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Working memory availability and quality control in children's production of passive sentences as novices
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
-focused theories of language growth. We seek to add evidence to the cognitive view of language growth, by focusing on differences in WM availability. Much of the previous research linking WM and language development have been correlational. We examine how...
The demise of guys : the flight of the American male from STEM
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
This mixed methods research investigates the differences between high school males who pursue the PLTW Biomedical Science program and those males who do not. The study examines males in a rural Midwestern high school, ...
Changing the narrative : best practices for writing fair stories about undocumented immigration
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
by using dehumanizing language as well as harmful metaphors to describe undocumented immigrants in their stories. The purpose of this project is to improve coverage of undocumented immigration by highlighting best sourcing practices from accomplished...
A sharing economy beyond the consumer : an exploration of micro-retail sharing enterprises
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
products, build a customer base, learn new business skills, and gain a support network and locational advantage. The findings provide insight into what I argue is a new retail format, as well as the MRSE model's methods of viability for independent...
Subsidizing the press : understanding journalists' attitudes about corporate and government influence and the public interest
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
U.S. newspaper companies have been slashing resources, resulting in less original reporting and raising questions about whether private-sector newspapers can adequately serve the public interest. According to social ...
Between two worlds: Native American representation in print media
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)
2005-2012. Coding of stories was based upon the stereotypes identified by Miller and Ross (2004), including the degraded Indian, historic relic, good Indian, and generic outsider. While much of the media has been cleansed of the more blatant...
Unfolding Untapped Stories: A Narrative Inquiry of Teachers' Experiences of Working With Students Who Have Faced Trauma or Traumatic Events.
(2021)
The purpose of this narrative inquiry is to understand the teachers’ experiences of working with students who have faced trauma or traumatic events. The number of children facing trauma exposures to violence, crime, and ...
Academic advising at a distance : a case study where no face to face interactions occur
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
The purpose of this case study was to explore the relationship between professional academic advisors and undergraduate college students at a distance where face-to-face meetings did not occur. This case also utilized evidence from a number...
Sensemaking and identity management amidst major organizational change
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
Organizational change is inevitable and its impacts will affect all members, albeit to different degrees. These changes also bring about uncertainty, especially as it pertains to one's organization-based identities. However, when studying change...
Constructing children : one educator's dichotomy between ideology and pedagogy regarding children and achievement
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
Historically speaking, educational discourse and practices tend to objectify children through biological and psychological units of analysis. These socially accepted assumptions have created regimes of truth (Foucault, 1977) that construct children...
Determinants of legislative staff turnover
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
institutional capacity is not to increase members' representational allowances for staff or the number of staff, but rather, to retain the most experienced people they have (Crossoen et al. 2018). A key contribution of my research is that it may help legislators...
Social studies, denizens, and the state: A three-article dissertation
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] This dissertation examines education as an apparatus of state in three different research studies. The first paper, “Cultural Bombs and Dangerous ...
Effects of instructional format and mastery criteria on the acquisition of teaching targets to children with autism spectrum disorder
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
of instruction that is conducted on a one-on-one manner with the learner at a table. However, educators have many options to select DTT procedural variations based on the learner's prerequisite skills. Comparative research is beginning to demonstrate how...
Whereof we cannot speak
(2014)
Dimensions of nursing home care: perspectives of patients, family members, and care providers
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1991)
Conflict among care participants in the nursing home setting concerning the expectations for care-giving and care-seeking behavior has been well-documented. The question explored in this study is whether substantial ...
Border pedagogy: how white teachers cross intellectual borders to enhance students' critical thinking skills in racially homogeneous, low poverty spaces
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
This research addresses the challenges of engaging students in critical conversations about controversial topics in racially homogeneous settings. Data analysis from this qualitative, phenomenological study reveals how ...
Stories to live by, stories to teach with: a narrative inquiry into preservice teachers' knowledge of teaching literacy from a critical literacy framework with diverse children's literature
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
into PSTs' stories follows the research question of: How do preservice teachers' stories to live by inform their orientation towards certain literacy teaching practices of children's literature? It is framed by Connelly and Clandinin's (1999...
"Rape is a part of life where I live" the normalization of girl-child sexual abuse in Jamaica
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
This research focused on understanding the role of institutions, social and cultural factors, and women's socio-economic status in (re)producing and perpetuating the sexual abuse of girls in Jamaica. Using an interpretive ...
Understanding the process for producing presidential campaign coverage
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] Nearly every journalist has heard the accusations of biased journalism and “fake news” at one point or another. With the 2020 presidential campaign ...
H3DNET: A Deep Learning Framework for Hierarchical 3D Object Classification
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2017)
Deep learning has received a lot of attention in the fields such as speech recognition and
image classification because of the ability to learn multiple levels of features from raw data.
However, 3D deep learning is ...