Browsing by Author "Shannon, David M."

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Attributes, Attitudes, and Perceived Self-Efficacy Levels of School Counselors Toward Poverty

Ricks, Lacey (2014-06-27)

This study was conducted to examine the relationship between school counselors’ attitudes, attributes, and self-efficacy levels while working with individuals living in poverty. The study used quantitative measures and ...

Effective Organizational Characteristics for International Student Enrollment Service

Kim, Ji-chul (2007-12-15)

Historically the U.S. has attracted international students to its campuses deliberately and enrolling additional international students has become an increasingly important subject (Cravcenco, 2004; Phanchantraurai, 2005). ...

Employment Preparation for High School Students with Significant Intellectual Disabilities

Moon, Jennifer (2013-12-04)

Only eight percent of people with significant intellectual disabilities are employed, as compared to 81% of people without disabilities (Harris & Associates, 2000). A predictor of successful employment for students with ...

Factors that Affect Academic Performance and Retention Status: A Study of a Summer Bridge Program

Evans, Bianca (2014-07-29)

Summer Bridge Programs (SBP) have demonstrated success for underrepresented students in STEM fields. However, a review of published reports of these programs suggests mixed and some negative results with very few programs ...

How and in What Ways Does Homogeneous Small Group Instruction in Reading Influence Struggling Middle School Readers and Their Attitudes toward Reading

Scaife, Silvia D. (2011-04-27)

The study of how homogeneous small group instruction influences struggling middle school readers and their attitudes toward reading was a twelve-week mixed ANOVA study that examined the affects small group instruction for ...

Influence of Bait on Assessment of Biodiversity of Small Mammals

Ashe, Vikki (2007-05-15)

Two experiments were designed to test effectiveness of bait packs containing peanut butter and rolled oats (peanut butter bait packs) compared to empty bait packs in traps used to capture small mammals. In experiment A, ...

Ivory Tower Whistleblowers and Hotlines: Higher Education Institutions' (HEI) Voluntary Implementation of NACUBO-recommended Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) Act of 2002 Whistleblowing Best Practices Provisions: A Web-Based Survey Instrument and Exploratory Research to Determine HEI Level of Implementation, Expectations, Effects and Barriers

McMillan, Kenneth (2014-12-04)

The purpose of this exploratory study is to determine Higher Education Institutions’ (HEIs) level of implementation, expectations and effects from voluntarily implementing National Association of College and University ...

Self-Efficacy as it Relates to Attributions and Attitudes towards Poverty among Pre-Service School Counselors

Kitchens, Sarah (2014-07-11)

This study was conducted in order to examine the self-efficacy of pre-service school counselors and their attributions and attitudes towards poverty. The population for this study consisted of Master’s level school ...

A Survey of How English Language Arts Teachers Address Synthesis Writing in Classroom Instruction

Mayhan, Brett (2014-05-05)

The use of information from source materials in service of an argument or idea original to a writer is, according to the scholarly literature, one of the most complex applications of reading and writing. It is also, according ...