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Knowing What to Do: School Focus, Teacher Morale, and Teacher Turnover
(2016)This study explored how schools’ focus – the collective perception among teachers of clarity and consistency regarding school goals, expectations, and priorities – related to schoolwide morale and school turnover rates. ... -
Latino Adolescent Sexual Behavior: Do Contextual Effects Contribute to Ethnic Group Differences?
(2012)Latino youths are at a higher risk of contracting sexually transmitted infections or becoming pregnant during adolescence than their non-Latino peers. Research has focused mainly on individual sociopsychological predictors ... -
Leadership Self Efficacy for College Students with a Learning Disability
(2008-05-05)This thesis explored the pre-college and college factors that contribute to the outcome of leadership efficacy for college students with a learning disability, an area with little prior research. Data from 717 undergraduate ... -
A LEARNING COMMUNITY PROJECT: COMPARATIVE INTERVENTIONS ON WRITING APPREHENSION AND LOCUS OF CONTROL OF DEVELOPMENTAL STUDENTS AT A TWO-YEAR COLLEGE
(2010)The education of under-prepared college students is a topic that interested and motivated this researcher to conduct a study on learning communities and measuring change in writing apprehension and locus of control of ... -
Learning Experiences in Career Exploration and Decision-Making: A Test of the Career Self-Management Model
(2017)The proposed study had two objectives. First, it refined a recently developed measure of five types of learning experiences that, according to social cognitive career theory (SCCT; Lent & Brown, 2013), inform self-efficacy ... -
Lifting the Veil on Invisible Identities: A Grounded Theory of Self-Disclosure for College Students with Mood Disorders
(2004-07-27)Little research exists about college students with mood disorders and their unique developmental issues. Previous studies of college students with disabilities have largely focused on physical and learning disabilities. ... -
Lifting the Voices of High-Achieving, Middle-Class, African American Students
(2012)The state of African American education is complex. Beginning in the 17th century, African Americans fought for an education that allowed them to read and write. During the 21st century, African Americans value on education ... -
Literacy Instruction and Intervention for Middle School Students with Mild Intellectual Disability
(2020)Research reveals that many individuals with mild intellectual disability (ID) face significant challenges in foundational literacy skills that hinder their ability to comprehend texts. Thus, individuals with mild ID need ... -
Literate language feature use in preschool age children with specific language impairment and typically developing language
(2006-04-19)This study investigated the rate of literate language feature (LLF) use in preschool age children with specific language impairment (SLI; n = 15), and typically developing language (TDL; n = 15). Language samples from two ... -
The Lived Experience Of Latina/o Peer Mentees: A Hermeneutic Phenomenological Approach
(2012)This research is about the peer mentee experience of Latina/o students. For this purpose, a group of nine participants were selected, who were part of a peer mentoring program in a Mid-Atlantic public university. The ... -
THE LIVED EXPERIENCES OF OPENLY GAY UNDERGRADUATE MEN INVOLVED IN ELECTED STUDENT GOVERNMENT: A PHENOMENOLOGICAL QUEERING
(2020)This is a study at the intersection of sexuality and student involvement in higher education. Exploring the lived experiences of openly gay undergraduate men involved in elected student government, this study enlists a ... -
Living in the Grey: Racial Sense-Making of Second Generation African Immigrants
(2018)This study explored messages of racial identity received by second generation African immigrants in order to better under their racial sense-making experiences. As a result of the growth in the Black immigrant population ... -
“Locker Room (Rape) Culture” and Male Athletes’ Attitudes Toward Sexual Violence: Exploring Psychosocial Dimensions of Masculinity in Sport
(2021)The issue of sexual violence perpetrated by male athletes has garnered increased scholarly attention over the last three decades. Existing research, however, has focused largely on whether athletes are more prone to sexually ... -
Longitudinal Analyses of Achievement Growth and Associated Kindergarten Factors for Subgroups of Children with Mathematics and Reading Difficulties
(2013)The present study used data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study - Kindergarten Class of 1998-1999 (ECLS-K) to explore the performance profiles of children with difficulties in mathematics. Two issues were particularly ... -
A longitudinal analysis of disproportionality in statewide exclusionary discipline of students with disabilities
(2016)The study examined the state-by-state changes in the rates of exclusionary discipline of students with disabilities compared to their non-disabled peers. Historically, students with disabilities have been excluded at rates ... -
THE LONGITUDINAL EFFECTS OF BEHAVIORAL PROBLEMS ON ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE
(2012)Students' behavior and emotional well being are instrumental for their success in the school setting. The present study examined the effects of behavioral problems on the academic performance of students three years later. ... -
Longitudinal Prediction of Domain Satisfaction and Global Life Satisfaction: Test of a Social Cognitive Model
(2005-04-09)The experience of life satisfaction has been studied at a global level and in specific domains of life such as work, marriage, and academic satisfaction. Global life satisfaction has been described as a predictor of, as ... -
Managers, Mentoring, and Moving Up: The Role of Mentoring in Women's Career Advancement in the Chemical Industry
(2008-05-13)The underrepresentation of women in White male-dominated science and technology fields (STEM) has been documented, with special attention on the lack of women's advancement within these fields, including industry (NSF, ... -
The Maternal Role in Promoting Emotional Competence: Predicting Head Start Mothers' Expressiveness, Perceived Role, and Receptivity to Support
(2010)Guided by Bioecological Systems Theory and Schema Theory, I investigated mothers' perceptions regarding the emotional development of their preschool children. Researchers acknowledge mothers' contributing role in influencing ... -
Math course taking and achievement among secondary students with disabilities: Exploring the gap in achievement between students with and without disabilities.
(2008-05-09)The purpose of this study was to extend school effects research to explore the influence of specific school-level factors on the math course-taking behaviors of students with disabilities and to determine whether the level ...