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Homeless not hopeless: understanding how graduate students who experience homelessness and housing insecurity successfully navigate their education
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
as other compounding factors such as food insecurity, for many, this dream may be deferred. According to the National Center for Homeless Education (2017), for the 2016-2017 academic year, more than 30,000 college students reported on their Free Application...
The examination of a middle school teacher preparatory program through the lens of invitational leadership
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
school education program at a public university. Using the principles and domains of invitational leadership identified by Purkey and Novak (2016), the researcher focused specifically on the inclusion of caring, respect, trust, optimism...
Nomadic learners : an investigation of perceived affordances across formal and informal learning environments
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
learning environments. The implications of this study are the development of guidelines on adolescent self-regulated learning practices and technology related to the built environment. Theoretical contributions of this work include an extension...
A qualitative case study of graduate assistantship experiences at the University of Central Missouri
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
This qualitative case study was designed to investigate graduate assistantships at the University of Central Missouri (UCM). Specifically, the researcher sought to understand how assistantships prepare graduate students for real world practices...
Virtual learning in elementary school: a phenomenological study of student engagement
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
. This research begins the important work of uncovering best practices in virtual learning at the K-5 level and paves the way for future research on the topic....
Tweeting while leading : President Trump's Twitter habits from a Washington media perspective
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
. Along with benefiting our scholarly understanding, this research has the potential to help news professionals understand the impact President Trump's use of Twitter is having on their work, their newsrooms, and the future of their profession....
Narrative Exploration of Teacher Experiences in Culturally Responsive Gifted Education
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2019)
This narrative inquiry provides a contextualized understanding of teacher experiences
complementing the extensive quantitative literature available regarding the
underrepresentation of diverse students in gifted education ...
Custodial grandparents : an analysis of parenting and its impact on health
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
relationship between parenting self-efficacy, anxiety (R[superscript 2=] .030; p= .5753) or depression (R[superscript 2=] .051; p= .3376). Based on the original power analysis, the study was underpowered. Therefore, the hypotheses cannot be rejected or accepted...
The Experiences of Students Who Do Not Graduate with their Cohort
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2019)
The purpose of this descriptive collective case study was to understand the stories of
students who did not graduate with their cohort. The participants represented two
comprehensive high schools in a large suburban ...
"When people push us, it just makes us feel better" : a multi-case exploration of the tools, relationships, and contexts of near-peer mentoring for college
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
This study sought to explore the unique ways near-peer mentors serving in three different public high schools help historically marginalized students address and overcome informational and psychological barriers to college. Through a multiple case...
Healing centered yoga : an adjunct clinical intervention pilot study : trauma and chemical dependency
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
Introduction: Healing Centered Yoga (HCY) is a multidisciplinary practice and program offered as an adjunct clinical intervention for individuals experiencing complex, acute, and/or treatment-resistant trauma and related stress. Research...
Smoke in a Bottle: Adolescent Literacies and Culturally Sustaining Pedagogies in an Urban Catholic High School
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2018)
Increased standardization within adolescent literacy education leads to
dehumanization of students who become a demographic label, statistic, or problem to fix
(Blackburn, 2013; Freire, 1996; Gordon, 2009; Paris & Alim, ...
Collaborating with Black first-generation African youth for local career interventions
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
disparities for Black workers and other racial groups (BLS, 2018, Gould, 2020). Many researchers in vocational psychology have looked at the career journeys of marginalized individuals (e.g., Duffy, Blustein, Diemer, & Autin, 2016; Fouad & Kantamneni, 2013...
Beyond learning (in)opportunities in mathematics education : advocating and curating in a rural school community
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
Despite egalitarian ideals, schools and school mathematics play an integral role in the stratification of individuals, determining which individuals will occupy which positions in society and justifying the distance between ...
Introducing a personal-originality approach for scoring children's divergent thinking
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
& Acar, 2012). There is considerable evidence that DT is predictive of later creative behavior and achievement (Benedek et al., 2014; Cramond et al., 2005; Kim, 2008). However, current methods for studying DT rely extensively on cross...
Knowledge of copyright issues and strategies used in solving copyright queries among academic librarians in Kenya
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
in relation to duration that a librarian has worked in libraries. Two of the 4 factors measuring self-rated knowledge were statistically significant based on the department librarians works in. Ignorance of the Kenyan Copyright law was evident. Learned...
Educative features of upper elementary Eureka math curriculum
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
This two-phase study examined the educative features of upper elementary Eureka Math curriculum as well as examined take-up of those educative features in two classrooms at each grade level. Using an analytical framework based on Males (2011...
Elementary Teacher Perceptions of Math Professional Development on Mathematics Instruction
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2017)
The purpose of this heuristic case study was to describe the professional development
experiences of kindergarten to fifth grades teachers that participated on a mathematics action
research team and represented five ...
Scholars on the sidelines : a phenomenological study of high-achieving elementary students in southwest Missouri
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
High-achieving students are those who enter the classroom ready and able to learn. They demonstrate their abilities by earning high grades in their coursework and by receiving high scores on standardized tests. The purpose ...
A case study of the Global Food Security Act of 2016 : interorganizational policymaking and food security d/discourses
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
, I investigated the communicative processes leading up to the passage of the Global Food Security Act (2016), including the organizational construction of meaning that helped get the bipartisan legislation passed at a contentious time in our...