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Teachers' Lived Experiences Within and Beyond the 2016 Oklahoma Writing Project Summer Institute
(2017-05)
Many classroom teachers often consider professional development to be ineffective and irrelevant, noting little to no benefits for themselves or their students. Research on traditional, top-down professional development ...
SCHOOL COUNSELORS’ LEADERSHIP PARTICIPATION AND THE IMPACT OF INDIVIDUAL DEMOGRAPHICS AND SCHOOL ORGANIZATIONAL CHARACTERISTICS IN OKLAHOMA SCHOOLS
(2017-12-16)
This dissertation examines the perceptions of Oklahoma school counselors’ participation in school leadership and the effect their individual demographics or school organizational characteristics have on these perceptions. ...
The Effects of Audit-Firm Monopoly Within Local Audit Markets
(2017-05-12)
This study examines auditors who monopolize audit markets (monopolist auditors), defined as a particular industry within a city (Numan and Willekens 2012), and their pricing strategy as well as audit quality. I document ...
The Visualization of the American Southwest: Ethnography, Tourism, and American Indian Souvenir Arts
(2017-05)
This dissertation addresses the visualization, or artistic documentation, of the American Southwest in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Artistic images in the form of drawings, paintings, photographs, and ...
A Computational Study of Amyloid Fibrils and their Structural Properties
(2017-12)
The term amyloid describes misfolded protein aggregates in which a highly ordered cross β-sheet pattern is adopted. While there exist functional amyloids, the majority of known amyloids are associated with diseases in ...
AN EXAMINATION OF MENTORING AND INDUCTION EFFECTS ON RETENTION, TEACHING EFFECTIVENESS AND STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT.
(2017-12)
The purpose of this quantitative quasi-experimental study with a non-equivocal groups design is to explore how mentoring and induction variables influence teacher retention, and the effect of mentoring on student achievement ...
Analysis of environmental modifications by deep convection during the Mesoscale Predictability Experiment
(2017-05)
The Mesoscale Predictability Experiment (MPEX) conducted during the spring of 2013 included frequent coordinated sampling of near-storm environments via upsondes. These unique observations were taken to better understand ...
Alternate Pathways to Ritual Power: Evidence for Centralized Production and Long-Distance Exchange between Northern and Southern Caddo Communities
(2017-12)
The Formative Caddo lived throughout the Arkansas Valley of eastern Oklahoma and the West Gulf Coastal Plain region of east Texas, northwest Louisiana, southwest Arkansas, and southeast Oklahoma between approximately A.D. ...
SOCIAL JUSTICE IMPLICATIONS OF INCLUSIVE MEASURES OF SEXUAL AND GENDER MINORITY POPULATIONS
(2017-12)
The understanding of human sexuality has continued to expand, and has led to an increased understanding of the diversity comprising the sexual and gender minority population. Despite this broadened knowledge base, researchers ...
Characterization and Prediction of Flash Flood Severity
(2017-05)
Flash floods, a subset of floods, are a particularly damaging natural hazard worldwide due to their multidisciplinary nature, difficulty in forecasting, and fast response that limits emergency responses. The purpose of ...