Dechman, Robert Michael(Valdosta State University, 2012-05-09)
Principals are retiring in greater numbers each year. If schools are to improve over
time, it is important that leaders understand leadership succession as a process in order to
provide the needed planning and support. ...
Scottish historians have remained largely silent on rape, particularly in the nineteenth century. This study uses criminal precognitions, indictments, and court records found in the AD6, AD14, JC4, and JC26 series of ...
Over the past 30 years, federal and state initiatives designed to improve schools have created several unintended, negative consequences. Educational experts have produced studies that link these initiatives to declines ...
This thesis examines how William Morris visually reimagines the works of Geoffrey Chaucer in The Kelmscott Chaucer. My focus is on how Chaucer uses the visual, rhetorically, and how Morris's integrated translation of ...
The research holes of other historians reside in the fact that the Catholic story has been neglected in discussions of Georgia religion. There have been many neglected points made about Catholics in Georgia during the era ...
To provide stories of how successful Black males made meaning of their educational experiences and offer current students motivation for focusing on their education, I conducted a qualitative study of four successful Black ...
Arthuriana is a plastic literary world, one that is easily manipulated and altered by an author’s social background and particular agenda, whether social, political, or religious. Thus, fourteenth-century English Arthurian ...
Nienow, Tatyana Ekaterina(Valdosta State University, 2012-05-04)
Calsequestrin (CSQ) is the main calcium-binding protein that regulates calcium
release from the sarcoplasmic reticulum in both skeletal and cardiac muscles. CSQ
undergoes dramatic conformational changes upon binding and ...
Sports-related concussion caused by either direct or indirect force to the head is a form of mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) that results in a disturbance in brain functioning. This disturbance may affect the athlete’s ...
Everett, Cristen(Valdosta State University, 2004-05)
The purpose of the study was to determine if there is a gender disparity in
proficiency and attitudes toward computer use among students at my school enrolled in a
basic computer class while learning a new software program ...
In light of current research and social media trends, the purpose of this study was to describe relationships between chronological age, online social media behaviors, and differences in orientation toward engaging in ...
Chomskis, Candace A.(Valdosta State University, 2006-05)
The purpose of this action research study was to examine the effect of Geometer's Sketchpad, a
software program for geometry instruction, on students' achievement and attitudes toward
geometry and to examine a teacher's ...
This research examined perceptions elementary school library media specialists
have toward their technology responsibilities and professional roles described in national guidelines. The study sought to determine relationships ...
Stone, Wendell(Valdosta State University, 2011-10-14)
This study explored the implementation of Georgia school councils as an
education reform effort and their roles as components of professional learning
communities. In addition, the study examined research findings ...
Beginning in 1983, traditional university based teacher certification was
challenged by an alternate route to being a classroom teacher. States around
the nation developed alternative teacher certification programs to ...
Ragan-Martin, Wilma Maudrene Bronwyn(Valdosta State University, 2006-12)
By examining the lives of successful women writers from South Georgia, I have
been able to discover patterns in their lives that encouraged these women to become
writers. By using life story interviews and narrative ...
This case study was conducted to examine the practices and procedures of public high school library media specialists in the state of Georgia in order to identify teaching and administrative methods they commonly utilize. ...
Altman, Daniel Lamar(Valdosta State University, 2011-10-14)
This quantitative research was conducted to determine the effect of membership of the
League of Professional Schools on academic achievement among elementary school
students, and to determine the effect over time of ...
In this qualitative study, I used portraiture to share the experiences of three Black women who as Black girls participated in gifted education. Homogeneous purposeful sampling was used to select three participants that ...
Holt, Michael(Valdosta State University, 2009-11-16)
The study of Primitive Baptists to date has focused primarily on the origins of the
denomination in the 1830s. However, few works trace the subsequent development of the
group. The object of this study was to examine the ...