• Goal Setting and Assessment Portfolios for English Language Learners 

  Holloway, Brittany Gwen (Middle Tennessee State University, 2020-05-14)

  This study provides an overview of the impact goal setting can have on English Language Learners (ELL). This qualitative research will consist of case studies of four to six students who are in fourth or fifth grade who ...
• METABOLIC COST OF UNDERWATER TREADMILL WALKING IN INDIVIDUALS WITH INCOMPLETE SPINAL CORD INJURY 

  Langford, Tyler (Middle Tennessee State University, 2020-05-14)

  Research on the metabolic demand associated with training modalities is needed for those with an incomplete spinal cord injury (iSCI) to improve rehabilitation and exercise prescription approaches. The underwater treadmill ...
• A Telltale Narrative: American Horror Film and Metacinema 

  Teague, Savanna Rae (Middle Tennessee State University, 2020-05-13)

  The film genre of horror will not and possibly cannot die. The genre’s metacinema tradition existed in the first flickers of the motion picture industry with its reliance on adaptation and serialization, and it continues, ...
• Filtering of Transient and Low-Level Mitochondrial Damage Signals by the PINK1:Parkin Mitophagy Pathway 

  Bowling, Jonathan Logan (Middle Tennessee State University, 2020-05-13)

  Mitophagy describes a collection of pathways that direct the selective autophagic removal of damaged or superfluous mitochondria within eukaryotic cells. Of these, the PINK1 (PTEN-induced putative kinase 1):Parkin mitophagy ...
• Phonology, prosody, and reading skills: A mismatch negativity experiment 

  Fotidzis, Tess Stamatia (Middle Tennessee State University, 2020-05-02)

  Reading is a fundamental skill for success in everyday life. Unfortunately, 5-20% of all children in the U.S. experience some form of reading difficulty (RD), such as dyslexia. Prosody—i.e., the suprasegmental features ...
• EXAMINING THE INFLUENCE OF LESSON STUDY ON ELEMENTARY SCIENCE TEACHERS’ PRACTICES 

  Franklin, Chatoria Kent (Middle Tennessee State University, 2020-05-01)

  In the U.S., typical elementary science instruction has not supported young children engaging in sophisticated scientific practice or developing deep understanding of appropriate science concepts. This is inconsistent with ...
• A District’s Approach to Support Teacher Agency through Teacher-Led Professional Development 

  Skaggs, Cara Clayborne (Middle Tennessee State University, 2020-04-30)

  School districts invest large amounts of time and budgetary costs to provide professional development to support the professional growth of teachers each year. Although districts are providing professional learning that ...
• Predicting Pathways to Literacy in Tennessee through Early Identification and Preventive Intervention 

  Ables, Cynthia Dianne (Middle Tennessee State University, 2020-04-30)

  Prior research confirms that students who struggle early with reading will rarely catch up without additional support and direct intensive intervention. These results accrue dramatically over time. It takes four times as ...
• COMPUTATIONAL MODELING OF MAXIMUM LENGTH SEQUENCE (MLS) MULTILAYER AND GRATING STRUCTURES 

  Poudel, Khem Narayan (Middle Tennessee State University, 2020-04-28)

  This thesis describes a variety of projects computing the optical response of periodic and aperiodic structures. The projects include the design of dielectric multilayer, grating, frequency selective surface and antennas, ...
• The Effect of Adding Relevant and Irrelevant Visual Images to an Animation of an Oxidation-Reduction Reaction on Students’ Conceptual Understanding 

  Cole, Martin Hamilton (Middle Tennessee State University, 2020-04-28)

  This dissertation is comprised of two research studies that examine how different visual images in animations of the oxidation-reduction reaction of copper metal and silver nitrate affect general chemistry students’ ...
• ESSAYS ON THE NEXUS OF CORRUPTION, ECONOMIC GROWTH, AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT IN SUB SAHARA AFRICA 

  Esona, Sona Karl (Middle Tennessee State University, 2020-04-24)

  ABSTRACT Corruption and the rising levels of external debt are public enemy number one in Sub Sahara Africa (SSA). Corruption robs SSA of its resources and potential, cheats its people out of billions of dollars annually ...
• Purification, Structural Characterization and Immunomodulation Properties of Polysaccharides Isolated from Frankincense (Boswellia carterii) 

  Hosain, najlaa (Middle Tennessee State University, 2020-04-24)

  Medicinal plants have long been a focus of pharmacological research. Recently there has been an increased interest in the medicinal properties of polysaccharides. These compounds are of interest since many of them have ...
• DORSAL CONVERGENCE OF GASTRULA CELLS REQUIRES A VANGL2 AND ADHESION PROTEIN-DEPENDENT CHANGE IN PROTRUSIVE ACTIVITY 

  Prince, Dianna J (Middle Tennessee State University, 2020-04-24)

  During zebrafish gastrulation, planar cell polarity (PCP) describes the elongation and mediolateral alignment of cells parallel to their path of dorsal migration. The PCP pathway consists of a core group of proteins that ...
• AN EXPLORATION INTO THE INFLUENCE OF LABORATORY CONSTRAINTS ON BIOLOGY GRADUATE TEACHING ASSISTANTS’ EPISTEMOLOGICAL BELIEFS AND SCIENCE INSTRUCTIONAL PRACTICES AS A COMPLEX SYSTEM 

  NAPOLEON-FANIS, VELTA (Middle Tennessee State University, 2020-04-24)

  Science reform is promoting change in undergraduate biology education. Biology graduate teaching assistants (GTAs) are vital instructors in undergraduate biology education. However, the culture of GTAs as laboratory ...
• AN EDUCATOR’S EXPERIENCE OF INCIVILITY, BURNOUT, AND COMPASSION FATIGUE DESCRIBED THROUGH FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE 

  Urmy, Katharine Evans (Middle Tennessee State University, 2020-04-24)

  ABSTRACT This autoethnographical phenomenological participatory study examines the researcher’s experience of compassion fatigue, burnout, and incivility and how this experience affects her life and work, and ultimately ...
• NUMERICAL APPROXIMATIONS FOR THE FRACTIONAL LAPLACIAN IN SPACE-FRACTIONAL REACTION-DIFFUSION EQUATIONS 

  Alzahrani, Saham (Middle Tennessee State University, 2020-04-24)

  The systems of non-linear time-dependent space-fractional differential equations have been employed to model important physical phenomena in many fields of engineering and science. The analytical solutions of most of these ...
• “AN EXTRAORDINARY MEDITATION ON THE SELF”: ROBERT PENN WARREN’S WRITINGS ON RACE 

  Negron, Dennis (Middle Tennessee State University, 2020-04-24)

  Robert Penn Warren made significant contributions to almost every literary genre, and at the center of a significant number of his writings is race. These works include a biography of John Brown (1929), his infamous essay ...
• PUBLIC PROTEST AS A CLAIM TO CITIZENSHIP: TWENTIETH-CENTURY OCCUPATIONS OF WASHINGTON, D.C. AND THEIR ROLE IN PUBLIC MEMORY 

  Crawford-Lackey, Katherine (Middle Tennessee State University, 2020-04-21)

  The National Park Service (NPS) serves as the steward of many of the nation’s most significant landscapes, including the civic spaces in the District of Columbia. Not only is this federal agency responsible for preserving ...
• MERCURY DYNAMICS IN SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN MOUNTAIN AQUATIC AND RIPARIAN FOOD WEBS 

  Beaubien, Gale (Middle Tennessee State University, 2020-04-20)

  The understanding of how community level trophic ecology affects the bioaccumulation/biomagnification of contaminants, and more specifically Hg in streams, remains largely unstudied. The current paradigm was built largely ...
• BIOLOGY GRADUATE STUDENTS’ PERCEPTIONS AND EXPERIENCES OF THE RESEARCH-TEACHING NEXUS 

  Reid, Joshua (Middle Tennessee State University, 2020-04-20)

  Preparing the next generation of biology scholars continues to be a major concern of both undergraduate and graduate biology education reform efforts. This continued interest has flourished in light of the dynamic roles ...

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