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An Analysis of the Alignment between National and State Geography Standards
(2018-11-14)The standards-based reform movement in K-12 American education began in the 1990s after a number of polls and surveys publicized the poor performance of American students in geographical knowledge. The federal government ... -
I Have a Voice So Listen: Principal Perception of the Texas Accountability Intervention System (TAIS)
(2018-11-13)Across the United States, individual states have taken the mandates from No Child Left Behind (NCLB), which originated in 2001 as part of the Reformation Era (Foley & Nelson, 2011), and created improvement structures to ... -
The Assistive Research and Ideation Engine: The Application of Effective Communication Design to Enhance the Process of Online Research
This Thesis focuses on the conception and wireframing of an Assistive Research and Ideation Engine (ARIE). The ARIE is an online platform that will facilitate a more effective research process by enhancing the ability of ... -
School Daze: Depictions of Black High School Students in Film
(2018-11-14)Education and media are essential elements in our socialization. Each serves as an influential resource that has the ability to portray experiences from different perspectives. Particularly, films involving educational ... -
Using Knot Theory to Model and Analyze DNA Replication and Recombination
(2018-11-13)Due to DNA supercoiling inside the nucleus of a cell, DNA can be modeled as a mathematical knot. We will analyze and examine the knots and links that arise after single or multiple rounds of DNA recombi- nation using the ... -
Illuminating the Faculty and Staff of Color Voice through their Lived Experiences: Contextualizing Mentoring and Resilience
(2018-10-10)This phenomenological qualitative research study sought to examine the lived experiences of eight full-time faculty and staff of color at a Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI). The study’s design illuminated the voice of ... -
BRFSS 2015-2017: Exploring the Burden of Caring For Others
(2018-11-13)Recognizing the growing public health need for informal care, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC) commissioned an expert panel to develop a “caregiver module” for the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance ... -
The Professional Development of Successful School Leaders: Adults Learning and Leading
(2018-10-10)This qualitative study explores the reasons why principals from all levels, elementary, middle, and high school, seek out new learning and professional growth. This study sought to gain a better understanding of why school ... -
The Framing of Occupy Wall Street by The New York Times And New York Post
(2018-11-09)The purpose of this study was to compare how a liberal paper, The New York Times, and a conservative paper, The New York Post, framed Occupy Wall Street (OWS) during its nearly two-month occupation of Zuccotti Park in 2011. ... -
Factors Influencing Academic Success in First Generation College Students
(2018-11-07)Previous studies suggest that the college experience may be uniquely challenging for first generation college students (FGs); that is, students for whom neither parent has completed a college degree. While previous work ... -
Detectability Affects The Performance of Survey Methods - A Comparison of Sampling Methods of Freshwater Mussels in Central Texas
(2018-11-08)Designing effective surveys for freshwater mussels (Unionidae) is a challenge, because they are spatially clustered and often found in low densities. The objective of this study was to examine how the effectiveness of three ... -
Career Change: A phenomenological study of former military members and their transition into teaching
(2018-11-05)This study explored the experiences of former active duty personnel who transitioned to the civilian workforce as school-teachers after a career in the military. The qualitative methodology employed was a phenomenological ... -
Financing Public Education via Crowdfunding: K-12 Teachers as Social Entrepreneurs
(2018-10-10)This study explored the practice of crowdfunding by certified teachers in public schools and the methods they employed to finance learning materials and resources on behalf of their respective classrooms and schools. While ... -
Interspecific Spacing between Harvester Ant (Pogonomyrmex barbatus) and Red Imported Fire Ant (Solenopsis invicta) Colonies along the Invasion Gradient in Texas
(2018-09-27)Invasive species can be devastating to ecosystems and their impacts on native species are innumerable. The red imported fire ant (Solenopsis invicta) invasion is a threat to many native species and is one hypothesized ... -
Assessing Photo-texting methods in a home-based parent nutrition intervention
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From Theory to Practice: The Envisioning, Development, Implementation, and Evaluation of a University Employee Wellness Program
(2016-04-28)No abstract prepared. -
The effects of focal knee joint cooling on different modes of quadriceps strength assessment
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Dynamic Unbounded Integer Compression
(2016-07-22)One of the important applications of data compression is inverted indexes compression, which is a lossless compression. Presently, most of the internet search engines such as Google and Wikipedia process a large amount of ... -
Adventurestorming: Conducting Collaborative Ideation Utilizing Creative Play
(2016-04-20)Members of the communication design industry are playing larger roles than they have before. Methods used by communication designers are being implemented in businesses to shape research practices and direct projects that ... -
Effects of Red Imported Fire Ants (Solenopsis invicta) on Juvenile Houston Toads (Bufo houstonensis) in a Coastal Prairie Grassland
(2016-07-25)The Houston toad (Bufo houstonensis) was first described in 1953 in Houston, Texas, but has since been extirpated from the area. Houston toad populations have been in a nearly continuous decline across their known distribution ...
