Auburn University Graduate School: Recent submissions
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Student and Faculty Perceptions of Clinical Teaching Effectiveness of Full-Time and Part-Time Baccalaureate Degree Clinical Nursing Faculty
(2006-05-15)
Schools of Nursing in the United States are experiencing faculty shortages that result in the turning away of qualified student applicants. This trend has continued and even escalated since a 1992 study was published by ...
An Examination of Cognitive Complexity and Self-Directed Learner Readiness of Traditional and Nontraditional Undergraduate Students
(2006-05-15)
With the demand for higher education, many nontraditional students are returning to school. There have been differences concerning age and sex, with an increase in adult females comprising the new undergraduate population. ...
An Examination Of A Career And Awareness Program and the Effects on Fifth Grade Students
(2006-05-15)
Career and educational choices and decisions impact the livelihood and life satisfaction of adults on a daily basis. Students in middle school are required to make critical decisions which will set the stage for their ...
Alabama High School Principals' Knowledge Level of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act Discipline Mandates
(2006-05-15)
The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) was amended in 1997 to create additional protections for students with disabilities who violate a school’s code of conduct. Prior to the IDEA, students with disabilities ...
A Comparison of Adult Learners' Academic, Social, and Environmental Needs as Perceived by Adult Learners and Faculty
(2006-05-15)
Adult learners are returning to college in massive numbers. Community colleges have seen a tremendous increase in enrollment as a result of this population of students (Boggs, 2004; Carlan, 2001; Moore & Piland, 1994). ...
A Survey of Alabama School Principals’ Perceptions of the Effectiveness of the National Board Certification Process
(2006-05-15)
The National Board of Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS) is a voluntary documentation and demonstration process of an accomplished teacher’s excellence in his or her discipline measured against rigorous standards and ...
A Reexamination of the Structure of Scientific Revolution and Application: The Rise of Mathematical Economics
(2006-05-15)
I propose to reexamine the works of History of Science writers, especially Thomas S. Kuhn. Kuhn's theory is susceptible to contradiction when applied to itself. Is ""The Structure of Scientific Revolution"" nothing more ...
Third Country Effects of the European Union on the Monetary Model of Exchange Rate News
(2006-05-15)
This thesis investigates third country effects in the monetary model of exchange rate news. The goal of this thesis is to determine whether the country chosen as the third country makes a difference. US variables as the ...
Writing Conference Interaction and Scaffolding: The Possible and the Actual
(2006-05-15)
Writing conferences during the freshman composition course are characterized by role-based, dyadic interactions between a teacher and his or her students that have implications for students’ development in academic writing. ...
Differences between high and low level preservice teachers' instructional conversations with elementary school students: A grounded theory study
(2006-05-15)
This grounded theory study attempted to explain differences observed in preservice teachers’ instructional conversations with elementary school students using an instructional framework and explicit conversational scaffold. ...
The Relationship Between Training and Retention in a Volunteer Organization
(2006-05-15)
The purpose of the study was to provide information that would lead to a better understanding of retention and thereby improve the retention rate of Civil Air Patrol cadets. The research problem of the study was to identify ...
Acculturation and Achievement in English among Chinese Immigrant Adolescents: A Comparison of Two Populations Which Vary in the Density of Speakers of Chinese
(2006-05-15)
The present study was conducted for the purposes of addressing how differential L1-speaking population density affects the acculturation status of two cohorts of ethnic Chinese adolescent respondents with ages at testing ...
The Use of Media by African American Women to Acquire Mental Health Knowledge
(2006-05-15)
The study investigated the use of media by African American women to acquire knowledge to “help with life problems.” Participants self-reported their use of television, radio, newspapers, magazines, and the Internet in ...
Location-Scale Bivariate Weibull Distributions For Bivariate
(2005-12-15)
Much research has been conducted over the last thirty years in the development
and characterization of bivariate survival distributions. Typically, the multivariate
distribution is derived assuming that the marginal ...
An Improvement on Maximum Residual Energy Routing of Sensor Networks
(2005-08-15)
When Maximum Residual Energy Routing is adopted in actual battery-powered sensor networks, how to further improve the energy consumption in this protocol and prolong the system lifetime becomes a critical problem. In sensor ...
Field Studies and Monitoring of Mosquito Populations (Diptera:Culicidae) in Urban Envrionments
(2005-12-15)
In 2004 and 2005 field work was conducted to survey and monitor larval and adult mosquito populations in urban habitats with, primary interest in Aedes albopictus, the Asian tiger mosquito.
In 2004 and 2005 a state-wide ...
The potential effects of red imported fire ants (Solenopsis invicta) on arthropod abundance and Cucumber mosaic virus
(2005-12-15)
Mutualisms involving ants and honeydew-producing insects such as aphids, scales, and whiteflies may dramatically affect the population dynamics of these herbivorous insects. Furthermore, changes in the population size of ...
Phenology, Natural Enemies, and Management of Lepidopteran Pests of Cole Crops in Alabama
(2006-05-15)
This thesis first looks at the seasonal abundance of the three key pests of cole crops, Plutella xylostella (L.) (Lepidoptera: Plutellidae), diamondback moth; Trichoplusia ni (Hübner) (Lepidoptera: Plutellidae), cabbage ...
Consequences of Mutualisms Between Aphids and an Invasive Ant to Arthropod Communities and Their Host Plants
(2006-05-15)
Mutualisms between ants and honeydew-producing Hemipteran insects (e.g., aphids) are abundant and widespread in arthropod food webs, yet their ecological consequences are very poorly known. Previous work in several ...
'Not so much written as dreamed': Quaker Dream-work in Charles Brockden Brown's Edgar Huntly
(2006-05-15)
The religious element of Charles Brockden Brown’s Edgar Huntly; or, Memoirs of a Sleep-walker (1799), and, specifically, the novel’s relationship with Quakerism, is often misunderstood, understated, or simply ignored by ...