Browsing OU - Dissertations by Author "Terry, Robert"
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Age-Related Changes in Muscular Strength, Power, Endurance, and Quality in Recreationally Active Women Aged 20 to 89 Years
Miller, Ryan (2020-05-08)The purpose of this study was to investigate the influence of chronological age on muscular strength, power, endurance, and quality in recreationally active women 20 to 89 years of age. One hundred and fifty-two female ... -
Analyzing the Human Sex Ratio at Birth
Ferrell, Brandon (2013-12-13)The effect of income, education, employment, marital status, age, race, birth order, and national economic conditions on the sex ratio at birth were analyzed for the N = 21,597 children of the National Longitudinal Survey ... -
Application of Artificial Neural Networks, Gradient Boosted Decision Trees, and Multilevel Logistic Models in a Supervised Learning Environment to Investigate Differences in Classification Performance when Predicting College Enrollment
Christensen, Collin (2018-05)The use of data mining algorithms for applied practice is becoming commonplace in many industries. The application of these models to the domain of educational data and practice could provide significant gains in understanding ... -
APPLICATION OF COGNITIVE PRINCIPLES WITHIN AN ONLINE STATISTICAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENT
Huffman, William (2016-12)Three experiments were conducted in order to further investigate optimal learning procedures within an online statistical learning environment. Experiment 1 exposed learners to retrieval practice learning conditions with ... -
Applying Hierarchical Non-Linear Modeling To Investigate The Influence Of High School Characteristics In Predicting First-Year College Retention
Pleitz, Jacob (2014-05)Student retention in higher education is an incredibly important social and psychological phenomenon. The impact of student retention reaches across multiple domains, influencing individual students, state and local ... -
ASSOCIATIONS AMONG FRIENDSHIP JEALOUSY, FRIENDSHIP QUALITIES, RELATIONAL AGGRESSION, AND GENDER IN ADOLESCENCE
Kraft, Caroline (2017)The present study investigated the associations among specific friendship qualities, friendship jealousy, and relational aggression among ninth graders. Friendship qualities and gender were explored as potential moderators ... -
ATTACHMENT AND SELF-ESTEEM: IMPLICATIONS FOR PROSOCIALITY AND THE SELF
Bozeman, Sara (2014-12)Two experimental studies test a model of prosociality (including prosocial actions and emotions) that integrates research from the areas of attachment theory and self-esteem. The model suggests that primed relationship ... -
Authentic Leadership Measures
Butterworth, Mitch (2020-05-08)The purpose of this study was to explore the structural validity and the structural reliability of the three measures for authentic leadership (Authentic Leadership Questionnaire, Authentic Leadership Inventory, Authentic ... -
Bayesian and Frequentist Approaches for Factorial Invariance Test
Thompson, Yutian (2018-08-02)Measurement invariance test concerns with whether the group membership is related to the attributes of a test. In the framework of Structural Equation Modeling (SEM), it is implemented by the multiple-group confirmatory ... -
Briding the GAPS: An Evaluation of the Group Activated Probability of Success Model of Stereotype Threat
Cohenour, Maria (2010)The authors developed the Group Activated Probability of Success (GAPS) model to replicate the relationship between the performances of minority group members that are impacted by stereotype threat and to examine the impact ... -
Calculus Instructors' Resources, Orientations, and Goals in Teaching Low-Achieving Students
Lee, Misun (2014-05-09)Teaching and learning calculus has been the subject of mathematics education research for many years. Although the literature is mainly concerned with students’ difficulties with calculus, research on mathematicians’ day ... -
Categorizing Students' Difficulties with Mathematical Proofs: Developing a Model of the Structure of Proof Construction
Yamamoto, Tetsuya (2015-08-14)Studies have shown that proof construction is a challenging task for students at all levels. The purposes of my study were to examine students' difficulties with proof construction and to explore a practical method to help ... -
Climate for Creativity: The Use of Storytelling to Influence Climate Perceptions
Mecca, Jensen (2014-12)Storytelling may represent an effective approach to organizational communication. The present study examines the efficacy of a storytelling intervention intended to influence perceptions of organizational climate, where ... -
Communication, Constraints, and Moral Intensity: A Study in Decision-Making Processes and Ethical Outcomes
Sanders, Chanda (2020)The study of ethics remains of critical importance to researchers and organizations alike and continues to receive attention as ethical infractions persist. This laboratory study (N = 194) compares the effects of ethical ... -
Conceptualizing Social Power in Adolescence
McMillin, Keegan (2021-05-14)Popularity in adolescence has been of interest to researchers for decades—oft described and conceptualized as social power, yet few studies have investigated the overlap between popularity and social power outside of ... -
Construct Transparency and the Psychometric Properties of a Multidimensional Situational Judgment Test
Cooper, Olivia (2014-05)Reported internal consistencies of SJTs are often low, and empirical examination of the structural properties of SJT scores are rarely examined. This paper addressed the need for an empirical investigation of factors that ... -
Deaf Education Elementary Teachers' Perceptions on Self-Determination: A Mixed Methods Study
Reynolds, Matthew (2020-05)Self-determination is a best practice in special education and is taught to younger students with a disability to provide a foundation for academic success; yet these practices are dependent on teacher implementation. It ... -
Developing a New Instrument to Assess Online Learners' Sense of Community in Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning Environments
Liao, Lihui (2017-12-15)The purpose of this study is to provide validity evidence for the measurement model underlying a new assessment designed to assess online learners’ sense of community in computer-supported collaborative learning communities ... -
The Development, Validation, and Generalizability of the Technological Adaptive Expertise Scale
Tran, Phuoc (2017-05)Technology is rapidly changing and with it the need for the ability to adapt to change increases. Whether consciously or unconsciously, users of technology may have developed varying degrees of technological adaptability. ... -
DISENTANGLING SELF-REGULATION AND PERFORMANCE IN ACTIVE LEARNING: TOWARD A DYNAMIC PROCESS PERSPECTIVE ON COMPLEX SKILL ACQUISITION
Hardy, Jay, III (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 ...