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Submit Your DissertationDissertations from 2021
Secondary Mathematics Teachers’ Experiences with Technology Integration in a One-to-One School District During Face-to-Face and Remote Instruction: A Phenomenography, Safna Kalariparambil
Hospital Home-Bound Education: Are Teachers Prepared to Implement Transition Plans Post-Hospitalization for Student Success?, Katherine Kimbro-Vincent
Cultivating Culturally Responsive Elementary Teachers in a Suburban Title I School, Angela L. Mack
Integrated Machine Learning Approaches to Improve Classification performance and Feature Extraction Process for EEG Dataset, Mohammad Masum
Disproportionality of Black Males in Special Education: A Case Study Analysis of Educator Perceptions in a Southeastern Urban High School, Artese Ja'Donn McCrae
The Social Market Economy as a Formula for Peace, Prosperity, and Sustainability, Almuth D. Merkel
Teacher Experiences with Multiple One-to-One Technology Integration Models: A Phenomenography, Tiffany Post
Intercultural Digital Literacy – Approach and Emphasis of Educators as Agents in Polarized Areas, Audrey Redmond
THE EVOLUTION OF SALES: ASSESSING THE INTEGRATION OF SOCIAL SELLING INTO PROFESSIONAL SALES AND THE SALES CYCLE, Jen Riley, Brian N. Rutherford, Adriane Randolph, and Stefan Sleep
The Transgender Individual's Experience with Healthcare Interactions, Amy Roach
The Relationship between Collective Nursing Knowledge and Nurse Turnover: An Application of Nursing Intellectual Capital Theory, Pamela Russman-Chambers
Teachers’ Perceptions of One-to-One Laptop Initiative for Increased Learner Communication and Collaboration Skills, Harry Saint Cyr
The Relationship between Hiring Type and Principal Retention: Comparing Georgia Public School Principals, Belinda Sloan
A Distance-Based Clustering Framework for Categorical Time Series: A Case Study in Episodes of Care Healthcare Delivery System, Lauren Staples
WHEN LEADERS OSTRACIZE: BOTTOM-LINE MENTALITY CLIMATE AND EMOTIONAL LABOR AS PREDICTORS OF WORKPLACE OSTRACISM, Darrin Theriault
No Soldier Left Behind? Breaking the Silence on Military Service, Values and Identity in Israel, Lina Tuschling
Student Engagement in the Honors Biology Flipped Learning Environment, Hillary M. Wilson
Dissertations from 2020
Regional Economic Communities in Africa as a Conflict Mitigation Mechanism: The Case of the Economic Community of West African States, Jean-Marc Akakpo
A CREDIT ANALYSIS OF THE UNBANKED AND UNDERBANKED: AN ARGUMENT FOR ALTERNATIVE DATA, Edwin Baidoo
Exploring the Perceptions of the Effectiveness of PLCs by Teachers in a Rural Middle/High School, Erin Beasley
CONCEPTUALIZING ONE’S SELF-EFFICACY AS ADVOCATE: PARENTS’ PERCEPTIONS AS EMBODIED IN SOCIAL AND CULTURAL CAPITALS, Karmen Binion
SHEDDING LIGHT ON SALES RELATIONSHIPS: WHAT EFFECT DOES THE SUNSHINE ACT HAVE ON SALESPERSON ETHICAL BEHAVIOR AND CUSTOMER RESPONSE?, Rebecca Burcham
Evaluative Feedback of Performance as Experienced by First-Year Teachers, Christine Carson
The Twilight Program: A Phenomenographic Study, Chanda Crawley
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
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
Quantitatively Motivated Model Development Framework: Downstream Analysis Effects of Normalization Strategies, Jessica M. Rudd
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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