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Theses/Dissertations from 2014
Distinguishing Assessment from Accountability: Honoring Student Learning and Values in Assessment, Erin Elizabeth Pearce Thomas
Articulating the Experiences and Perceptions of Graduates from an Inner City Field-Based Teacher Preparation Program: a Sociocritical Perspective, Cynthia Lucretia Thompson
The Sprouts Early Childhood Program: an Evaluation of Child Outcomes, Lauryn Michele Toby
This Wall Speaks: Graffiti and the Location of Transnational Space Palestine, Ashley Toenjes
Reexamination of the Intratextual Fundamentalism Scale Structure: the Impact of Additional Items, Ryan Michael Tuggle
Using Deuterium and Garp To Estimate Geographic Extents of Source Populations of Hoary ( Lasiurus Cinereus ) and Eastern Red ( Lasiurus Borealis ) Bats Killed at a Central Illinois Wind Facility, Rachael Anne Van Essen
The Effects of the Property Tax Extension Limitation Law Adjustment and Hold Harmless Provision on Equity in the Illinois General State Aid Funding System, 2000-2011, Toni Marie Waggoner
Gettin' Weird Together: the Performance of Identity and Community through Cultural Artifacts of Electronic Dance Music Culture, Andrew Matthew Wagner
Predictive Modeling and Alumni Fundraising in Higher Education, Mark Walcott
'I like You both the Same, but for Different Reasons': Differences between Communication Mediums Related to Self-Disclosure, Responsiveness, and Self-Awareness, Kevin Joseph Wallpe
Mckinney Vento Legislation: a Policy Analysis of the Evolution of Homeless Law in Illinois, Cathleen J. Weber
Nitrogen Rate Optimization for Grain Yield within Fall and Spring Applications, Justin Wheeler
An Examination of Teachers' Perceptions and Implementation of Learning Trajectory Based Professional Development, Megan Hope Wickstrom
Saleswomen and the Middle-Class: Gender and Class Conflict within the Chicago Department Store, 1880-1930, Laura Wiggers
Patterns of Local Intergovernmental Cooperation in Illinois School Districts, Kathleen Wilkey
A History of Academic Freedom in America, John Karl Wilson
Synthesis, Characterization, and Reactivity of Hexarhenium Selenide Cluster Complexes Containing Carbon-Coordinating Ligands, Wade Bruce Wilson
Effect of Food Aid Delivery Mode on Food Production in Recipient Nation, Steven Marc Wolf
Engaging Engagement: Framing the Civic Education Movement in Higher Education, Chad Woolard
A Comparison of Biofeedback Tools on Transverse Abdominis Activation, Jessica Marie Wooldridge
Contradicting Conventional Wisdom: Women Presidents' Abilities To Forge Purposeful and Instrumental Relationships for Institutional Outcomes, Susan Amy Woollen
"some Things Are Worth the Pain They Cause": a Study of Self-Awareness, Voice, and Assessment in a High School Memoir Project, Christopher Randall Wyant
Factors Influencing the Major Satisfaction and Leadership Aspirations of Men and Women in Traditional and Nontraditional Fields, Jennifer Yeoward
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
Bundle Burials in the Middle and Late Woodland Periods: Mortuary Practice as a Reflection of Settlement Organiztion and Social Identity, Jessica Leigh Albrecht
Financial Retrenchment: a Phenomenological Study of Two Public School Districts in One Community, John Andrew Asplund
The Effects of Manipulating Problem Completion Rates on Assignment Choice and Preference Consistency, Kiley Bliss
Personal Characteristics and Learning Preference in End-of-Life Decision Making of Chronically Ill Community Dwelling Elders, Leigh Ann Bonney
Further Development of a Model of Environmental Commitment, Shane Boyd
Preliminary Findings of the Long Term Effects of the Death of a Peer while in High School, Jenny M. Bradley
Understanding Turnover Propensity via Affective Beliefs, Adam Bradshaw
Tight Void, Brooke Burns
Punch-Drunk, Ian T. Carey
Factors Affecting Student Satisfaction in Different Learning Deliveries, Kuang-yu Chang
Implementing Nclb: a Case Study in Local Urban School Leadership and School Improvement, Michael James Chinino
Maternity, Activism, and the Creation of a New Identity: the Characters of Las Madres De La Plaza De Mayo for the English-Speaking Scholar Derived from Scholarship, Video, and Film, Gloria Diane Clark
Homophonic Translation, Appositional Writing, and the Monster, Ryan Landry Clark
Does a Weak Social Fabric Fuel the Predatory Lending Industry? The Link Between Payday Lending Activity and Community Trust, Alyssa H. Curran
Gender Transformation at the Grassroots: A Gender and Development Program from the Practitioners' Perspective, Tyler Curtis
The Essential Value of Lgbt Resource Centers, Matthew Raymond Damschroder
The Role of Children in a Mixed-Socioeconomic Community Development Model: A Quantitative Study of Grand Rapids, Michigan Housing Projects, Phillip R. Dawson
Perception of Maximum Stepping and Leaping Ability, Brian Michael Day
An Examination of Student Perceptions of Regional Safe School and Public School Services, Elizabeth Degruy
Student Internet Speech: Where Does the Schoolyard End in the Cyberworld?, Thomas D. Denny
Leadership for Equity in Education: Perceptions of Disability Studies Concepts by Directors of Special Education, Andrea P. Dinaro
Tattoo Stigma and Job Discrimination, Phil Drazewski
An Archaeological and Historical Search for German Ethnicity at the Janis-Ziegler Site ( 23 Sg 272 ), Lisa Marie Dretske
The Effects of an Undergraduate Algebra Course on Prospective Middle School Teachers' Understanding of Functions, Especially Quadratic Functions, Jonathan Taniola Duarte
Eagerly Patient, Erin Elizabeth
Α-Hydroxyhippuric Acid Derivatives: Ph-dependent Aqueous Kinetics and Buffer Catalysis., Kati Feken
Hydrogeologic Implications of Surficial Geologic Mapping and Three-Dimensional Modeling of Glacial Outwash Deposits within the Woodstock, Il 7.5 Minute Quadrangle, Stephen Flaherty
An Uncommon Splice: Seeking Mutations in the Life-Writing and Short Fiction of Mary Butts and Djuna Barnes, Susan George
Agency at Hacienda Pancota: Early Colonial Daily Consumption of a Contested Age and Material Culture, Collin Roderick Gillenwater
Framing Eve: Contemporary Retellings of Biblical Women for Young People, Elizabeth Gillhouse
Examining the Perceived Effects of Incarceration on Children: a Racial Comparison of Women's Experiences, Vance V. GodBold
Illinois Secondary Agriculture Teachers' Perception of Critical Development of Undergraduate Experiences, Alicia Jo Gullidge
The Contribution of Physical Education and Structured Recess to 6th Grade Students' Overall Daily Phyiscal Activity, Ashley Aileen Gutierrez
The Ethos of Excellence in an Effective School: a Study of an Exemplary Urban School, Karen Danita Gyenfie
Iffy the Crumbsnatcher, Craig Steven Halle Jr.
Why Do Teachers Hate Ai N't? Eighteenth-Century Ideologies and Attitudes in Twenty-First-Century Classrooms, Robin Elise Halsey
Self-Expansion Motivation and Romantic Liking in Relationship Initiation, Nicole Melissa Hilaire
"Take a Sad Song and Make It Better": Exploring Rewards Related to Liking Unfamiliar Sad Music, John Hogue
Discursive Tactical Negotiations within and across Literacy Coaching Interactions, Carolyn S. Hunt
Zuzu's Petals, Jeffrey James Jarot
Exploring Factors That Influence the Choice To Retire from Driving in Older Adults, Debra J. Jenkins
The Effect of Media Selection on the Membrane Characteristics and Fatty Acid Composition of Staphylococcus Aureus, Seth Russell Johnson
Perceptions of Educational Administration Pre-service Training by Former Illinois Superintendents Currently Serving as University Professors, Douglas Raymond Kaufman
The Effects of Planting Techniques on Maize Grain Yield and Silage Production, Tyler D. Kaufman
Improving the Efficiency of Fall Applied N with Cover Crops, Corey Lacey
Relationships between Motivation, Self-Efficacy, Mindsets, Attributions, and Learning Strategies: an Exploratory Study, Christopher Lackey
Validity of Four Activity Monitors during Controlled and Free-Living Conditions, Joey Lee
Who Do You Play for? : Naming, Difference and the Creation of Scandal in Literature, Tristan Lipe
Nursing Faculty Retention in Private Not-For-profit Colleges and Universities: a Qualitative Study, Sharon Lyons Marquard
The Function of a Middle Woodland Site in the Central Illinois Valley: a Ceramic Study of Ogden-Fettie, Montana L. Martin
An Examination of the Role of Fundraising in Divisions of Student Affairs at Seven Four-Year Public Universities in the Midwest, Danielle Nicole Miller-Schuster
Citizens without a Nation: the Construction of Haitian Illegality and Deportability in the Dominican Republic, Sasha Miranda
Effortful Control, Intervention Dosage, and Children's Responsiveness to a Primary Prevention Program, Nicole Ashley Moore
Application of Ambient Mass Spectrometry for the Detection of Emerging Organic and Inorganic Environmental Contaminants, Jamie Nizzia
Correlation of Shoulder and Elbow Kinetics with Ball Velocity in College Baseball Pitchers, Eric Post
Second Screen: a Qualitative Exploration of New Television Multitasking Behaviors, Erica Roehm
Good Hair, Bad Hair, Dominican Hair, Haitian Hair, Katie E. Saunders
Secondary Education Teacher Preparation Programs Should Differentiate Curriculum and Instruction for Traditional and Nontraditional Preservice Teachers, Cynthia Jane Schairer-Kessler
Metergoline, the Basolateral Amygdala and the Ventral Pallidum: Implications for Panic Disorder, Douglas Ryan Schuweiler
Videoconferencing Intervention for Depressive Symptoms and Loneliness in Nursing Home Elders, Theresa Marie Schwindenhammer
Examining Middle School Students' Statistical Thinking while Working in a Technological Environment, Melissa Arnold Scranton
Social Capital And Relational Work: Uncertainty, Distrust And Social Support In Azerbaijan, Dustin Samuel Stoltz
Disparity of Principal Accountability, Mary Kathryn Taylor
Understanding the Support Needs of People with Intellectual and Related Developmental Disabilities through Cluster Analysis and Factor Analysis of Statewide Data, Yuwadee Viriyangkura
An Examination of Dietary Differences between French and British Households of Post-conquest Canada, Kristen Walczesky
Effectiveness and Efficiency of Reading Error Correction Procedures on the Reading Accuracy, Reading Fluency, and Reading Comprehension of Fourth Grade Students, Jennifer Wallace
Innovation in Academic Libraries during a Time of Crisis, Dane Michael Ward
Always Faithful: Photographic Works by Marissa Webb, Marissa K. Webb
Identifying with the Help: an Examination of Class, Ethnicity and Gender on a Post-colonial French Houselot, Erin Nicole Whitson
Beliefs and Instructional Practices of Four Community College Remedial Mathematics Instructors, Robin Marie Wucherer
Mark Twain and Critical Thinking in the Secondary Classroom, Daniel Zehr
Immune Strategy of a Long-Lived Ectotherm, the Red- Eared Slider Turtle, Trachmys Scripta, Laura M. Zimmerman
Theses/Dissertations from 2012
Traumatic Infidelities: Translating the Literature of the Armenian Genocide, Shushan Avagyan
Uplift and Blame: Minority Parents in the Discourse of Professional Educators, Katie Mitchell