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Making sense of motivation: Stories of high-achieving African American middle school students.
(2006)
The outcomes of this study will exhibit students maintaining high-academic achievements are equally intrinsically and extrinsically motivated. Their meaning making is synonymous with that of the literature, as the students' ...
Panamanian art music for strings: Works for violin/piano and viola/piano by Roque Cordero, Eduardo Charpentier, and Fermin Castanedas.
(2006)
This dissertation documents a portion of the contribution that Panama has made to the world of classical music. The study focuses on the literature for violin and viola by Panamanian composers Roque Cordero, Eduardo ...
The Statistics Concept Inventory: Development and analysis of a cognitive assessment instrument in statistics.
(2006)
The Statistics Concept Inventory (SCI) is a multiple choice test designed to assess students' conceptual understanding of topics typically encountered in an introductory statistics course. This dissertation documents the ...
Factors in successful GED recipients in higher education.
(2006)
An inductive phenomenological study was conducted using eight GED recipients who had attempted higher education at a four-year university with this researcher's own experiences included. Four members of the study were ...
The Brain Trust Model: A proposed change to modern change management.
(2006)
The study of change management and innovation is a perplexing and challenging undertaking. A review of the literature revealed that change management practices and methodological frameworks are currently insufficient to ...
Liberation and liberal freedom: A critique of Rawls's "Law of Peoples" in light of positive freedom.
(2006)
1T.H. Green, Lectures on the Principles of Political Obligation. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1986), 2000.
Collegiate journalists, media literacy, the culture of fear, and Conscientizacao: A critical ethnography.
(2006)
This qualitative project explored collegiate journalists' experiences with a mass-media generated Culture of Fear and investigated the theoretical interconnections of this culture, journalism education, college newspaper ...
Effects of lipopolysaccharide, antipyrogen, and body condition on the chronopharmacology of fever in Dipsosaurus dorsalis.
(2006)
I examined the effects of two doses (2.5 mg kg-1 and 25 mg kg-1) of a pyrogen (lipopolysaccharide, LPS) independently and in combination with an antipyrogen (acetylsalicylic acid) at two times of injection (noon and midnight) ...
A phenomenological study of National Board Certified Teachers use of reflective practice to improve pedagogy.
(2006)
Upon completion of the data collection strategies, the interview transcriptions were analyzed and coded into meaning clusters. From the interview transcription the researcher identified formulated meanings of significant ...
Late-night television talk shows and political comedy programs: A study of young voters' political experiences.
(2006)
The information processing strategy active reflection was also examined to determine the mediation relationship between exposure and attention to late night television talk shows and political comedy programs and the outcome ...