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Theses/Dissertations from 2013 2013

Achievement, engagement, and English language acquisition of fourth-grade ELL students following five years of instruction in an English as a Second Language program or instruction in a dual language program in the same urban elementary school, Rony E. Ortega

Energy Awareness and Scheduling in Mobile Devices and High End Computing, Sachin S. Pawaskaw

Improving Requirements Generation Thoroughness in User-Centered Workshops: The Role of Prompting and Shared User Stories, Aaron Read

PERFORMANCE & SIMULATION ANALYSIS OF SENSOR AREA COVERAGE, Ali Rezaeian

An analysis of a district-led leadership seminar on the dispositions of certified staff members, Michael J. Rupprecht

Exploring the effects of district mathematics curriculum on NeSA-M student cohort scores from 2011 to 2012, Julee R. Sauer

3D Object Tracking and Motion Profiling, Corey A. Spitzer

Detecting Stable Communities In Large Scale Networks, Sriram Srinivasan

The effect of prior high school dual enrollment course completion and access equity on first generation college attending students, Douglas E. Stansberry

The Effect of Poverty on the Achievement of Urban African American Male Students Successfully Completing High School, Amy L. Welch

Behavior Outcomes of Kindergarten Through Third-Grade Students Following an Exclusionary Consequence or an In-School Alternative Consequence for Violent or Aggressive Behavior at School, Amy E. Williams

UNDERSTANDING THE ADAPTIVE USE OF IT CAPABILITIES AND DEVELOPMENT OF SHARED MENTAL MODELS IN VIRTUAL TEAMS, Xiaodan Yu

Theses/Dissertations from 2012 2012

Effects of a chronic increase in plasma corticosterone on the brooding behavior of the prairie skink, Plestiodon septentrionalis , Alexander James Anton

The Impact of Teacher Administered Positive Behavioral Support Interventions on the Behavior and Achievement of Intermediate Level Students Identified with Measured Moderate, Mild, and Low Disruptive Externalizing Behaviors, Gregory W. Betts

An approach in defining Information Assurance Patterns based on security ontology and meta-modeling, Aniruddha Bhaumik

The effects of single-gender math classroom activities on the achievement and behavior outcomes of fifth-grade girls and boys at a public elementary school, Erik P. Chaussee

The effects of the achievement gap on students formally identified as gifted. Does giftedness prevail?, Dwayne T. Chism

Comparison of college/career readiness outcomes between the Advancement Via Individual Determination (AVID) program and the traditional high school academic program, Sandra K. Day

Effects of embedded and direct language strategies on prekindergarten students' cognitive and social emotional development, Matthew L. Dominy

Parallel Adaptive Algorithms for Sampling Large Scale Networks, Kanimathi Duraisamy

The Impact of Prolonged Participation in a Pro-Social Cognitive Behavioral Skills Program on Elementary Age Students, with Behavior Related Disorders, Behavior Accelerative, Behavior Reductive, and Return to Regular Classroom Outcomes, Ted H. Esser

The Impact of School Choice on the Early Literacy Achievement of Kindergarten Students, Lydia L. Gabriel

The Impact of a Year-Long, Same School Social Skills Instruction Program on Students' with Verified Behavioral Disorders, Autism Spectrum Disorders, and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorders Perceptions of Program Effectiveness, Gregory G. Gaden

Achievement and high school completion rates of Hispanic students with no English language skills compared to Hispanic students with some English language skills attending the same high school in an immigrant responsive city, Joanne M. Garrison

The sustainability of reading recovery intervention on reading achievement of students identified as at-risk for early reading failure, Anne J. Harley

Energy Aware Algorithms for managing Wireless Sensor Networks, Abhishek Karpate

A program evaluation of a special education day school for students with emotional and behavioral disabilities, Lucinda Klein-Lombardo

The Effect of Improved School Climate Over Time on Fifth-Grade Students’ Achievement Assessment Scores and Teacher Administered Grade Scores, Dawn M. Marten

IDENTIFYING CORE COMPONENTS IN SOFTWARE SYSTEMS, Phillip Meyer

The Effect of a Zoo-Based Experiential Academic Science Program on High School Students' Math and Science Achievement and Perceptions of School Climate, Elizabeth A. Mulkerrin

WRAPS – A SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING THE PROBABILITY OF PROKARYOTIC PROTEIN ANNOTATION CORRECTNESS, Benjamin K. Nelson

UNDERSTANDING THE ADAPTIVE USE OF VIRTUAL WORLD TECHNOLOGY CAPABILITIES AND TRUST IN VIRTUAL TEAMS, Dawn Owens

A Semantic Approach for Keyword Search on Relational Databases, Rajvardhan Patil

ARCHITECTURE-BASED RELIABILITY ANALYSIS OF WEB SERVICES, Cobra Mariam Rahmani

The impact of low, moderate, and high military family mobility school district transfer rates on graduating senior high school dependents' achievement and school engagement, Jeffrey K. Rippe

Delineating the wildland urban interface using publicly available geospatial data, Mary Rozmajzl

The Effects of Marzano's Six Step Vocabulary Process, on Fourth Grade Students' Vocabulary Knowledge, Fluency, and Sentence Complexity, Janet S. Suing

Achievement, Engagement, and Behavior Outcomes of At-Risk Youth Following Participation in a Required Ninth-Grade Academic Support Study Center Program, Jeffrey P. Wagner

The Impact of a One-to-One Laptop Computer Program on the Literacy Achievement of Eighth-grade Students With Differing Measured Cognitive Skill Levels Who are Eligible and Not Eligible for Free or Reduced Price Lunch Program Participation, Eric G. Weber

The Impact of Socioeconomic Status on Achievement of High School Students Participating in a One-to-One Laptop Computer Program, Anthony J. Weers

Taxonomic Classification of Media Reports in the Cyber Attack Domain, Jinhua Zhang

Theses/Dissertations from 2011 2011

Achievement, Engagement, and Behavior Outcomes of Youth At Risk Following a Pre- Eighth-Grade Summer Academic Enrichment Program and Participation in a School- Wide, School Year Long, Ownership, Mastery, and Grading Initiative, David K. Alati

The experience of counseling the terminally ill and the best counseling practices, Helen Jackson Bleicher

Multi-Robot Coalition Formation for Distributed Area Coverage, Ke Cheng

Exploring the Early Childhood Environmental Rating Scales-Revised (ECERS-R) Evaluation on Preschool Children's Pre-academic Progress, Jennifer L. Fundus

Meatpacking workers' perceptions of working conditions, psychological contracts and organizational justice, María Teresa Gastón

An Investigation of Microenterprise Capability-building via Access and Use of Technology, Travis Godwin Good

Algebra Readiness Outcomes of Sixth-Grade Boys and Girls Placed in Challenge Math Based on Measured Math Ability Compared to Sixth-Grade Boys and Girls Placed in Challenge Math Based on Teachers' Recommendations, David C. Hemphill

The Impact of Parental Military Status on the Achievement, Attendance, and Attitudes of Fourth Grade Students, Melba Hooker

WOPR in search of better strategies for board games, Ben Horner

Semantic Relevance Analysis of Subject-Predicate-Object (SPO) Triples, Ranjana Kumar

ALIGNMENT-FREE METHODS AND ITS APPLICATIONS, Ramez Mina

Breaking the Criminogenic Code: A Frame Analysis of Neo-Nazi and Violent Jihadi Propaganda, William Travis Morris

The effect of scheduling models for introductory algebra on 9th-grade students, test scores and grades, Angela L. O'Hanlon

Application Oriented Analysis of Large Scale Datasets, Prashant Shivaji Paymal

The Effect of the English Language Learner Pull Out Program on Primary Students' Language Achievement, Heidi T. Penke

The Effect of Optional Summer Transition to High School Program Participation and Required School Year Long Placement on a Core Content Team on Ninth-Grade Students At-Risk Measured Achievement, Engagement, and Behavior Outcomes, Frances K. Pokorski

Dynamic Reconfiguration in Modular Self-Reconfigurable Robots Using Multi-Agent Coalition Games, Zachary Ramaekers

The Tipping Point to Terrorism: Involvement in Right-Wing Terrorist Groups in the United States, Anne M. Stacey Reeser

Accuracy of the TeacherInsight Online Perceiver Tool in Determining the Effectiveness of High Rated and Low Rated Math and Science New Hire Teachers Following One Year and Three Years of Single School District Employment, Nicole A. Regan

The Effect of an English Language Learner Program on Student Achievement Outcomes in Language, Reading, and Math, Jennifer L. Reid

How does the fictional TV marriage influence a young adult's own perceptions about marriage?, Gina A. Svedsen

The Impact of a School-wide High School Advanced Placement Program and Culture on Participating Students' High School Achievement and Engagement Outcomes and First Year University Academic Success, Gregory E. Tiemann

The Effect of Teachers' Cultural Proficiency Training on Sixth Grade Students' Reading Achievement, Diane Wells-Rivers

The Effect of Varying Levels of Reading Delimitations on the Ability of Students with Disruptive Behavior Disorders Admitted to a Residential Treatment Center to Demonstrate Language-Based Pro-Social Behavior Replacement Skills, Tanya D. Wright

The Effect of Varying Levels of Reading Delimitations on the Ability of Students with Disruptive Behavior Disorders Admitted to a Residential Treatment Center to Demonstrate Language-Based Pro-Social Behavior Replacement Skills, Tanya D. Wright.

Using Semantic Templates to Study Vulnerabilities Recorded in Large Software Repositories, Yan Wu

Theses/Dissertations from 2010 2010

Conditions Affecting the Decision to Seek or Not Seek a Position as a School Assistant Principal/Principal, Gerald M. Beach

A Program Evaluation of the Building Construction of Bellevue Elementary School for the Bellevue Public Schools, Matthew Blomenkamp

Alternative scheduling models and their effect on science achievement at the high school level, Jay Roland Dostal

The effect of explicitly differentiated reading instruction groups on eighth-grade students' achievement, behavior, and engagement in a school seeking to reestablish adequate yearly progress benchmarks, Sean P. Dunphy

The Effect of Explicitly Differentiated Reading Instruction Groups on Eighth-Grade Students’ Achievement, Behavior, and Engagement in a School Seeking to Reestablish Adequate Yearly Progress Benchmarks, Sean P. Dunphy

The Effect of a Seventh Grade After School Leadership Program on the Developmental Assets, Academic Achievement, and Behavior of Non-thriving Students, Beth L. Fink

The Impact of Previous Schooling Experiences on a Quaker High School’s Graduating Students’ College Entrance Exam Scores, Parents’ Expectations, and College Acceptance Outcomes, Debbie K. Galusha

Effect of a Career, Academic, Personal and Social Growth High School Transition Program Option on 9th-Grade Students' Achievement, Behavior, and Engagement, Tiffanie A. Gauchat

The Impact of an Advisor-Advisee Mentoring Program on the Achievement, School Engagement, and Behavior Outcomes of Rural Eighth Grade Students, Christopher J. Herrick

The Effect of the Involvement within Career Academies by Elective Participation of Eleventh and Twelfth Grade High School Students During the Implementation Year, Nancy A. Johnston

Factors Affecting Literacy Achievement of Eighth Grade Middle School Instrumental Music Students, Johnny T. Brauch Kurt

A TYPE ANALYSIS OF REWRITE STRATEGIES, Azamat Mametjanov

Joint Moments and Powers in Healthy Young Adults During Stair Negotiation, Mira M. Momcilovic

The effects of positive school engagement on math and reading achievement in midwestern suburban middle school students, Heather C. Phipps

Teachers’ Attitudes Towards English Language Learners in Rural Schools Implementing Sheltered English and English as a Second Language Compared to Teachers’ Attitudes in Schools with No Clearly Defined Model of Language Services, Mary R. Smith

Constructive Ontology Engineering, William L. Sousan

The Impact of Teacher Assigned but Not Graded Compared to Teacher Assigned and Graded Chemistry Homework on the Formative and Summative Chemistry Assessment Scores of 11th-Grade Students with Varying Chemistry Potential, Jennifer L. Wilson

Theses/Dissertations from 2009 2009

The effect of classroom management training and active or information-based follow -up on inexperienced teachers' perceived classroom behavior management effectiveness, Diana L. Casey

Occurrence of Rumination: Effects of Feedback Valence, Self-Disclosure, and Social Anxiety, Chun Han Chen

Evaluating the sign language phonology of sight words used to support deaf /hard of hearing students' literacy development in Idioma de Señas de Nicaragua, Julie A. Delkamiller

The Effect of Decreasing Enrollment Patterns in a Title I School Surrounded by Economic Decline on 5th-Grade Students’ Achievement, Behavior, Parent Involvement, and Teacher Mobility Rates, Carolyn L. Grice

The Effect of an In-Class Behavioral Intervention Plus Differentiated Instruction Program on the Achievement and Behavior Outcomes of Verbally Disruptive 8th-Grade Students With and Without Co-Occurring Reading Delimitations, David R. Lavender

The Effect of a Back-to-Basics Core Academic Program Compared to a Traditional Academic Program on Participating 4th-Grade Students’ Achievement and Perceptions of Life Skills, Paula A. Peal

The Effect of a School-Year-Long In-Service Leadership Development Grow-Your-Own Program on New and Veteran Assistant Principals’ Perceived Leadership Effectiveness, LuAnn M. Richardson

The Impact of Traditional and Alternative University Teacher Preparation Program Options on Secondary Teacher Candidates’ Knowledge, Skills, Dispositions, and Employment, Rebecca B. Schnabel

Attitude and Agility Scores of Co-Occurring and Single Sport High School Girl Volleyball Players Following Completion of an Invitational Summer Strength and Conditioning Program, Joesph J. Toczek

The effectiveness of a school-wide differentiated home room academic extension re-teaching initiative on the achievement and proficiency categories of 8th-grade students with varying levels of cognitive skills, Tamara J. Williams

Is it Windy Enough for You? The Potential for Wind Energy to Generate Electricity, Income, and Energy Security in Rural East-Central Nebraska, Roy M. Zach

Theses/Dissertations from 2008 2008

The Effect of a Rural High School Combination Supplemental Literacy Program on Emerging Readers’ Achievement, Engagement, and Behavior Outcomes, Mark L. Adler

The impact of speech -language pathologist service delivery models for concept imagery formation instruction on second grade students' language achievement outcomes, Jennifer L. Allen

The effect of a yearlong one -to -one laptop computer classroom program on the 4th-grade achievement and technology outcomes of Digital Divide Learners, Daniel H. Bird

The Effect of a Yearlong One-To-One Laptop Computer Classroom Program on the 4th-Grade Achievement and Technology Outcomes of Digital Divide Learners, Daniel H. Bird

Evaluating the Achievement Outcomes of 5th-Grade Students Following Their Enrollment in Federally-Funded, Inquiry- Based Classrooms to Determine Program Sustainability, Daniel L. Frazier