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Housing Wealth, Elderly Labor Outcomes and Financing Retirement
(2015-08)The first chapter of my dissertation uses the restricted access version of the Health and Retirement Survey (HRS) data to examine elderly workers responses to changes in housing wealth, property taxes and financial wealth. ... -
How am I Doing? The Role of Self-Evaluation in an Authentic Work Setting for Individuals with a Developmental Disability
(2020-05)Individuals with an intellectual or developmental disability experience poorer postsecondary outcomes compared to same-age peers. Research identified barriers to employment include soft skills. This single case study ... -
How and why the presence of social category diversity dictates procedures during mediation.
(2006)Through a multiple case study of the perceptions' of four mediators, this dissertation addresses how and why social category diversity dictates mediation procedures. The researcher delves into the world of governmental, ... -
How caring informs teaching.
(2006)This study is a qualitative investigation into the concept of care based on a heuristic research design constructed by Clark Moustakas. The researcher relied on the belief that teachers are knowers through lived experience ... -
HOW COMPUTER-MEDIATED COMMUNICATION AFFECTS ELL STUDENTS' WRITING PROCESSES AND WRITING PERFORMANCE
(2009)The overarching purpose of this study was to examine the impact of CMC technology on ELL students' writing processes and writing performance through interacting, communicating, constructing knowledge, and collaborating ... -
How do adults who experienced complex childhood trauma describe their progression through school?
(2024-05-10)Complex trauma is considered the most severe form of trauma. It is characterized by multiple harmful events that typically begin early in a child’s life, are chronic and prolonged, result in highly adverse developmental ... -
How do nonprofessional investors understand and use relevance and reliability of financial information?
(2008)With recent and ongoing changes to the conceptual framework, it is important to gain an understanding of how users of financial information understand and use the relevance and reliability of financial information in their ... -
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 ... -
How Early Childhood Hope Lessons Impact Students and Teachers
(2024-05-10)While focusing on instruction and academics, today’s classroom teachers must also meet the individual needs of students who come to the learning environment socially and emotionally unprepared. Positive psychology Hope ... -
How Far "Above the Fray"? Unpacking the Mechanisms of the Monarchical Advantage in the Arab Uprisings
(2018-05)Every one of the eight monarchies in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) remained standing in the wake of the Arab Spring uprisings, giving rise to claims of a “monarchical advantage” or “monarchical exceptionalism.” ... -
How Is Sexual Identity Acceptance Related To Self-Determination For LGB-Identified University Students Within Classroom Settings?
(2014-08-15)The social environment in which students operate has been shown to influence psychological well-being (Deci & Ryan, 2000). Through this quantitative study, the research highlights inadequacy of academic research dealing ... -
How Judgments of Learning Can Create Illusions of Episodic Memory
(2014-05-09)Metacognitive judgments made during learning derive from several types of information. These metacognitive cues often reflect intrinsic properties of the to-be-learned material, such as encoding fluency and processing ... -
HOW LEADERSHIP INFLUENCES TEACHER EFFECTIVENESS IN RESPONSE TO EDUCATIONAL REFORMS: A HERMENEUTIC PHENOMENOLOGICAL STUDY
(2016-05-13)In 2009 a rash overhaul of educational reform occurred in our nation’s educational system, specifically preempted by Race to the Top. Administrators and teachers have been in a flux of understanding the importance of these ... -
How long and how strong: An examination of the impact peer pressure has on young adults.
(2005)It is well documented that peer pressure is a major predictor of adolescent substance abuse (Akers 2000, 1985; Aseltine 1995; Becker 1963; Elliott et al 1985; Warr 2005). The current study seeks to bridge the gap between ... -
HOW MEMORABLE SOCIALIZATION MESSAGES FROM WITHIN CULTURAL COMMUNITIES SHAPE ADULT MEANING ATTRIBUTIONS ABOUT WORK: THE CASE OF LEBANESE-AMERICANS
(2013)This dissertation describes the process by which community messaging obligates members to perform work behaviors in order to achieve full membership status--labeled here the Obligation-based Culturing of Work (OCW). The ... -
How mental operations are reflected in children's language through use of the Lavatelli Early Childhood Curriculum /
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How Meteorologists Learn to Forecast the Weather: Social Dimensions of Complex Learning
(2011)Weather and climate persistently affect individuals, corporations, and governments, sometimes in significant ways: a poor forecast leaves people unprepared to prevent damage or deal with disruptions to their daily routines, ... -
How Outstanding Leaders Lead with Affect: An Examination of Charismatic, Ideological, and Pragmatic Leaders
(2013)The CIP Model of Leadership has received increased attention within the past decade. Research in this area has examined how leaders develop mental models, frame messages, communicate goals, and utilize political tactics ... -
How Outstanding Leaders Lead with Affect: An Examination of Charismatic, Ideological, and Pragmatic Leaders
(2013)The CIP Model of Leadership has received increased attention within the past decade. Research in this area has examined how leaders develop mental models, frame messages, communicate goals, and utilize political tactics ... -
How perceptions of the future influence achievement motivation.
(1998)The research reported here was guided by a theoretical model developed by Miller and Brickman (1997). The model depicts future goals and the plans to reach them as impacting self-regulation for present achievement. To ...