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How Indian boarding schools are like neighborhoods
(2022-07)
Contemporary Indian boarding schools look a lot different than their previous incarnations. It is clear that traditional and long-standing evaluation criteria for conventional public and private schools does not adequately ...
Do compressed in-person classes yield student performance results comparable to traditional 16-week in-person classes: A mixed methodology approach
(2022-05)
Institutions of higher learning are offering an increasing number of compressed in-person classes with the goal of providing to their diverse student populations flexibility of instruction delivery. SIU and many other ...
Human capital formation, fertility, and labor force participation in Sub-Saharan Africa
(2022-07)
My dissertation comprises three chapters. The first chapter examines the effect of childhood immunization. After being in power in Burkina Faso for about a year, a military regime led by Thomas Sankara-within weeks, ...
Fluorescence emission as an early indicator of coral health and as a visual cue for symbiotic algae: The effect on STEM interest after a field trip to a public aquarium
(2020-07)
Scleractinian coral rely on the photosynthetic byproducts gained from their dinoflagellate endosymbiont. Bleaching events break down the symbiosis leaving the coral with reduced fecundity or dead. Examining the symbiotic ...
Exploring why parents choose to enroll their children in a Classical Christian education school: A qualitative study
(2021-05)
The purpose of this naturalistic inquiry study was to explore parents' rationales for enrolling their children in a Classical Christian education (CCE) school accredited by the Association of Classical Christian Schools ...
Turning disability into a dream: A narrative inquiry of one mother’s endurance
(2022-12)
Research has indicated that, as of 2017, 18.7 percent of individuals who had a disability held employment, as opposed to 65.7 percent without a disability (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2018). Despite the passage of the ...
Using machine learning methods to improve healthcare delivery in diabetes management
(2022-07)
This dissertation includes three studies, all focusing on Analytics and Patients information for improving diabetes management, namely educating patients and early detection of comorbidities. In these studies, we develop ...
Exploring the impact of proposed budget cuts to NASA education: A case study utilizing qualitative document analysis
(2021-05)
The purpose of this study was to explore the impact of proposed budget cuts on NASA's education mission broadly and on NASA's Office of Education / STEM Engagement specifically. Throughout the four years of the Trump ...
Curriculum specialists in the conversation of change: A third space approach
(2021-07)
The site-based curriculum specialist is a position that is often implemented to satisfy reform mandates without deeper, more significant consideration of how the specialist initiates or sustains change efforts in the school. ...
Triggering student interest in classroom subjects through the use of board games
(2020-05)
The purpose of this paper is to study whether playing a subject-related game in class increases a student's interest in the class subject, their perception of the learning climate, and their engagement in the classroom. ...