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Education and Human Sciences: Recent submissions
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The Acquisition of the BA Construction by English-speaking Learners of Chinese
(University of Kansas, 2012-08-31)This study examined the acquisition of the BA construction by English-speaking learners of Chinese. The BA construction is a unique yet important grammar phenomenon in Chinese. Whether second language (L2) learners of ... -
Student Success: A Descriptive Analysis of Hispanic Students and Engagement at a Midwest Hispanic-Serving Institution
(University of Kansas, 2012-08-31)The purpose of this study was to learn more about the Hispanic students attending Northeastern Illinois University, a four-year institution in Chicago, IL, and their student success. Little is known descriptively and ... -
The Effect of Rational and Intuitive Decision-Making Strategies on the Quality of Interest Forecasts
(University of Kansas, 2012-08-31)The world of work has changed. To keep up, vocational psychologists have adopted a greater emphasis on career adaptability, which relies on possessing transferable skills that will remain useful regardless of job context. ... -
Effects of Prosody while Disambiguating Ambiguous Japanese Sentences in the Brain of Native Speakers and Learners of Japanese: A Proposition for Pronunciation and Prosody Training
(University of Kansas, 2012-08-31)Recently, the significant role that pronunciation and prosody plays in processing spoken language has been widely recognized and a variety of teaching methodologies of pronunciation/prosody has been implemented in teaching ... -
Emotion self-regulation: A mixed-methods intervention study of sociemotional and reading outcomes of high school students with reading difficulties
(University of Kansas, 2012-08-31)Employing multiple methods, including a comparison group pre/posttest design and student interviews and self-reflections, this study represents an initial attempt to investigate the efficacy of a social and emotional ... -
The Development and Initial Validation of the Preschool Strengths Inventory
(University of Kansas, 2011-08-31)Psychological assessment is a valuable tool that aids in the process of diagnosis, treatment, and the evaluation of outcomes in therapy. However, assessment has a long history of being skewed towards the negative aspects ... -
A Mixed Methods Investigation of the Kansas Autism Waiver's Implementation: The First Three Years
(University of Kansas, 2012-08-31)This mixed methods study employed quantitative and qualitative methods as means of evaluating the Kansas Autism Waiver's first three years of implementation. The study was guided by the components of a quality assurance ... -
The Design of an IEP Decision Aid: A Tool for Diverse Parents of Children with Autism
(University of Kansas, 2012-08-31)Decision-making is a universal process that occurs constantly in life. Parent participation in educational decision-making is recognized as important by special education law, by special education and school psychology ... -
THE EFFECT OF THE BALLOONSAT PROJECT ON MIDDLE AND HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS' ATTITUDE TOWARD SCIENCE
(University of Kansas, 2012-08-31)This study measured the effect of completing a BalloonSat project on student attitude toward science. Seven categories of student attitudes toward science were measured using the Test of Science Relate Attitudes survey ... -
Emotional Involvement Matters: An Analysis of Parenting Patterns and Academic Outcomes of High School Students in 1980, 1990, and 2002
(University of Kansas, 2012-08-31)This dissertation addresses the relationship between parental practices and educational and developmental outcomes of high school students in 1980, 1990 and 2002 to explore these three questions: (1) if social capital at ... -
Consistency of Principal Ratings by Central Office Administration Across Various Job Related Factors
(University of Kansas, 2012-08-31)Given the emphasis placed on strong leadership as a condition for high performing schools, identifying and assessing the characteristics of effective school leaders have become essential tasks for local jurisdictions, state ... -
BIOMECHANICS OF MOVEMENT-RELATED EFFORT: EFFECTS OF TASK
(University of Kansas, 2012-08-31)Based upon the importance of effort in determining human movement, it is essential to develop a thorough understanding of the biomechanical quantities generated during specified movements. PURPOSE: To examine how ... -
Impact of Instructional Sensitivity on High-Stakes Achievement Test Items: A Comparison of Methods
(University of Kansas, 2012-08-31)Living in an era of test-based accountability systems, how do we hold accountability tests accountable? Many accountability decisions made today are based on the assumption that test scores successfully reflect the effect ... -
PRINCIPALS' PERCEPTIONS OF BARRIERS TO DISMISSAL OF POOR-PERFORMING TEACHERS
(University of Kansas, 2012-08-31)Abstract The purpose of this study is to determine which factors influence items that school principals consider "barriers" to dismissal of "incompetent" or "poor performing" teachers. This study determines if specific ... -
INTERACTIVE READING EXPERIENCES OF AFRICAN AMERICAN FATHERS AND SOCIAL FATHERS AND THEIR 4-AND 5-YEAR-OLD CHILDREN
(University of Kansas, 2012-08-31)The purpose of this mixed-methods study was to investigate the patterns of book choice and interaction during book reading sessions of six African American fathers and social fathers and their 4- to 5-year-old children. ... -
CROSS-CULTURAL EXPLORATORY ANALYSIS OF OCCUPATIONAL ENGAGEMENT BETWEEN ASIAN AMERICAN AND CAUCASIAN AMERICAN COLLEGE STUDENTS
(University of Kansas, 2012-08-31)The purpose of the current study was to investigate the cross-cultural validity of occupational engagement in Asian American college students and to examine its relationship to traditional Asian values and level of ... -
Bi-factor Multidimensional Item Response Theory Modeling for Subscores Estimation, Reliability, and Classification
(University of Kansas, 2012-08-31)In recent years, there has been increasing interest in estimating and improving subscore reliability. In this study, the multidimensional item response theory (MIRT) and the bi-factor model were combined to estimate ... -
Are All Item Response Functions Monotonically Increasing?
(University of Kansas, 2012-05-31)Item response functions of the parametric logistic IRT models follow the logistic form which is monotonically increasing. However, item response functions of some real items are nonmonotonic which might lead to examinees ... -
A Case Study of Higher Education Competency Models Utilizing an Assessment Framework
(University of Kansas, 2012-05-31)The overall purpose of this study is to explore the creation and implementation of competency models in higher education masters level preparation programs. The study answers five research questions. Why and how did two ... -
APPLYING PRINCIPLES OF UNIVERSAL DESIGN FOR LEARNING TO EARLY ELEMENTARY MATH CLASSES IN JAPAN: A CASE STUDY
(University of Kansas, 2012-05-31)Beginning in April 2007, the Japanese government implemented efforts to shift the focus of educational policy away from the notion of "Special Education" towards "Special Needs Education". The primary objective of this ...