Browsing Graduate School - MU Theses and Dissertations (MU) by Thesis Advisor "Curs, Bradley R."
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Beyond money : relating local school taxation to family and community risk
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)State school finance systems have typically required some local tax effort to determine how to dole out state funds to provide equitable and adequate educational opportunities for K-12 students. As state-level systems have ... -
A descriptive analysis of fees at four-year public universities : differentiating between tuition and fees
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)Despite the overabundance of data collected and analyzed about tuition as a primary cost of public higher education, little to no attention has been paid to fees as a portion of that cost. Most of the existing research ... -
Leadership and health : an examination of authentic leadership characteristics and physical health behaviors
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between authentic leadership characteristics and physical health behaviors, as defined by the Goolsby Leadership Model (Quick, Macik-Frey, and Cooper, 2007). Physical ... -
National Board for Respiratory Care Examination outcomes and the influence of entry-to-practice academic degree
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)Accredited programs of study in respiratory care award the associate or baccalaureate degree upon completion. A task force appointed by the national professional association for respiratory care has recommended a policy ... -
Relationship between cooperative education and early employment outcomes
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)This study examined the relationship between cooperative education (co-op) and the early career outcomes of graduates at Missouri University of Science and Technology, a science and technological research university in the ... -
Relationship between family, school, peer, and student characteristics and student scientific literacy in Azerbaijan
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] This study examined the effects of school, family, peer and student individual characteristics on scientific literacy scores. The study analyzed data ... -
Short-term solution: application of an integrated model of college choice to enrollment in short-term study abroad
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)The study examined student choice to participate in short-term study abroad at Graceland University. The institution has short-term study abroad participation rates higher than the national average and a 40 year history ... -
Teacher autonomy in the United States : establishing a standard definition, validation of a nationally representative construct and an investigation of policy affected teacher groups
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)This effort: 1) establishes an autonomy definition uniquely tailored for teaching, 2) validates a nationally generalizable teacher autonomy construct, 3) demonstrates that the model describes and explains the autonomy ... -
Understanding the process of organizational change : a student affairs case study
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)The purpose of this case study is to describe the process of organizational restructuring and redesign within the division of student affairs at an institution of higher education. The study featured the process that ... -
Wnderstanding the experience of being a peer advisor in the freshman interest groups program at the University of Missouri
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)The Freshman Interest Groups (FIGs) program at the University of Missouri is a first-year experience program where groups of approximately 20 students live together in a residence hall and are co-enrolled in four courses. ...