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Exploration of Factors Influencing the Teacher Self-Efficacy in Educators of Justice-Involved Juveniles in Special Settings: An Explanatory Sequential Mixed-Methods Study
(2024-05)
Juveniles involved with the justice system are a population of youth with extensive needs who are historically underserved. Legal mandates have attempted to ensure these students are receiving a quality education, but ...
Only the Young: The Rhetoric of Youth-Led Social Movements In the 21st Century
(2024-05-10)
In this dissertation, I examine several examples of contemporary youth-led protest in conjunction with some of the specific challenges of organizing in the present day. In each chapter, I pair one circumstance that makes ...
Coevolution of a male novel genital trait and female reproductive response in Drosophila melanogaster sister species
(2024-08-01)
Novel morphological structures have always fascinated scientists. Developmental processes give rise to structures and morphologies that are often functionally necessary for an organism’s survival and reproduction. But how ...
AUTHORIAL CUSTODY AND STORY STEWARDSHIP: CENTERING RELATIONALITY AS AN INDIGENOUS APPROACH TO TEXTS
(2024-05-10)
This dissertation looks to position authorial custody and story stewardship as useful tools for author, audience, and critic. As a critical creative methodology, it can be used to identify custodial markers indicating the ...
Investigating the Leptinergic Regulation of Weakly Electric Fish Communication Signals
(2024-05-10)
Animals expend energy to gain information from their environments and communicate information to conspecifics. Understanding these energy-information tradeoffs is critical for understanding the constraints that shape animal ...
[GAUI [GUT YA[BAHE:GAU: KIOWA WORD WARRIORS AND THEIR LITERARY PURPOSE
(2024-05-10)
This work examines select literature created by Kiowa authors, poets, and playwrights as an extension of their traditional role as warriors, members of warrior societies, and the values that these warriors still uphold ...
Deception in Wireless Communications: Benefits and Perils
(2024-05-10)
Wireless signals, ubiquitous and capable of penetrating obstacles, are increasingly exploited to infer personal information such as vital signs, human activities, and crowd counts. This surge in wireless sensing techniques ...
Self As Praxis: Centering Teacher Identity in Instructional Practices in the Secondary Science Classroom
(2024-05-10)
The adoption of Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) and NGSS-like standards necessitates significantly different ways of thinking about K-12 science instruction as well as corresponding instructional approaches to ...
LATIN AMERICAN MUSIC IN THE WIND BAND REPERTOIRE: HISTORICAL CONTEXT, LATIN AMERICAN RHYTHMS, AND INTERPRETATIVE STRATEGIES
(2024-05-11)
The rich and diverse musical heritage of Latin America offers an attractive repertoire for wind bands that deserves greater recognition in the United States. Despite proximity and cultural exchange, many exemplary works ...
Constricting the body politic: Three studies of political communication apprehension and why they matter
(2024-05-10)
Much work has been done to capture people’s discomfort with talking about politics. Previous research suggests people are uncomfortable with political conversations for a variety of reasons, though little has been done to ...