• 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 ...
• A HISTORY OF FISK UNIVERSITY LIBRARY: 150 YEARS OF AFRICAN AMERICAN PUBLIC HISTORY AND CULTURE, 1866 – 2016 

  Owens, Sr., Brandon Alexander (Middle Tennessee State University, 2020)

  On January 9, 1866, a formal ceremony opened the doors of Fisk Free Colored School to educate whites and newly freed slaves in Nashville, Tennessee. This dissertation will argue that from the institution’s opening in 1866, ...
• Culture for Learning: A Theoretical Model of Learning Through Effective Athletics Coaches 

  Johnson, James Benjamin (Middle Tennessee State University, 2020)

  A theoretical model of learning as seen by effective athletics coaches is nuanced with methods of performance improvement strategies but also inherently influenced by overarching cultural aspects to create an environment ...
• From Textbooks to Teachers' Perspectives: Building Chinese Students' Intercultural Competence through College English Teaching 

  peng, zheng (Middle Tennessee State University, 2020)

  The new Guidelines on College English Teaching of China (2017) specifies that College English content should promote “native culture” and build capacity for intercultural competence (IC) in order for Chinese students to ...
• How Do Teachers Perceive Effective Teaching in a Small, Urban District? 

  Lowery, Michelle L (Middle Tennessee State University, 2020)

  ABSTRACT Educational reforms centered on standards and accountability have done little to impact instructional practices in the classroom. School and district leaders recognize that improving teaching quality and ...
• Elementary Mathematics Teachers' Feedback Practices: A Multiple Case Study 

  Hartland, Kristin S. (Middle Tennessee State University, 2020)

  Feedback is essential in the mathematics classroom for conveying information to the learner about their actions intended to make a connection between what students understand and what is meant for them to understand. In ...
• From Dewey to Skyline Farms: Progressive Education in New Deal Resettlement Communities 

  Duke, Rebecca K (Middle Tennessee State University, 2020)

  The Great Depression of the 1930s created some of the most difficult economic times in the history of the United States, with the agricultural sector of the economy taking an especially severe hit. President Franklin D. ...
• Design, Modeling, and Simulation of Piezoelectric and Magnetoelectric Devices for Multimodal Energy Harvesting Applications 

  Chen, Nan (Middle Tennessee State University, 2020)

  The power consumption of electronic devices reduces as the size of these devices shrinks [1]. Today most portable and wearable devices are still powered by batteries. Researchers have been considering various renewable ...
• The Associations among Literacy Teachers` Grade Level, Teaching Experience, Work-Family Conflict, Burnout, and Turnover Intentions 

  Mahmoodi-Shahrebabaki, Masoud (Middle Tennessee State University, 2020)

  Teacher retention has remained a severe challenge for the American educational system. Retention of literacy teachers and reduction of their turnover can be more imperative given that literacy teachers are obliged to teach ...
• The Impact of Growth Mindset Intervention on Vocabulary, Comprehension, Persistence, and Self-Perception 

  Griffin, Natalie M (Middle Tennessee State University, 2020)

  One potential contributor to student achievement that has garnered recent attention is student mindset. A recent review of the literature on the effect of a growth mindset intervention on students' academic achievement has ...
• Methods of Electrostatic Analysis for Biomolecular Structures 

  Morton, Scott Paul (Middle Tennessee State University, 2020)

  Decades of research have yet to provide a vaccine for the human immunodeficiency virus which causes acquired immune deficiency syndrome. The virus sequence varies at high rates once infection occurs, but changes in the RNA ...
• THE INFLUENCE OF ENGAGEMENT IN PRACTICAL WORK ON MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENTS’ ALTERNATIVE CONCEPTIONS REGARDING BIODIVERSITY 

  Brown, Jessica Jamila (Middle Tennessee State University, 2020)

  With traditional teaching methods prevalent in the U.S., it is crucial that science teachers understand methods that result in authentic changes in classroom instruction. Alternative conceptions that students bring to the ...
• A SCHOOL-WIDE APPROACH: TEACHERS’ PERCEPTIONS OF TEACHING ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS IN THE MAINSTREAM CLASSROOM 

  Brown, Jacob (Middle Tennessee State University, 2020)

  Teachers face more challenges in today’s classroom than were faced 20 years ago. The rise of English Language Learners (ELLs) in American schools continues to grow, with 21% of the K-12 student population being ELL (NYU, ...
• Anabaptists to Zwieback: Textual Access and Exclusion in Russian Mennonite Community Cookbooks of South Central Kansas 

  Harris-Aber, Amy A (Middle Tennessee State University, 2020)

  Russian Mennonite immigrants who settled south central Kansas in the late 19th century and their descendants naturally developed a discourse community that differentiates them from the dominant culture in which they reside. ...
• Ignored Stories, Missed Opportunities: Women's Representation in Early-to-Mid Nineteenth Century Historic House Museums 

  Fisher, Lindsey (Middle Tennessee State University, 2020)

  Women are frequently under-represented at historic house museums. By quantitatively measuring how we talk about women during house tours, public historians can utilize this information to re-tool the stories they tell about ...
• THE VALUE OF STUDENT SELF-REGULATED LEARNING: A STUDY OF TEACHER PERCEPTIONS AND PRACTICES IN AN AFTERSCHOOL SETTING 

  Nivens, Marla

  Being a self-regulated learner is essential for thriving in an ever-changing world. The ability to think and learn independently is necessary for a person to navigate inevitable change. However, most educators do not ...
• The Counternarratives of Doña Lucha: Popular Politics, Democracy, and Citizenship on the Peripheries of Guadalajara, Mexico (1965-1994) 

  Wright, Brad H (Middle Tennessee State University, 2020)

  This study seeks to better understand the heterogeneous lives and political cultures of the poor majorities during a period in Mexican history (1970s-1990s) of capitalist transition to neoliberalism and political ...
• The Impacts of Student-Level and School-Level Factors on Students’ Reading Achievement: An Application of Hierarchical Linear Modeling 

  Wang, Qian (Middle Tennessee State University, 2020)

  Reading achievement of students is one of the most significant predictors of their academic performance and competitiveness in society. Researchers have been investigating the reading achievement related factors for ...
• Subtle Revolutionist: The Life and Political Career of Senator Edward W. Brooke 

  Alexander, Jordan O'Neal (Middle Tennessee State University, 2020)

  In the second half of the twentieth century, Edward W. Brooke became one of the best known and respected African American political leaders in the nation. He stood against the national pattern, when many black politicians ...
• The Global Transcription Response of Acinetobacter baumannii in the Presence of Gallium Protoporphyrin IX 

  Arivett, Brock Aaron (Middle Tennessee State University, 2020)

  Acinetobacter baumannii is a bacterium identified as a serious threat to human health by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ( CDC ). A. baumannii has this designation because of its prevalence in hospitals ...

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