Browsing School of Education (UMKC) by Thesis Semester "2015 Fall"
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Experiences of African American Baccalaureate Nursing Graduates: Entrance, Culture, and Retention in Nursing School
(2015)The experiences of African American Baccalaureate Nursing Graduates is becoming a phenomenon of interest among university and college administrators, faculty, and staff. Currently there are 2.4 million registered nurses ... -
An Exploration of Teachers’ Early Childhood Guidance Beliefs and Practice within Early Learning Classrooms
(2015)Child guidance approaches, models, and strategies impact the quality of the classroom environment through teacher-child interactions, positive and negative climates, and the development of self-regulation and autonomy. ... -
Flow and the Five-Factor Model (FFM) of Personality Characteristic
(2015)Flow is an area that has had a flourish of research emerge within the past couple of decades originating in the sport psychology literature (Jackson & Eklund, 2006; Hefferon & Ollis, 2006; Kee & Wang, 2008) and in a multitude ... -
Predicting the STEM Outcomes of Academically Qualified Women: A Longitudinal Examination of Social Cognitive Career Theory
(2015)There is a well-documented gender disparity in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields, which has been the focus of research for several decades (i.e., Betz & Hackett, 1981; Ceci & Williams, 2009, ... -
A Qualitative Study of African-American Parents’ Perceptions of Parental Involvement
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2018)Improved academic performance, among many other factors, has been linked in the research to parental involvement. Unfortunately, many view African-American parents as uninvolved because of the activities in which they ... -
Sikh Men Post 9/11: Visible Markers of Religion, Perceived Religious Discrimination, and Career Barriers
(2015)The attacks on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001 (9/11) stand out as a monumental event that is marked as a sad day in our society’s recent history and an even scarier reality of religious discrimination for ...