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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 2005
Becoming Multicultural Teachers: An Exploration of Transformation in White Female Elementary Educators, Lee Woodham Digiovanni
Nursing Education Administrators' Perceptions of the Recruitment and Retention of African American Male Nursing Students, Maggie Thurmond Dorsey
Agrarian Impressions, Barney M. Durrence
Electromyographical Analysis of and Medial-Lateral Anticipatory Postural Adjustments prior to Stepping and Single Leg Reaching in Chronic Unstable Ankles, Melissa A. Epstein
Impact of Labeling, Legislation, and Accommodations on the Academic Achievement of African American Students with Learning Disabilities, Kimberly Suress Gaiters-Fields
The Process of Becoming a Blue Ribbon School: Perceptions of Participating Teachers And Principals, Dana Russina Harris
An Analysis of Perceptions of Online Instruction by Department Chairs in the Field of Higher Educational Administration in the United States, Edna Lynn Levernier
Fault Tolerant User Interfaces: An Exercise in the Recovery and Maintenance of End-User Access to Server Applications, Sheryl L. Marbury
Current Parent Involvement Practices in Georgia Title I Schools as Reported by Title I District-Level School Administrators, Martha Massey McBride
Receipt of Health Information, Body Mass Index, And Physical Activity And Dietary Behaviors Among University Students, Julianne M. Meadows
Culture of Obesity, Bridget Frugoli Melton
Pregnancy Intendedness in a High Risk Group: Reassessing its Meaning, Mary Miller
Home Range, Reproduction, and Habitat Characteristics of the Female Gopher Tortoise (Gopherus Polyphemus) in Southeast Georgia, Maggie Jo Mitchell
Relationships of Career Decision-Making and Self-Esteem for College Students and Athletes, James B. Mize
Parasite Burden and Potential Virus Exposure in the Gopher Tortoise (Gopherus polyphemus), Hayden Hugh Moye Jr.
Decreasing Elevator Travel in Women With Sign Prompts Encouraging Stair Use, Matthew S. Mura
Perceptions of Georgia Elementary School Principals in Relation to Education Reform and the A+ Education Reform Act of 2000, Doris Elizabeth Newton
Effects of Fire on the Ectoparasites of Small Mammals in Longleaf Pine (Pinus Palustris) Habitats, Todd N. Nims
Stereotypes and Prejudice: Intergroup Contact Between Americans and Japanese, Masami Ota
Sponge Community Structure and Anti-Predator Defenses on Temperate Reefs of the South Atlantic Bight, Richard Robert Ruzicka
Perception and Reality: An Examination of American Print Advertising, Angela Rose Ryczkowski
Home Range and Provisioning Use of Semi-Free-Ranging Ringtailed Lemurs (Lemur Catta), Jennifer Ann Savage
Effects of Exercise and a Brief Education Intervention on Social Physique Anxiety in College Students, Lisa Anne Scott
Testing Tests: Determination of the Efficacy of Prejudice Measures, B. Zeus Simeoni
Connectives and Causal Relatedness in Expository Text, Benjamin G. Simpkins
Exploration of State and Trait Anger, Anger Expression, and Perfectionism In Collegiate Springboard Divers, Jacob Stoner Sinclair
Controllability, Observability and Realizability, Inna N. Smith
Program Administrators' Perceptions of the American Society of Radiologic Technologists' Sponsored Baccalaureate Curriculum, Gloria Deal Strickland
Transitive Inference and Commonly Coded Stimuli, William T. Suits
A Critical Race Inquiry Into the Use of Grade Level Textbooks for Students With Reading Disabilities: the Perspectives of Teachers, Students, and Parents, Margie Wiggins Sweatman
Reading through Brown Eyes: Toward Developing a Culturally Congruent Reading Curriculum, Clara Taylor
Beliefs of Georgia Public Middle School Science Teachers Regarding Residential Environmental Science Education, Hal McBeen Thomason
A Descriptive Study of the Student Support Team Process in Elementary Schools in Georgia, Sarah Walls
Using Multicultural Literature to Develop Empathy and Compassion in Preservice Teachers: A First Step in Preparing Culturally Responsive Teachers, Lyndall Harrison Warren
Influence of Outcome Expectancy on Optimisim, Pessimism, Anxiety and Self-Confidence in Collegiate Football Players, Tiffany D. Watson
Selected Georgia High School Principals' Perceptions of Student Diversity, Ronald James Wiggins
Theses/Dissertations from 2004
Chemosensory Behavior and Development of African Male Elephants (Loxodonta Africana), Kathryn R. Bagley
The Case of September 11, 2001: An Exposition of Globalization's Challenge to Realism?, Renae M. Baker
"Creating Power:" Social Mobility and the Transformative Vision in Hugh Henry Brackenridge's Modern Chivalry, Jon D. Blackstock
An Inquiry into Secondary Teachers' Knowledge of School Law in One Rural Southwest Georgia County, Queen Loural Herring Brown
Characteristics of Effective Elementary School Principals as Perceived by Stakeholders, Troy Anthony Brown
The Constructions of Sexual Identity and Women at the Intersection of Science, Technology and Cultural Curriculum Studeis: A Feminist Inquiry, Christy Burch-Stapleton
Analysis and Optimization of a Mining and Manufacturing Operation, Daniel Scott Cooper
The Solid Rock: An Oral History of the Events Preceding the Disappearance of One Southern Rural African American School in Evans County, Georgia 1954-1971, Gail Drake Dismuke
The Military Economy of Roman Britain, James W. Dudley
Population Genetics Analysis of the Grass Shrimp Palaemonetes Pugio Using Single Strand Conformation Polymorphism, Melody A. Flowers
Teacher and Administrator Perceptions of Teacher Performance Evaluation Systems in Two Georgia Public School Districts, Jane Ford-Brocato
Attitudes about Organ Donation among African American Men and Women in Bulloch County, Georgia, Tammy Dyches Foss
Soul Evolution, Wendy C. Fosterwelsh
Dysacademia in the Ivory Towers: Performativity, Discipline, Control & Chaotically Moving Towards the Shadows of the 3Rd Educational Spaces, Paul René Geisler
Creatress: A Woman's Hand, Susan Isherwood Gibbs
The Meaning of the Meaningless in the Plays of Suzan-Lori Parks, Andrea J. Goto
Distribution, Population Density and Prevalence of Trematode Parasites of hydrobiid Snails along the Skidaway River in Southeast Georgia, Christopher B. Grinstead
An Archaeology of Pain, Dennis Michael Gruber
Examination of the Anterior Drawer and Talar Tilt Manual Stress Tests, Colleen A. Grugan
African-American Students' Campus Racial Climate Perceptions at a Comprehensive Regional University in the Southeast, Gary A. Guillory
Role of Hybridization in a Biological Invasion: An Experimental Study with Silene Latifolia, Lindsay Heaton
Impacts of Exotic Invasive Vines on the Ecology and Reproduction of the Endangered Trillium Reliquum, Christopher D. Heckel
Evolution of Cyberspace as a Landscape in Cyberpunk Novels, Heather Holloway
Cultivating Literary Imagination, Developing Empathetic Understanding toward Others: Using Louise Rosenblatt's Reader Response Theory to Teach Literature to Eighth Graders in Southeast Georgia, Lindy Mulligan Holloway
Effect of Hormonal and Temporal Factors on Captive Female Manatee (Trichechus Manatus Latirostris) Behavior, Chifuyu Horikoshi
The Relationship between Average SAT Scores (Total, Verbal, and Math) and Concert Festival Participation in South Carolina Public High Schools, Penny Bagwell Johnson
Supporting Brain-Based Education: A Study Investigating Instructional Practices of Rural Elementary Teachers, Virginia M. Kasper
Principal Leadership and School Climate: The Effects on Student Achievement in Magnet Schools, Renee Armstrong Kelly
An Investigation of Georgia Elementary Principals' Characteristics and Their Influence on the Use of Technology in Schools, Jesse Allen Kicklighter
Culturally Responsive? The Education of Mexicana English Language Learners Living in a Rural South Georgian Community, Penelope R. Knox
Temperature-Dependent Sex Determination in Caretta Caretta on Two Georgia Barrier Islands, Anne Marie LeBlanc
An Evaluation of Sports Nutrition Knowledge and Sports Nutrition Programs Among NCAA Division I and Division II College Strength and Conditioning Coaches, Jordan Paige McCoy
An Analysis of the Perceptions of Elementary School Principals in Georgia Concerning the Implementation of Title I Models, Angela Benton McManigal
Maintaining Religious and Scientific Beliefs through Cognitive Complexity, Joseph Thadeus Meeks
An Examination of Psychological Variables Affecting Injured Athletes Prior to Returning to Play, Jessica Marie Meyers
Acquisition of the Oddity Concept by a Harris Hawk: Form versus Motion, Alejandra Morales
The Relationship Between Prayer and Team Cohesion in Collegiate Softball Teams, Melissa Murray
Between Order and Chaos, Nicholas R. Nelson
Hunger, Madness, and Crime, Mary E. OSako
The Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax Referendum and the Financing of Public School Capital Projects in Georgia, Kathy Cox Peavy
High School's Principals' and Teachers' Perceptions of Peach State University's Professional Development School Model, Betty Lea Peebles
Imperfect Balance, Desmal W. Purcell
The Automatic Consequences of Religious Priming, Brandon Randolph-Seng
Interstate School Leaders Licensure Consortium Standards Leadership Factors Associated with Teacher Attendance, Jesusa Susy Roper
Agent Identification Using Information Gain and Gini Indexing Methods for Intelligent Control, Rafique Sadekin
Concentration Characteristics and Batting Performance In Collegiate Baseball and Softball, Daniel Samess
The Relationship among High School Size, per Pupil Expenditure, Socioeconomic Status, Race/Ethnicity, and Georgia High School Graduation Test Scores, Deborah Powell Shepherd
A Conic Quadratic Interior-Point Method for a Class of Stratified Sampling Problems, Verlynda Nicole Slaughter
Ground Reaction Force Analysis of the Anterior and Cross-Over Single Leg Hop Tests, Brent R. Sloss
Spectators' Perceptions of Momentum and Personal Control: Exploring the Antecedents-Consequences Model, Cassandra P. Smisson
Reconceptualizing Mathematics Education, Melinda Ann Smith
The Prevalence of the Q-fever Agent Coxiella burnetii in Ticks Collected from an Animal Shelter in Southeast Georgia, John H. Smoyer III
An Inquiry into the Experiences of the African American Woman Principal: Critical Race Theory and Black Feminist Perspectives, Carolyn Roberts Taylor
Misogynistic Language in the Comedies of Ben Jonson: Jonson's Social Commentary on a Degenerating London, Jessica Adrienne Todd
First Order Linear Systems, Gulcin Tugcu
Analyzing Unreplicated Two Level Factorial Designs, Minal A. Vora
Live Oak (Quercus virginiana) Recruitment and Seedling Survivorship in a Southern Maritime Forest, Mary Rebecca Warbington-Wells
Establishing Normal Motion Between the Thigh to Pelvis and Trunk to Pelvis Segments in Female, Collegiate Volleyball and Soccer Athletes, Susan E. Wedekind
"I Love Mischief Strangely, As Most of Our Sex Do": Aphra Behn and the Trickster Archetype, Mary Kathleen Whitaker
Studies of the Annual Cycle of the Swallow-Tailed Kite (Elanoides forficatus): Migration, Habitat Use, and Parasites, Gina Marie Zimmerman
Theses/Dissertations from 2003
A Morphometric Analysis of the Ixodes ricinus Complex (Acari: Ixodida: Ixodidae), Sadia Ajohda
An Exploration of the Impact of Black Female Caregivers on the Lives of White Female Teachers, Melissa Akins
An Undefeated Joy: Hamlet's Survival in Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye, John Alday
