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The works in this student research collection have been approved by the Graduate Faculty of Georgia Southern University as partial fulfillment of the requirements for Master's and Doctorate degrees conferred by the University.
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Theses/Dissertations from 2011
Bullying Behaviors and Attachment Styles, Kylie Williams
Career Academy Implementation: School Leaders Perceptions, Vikki H. Williams
Catching Fire, Ian Robert Winsemius
Theses/Dissertations from 2010
The Effect of Mentorship: A Test of Strength and Survival in Theodore Dreiser's Sister Carrie & Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth, Kathryn Agliata
Test Anxiety, Working Memory and Verbal SAT Performance, Kareem Al-Khalil
Administrators' Beliefs Regarding the Effectiveness of Alternatively Certified Teachers, Jack D. Arrington
Elementary Principals' Follow-Through in Teacher Evaluation to Improve Instruction, Suzanne Elizabeth Arrington
Perceptions of the Achievement Gap Between Black and White High School Students, Gwendolyn Janeen Atkinson
Unsettling Nostalgia: The Difficult Journey Home, Susan Shiver Barrow
Beauty, Breasts, and Brains: An Exploration of Using the Adolescent Female Body as a Resistance Site, Hanna Andrews Beall
String Theory and Our Relationship with Nature: The Convergence of Science, Curriculum Theory, and the Environment, Virginia Therese Bennett
Development and Validation of a Perceived Legitimacy of Hazing Behavior Scale for College Coaches, Lauren Bigham
Survey of Generalized Contact Structures, James Bland
Anything You Can Do, I Can Do Better: A Qualitative Inquiry of Sibling Achievement in Sport, Jordan A. Blazo
Encircled by Sisterhood: Mentoring Experiences of African American Women in Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Francene Amaris Breakfield
Resegregation and Educational Apartheid in Macon/Bibb County, Georgia: The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same, Ashley Paige Briandi
"A Soft Lad the Like of You": Complex Father-Son Relationships in Three "Millennial" Irish Texts, Marla Suzanne Bruner
Strategies Used by The Georgia University Registrar When Implementing Technology Change, Velma Stokes Burden
The Effect of a Competitive Athletic Season on the Performance of the Balance Error Scoring System, John Burk
Analysis of Discrete Data under Order Restrictions, Jeff Campbell
Principals' Perceptions of Teacher Academy for Preparation and Pedagogy Teachers (Tapp) And Traditionally Certified Teachers, Kevin Brian Campbell
Size Correlations between Sucking Lice and Their Hosts Including a Test of Harrison's Rule, Sherri M. Cannon
Effective Print Media Relations Practices of Georgia's Rural High-Performing Principals: Three Case Studies, Patricia L. Cato
Birth Outcomes In Georgia: Socioeconomic and Ecological Analyses of Low Birth Weight, 2000-2006, Kelley G. Chester
Mental Imagery and Exercise Endurance, Paul E. Cohen
The Study of Binary Steering Algorithms in Discrete Tomography, Brittany A. Cole
Exercise Adherence Following Short Term Weight Loss Programs, Justine Coleman
Sustained Employment of Teachers in High Poverty Schools, Karen Jean Davis
Aesthetics of Violence, Kenneth E. Dent
Faunal Analysis and Comparative Study of Mont Repose Plantation, Misty Y. Dunn
The Experience of Christian Prayer in Coaching: A Qualitative Investigation, Trevor J. Egli
A Description of the Influence of NCLB Accountability Mandates on Administrator Job Satisfaction of a Combined Middle-High Principal in Rural Georgia, Boyd K. English
A Study of Teacher Induction in High Schools of an Urban School District in Georgia, Shaundra Fears
Invasive Interactions, Jennifer Galusha
Cognitive Frameworks that Enable South Carolina High School Principals to Implement Smaller Learning Communities, Leslie Jr. Gamble
When the Movies Come to Life: Media Violence and Physiological Pain Response, Ashley A. Gowgiel
Graphical Indices and their Applications, Daniel Gray
Scouting for a Tomboy: Gender-Bending Behaviors in Harper Lee's To Kill A Mockingbird, Laura Hakala
Implementation of Interactive Whiteboards by High School Mathematics Teachers: Case Studies of Change, Jeffrey Scott Hall
An Assessment of Faculty Job Satisfaction In Georgia's Technical College System Using Bolman and Deal's Four Organizational Frameworks, Samuel Bee Hart
The Power of the Picturebook: Examining Aesthetics and Critical Literacy for Imagination, Margaret Parker Helmly
Kinship: Margaret Mitchell's Gone With The Wind and the Irish Big House Genre, Patricia Homer
Exploring the Minority Teacher Shortage in Southeast Georgia, Kelly Renee' Howe
Methods for Comparing Two Means with Application in Adaptive Clinical Trials, Fengjiao Hu
An Evaluation of a District Level Professional Development Program for School Leaders, Swade T. Huff
An Exploration Of Middle School Teachers' Familiarity, Utility, And Percieved Applicability Of Content Area Reading Strategies, Sharon C. Jackson
The Relationship between Distributed Leadership as Practiced by Principals and the Organizational Commitment of Teachers, Gregory Edmond Jacobs
Design and Development of Intelligent Navigation Control Systems for Autonomous Robots that Uses Neural Networks and Fuzzy Logic Techniques and Fpga For Its Implementation, Christopher James Jeanniton
Common Experiences African American Males Have En Route to Becoming Elementary Teachers, Cleveland Johnson
The Impact of Alternatively Prepared Teachers in Middle Georgia: The Perceptions of High School Principals, Jaquel LaFay Johnson
Curriculum, Autophotography, and Jungian Depth Psychology: A Trinity of Social Change, Rachel Guernica Jones
Strategic Theory, Methodology, Air Power, and Coercion in the 2006 Israel-Hezbollah War, Zachary Jones
The Impact of Racial Microaggressions on Black Athletes: Implications for Counseling and Sport Psychology, Terrence A. Jordan
Weighted Inverse Weibull and Beta-Inverse Weibull Distribution, Jing Xiong Kersey
The Confrontation of White Supremacy: A Consciousness Raising Group Experience, Vickie S. King
The Development and Validation of the Theory Y Leadership Dispositions Instrument, Patricia Krumnow
Athlete and Coach Knowledge, Attitudes, and Perceptions of Sickle Cell Trait and National Collegiate Athletic Association Mandated Testing: Recommendations for Intervention, Raymona Holloway Lawrence
A Study of the Perceptions of Stakeholders Regarding Commercial Fundraising in Georgia's Public Schools, Ronald Edwin Main
Principals' Leadership Styles and Their Impact on School Climate: Assistant Principals' Perceptions, Bruce R. McColumn
Racial Microaggressions by Secondary School Teachers against Students of Color, Mary Anne Meeks
School Climate Components that Contribute to Adequate Yearly Progress in Elementary Schools, Angeline Elizabeth Miller
Now I Speak: The African American Males' Perspective as to Whether His Identification with Hip-Hop Culture Affects His Academic Achievement, Chiquetta O. Mitchell
Ms. Representations : Popular Culture, Pageants, and Women of the South, Brittney Flatt Mobley
Best Practices Employed by Georgia High School Administrators to Reduce Student Tardiness, Jason Scott Moore
Experimental and Numerical Investigations on Aerodynamic Characteristics of Savonius Wind Turbine with Various Overlap Ratios, Khandakar Niaz Morshed
Seasonal Testosterone and Reproductive Cycles in Yellow-Bellied Slider Turtles (Trachemys Scripta Scripta), Amanda L. Moss
Investigation of combustion and emissions of biodiesdel from chicken fat in a separate three vortex combustion chamber, David Henry Nelson
A Comparison of the Similarities and Differences between Traditionally and Alternatively Prepared First Year Secondary Teachers in a Large Middle Georgia School District, Gail Scarborough Nelson
Racism in Sports in Southeast Georgia High Schools., Michael Landon Nelson
The Principal's Roles in Creating and Maintaining Working Conditions in Schools in Georgia, Sandra Wallace Nethels
Comparison of Two Bone Mineral Density Pre-Screening Tools: Qus and Ra, to the Dxa, Rachel Beth Newcomer
The Lived Experiences of Female Superintendents in Alabama, Florida, and Georgia, Ruth Denette Odum
Behavioral Analysis of a Digenetic Trematode Cercaria (Microphallus Turgidus) in Relation to The Microhabitat of Grass Shrimp (Palaemonetes Spp.), Patricia O'Leary
3+1 Dimensions, Henry (Duke) Oursler
Leadership Practices That Influence Teacher Attendance in a Low and High Teacher Absentee School, Allison Taylor Owen
The Need For Revision: Curriculum, Literature, and the 21st Century, David P. Owen
Cultivating Global Citizenship? Life In Transit, Jeffrey Matthew Palis
The Role of Teacher Expectation on Disproportionality of African American Males in Special Education in Middle Schools in Richmond County School System, Claudette Jackson Palmer
The Impact of Mentoring on Beginning Teachers in a Rural Northeast Georgia School District, Judy E. Palmer
Monitoring for a Shift in a Process Covariance Matrix Using the Generalized Variance, Kellen M. Parham
Damaged Goods, Danna Michelle Parker
Preferred Coaching Styles in Youth Sports: A Qualitative inquiry of Soccer Players from Generation Z, Krisha Parker
Army Continuing Education System: The Role of Emotional Intelligence in Army Education Leadership as It Pertains to Team Performance, Olivia Marie Penrod
The Relationship between the Athlete and the Athletic Trainer and How It Effects Concussion Reporting, Jada Phillips
Rh Glycoprotein as an Ammonia Transport Molecule, Matthew B. Phillips
The Demography and Community Characterization of he Federally Endangered Herb, Trillium Persistens: A Study Across Its Range Including A Fire-Dependent Habitat, Cassandra M. Plank
An Assessment of America's Tobacco-Free Colleges and Universities: Policies, Procedures, Practices, and Adherence to Acha's 2009 Guidelines and Recommendations, Sara S. Plaspohl
Curriculum and the Elements of The Earth: Deconstructing Sustainability and Reconstructing Responsibility, Elizabeth Alford Pollock
The Ties That Bind, Sarah Anne Rene
A Multiple Case Study of the Co-Teaching Practices of Trained Educators in Two Successful Schools, Mona Reynolds
A Nonparametric Method for Ascertaining Change Points in Regression Regimes, Alfreda N. Rogers
Examining Aspects of Role and Practice Changes for School Psychologists in Georgia: A Mixed Methods Analysis, Bruce A. Rogers
Theoretical Properties and Estimation In Weighted Weibull and Related Distributions, Ryan Roman
Art and Memory: An Examination of the Learning Benefits of Visual-Art Exposure, James Tyler Rosier
The Village Mother in Selected Works of Toni Morrison, Taqwaa Falaq Saleem
The Relationship Between Situational Crime Prevention Theory and Campus Employee Computer Misuse, M. Juliane Santiago
The Effectiveness of the CDCS Heads-Up Dvd on Coaching Education Students' Knowledge of Sports-Related Concussions, Elizabeth Saunders
