DSpace at SHSU: Recent submissions
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The relationship between posttraumatic symptoms and African American male students' third grade reading scores on standardized tests
(2018-11-20)The purpose of this quantitative study was to examine the relationship between posttraumatic symptoms and the third grade reading achievement of African American males on standardized tests. Parents of retained third grade ... -
Drinking motives and use of protective behavioral strategies in an ethnically diverse sample of undergraduate students.
(2018-11-20)College students often endorse greater alcohol consumption and increased likelihood of experiencing negative alcohol-related consequences, particularly ethnic minority youth. Protective Behavioral Strategies (PBS) can be ... -
An Examination of the Relation between Religiosity and Decision Making
(2018-11-20)Research has indicated religiosity can influence decisions, daily actions and perceptions of others. Through previous research, religiosity has affected decision making when considering a drug usage and bombing. However, ... -
Legislation for a few rather than the many: Testing assumptions of sex offender legislation among men who sexually assaulted children
(2018-11-26)Sexual offender legislation contains assumptions of sexual offending that are largely based on prolific cases of sexual abuse, which typically involved an adult male stranger perpetrator abducting, sexually abusing, and ... -
CONSUMPTION PATTERNS AND GROCERY PURCHASE DECISIONS AMONG MIDDLE AND WORKING CLASS FAMILIES IN SHREVEPORT, LOUISIANA
(2018-11-26)Extensive academic literature supports the finding that one’s socioeconomic status has significant influence on the food consumption patterns of individuals and families. Further, the link between diet and disease has ... -
Enhancing literacy engagement: A case study of perceptions of administrators, teachers, and parents about the principal’s role in enhancing literacy engagement in a Texas school.
(2018-10-29)The purpose of this study was to explore the perceptions of key stakeholders in an elementary school regarding the school principal’s role in enhancing literacy engagement in the school. Does the principal’s presence in ... -
Exclusionary Disciplinary Consequence Assignments of Middle School Students as a Function of Ethnicity/Race and Economic Status: A Texas Multiyear Investigation
(2018-10-31)Purpose The purpose of this journal-ready dissertation was to determine the extent to which differences were present in the reasons students were assigned an exclusionary discipline consequence (i.e., in-school suspension ... -
School-Based Speech-Language Pathologists: Perspective of Literacy and Collaboration with Classroom Teachers
(2018-11-01)The current study sought to examine school-based speech-language pathologists’ (SLPs) perception of literacy and collaboration with classroom teachers. Fourteen school-based SLPs participated in an online focus group for ... -
Generating The All-Hazards Intelligence Synthesis Model In The Homeland Security Intelligence Enterprise
(2018-11-01)The United States all-hazards homeland security operational and intelligence domains are multijurisdictional, multiagency, and multidisciplinary intelligence challenges for all-hazards intelligence analysts. A common ... -
EXAMINING THE PREDICTIVE VALIDITY OF THE MALTREATMENT AND ABUSE CHRONOLOGY OF EXPOSURE SCALE ON INTERNALIZING SYMPTOMS
(2018-11-06)Although childhood maltreatment has been well researched, and there are many assessments of childhood maltreatment, they are fragmented and the Maltreatment and Abuse Chronology of Exposure Scale (MACE) was developed to ... -
Continentals and coureurs de bois: The American invasions of Canada and Illinois in the Revolutionary War
(2018-11-06)Although the American invasion of the francophone British territories of Canada in 1775 and the Illinois Country in 1778 had radically different endings, the course of the invasions were remarkably similar. Each was defensive ... -
Examining the Sociodemographic Bases of Environmental Concern: An Analysis of the 2016 General Social Survey
(2018-11-09)The goal of this study has been to evaluate data from the 2016 General Social Survey (GSS) in order to examine the association between sociodemographic variables, political orientation, and level of environmental concern. ... -
Differences in Student College Readiness in Reading, in Mathematics, and in Both Subjects by Ethnicity/Race and Gender: A Multiyear Statewide Study
(2018-11-09)The purpose of this journal-ready dissertation study was to examine the extent to which differences were present in college readiness in reading, mathematics, and in both subjects for Texas high school students by their ... -
THE CALAIS JUNGLE, A MIGRANT CAMP A CRITICAL DISOURSE ANALYSIS AND PHENOMENOLOGICAL CRITIQUE OF THE PERSPECTIVES OF MIGRANTS AND MULTIMODAL METHODS BASED ON VISUAL, AURAL, WRITTEN, AND ORAL REPRESENTATIONS OF WORLDVIEWS
(2018-11-09)This hermeneutic phenomenological study is a critique of the life experiences of refugees living in an unregulated refugee camp in Calais, France known as the Calais Jungle. Through the visual, written, oral, and aural ... -
Spenser's Twin Pillars of the Kingdom: Arthur, Elizabeth, and the Medieval Tradition of Translatio Studii et Imperii
(2018-11-09)Translatio studii et imperii stood as the governing metaphor and principal method of medieval authors to explain changes in political power and romanticize the past. In this project, I examine medieval and early-modern ... -
READING AND WRITING INSTRUCTION IN THE EARLY COLLEGE THROUGH THE LENS OF CRITICAL PEDAGOGY
(2018-11-09)This study is about the perceptions of 10th, 11th, and 12th grade students in an urban early college setting. The areas of focus were reading and writing instruction and critical pedagogy. Students overall indicated that ... -
National Writing Project Fellows' Perceptions of Themselves as Writers and as Teachers of Writing
(2018-11-12)At its core, this study explores the transformative nature of the National Writing Project Summer Institute (NWPSI). It employs an interpretive phenomenological analysis approach and theoretical constructs such as ... -
A Three-Pronged Approach to Improving Leadership Within Law Enforcement
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Ministers Partnership with Patrol Stations
(Law Enforcement Management Institute of Texas (LEMIT), 2018) -
Veterans Courts
(Law Enforcement Management Institute of Texas (LEMIT), 2018)