This collection includes doctoral dissertations submitted to the Graduate School by Ball State University doctoral candidates in partial fulfillment of degree requirements.
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There is a lack of documented evidence related to the relationships existing between
paraeducators and teachers working in early childhood special education (ECSE) classrooms.
The study aims to fill a conceptual gap in ...
The purpose of this study was to examine how aspects of social identity theory and
intergroup contact theory influenced participants’ preconscious neural activity when viewing
photos of differing racial combinations of ...
The academic achievement gap between African American males and their White American
counterparts is one of the most researched phenomena in educational and political circles.
Current research proposes academic efficacy, ...
Literature on suicidality has emphasized that sexual minority individuals are more likely to
experience suicidal ideations, make suicide attempts, and engage in self-harming behaviors more
frequently than their heterosexual ...
This dissertation presents an analysis of José Siqueira’s Oito Canções Populares
Brasileiras (Eight Popular Brazilian Songs), published in 1955 for voice and piano. The analyses
show how the composer used musical materials ...
This qualitative study addresses the need for the school principal to take on the role of a
coach, specifically for veteran teachers, rather than merely one of a manager or evaluator. The
purpose of this study was to ...
Belonging is an innate drive, impacting how humans think, act, and feel, having positive effects
in all but adverse conditions, such as when belonging is missing or uncertain (Baumeister &
Leary, 1995). This susceptibility ...
Auditory Processing Disorder (APD) is a controversial disorder across the fields of
psychology, audiology, speech-language pathology, and education. However, due to narrow
diagnostic criteria as well as frequent co-morbid ...
Family communication patterns influence the development of self-efficacy in children;
learning how specific communication patterns impact various forms of self-efficacy may be
helpful to inform interventions targeting ...
Research tells us that poverty rates are higher for female-headed households compared to
other household makeups. Furthermore, women with children are more likely to live in extreme
poverty, and over half of all poor ...
This study investigated the impact a brief mindfulness induction had on the emotional
arousal of individuals with insecure attachments. Participants were prescreened to determine
their attachment style (i.e., anxiously ...
Marzano, Waters, and McNulty (2005) introduced the term “purposeful community”
which focused on specific principal leadership skills positively tied to school letter grade. The
purpose of this study was to find the degree ...
Assessing Computational Thinking of College Students in the Context of a
Computer Science Curriculum
Computational Thinking (CT) is a set of cognitive skills for conceptualizing, modeling,
and solving problems that draw ...
Based on prior research, inferences can be made regarding individuals with non-achieved
ethnic identity statuses, as well as individuals experiencing high levels of appropriated racial
oppression, engaging in higher ...
The purpose of this study was to examine how the use of self-affirmation affects people’s
neural responses to health information. Event-related potentials were recorded while 32 female
participants, who had completed ...
Addressing the needs of underserved high school students in alternative
schools.
Graduation rates are used in state school accountability models to grade the effectiveness
of school districts. Indiana politicians and ...
The purpose of this investigation was to characterize cardiovascular, hormonal,
and metabolic responses to a single bout of whole-body resistance exercise (RE) in
healthy, young individuals (n=6, 25±1y). To account for ...
Purpose: Paramedic program directors are leaders within their profession. Recent data
suggests that turnover among program directors of paramedic education programs is staggeringly
high, averaging 22% per year. Changes ...
The majority of adults in the United States are unable to fully participate in health care
decisions due to an inability to locate, understand, and effectively use credible information.
Many have argued that health care ...
Higher education institutions and interest groups have public policy priorities, including
appropriations (Li, 2017) and other regulatory policy (Natow, 2017). Institutions often hire
professionals known as lobbyists to ...