• The Rural Queer Experience in Twentieth-Century American Fiction 

  Hughes, Eric Wesley (Middle Tennessee State University, 2021)

  A common view of nonurban areas in the United States posits that rural communities and small towns are hegemonically heterosexual and gender conforming or inherently inhospitable to queer individuals. Queer studies have ...
• The Unheard Voices of School Culture: An Exploratory Study from Non-Certificated Personnel's Perspective in K12 Schools 

  Fitzgerald, Joe L (Middle Tennessee State University, 2021)

  ABSTRACT School culture is a construct that proves to be especially important for educational institutions. When considering current research relatable to school culture, certificated personnel appear to be the prominent ...
• Dioramas of the Sublime: Pseudonature and Fading Femininity in American Literary Naturalism 

  Wilson, Jency Taylor (Middle Tennessee State University, 2021)

  The study of American literary naturalism frequently relies on a handful of defining characteristics—plots of decline, aesthetic realism, and an emphasis on the deterministic forces beyond human control, to name a few. ...
• Preference Identification and Political Participation in Alternative Voting Systems 

  Suggs, Emilia Jane (Middle Tennessee State University, 2021)

  The purpose of this dissertation is to explore how modifying the structure of voting systems and procedures can identify and change people’s political behavior. By changing the voting rules or election structures faced ...
• Who am I Now? The Value of Metis in the Construction of the Disabled Identity 

  Campos, Brielle Retha (Middle Tennessee State University, 2021)

  My dissertation is written as a reflexive or narrative ethnography. I examine my own life experiences and interactions as part of a disabled subculture. This extends previous scholarship, reflecting on how society has ...
• An Examination of the Social and Community Context of Substance Use Disorder Recovery Support Services in Rutherford County, Tennessee 

  Murfree, Sarah Tomlinson (Middle Tennessee State University, 2021)

  Substance use disorder causes significant morbidity and mortality in the United States. An estimated 20.1 million persons age 12 or older had a diagnosis of substance use disorder in 2016. Approximately 95,000 lives are ...
• IN NEOREALISM’S WAKE: THE ITALIAN CINEMA OF RECONSTRUCTION 

  Zumwalt, Matthew Emery (Middle Tennessee State University, 2021)

  ABSTRACT In Neorealism’s Wake: The Italian Cinema of Reconstruction Matthew Zumwalt Studies of Italian post-war cinema have traditionally relied on a historiography that divides the field into two categories: neorealist ...
• How Can Parental Involvement In Formative Assessment Impact Math Achievement In 4th Grade? 

  Griffith, Amanda Gail (Middle Tennessee State University, 2021)

  ABSTRACT With the changes in the Tennessee standards, the testing format has become more rigorous. Teachers who usually made high achievement scores in math, now struggle to adapt to teaching the new TNReady standards ...
• “Bringing Them Back One Song at a Time”: A Qualitative Program Evaluation of Operation Song 

  Lauber, Danielle Elizabeth (Middle Tennessee State University, 2021)

  The diversity of today’s military service members and veterans offers a unique opportunity for community-based organizations to be evaluated as complementary and alternative programs. These activity-based services may ...
• EXPERIENCES WITH THE FUNDAMENTAL FLUENCY INTERVENTION: A CASE STUDY WITH 3RD GRADERS WITH READING DIFFICULTIES 

  Chew, Lori Elizabeth (Middle Tennessee State University, 2021)

  This qualitative research study investigates the experiences of both students and parents in the way they respond to the Fundamental Fluency Intervention, which aims to help students improve fluency to bridge the gap between ...
• ANALYZING THE IMPACT OF OKR GOAL SETTING WITH TEACHERS ON STUDENT AND TEACHER PERFORMANCE OUTCOMES 

  Duke, Bobby Neal (Middle Tennessee State University, 2021)

  School improvement remains one of the most prevalent and often controversial topics in education today, and key to improving schools is understanding the role teachers play as a primary influence on student learning. ...
• READER-TEST INTERACTIONS: AN EXPLANATORY ITEM RESPONSE STUDY ON READING COMPREHENSION 

  Wang, Ping (Middle Tennessee State University, 2021)

  According to the RAND model framework, reading comprehension test performance is influenced by readers’ reading skills or reader characteristics, test properties, and their interactions. However, little empirical research ...
• A Mixed-Method Evaluation of Anxiety Antecedents Related to Biology Content Among K-16 Educators 

  Grimes, Zachary (Middle Tennessee State University, 2021)

  This dissertation is comprised of three studies that define and subsequently evaluate different antecedents to STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) anxiety in elementary, secondary, and tertiary faculty. ...
• Exploring the Impact of Special Education Professional Learning Communities on Students with Disabilities 

  Overall, Christie (Middle Tennessee State University, 2021)

  Across the nation, students with disabilities are struggling to close the achievement gap. Many schools have adopted the PLC framework and implemented special education PLCs in their schools in order to address this ...
• NUMERICAL ALGORITHMS FOR FRACTIONAL PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS WITH TIME-DEPENDENT BOUNDARY CONDITIONS 

  Biala, Toheeb Ayinde (Middle Tennessee State University, 2021)

  This dissertation focuses on developing and analyzing numerical schemes for fractional partial differential equations (PDEs). The development is important because several models involving fractional derivatives exhibit ...
• EXAMINING UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS’ APPROACHES TO LEARNING BIOLOGY WITH A FOCUS ON WOMEN OF COLOR 

  Google, Angela Nicole (Middle Tennessee State University, 2021)

  Despite steady growth in national diversity, women of color continue to struggle in accessing higher education and persisting to graduation in STEM fields. Recent shifts in the national narrative from a deficit-based ...
• Application of Deep Learning in Resting State Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Data Analysis 

  WANG, Donglin (Middle Tennessee State University, 2020)

  Since the advent of deep learning, it has been used in a lot of fields like computer version, image recognition and speech recognition, etc. It has been made many achievements due to its outstanding ability on both ...
• Atomic Population of Effectively Localized Electrons of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons with the KP16/B13 Density Functional 

  John, Dwayne (Middle Tennessee State University, 2021)

  Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, also known as PAHs, have been studied by scientists for over a century. Besides their large volume and low molecular weight, presentations of past findings show that most neutral ground ...
• Lesson Study as a Component of an Induction Program for Novice Teachers 

  Haupt, Melanie (Middle Tennessee State University, 2021)

  Typically, beginning teachers need proper support as they transition to the classroom to be successful; they may not have the specialized skills and knowledge to teach mathematics effectively. Induction programs are designed ...
• The Exploration of Place Attachment and Future Behavioral Intention Through Festival Satisfaction of the Frontier Days Festival 

  Whitaker, Rita Hope (Middle Tennessee State University, 2020)

  Each spring in North America, festival organizers plan and host festivals to showcase the communities. Festivals and events tend to be themed to display the unique quality of that community. Rural communities host festivals ...

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