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On Fostering a Culture of Research Cyberinfrastructure Grant Proposals within a Community of Service Providers in an EPSCoR State
(2015-07-30)
On Fostering a Culture of Research Cyberinfrastructure:
Grant Proposals within a Community of Service Providers in an EPSCoR State
THE ANALYSIS OF SELF-EFFICACY FOR STUDENTS ENROLLED IN A CALCULUS I COURSE AT A COMMUNITY COLLEGE
(2015-12-18)
It is generally accepted that learning implies a multitude of factors meant to prepare the children for life and its challenges. Some of these factors are directly related to the level of knowledge of subject matter, but ...
Essays in Corporate Finance and Governance
(2015-05-08)
This dissertation is a collection of essays that investigate the intersection of managerial behaviors, corporate governance quality, and financial outcomes. Chapter 1 explores the relationship between chief executive ...
DISENTANGLING SELF-REGULATION AND PERFORMANCE IN ACTIVE LEARNING: TOWARD A DYNAMIC PROCESS PERSPECTIVE ON COMPLEX SKILL ACQUISITION
(2015-05)
Self-regulation is central to many modern theories of training and development, including active-learning theory. However, research in this area often overlooks the role of behavior in self-regulated learning and fails to ...
To The Angel of Schooling, Write: Redeeming the Telos of Schooling as a Liturgical Institution, And the Role of the School Administrator as Peace-Weaver, Through the Lens of Prophetic Imagination
(2015-05-08)
The purpose of this dissertation is to critique the institution of mass schooling by holding up the failure of both its liturgy and its pedagogies as part of the larger failure inherent in the overarching telos of the ...
Can there be a virtue ethics of institutions?
(2015-01)
I consider this question in light of Slote’s proposal for an ‘agent-based’ account of social justice, on which we can evaluate a society in terms of the morally virtuous motives being expressed in the ‘actions’ of laws, ...
Cognitive Fit in Visualizing Big Data
(2015-05)
This dissertation examines the consequences of cognitive fit in visualizing big data. Specifically, it focuses on the interplay between different types of business data analysis tasks and visualization methods, and how the ...
Prototype reinforced soil embankment for reconstruction of US 62 slope failure in Chickasha, OK
(Oklahoma City, OK : Oklahoma Department of Transportation, 2014., 2015-01)
One of the main concerns in internal stability of reinforced soil structures constructed with fine-grained or marginal quality soils is the change in shear strength of the soil-reinforcement interface when the soil gravimetric ...
Leader–Follower Interpersonal Emotion Management: Managing Stress by Person-Focused and Emotion-Focused Emotion Management
(Journal of Leadership & Organizational Studies, 2015-02-01)
Compliance with demands to express certain emotions at certain times is difficult for most employees to achieve without also experiencing adverse effects such as stress. Emotion researchers typically study “demands” in the ...
Teacher-Child Interactions in Infant and Toddler Classrooms: A Qualitative Study Examining the Nature of Care
(2015-05)
The purpose of this study was to describe and explore the nature of infants’, toddlers’, and caregivers’ lived experiences in group care settings. Multi-case qualitative research was conducted with three infant and/or ...