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| Title | Author | Subject | Description | Date | ||
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| 1 |  | "Every least thing": reading Cormac McCarthy's literary ecologies for a practice of thinking ethics | Call, Christy | Agency; Cormac McCarthy; eco-pedagogy; ethics; network theory; ontology | Cormac McCarthy's novel The Crossing presents an ecocentric cosmology that diverges radically from the traditional anthropocentric model, which centralizes the primacy of humans. McCarthy's vision of "joinery" reformats the place of humanity to a position of equality with "every least thing." My fo... | 2015 |
| 2 |  | "No one know": untold narratives of Southeast Asian American student success | Coquemont, Kathryn Kay | Educational leadership; Asian American studies; Educational administration | This study explores how Southeast Asian American college students experience success in college despite systemic and institutional barriers. The underrepresentation of Southeast Asian American perspectives in higher education research has created a deficit in understanding this population's experien... | 2018 |
| 3 |  | "Nobody can give from an empty vessel": a qualitative study on self-care for women activists in counseling psychology | McCadden, Elizabeth P. | Activism; counseling psychology; qualitative research; self-care; social justice; women | Women psychologists have conducted social justice work since the beginning of psychology, when women were denied access to education. The efforts of first- and second-generation women psychologists paved the way for present day women in counseling psychology. Today's female psychologists and graduat... | 2016 |
| 4 |  | "On-task in a box": a validation study examining an evidence-based package intervention for increasing rates of on-task behavior and academic performance | King, Brian Scott | Education; academic performance; evidence; on-task behavior; package intervention | On-Task in a Box is an evidence based intervention system designed to increase a student's rates of on-task behavior and academic achievement. The primary interventions that are used in the program include self-monitoring and video modeling. The program also includes motivation systems for keeping s... | 2013 |
| 5 |  | "Superheroes in the resource room": a study examining implemention of the superhero social skills program by a resource teacher with students with externalizing behavior problems | Springer, Benjamin James | Educational psychology; special education; clinical psychology | The current study evaluated the effectiveness of the Superhero Social Skills program in increasing the social engagement skills and decreasing the aggressive behavior of students with externalizing behavior problems as implemented by a resource teacher. There have been no empirical evaluations of th... | 2012 |
| 6 |  | "Superheroes social skills": an initial study examining an evidence-based program for elementary-aged students with autism spectrum disorders in a school setting | Block, Heidi Marie | Autism spectrum disorders; Generalization; Peer-mediated; Self-management; Social skills; Video-modeling | The current study evaluated the effectiveness of a multimedia social skills program in increasing the social engagement skills of 4 elementary-aged students with an autism spectrum disorder. The Superheroes Social Skills for Children with Autism program incorporates several evidence-based practices ... | 2012-05 |
| 7 |  | "What if they fill this position with a man?": a feminist exploration of women outdoor leaders in higher education | Roger, Elizabeth Bond | Gender studies; Recreation; Womens studies | The purpose of this qualitative study was to explore the experiences of women outdoor leaders in higher education. While outdoor education provides many positive learning outcomes for students, it is a field in which women and people of color are underrepresented, particularly in leadership roles. T... | 2018 |
| 8 |  | "You are not who you said you were when you were hired!": an autoethnographical account of a student affairs professional's trans* becoming | Medina-Martinez, C. Kai | Higher education; Social work; Educational administration; LGBTQ studies; Higher education administration | Following the format of autoethnographic vignettes, this study describes the experience of a student affairs educator as they navigate their trans* becoming while working on a university campus. While many higher education institutions include gender identity and gender in their nondiscrimination po... | 2019 |
| 9 |  | "You have no life other than that, so you better like what you're doing": a feminist phenomenology of women in undergraduate engineering majors | Mcdonald, Lori K. | engineering; undergraduate; women | The purpose of this study was to describe the perceptions and experiences of female undergraduate engineering students who either switched their majors or stayed in engineering to graduate. Historically women are underrepresented in undergraduate engineering majors despite deliberate recruitment an... | 2016 |
| 10 |  | A case study of community cultural wealth among "mountain west" chicana/o college students | Valdez, Trina Marisa | Chicana and Chicano; Community cultural wealth; Critical race theory; Cultural capital; Cultural wealth; Latina/o critical race theory | The purpose of this qualitative study was to identify some of the cultural wealth and resources that Chicano/Latino college students, families, and communities hold and share. By using Latino critical race theory (LatCrit) to conceptualize cultural wealth, it was possible to focus this study on an ... | 2015-05 |
| 11 |  | A comparison of two schools with additional training in evidence-based practices to two schools without added training: effects, student outcomes, and teacher perceptions of skills and practices | Belnap, Benjamin Bruce | ABC-UBI; Evidence-based practices; positive behavior support; response to intervention; school climate; school psychology | Through providing support with training, coaching, and funding, Utah‘s Academic, Behavior & Coaching Initiative (ABC-UBI) program strives to assist schools with the implementation of evidence-based practices for both positive behavior support as well as academic instruction. As an increasing numbe... | 2011-08 |
| 12 |  | A critical case study of peer mediation at an alternative high school | Fetzer, Marcy | Alternative; Conflict; Education; Mediation; Negotiation; Peer | At the crossroad of peer mediation and alternative education, discursive and structural tensions emerge. Through critical discourse analysis of student discourse at one alternative school, the examination of the practice of peer mediation within the context of alternative schooling is centralized. S... | 2014-05 |
| 13 |  | A forced choice method for evaluating instruction in higher education | St. Andre, Mark Edward | educational evaluation; educational psychology; higher education | Student evaluations of teaching (SET) in higher education are ubiquitous. Many SETs utilize Likert-type scales and data from these evaluations are frequently used as data points in the retention, promotion, and tenure reviews of instructors. This makes them a high impact activity. Research has revea... | 2017 |
| 14 |  | A genealogy of Utah 's H.B. 144 (2002): understanding policy text malleability and interrogating racist nativism and legality blindness in policy enactment | Castrellon, Liliana Estella | Education policy; Higher education; Hispanic American studies; Educational leadership | Immigration and education policies between state and federal levels often push students into a cyclical web of contradictions that replicate systemic injustices and leave many students in a conundrum of uncertainty to their access and continued eligibility to attend higher education. Drawing from Cr... | 2019 |
| 15 |  | A history of the education of the Ute Indians, 1847-1905. | Reid, Leslie Wayne | Ute Indians; Education | The purpose of this study is to record the events in the development of Ute Indian education in Utah between the years 1847 and 1905. What the Mormon Church and the federal government contributed in this respect through educational contributions at different times especially between the years 1847 a... | 1972 |
| 16 |  | A longitudinal assessment of therapist multicultural competence process and outcome | Pace, Brian T. | Counseling psychology | Therapist multicultural competence (MCC) has been utilized as a tool to reduce prevalent health disparities. Numerous MCC theories have been developed and the American Psychological Association has adopted MCC guidelines aimed to infuse multicultural initiatives into psychology training programs. Ov... | 2018 |
| 17 |  | A schools and staffing survey analysis of teacher job attitudes and working conditions in native american communities | Stryker, Donald L | Bureau of Indian Education; Native American Alaskan Native; Organizational commitment; Schools and Staffing Survey; Teacher job satisfaction; Teacher pay satisfaction | The United States federal government funds two distinct types of school systems on or near indigenous lands: tribally controlled schools and Bureau of Indian Education (BIE)-operated schools. This study fills a void in the scholarly research on differences in teacher working conditions and job attit... | 2016 |
| 18 |  | A study of international undergraduate students taking online courses: group and organizational socialization theory and sense of belonging/isolation | Adams, Jacob Lyle | International students; Online education; Socialization theory | Purpose: This study sought to (1) identify and describe the experiences of international students participating in U.S. cohort- and text-based asynchronous online courses and to 2) analyze perceptions of belonging/isolation within online environments through group and organizational socialization th... | 2013-12 |
| 19 |  | A study of the development and history of projects in homemaking with special reference to methods, attitudes, values, and purposes | Cox, Jean | Home economics | The facilities afforded by the home economics department of the average high school are inadequate for the best training in homemaking activities and in establishing ideals. The department work is not closely enough related to either the needs of the girl or to actual home conditions. Thoughtful t... | 1922 |
| 20 |  | A study of the organization and communication aspects of research administration departments in American Universities | Larsen, Perry Thomas | Universities and colleges; United States research; United State | The task undertaken in this study was to investigate and examine the organizational structures and the communication aspects of research administration offices in American universities with the hope of deriving an effective organization and communication format model of a research administration off... | 1972 |
| 21 |  | A validation and efficacy study examining the electronic home note intervention package for increasing rates of on-task and academic performance | Knorr, James | Daily behavior report card; Education; Electronic; Home note; Intervention | The aim of this study was to increase the rates of on-task behavior and academic achievement for 4 participants with the Electronic Home Note Intervention Package. The Electronic Home Note Intervention Package was designed to enhance a common school-based behavioral intervention, the home note, by c... | 2015-05 |
| 22 |  | The accidental retention agents: how student affairs can influence student retention by understanding how key players (i.e., faculty) perceive their role in student success and retention | Stone, Andrew John | Faculty Involvement; Student Retention; Student Success | Over the past 40 years significant research has attempted to understand what influences student retention and overall student success. As leaders/administrators and student affairs professionals at colleges and universities around the country have searched for new ways to improve retention, underst... | 2015-05 |
| 23 |  | Adaptive theory - educational implications and an exemplary earth science curriculum | Scott, Kay Vernon Parkinson | Education; philosophy earth sciences; study and teaching (secondary) | In ·this study, a general theory of adaptation based on statistical graphics was proposed for the purpose of providing perspective in complex situations. The educational implications of the theory suggested an adaptive curriculum design that would embrace most existing educational models To exe... | 1975 |
| 24 |  | Adaptive theory - Educational implications and an exemplary earth science curriculum | Scott, Kay vernon Parkinson | Education -- Philosophy; Earth sciences -- Study and teaching (Secondary) | In this study, a general theory of adaptation based on statistical graphics was proposed for the purpose of providing perspective in complex situations. The educational implications of the theory suggested an adaptive curriculum design that would embrace most existing educational models. To exempl... | 1975 |
| 25 |  | The American College for girls, Cairo, Egypt: its history and influence on egyptian women a study of selected graduates | Sproul, Christine | American college for girls (Cairo, Egypt); presbyterian church; missions Women; egypt; social conditions | This dissertation examines the history of American College for Girls (ACG) in Cairo, Egypt. Founded by the American Presbyterian Mission in 1909, this school played a unique role in the history of women's education in Egypt. The school was established to educate the daughters of "the landowning, pro... | 1982 |