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Women in Transition: Implications for Career Counseling
(North Dakota State University, 2013)This thesis paper begins with an in-depth literature review that analyzes the career counseling process with two specific populations: women who are transitioning from welfare-reliance to self-sufficiency, and women who ... -
Comparing Project-Based Learning to Direct Instruction on Students' Attitude to Learn Science
(North Dakota State University, 2013)Students' attitude towards learning science transform during their middle school years. Research provides data showing the affect of different teaching methods on students' attitude. Two teaching methods compared were ... -
The Use of Non-Cognitive Constructs to Predict Success of First-Year Students in a College of Business
(North Dakota State University, 2013)This study examined the relationship between academic hardiness, emotional and social competencies, academic success (as measured by grade point average), and persistence, in a sample of 178 first-year College of Business ... -
Alcohol and Academia: A Study of the Association between Student Housing Type and Alcohol Abuse at North Dakota State University
(North Dakota State University, 2013)The purpose of this study was to determine if student housing gender-type is significantly related to student alcohol consumption at North Dakota State University. The researcher examined whether the residence of students ... -
Mastery Learning Instruction versus Traditional Instructional Methods in Eighth Grade Language Arts
(North Dakota State University, 2013)The purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of mastery learning on eighth grade language arts students primarily in terms of academic gains, but subsidiary research questions also focused on the impact of mastery ... -
A Case Study of North Dakota Interactive Video Network at North Dakota State University
(North Dakota State University, 2013)North Dakota State University (NDSU) has delivered courses utilizing the North Dakota Interactive Video Network (IVN) since 1989. The technology used an Integrated Services Digital Network but switched to Internet Protocol ... -
Perceptions of Secondary Mathematics Teachers Concerning Influences on Pedagogical Practices
(North Dakota State University, 2014)The purpose of this study was to explore the perceptions of Secondary Math Teachers (SMTs) concerning the influences that affect teaching practices and also investigate the possible existence of pluralistic ignorance ... -
Counselors' Perceptions of the Mental Health Aspects of Infertility for Heterosexual Women
(North Dakota State University, 2014)This qualitative study explores counselors' perceptions of the mental health aspects of infertility for heterosexual women by addressing the following five guiding questions: (1) How do licensed mental health counselors ... -
Achieving Inclusive Excellence: The Role of Change Agents and Institutional Artifacts in Diversifying Institutions
(North Dakota State University, 2014)The research presented within this disquisition is focused on the work of institutional leaders to address historical inequalities in education by creating transformational culture change towards learning environments that ... -
Professional Development Programs: Making the Case for Investing in Support-Staff at a Private, Undergraduate Institution
(North Dakota State University, 2014)The purpose of this study was to determine whether support-staff at Concordia College feel valued by the institution and whether they perceive that workplace satisfaction will improve with the creation and implementation ... -
Decolonizing Instructional Design through Auto/Ethnography
(North Dakota State University, 2014)Instructional design is the systematic process of planning and developing learning environments. In contemporary educational contexts, this has come to include also the intentional integration of digital and Internet ... -
The Four-Day versus the Five-Day School Week: A Comparative Study of South Dakota Schools
(North Dakota State University, 2014)The purpose of this study was to determine what impact the four-day school week had on the Dakota STEP test by comparing four-day schools to themselves three years before their switch to their Dakota STEP test scores in ... -
Examination of the Psychometric Properties of an Instrument Measuring Treatment Fidelity of Offenders Participating in Moral Reconation Therapy
(North Dakota State University, 2014)The availability of quality treatment assessments for offender correctional programs in the United States is limited (Polaschek & Ross, 2010; Singh, Grann & Fazel, 2011). Therefore, a greater focus on the evaluation of ... -
The Associations Between Student Perceptions of the Classroom Psycho-Social Learning Environment and Motivation to Learn Chinese
(North Dakota State University, 2014)The purpose of this study was to investigate the associations between students’ perception of their classroom psychosocial learning environment and motivation to learn Mandarin Chinese, which can support teachers in ... -
Mainstreaming Critical Disability Studies Towards Undoing the Last Prejudice
(North Dakota State University, 2014)According to critical disability studies scholars, disablism may be the fundamental system of unearned advantaging and disadvantaging upon which all other notions of difference-as-deviance are constructed. If so, a deeply ... -
Study of Assessment Data Usage in Student Affairs-Related Strategic Planning and Student Learning
(North Dakota State University, 2014)This qualitative, multiple site case study addressed five key areas (a) accountability; (b) student affairs assessment; (c) student affairs strategic planning; (d) student learning in student affairs; and (e) linkages: ... -
Instructors' Attitudes Toward Online Visual Art Courses: Impact of Technology Experience and Incentives
(North Dakota State University, 2014)The general purpose of this quantitative study was to review university visual art instructor attitudes toward online visual art courses, instructor perspectives toward online education instructor incentives, and instructor ... -
Investigating the Perception of EFL Teachers in Thailand: To What Extent Do They Feel Prepared to Teach
(North Dakota State University, 2014)This study examined how well Thai teachers of English as a Foreign Language (EFL) perceived their teacher preparation institutions trained them. The researcher focused on in-service EFL teachers who graduated from formal ... -
The Flipped Classroom: Shakespeare in the English Classroom
(North Dakota State University, 2014)Bergmann and Sams’ twenty-first century flipped classroom method was reviewed in depth to determine its effectiveness in improving student achievement and enjoyment of studying Hamlet by William Shakespeare, a text that ... -
Examining the Psychometric Properties of an Instrument Measuring Treatment Fidelity of Offenders Participating in Moral Reconation Therapy
(North Dakota State University, 2014)Video summarizing a Ph.D. dissertation for a non-specialist audience.