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Education and Human Sciences: Recent submissions
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Instructional Coach Job Satisfaction: An Exploration of Role Stressors
(University of Kansas, 2013--12-3)This mixed methods dissertation examines the relationships between role conflict and job satisfaction, role ambiguity and job satisfaction, and role conflict and job satisfaction within a convenience sample of American ... -
Strategies for Defining and Understanding Critical Technology Integration Terms
(University of Kansas, 2013-12-31)Educational technology scholars believe that teachers should understand how to effectively integrate technology in their teaching. This study identified key terms related to integrating technology in education and investigated ... -
The Effects of Live Music as the Discriminative Stimulus and Reinforcer on the Skill Acquisition of Learners with Neurodevelopmental Disorders
(University of Kansas, 2013-12-31)Individuals with neurodevelopmental disorders are challenged with memory and language deficits that impact their skills acquisition (Martin, Klusek, Estigarriba, & Roberts, 2009; Turner & Alborz, 2003). The value of music ... -
Conditional Probabilities and Contingency Space Analysis: A Statistical Overview of the Relationship Between Student Behavior and Teacher Consequence
(University of Kansas, 2013-12-31)The research on classroom management systems has provided a comprehensive evidence base for effective classroom management strategies for teachers to adopt in their classrooms. The most common strategies found in the ... -
An Exporatory Multiple-Case Study of Factors Promoting Hope, Engagement, and Well-Being in High-Performing Middle Schools
(University of Kansas, 2013-12-31)The purpose of this exploratory multiple-case study was to investigate the factors that facilitate the development of hope, engagement, and well-being in middle school students. The Gallup Student Poll (GSP; Lopez, Agrawal, ... -
Factors Contributing to the University of Kansas School of Medicine Graduates' Choice of Specialty and Practice Location
(University of Kansas, 2013-12-31)A retrospective, single institution study using archival data that describes graduates from the medical school and investigates factors that predict specialty choice and practice location of graduates. Student subjects ... -
Disenchantment to Disillusion: Stakeholder opinions on school desegregation in Greensboro, North Carolina
(University of Kansas, 2013-12-31)Amid the current resegregation of the nation's schools this dissertation extends previous research regarding the impact, success, and failure of desegregation efforts following Brown v. Board of Education. This study broadly ... -
Menstrual Support for Females with Developmental Disabilities: Survey and Interview of Parents or Caretakers
(University of Kansas, 2013-12-31)Menstruation is a difficult topic to address with as females with or without disabilities. It is a more significant challenge for females with developmental disabilities (DD) because it stimulates a variety of physical and ... -
Examining the Theoretical Relationship Between Support Needs and Adaptive Behavior: A Construct Analysis of Children with Intellectual Disability
(University of Kansas, 2013-12-31)This dissertation is composed of four stand-alone yet linked chapters. Chapter 1 provides an overview of the theoretical underpinnings of the constructs of adaptive behavior and support needs and their evolution throughout ... -
AN EXAMINATION OF THE IMPACT OF AN ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY DEVICE ON THE QUALITY OF ADULT/YOUNG CHILD INTERACTIONS
(University of Kansas, 2013-12-31)The purpose of this study was to gain greater understanding of the potential benefits of assistive technology (AT) devices on young children's social development. Specifically, changes to the quality of the adult/young ... -
EFFECTS OF AN iPAD iBOOK ON READING COMPREHENSION, ELECTRODERMAL ACTIVITY, AND ENGAGEMENT FOR ADOLESCENTS WITH DISABILITIES
(University of Kansas, 2013-12-31)The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of an iPad iBook for adolescents with disabilities. With its release in 2012, the iBooks Author software for the Apple iPad allows classroom teachers to create ... -
FACTORS THAT INFLUENCE COMMUNICATION IN E-MENTORING WITH URBAN ALTERNATIVE HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS
(University of Kansas, 2013-12-31)School-based mentoring has emerged as a means of improving academic outcomes for many disadvantaged youth. Particularly, school-based eMentoring has been utilized to eliminate barriers of distance and time, while covering ... -
COMPARING THE INFLUENCE OF SELF-REPORTED TEACHING PRACTICES ON THIRD GRADE ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS AND THIRD GRADE STUDENTS WHOSE HOME LANGUAGE IS ENGLISH
(University of Kansas, 2013-12-31)This research was conducted in response to the increased attention given to connecting teacher evaluations to student achievement. The literature review identifies the effective teaching practices and teacher attitudes ... -
First Year Teachers' Technology Use: Perceptions of Factors Affecting Technology Integration
(University of Kansas, 2013-12-31)For decades, technology integration into the classroom and curriculum has been at the forefront of education. Although public perception and technology funding assumes that teachers are integrating technology into the ... -
Errors in inflectional morphemes as an index of linguistic competence of Korean Heritage language learners and American learners of Korean
(University of Kansas, 2013-12-31)This study examined the linguistic competence in Korean of Korean heritage language learners (HLLs), compared to English-speaking non-heritage language learners (NHLLs) of Korean. It is unclear and controversial as to ... -
Academic and Social Adjustment among Deaf and Hard of Hearing College Students in Taiwan
(University of Kansas, 2013-12-31)This study was conducted to identify the factors that may influence the academic and social adjustment of college students with hearing loss in Taiwan. These factors included age, gender, degree of hearing loss, primary ... -
Teacher-Student Relationships: Exploring the Perceptions of Students Who Exhibit Challenging Behaviors
(University of Kansas, 2013-12-31)This qualitative study describes and analyzes the perspectives of students with challenging behaviors regarding what they believe contributes to student teacher relationship quality. The conceptual framework guiding this ... -
EXAMINING THE IMPACT OF INDIVIDUAL VARIABLES ON SUPPORT NEEDS AND UNDERLYING RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN ADULTS' AND CHILDREN'S VERSIONS OF THE SUPPORTS INTENSITY SCALE
(University of Kansas, 2013-12-31)This dissertation consists of four chapters. Chapter 1 provides an overview of the evolved concept of disability and an introduction of the support needs construct to special education and related disciplines, as well as ... -
Is the Communicative Language Teaching Approach More Effective Than the Grammar Translation Method at Teaching the Ba-Construction in Mandarin Chinese to American Undergraduate Students?
(University of Kansas, 2013-12-31)Extensive research on second language teaching has been conducted on teaching English, other European languages or Chinese as a second language, but no quantitative study exists comparing the effectiveness of Communicative ... -
Some Tests for Checking the Efficiency of a High School Curriculum
(University of Kansas, 1914-06-01)