With this cross-cultural qualitative study, I sought to understand older Latino\as' undergraduate experiences on predominantly white, non-Hispanic campuses in the Midwest. The eight participants, ages 35-50, were evenly ...

Drinkers differ meaningfully in their susceptibility to hangover, and prior studies suggest individual differences in hangover proneness may be related to risk for alcohol use disorders (AUD). This project examined whether ...

-teaching student teacher model provides university students an adequate amount of clinical experience and preparation to support a successful first year of teaching. The purpose of this study is two-fold: 1) analyze the perceptions of former and current student...

Teacher education programs and PK-12 schools are contending with a shifting field as federal and local initiatives call for different approaches in curriculum, instruction, and assessment. Some of these changes include ...

The purpose of this study was to explore the learning activities that contributed to the professional competences of mental health caseworkers. Nowlen's (1988) Update, Competence, and Performance Models of Competence, ...

life. Children described aspects of disability and manifestations of asthma that have not been adequately appreciated by health care professionals. Findings pointed to opportunities to improve care at home, at school, and in clinical settings. These 8...

The purpose of the study was to examine the relationship between high school teachers' perceptions of student motivation and the teachers' perceptions of their own professional development and preparation, efficacy in ...

Given that there has been a recent movement toward alternative certification of teachers in all fields, and particular to this study, in business and marketing education, this study of traditional (TR) and alternative ...

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of time on the indices within the Personal and Organizational Assessment-Revised (POQA-R, Institute of HeartMath, 1999-2004) among rural, elementary educators ...

Background: Iodine intake within the US population has declined in recent years. Mild iodine deficiency increases the risk of inadequate thyroid hormone production and there is growing evidence that sub-clinical hypothyroidism may give rise...

-Efficacy Theory (Bandura, 1996) and logic modeling (Kaplan & Garrett, 2005; Lafferty & Mahoney, 2003; McLaughlin & Jordan, 1998; Millar, Simeone & Carnevale, 2001) provided the theoretical framework for this study. This study aimed to (1) describe...

This study was a developmental evaluation of a faculty center at a state funded, public non-research university focused on undergraduate and graduate degree programs that is located in the Midwest United States. The purpose ...

[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This dissertation describes three studies that address the development and validation of the Missouri Multicultural Counseling Interests (MMCI) scale. ...

The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of problem-based learning (PBL) on critical thinking ability and content knowledge. Furthermore, this study sought to examine the relationship between critical thinking ...

This dissertation triangulates four theories of the policy process to explain state-level tuition policy change. Very little policy research examines theories of the policy process in concert. Moreover, the field of higher ...

[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] The purpose of this phenomenological study was to describe the experience of middle-aged men who were managing symptoms of COPD. A longitudinal design ...

This study used Lent's (2004) social cognitive model of well-being to examine the academic and life satisfaction of 460 Mexican American college students. A model demonstrated that positive affect, acculturation, college ...

The purpose of this sequential explanatory study was to determine if there was a relationship between faculty burnout, social support, institutional support, or salary, as well as establish if any college at a regional ...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the reasons construction teachers were leaving their profession in their first five years of service, or if they stayed, what were the dominant factors that caused them to ...

teams with the overall purpose of changing educator behavior through collaborative engagement with colleagues and use of data to inform instructional practices (DuFour, Eaker, & DuFour, 2005; McLaughlin & Talbert, 2006). School-based teams...