Auburn Theses and Dissertations: Recent submissions
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Public School Choice: A Study of the Perceptions of Alabama Public School Principals
(2006-12-15)
Public School Choice is a controversial educational reform measure that is federally mandated through the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB). The federal Act (NCLB) contains 10 titles that outline assessment mandates, ...
Is There a Gap of Banking Efficiency Between Accession and Non-accession Countries in Central and Eastern Europe
(2006-12-15)
This thesis divides the Central and Eastern European countries into two groups: accession countries which have or will attend Europe Union and non-accession countries which are not willing to attend Europe Union. The ...
Does An All-Star Premium Exist in the NBA? An Econometric Analysis of NBA Player Salaries from 1999-2006
(2006-12-15)
This thesis is a salary determination model for NBA players. It presents a review of previously published literature as well as discusses background information on the structure of the NBA’s labor market. It uses the ...
Defining the Importance of Employability Skills in Career/Technical Education
(2006-12-15)
This study was designed to determine the degree to which Alabama business/marketing educators perceive the Alabama Career/Technical Curriculum Core course objectives are important in designing instruction to teach employability ...
An Examination of the Effects of Recess on First Graders Use of Written Symbol Representations
(2006-12-15)
Recess is a construct that is slowly disappearing from curriculum in America’s elementary schools. Instead of engaging in free play during recess, children are being expected to perform more structured tasks aimed at ...
The Relationship of Parental Influence on Student Career Choice of Biology and Non-Biology Majors Enrolled in a Freshman Biology Course
(2006-12-15)
Recent declines in science literacy and inadequate numbers of individuals entering science careers has heightened the importance of determining why students major in science or do not major in science and then choose a ...
Using Hyperlinked Scaffolding to Support Student Work with Text-based Source Documents as Part of a Problem-Based Historical Inquiry Lesson
(2006-12-15)
Although many social studies education experts recommend the use of resource documents as part of history education, many social studies teachers are reluctant to utilize these historical resources. One reason for this ...
The Effect of Text Illustrations on Young Children's Vocabulary Acquisition and Construction of Meaning During Storybook Read Alouds
(2006-12-15)
The effectiveness of illustrations for increasing students’ vocabulary knowledge and construction of meaning during storybook read alouds had been studied extensively. Although decades of research have suggested that ...
An Investigation of Parental Satisfaction with School Counseling Services Provided for Children of Deployed Military Personnel
(2006-12-15)
School-age students who are dealing with major life stressors at home may suffer academically due to preoccupation with their personal crises. Studies have shown that students’ performance in school often plummets because ...
The Influence of Racial Identity and Social Support on the Employment Status of African American Women
(2006-12-15)
African American women represent the highest group of all unemployed Americans. As a consequence of long-term unemployment and subsequent impoverishment, African American women experience chronic stressors that affect their ...
The relationship between emotional intelligence and psychological adjustment in children with cancer
(2006-12-15)
Limited research has been conducted to explore the relationship between physical health, emotional intelligence, and psychological adjustment in children. An important aim for research focusing on chronically ill children ...
Thriving in Adult Children of Alcoholics: A Comparison of Collegiate ACOAs and Non-ACOAs on Measures of Psychological Mindedness and Defense Mechanism Style
(2006-12-15)
Traditionally, literature examining Adult Children of Alcoholics (ACOAs) has focused on negative outcomes associated with growing up in an alcoholic family. However, there is evidence of resiliency among ACOAs, given that ...
Regressing Object-Oriented Principles to Achieve Performance Gains on the Java Platform, Micro Edition
(2006-12-15)
Object-Oriented Programming is a software design method that models the
characteristics of abstract or real objects using classes and objects [Sun Microsystems
2006b]. The Java language is intrinsically object-oriented; ...
Building a High-resolution Scalable Visualization Wall
(2006-12-15)
High-resolution and scalable displays are increasingly being used for interactive 3D
graphics applications, including large-scale data visualization, immersive virtual
environments, and scalable 3D rendering subsystems. ...
Post-Speech-Recognition Processing in Domain-Specific Text-Corpus-Based Distributed Listening System: Analysis, Interpretation and Selection of Speech Recognition Results
(2006-12-15)
Achieving usable recognition rates has been an almost never-ending quest in speech recognition research for more than three decades. Recently speech recognition rates have dramatically improved in conjunction with the rapid ...
Practical Consideration of Routing Protocols in Ad Hoc Networks
(2006-12-15)
In this dissertation, we investigate different routing approaches in an attempt to improve
the network performance by considering how wireless networks operate in the realistic
environment. Our work is centered around ...
Algorithms for Task Scheduling in Heterogeneous Computing Environments
(2006-12-15)
Current heterogeneous meta-computing systems, such as computational clusters and grids offer a low cost alternative to supercomputers. In addition they are highly scalable and flexible. They consist of a host of diverse ...
A Life Preserver for the 'Sink or Swim' Years: An Investigation of New Teacher Obstacles and the Impact of a Peer Support Group
(2005-08-15)
The high number of teachers leaving the profession after only a few years of teaching has created a need for teacher education programs and school systems to address the obstacles new teachers are facing and look at ways ...
Guidelines to Change the Cultural Paradigms of Designers Toward Third World People Groups through Missiology to Influence Furniture Design
(2005-12-15)
Third world culture has been invaded by the western world. It is an issue that grows everyday with the media influences of western culture. Industrial designers have developed many of the products and systems which act ...
Effects of physical activity on cortisol levels in African American toddlers attending full-time daycare
(2005-12-15)
Cortisol is a glucocorticoid hormone secreted by the adrenal cortex in response to both physical and psychological stressors. A baseline, diurnal pattern of activity, which peaks soon after waking and declines throughout ...