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Middle school communication arts teachers' perceptions of administrative support necessary for implementation of response to intervention
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2012-08-21)
The purpose of this qualitative multi-case study was to determine teachers' perceptions of administrative support needed for implementation of the Response to Intervention process to increase reading skills for middle ...
A case study of the GARROBO Project
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
This study explores the changes in the social of the GARROBO project trainees after they join the career-training program. Bebbingtons' (1999) theory of capitals explained how possessing different types of capital or assets ...
Pursuit of national interests through neutralism : case of India
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1973)
"The study is made up of several chapters. In Chapter I an attempt has been made to discuss the concept of neutralism as regards what it is not and what it is. The most important point that has been made in this chapter ...
An investigation of relationships between Flow Theory and music performance anxiety
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)
This dissertation comprises three projects designed to investigate the relationship between flow and music performance anxiety and using flow to alleviate music performance anxiety. One investigation is a comprehensive ...
From the Classroom to the Boardroom: A Phenomenological Study of Seven Superintendents
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2019)
School superintendents encounter a wide variety of unique and diverse challenges as
they attempt to lead individuals and organizations toward success. As such, superintendents
must be equipped with the skills to ...
The evolution of a beat: a case study of changes in environmental reporting from the 1970's to today as evident in coverage of three disastrous oil spills
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)
The field of environmental journalism has significantly advanced since environmental issues emerged as topics of social and journalistic importance in the 1970's. Environmental reporters have become essential investigators ...
Health-related quality of life in midlife and older women with hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos syndrome and hypermobility spectrum disorders
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
An understudied area of gerontology is the impact of inherited genetic disorders as individuals age and how such conditions affect health-related quality of life (HRQOL) in older adults. Such is the case with hypermobile ...
Christian tomb mosaics of late Roman, Vandalic and Byzantine Byzacena
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1998)
Christians in North Africa in the Late Roman, Vandalic and Byzantine periods marked the tombs of loved ones with mosaics that combined epitaphs with symbols and images. This study focuses on 186 Christian tomb mosaics from ...
An analysis of the relationships between servant leadership, school culture, and student achievement
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
The purpose of the study was to quantitatively explore and analyze the relationships among the factors of servant leadership, school culture, and student achievement in Missouri elementary schools. Two survey instruments, the Servant Leadership...
Reality TV and interpersonal relationship perceptions
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
The objective of this research was to understand the relationship between viewer motives for watching reality TV, reality TV exposure, and interpersonal relationship perceptions. The interpersonal relationship perceptions ...
Place names of five southeast counties of Missouri
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1944)
...This sixteenth study, a continuation of the project, covers one of the most interesting sections of the state. The district of the Sainte Genevieve was one of the political divisions in what is now Missouri during the French and Spanish...
Painting the wine-dark sea : traveling Aegean fresco artists in the Middle and late Bronze Age Eastern Mediterranean
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
During the Middle and Late Bronze Age, the "civilized world" was not centered on the Aegean or the Mediterranean as in later centuries, but was instead shifted east. The older, established civilizations in Egypt and the ...
The power of teacher-student relationships in determining student success
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2011-08-11)
The purpose of this ethnomethodological exploratory descriptive case study was to
investigate and understand teacher perceptions of the relationships between teachers and
students and how those teachers perceive relationships ...
Generational shifts and the creation of political selves : a focus group investigation
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)
A preponderance of research in political communication has centered on the lack of voter mobilization and indicates that the youth of the nation do not participate in the democratic process. In 2000, national research teams ...
The other side of the window : an essay on structural iconography in English and American fiction
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 1978)
characteristically serves as a vehicle for exploring the psychological and philosophical ramifications of one root problem: the nature of the relationship between the perceiving subject and the object—be it another single individual or a whole ideological universe...
Social justice leadership development: the emergence of social justice leaders who experienced poverty during childhood
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
The purpose of this study is to explore and understand how social justice leaders develop. This study reports the findings of social justice leaders who experienced childhood poverty and currently work as principal in Title ...
"It's all country boys" : rural young male perceptions of risk and protective factors for dating violence and technology-based interventions as an acceptable response
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
In 2019, one in eight US teens reported experiencing Teen Dating Violence (TDV) as physical, psychological, sexual, and online abuse. Studies show rural youth report up to twice the physical violence rates of urban youth ...
Gender Perceptions: A Narratological, Social Constructivist, Case Study of the Literacy Experiences of Urban African American Male Elementary Students
(2014-09-30)
The purpose of this critical, narratological, social constructivist case study was to
explore the literacy experiences of African American males and their relationships to
masculinity in a third grade public school ...
Burning Houses: A Novel
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2016)
When Cat Byers’ mother dies and leaves her and her sister a surprise inheritance of
10 million dollars and 500 acres of oil land, a woman adrift must overcome her unresolved
past and a mysterious stalker to discover ...
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, ...