DSpace at SHSU: Recent submissions
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An Exemplar for Teaching and Learning Qualitative Research
(The Qualitative Report, 2012)In this article, we outline a course wherein the instructors teach students how to conduct rigorous qualitative research. We discuss the four major distinct, but overlapping, phases of the course: conceptual/theoretical, ... -
Describing and Illustrating Data Analysis in Mixed Research
(International Journal of Education, 2010)In this methodological paper, the authors propose a tool that brings together various quantitative and qualitative data analysis (i.e., mixed analysis) techniques into one meta-framework to assist mixed researchers (who ... -
Data Analysis in Mixed Research: A Primer
(International Journal of Education, 2011-04)The purpose of this methodological article is to provide a primer for conducting a mixed analysis—the term used for analyzing data in mixed research. Broadly speaking, a mixed analysis involves using quantitative and ... -
Relationships among Attitudes, Coping Strategies, and Achievement in Doctoral-Level Statistics Courses: A Mixed Research Study
(International Journal of Doctoral Studies, 2012)Because of the important role that attitudes toward statistics and motivation have played in statistics courses, Ramirez, Emmioglu, and Schau (2010) recently conceptualized that Eccles and Wigfield’s (2002) Expectancy-Value ... -
Academic Achievement for Fifth-Grade Students in Elementary and Intermediate School Settings: Grade Span Configurations
(Current Issues in Education, 2011)Few researchers have addressed student achievement outcomes as a function of grade span configurations for older elementary-aged students. Thus, this study was designed to determine differences between students’ Grade 5 ... -
Math and Reading Differences Between 6-8 and K-8 Grade Span Configurations: A Multiyear, Statewide Analysis
(Current Issues in Education, 2013-08-15)We analyzed the effect of grade span configurations (i.e., 6-8 versus K-8) on reading and math performance in Texas public schools for the last 5 school years. Participants in this study were 628 Texas schools (i.e., 314 ... -
Scholarly Communication Outside the R1: Measuring Faculty and Graduate Student Knowledge and Interest at a Doctoral/Professional University
(Pacific University Libraries (Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication), 2021)This study explores the baseline knowledge and interest of faculty and graduate students at a Carnegie-classified Doctoral/Professional University regarding different components of scholarly communication. A survey was ... -
The quality inclusion process: Assuring the quality of inclusive practices for students with disabilities
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Transforming Personalized Speech: Bridging the Worlds of Home, School, and Clinic for the Preschooler with Language Delays
(Canadian Society for the Study of Education (Canadian Journal of Education / Revue canadienne de l'éducation), 1995)Teachers and speech and language therapists worked with language-delayed and language-disordered preschoolers in a program to remediate communication problems (Haas, 1993). Despite these efforts, the children failed to ... -
Uncovering Pre-Service Teacher Beliefs about Young Children: A Photographic Elicitation Methodology
(Western Australian Institute for Educational Research Inc. (Issues in Educational Research), 2011)This illustrative paper provides an introduction to using mixed qualitative methods of photo-elicitation, face to face interviews and semiotic analysis to uncover pre-service students' beliefs about young children. The ... -
Dark Side of the Trickster: Collaboration or Collusion?
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The Bounty ̓s Primogeniture and the Thursday-Friday Conundrum
(Athens Institute for Education and Research (Athens Journal of Humanities & Arts), 2020-04)This is a biography of an obscure individual born of the ashes of the H.M.A.S. Bounty on the remote, inaccessible, and uninhabited Pitcairn Island in 1790. Thursday October Christian is best known to amateur and ... -
Teehuteatuaonoa aka ‘Jenny’, the most traveled woman on the Bounty: Chronicling female agency and island movements with Google Earth
(Institute of Island Studies, University of Prince Edward Island (Island Studies Journal), 2021)Teehuteatuaonoa (or ‘Jenny’ by her English nickname) was one of 12 Polynesian women reaching Pitcairn Island with the HMS Bounty mutineers in 1790. She was the most traveled of these women and the first to return to Tahiti ... -
An Examination of Acculturation, Social Support, and Health Outcomes among Chinese American Parents of Children with Developmental Disabilities
(2021)Dataset for An Examination of Acculturation, Social Support, and Health Outcomes among Chinese American Parents of Children with Developmental Disabilities. As new immigrants facing cultural and structural barriers, ... -
Giving Voices to Youth in Community Disaster Mitigation: Texas Case Study
(2020-12-11)There is a paucity of research on the inclusion of children and youth in disaster risk reduction nor participating in using mitigation strategies to lessen the impact of disasters prone to occur in their communities. ... -
Faculty Attitudes Toward Students Enrolled in Developmental Coursework
(2019-11-06)A transcendental phenomenological approach was used to explore faculty attitudes toward students enrolled in developmental coursework. This research was conducted at a mid-sized, urban community college in the southwestern ... -
Identifying the challenges of emerging novel psychoactive substances
(2019-11-11)Novel psychoactive substances (NPS) are compounds similar to common drugs of abuse with slight modifications to their chemical structure. These modifications can be dangerous and sometimes fatal due the lack of knowledge ... -
Alternate DNA extraction and STR profiling strategies for skeletal and other challenging samples
(2019-11-15)Skeletal remains are often submitted for DNA analysis for human identification (HID) purposes, to either supplement or substitute other forensic identification methods, such as anthropological and odontological analyses. ... -
Multiplication Facts and the Intermediate Algebra Student
(2018-11-20)The present dissertation was written in journal-ready format to understand multiplication fact automaticity (MFA) within the domain of Intermediate Algebra and the extent to which MFA is related to student completion and/or ... -
Large scale prediction and reverse genetics analysis of programmed cell death genes in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
(2018-11-30)Programmed cell death (PCD) refers to any form of cell death that is coordinated by the genome. PCD consists of complex molecular pathways which directly cause the death of a cell. The most well-known form of PCD is an ...