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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 ...

Criterion Validation of a Teamwork Situation Judgement Test

Hembree, Haley (Middle Tennessee State University, 2020)

The demand for agile and effective teams has grown considerably for the past few decades. New tools are necessary to help form and develop efficient and high performing teams. Choosing team members based on their assessed ...

Assessment and Modeling of Hurricane Impacts on Water Quality and its Spatiotemporal Distribution

Osborne, Andrew Dylan (Middle Tennessee State University, 2020)

Hurricanes have affected the waters of the east coast of the United States throughout the region’s history. These storms cause changes in water quality through mechanisms such as damage to infrastructure, excessive ...

WHO HAS TIME TO DEVELOP? CREATING A PRACTICAL LEADER DEVELOPMENTAL READINESS ASSESSMENT INSTRUMENT

Cristan II, Theodore (Middle Tennessee State University, 2020)

The current study was conducted to determine if a valid short-scale leader developmental readiness instrument could be created from the one proposed and used in the previous research. Leader developmental readiness is ...

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 ...

DOES GOAL SETTING TRAINING AND SELF-MANAGEMENT TRAINING INCREASE SALARY NEGOTIATION SELF-EFFICACY?

Miller, Ashley Lynn (Middle Tennessee State University, 2020)

The current study provides an examination of two negotiation training approaches to determine whether they increase salary negotiation outcomes. Many people have the opportunity to negotiate their salary when accepting a ...

A Neurobiologically-inspired Deep Learning Framework for Autonomous Context Learning

Ludwig, David William (Middle Tennessee State University, 2020)

Neurobiologically-inspired working memory models have managed to accurately demonstrate and explain our ability to rapidly adapt and alter our responses to the environment. However, the applications of these working memory ...

Perceived Political Content in Video Games and News Media Usage

Kautzky, Lucas (Middle Tennessee State University, 2020)

Casual observation reveals that a not inconsiderable amount of video game players object (or at least strongly react) to the presence of politics in video games, sometimes because of specific issues, sometimes simply on ...

The Forest is Not What it Seems: An Ecocritical Study of American Horror Films

Whitaker, Brandyn (Middle Tennessee State University, 2020)

Wilderness horror and cabin horror films such as Antichrist, The Witch, The Evil Dead, and The Blair Witch Project utilize the strengths of their medium—a film’s narrative, dialogue, visuals, and sound design—to reignite ...

DESIRED SEX: HOW WOMEN’S FIRST EXPERIENCES SHAPE SEXUAL ATTITUDES LATER IN LIFE

Barber, Mary J. (Middle Tennessee State University, 2020)

Women’s sexual lives have been under scrutiny for centuries but have only recently been a subject of research in the sociological community. The idea of consensual sex is widespread while the idea of desired sexual experiences ...

COBALT-CATALYZED ACCEPTORLESS DEHYDROGENATIVE HOMOCOUPLING OF SECONDARY ALCOHOLS TO KETONES

Bryant, Lucas Packard (Middle Tennessee State University, 2020)

The replacement of rare and expensive transition metals such as Ru, Rh, Pt, Pd, and Ir with earth abundant transition metals is an appealing target in the field of catalysis. A cobalt complex bearing a novel tetradentate ...

The Collegiate Cross Country and Track and Field Coaches Heat Acclimation Survey

Macon, Robert Riley (Middle Tennessee State University, 2020)

Chronic exposure to heat can lead to heat acclimation (HA) and attenuate heat-related endurance performance decrements. In this study, a sample of 21 collegiate cross country and track and field coaches in the National ...

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. ...

Perceptions of Ethical Misconduct Scale Development

Mendez-Meggison, Andrea Cecilia (Middle Tennessee State University, 2020)

Despite ethical programs, employees may still engage in unethical behavior. As such, organizational researchers have sought to examine why employees engage in ethical/unethical behavior and whether interventions can improve ...

INVESTIGATING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN TELECOMMUTING AND CAREER HARM

McLeod, Cary Hayes (Middle Tennessee State University, 2020)

Telecommuting is a work practice that continues to increase every year. As telecommuting continues to become more prevalent and part of a normal work experience, employees need to understand how their decision to telecommute ...

Furthering the understanding of MtbClpS regulation of MtbClpC1 as it relates to structure and function

Marsee, Justin Doyle (Middle Tennessee State University, 2020)

Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) has developed significant drug-resistance in recent years, thereby necessitating novel drug targets for pathogenic bacteria. The AAA+ (ATPase Associated with various cellular Activities) ...

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