About this Collection
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.
The Theses and Dissertations were published between 1964 and 2006.
The works are also available in the following collections:
Theses/Dissertations from 2005
Teacher Perceptions of School Climate in Selected Georgia Elementary Schools, Phillip Ralph Baker
Spontaneous Alternating Behavior in Paramecium caudatum and Paramecium multimicronucleatum, Nyron K. A. Bovell
Type, Prevalence, Seriousness and Intervention: What Teachers Believe about Student Bullying, Debora Woods Butler
Childhood Overweight and Obesity: Migratory Hispanics versus Settled Hispanics Aged 3 to 5 Years in Southeast Georgia, Christy N. Byczkoski
Administrative Analysis of Internal Quality Review Processes for On-Line Distance Education, Dawn Hall Cartee
Electromyographical Analysis of and Medial-Lateral Anticipatory Postural Adjustments prior to Stepping and Single Leg Reaching in Chronic Unstable Ankles, Melissa A. Epstein
An Analysis of Perceptions of Online Instruction by Department Chairs in the Field of Higher Educational Administration in the United States, Edna Lynn Levernier
Parasite Burden and Potential Virus Exposure in the Gopher Tortoise (Gopherus polyphemus), Hayden Hugh Moye Jr.
Program Administrators' Perceptions of the American Society of Radiologic Technologists' Sponsored Baccalaureate Curriculum, Gloria Deal Strickland
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
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
Theses/Dissertations from 2004
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
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
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
Diet Of Henslow's Sparrows (Ammodramus Henslowii) Wintering in Pine Savannas in Coastal Mississippi, Gina T. Fuller
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
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
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
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
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
Rhythm, Elizabeth Mansour Barksdale
The Role of Evolutionary Processes in a Biological Invasion: An Experimental Study with Silene latifolia, Amy C. Blair
A Study of Elementary Teachers' Abilities, Attitudes, and Beliefs about Problem Solving, Nancy Mullins Brown
An Army of One... With Dependents: A History of the Army Family, Stacey Lynne Brown
For Honor and Duty: The Civil War Experience of William Washington Gordon II, Tommy C. Brown
Encoding Flexibility of Social Categories in Impression Formation, Alyson L. Cantey
A Comparison of Youth Participation Motives in Organized Sports, Kirsty L. Carrihill
And the Word Became Flesh: Visual Thoughts on the Book of John, David Lee Carroll Jr.
The Relationship Between Trait Anxiety, Perfectionism, and Burnout in Collegiate Basketball Players, Sydney E. Carswell
Design and Implementation of XML in an Object-Relational Database, Zhong Chen
Revisions Restored: Textual Restoration in Theodore Dreiser's Sister Carrie, Constance June Crisp
What Influences Girls' Mathematics Achievement? The Stories of Six High Achieving Middle School Females, Patia Sheral Crump
Successful Middle School Girls: A Qualitative Study of Discourse and Characteristics, Debra J. De Witt
Characterization of a Morphological Mutant, M-134, and Two Conidia-shed Mutants, E-1 and K-44 of Neurospora crassa, Gregory Julian Digby
Selected Economic Variables as Predictors of Student Performance in South Carolina Public School Districts, Darlene Patti English
Early Childhood (K-5) Preservice Teachers' Beliefs about Mathematics, Teaching Mathematics, and Learning Mathematics, Deborah Bell Evans
Voting with Their Feet: Union Desertion in the Army of the Potomac, 1861-1865, Jason Mann Frawley
Georgia Middle School Principals' Perceptions of School Violence, Christopher Garretson
Georgia Public School Superintendents' Perceptions of Principals' Skills and Dispositions in an Era of Principal Shortage, Linda K. Grisham
Phylogenetic Relationships of Tick Species in the Ixodes ricinus Complex, Derived from Mitochondrial Coi and 16S Genes, Paola A. Guerrero
The Prevalence of Disordered Eating Behaviors among Sorority versus Non-Sorority Women, Angela Lynn Guzman
Relaxation and Guided Imagery in the Sport Rehabilitation Context: A Qualitative and Quantitative Design, Loretta Anita Handegard
An Inquiry into Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences and Strengths of Students Placed in Special Education under Mildly Disabled Categories, Kathryn Sandiford Harrell
Effect of Football Helmet and Football Helmet/Skull Cap Combination on Core Temperature, Janna Harris
A Three Dimensional Model of Virus Dynamics in HIV Patients, Samuel Bee Hart
Female Athletes' Perceptions of Head Coaches' Communication Competence: A Descriptive Invertigation, Denise Haselwood
A Description of Gifted Elementary Services in Georgia Schools, Barbara Salter Hubbard
Quantification of Cervical Spine Motion During Application of a Rigid Cervical Immobilization Collar, Colleen Y. James
Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae ApxI and ApxII Toxin Regulation, Erika Marcela Jarma A.
The Infusion of Higher Education in the U.S. Army: A Sociolinguistic Study of an Organizational Information Dissemination Process, Gerald Allen Kehr
Effects of the Parasite Microphallus turgidus on the Predation, Swimming Endurance, and Activities of the Grass Shrimp Palaemonetes pugio, Alyssa K. Kunz
From Pandemonium to Creative Production, Jacqueline M. LaDrig
"Something for the Dignity of Ireland:" Lady Gregory's Portrayal of Deirdre and Maeve in Cuchulain of Muirthemne, Martha Davis Lee
Exploring a Connected Pedagogy: An Existential Inquiry of Spirituality in Nursing Education, Melissa K. Lickteig
Population Increase and Range Expansion of Three Psittacids in Florida and California, Helen W. Lovell
Effects ofUltraviolet Radiation on Newly Settled Recruits of the Reef-building Coral Porites astreoide, Carrie Ann MacKichan
