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A comparison of confirmatory factor analysis and task analysis of fluid intelligence cognitive subtests
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
Cross-battery assessment relies on the classification of cognitive subtests into the Cattell-Horn-Carroll (CHC) theory's broad and narrow ability definitions. Generally, broad ability classifications have used ability data ...
Media literacy education in higher education policy : pedagogical choices and learning outcomes
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
of administrative oversight or policy support as key factors contributing to the discrepancies in media literacy's instruction and learning outcomes. Implications include recommendations for the field to consolidate theoretical frameworks, modifications to teaching...
Mizzou, volume 092, number 3 (2004 Spring)
(MU Alumni Association, University of Missouri, 2004)
Cold War and Black liberation : the United States and white rule in Africa, 1948-1968
(University of Missouri Press, 1985)
For too long Africa has been the dark continent in the history of American foreign relations. Recent debate over the importance of human rights, however, has focused attention on that continent. Thomas Noer's study of ...
Missouri alumnus, volume 059, number 06 (1970 March-April): Engineering edition
(MU Alumni Association, University of Missouri, 1970)
Communicating medical advances in television health news : the influence of a human interest frame on audiences' cognitive and emotional responses
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
favorable opinions about the medical achievement they watched. While both challenges and opportunities exist, this study elucidated that human interest framing could serve as a significant news framing tool to construct health news....
The socioeconomic and cultural significance of food gardening in the Vladimir Region of Russia
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
Russia's family gardens currently produce over half of the country's agricultural output and represent a major sector of the country's economy, involving two thirds of the population. Despite this prominence, household ...
Examining the Relationship between High School Mathematics Preparation and College Attendance
(2022)
Public Schools (KCPS) and Kansas City Kansas Public Schools (KCKPS) in the 2017- 2018, 2018-2019 and 2019-2020 school year. Research has shown that to be college and career ready, students need to complete at least four math courses in high school...
Mizzou, volume 098, number 4 (2010 summer)
(MU Alumni Association, University of Missouri, 2010)
Reflections of residents in a rural Midwestern community on the impacts of a successful university football program, their tendency to bask in reflected glory, and their social identity
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
, it also fills a gap in the scholarly research where qualitative methods studying an NCAA Division II environment is scarce. Supported by the previously published literature, themes emerged that showed residents' BIRG tendencies as well as evidence of team...
Missouri alumnus, volume 057, number 04 (1967 December)
(MU Alumni Association, University of Missouri, 1967)
Examining social class privilege and perceived career options in adolescent white women : a qualitative study
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
The purpose of this study was to examine the impact of Social Class Worldview on adolescent women's perceived career options. This qualitative investigation resulted in 10 interviews focused on the lived experience of ...
Make America politically incorrect (again) : a genealogy with applications to the 2016 presidential campaign
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Political correctness is a term replete with meaning in American society, but dreadfully difficult to define. That definitional quandary is especially ...
Fragmented whole : a theory of narrative and identity
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
The act of storytelling is one way to understand the complex nature of identity. Through the act of storytelling, human communication is enacted in the world, and the performance of the story is an act of identification ...
Missouri alumnus, volume 067, number 02 (1979 January-February)
(MU Alumni Association, University of Missouri, 1979)
White spaces in brown(ing) places: race, space, and community in the Nuevo South and Midwest
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
in public spaces and workplaces. Mutually, it considers how Latinx/es respond to such racialized uses of space affecting their involvement in public life and workplace governance. These racial-spatial dynamics contextualized in the US South and rural Midwest...
History at risk : a survey to determine the size and status of local television news archives in the United States
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)
It is a generally accepted fact that local television news archives are slowly deteriorating. In 1999 the AMIA created the "Preserving Local Television Case Studies and Symposium Project Proposal". One of its goals was a ...
Strategic enrollment management, tuition discounting, and student enrollment by income : a test of demand theory
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
This study applies demand theory to investigate how college discounting practices impact student enrollment across income categories for members and affiliates of the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities. The ...
Missouri alumnus, volume 065, number 03 (1977 January-February)
(MU Alumni Association, University of Missouri, 1977)
A call to citizenship : Anti-Klan activism in Missouri, 1921-1928
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
This dissertation examines the efforts of anti-Klan activists in Missouri to challenge the growth, recruitment, and political ambitions of the Ku Klux Klan during the 1920s. As a nation-wide organization, the Klan made ...