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Salary report for 2021-2022
(University of Missouri, 2022)
The exploration of challenges to inviting social emotional learning in the secondary suburban classroom
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
up with these demands are viable researched curriculums for social emotional learning available to high schools and more specifically suburban high schools (Williamson, Modecki, and Guerra, 2016). Through the lens of invitational education (Purkey...
Three essays on decision-making in contexts of change and uncertainty
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
. This essay synthesizes some of the main contributions from various subfields and proposes a typology (i.e., a systematic classification of related concepts) to organize knowledge in this arena, as well as to guide future research and review efforts...
Modes of reflexivity in community supported agriculture : the case of the people's republic of delicious foods
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)
As food has become unknowable, untrustworthy, and deleterious to all involved, people have responded with alternatives to the industrial agrifood system. One method in particular is Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) ...
Enacted identities : a narrative inquiry into teacher writerly becoming
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
This narrative inquiry explored the ways in which four mid-career English teachers construct themselves as W/writers and how those writerly identities are performed in their pedagogy. I curated data collected from extended ...
Generation Z perceptions of product placement in original Netflix content
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
attitude or behavior" (p. 577). Despite its popularity, research has not kept pace with the expanding avenues of product placement (McCarty, 2004). Recent studies have focused on product placement in movie theaters, which ignores up-and-coming use...
Guilty by association : a phenomenological exploration of Black professionals' experiences with assumptions of criminality at work
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
the phenomenon: gangster in a suit, guilty till proven innocent, and rooted in criminality. I used stigma management communication, cultural contracts theory, and Big D /little d discourse as guiding research theories. Practical implications, theory contributions...
The Case of Interagency Coordinating Councils: Examining Collaborations in Services for Children with Disabilities
(University of Missouri - Columbia Institute of Public Policy, 2004)
Children with disabilities often require a myriad of services to develop to their full potential. In the current era, centralized services and residential institutions have become less accepted as a matter of course.
Interagency ...
Leading in a digital age : digital leaders' impact on the professional development culture in a secondary school setting
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
development (Dill, 2015). The data analysis procedure in this study was multi-step and addressed the five research questions. A convergent-mixed design approach was used to capture both quantitative and qualitative data through the theoretical lens of Adult...
Biomass Burning and Its Relationship with Water Cycle Dynamics of the Chari-Logone Catchment of Lake Chad Basin
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2018)
for this study due to its ability to calculate water balance without the large amount of data that many other models require. Satellite observations from TRMM, MODIS, and SRTM, and other earth science missions provide well distributed data at reasonable spatial...
Impact of medical equipment tracking in a health care system
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)
The University of Missouri Health Care is preparing to employ bar code technology, in addition to their current systems, besides having high census and staff shortages. Based on Industrial Engineering analysis methodologies, the problem of how...
Journeying from academically-underprepared to prepared : exploring developmental community college students' perceptions of developmental advising at a Carribean-based community college
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
guided the research process. The data collection methods included phenomenological interviews that were conducted with six student participants; semi-structured interviews that were conducted with two developmental advisors employed at the TTIOO...
How female principals nurture adult learning opportunities in successful high schools with challenging student demographics
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)
Based on Cueva's (2010) learning strategies, this study investigated adult learning strategies successful high school female principals use to nurture adult learning opportunities at their schools in the state of Missouri. ...
An evolving district level induction program for special education teachers
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This study is an action research looking at the new teachers, their mentors, and administrators and what each of these groups in a school can do to improve retention of teachers...
2011 proceedings
(2011)
Teacher perceptions of ADHD causality implication for educational leaders
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
Students who exhibit behaviors commonly associated with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) are at risk for academic struggles and impaired relationships, often needing targeted interventions to be successful. While research supports...
Intersubjective understanding of violence: the lifeworld of Tajik immigrant workers in post-Soviet Russia
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
This dissertation analyzes the phenomenon of violence in the context of labor migration from Tajikistan to Russia. It examines the legal framework for migration policy and asks how sociology can understand the experience ...
Sociocultural attitudes as a moderator of the relations between negative eating and weight messages from family members and Latinas' body image shame
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
Research shows that family members are important for young women's body image. Using the sociocultural model, I explored associations between negative eating and weight messages from fathers, mothers, and sisters and Latinas' internalized...
Mineralocorticoid receptor involvement in vascular dysfunction associated with vascular injury
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
MR knockout (KO) or MR intact controls. Serial assessment of hindlimb perfusion over 28 days revealed that spironolactone and EC MR KO enhanced perfusion in female, but not, male mice. Assessment of peripheral collateral vasculature by micro...
The role of perivascular adipose tissue and infiltrating macrophages in vascular dysfunction with inflammatory bowel disease
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
quickly changed this limited thinking (Zhang et al., 1994). Continued discovery of even more adipose-derived factors, or adipokines, highlighted WAT as a dynamic endocrine tissue that plays an active role in both health and disease. Adipokines include...