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Examining the Validity of the Classroom Reading Motivation Measure With Elementary Students Using Confirmatory Factor Analysis and Item Discrimination
No full textReading motivation is an important contributor to reading achievement. Students with higher levels of motivation tend to outperform those with lower levels. Reading motivation is a dynamic, situational, context-dependent trait that can vary in children over time and across tasks. Teachers have a valuable opportunity to support students’ reading motivation through the instructional methods they employ, the tasks they assign, and the texts that they use in their classroom. In order to take advantage of this potential, teachers need access to actionable information regarding their students’ motivational status. The more aware a teacher can be of students’ individual levels of reading motivation, the sooner they can intervene appropriately to avoid the potentially devastating effects of low reading motivation on the students’ achievement. Currently, teachers lack a way to measure reading motivation in a quick, valid, and reliable way. The Classroom Reading Motivation Measure (CRMM) was created to fill this gap for teachers. The CRMM was based on four motivation constructs (self-efficacy, value of reading, relatedness, and autonomy) containing 45 items. This study included participants (n = 158) in 3rd and 4th grades from three schools in the mid-South. The validity and reliability of the CRMM and the results were mixed. The expected four-factor structure was confirmed. Internal consistency was acceptable. Construct validity was supported by the CRMM’s significant correlations to the three existing reading motivation measures and one reading comprehension measures: Elementary Reading Attitude Survey (ERAS), the Motivation to Read Profile-Revised (MRP-R), the Motivation to Read Questionnaire (MRQ) and the Gates MacGinitie Reading Test (GMRT). The potential practical usefulness of the CRMM for teachers is discussed as well as limitations and future research.Ph.D
Vengeance is Mine: The Appearance of Revenge in Modern South Korean Cinema
No full textKEYWORDS: Revenge; vengeance; han; classism; korea; south korea; cinem
An assessment of social olfactory stimuli as reinforcers in female rats
No full textDeficits in social behavior are a hallmark of autism spectrum disorder (ASD). A tool which may help us isolate and understand how genes, prenatal, perinatal, and postnatal factors influence social behavior is the rodent model. The current study investigated if six female Long-Evans rats would work to obtain olfactory stimuli and their preference for social and nonsocial olfactory stimuli. In Experiment 1, rats were given a choice between a social or nonsocial scent and a control scent. In Experiment 2, the rats were given a choice between social scents and nonsocial scents within the same session. The results of Experiment 1 showed that rats preferred social and nonsocial scents over control scents. Experiment 2 results suggested that rats preferred social and nonsocial stimuli similarly. By studying the value of social stimuli in rats we eventually hope to understand the processes that establish and influence the value of social stimuli in humans.M.A
Pilot Training Videos Enhance Student Pilot Training: A Diamond DA-40 Student Pilot Flight Maneuvers Interactive Video Series
No full textMiddle Tennessee State University’s (MTSU) 14 CFR Part 141 flight training
program currently uses many varying training aids to train pilots. However, one training
method currently lacking from Middle Tennessee State University’s program is
interactive video training. Due to the regulations that govern MTSU’s flight school, a
specialized and specific training aid must be created in order to be used in flight training.
This project has created an interactive video series in compliance with the specific
regulations, which allows video series the potential for use in MTSU’s flight training
program
Burning Down the House: Racial and Architectural Deterioration of the Southern Plantation Home in Works by William Faulkner
No full textWilliam Faulkner found it necessary to destroy his fictional plantation homes, and their destruction mirrors that of the many grand homes in the South that have come to the same fate, whether by fire or deterioration.
Built with chattel slavery, these ornate plantation homes, constructed in the Palladian style after Greek architecture, do not represent democratic ideals. In Faulkner’s works, the plantation home and its master are anything but magnificent: they are dark and monstrous. The beautiful fronts are facades that mask the horrors of the South.
Faulkner’s biographical connection to grand homes and their history offered him insight into the past that he resurrects in his fiction. As his own home of Rowan Oak attests, Faulkner admired southern architecture, but he used its decay and destruction to expose the absence of true grandeur behind its walls, or in its past. Through the antebellum homes of his fictional Yoknapatawpha, Faulkner captures the angst that stems from the South’s faulty ideals, its legacy of slavery, and its fear of miscegenation.
In what has become his most celebrated novel, Absalom, Absalom!, Clytemnestra, the bi-racial daughter of Thomas Sutpen, sets fire to Sutpen’s Hundred, abolishing the grand home along with nostalgia for the antebellum era and its strictures against a mixed-race society. Faulkner’s most glorious example of eradicating the oppression and repression of the past is by burning down the house.Ph.D
Radical Feminism Does Not Pay
No full textKEYWORDS: Equal Pay Reform, Salary History Bans, Wage Transparency, Economics, Economic Equality, Wage Gap, Feminism, Radical Feminism, Political Philosophy, Political Polarization, Feminist Rhetoric, Critical Theory, Religion, Religious Extremism, Western Secularization, Domestic Terroris
DISCOVERING SERGEANT YORK: FINDING AND PROMOTING AN AMERICAN HERO
No full textThe actions of Sergeant Alvin C. York during World War I, which earned him America’s highest military award for valor, the Medal of Honor, have been studied and celebrated since journalist George Pattullo published an article written about York in the April 26, 1919, issue of the Saturday Evening Post. When Pattullo’s story was printed, York became an instant national hero, celebrated throughout the United States and becoming a heroic figure representing the U.S. doughboy and the American fighting spirit. He was memorialized in books, comics, paintings, a Hollywood film, monuments, sculptures, and even his own action figure. Roads, bridges, and governmental buildings were named after him, and his home is now a Tennessee State Historic Park.
This dissertation explains why York’s story and image resonated more with the American public than other U.S. World War I veterans or heroes. It also examines the reasons York became so popular with the public. First, I examine what it means to be a hero in early twentieth-century America. Next, I study the people and events that propelled York into the public spotlight and the role they took in crafting a heroic, myth-like version of him. Lastly, I try to explain what was different about York’s story and how it captured the imagination of the U.S. public. This dissertation argues that public needed to have a heroic figure who personified traditional American values and represented how his fellow citizens idyllically viewed themselves. They found that in Sergeant Alvin York.Ph.D
Physician Assistants' perception of care given to pediatric patients without access to adequate medical resources.
No full textThis thesis describes a qualitative research study used to explore Physician
Assistants’ (PAs) perceptions of barriers to providing care for pediatric patients living in
rural areas. My objective was to identify any discrepancies in the care PAs are able to
provide to their pediatric patients facing significant health care disparities and explore
their ideas of ways this may be changed. For this project, I interviewed PAs in Tennessee
with five or more years of experience caring for pediatric patients. This study
investigated the experiences of PAs who have practiced in rural and/or urban settings that
provided insight on any certain or potential barriers to care. After analyzing the data, it
was determined that four common themes emerged: education, location, financial
stability, and language barriers. These barriers work in conjunction with one another and
hinder the quality of care that is provided to pediatric patients in rural or medically
underserved areas. Given the education and scope of practice that PAs are equipped with,
they have the ability to play a critical role in resolving these issues that children face in
rural areas
Through a Different Eye: An Honors Creative Thesis
No full textThis thesis is the product of three years of reading, researching, writing, and revising.
This thesis presents research on writing in various perspectives, personas, and points-of-view,
how the creative imagination is developed, and how I have used writing techniques within my
own writing while composing my short stories. I was inspired by Edgar Allan Poe and Flannery
O’Connor to create eight stories with different perspectives, personae, and points-of-view on
various topics: military personnel and their families, a frame narrative set during a single day,
remembering our history, and mental health awareness
Syallbus / Appendix for Chapter 7 (Country/Course Name)
No full textThis is the syllabus/appendix that supports Title Name (Chapter 7) in the XYZ book. The full text of the book is available at (insert URL)