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Browsing Doctoral by Type "Dissertation"

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Academic Supports and College Success for Students with a Learning Disability

Rodriguez, Lauren Pilar (2015)

This study examined students with learning disabilities' use of academic consultation, a specific academic support, during the first year of college and the relation it had to completing the undergraduate degree. Forty-one ...
Adolescent Body Image: Examining the Relationship Between Adolescent Dancers and Their Teachers

Ostrum, Erin (2017-11)

This study examined the relationship between the perceived verbal and nonverbal messages given by dance teachers and the body image of their adolescent dancers. Variables such as level of dance (i.e., competitive or purely ...
An Animal-Assisted Intervention with College Students with Asperger's Syndrome

Engel, Suzanne E. (2011)

Animal-assisted intervention (AAI), an intervention that uses a therapy animal to assist an individual in reaching his or her goals, has received little attention in the research literature. What is available is anecdotal ...
Assessment of family functioning at multiple levels: an exploratory investigation of the dynamic assessment of family functioning inventory ' demonstrated under clinical conditions (DAFFI-DUCC): how despicable is the DAFFI-DUCC?

Vose, Jeremy John Cranston (2010-12)

Family assessments that consider multiple levels of family functioning serve to provide a more comprehensive picture of family functioning, as well as highlight those areas most in need of problem remediation and intervention. ...
The Association Between Student-Teacher Relationship Quality and Exclusionary Discipline

Mellerski, Renae (2022-12)

Exclusionary discipline practices routinely exclude students from the academic environment through means such as office discipline referrals, suspension, and expulsion. These strategies, in turn, initiate student involvement ...
Beyond a Runner's High: Assessing the Relationship Between Trait Mindfulness and Running Activity in Adolescents

McGlynn, Bridget Anne (2020)

Mindfulness has been increasingly demonstrated as an effective intervention for improving various mental health outcomes such as anxiety, depression, stress levels, and quality of life. In more recent years, studies have ...
Cognitive Flexibility Growth Patterns and Speech and Language Skills Among School Age Children

Miller, Erica Anne (2021-05)

This study investigated the cognitive flexibility trajectories of children in grades kindergarten through fifth grade. The study utilized the longitudinal data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Class of 2010-2011 ...
The Connections Between Family Characteristics, Parent-child Engagement, Interactive Reading Behaviors, and Preschoolers' Emergent Literacy

Moss, Katie Marie (2016-04)

This study examined the relationship of family characteristics (i.e., SES and race), parent-child engagement, and interactive reading behaviors on preschooler’s emergent literacy scores. This study used a structural ...
Consultee-centered Consultation within Community-based Residences for Individuals with Disabilities

Williams, Jessica Kent (2015)

Managing the behavioral needs of individuals with developmental disabilities has been a long-standing concern for group home managers and direct care staff. Consultee-centered consultation has a history of documented ...
Counselor Empathic Responding in the Presence of a Therapy Dog

Perry, Erin (2017)

This study examined the difference between counselor empathic responding with and without a therapy dog in their counseling sessions was examined in a within-subjects design. Counseling consisted of animal-assisted therapy, ...
Creating connectedness in middle school: an applied study in the relationship between team teaching model and school connectedness

Bones, Geoffrey (2010-12)

School Connectedness is a student's general sense of being supported and accepted by peers and adults in a school, as well as a sense of commitment, engagement, and belonging to the school institution. This variable has ...
Development and validation of the Sweet Army Culture Scale (SACS)

Sweet, Amanda L. (2013-12)

Military children are often unspoken or underrepresented casualties of modern day wars. The purpose of this study was to develop a method of empirically measuring civilian mental health professionals' perceived knowledge ...
Do demographic variables make a difference in level of violent game play?

Rowland, Sulma (2014-08)

The current study examined the relationship between violent video game exposure and demographic variables including gender, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status (SES). A 40-item questionnaire was developed in order to ...
Effects of Direct Consultation-Based Training and Peer Coaching on the Fidelity of Implementation of the Teaching Pyramid Model

Vaughn, Maria Kay (2016)

This study used single subject research design to determine if direct consultation-based training and peer coaching could be used to increase treatment fidelity of the Teaching Pyramid Model in four rural preschool classrooms. ...
Efficacy of Animal-Assisted Therapy in Lowering Anxiety Symptoms of Adolescents in Schools

Zents, Courtney (2017)

Adolescence is marked by a period of stress with a portion of these individuals experiencing problems with anxiety. There are physical and psychological benefits of using animal-assisted therapy (AAT) for decreasing ...
Evaluating Early Numeracy Skills in Preschool Children: A Program Evaluation of Rural Head Start Classrooms

Alger, Megan W. (2015-06)

Early numeracy skills are a critical component of daily preschool instruction, according to the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM; 2002); however, there is variability in how mathematics-driven instruction ...
An Examination of the Relationship Among Learning Disability, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Academic Self-Efficacy, Effort, Self-Awareness and Academic Achievement in Postsecondary Students

Exner, Stacey A. (2010-05)

The purpose of this study was to explore the relationship between academic self-efficacy, effort, self-awareness, and achievement in college aged students with LD and/or ADHD. Participants included thirty, fourteen were ...
An Examination of Transition Planning Practices in High School and College Outcomes for Students with Disabilities

Fisk, Amy Kathleen (2018-11)

Research indicates that the trend of students with disabilities choosing to attend college is continually increasing. However, research also suggests that this population may be ill prepared to meet the increased academic ...
Examining the differences in expressive and receptive lexical language skills in preschool children with cochlear implants and children with typical hearing

Unterstein, Ann P. (2010-01)

Research has demonstrated the efficacy of the cochlear implant in improving the hearing acuity in children. Further, research has also demonstrated that hearing ability affects receptive and expressive language skills. ...
Examining the Differences in Roles and Functions of School Psychologists Among Community Settings: Results from a National Survey

Hussar, Jessica M. (2015)

A nationwide survey of school psychologists across the four NASP regions was conducted in order to discern if school psychologists' community setting related to school psychologists' role and function as well as job ...

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