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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Zhou Long is a contemporary composer of Chinese American descent, who
belongs to a generation of Chinese composers that began introducing traditional
Chinese music to western audiences. He gained international recognition ...
Meeting the needs of students in schools has been challenging for many years.
Consequently, schools have responded with comprehensive intervention systems aimed at
academic, behavioral, and social-emotional concerns. ...
Although there are over 44.5 million immigrants residing in the United States (Zong et al.,
2019), there is a dearth of research on how to best serve immigrant clients, on preparation of
U.S. mental health providers ...
Approximately one in four women experience sexual violence during their lifetime, making sexual violence a significant public health concern (Breiding, 2015). As social media has become increasingly popular, it has become ...
The current study aimed to uncover how the quality of specific course features within the
overall classroom environment leads to impacts in student interactions and student motivation
within online classrooms. The impacts ...
The current study examined counseling and psychology trainees implicit and explicit attitudes towards trans men and trans women based on trainees’ self-identified gender, sexual orientation, and religiosity (as measured ...
This investigation aimed to provide insight into the changes in gene expression in
human adipose and skeletal muscle tissues in response to a bout of aerobic exercise
(AE). Recreationally active individuals (n=7, 25 ± ...
In this dissertation, I work to answer the question: how are recent attempts to
insert fake news into political news ecosystems similar to and different from previous
attempts? To this end, I present a historical timeline ...
First-generation college students are generally defined as students whose parents did not
pursue or complete a post-secondary education degree. Historically, literature on first-generation
and Black student populations ...
The purpose of this study was to explore the relationship between neurocognitive (i.e.,
executive functioning, working memory, and processing speed) and psychiatric (depression and
anxiety) late effects among survivors ...
In this dissertation I undertook a critical analysis of the public education discourse in the
United States. Specifically, this research took a critical look at the communicative practices used to
establish and codify ...
The 1960s launched the school movement of choice. Today, school choice is nationally
threaded through many states serving a diversity of students. Indiana developed and
implemented the Indiana Choice Scholarship Program ...
This investigation examined skeletal muscle fiber type specific differences in fiber
size, myonuclear content, satellite cell content, and capillarity with aging and lifelong
aerobic exercise. Healthy women (n=27) and ...
The relationship between administrative support and special education teacher work
engagement is the focus of this study. Special education teachers experience burnout at alarming
rates, and the effects of burnout cause ...
Heart rate, which is altered with thermoregulatory stress, is a common physiologic
parameter used to determine exercise training intensity for laboratory research studies
and the general public completing structured ...
Aging is associated with an elevated basal pro-inflammatory status and a
concomitant reduction in skeletal muscle mass. Cyclooxygenase (COX)-inhibitors are the
most prevalent anti-inflammatory drugs and may provide insight ...
Study 1 Engineered nanoparticles (ENPs) are used in many industrial and commercial applications; however, concern has arisen regarding potential adverse environmental impacts from the inadvertent release of ENPs into water ...
This dissertation is based on a qualitative study that aimed to explore a Competency-
Based Education (CBE-BS) program offering a Bachelor of Science degree at a mid-sized
university in the Midwest. My research dissertation ...
The purpose of this study was to examine how athletic identity, thin ideal internalization,
muscular ideal internalization, and beliefs about exercise predicted disordered eating attitudes and
behaviors during the time ...
Plans for extensive manual labor in future translunar and interplanetary space
missions justify the development of a fully effective countermeasure program to prevent
the rampant skeletal muscle deconditioning seen in ...