Collection preserves theses and dissertations approved by the Jack N. Averitt College of Graduate Studies (COGS) in partial fulfillment of requirements for the award of masters and doctoral degrees at Georgia Southern University. Theses and dissertations approved prior to 2007 are available here as well as through the Legacy Theses and Dissertations (1964-2006) collection.
Student resources for submitting theses and dissertations for approval are available here. Theses and dissertations may not be modified or removed from this collection without approval of COGS.
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Theses/Dissertations from 2007
Examination of Teachers' Participation in Teacher Leadership in A Rural District in Georgia, Debra Ellen Smith
Study of Teacher Engagement in Four Dimensions of Distributed Leadership in One School District In Georgia, Lisa Michele Smith
Examination of the Experience of Music in Sport Among NCAA Division I Athletes: An Existential Phenomenological Investigation, Lacey Marie Sorenson
Perceptions of Chief Information Officers Who Have Managed Information Technology both Outside and Inside Higher Education, Lisa Christine Spence
Importance and Satisfaction with Institutional Factors among Students in Technical Colleges in Georgia, Richard Alexander Stephens
Preference and Performance of the Water Lily Aphid (Rhopalosiphum Nymphaeae) among Native and Invasive Duckweeds (Lemnaceae), Melissa Cameron Storey
What Works in Georgia High Schools with Small Students Enrollment in Meeting Annual Yearly Progress, Carole Elaine Strickland
Administration of Higher Education Extended Campus Locations with a Distance Learning Component: An Analysis of Best Leadership Practices at Columbia College, Don Stephen Stumpf
State Feedback Control of a Single-Loop Thermosyphon System Via a Quotient Controller, Jonathan S. Tanner
Study of the Relationship of Organizational Protective Processes and Teacher Resilience, Ricky David Tatum
Grade Inflation: An Analysis of Teacher Perception, Grade Point Average, and Test Scores in one Southeastern Georgia High School, Aimée Claire Taylor
Analysis of Two-Year College Presidents' Ranking of the American Association of Community Colleges' Leadership Competencies, Sandra Michele Taylor
Trailer Park Royalty: Southern Child Beauty Pageants, Girlhood and Power, Elisabeth Blumer Thompson
Impacts of Deer and Honeysuckle on the Endangered Trillium Reliquum and Its Associated Plant Community, Jacob Seth Thompson
Cultivating Cultural Workers through Service Learning in Teacher Education, Melanie Williams Thornton
Computer Technology Utilization by Metro Suburban High School Counselors, Lena M. Travis
Spoken Self: Recognizing, Renaming, and Reclaiming, Gayle Frances Tremble
Experiences of Educational Leadership Faculty in the First Year of the Professoriate: A Phenomenological Study, Patricia Sims Tresey
Loggerhead Sea Turtle (Caretta Caretta) Nesting on a Georgia Barrier Island: Effects of Nest Relocation, Jacob Anthony Tuttle
Study of the Implementation of a Professional Learning Community in one Middle School in Georgia, Jana Maria Underwood
Assessment of the Athletic Medicine Unit in Georgia High Schools, Timothy Rollins Ussery
Understanding the Influences on the Homework Experiences of Low-Socioeconomic, African American, Kindergarten Students, Sheryl Florantine Venable
Analysis of Compelling and Constraining Forces Experienced by Georgia High School Principals Implementing Smaller Learning Communities, Martin Gregory Waters
Implementing Career Academies in a Large, Comprehensive High School, Delmas Lee Watkins
Cultivating Passion in Teaching English Language Learners: A Critical Analytical Inquiry, Victoria Vazquez Webbert
The Evaluation of Contextualization of the Life Orientation Test - Revised to Enhance Predictive Validity in Sport, Samuel Joseph Whalen
African American Caregivers of Children Affected by Hiv/Aids, Doris Cooper Wilbon
Black Feminist Autobiographical Inquiry into the Experiences of a Teen Mom, Advis Dell Wilkerson
Experience of Preshot Routines Among Professional Golfers: An Existential Phenomenological Investigation, Allison Kristina Yancey
First-Year Teachers' Perceptions of Mentors' And Principals' Participation in the induction Process, Frances Vereen Young
Inquiry into the Latin and Spanish Cultural Presentations of Spanish First Year Textbooks, Max Joe Young
Infaunal Abundance and Diversity in Vegetated and Unvegetated Areas of a Georgia Salt Marsh, Anthony Lee Zukoff
Theses/Dissertations from 2006
Teaching with Passion: A Narrative Inquiry into Elementary Teachers' Identity Development, Personal and Professional Knowledge, and Love of Teaching, Evelyn Lightfoot Aimar
How Kindergartners' Talks and Drawings Inform Our Ways of Developing a Curriculum of Caring and Imagination, Lisa Audet Aliotta
Utility of Health Belief Model Constructs in Predicting Dietary Behaviors Among Female University Students: A Pilot Investigation, Vanessa Emily Anderson
Contagious Discourse: Germs, Mass Media, and the Shaping of Reality, Amy Richardson Ballagh
Television Viewing Habits, Body Mass Index, Dietary Behaviors and Physical Activity Among University Students, Mary Catherine Ball
Georgia School Principals' Perceptions of the Impact of School Facilities on Student Achievement, Zheadric E. Barbra
Ankle Kinetics During Landing Tasks in Participants with Chronic Ankle Instability and Uninjured Controls, Alison Lorinda Bauer
Exploration of Common Leadership Behaviors Exhibited by Georgia Elementary Principals from High Performing, High Poverty Schools, Donna Regina Bishop
Captured Artifacts, Charles Pearson Burch
Host Attraction and Host Selection in the Family Corethrellidae (Wood And Borkent) (Diptera), Jeremy Vann Camp
Employment Criteria Used by Georgia Public Shcool Superintendents in High School Principal Selection, Jeffrey Lynn Carney
Cross-Cultural Narrative Inquiry into Language, Culture, and Identity Development of Three High School Female Immigrant Students and Their Mainstream Schooling Experience in Atlanta, Georgia, Joanna Stoughton Cavan
Perceived Threat of Hiv/Aids Between Men Who Have Sex With Men and Heterosexual Males, Traci Laquey Cleveland
Characteristics and Workload of Full-Time Faculty in Baccalaureate Dental Hygiene Programs, Marie Antoinette Collins
Lived Experiences of Middle School Principals in Richmond County, Georgia, Janina Collins Dallas
Emotional Intelligence as a Predictor of Career Longevity Among Special Education Teachers in the Houston County, Georgia, School System, Jesse Whitaker Davis
Georgia Superintendents' Assessment of the Six Crucial C's, Harvey A. Franklin
Transformational Educational Leader as Organizer and Administrator of a Movement Disorders Program, Alice P. Gerber
Derrida, Deconstruction and a Dialogue on the Contemporary Nursing Curriculum, Catherine Louise Gilbert
Impacts of Human Disturbance on the Behavior of Sanderlings on the Georgia Coast, Amy Catherine Gray
Mosquitos Associated with Equine West Nile Virus Cases in Southeastern Georgia, Calvin William Hancock
Principles for Education of The Social Reconstructionists and Critical Theorists: A Yardstick of Democracy, Laurie Gertrude Hill
Georgia Elementary Principals' Perceptions of their Ethical Philosophy, Formal Leadership Preparation in Ethics, and Actions Related to the Development and Maintenance of an Ethical School, Laura Martinez Hughes
The Determination of Lung Function Using Impulse Oscillometry and Spirometry, Mécole Vordalander Ingram
Stitched from the Soul: An Auto/biographical Inquiry Into one Black Woman Administrator's Voice and Vision, Sonya D. Jefferson
Educational Talent Search: Assessing Student Outcomes for First-Generation, Low-Income Students in Rural Georgia, Sandra Jean Jenkins
College Women and The Occurrence of Unwanted Sexual Advances in Public Drinking Settings: A Feminist Routine Activities Approach, Abby McColl Johnson
Closing The Minority Achievement Gap in Georgia Middle Schools: Principals' Perspectives, Stacy Eugene Johnson
Secession Diplomacy: A Study of Thomas Butler King, Commissioner of Georgia to Europe, 1861, Mary Pinckney Kearns
Landscapes of Imagination: A Critical Analysis of Art Textbooks, Lynda C. Kerr
Coach Effectiveness and Personality Assessments: An Exploratory Analysis of Thin Slice Interpersonal Perceptions, Jennifer Lynne Knight
Curriculum of Imagination Beyond the Walls of Standardization, Robert Lewis Lake
Pedagogy of Social Justice: An Inquiry into the Experiences of African American Adolescent Males, Natalie Ann Lambright
Effects of Dynamic, Static Stretch, and Proprioceptive Neuromuscular Facilitation on Running Velocity, Step Length, and Step Rate, William Todd Lane
Prediction of Student Achievement in Georgia High Schools Based on Principal Competency as Defined by the Interstate School Leaders Licensure Consortium Standards, Amy Teague Loskoski
Survey of Reproduction of the Southeastern American Kestrel (Falco Sparverius Paulus) in Electrical Transmission Towers in South-Central Georgia, Pamela Lynn Maney
Effects of Resistance and Aerobic Exercise on Physical Self-Efficacy and Social Physique Anxiety in Female College Students, Michele Yeager Martin
Teaching Bodies: Curriculum and Corporeality, Julie Garlen Maudlin
Age Effects on Social and Investigative Behaviors in a Closed Population of African Elephants, Christen Eileen Merte
Sexually Dimorphic Social Development and Female Intrasexual Chemical Signaling of African Elephants (Loxodonta africana), Jordana M. Meyer
Forbidden Fruit: Dryden's The State of Innocence And Fall of Man, An Operatic Version of Paradise Lost, Devane King Middleton
Playground for the Imagination, B. Darlene Miller
Foraging Behavior and Success of Herons and Egrets in Natural and Artificial Wetlands, Henry Dewayne Mincey
How Georgia Suburban Middle School Principals Work with Teachers to Enhance Student Achievement in this Era of Standardized Testing, Robert Charles Minter
What Happens to Girls When They Are the only Female in a Male Dominated Setting?, Nancy Courtney Mitchell
Inquiry into the Writing Pedagogy for Middle School Language Arts, William Love Moore
Analysis of Retention Factors that influence Georgia's Secondary Career and Technical Education Teachers to Remain in the Teaching Profession, Hope Jackson Morris
Principals' Perceptions Regarding Recess in Georgia Elementary Schools, Lori Elaine Morrison
School Renewal in South Georgia, Sean Michael Mulvanity
Nurse Practitioners in Burn Centers: An Exploration of the Developing Role, Trisha Ann Myers
The Winter Ecology of the Piping Plover (Charadrius melodus) in Coastal Georgia, Brandon Lennon Noel
Local Adaptation for Life-History Traits in Silene Latifolia, Brandy May Penna
Elementary Principals' and PTA Parent Representatives' Perceptions about the Effects of Parental Involvement on Student Achievement in Georgia Title I Schools, Zack K. Phillips
Surveillance and Comparison of Anaplasma Phagoctyophilum (Formerly Erlichia Equi) within Ixodes Scapularis Ticks in Selected Southeastern States, Dawn Marie Roellig
Teaching Ethics in the Information Systems Curriculum, Camille Françoise Rogers
Comparison in Academic Performance Between Distance Learning and Traditional On-Campus Students in Allied Healthcare Education at the Medical College of Georgia, Barbara Landis Russell
Perceptions of Georgia School Counselors on the Implementation of a Comprehensive Guidance and Counseling Program and Accountability, Victoria Nauful Sanders
The Body in Pain, Cherie Anne Sayer
Mindful Teachers: Case Studies of Intermediate Teachers and Their Mindful Teaching Practices, Christine Edwards Sherretz
Autoethnographical Inquiry into Joyful Teaching: Explorations with National Teachers of the Year, Camille Lowe Shirah
Effects of an Individual Goal-Setting Intervention on Goal Orientation, Self-Confidence, and Riving Accuracy in Average Golfers: A Quantitative Design, Michael Scott Shivetts
Ready, Steady, Go: Toyota's Advertising in America, 1958-1979, Rebecca Hope Smith
Predicting Starting Status: Factors Contributing to the Success of Collegiate Football Players, Martin John Spieler
Auto/Biographical Inquiry into the Lives of Three Female High School Dropouts in the Rural South, Barbara A. Spurlock
Integrated Phenomenological Study of Teachers' Perceptions of a Professional Learning Community Utilizing Senge'S Five Disciplines of a Learning Organization, Margaret Zena Stockard
Georgia Public School Superintendency: An Exploration of the Profession, Tina Mychele Swain
Distance Education in Georgia's Public School Districts: Baseline Data on Utilization and the Perceived Barriers to Implementation and Expansion, William Joseph Tankersley
Analysis of Implementing Inclusion in a Local School District, Faith Deborah Thomas
