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Follower Mental Models and Outstanding Leadership
(2015)
Charismatic, ideological, and pragmatic (CIP) leaders use different mental models to understand and interpret the world. The present study uses this framework to gain a better understanding of how outstanding leaders ...
Divergent Pathways and Diverse Lives: The Effect of Physical Disability on the Criminal Victimization of Young Adults
(2015-12)
Official statistics show that physical disability is strongly associated with an increased risk of experiencing violent and sexual victimization, but researchers know little about why this occurs. Do offenders target ...
Categorizing Students' Difficulties with Mathematical Proofs: Developing a Model of the Structure of Proof Construction
(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 ...
Southeast U.S. Cold Season Severe Thunderstorm Environments and Their Depictions Using Multiple Planetary Boundary Layer Parameterization Schemes
(2015-12-18)
The primary motivations of this dissertation are to identify meteorological characteristics of the southeastern United States cold season tornado environment and to improve numerical modeling of such environments focused ...
NURTURING PROMOTES THE EVOLUTION OF LEARNING IN CHANGING ENVIRONMENTS
(2015-08-14)
An agent may interact with its environment and learn complex tasks based on evaluative
feedback through a process known as reinforcement learning. Reinforcement
learning requires exploration of unfamiliar situations, ...
Experiences of Early Childhood Educators Who Use Constructivist Approaches in an Era of High-Stakes Accountability
(2015-08)
Over the past thirty years, American education has moved toward a system of increased accountability. High-stakes accountability is characterized by the reliance of high-stakes testing, or assessments that lead to significant ...
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 ...
It's Not About Cowboys: Cowboys as Subject in Contemporary Art
(2015-05)
Images of American cowboys are examined in a selection of lens-based artworks including Richard Avedon’s In the American West (1984), Laurie Simmons’ Cowboys (1979), David Levinthal’s The Wild West (1987-89), Matthew ...
SUPPORTING FOURTH GRADE STUDENTS’ DEVELOPMENT IN PERSUASIVE WRITING THROUGH THE USE OF A CLASS BLOG
(2015-12-18)
In this sequential explanatory mixed methods study the researcher examined a) the quality of persuasive writing, and b) attitudes toward writing of two groups of fourth graders, one that blogged and another group that did ...
Frequency-Agile Microwave Filters For Radars With Simultaneous Transmission and Reception
(2015-12)
Multi-band/multi-mode wireless communication systems have been receiving increased attention recently due to their potential for spectrum management in a dynamic spectral environment. Similarly radar systems, which can ...