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Organizational Structure, Leadership, and Organizational Citizenship Behavior
(2015-05-08)
A plethora of research on Organizational Citizenship Behavior (OCB) exists. However, there is a limited amount of research examining this construct within schools. This study examined the OCB phenomenon in schools. More ...
Speaking Kiowa Today: Continuity and Change Through the Generations
(2015-05-08)
Speaking Kiowa Today constitutes a systematic, in-depth look at language change over four generations, focusing on one language, Kiowa, during a period of intense language change, often called obsolescence. The integration ...
THE ANALYSIS OF SELF-EFFICACY FOR STUDENTS ENROLLED IN A CALCULUS I COURSE AT A COMMUNITY COLLEGE
(2015-12-18)
It is generally accepted that learning implies a multitude of factors meant to prepare the children for life and its challenges. Some of these factors are directly related to the level of knowledge of subject matter, but ...
Essays in Corporate Finance and Governance
(2015-05-08)
This dissertation is a collection of essays that investigate the intersection of managerial behaviors, corporate governance quality, and financial outcomes. Chapter 1 explores the relationship between chief executive ...
DISENTANGLING SELF-REGULATION AND PERFORMANCE IN ACTIVE LEARNING: TOWARD A DYNAMIC PROCESS PERSPECTIVE ON COMPLEX SKILL ACQUISITION
(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 ...
To The Angel of Schooling, Write: Redeeming the Telos of Schooling as a Liturgical Institution, And the Role of the School Administrator as Peace-Weaver, Through the Lens of Prophetic Imagination
(2015-05-08)
The purpose of this dissertation is to critique the institution of mass schooling by holding up the failure of both its liturgy and its pedagogies as part of the larger failure inherent in the overarching telos of the ...
Cognitive Fit in Visualizing Big Data
(2015-05)
This dissertation examines the consequences of cognitive fit in visualizing big data. Specifically, it focuses on the interplay between different types of business data analysis tasks and visualization methods, and how the ...
Teacher-Child Interactions in Infant and Toddler Classrooms: A Qualitative Study Examining the Nature of Care
(2015-05)
The purpose of this study was to describe and explore the nature of infants’, toddlers’, and caregivers’ lived experiences in group care settings. Multi-case qualitative research was conducted with three infant and/or ...
INTEGRATED STUDY ON SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHIC FRAMEWORK OF DEEPWATER JACKFORK GROUP AND WOODFORD SHALE
(2015-05-08)
Deepwater turbidites and unconventional shale reservoirs are two most important hydrocarbon resources in North America. To fully understand the hydrocarbon potentials of the deepwater reservoirs, we first need to utilize ...
DETECTION OF "TRILOBITE" AND "BUTTERFLY" RYDBERG MOLECULES IN CESIUM WITH KILODEBYE DIPOLE MOMENTS
(2015-04-06)
The detection and characterization of two classes of ultralong-range Rydberg molecules known as "trilobite" and "butterfly" molecules is presented. These molecules are a subset of a class of Rydberg molecules which ...