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Cultural Values and Persistence in Muscogee (Creek) College Students: Attrition in Post-Secondary Education
(2011)Cultural Values and Persistence in Muscogee (Creek) College Students: -
Culturally relevant pedagogy in practice: using critical whiteness to create critical consciousness in urban education
(2021-05)This dissertation examines the purpose of urban k-12 public schools and identifies the explicit and implicit ways in which they disrupt and limit urban students’ opportunities. Through interviews with white teachers in ... -
Culturally responsive teaching in one urban school district: a needs assessment
(2022-12-17)There exists a pattern of underperformance in minority children in urban school districts across this country. Nationally, minority students—especially African American students—score lower on standardized assessments than ... -
The culture trait of hierarchy and junior high school socioeconomic status in a large urban school district /
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Culture, conflict and coexistence : American-Soviet cultural relations, 1917-1958.
(1980)Beneath the strained official relationship between Washington and Moscow, American and Soviet cultural representatives have maintained a long standing cultural intercourse. Only at the depths of the cold war did contacts ... -
Culture, politics and television: A cross-cultural comparative study of Korean and United States televised presidential debates.
(2000)This dissertation treats televised presidential debates as a mirror of culture. However, the study sees the televised presidential debate as a traditionally Western or American political event. The televised presidential ... -
Culture-independent characterization of methane-oxidizing microbial communities in unexplored extreme environments
(2021-08-05)Methane is the second most abundant greenhouse gas in atmosphere. With increasing emissions and more effective in trapping heat than CO2, it contributes up to ~20% of total global warming. Methanotrophs playing a critical ... -
Curiosity and self-directed learning readiness among a sample of baccalaureate nursing students.
(1998)The curiosity materials, based on Berlyne's theory of epistemic curiosity, included ten psychological experiment accounts and participants rated three responses: (1) how surprising or unexpected the results were; (2) how ... -
A Currency Union Odyssey: Monetary Policy in the CFA Zone
(2019-08-01)This thesis focuses on one of the most important currency unions in the world known as the CFA zone. The goal of this thesis is to draw a comparison of African countries with their own national currencies to African countries ... -
Current and ideal professional roles of NCAA Division I-A sports information directors: Analysis and implications.
(1998)The study garnered a 53 percent response rate $(n=187)$ from NCAA I-A members of the College Sports Information Directors of America. Based on their responses, practitioners were classified according to one of four role ... -
The current level of implementation of eighteen basic middle school characteristics in Oklahoma middle school programs /
(The University of Oklahoma., 1985)Generally, the findings and conclusions focused on the relatively low and moderate implementation of a majority of recognized and accepted middle school characteristics. Some areas virtually have been ignored, or administrators ... -
CURRENT PRACTICES AND SCHOOL-BASED PERSONNEL’S PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT NEEDS IN FUNCTIONAL BEHAVIOR ASSESSMENT IN QATAR
(2017-12)The concern about young children challenging behaviors has produced a wide range of intervention programs to reduce problem behaviors and promote development of social skills. Over the past two decades, researchers have ... -
Curricular perception of business curriculum involving selected educators and businesspersons.
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Curriculum Development for an Undergraduate Piano Major Functional Piano Skills Course
(2020-07)In an effort to prepare undergraduate piano majors for a diverse career in music, some undergraduate institutions elect to provide coursework for piano majors dedicated to the development of functional piano skills. Research ... -
CURRICULUM OF THE MIND: A BLACKCRIT, NARRATIVE INQUIRY, HIP-HOP ALBUM ON ANTI-BLACKNESS & FREEDOM FOR BLACK MALE COLLEGIANS AT HISTORICALLY WHITE INSTITUTIONS
(2019)Curriculum of the Mind is a Hip-Hop album that explores how Black male collegians at historically white institutions (HWIs) theorize and disrupt anti-Blackness in an effort to take flight or become free. Few previous studies ... -
Cyberterrorism: A postmodern view of networks of terror and how computer security experts and law enforcement officials fight them.
(2006)The purpose of this study is to investigate how cyberterrorists create networks in order to engage in malicious activities against the Internet and computers. The purpose of the study is also to understand how computer ... -
Cyclic tornadogenesis and horizontal vortex tubes in high-resolution idealized simulations of supercells
(2021-12)Despite enormous progress in our understanding of tornadic supercells obtained over the last several decades, many aspects regarding the evolution of these storms and their attendant tornadoes require further investigation. ... -
CYCLOPENTANONE ALDOL CONDENSATION – EFFECTS OF SURFACE SILANIZATION, ACETONE AND WATER CO-FEEDING ON CATALYTIC BEHAVIORS OF MAGNESIUM OXIDE-BASED SOLIDS
(2018)Cyclopentanone is a promising building block in the conversion of biomass to fuels. It can be readily obtained from furanics derived from biomass and can be converted to intermediate products in the molecular weight range ...