September 18, 2014
(The University of Oklahoma Board of Regents, 2014-09-18)
Mechanistic Understanding of Catalytic Upgrading Reaction of Biomass-Derived C2 Oxygenates
(2014-05-09)
Lignocellulosic biomass, being the promising renewable source of carbon, has a great potential to serve as a sustainable platform for the production of fuels and chemicals. The conversion of lignocellulose to fuels and ...
Historical geography III: Climate matters
(Progress in Human Geography, 2014-06-01)
My third report covering recent research in historical geography focuses on climate, and particularly scholarship that explores how the meaning of climate and climate change varies in distinct cultural and temporal contexts. ...