Preadolescence is a critical time in the life of children because during this time individuals experience increased social pressure and make decisions that lead to lastin[...]

ABSTRACTHEATHER M. BRITT. Visual ethnographic case study of school through the eyes of students using Photovoice, cameras, writing and agency artwork. (Under the directio[...]

KYLE R. KESTER. School scheduling and at-risk students: Looped perspectives for academic support. Students are graduating without requisite skills needed for life beyond [...]

The purpose of the research study was to compare pre/post data from parents participating in Triple P-Positive Parenting Program. Participants of this program were 13 par[...]

Over the last two decades, students in Singapore consistently scored above students from other nations on the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS[...]

The purpose of this study was to provide an in-depth understanding of users' experiences of technology that are at-risk of potential addictive behaviors. The sample consi[...]

A multiple probe across participants design was used to examine the effects of a parent implemented dialogic play strategy on early literacy development of Latino prescho[...]

This thesis looks at the problem of finding the optimal investment strategy of a self-financing portfolio in a dynamic complete market setting so that the risk measured b[...]

We define a class of convex measures of risk whose values depend on the random variables only up to the lambda-quantiles for some given constant lambda in (0,1). For thi[...]

TOSHA LYNN OWENS. The effects of function-based self-advocacy training on the problem behavior, replacement behavior, and self-advocacy skills of students with or at risk[...]