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This collection houses dissertations from KSU's PhD and EdD programs since 2008. For dissertations written prior to 2008, please visit a campus library.

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Dissertations from 2020 2020

The Twilight Program: A Phenomenographic Study, Chanda Crawley

A Phenomenographic Study of Teachers’ Perceptions of a School Leader’s Role in Teacher Retention in a Failing Title I Elementary School, Alex Davis

Student Experiences, Attitudes, and Perceptions Toward Online Collaborative Tools: A Case Study, Jeremy Easley

Taking Terrorists at Their Word: Testing the Co-Religionist Hypothesis in Islamic State Propaganda, Joel Elliott

Family Perceptions of Family Engagement: A Qualitative Study to Assist Stakeholders, Candis Ervin

Flexibility Matters: A Qualitative Look at Four Middle Grade Teachers’ Implementation of Personalized Learning, Christa Evans Heath

Evidence-Based Instructional Practices for Teachers of Children With Rett Syndrome – A Case Study, Todd Geren

Am I My Brother’s Keeper? : Local and Global Responsibility in the Digital Age, David Gethings

Are Teachers’ Formative Assessment Practices Reliable Indicators of Students’ Mastery of Standards?, Olivia Hall

THE ROLE OF DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY IN IMPROVING ELECTORAL INTEGRITY: HOPE OR JUST HYPE?, Ziaul Haque

STUDENTS’ PERSPECTIVES ON THEIR LEARNING EXPERIENCES WITHIN AN INCLUSIVE SECONDARY MATHEMATICS SETTING, Cleopatra Sorina Iliescu

The Use of E-books, Computers, and Tablets To Enhance Reading Skills, Nicole B. Ingram

Impact of Teacher Perceptions in the Disproportionality of Black People in Special Education, Chenita Jarrett-Evans

Experiences with and Conceptions of School Discipline and PBIS Implementation: A Phenomenography of Fifteen Students with Disabilities in One Title I Middle School, Osman Khan

The Impact of Gamification on the Mathematics Achievement of Elementary Students, Tamisha Kimble

The “Why” Generation: Traits and Conflict Styles of Millennials From the Workplace to the Future of Society, Cynthia Pearce LeMay

Strategic Consequences: How Executive and Organizational Decision-Making Impacts the Outcome of Unconventional Warfare, Joseph Osborne

Elementary School Teacher's Beliefs, Organizational Change, and STEM Implementation: Factors Impacting Teacher Leadership, Shelante Patton

The Influence of Student Discipline on Teacher Job Satisfaction when Controlling for Workplace Characteristics, Personal Attributes, Human Capital Elements, and Principal Leadership, Joshua Pittman

Quantitatively Motivated Model Development Framework: Downstream Analysis Effects of Normalization Strategies, Jessica M. Rudd

Training Peer Mentors in Reinforcement and Modeling with Prompting (RaMP): Using Mixed Reality Simulation to Encourage Social Reciprocity Skills in Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorder, Jasmine V. Sadler

From Teacher to Teacher-Leader: A Phenomenographic Study of Transition, Jennifer Santi

Collaborative Pull-Out Literacy Classroom for Dually Served Students, Mandy Sitten

A Comparison of Public and Private School Teachers' Job Satisfaction When Controlling for Policy Perspectives, Individual, and Workplace Characteristics, Christopher Small

Drawn to Peace: Comics as Multimodal Narratives in Peace and Conflict Education, Laurence Stacey

Teacher Perceptions of Personalized Teaching & Learning in an Instructional Technology Graduate Course: A Phenomenographical Case Study, Stephanee Stephens

Exploring the Experiences of Community Health Workers in the Dominican Republic Using Photovoice, Johnathan Steppe

Teacher Leaders’ Experiences and Perceptions from Program to Practice, Carolynn Stoddard

Data-driven Investment Decisions in P2P Lending: Strategies of Integrating Credit Scoring and Profit Scoring, Yan Wang

INDIVIDUAL IT USES AND THEIR ANTECEDENTS: A SOCIAL THEORY PERSPECTIVE, Jason Williams

EXAMINE THE MEDIATING EFFECT OF COACHING MENTORING PROGRAMS ON TEACHER BURNOUT, Crystal Wright

A Novel Penalized Log-likelihood Function for Class Imbalance Problem, Lili Zhang

ATTACK AND DEFENSE IN SECURITY ANALYTICS, Yiyun Zhou

Dissertations from 2019 2019

THREAT RECOGNITION IN INCUMBENT FIRMS: A CASE FOR ORGANIZATIONAL VELOCITY, Alan Amling

Changing the Guards: Expanding Cultural Diversity Training in Correctional Officer Basic Training, Herman Ayers

The Examiniation of Entrepreneurial Investment Tax Credits: Angel vs. Crowdfunding Investing, Laura Barthel

The Impact of Audit Engagement Partner Disclosure on Audit Outcomes in the United States, J. Alan Bell

THE IMPACT OF INTERNAL AUDITORS' PROFESSIONAL AND SOCIAL AFFILIATIONS ON FINANCIAL REPORTING QUALITY, Reanna Berry

Hashtags and Pins in Education: Digital Native Educators in Digital Habitats., Kelly Pilgrim Cassidy

"Should Employees Come Back to the Office?": The Effectiveness of Eliminating Remote Working Policies for Diverse Virtual Teams, Yeju Choi

Examining the Receptivity of Foreign Guests: A Study of Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas) Students in Higher Educational Institutions in Accra, Ghana, Kezia Darkwah

Coaching for Change: Teacher Perceptions of the Impact of Personalized, Reflective Professional Development, Emily Davis

Role Reversal: Exploring the M&A Process When the Family Firm is the Acquirer, Darin Dredge

Voices from the Margin: A Qualitative Study on the Perspectives of Economically Disadvantaged, Black Students Identified as Learning Disabled, Nadine Duncan

Beyond Resettlement: The Role of Ethiopian Refugee Diaspora in Homeland Peacebuilding, Etsegent Endale

Hedge Fund Ownership and Auditor-Client Contracting In U.S. Firms, Sarah Feltus

Victim Satisfaction with Reparations from the International Criminal Court: An Examination of Child Soldier Cases from Kenya and Sexual Violence Cases from the Democratic Republic of Congo, Brittany Foutz

Student Self Perception of the Benefits of Service Learning in an Alternative Education Program, Barbara Fuqua

Psychological Ownership of Simple Jobs: The Effect of Job Crafting, John S. Furrh III

One and Two-Step Estimation of Time Variant Parameters and Nonparametric Quantiles, Bogdan Gadidov

Big 4 Office Personnel and Audit Quality, Jacob Gatlin

Teacher Perspectives on Content Literacy in Elementary Schools, Jontia Grace

Kurds Under Threat: The Role of Kurdish Transnational Networks During Peace and Conflict (2004-2017), Deniz Gumustekin

WHEN STEALING TIME AT WORK SEEMS JUSTIFIED: THE INFLUENCE OF ORGANIZATIONAL JUSTICE ON TIME BANDITRY, Jamey Halleck

AUDITING UNDER THE INFLUENCE: THE ROLE OF CLIENT GENDER IN AUDIT NEGOTIATIONS, Jennifer Hamrick

The Relationship between School Climate and Graduation Rates from a Control Perspective: Comparing Georgia Public High Schools, Nathan Hand

Biologically Interpretable, Integrative Deep Learning for Cancer Survival Analysis, Jie Hao

The Missing Mirror: A Critical Content Analysis of Multicultural Children's Literature with Black Male Characters, Wendy Harris

Thinking Beyond the Text: Examining Teachers’ Dispositions of Critical Thinking in Elementary Social Studies Classrooms Through the Use of Socratic Seminars, Jacqueline Hunter

Perceptions and Grievances: Impact of Resource Governance on Protracted Conflicts in Nigeria's Niger Delta, John B. Idamkue

STUDENTS’ PERCEPTIONS OF FACTORS RELATED TO TRANSITION PLANNING THAT SUPPORT THEIR PURSUIT OF POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION, Nancy Johal Singh

A Woman Surrounded: Exploring the Reintegration of Conflict-Related Sexual Violence Survivors in Nigeria, nicole junker

“WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE?” THE INFLUENCE OF PERSONALITY AND SOCIAL MOTIVATORS ON ATTITUDES TOWARD STRUCTURAL VIOLENCE AND INTERPERSONAL FORGIVENESS, Melvin Laven

Deep Embedding Kernel, Linh Le

The Informed Human Firewall: The Impact of Knowledge Dimensions on Employees' Secure Behavior, Ashraf Mady

THE EFFECTS OF SUCCESSOR CEO’S ORIGIN ON AUDITORS’ CLIENT RISK ASSESSMENT AND CONTINUANCE DECISIONS FOLLOWING A CORPORATE SCANDAL, Nelson Mlotshwa

Student Voice: A Qualitative Study Investigating Students' Experiences and Teachers’ Perceptions of Instructional Practice Across Learning Levels, Lisa A. Moore

MAKING GOOD DECISIONS: AN ATTRIBUTION MODEL OF DECISION QUALITY IN DECISION TASKS, Bethany Niese

K-12 Community of Inquiry: A Case Study of K-12 Online Social Studies Teacher Practice in a Virtual School, Kyle Sanders

Does Aid Really Help? The Nexus Between Development Aid and State-Society Resilience in Fragile Situations, Cyrel San Gabriel

Millennial Perceptions of Leadership as an Influential Factor in Nursing Retention: A Phenomenological Study, M'Lyn Spinks

Ordinal HyperPlane Loss, Bob Vanderheyden

Post-Conflict Justice and Legal Traditions: A New Conceptual Framework, Maureen E. Wilson

Entrepreneur-Venture Fit and Burnout: Moderating Effects of Entrepreneurial Passion, David Witt

Cracked Windows, Broken Mirrors, and Closed Doors: A Critical Content Analysis of African American Children's Books, Tiffany World

Dissertations from 2018 2018

Leadership For Student Engagement, Felicia Angelle

An Investigation Into The Learning Experiences Of Adolescents With Perceived Dual Exceptionalities Within Gifted And Special Education Middle Grades Settings, Whitney Bailey

Principals and the Phenomenon of Neoliberal Audit Culture, James A. Bishop

The Lived Experience of Afghan Women Refugees in Three Metropolitan Areas of the Southeastern US: A Phenomenological Study, Brenda Brown DNS, RN, CNE

Investigating Information Security Policy Characteristics: Do Quality, Enforcement and Compliance Reduce Organizational Fraud?, Dennis T. Brown

Art & Agency: Transforming Relationships of Power Through Art in Iraqi Kurdistan, Autumn Cockrell-Abdullah

Cognitively Guided Instruction in Elementary Mathematics: Understanding Factors That Influence Classroom Implementation, Teresa A. Conowal

Examination of K-12 School Administrators’ Perceptions of Their Preparation to Lead Special Education Programs, Jaime Davies

Teacher Practices to Help Alternative Education Students, Angela Daws

The Outcomes of Offering a Working Lunch Session in Improving Adolescent Students’ Assignment Completion Rate and Academic Achievement in Mathematics, Kristian Edgeman

Schisms and Conflict Management in New African Immigrants’ Religious Organizations in the Greater Atlanta Area, Christina Edwards

I Was Clear with My Goals, Where I’m Heading, and What I Wanted with My Life: Life History of an Omani Woman and Nurse Leader, Christie Emerson

IS A PENSION FUND'S MIX OF FAIR VALUE INVESTMENTS, AUDIT TYPE, AND AUDIT QUALITY ASSOCIATED WITH THE FIRM'S CREDIT RATING?, Trevor England

Assistant Principals and the Phenomenon of Leadership Coaching, Thomas Flugum

On-site, Ongoing, and Individualized Professional Development: A Case Study at Rural Charter School, Ashley Funderburke

NON-TRADITIONAL TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE MECHANISMS AND PERCEPTIONS AND SYMPTOMS OF VICTIMIZATION AMONG DIASPORIC INDIVIDUALS: MEMBERS OF THE COPTIC CHRISTIAN DIASPORA IN THE UNITED STATES AS A CASE STUDY, Samy S. A. Gerges

Exploring the Interpersonal Dynamics of the Supervisory Triad of Pre-Service Teacher Education: A Qualitative Meta-Synthesis, Anna E. Hart

AN EXPLORATORY STUDY OF ORGANIZATIONAL SECURITY RISK MANAGEMENT FOR IMPROVED EFFECTIVENESS, Angela Jackson-Summers

Mathematics Academic Achievement of Students with Emotional and Behavioral Disorders, Sarah Kinney Maddox

The Effect of Leadership Coaching on the Self-Efficacy of New Assistant Principals, Michael Manzella

Educators’ Perceptions of Augmentative and Alternative Communication to Facilitate Communication Among Preschool Students With Disabilities, Honey Meadows

THE INCLUSION OF WOMEN’S ISSUES IN PEACE NEGOTIATION AGREEMENTS: GUATEMALA, EL SALVADOR, AND COLOMBIA, Natalia F. Meneses

Zero Tolerance, Zero Justice: Teacher Perceptions of Using Restorative Justice, Ajayi Monell

VIEWS FROM THE BLACKBOARD: EXPLORING PERSPECTIVES OF COTEACHING IN ELEMENTARY MATHEMATICS TEACHERS, Ashley Mounts-Gray

Promoting Growth and Self-Efficacy: A Phenomenological Study of the Lived Experiences of First-Year Assistant Principals, Debra Murdock