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Title: "I can, but I can't": Kindergarten teacher perceptions of self-efficacy and agency in their use of formative assessment in the current high-stakes accountability climate
Author: Ferrara, Angela
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Early childhood education, Education and state, Ethnology
Description: Early childhood formative assessment (FA) is a process by which teachers gather data about their students’ knowledge and skills across the five domains of early childhood development in order to scaffold and support their students’ unique learning...

Title: 'A Mother Specific Disorder For a Mother Specific Crime': Alienists, Infanticide and Puerperal Insanity in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Author: Burgess, Laura
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: History
Description: From the early nineteenth century, the British medical community worked to redefine and reassert their professional space within society. During this process, medical men developed specific areas of focus and began to develop these into specialize...

Title: A META-ANALYTIC REVIEW OF DISCRETE EMOTIONS AND WORK BEHAVIORS IN ORGANIZATIONS
Author: Williams, Courtney
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Organizational behavior
Description: The study of affect in the workplace is a flourishing domain of research in the organizational sciences since the affective revolution started in the 1980s (Barsade, Brief, & Spataro, 2003). Following calls for more research specifically with disc...

Title: A Meta-Analysis of HPWS and Organizational Commitment: Examining National Culture as a Moderator
Author: Long, Wendy
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Psychology
Description: Enhancing organizational commitment remains a critical issue for organizations worldwide. In extant literature, the relationship between high-performance work system (HPWS) and organizational commitment (OC) remains inconclusive. First, this paper...

Title: A Missing Mountain Memory: The Marion Manufacturing Mill Strike of 1929
Author: Stevens, Megan
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: History, Modern, History
Description: In Marion, North Carolina, the local residents of the city and surrounding region have forgotten a tragic strike that took place at one of the local mills in 1929, though it was possibly the deadliest textile mill strike in the South. The strike, ...

Title: A STUDY OF MATERIALIZATION, IDENTITY, AND AGENCY USING PXRF ANALYSIS OF CERAMICS FROM INCA PERIOD ECUADOR
Author: Sweitzer, Mackenzie
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Social structure, Archaeology, Area studies
Description: When the Inca Empire expanded across large portions of South America, they implemented various strategies to subdue and control their massively ethnically diverse subjects. One way that the Inca ideology and social order was imposed on the masses ...

Title: ACTIVTY AND MOBILITY DURING THE TERMINAL ARCHAIC PERIOD IN THE EASTERN ANDES: A BIOARCHAEOLOGICAL ANALYSIS
Author: Shults, Ashley
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Archaeology
Description: The Archaic Period in the Andes is characterized as a time of increasing social complexity. Unfortunately, these mobile foraging groups have been understudied in the Eastern Andes, especially in Bolivia. This bioarchaeological analysis uses an emb...

Title: ANALYZING THE EFFECT OF DEBT ON HORIZONTAL EDUCATION-OCCUPATION MISMATCH
Author: Carpenter, Rebekah
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Sociology
Description: This study investigates the relationship between educational loan debt and horizontal education-occupation mismatch, or the extent to which an individual works in an occupation unrelated to their degree field. Research has documented rising levels...

Title: An Investigation into Transformational Leadership Behaviors and Signaling Theory
Author: Stock, George
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Organizational behavior
Description: Transformational leadership is arguably one of the most popular forms of leadership. However, despite the abundance of conducted studies on it, knowledge of specific transformational leadership behaviors is hindered by the conflation of follower p...

Title: Attribution Theory and Apology Discourse in the Context of Medical Errors
Author: Hartsell, Haley
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Communication, Psychology, Health education
Description: Communication scholars have investigated medical error and apology discourse over the last 20 years. However, despite the previous research on this topic, little is known about what factors (i.e., controllability, emotional response, and error sev...

Title: Behavioral Displays of Femininity: Does Apologizing Undercut Perceptions of Women at Work?
Author: Hahn, Karli
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Psychology
Description: The purpose of this study was to test whether behavioral displays of femininity negatively affect perceptions of women’s leadership skills, competence and promotability and, therefore, impede progress towards gender parity. This study aimed to add...

Title: Cultural Distinction in Campus Dining
Author: Jillani, Zara
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Sociology
Description: This study examines patterns of cultural consumption at four universities as indicated by the dining options offered on their campuses. I explore the diversity of university dining options, the considerations that guide dining personnel’s decision...

Title: EXPANDING THE BOUNDS OF AUTHORITY BY APPROPRIATING GROUP MEMBERS’ TIME
Author: Rejtig, Michael
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Sociology
Description: Actors in a position of authority can acquire legitimacy beyond the normative order when the appropriation of subordinate’s time is found valid by group members. A randomized laboratory experiment consisting a peer condition and authority conditio...

Title: Evaluating the Efficacy of Stress as a Screening Tool in Voir Dires: Assessing its Effects on Cognition and the Ability to Render Competent Verdicts
Author: Lynch, Kalyne
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Psychology
Description: Prior research has primarily focused on the usefulness of bias scales in voir dires (Kassin & Wrightsman, 1983; Jones et al., 2015), yet studies have additionally shown that jurors experience psychosocial stress (NCSC, 1998; Bornstein et al., 2005...

Title: Examining the Associations Among Physical Activity Counseling, Self-Efficacy, and Physical Activity Behavior
Author: Snapper, Leslie
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Psychology, Social sciences
Description: Physical activity is associated with a myriad of health benefits, yet rates of physical activity among adults in the United States remain low and traditional medical interventions often don’t address activity behavior. Despite evidence supporting ...

Title: Exploring the Neurocorrelates of Virtual Reality Immersion Using EEG Frequency Decomposition Analysis
Author: Granson, Matthew
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Psychology, Cognitive psychology, Neurosciences
Description: Immersion is a psychological state resulting in the sensation of being enveloped in another reality or environment and is commonly experienced while using interactive media such as videogames. The goals of the present thesis project were to (a) te...

Title: FUZZIER CONSTRUCTS IN CONTENT ANALYSIS: RATINGS FROM THE CROWD VS. TRADITIONAL EXPERTS
Author: Moffit, Miles
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Communication, Psychology
Description: The task of rating (or "coding") text data as a component of qualitative content analysis remains a time-consuming process. Advances in crowdsourcing platforms have presented novel opportunities to outsource this work away from the desks of academ...

Title: Feminism in Oz: Representations of Gender and Sexuality in L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Series and Danielle Paige's Dorothy Must Die Series
Author: Murphy, Shannon
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: English literature
Description: L. Frank Baum is best known for his book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, a story of a young girl named Dorothy who has an abundance of adventure. It is lauded by many as "the quintessential American Fairy Tale" (Riley 3), and it has become the inspira...

Title: Fill In the Blanks: White Space in Children's Picture Books on Grief and Loss
Author: Holt, Samantha
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: English literature
Description: White space in picture books about grief and loss is space that becomes participatory by asking the reader or listener to make sense of what they are seeing while simultaneously joining it with their own real life experiences. This thesis examines...

Title: Gendered Antecedents of Family-Supportive Supervisor Behaviors
Author: Sargent, Amanda
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Organizational behavior
Description: While much is known regarding important outcomes of Family-Supportive Supervisor Behaviors (FSSB), little research exists regarding possible antecedents. The present study applies a gender lens to establishing antecedents of FSSB using Social Role...