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Special Educator Preparation: Are We Preparing Candidates who Possess the Dispositions to be Effective Educators for Diverse Learners?
(2020-04-17)
Considerable debate continues in the field of educator preparation regarding how to ensure candidates possess critical teaching dispositions upon program completion. Despite considerable evidence that teachers who do not ...
The Effects of Video Modeling as a Reading Intervention Strategy with Students with Deficits in Reading
(2020-04-13)
This study investigated the effects of using video self-modeling as an intervention strategy to improve the oral reading fluency of students with and without disabilities with a descriptive look at its impact on reading ...
Alcohol, Sleep and Five-Factor Personality Characteristics: A Latent Profile Analysis
(2020-03-05)
To date, a substantial body of research has demonstrated that undergraduate students are often found to experience poor sleep quality, as well as frequently high levels of alcohol usage. Furthermore these two concerns are ...
Swiped off my feet: Exploring differences related to relationship initiation
(2020-05-27)
An increasing number of people are going on dates and forming relationships after meeting through a mobile app or online dating site. Although stigma towards the use of these services is likely decreasing, negative perceptions ...
The Effect of Stereotype Threat on African Americans' Perception of Police Officer Communication Accommodation
(2020-11-24)
Stereotype threat is a phenomenon that has been shown to produce inhibitory effects in cognitive and other processing (Najdowski, 2011; Osborne, 2007). This study analyzed whether stereotype threat differences occur between ...
Using the Concrete-Representational-Abstract Sequence to Teach Conceptual Understanding of Place Value, Rounding, and Expanded Notation to Elementary-aged Students with Learning Disabilities
(2020-05-13)
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of CRA instruction on teaching place value understanding, rounding to the tens and hundreds place, and making equations multiple ways. The intervention included ...
When Physical Appearance (Dis)connects to Moral Character: Examining the Potential Fusion of Christian and Secular Beliefs about the Ideal Body
(2020-07-22)
Although religion, specifically Christianity, plays an important role in life for many women and impacts their views of the self and the world, little quantitative research has explored how Christian doctrine—particularly ...
Orthorexia Nervosa: Validation of the Teruel Orthorexia Scale and Relationship to Health Anxiety
(2020-07-27)
The instruments most commonly used to assess orthorexia in the extant literature have been shown to have significant psychometric limitations. A promising new measure of orthorexia called the Teruel Orthorexia Scale (TOS) ...
The Refugee Crisis: The Response of Mental Health Professionals to Syrian Asylum-seekers
(2020-09-15)
The purpose of this study was to examine the reactions to potential refugee admissions based on the ethnic or religious identity of the refugee. Graduate students (n = 242) enrolled in psychology, counseling, social work, ...
Understanding the Experiences of Student Parents in Master's Counseling Graduate Progams
(2020-07-22)
The purpose of this study was to develop an understanding of the experiences that student
parents have in master’s counseling graduate programs and fill the gap of student parent research
that exists (Trepal et al., ...