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Title: Blogging and Identity: An Examination of an Elementary Preservice Art Education Curriculum.
Creator: Price, Audra, Anderson, Tom, Wood, Susan, Villeneuve, Pat, Orr, Penny, Department of Art Education, Florida State University
Abstract/Description: This study focused on the need for an increased understanding of the experiences of preservice elementary educators and their respective abilities to define culture, identity, and the politics of representation in a technologically centered world by responding to culturally challenging and politically laden images and media. The experience under study focused on pre-service elementary educators enrolled in an arts methods class and understanding their abilities to perceive, process, and...
Show moreThis study focused on the need for an increased understanding of the experiences of preservice elementary educators and their respective abilities to define culture, identity, and the politics of representation in a technologically centered world by responding to culturally challenging and politically laden images and media. The experience under study focused on pre-service elementary educators enrolled in an arts methods class and understanding their abilities to perceive, process, and respond to visual media on a blog. Throughout this process, I assessed the individual's understanding of multicultural concerns as it related to the Internet, museum, and online discussions, with implications for teaching and learning in art and museum education. I utilized Anderson and Milbrandt's (2005) analytic critical model with Banks' (1991) value-inquiry model in order to assess students' abilities to critically analyze challenging material while investigating blogging and asynchronous methods of communication as a strategy for addressing these issues. In this study, I reveal how students negotiated, shared, and constructed multiple aspects of their identities in order to understand their roles in addressing diversity in their future classrooms. Students completed a curriculum designed to help them describe, analyze, interpret, and judge material that highlights aspects of their classmates' cultural identities. Students first created a personal blog that revealed their cultural identity, posted and responded to a classroom communal blog that reflected material that challenged an aspect of their cultural identity, and then responded to online surveys that revealed various aspects of their cultural identity while reflecting on the meanings they generated throughout this study. What I found was that students developed a greater awareness of their personal value systems as a student, friend, and/or family member. They focused on the beliefs they thought they needed in order to address culturally challenging material in their future classrooms. This study also helped students understand the process of transformation: where they came from, where they are presently, and how they see their beliefs impacting the type of learning environment they will create for their students in the future.
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Date Issued: 2007
Identifier: FSU_migr_etd-0449
Format: Thesis

Title: Quantification, Analysis, and Management of Intracoastal Waterway Channel Margin Erosion in the Guana Tolomato Matanzas National Estuarine Research Reserve, Florida.
Creator: Price, Franklin D., Deyle, Robert, Fagherazzi, Sergio, Thomas, John, Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Florida State University
Abstract/Description: The Guana Tolomato Matanzas National Estuarine Research Reserve is one of twenty-six such reserves in the United States established with the intent of protecting coastal estuaries. GIS-based analysis of aerial photographs of the southern half of the reserve reveals high rates of erosion along the margin of the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway which runs through the reserve. From 1970/1971 to 2002 nearly 70 hectares (approximately 170 acres) of shoreline habitat were degraded by erosion along...
Show moreThe Guana Tolomato Matanzas National Estuarine Research Reserve is one of twenty-six such reserves in the United States established with the intent of protecting coastal estuaries. GIS-based analysis of aerial photographs of the southern half of the reserve reveals high rates of erosion along the margin of the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway which runs through the reserve. From 1970/1971 to 2002 nearly 70 hectares (approximately 170 acres) of shoreline habitat were degraded by erosion along the 64.8 kilometers of channel margin analyzed. Wakes generated by vessels in the Intracoastal are hypothesized to be the primary cause of this erosion. An examination of the relationships between lateral movement of the channel margin and factors with the potential to affect erosion and accretion supports this hypothesis. Exposure to boat wakes was found to be the causal factor most strongly correlated with rate of lateral margin movement. Margin movement rates were also found to vary significantly with exposure to wind waves and with the type of channel margin eroded. A reduction in nearshore wave energy appears to be necessary to allow the recovery of impacted ecosystems. Approaches to erosion management based on nearshore stabilization and regulation of navigation are discussed, and the intricacies of the implementation of such plans are described.
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Date Issued: 2005
Identifier: FSU_migr_etd-0446
Format: Thesis

Title: A Descriptive Analysis of the Education Department and Educational Programs at the Los Angeles Philharmonic.
Creator: Wu, Li-Ying, McRorie, Sally E., Byrnes, William J., Riordan, George T., Rosal, Marcia L., Taylor, Jack A., Department of Art Education, Florida State University
Abstract/Description: This study investigated the Education Department of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Association (LAPA) and its education programs. Document analysis, interviews, site observations, and a "Student Concert Enjoyment" survey were conducted to research the details, design, implementation, and outcome of the programs. Program participants' letters and teacher feedback were analyzed to understand participants' opinions regarding the education programs. Cost-utility analysis for the Symphonies for...
Show moreThis study investigated the Education Department of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Association (LAPA) and its education programs. Document analysis, interviews, site observations, and a "Student Concert Enjoyment" survey were conducted to research the details, design, implementation, and outcome of the programs. Program participants' letters and teacher feedback were analyzed to understand participants' opinions regarding the education programs. Cost-utility analysis for the Symphonies for Schools program (SFS) and the School Partners Program was performed to calculate the ratios between program expense and produced utility. Results indicate that, with the support of the various departments at the LAPA, the LAPA's volunteer committees, musicians, partners, and contracted experts, the Education Department attempt to fulfill the objective of the LAPA's mission by offering a wide array of engaging educational opportunities to adults, students, educators, and families. Collaboration with other arts organizations in the Los Angeles area diversifies the program types and reaches new audiences. Through practical experience, the Education Department has learned that adults are less inclined to attend more academic program. This study has also confirmed the importance of pre-concert preparation for students' positive concert experiences. The newest and most extensive program, the highly praised School Partners Program, offers educators and parents practical workshops to encourage shared responsibility in the task of music education; however, participants identified a need for better communication among artist teachers, schools, and the Education Department. The results of cost-utility analysis indicate that the intensive design of the School Partners Program is less cost-effective than the one-time SFS program, which takes place in a much larger setting. Although this result is important, decision makers must also carefully consider other organizational, political, and resource consequences. This study's conclusions indicate that an articulated educational mission will facilitate the Education Department's internal program development, management, and evaluation; inter departmental collaboration; and external communication. The pedagogic effects of the programs will also increase with the adoption of a multi-year curriculum and a long-term programming plan. Concurrently, the LAPA must plan future programs based on the state of arts education in the community.
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Date Issued: 2004
Identifier: FSU_migr_etd-0713
Format: Thesis

Title: Drilling for Oil and Gas in and Near Florida: Lease Sale 181 and Beyond.
Creator: Dempsey, Angela Cote, Moore, Dennis D., Arline, Terrell K., Donoghue, Joseph F., Program in American and Florida Studies, Florida State University
Abstract/Description: This thesis examines the geology, history, law, policy and environmental effects of drilling for oil and gas in the Eastern Gulf of Mexico. Annually, the Gulf supplies approximately 25% of the United States' oil and gas supplies. The U.S. Department of the Interior has divided the Gulf into three Planning Areas, the Eastern, Central, and Western. Historically, the Central and Western have had significantly more exploration and production activity than the Eastern due to lesser resources and...
Show moreThis thesis examines the geology, history, law, policy and environmental effects of drilling for oil and gas in the Eastern Gulf of Mexico. Annually, the Gulf supplies approximately 25% of the United States' oil and gas supplies. The U.S. Department of the Interior has divided the Gulf into three Planning Areas, the Eastern, Central, and Western. Historically, the Central and Western have had significantly more exploration and production activity than the Eastern due to lesser resources and Florida law and policy. Florida bases its restrictive policy toward drilling off its shores on the state's fragile ecology, economic dependence on tourism and military operations conducted in the Eastern Planning Area (EPA). Additionally, there are significantly fewer estimated petroleum reserves in the EPA. Currently, there is some exploration in the EPA on 1.5 million acres adjacent to the Central Planning Area and 100 miles from Florida's coast. Florida's government helped reduce the size of the area, known as the Lease Sale 181 area by 75% and continues to fight to maintain no leasing within 100 miles of Florida's unique shores. Environmentalists have recognized the decrease in size of Lease Sale 181 area is one of the most significant environmental victories by a state administration. Florida should continue to aggressively protect its fragile coastline, groundwater and biologic resources in all three branches of government.
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Date Issued: 2003
Identifier: FSU_migr_etd-0766
Format: Thesis

Title: Not Our Newspapers: Women and the Underground Press, 1967-1970.
Creator: Youngblood, Teresa, Jumonville, Neil, Fenstermaker, John J., Stuckey-French, Ned, Program in American and Florida Studies, Florida State University
Abstract/Description: This thesis examines the ways in which the underground newspapers of the late 1960s corroborated the growing sentiment that movement women were not considered as valuable to the revolution as movement men, thereby helping the then-burgeoning women's liberation movement to justify a full split from the rest of the leftist counter-culture. The late 1960S marked the height of the underground press's popularity as well as the beginning of the independent women's liberation movement. While women...
Show moreThis thesis examines the ways in which the underground newspapers of the late 1960s corroborated the growing sentiment that movement women were not considered as valuable to the revolution as movement men, thereby helping the then-burgeoning women's liberation movement to justify a full split from the rest of the leftist counter-culture. The late 1960S marked the height of the underground press's popularity as well as the beginning of the independent women's liberation movement. While women were banding together through consciousness-raising to expose their common dissatisfaction with patriarchal social structures, the underground press, mostly run by movement males, continued to allow mainstream, sexist concepts of gender to inform their papers' depiction of women. Women were used as sex objects (under the guise of being "sexually liberated"), icons of the revolution, helpmates, earth mothers, and in other symbolic ways, but were denied the voice and agency granted to men. As the women's liberation movement became more sophisticated in its goals and demands, this hypocrisy came into focus and became the subject of discussion. In the four-year period of this study, 1967-1970, important issues of sexual determinism, freedom of speech, and gender relations within the counter-culture came to a head and were expressed and discussed through the pages of the underground press.
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Date Issued: 2004
Identifier: FSU_migr_etd-0768
Format: Thesis

Title: The Last Eden: The Development of a Regional Culture of Eco Spirituality in the Pacific Northwest.
Creator: Eller, Mara Kaitlin, Porterfield, Amanda, Corrigan, John, Jumonville, Neil, Program in American and Florida Studies, Florida State University
Abstract/Description: The culture of the Pacific Northwest is formed by and around its natural environment. Cultural descriptions of the region usually highlight its spectacular scenery, its rich natural resources, and the connection that many residents feel with the land. Often, this connection takes on a spiritual quality, prompting some to identify a culture of nature religion in the region: a culture in which participants consider the natural world sacred, ordering their lives around its protection and...
Show moreThe culture of the Pacific Northwest is formed by and around its natural environment. Cultural descriptions of the region usually highlight its spectacular scenery, its rich natural resources, and the connection that many residents feel with the land. Often, this connection takes on a spiritual quality, prompting some to identify a culture of nature religion in the region: a culture in which participants consider the natural world sacred, ordering their lives around its protection and conceptualizing their own welfare as inextricably tied to that of the environment. This thesis attempts to chronicle the development of such a culture of eco-spirituality from European exploration to present, locating today's reality firmly in a historical context. I argue that the region's history as a last frontier, dependence on natural resource extraction, and relative lack of institutional religious presence paved the way for a fusion of environmentalist activism and New Age spirituality in the 1980s. As spiritual concern infused environmentalism with ideological power, political battles intensified, publicity increased, and a new culture of eco-spirituality emerged to stamp itself indelibly on the face of the Pacific Northwest.
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Date Issued: 2009
Identifier: FSU_migr_etd-0575
Format: Thesis

Title: A Critical Examination of Milton Bradley's Contributions to Kindergarten and Art Eduction in the Context of His Time.
Creator: Snyder, Jennifer Lee, Anderson, Tom, Milligan, Jeffrey, Villeneuve, Pat, Orr, Penny, Department of Art Education, Florida State University
Abstract/Description: This historical study examines the life of Milton Bradley in the context of his time. The primary question being asked in this study is: What contributions did Milton Bradley make to education during his lifetime, what, if any, affect did that have on art education, and how was that influenced by the circumstances of his life? Factors that influenced Milton Bradley include: the Victorian era, common schooling, moral education, progressive education, kindergarten, art education and business....
Show moreThis historical study examines the life of Milton Bradley in the context of his time. The primary question being asked in this study is: What contributions did Milton Bradley make to education during his lifetime, what, if any, affect did that have on art education, and how was that influenced by the circumstances of his life? Factors that influenced Milton Bradley include: the Victorian era, common schooling, moral education, progressive education, kindergarten, art education and business. Bradley's connection to both kindergarten and art education are explored in depth, and his contributions to both are examined. The information in this study is presented using the contextual approach to art history advocated by Tom Anderson and Melody Milbrandt (2005). Anderson and Milbrandt's contextual approach incorporates the use of social setting, mood, economic conditions, and other circumstances to interpret and evaluate the work in question. For the purposes of this study, Anderson and Milbrandt's contextual approach has been adapted to historical inquiry. Milton Bradley straddled the Victorian and Progressive era and was a product of his times. Findings indicate that while Milton Bradley held an important role in the kindergarten movement, his role in the field of art education is of a secondary nature. Milton Bradley helped facilitate the entrance of art education into the public schools with his production of art supplies and materials intended for the kindergarten classroom. Bradley's materials were designed for kindergarten first, and art education second, so ultimately, his contributions to art education were secondary in nature to his interest in the kindergarten
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Date Issued: 2005
Identifier: FSU_migr_etd-0373
Format: Thesis

Title: Understanding Decentralization Local Power over Decision-Making for Comprehensive Planning in Florida.
Creator: Ali, Amal Kamal, Doan, Petra L., Serow, William, Miles, Rebecca, RuBino, Richard, Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Florida State University
Abstract/Description: Decentralization strategies have been applied widely in both developed and developing countries. Previous research analyzes decentralization from above by dealing with two aggregated levels of government: the state and the local. Measures adopted by previous studies fail to reflect the various dimensions of decentralization. They do not show how decentralization is performed at the local level or whether local governments are empowered and able to make independent decisions without direct of...
Show moreDecentralization strategies have been applied widely in both developed and developing countries. Previous research analyzes decentralization from above by dealing with two aggregated levels of government: the state and the local. Measures adopted by previous studies fail to reflect the various dimensions of decentralization. They do not show how decentralization is performed at the local level or whether local governments are empowered and able to make independent decisions without direct of indirect intervention from the central government. In this research, I argue that local power over decision-making for comprehensive planning reflects governmental decentralization and captures its economic, political, and administrative dimensions. This research develops and tests a set of empirical measures of local agency power over decision-making for comprehensive planning. The measures analyze decentralization from below by investigating the extent of agency power over decision-making for comprehensive planning at the municipal level. It deals with local governments as disaggregated units, which enables us to compare and trace levels of power over decision-making across municipalities and over time. Major questions of the research are: what are empirical measures of local agency power over decision-making for comprehensive planning? and to what extent do proposed measures of local agency power succeed in reflecting levels of governmental decentralization? Florida was selected as the case study, because it has experienced xiii changes in its governmental decentralization levels since the adoption of its growth management system in the late 1960s. The unit of analysis is a governmental planning agency within municipalities having 10,000 or more inhabitants. A Delphi study was conducted to develop measures of each major dimension of local agency power over decision-making for comprehensive planning. Dimensions of power include agency legal authority, relative autonomy, control over local planning actions, and capacity to make planning decisions. Agency capacity consists of four sub-dimensions: technical, fiscal, institutional, and enforcement capacity. The proposed set of measures of local agency power over decision-making was tested empirically in Florida. Its applicability as an indicator of governmental decentralization was investigated by contrasting the model with measures of decentralization proposed by previous studies. The proposed empirical measures succeed in: 1) analyzing decentralization from below by dealing with local governments as disaggregated units, 2) demonstrating the variation in levels of power across Florida's municipalities, and 3) providing a comprehensive picture of decentralization by capturing its economic, political, and administrative dimensions. The research indicates that Florida's growth management system has shaped the structure of power over decision-making for comprehensive planning. The Department of Community Affairs (DCA) has been given a dominant role in the process of local planning. Regional planning councils (RPCs) have no power over decision-making despite their responsibilities as technical assistants, facilitators, and negotiators. Local governments have been required to prepare local comprehensive plans/plan amendments consistent with state and regional plans. Sanctions are used to ensure local compliance xiv with state requirements and standards. Therefore, the growth management system of Florida has reduced the power of local governments over decision-making for comprehensive planning, which increases levels of centralization in Florida. This research fills partially a gap in the literature of international development planning by presenting a tool to analyze decentralization from below, which enables us to design better strategies to establish decentralization at the local level. The research also contributes to the field of growth management by providing empirical measures of local agency power over decision-making for comprehensive planning. These measures should be addressed in policy analysis of growth management in order to improve planning systems and practices.
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Date Issued: 2002
Identifier: FSU_migr_etd-0002
Format: Thesis

Title: Influence of Transit Accessibility to Jobs on the Employability of the Welfare Recipients: The Case of Broward County, Florida.
Creator: Alam, Bhuiyan Monwar, Thompson, Gregory L., Ihlanfeldt, Keith, Connerly, Charles E., Brown, Jeffrey, Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Florida State University
Abstract/Description: Much research has been done on transportation accessibility of the central-city minorities and its impacts on income, automobile ownership, and employment. The proportion of people using transit for any purpose in the U.S. is so minuscule that most of these studies consider accessibility to jobs by automobile as general transportation accessibility. However, few studies reveal that transit accessibility to jobs could be an important factor for the employment outcomes of the welfare recipients...
Show moreMuch research has been done on transportation accessibility of the central-city minorities and its impacts on income, automobile ownership, and employment. The proportion of people using transit for any purpose in the U.S. is so minuscule that most of these studies consider accessibility to jobs by automobile as general transportation accessibility. However, few studies reveal that transit accessibility to jobs could be an important factor for the employment outcomes of the welfare recipients as they are dependent on public transit, and not on automobile. This study investigates the impacts of transit accessibility to jobs on the employability of the welfare recipients in Broward County, Florida, expressed by a surrogate variable 'length of stay in the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program by the welfare recipients' and measured in 'number of months.' The study develops an OLS regression model that includes both the aggregate data at traffic analysis zone (TAZ) level and disaggregate data at individual welfare recipient's level. To these, the variable transit accessibility to jobs is added, and its contribution is examined statistically. The study uses an ArcMap GIS for geocoding the welfare recipients' addresses in each specific TAZ, and then relates the TAZ features to those of the individual welfare recipients by spatially joining the maps. The study finds that most of the welfare recipients live in the TAZs associated with high accessibility indices instead of concentrating only in the inner city areas. Some also reside in the TAZs attached to low accessibility indices. It finds that the people living in accessible-rich TAZs stay shorter period of time in the TANF program, and vice versa. It leads to the inference that transit accessibility to jobs of a TAZ has inverse impacts on the employability of the welfare recipients living in that specific TAZ. The study also finds that the women and the U.S. citizens have direct effects while the blacks and the neighborhood quality variable the ratio of number of vehicles to number of households at TAZ level has significant inverse effects on the employability of the welfare recipients.
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Date Issued: 2005
Identifier: FSU_migr_etd-0045
Format: Thesis

Title: Sojourn to the Sun God: Places of Emergence and Movement in Mixtec Codices.
Creator: Schaeffer, D. Douglas Bryan, Carrasco, Michael, Frank, Andrew, Niell, Paul B., Leitch, Stephanie, Florida State University, College of Fine Arts, Department of Art History
Abstract/Description: Mixtec codices are sacred books folded like accordions and composed of strips of deer hide or fig-tree bark that visually narrate activities of deities, supernatural culture heroes, and the actions and genealogies of historical Mixtec kings and queens who wanted to emulate them. Recorded in a pictographic writing system, Mixtec codices are cultural artifacts that offer the viewer glimpses of the complex and layered representations of a specific people from particular places during the...
Show moreMixtec codices are sacred books folded like accordions and composed of strips of deer hide or fig-tree bark that visually narrate activities of deities, supernatural culture heroes, and the actions and genealogies of historical Mixtec kings and queens who wanted to emulate them. Recorded in a pictographic writing system, Mixtec codices are cultural artifacts that offer the viewer glimpses of the complex and layered representations of a specific people from particular places during the Postclassic epoch of Mesoamerica. A salient part of these visualized narratives is the act of travel. In Mixtec codices, travel typically begins with the physical act of emergence of a substance, being, or historical figure. Emergence is a visual point of departure for various narratives that pulsate with ongoing movement that we are here defining as travel itself, as the itinerant traversing of place, as the formation of visual trails in the landscape and in the narrative display and reading of the pages in Mixtec codices. Travel is repeated as a conceptual, visual, and performative trope throughout Mesoamerica in various media produced by distinct ethnic groups and communities with various levels of power in the wider webs of Mesoamerican praxis. Travel in the Mixtec codices connects to the incipient founding of community, to the contemporary people, place, and cultural rhythms of communal, ritual life. Through the visual narratives recorded in the codices, an understanding of Mixtec identity, memory, and therefore history is linked to specific places through specific actions such as emergence from and travel to points of origin. By examining such visually codified narratives, this dissertation posits that Mixtec ethnogeographies of travel form part of recording a community’s identity and its connection to place.
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Date Issued: 2017
Identifier: FSU_FALL2017_Schaeffer_fsu_0071E_14163
Format: Thesis

Title: Estimation of Nitrogen Load from Septic Systems to Surface Waterbodies in Indian River County, FL.
Creator: Lei, Hongzhuan, Ye, Ming, Wang, Xiaoqiang, Shanbhag, Sachin, Florida State University, College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Scientific Computing
Abstract/Description: Excessive nitrogen loading to surface water bodies has resulted in serious environmental, economical, ecological, and human health problems, such as groundwater contamination and eutrophication in surface water. One important source of nitrogen in the environment, especially in densely populated coastal areas in Florida, is due to wastewater treatment using onsite sewage treatment and disposal systems (OSTDS) (a.k.a., septic systems). Moreover, due to the population expansion, nitrogen loads...
Show moreExcessive nitrogen loading to surface water bodies has resulted in serious environmental, economical, ecological, and human health problems, such as groundwater contamination and eutrophication in surface water. One important source of nitrogen in the environment, especially in densely populated coastal areas in Florida, is due to wastewater treatment using onsite sewage treatment and disposal systems (OSTDS) (a.k.a., septic systems). Moreover, due to the population expansion, nitrogen loads from septic systems are expected to increase. Therefore, sustainable decision-making and management of nitrogen pollution due to septic systems are urgently needed. In this thesis, two software are used to simulate the whole process of nitrogen (ammonium and nitrate) transport starting from septic systems to finally reach the surface waterbodies. One software is VZMOD, and the other one is the ArcGIS-based Nitrogen Load Estimation Toolkit (ArcNLET). VZMOD is seamlessly integrated with ArcNLET in the way as follows. VZMOD is firstly used to simulate the flow and nitrogen transport in the vadose zone, which is between drain field infiltrative surface and water table, based on the assumption of steady-state, one-dimensional vertical reactive transport with constant incoming fluxes of water, ammonium, and nitrate. The ammonium and nitrate concentrations, given by VZMOD at the water table, are then used as the inputs to the modeling of ammonium and nitrate fate and transport in groundwater in ArcNLET, considering heterogeneous hydraulic conductivity and porosity as well as spatial variability of septic system locations, surface water bodies, and distances between septic systems and surface water bodies. In addition, the key mechanisms controlling nitrogen transport, including advection, dispersion, and denitrification, are also considered in ArcNLET. The study sites of this thesis research are the Main-South Canal (MSC) drainage basin and the City of Sebastian located in Indian River County in southeast Florida. Surface water bodies (e.g., rivers and streams) and groundwater at the two site discharge to the Southern Indian River Lagoon, where the ecological and biological integrity has deteriorated in the last several decades due to the decline in water quality caused in part by nitrogen pollution. There are in total 12,741 septic systems in the MSC area, while in the City of Sebastian, the number of septic systems is 4,883. The process of simulating nitrogen reactive transport from septic tanks to surface water bodies consists of the following three steps: (1) based on the site-specific data, such as DEM, waterbodies, septic locations, hydraulic conductivity and porosity, forward models of VZMOD and ArcNLET is developed, (2) based on the measured data of system state variables, such as water level and nitrogen concentration, the forward models are calibrated, and (3) the calibrated models are used to simulate nitrogen plumes and to estimate nitrogen load from the septic systems to surface water bodies. Considering the modeling ability and the site complexity, two questions, (1) what are the nitrogen characteristics of these two sites, (2) can my model be able to capture these nitrogen characteristics, have been investigated in this study, and the major findings are as follows: (1) The simulated nitrogen plumes and load estimates exhibit substantial spatial variability in the both sites, and the depth from drainfields to water table is important to nitrogen reactive transport, especially the ammonium nitrification to nitrate. (2) Ammonium and nitrate loads for the Main-South Canal drainage basin are largely located in the south to the South Canal drainage basin. Along the ditches and canals, the ammonium concentration is lower due to the small distance between water table and drainfields. There exists a region located in the southeast drainage basin where ammonium loading is high. (3) Incomplete nitrification process is exposed under the vadose zone while the denitrification process is mostly complete in the saturated zone in the Main-South Canal area. (4) The nitrification process is largely complete under the unsaturated zone while the denitrification process is incomplete in the saturated zone in the City of Sebastian area. (5) Reduction ratio is lower while nitrogen loading to surface waterbodies per septic system is larger in the City of Sebastian area than in the Main-South Canal area. (6) The flow model calibration in the City of Sebastian area is not as satisfactory as in the Main-South Canal area, because of the simplified assumption that water table is a subdued replica of topography used in ArcNLET is not satisfied at the study site. These results can be used to support the on-going Basin Management Action Plan. More efforts, such as investigating the soil condition (e.g. micro-bacteria content, dissolved oxygen or dissolved organic carbon and pH) and specific septic system environment, are also needed to verify these results and to develop more insights about the nitrogen processes in the study areas.
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Date Issued: 2017
Identifier: FSU_FALL2017_Lei_fsu_0071N_14260
Format: Thesis

Title: Fossil Excavation, Museums, and Wyoming: American Paleontology, 1870-1915.
Creator: Cameron, Marlena Briane, Doel, Ronald Edmund, Ruse, Michael, Buhrman, Kristina Mairi, Varry, Sandra, Florida State University, College of Arts and Sciences, Program in History...
Show moreCameron, Marlena Briane, Doel, Ronald Edmund, Ruse, Michael, Buhrman, Kristina Mairi, Varry, Sandra, Florida State University, College of Arts and Sciences, Program in History and Philosophy of Science
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Abstract/Description: Displays of dinosaurs have become a staple of modern natural history museums, but these did not emerge until the turn of the twentieth century. Through the work of Edward Drinker Cope and Othniel Charles Marsh in this field (despite their intense rivalry), paleontology grew as a discipline and, after losing federal funding, found a new home in museums and universities. Recognizing the potential of large dinosaurs for display and education, major natural history museums such as the American...
Show moreDisplays of dinosaurs have become a staple of modern natural history museums, but these did not emerge until the turn of the twentieth century. Through the work of Edward Drinker Cope and Othniel Charles Marsh in this field (despite their intense rivalry), paleontology grew as a discipline and, after losing federal funding, found a new home in museums and universities. Recognizing the potential of large dinosaurs for display and education, major natural history museums such as the American Museum of Natural History in New York under Henry Osborn began competing for their own specimens. Much work has been done on the efforts of these emerging large museums. Smaller museums such as the University of Wyoming Museum, however, have been much less studied. Through its proximity to immense, rich fossil fields, the university became directly connected to the major events shaping paleontology at the time. Yet differences in the pedagogy and intentions behind its formation—a sense of state pride rather than the concerns of wealthy, elite sponsors—served to set it apart from larger, more well-known institutions.
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Date Issued: 2017
Identifier: FSU_FALL2017_Cameron_fsu_0071N_14117
Format: Thesis

Title: Developing and Experiencing Visitor-Centered Exhibitions with the Supported Interpretation (SI) Model: A Double Case Study.
Creator: Viera, Alicia, Villeneuve, Pat, Henne, Carolyn, Broome, Jeffrey L. (Jeffrey Lynn), Love, Ann Rowson, Schrader, Linda B., Florida State University, College of Fine Arts,...
Show moreViera, Alicia, Villeneuve, Pat, Henne, Carolyn, Broome, Jeffrey L. (Jeffrey Lynn), Love, Ann Rowson, Schrader, Linda B., Florida State University, College of Fine Arts, Department of Art Education
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Abstract/Description: As museums continue to shift from being object-centered to visitor-centered, they also need to reconsider their exhibition development practices to become more relevant to their communities. In alignment with this premise, this double case study investigates two exhibitions that were curated using the supported interpretation (SI) model for visitor-centered exhibitions. They were the Mixing It Up: Building an Identity exhibition, taking place at the gallery of the Tempe Center for the Arts in...
Show moreAs museums continue to shift from being object-centered to visitor-centered, they also need to reconsider their exhibition development practices to become more relevant to their communities. In alignment with this premise, this double case study investigates two exhibitions that were curated using the supported interpretation (SI) model for visitor-centered exhibitions. They were the Mixing It Up: Building an Identity exhibition, taking place at the gallery of the Tempe Center for the Arts in Arizona, and Contemporary Latino Art: El Corazón de San Antonio, an exhibition that took place at the former Texas A&M University-San Antonio’s Educational & Cultural Arts Center. In this dissertation, I examine how SI was implemented at these two exhibitions and how it can be implemented at future ones in other art centers or similar venues. Supporting questions explore the strategies and processes that were used at Mixing It Up and El Corazón, and insights on how the model worked in these two instances. This study was informed by the constructivist paradigm of inquiry. In it, I used a hermeneutic/dialectic methodology and qualitative methods of data collection. At the Mixing It Up exhibition, I conducted observations and unstructured interviews using a maximum variation sampling strategy, and I also analyzed secondary data gathered through one of the interactive components of the exhibition. At El Corazón, I worked exclusively with secondary data gathered through the visitors’ participatory opportunities embedded in the exhibition interface. Moreover, I used self-reflection and Serrell’s (2006) Framework for Assessing Excellence in Exhibitions from a Visitor-Centered Perspective as a professional development tool to go deeper into an understanding of SI and its implementation at these two exhibitions. The findings of this study reveal that both exhibitions included interpretive elements that encouraged visitor participation and validated a multiplicity of voices. But they also show that those components made the exhibitions more meaningful for visitors allowing them to make personal connections with the art on display by themselves or with others. Additionally, as this study investigates how SI worked at these two exhibitions, it also sheds light into possible ways in which it can be implemented at other institutions in the future, and provides recommendations for future applications of it as well as areas for further research.
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Date Issued: 2017
Identifier: FSU_FALL2017_Viera_fsu_0071E_14156
Format: Thesis

Title: Experimenting with Art-Infused Civic Activities to Promote School and Community Engagement among Disaffected Adolescent Students.
Creator: Agama, Marisa Victoria, Van Lith, Theresa, Easton, Peter, Fendler, Rachel Loveitt, Shields, Sara Scott, Florida State University, College of Fine Arts, Department of Art Education
Abstract/Description: Engagement among adolescents is a crucial factor for identity formation and positive youth development (Barker, 2015; Kegan, 1994). To help address disengagement, socially engaged art education (SEAE) practices have emerged, combining art with action-oriented curricula to critically examine the community and connect to it through meaningful experiences (Helguera, 2011). This current study aimed to better understand how the social dynamics at school and in the student’s own neighborhood...
Show moreEngagement among adolescents is a crucial factor for identity formation and positive youth development (Barker, 2015; Kegan, 1994). To help address disengagement, socially engaged art education (SEAE) practices have emerged, combining art with action-oriented curricula to critically examine the community and connect to it through meaningful experiences (Helguera, 2011). This current study aimed to better understand how the social dynamics at school and in the student’s own neighborhood impacted the roots of engagement, particularly from school and the larger community, and to address the need to understand interventions that engage, such as those led by art. To study youth engagement in the context of disenfranchised school environments, I designed a pragmatic informed participatory research study, which included six art-infused civic activities that incorporated reflection, action, and artful dialogue framed by Reason’s (1994) co-operative inquiry process. Through this research approach, I explored the perceptions that 16 12th-grade high school students had about their community and their desire to connect and to serve. Using an embedded mixed-methods design (Creswell, 2014), the art-infused civic activities and data collection took place simultaneously. The methods used included questionnaires and surveys, field observations, participant-produced documents, visual methods, interviews, and focus groups. An analysis of the data yielded several findings regarding the participants’ perceptions and connections to their community. For the participants in this study, community was the product of finding and discovering commonalities and feeling safe, as well as having opportunities to attain new skills. The students identified a lot of deficiencies at school, which led them to feel that school was not part of their community. However, despite this apathy, the students expressed appreciation for opportunities that allowed them to bond with their peers and teachers. Engagement in the art-infused civic activities resulted in students attaining newly formed perspectives about their peers and the school staff. The participants reported viewing them as having the capacity to show a caring side. Through these activities, they also saw themselves as more empathetic and able to make an impact in their community. Although some of the participants had been involved in service activities prior to this study, they felt that in this study the experiences were more meaningful because they were able to reflect and understand the magnitude of their contribution. Even though most participants expressed having a desire to help both their community and school, they also felt that this could not be accomplished until they became financially stable. This study contributes to the field of art education by examining the viability of art projects that aim to address youth disengagement, and to better understand the impact that art education has on youth engagement dynamics in the context of low-SES communities.
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Date Issued: 2017
Identifier: FSU_FALL2017_Agama_fsu_0071E_13788
Format: Thesis

Title: Haciendose un Líder: Leadership Identity Development of Latino Men at a Predominantly White Institution.
Creator: Acosta, Alan A., Guthrie, Kathy L., Ueno, Koji, Jones, Tamara Bertrand, Perez-Felkner, Lara, Florida State University, College of Education, Department of Educational Leadership...
Show moreAcosta, Alan A., Guthrie, Kathy L., Ueno, Koji, Jones, Tamara Bertrand, Perez-Felkner, Lara, Florida State University, College of Education, Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies
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Abstract/Description: Research on college student leadership is evolving, with more scholars studying the influence of social identities on the development of student leaders. Gaps exist in the literature on how race influences leadership identity development for many social identities in numerous institutional contexts, including for Latino men at Predominantly White Institutions (PWIs). Using a case study methodology, this dissertation studied the influence of race on the leadership identity development of...
Show moreResearch on college student leadership is evolving, with more scholars studying the influence of social identities on the development of student leaders. Gaps exist in the literature on how race influences leadership identity development for many social identities in numerous institutional contexts, including for Latino men at Predominantly White Institutions (PWIs). Using a case study methodology, this dissertation studied the influence of race on the leadership identity development of Latino men at a PWI at Southeastern University using the Leadership Identity Development (LID) Model (Komives et al., 2005) and Ferdman and Gallegos’s (2001) Latino Orientations as a conceptual framework. The study also used Latino Critical Theory (LatCrit) to honor the voices and experiences of the participants and disrupt the dominant narrative on leadership identity development for college students. A sample of 13 Latino men at a PWI in the Southeastern U.S. were selected and interviewed. Though the participants indicated their racial identity did not influence their views of themselves as leaders, they did share their respective cultures (Mexican, Colombian, Puerto Rican, etc.) did have an influence on how they saw themselves as leaders. Based on the themes that emerged, the study illustrated a merged leadership identity development process for Latino men at SU. The LID Model was mostly applicable to participants, with Yosso’s (2005) cultural wealth and cultural heritage identified as missing components in the Developmental Influences and Developing Self categories, respectively.
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Date Issued: 2017
Identifier: FSU_FALL2017_Acosta_fsu_0071E_14131
Format: Thesis

Title: Grandparenting Experiences: Variations and Effects on Well-Being.
Creator: Gunderson, Justine Amanda, Barrett, Anne E., Rehm, Marsha Lynn, Taylor, Miles G., Ueno, Koji, Florida State University, College of Social Sciences and Public Policy, Department...
Show moreGunderson, Justine Amanda, Barrett, Anne E., Rehm, Marsha Lynn, Taylor, Miles G., Ueno, Koji, Florida State University, College of Social Sciences and Public Policy, Department of Sociology
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Abstract/Description: Given the expanding role of today’s grandparent within the family, this dissertation seeks to explore the diverse range of grandparenting experiences outside of the commonly studied experience of the caregiving grandparent. Using the 2005-2006 wave of the Longitudinal Study of Generations (LSOG), this study explores underlying types of grandparenting, the social factors that predict membership in the various types, and the association between grandparenting types and subjective well-being....
Show moreGiven the expanding role of today’s grandparent within the family, this dissertation seeks to explore the diverse range of grandparenting experiences outside of the commonly studied experience of the caregiving grandparent. Using the 2005-2006 wave of the Longitudinal Study of Generations (LSOG), this study explores underlying types of grandparenting, the social factors that predict membership in the various types, and the association between grandparenting types and subjective well-being. Unlike previous research on non-caregiving grandparents, this study pays greater attention to potential gender differences in grandparenting experiences and uses quantitative techniques to explore variation in grandparenting types. In my first set of analyses, I use latent class analysis (LCA) to develop a typology of grandparents using the following dimensions of grandparent-grandchild relationship quality: distance from grandchildren, frequency of contact, receipt of support, and emotional attachment. Results reveal three latent classes of grandparents derived from two dimensions of grandparent-grandchild relationship quality on which respondents vary—distance from grandchildren and frequency of contact with grandchildren. The three latent classes are labeled Geographically Close/High Contact, Geographically Close/Low Contact, and Geographically Distant/Low Contact. Results from the LCA show different patterns for grandmothers and grandfathers: The Geographically Close/Low Contact class is comprised of significantly more grandfathers (70%), while the Geographically Close/High Contact class and the Geographically Distant/Low Contact class are made up of mostly grandmothers (60%; 61%). I then test if various social factors—including age, gender, number of grandchildren, education, and household income—predict probability of membership in the three grandparenting categories. Surprisingly, gender does not emerge as a significant predictor in the multivariate analyses. However, highlighting the importance of socioeconomic status, household income and education are significantly associated with membership in two of the grandparenting categories: Geographically Close/High Contact and Geographically Distant/Low Contact. Grandparents with higher household incomes have a lower probability of belonging to the Geographically Distant/Low Contact class (p<.05) and a higher probability of belonging to the Geographically Close/High Contact class (p<.01), while grandparents who have attended or graduated from college have a lower probability of belonging to the Geographically Distant/Low Contact class (p<.01). In the second set of analyses, I examine the association between grandparenting type and two measures of subjective well-being: depressive symptoms and life satisfaction. Suggesting some evidence of variation in well-being across the different grandparenting categories, Geographically Close/High Contact grandparents report the highest levels of subjective well-being, while Geographically Close/Low Contact grandparents report the lowest levels. However, ordinary least squares (OLS) regression results surprisingly reveal no significant relationship between grandparenting category and either measure of well-being. Taken together, this study builds on previous work by developing a quantitative typology of grandparenting, investigating the social factors that predict membership in the resulting grandparenting types, and examining the association between grandparenting type and subjective well-being.
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Date Issued: 2017
Identifier: FSU_FALL2017_Gunderson_fsu_0071E_14246
Format: Thesis

Title: From Rubrication to Typography: Die geesten of geschiedenis van Romen and the History of the Book in the Low Countries.
Creator: Gibbons, Jacob, Department of English
Abstract/Description: The development of printing in the fifteenth century did not transform the medieval Book from the manuscript to the modern mass-market paperback overnight—instead, changes in the design of late medieval texts occurred gradually over the first decades of printing in Europe. This has significant repercussions for the way we should evaluate terms like "print culture" and how we understand features of book production traditionally assigned to manuscript or print. To illuminate this transition, I...
Show moreThe development of printing in the fifteenth century did not transform the medieval Book from the manuscript to the modern mass-market paperback overnight—instead, changes in the design of late medieval texts occurred gradually over the first decades of printing in Europe. This has significant repercussions for the way we should evaluate terms like "print culture" and how we understand features of book production traditionally assigned to manuscript or print. To illuminate this transition, I will discuss the changes in the structuring and layout of books at the end of the fifteenth century, with a particular focus on "rubrication," the strategic use of red ink to guide readers' eyes through the pages of the medieval manuscript. Despite the development of printing and its affordances for using font, size, and spatial arrangement of the text to orient the reader, rubrication continued to be used in complex and multivalent ways throughout early printing. A detailed case study of several early print and manuscript editions of the Gesta Romanorum—one of the most popular storybooks of the Late Middle Ages—reveals a gradual transition from the use of rubrication and other visual cues in the medieval manuscript to the spatially-typographically oriented printed book. This transition was characterized by continuity and measured evolution—rather than an abrupt shift to something as concrete as "print culture"—in which the new technology emulated its predecessor as it progressively developed its own identity and made its own imprint on literate society.
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Date Issued: 2013
Identifier: FSU_migr_uhm-0207
Format: Thesis

Title: Mycelium.
Creator: Sarwer-Foner, Alexander, College of Motion Picture Arts
Abstract/Description: My first attempt at a feature-length screenplay, Mycelium is a Lovecraftian horror story set in the darkest recesses of the Amazon Rainforest. When Lucas, Caio and Diego finally get together to do the trip down the Amazon River that they have been talking about for years, surreal and otherworldly powers overpower them, leaving them to struggle for survival in the unforgiving jungle.
Date Issued: 2013
Identifier: FSU_migr_uhm-0275
Format: Thesis

Title: Meadowlark, a feature screenplay.
Creator: Allman, Max, College of Motion Picture Arts
Abstract/Description: A feature screenplay about two rednecks desperate for money and looking for a way out of their small North Carolina town who kidnap their boss's daughter and hold her for ransom in a secluded Appalachian mountain cabin.
Date Issued: 2013
Identifier: FSU_migr_uhm-0286
Format: Thesis

Title: Longest Night, a feature screenplay set to music.
Creator: Davis, Peter, College of Motion Picture Arts
Abstract/Description: Oscar is an exhausted corporate professional working for the counter-terrorism department of transportation giant Union Victory Railways. Alone and drug-addled in Chicago, Oscar has stated to lose the separation between his memories, his dreams, and his work. Longest Night is set to sync up with the tracks of Chicago indie rock band Wilco's 1999 album Summerteeh from beginning to end.
Date Issued: 2013
Identifier: FSU_migr_uhm-0287
Format: Thesis

Title: Pussy Willow.
Creator: Bears, Tatiana, College of Motion Picture Arts
Abstract/Description: Brian and Willow are just starting to get comfortable in their relationship. There's something mysterious about Willow however, and Brian begins investigate.
Date Issued: 2013
Identifier: FSU_migr_uhm-0261
Format: Thesis

Title: The "Mysteries" Behind The Adapted Story.
Creator: Wallace, Alexandria, Department of English
Abstract/Description: This creative thesis project focuses on adapting the short story form to short film. My work examines how a particular short story can be adapted into different film genres for different audiences. The project adapts the short story by Elizabeth Tallent entitled, "No One's A Mystery" into four very different scripts: a "faithful" adaptation, a hand-drawn limited-animation children's narrative, a "loose" adaptation, and a music video treatment. In this text, the reader will find some...
Show moreThis creative thesis project focuses on adapting the short story form to short film. My work examines how a particular short story can be adapted into different film genres for different audiences. The project adapts the short story by Elizabeth Tallent entitled, "No One's A Mystery" into four very different scripts: a "faithful" adaptation, a hand-drawn limited-animation children's narrative, a "loose" adaptation, and a music video treatment. In this text, the reader will find some introductory information on adaptation theory and a brief overview of some scholarly debate; followed by the four scripts and analyses for each short film. The major focus of the analyses are on the adaptation process. They will also include each interpretation's relationship to the short story, theory, and how audience and genre affect the process. Two of the four scripts (the children's narrative and music video adaptations) have been filmed and edited together as well to further understand the adaptive mode.
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Date Issued: 2013
Identifier: FSU_migr_uhm-0198
Format: Thesis

Title: The Effect of the Center of Academic Retention and Enhancement on the College Enrollment of Black Undergraduate Students at the Florida State University.
Creator: Brown, Keturah, African-American Studies
Abstract/Description: College enrollment rates into institutions of higher education have increased over the last thirty years for Black high school graduates (Insitute of Education Science, 2011). However, there are many college enrollment factors that influence a student's decision to attend a college or university. This study sought to determine the most influential college enrollment factors that affect the decision of Black undergraduates to enroll at FSU. Specifically, the study analyzed the role that the...
Show moreCollege enrollment rates into institutions of higher education have increased over the last thirty years for Black high school graduates (Insitute of Education Science, 2011). However, there are many college enrollment factors that influence a student's decision to attend a college or university. This study sought to determine the most influential college enrollment factors that affect the decision of Black undergraduates to enroll at FSU. Specifically, the study analyzed the role that the Center of Academic Retention and Enhancement, a summer bridge program at the Florida State University, plays in the enrollment of Black undergraduate students. A survey questionnaire was developed and distributed to Black undergraduate students at Florida State University that asked questions concerning the importance of various college enrollment factors. The study found that "Financial Aid: Scholarships and Grants" was the most important college enrollment factor. The C.A.R.E Program was also influential in the decision of the majority of C.A.R.E students to attend FSU. Based off of the findings from the survey, it is evident that the C.A.R.E Program is a vital instrument in the recruitment of Black undergraduate students to FSU and to the academic success of those students throughout their college career.
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Date Issued: 2012
Identifier: FSU_migr_uhm-0099
Format: Thesis

Title: Gender and Genre: Contextualizing Two Early American Novels.
Creator: Shoemaker, Kahla, Department of English
Abstract/Description: This project focuses on the role of gender in Susanna Rowson's seduction novel Charlotte Temple and Charles Brockden Brown's gothic novel Wieland. Incorporating literary analysis, historical information, and the work of other scholars, I contextualize these two novels within early American life and literature. Through this project, I urge readers to resist reading early American novels as a truthful reflection of the historical situation and encourage analysis that is based in gender...
Show moreThis project focuses on the role of gender in Susanna Rowson's seduction novel Charlotte Temple and Charles Brockden Brown's gothic novel Wieland. Incorporating literary analysis, historical information, and the work of other scholars, I contextualize these two novels within early American life and literature. Through this project, I urge readers to resist reading early American novels as a truthful reflection of the historical situation and encourage analysis that is based in gender criticism, rather than feminist criticism. Through this focus, I explore the progressive and regressive aspects of gender representations in the novels, acknowledging both Charlotte Temple and Wieland as multifaceted in their didacticism.
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Date Issued: 2013
Identifier: FSU_migr_uhm-0245
Format: Thesis

Title: An investigation of the effect of instruction in the structure of problem-solving strategies on students' performance.
Creator: Ghunaym, Ghunaym, Nichols, Eugene Douglas, Florida State University
Abstract/Description: "The purpose of this study was to investigate the conjecture that instruction in the strategies of Pattern Discovery, Trial and Error, Working Backward, Contradiction, Substitution, and Use of Diagrams would result in the development of problem-solving ability and that students under this instruction are likely to exhibit better achievement than students who do not receive explicit instruction in problem-solving strategies"--Introduction.
Date Issued: 1985
Identifier: FSU_acr1501
Format: Thesis

Title: Interactions between spatial and verbal abilities and two methods of presenting modulus seven arithmetic.
Creator: Hussien, Gaber A, Nichols, Eugene Douglas, Florida State University
Abstract/Description: "The present investigation was designed to study the effect of two instructional treatments on the achievement of students of different abilities--Verbal and Spatial. This was achieved by studying the interaction between the two treatments and each of the verbal and the spatial abilities. The instructional treatments were Figural and Verbal programmed units designed to teach concepts related to modulus seven arithmetic. Subjects for the study were 90 students enrolled in the first year...
Show more"The present investigation was designed to study the effect of two instructional treatments on the achievement of students of different abilities--Verbal and Spatial. This was achieved by studying the interaction between the two treatments and each of the verbal and the spatial abilities. The instructional treatments were Figural and Verbal programmed units designed to teach concepts related to modulus seven arithmetic. Subjects for the study were 90 students enrolled in the first year mathematics course at Elmansoura College of Education in Egypt for the academic year 1978-1979"--Abstract.
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Date Issued: 1979
Identifier: FSU_aby7218
Format: Thesis

Title: The effect of the knowledge of logic in proving mathematical theorems in the context of mathematical induction.
Creator: Walter, Robert Lee, Nichols, Eugene Douglas, Florida State University
Abstract/Description: "Let P(n) be a statement for every positive integer n. We denote the set of all positive integers by N and consider G = {n [is an element of] N [such that] P(n) is true}. The principle of mathematical induction can now be stated as follows: If [(i) 1 [is an element of] G and, (ii) for all k [is an element of] N if k [is an element of] G, then k + 1 [is an element of] G], then G = N. Now symbolize this statement as follows: P: 1 [is an element of] G. R: k [is an element of] G. S: k + 1 [is an...
Show more"Let P(n) be a statement for every positive integer n. We denote the set of all positive integers by N and consider G = {n [is an element of] N [such that] P(n) is true}. The principle of mathematical induction can now be stated as follows: If [(i) 1 [is an element of] G and, (ii) for all k [is an element of] N if k [is an element of] G, then k + 1 [is an element of] G], then G = N. Now symbolize this statement as follows: P: 1 [is an element of] G. R: k [is an element of] G. S: k + 1 [is an element of] G. Q: G = N. Therefore the statement of the principle of mathematical induction can be seen in the following form. If [P and, [for all] k [is an element of] N (if R, then S)], then Q. One strategy for teaching this principle is to explain that in order to apply the principle of mathematical induction and assert Q, one must appeal to the logical rule of modus ponens (the law of detachment). That is, we must affirm the antecedent [P and, [for all] k [is an element of] N (if R, then S)], and then we can assert Q. Therefore the research hypothesis for this study was that if people have the prerequisite knowledge of logic, and that if they are taught the principle of mathematical induction in terms of logic, then they will perform better on a criterion test over the principle of mathematical induction than people who are not taught in terms of logic"--Introduction.
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Date Issued: 1972
Identifier: FSU_agg0249
Format: Thesis

Title: Inductive discovery learning, reception learning, and formal verbalization of mathematical concepts.
Creator: Hanson, Lawrence Eugene, Nichols, Eugene Douglas, Florida State University
Abstract/Description: Theoretical speculations abound on all sides of the following two questions: 1. What are the relative merits of the reception and discovery modes of learning? 2. What effect does forcing a student to immediately verbalize his newly discovered concept have on his ability to retain and transfer this concept? The purpose of the present study is to seek answers to these questions on the basis of experimental evidence.
Date Issued: 1967
Identifier: FSU_agh3055
Format: Thesis

Title: An exploratory study of the effectiveness of computer graphic and simulations in a computer-student interactive environment in illustrating random sampling and the central limit theorem.
Creator: Myers, Kitty Neel, Denmark, E. T., Florida State University
Abstract/Description: "The purposes of this study were: (1) to investigate the effectiveness of the computer-student interactive method in presenting statistical concepts and in instructing students in the applications of these concepts, and (2) to develop instruments that test for the understanding of these concepts and the mastery of these application skills"--Abstract.
Date Issued: 1990
Identifier: FSU_afs7567
Format: Thesis

Title: To and Through the Doors of Ocha: Music, Spiritual Transformation, and Reversion Among African American Lucumí.
Creator: Beckley-Roberts, Lisa Michelle, Gunderson, Frank D., Jones, Maxine Deloris, Bakan, Michael B., Von Glahn, Denise, Florida State University, College of Music
Abstract/Description: This dissertation asserts that members of Ile Asho Funfun, the Lucumí spiritual house at the center of the research, is comprised of members who have undergone the process of converting to the spiritual practice of Lucumí and, as such, have experienced tremendous personal transformation. The author argues that the religious practice of Lucumí was introduced to African Americans through music and dance traditions in the 1940s by performing artists and that since that time music has been one of...
Show moreThis dissertation asserts that members of Ile Asho Funfun, the Lucumí spiritual house at the center of the research, is comprised of members who have undergone the process of converting to the spiritual practice of Lucumí and, as such, have experienced tremendous personal transformation. The author argues that the religious practice of Lucumí was introduced to African Americans through music and dance traditions in the 1940s by performing artists and that since that time music has been one of the foremost tools of conversion. Among the theories asserted herein, the author develops the theory of reversion to describe the process of conversion from Christianity to Lucumí. Borrowed from Islamic traditions that use the term to refer to a return to the natural state of awareness of the one true God, reversion here is viewed as a return to the religion of practitioners' ancestors and to a set of practices that are innately a part of human understanding of the cosmos and Creator as well their place within the cosmos and with the Creator. Furthermore, the author contends that process of reversion is ongoing, informed by Afrocentricity, and impacted by the constant expansion and contraction of the religion. These occur as individuals and the community adjust to life events while negotiating their identity as both African and American. This dissertation establishes the theories of expansion and contraction as the processes by which African practitioners of Yoruba-derived religions have always adapted their practices to the situation and environment. The author introduces these concepts as a more precise description of processes of adaptation than the more commonly cited concept of syncretism. The author both observed and practiced the religion for ten years prior to undertaking the research and did field work and ethnographic research for six years while studying for and writing this dissertation using a reflexive approach.
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Date Issued: 2016
Identifier: FSU_2016SP_BeckleyRoberts_fsu_0071E_13164
Format: Thesis

Title: Factors relating to achievement with selected topics in geometry and topology when taught to fifth-, sixth- and seventh-grade pupils via a programed text.
Creator: D'Augustine, Charles H., Nichols, Eugene Douglas, Florida State University
Abstract/Description: "Although there are some subjective opinions supporting the hypothesis that geometrical and topological topics are teachable at the elementary school level there is the need for definitive research which can answer the following questions: 1. What factors relate to a student's achievement with geometrical and topological topics? 2. At what grade levels are certain topics learned with a high degree of efficiency in terms of time and expended effort? 3. Which geometrical and topological topics...
Show more"Although there are some subjective opinions supporting the hypothesis that geometrical and topological topics are teachable at the elementary school level there is the need for definitive research which can answer the following questions: 1. What factors relate to a student's achievement with geometrical and topological topics? 2. At what grade levels are certain topics learned with a high degree of efficiency in terms of time and expended effort? 3. Which geometrical and topological topics are appropriate at various grade levels in terms of these topics serving to clarify and simplify other types of mathematical concepts? The primary purpose of this study was to investigate some factors which might serve as predictors of pre-determined levels of success with respect to some selected topics in geometry and point set topology, when taught to fifth-, sixth- and seventh-grade pupils via a programmed text"--Introduction.
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Date Issued: 1963
Identifier: FSU_ahq0978
Format: Thesis

Title: Celebrating and Preserving Music of Jewish Pasts: The Holocaust Survivor Band.
Creator: Allen, Emily Ruth, Gunderson, Frank D., Bakan, Michael B., Seaton, Douglass, Florida State University, College of Music
Abstract/Description: This thesis explores the experiences of a South Florida klezmer ensemble known as the Holocaust Survivor Band. The group was co-founded by Saul Dreier, then an 89-year-old resident of Coconut Creek, Florida, and Reuwen "Ruby" Sosnowicz, 85 years old at the time, a Delray Beach, Florida, resident, in April 2014. Dreier was inspired to form a musical ensemble of Holocaust survivors after reading about the death of pianist and fellow Holocaust survivor Alice Herz-Sommer. Ruby's daughter Chana...
Show moreThis thesis explores the experiences of a South Florida klezmer ensemble known as the Holocaust Survivor Band. The group was co-founded by Saul Dreier, then an 89-year-old resident of Coconut Creek, Florida, and Reuwen "Ruby" Sosnowicz, 85 years old at the time, a Delray Beach, Florida, resident, in April 2014. Dreier was inspired to form a musical ensemble of Holocaust survivors after reading about the death of pianist and fellow Holocaust survivor Alice Herz-Sommer. Ruby's daughter Chana Sosnowicz joined the band as lead singer, and Holocaust survivor descendant Jeff Black joined as a guitar player. In sum, I tell the story of the Holocaust Survivor Band, a contemporary musical ensemble representative of a historically significant era. I emphasize the group's ability to represent the Holocaust era to present-day audiences. To demonstrate this, the ensemble's experiences are portrayed through statements and information from the band members themselves, through descriptions in various articles and media, through my observations of their performances and rehearsals, and through my interpretations of all these source materials. Based on this content, I present some generalizations about the band's significance. One of my more obvious conclusions is that the band serves as musical witnesses to the Holocaust by using their performances to remind people of the period and to share their life stories. As a result, the group contributes to the historical and collective memory of the Holocaust. This in turn can evoke nostalgic feelings within the band and audience, thus further establishing connections to the past. In addition, the band seeks to prevent genocide from happening again by promoting a message of peace in their music, particularly through their song "Peace for the World." Most importantly, Dreier and Sosnowicz are finding joy in music again after not playing or performing for a long time. All of this exemplifies how the ensemble has impacted both its members and those around them.
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Date Issued: 2016
Identifier: FSU_2016SP_Allen_fsu_0071N_13071
Format: Thesis

Title: Impact of Explicit Phonological Awareness Instruction on Spelling Knowledge, Orthographic Processing Skills, and Reading Speed and Accuracy of Adult Arab ESL Learners.
Creator: Alshammari, Meshari, Galeano, Rebecca A., Uzendoski, Michael, Jakubowski, Elizabeth M., Rice, Diana Claries, Underwood, Phyllis Swan, Florida State University, College of...
Show moreAlshammari, Meshari, Galeano, Rebecca A., Uzendoski, Michael, Jakubowski, Elizabeth M., Rice, Diana Claries, Underwood, Phyllis Swan, Florida State University, College of Education, School of Teacher Education
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Abstract/Description: ABSTRACT This quantitative study investigated potential effects of providing explicit phonological instruction on international students' spelling knowledge, orthographic processing skills, and reading speed and comprehension. In addition, the study compared Arab participants to their non-Arab peers in four particular aspects: gains, interaction, performance and differences between the two groups before and after the treatment. The phonological instruction consisted of five groups of the...
Show moreABSTRACT This quantitative study investigated potential effects of providing explicit phonological instruction on international students' spelling knowledge, orthographic processing skills, and reading speed and comprehension. In addition, the study compared Arab participants to their non-Arab peers in four particular aspects: gains, interaction, performance and differences between the two groups before and after the treatment. The phonological instruction consisted of five groups of the English sounds, six groups of blends, five phonetic skills, and two decoding skills. The phonological instruction was carried out during the reading class time and delivered for a month. A total of 53 ESL international students participated in the study. Analyses employed three different grouping criteria: one whole group (n = 53), two main groups: Arab (n = 38) and non-Arab (n = 15), and three main groups: foundation (only Arab n = 4), beginner (Arab n = 27 + non-Arab n = 8) and low intermediate (Arab n = 7 + non-Arab n = 7). All participants took pretests in spelling, pseudowords (nonsense words), and reading speed and comprehension, went through the phonological instruction treatment, and took posttests in the same skills. The spelling and pseudoword pre and posttests were identical across all participants in all proficiency levels. However, reading speed and comprehension pre and posttests were identical in each proficiency level but different across all proficiency levels. Due to an unexpected change in the study design, all participants were exposed to the phonological instruction treatment and there was no control group. Consequently, the study could not provide a direct evidence for the impact of the phonological instruction treatment on the target skills. Nevertheless, in the first aspect where the study analyzed gain scores of participants in the target skills, findings from this study revealed that all participants (n = 53) scored in the posttests significantly higher than the pretests in both spelling and pseudoword. However, when separating participants into two groups: Arab and non-Arab, findings showed that the Arab group increased significantly in both spelling and pseudoword whereas the non-Arab group increased significantly only in spelling but not in pseudoword. Further, while each group of Arab and non-Arab participants in the beginner level did not significantly increase in reading speed, each group of Arab and non-Arab students in the low intermediate level significantly increased in the posttest. Moreover, each group of Arab and non-Arab participants in both beginner and low intermediate levels did not significantly increase in the comprehension posttests. In the second aspect, the study examined differences in performance between the two groups of participants in the target skills. Findings showed that differences found in the way the two groups changed over time in the gain scores of all target skills were not statistically significant. In the third aspect, the study compared Arab to non-Arab participants based on their gain scores in the target skills. In spelling, findings showed that none of the two groups outperformed the other because both groups significantly increased in spelling. In pseudoword however, findings suggested that Arab participants outperformed their non-Arab peers because only Arab students significantly increased in their pseudoword gains scores. In reading speed, because none of the two groups in the beginner level significantly increased in their gain scores, findings suggested that none of two groups outperformed the other. Similarly, findings suggested that none of the two groups in the low intermediate level outperformed each other because both groups significantly increased in reading speed. The Arab and non-Arab groups in both the beginner and the low intermediate levels did not significantly increase in the comprehension gain scores, therefore, findings suggested that none of the groups in either proficiency level outperformed the other. In the fourth aspect, the study analyzed differences in the pre-existing knowledge between Arab and non-Arab groups in the target skills according to their mean scores in the pretests. Findings suggested that while spelling background knowledge of the non-Arab group is substantially significantly richer than the spelling background knowledge of the Arab group, the two groups did not significantly differ in their background knowledge in English orthographic conventions. Furthermore, findings exhibited that non-Arab participants in the beginner level were reading with a significantly higher rate in the pretest than their Arab counterparts. On the other hand, findings revealed that there were no significant differences between low intermediate Arab and non-Arab groups in their reading speed prior to the phonological instruction. In comprehension, findings showed that the non-Arab group in both beginner and low intermediate levels scored significantly higher than their Arab peers in the pretest.
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Date Issued: 2015
Identifier: FSU_2015fall_Alshammari_fsu_0071E_12789
Format: Thesis

Title: How Geogebra Contributes to Middle Grade Algebra I Students' Conceptual Understanding of Functions.
Creator: Dayi, Guner, Jakubowski, Elizabeth M., Berry, Frances Stokes, Rice, Diana Claries, Davis F., Angela, Florida State University, College of Education, School of Teacher Education
Abstract/Description: The current study examined how GeoGebra contributed to middle grade Algebra I students' conceptual understanding of functions. In order to gain a deeper understanding a case study approach was utilized. Vinner (1983), and Vinner and Dreyfus' (1989) concept definition and concept image framework was used to analyze the students' function definition. O'Callaghan's (1994) component of translating was used to analyze the students' comparison of different function representations, and his...
Show moreThe current study examined how GeoGebra contributed to middle grade Algebra I students' conceptual understanding of functions. In order to gain a deeper understanding a case study approach was utilized. Vinner (1983), and Vinner and Dreyfus' (1989) concept definition and concept image framework was used to analyze the students' function definition. O'Callaghan's (1994) component of translating was used to analyze the students' comparison of different function representations, and his component of modeling and interpreting was used to analyze the students' use of functions to model relationships between quantities. The following results were derived from the analyses. Having more correct concept images of functions through GeoGebra could also bring about a more correct definition. The dependency upon the concept definition to verify if a given example was a function could not contribute to the concept image. In order to gain correct concept images more integration of technology into algebra instructions was crucial to explore and interact with more function models. GeoGebra was an ideal environment to perform a transition among the representations. All three cases were able to understand how the given real-world problems transformed to GeoGebra simulator and the reverse procedure. The role of instructor was very important to guide and facilitate the learning. The results indicated that verification and exploration of more functions on GeoGebra contributed to a better conceptual understanding of a function definition. The advantages of GeoGebra were obvious for the translating component. The real-world problem scenario could be better modeled and interpreted via a simulator on GeoGebra and the need for algebraic symbolic manipulations could disappear.
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Date Issued: 2015
Identifier: FSU_2015fall_Dayi_fsu_0071E_12946
Format: Thesis

Title: Development of a high school agricultural program with special reference to health problems.
Creator: Eldridge, Marion C., Hay, Marion Jewell, Florida State University
Abstract/Description: "The present paper will open with a brief survey of Calhoun county, including significant social, economic, and health conditions and problems of the county. The present and envisioned program of Vocational Agriculture in Blountstown High School is oriented to meet the needs and problems as revealed through this survey. The activities of the program will be discussed from the standpoint of classroom instruction, farm mechanics, adult education, Future Farmer work, and school farm"--Introduction.
Date Issued: 1949
Identifier: FSU_ahh8868
Format: Thesis

Title: The development and testing of a teach-test instrument for prediction of success in college freshman mathematics.
Creator: Smith, Joe Kelly, Heimer, Ralph T., Florida State University
Abstract/Description: "The purpose of this research is the development and testing of an instrument to be used in prediction of success in college freshman mathematics courses"--Introduction.
Date Issued: 1967
Identifier: FSU_ahm6748
Format: Thesis

Title: An experiment to compare the effectiveness of instruction versus discovery in generalizing the strategy of a simple game.
Creator: Page, Robert Leroy, Nichols, Eugene Douglas, Florida State University
Abstract/Description: "The purpose of the study was to determine whether there is a difference in the ability of two equally capable groups of subjects to generalize the winning strategy of a simple game when one group learns the perfect strategy for one form of the game by the discovery method and the other group learns it by reading an explanation of the strategy"--Introduction.
Date Issued: 1970
Identifier: FSU_ahk1593
Format: Thesis

Title: A comparison of two methods of teaching selected topics in plane analytic geometry.
Creator: Bundrick, Charles M., Nichols, Eugene Douglas, Florida State University
Abstract/Description: The primary purpose of this study was to investigate experimentally the following questions: (1) What is the relative effectiveness of the vector approach and the traditional approach to teaching certain topics in plane analytic geometry to high school students in terms of achievement and understanding? (2) Does teaching these topics in plane analytic geometry via vectors produce more transfer to other topics in analytic geometry (mainly solid analytic geometry) than teaching these topics via...
Show moreThe primary purpose of this study was to investigate experimentally the following questions: (1) What is the relative effectiveness of the vector approach and the traditional approach to teaching certain topics in plane analytic geometry to high school students in terms of achievement and understanding? (2) Does teaching these topics in plane analytic geometry via vectors produce more transfer to other topics in analytic geometry (mainly solid analytic geometry) than teaching these topics via the traditional approach?
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Date Issued: 1968
Identifier: FSU_ahj0581
Format: Thesis

Title: Exploring the Art Therapist’s Perspective of Working with Victims of Disaster.
Creator: Sanders, Amanda, Gussak, David, Pfeiffer, Steven I., Rosal, Marcia L., Broome, Jeffrey L. (Jeffrey Lynn), Florida State University, College of Fine Arts, Department of Art...
Show moreSanders, Amanda, Gussak, David, Pfeiffer, Steven I., Rosal, Marcia L., Broome, Jeffrey L. (Jeffrey Lynn), Florida State University, College of Fine Arts, Department of Art Education
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Abstract/Description: The purpose of this study is to qualitatively explore the art therapist's perspective of working with victims of disaster and implications of art therapy after a disaster experience. Empirical research in disaster relief is limited, likely due to the unpredictable nature of disasters and the unique circumstances of each disaster event. Victims of disaster are at risk for developing symptoms related to acute stress disorder and post traumatic stress disorder related to their disaster...
Show moreThe purpose of this study is to qualitatively explore the art therapist's perspective of working with victims of disaster and implications of art therapy after a disaster experience. Empirical research in disaster relief is limited, likely due to the unpredictable nature of disasters and the unique circumstances of each disaster event. Victims of disaster are at risk for developing symptoms related to acute stress disorder and post traumatic stress disorder related to their disaster experience. Art therapists have worked alongside other mental health providers to assist and treat victims of disaster within the immediate and delayed response to a disaster. Literature on art therapy with victims of disaster is heavily weighted on art therapy with children after a disaster, with few studies including adolescents or adults. This study used a qualitative clinical-ethnographic grounded theory approach to understand what art therapists do and how they work with victims of disaster that aids in healing from these traumatic events. The findings of this study suggest the participating art therapists valued openness and flexibility in their work, varying their approach based upon the timing of their response (immediate or delayed), consideration for the environment in which they worked, they took on a variety of roles in the disaster response community, and emphasized the practices of self-care as beneficial for their own well-being and for increased quality of care for their clients.
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Date Issued: 2015
Identifier: FSU_2015fall_Sanders_fsu_0071E_12855
Format: Thesis

Title: An attempt to establish a basis upon which social studies teachers can build programs of skill development in reading social studies materials.
Creator: Hernandez, David, Florida State University
Abstract/Description: Assuming that the social studies teacher should shoulder responsibility for developing reading skills, what steps are necessary in planning a program aimed at the development of reading skills in the social studies classroom? This paper will treat only one step: evaluation of the present position of the student and/or class in terms of skill development and ability levels. The author shall attempt to ascertain whether or not it is possible for the classroom teacher to determine present...
Show moreAssuming that the social studies teacher should shoulder responsibility for developing reading skills, what steps are necessary in planning a program aimed at the development of reading skills in the social studies classroom? This paper will treat only one step: evaluation of the present position of the student and/or class in terms of skill development and ability levels. The author shall attempt to ascertain whether or not it is possible for the classroom teacher to determine present achievement levels in terms of specific skills needed in reading social studies materials through an item analysis of student performance on two commonly used standardized social studies tests. This will, in effect, be testing the thesis: Through item analysis of tests concerned with reading skills in the social studies it is possible to determine achievement levels of a class or individual accurately enough, in terms of specific skills, to design a program for skill improvement.
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Date Issued: 1959
Identifier: FSU_akx0438
Format: Thesis

Title: An Exploration of Teacher-Child Relationships and Interactions in Elementary Science Lessons.
Creator: Kocyigit, Bulent, Jones, Ithel, Schwartz, Robert A., Rice, Diana Claries, Jakubowski, Elizabeth M., Florida State University, College of Education, School of Teacher Education
Abstract/Description: This study examined the nature and quality of teacher-student interactions in a third grade science classroom and investigated how interactions and teacher-child relationships relate to the learning of science concepts. The relationships between the three dimensions of teacher-student relationships (Closeness, Conflict, and Dependency) and teacher-student interactions including the dimensions explaining the nature and the quality of teacher-student interactions were examined. The study also...
Show moreThis study examined the nature and quality of teacher-student interactions in a third grade science classroom and investigated how interactions and teacher-child relationships relate to the learning of science concepts. The relationships between the three dimensions of teacher-student relationships (Closeness, Conflict, and Dependency) and teacher-student interactions including the dimensions explaining the nature and the quality of teacher-student interactions were examined. The study also determined whether there was a relationship between students' conceptual understanding of science and all variables of teacher-student interactions and the teacher-student relationships. First, data from the videotape and audiotape recordings were transcribed, coded and analyzed to determine the appropriateness of the proposed interaction-types and their classification into the categories. The twelve teacher-student interaction categories used in this study were able to capture all verbal teacher-student interactions in the classroom. Second, each teacher-student interaction was placed into the respective dimension and group explaining the nature and quality of the interaction. Finally, Pearson Product Moment Correlations were computed to explore the possible relationships between the teacher-student interactions and relationships and students' conceptual understanding of science. Teacher-student interaction scores were obtained through natural observations of eight- to nine-year-old children. Students were rated by their teachers using the STRS in order to obtain teacher child relationship scores. Similarly, conceptual science understanding scores were obtained through pre- and post-tests delivered at the beginning and end of the science unit. The findings of the study suggested a strong relationship between teacher's perception of her relationships with the students and the teacher-student interactions in the classroom. It appears that classroom conversations mostly take place between the teacher and the students whom the teacher perceived to have better relationships. However, it was clear from the observations that positive teacher-student relationships did not necessarily warrant for high quality teacher-student interactions in the classroom. The quality of the teacher-student interactions during the science lessons appeared to be more moderate than high in quality. Students' improvement in conceptual understanding of science was rather related to the positive classroom environment and the friendly classroom atmosphere created by the teacher and did not significantly correlate with the student's individual interaction or relationship with the teacher.
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Date Issued: 2015
Identifier: FSU_2015fall_Kocyigit_fsu_0071E_12932
Format: Thesis

Title: Re/Inscription and Return: Working Through Historical Trauma in Post-Spanish Civil War Culture.
Creator: Kasten, Jeremy J. (Jeremy James), Álvarez, Enrique, Romanchuk, Robert, Epstein, Andrew, Howard, Keith David, Leushuis, Reinier, Florida State University, College of Arts and...
Show moreKasten, Jeremy J. (Jeremy James), Álvarez, Enrique, Romanchuk, Robert, Epstein, Andrew, Howard, Keith David, Leushuis, Reinier, Florida State University, College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics
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Abstract/Description: This dissertation explores the recollection of historical memory in a number of significant literary and cinematic texts produced during the first thirty years of the Francoist dictatorship. Ironically, the first quarter-century of post-war Spain was referred to as "los años de la paz" [The Peaceful Years] by the propagandistic effort of the regime. However, as my dissertation will show, representative texts of the same period articulate trauma that was still lingering in collective memory....
Show moreThis dissertation explores the recollection of historical memory in a number of significant literary and cinematic texts produced during the first thirty years of the Francoist dictatorship. Ironically, the first quarter-century of post-war Spain was referred to as "los años de la paz" [The Peaceful Years] by the propagandistic effort of the regime. However, as my dissertation will show, representative texts of the same period articulate trauma that was still lingering in collective memory. Contrary to the common assumption that the process of recovery of historical memory began after Franco's death in 1975, I will show that this same process had begun almost immediately after the outcome of the Spanish Civil War in April of 1939. Based on a theoretical framework built on the juxtaposition of Lacanian psychoanalysis and recent trauma theory, I argue that the texts object of my study – including some well-known Francoist canonical works – actually work through the painful and traumatic experiences of the war and the violence imposed by the dictatorship. Because of the unspeakable nature of psychological trauma and the censorial machinery set in place by the repressive instruments of the Francoist regime, the traumatic experience is never explicitly recounted in these narratives. However, I will demonstrate how these experiences are expressed in the body of the text in unconventional and unexpected ways such as the tension between chaos and silence, the representation of hyperbolic violence, speech acts, the representation of space, inter-textual empathy, as well as gaps and disruptions of the narratives. In my dissertation, I will describe a double-process of reinscription and return of the traumatic event whereby these texts are able to begin a process of working through, becoming, in Dominick LaCapra´s famous theorization of the concept, an "ethical agent" of history that create a counter-narrative to the Francoist silence surrounding many traumas of the war and resulting dictatorship.
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Date Issued: 2015
Identifier: FSU_2015fall_Kasten_fsu_0071E_12838
Format: Thesis

Title: The Effects of Game-Based Learning in an Opensim-Supported Virtual Environment for Mathematical Performance.
Creator: Kim, Heesung, Ke, Fengfeng, Kim, Young-Suk, Jeong, Allan C., Paek, Insu, Florida State University, College of Education, Department of Educational Psychology and Learning Systems
Abstract/Description: This experimental study was intended to examine whether game-based learning (GBL) that encompasses four particular game characteristics (challenges, a storyline, rewards, and the integration of game-play with learning content) in the OpenSimulator-supported virtual reality (VR) learning environment can improve mathematical achievement and motivation for elementary school students toward math learning. In this pre- and post-test experimental comparison study, data were collected from 132...
Show moreThis experimental study was intended to examine whether game-based learning (GBL) that encompasses four particular game characteristics (challenges, a storyline, rewards, and the integration of game-play with learning content) in the OpenSimulator-supported virtual reality (VR) learning environment can improve mathematical achievement and motivation for elementary school students toward math learning. In this pre- and post-test experimental comparison study, data were collected from 132 fourth graders through an achievement test, and a Short Instructional Materials Motivational Survey (SIMMS). The same tasks were provided to the experimental and control groups. Tasks for the experimental group involved the following four game characteristics: (1) challenges, (2) a storyline, (3) rewards, and (4) the integration of game-play with learning content. The control group was given the same tasks and learning environment setting (OpenSimulator-supported VR) that was used for the experimental group. The exception was that the control group tasks did not include the game characteristics: (1) challenges, (2) a storyline, (3) rewards, and (4) the integration of game-play with learning content. Analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) using a treatment (treatment vs. control) on the achievement indicated a significant effect of GBL in the VR environment on math knowledge test performance. For motivation, the results indicated that there was no significant difference on the post-test scores for the perceived motivational quality of the learning activity (MQLA) between the experimental group and the control group.
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Date Issued: 2015
Identifier: FSU_2015fall_Kim_fsu_0071E_12885
Format: Thesis

Title: Pedagogical and Performance Practices of the E-Flat Clarinet: Teaching Methods and Solo Repertoire.
Creator: Tinberg, Jennifer Michelle, Holden, Jonathan, Callender, Clifton, Bish, Deborah, Keesecker, Jeff, Florida State University, College of Music, College of Music
Abstract/Description: The focus of this treatise is pedagogical material and solo literature for the E-flat clarinet. Despite the E-flat clarinet's inclusion in many pieces for orchestra and wind band, the instrument is rarely incorporated into an applied clarinet curriculum. Perceptions of the instrument as piercing, shrill, and out of tune only perpetuate the discomfort and apprehension many clarinetists experience when faced with situations in which they must perform or teach E-flat clarinet. Discussion of the...
Show moreThe focus of this treatise is pedagogical material and solo literature for the E-flat clarinet. Despite the E-flat clarinet's inclusion in many pieces for orchestra and wind band, the instrument is rarely incorporated into an applied clarinet curriculum. Perceptions of the instrument as piercing, shrill, and out of tune only perpetuate the discomfort and apprehension many clarinetists experience when faced with situations in which they must perform or teach E-flat clarinet. Discussion of the instrument's development, along with its treatment in large ensembles, serves to demonstrate how the stereotypes associated with the E-flat clarinet may have evolved. Several excerpts from orchestral and wind band literature are included as examples of the instrument's typical functions in ensemble writing. Since there is limited pedagogical material available for E-flat clarinet besides orchestral excerpts, the second half of this treatise provides suggestions for teaching methods and solo repertoire to be used in private lesson or practice settings. Conceptual exercises adapted from B-flat clarinet etude and method books, as well as recommendations by several performers and educators who specialize in playing the E-flat clarinet are presented. Standard excerpts are also adapted as examples of potential fundamental exercises. The final chapter of this treatise includes descriptions of six pieces for E-flat clarinet and piano, along with performance and teaching considerations. This material is intended to aid clarinetists in their teaching and practice of E-flat clarinet, and to highlight selected repertoire of an instrument that does not often receive attention in lesson or recital settings.
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Date Issued: 2015
Identifier: FSU_2015fall_Tinberg_fsu_0071E_12923
Format: Thesis

Title: A study to test the effectiveness of a circular geoboard as an instrument for teaching selected arc-angle theorems.
Creator: Waters, William Meade, Nichols, Eugene Douglas, Florida State University
Abstract/Description: "The purpose of the study is to determine if there is a difference between students who study certain topics from plane geometry using a geoboard and those who study the same topics in the conventional classroom. A three part criterion test will be used as the evaluative instrument"--Introduction.
Date Issued: 1971
Identifier: FSU_ahq0674
Format: Thesis

Title: A study of interactions between "Structure-of-Intellect" factors and two methods of presenting concepts of modulus seven arithemetic.
Creator: Behr, Merlyn J., Nichols, Eugene Douglas, Florida State University
Abstract/Description: "In general terms, the purposes of this study were two in number: (1) to suggest whether unique mental factors as identified by methods of factor analysis are correlated with success in usual school learning situations and (2) to suggest whether it is possible to design instructional materials in a way which would suit the learner's mental ability profile"--Introduction.
Date Issued: 1967
Identifier: FSU_ahp9230
Format: Thesis

Title: Art Therapy with Hospitalized Pediatric Patients.
Creator: Wolf Bordonaro, Gaelynn Patricia, Rosal, Marcia L., Mazza, Nick, Troeger, Betty Jo, Anderson, Tom, Department of Art Education, Florida State University
Abstract/Description: Research in pediatric medical art therapy is comprised largely of case studies. The motivation for this study was to contribute quantitative data to the literature on art therapy with children who experienced hospitalization and medical treatment. The study question focused on the efficacy of art therapy in reducing the anxiety of hospitalized pediatric patients. To address this issue, a subgroup of pediatric patients was selected; a single subject research design was initiated with a...
Show moreResearch in pediatric medical art therapy is comprised largely of case studies. The motivation for this study was to contribute quantitative data to the literature on art therapy with children who experienced hospitalization and medical treatment. The study question focused on the efficacy of art therapy in reducing the anxiety of hospitalized pediatric patients. To address this issue, a subgroup of pediatric patients was selected; a single subject research design was initiated with a homogenous group of 6 to 9 year-old female patients hospitalized for treatment of sickle cell disease. In addition to extensive qualitative narrative, three instruments were utilized: (a) an Anxiety Behavior Schedule, (b) the Children's Health Locus of Control Scale, and (c) the Children's Hope Scale. The intervention phase of the study included art therapy interventions designed to familiarize subjects' with the hospital environment, provide opportunities for control and expression, and respond to subjects' established cognitive structures regarding their medical condition and treatment. The results of the study support the efficacy of art therapy in two very important ways: First, all of the subjects demonstrated reduced externality of locus of control following art therapy intervention. Second, the observable anxiety data on subject 2 definitively confirmed reduction in anxiety due to art therapy intervention, with statistical significance established at the .05 level. Finally, one subject's subsequent hospitalization provided the opportunity to collect follow-up data; this data confirmed that the reduction in anxiety behaviors resulting from the art therapy protocol was sustained over time. Extensive qualitative narratives of the subjects' experiences were provided. Implications for future practice and further research are discussed.
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Date Issued: 2003
Identifier: FSU_migr_etd-0849
Format: Thesis

Title: Determinants of Success in Interorganizational Collaboration for Natural Resource Management.
Creator: Dedekorkut, Ayåin, Deyle, Robert E., Feiock, Richard C., Stiftel, Bruce, Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Florida State University
Abstract/Description: Regional planning and management are problematic in many countries. Control over land and natural resources is fragmented among different levels of government and agencies with narrow missions. Interorganizational collaboration is advocated as a solution, but research to date has predominantly involved case studies with little theoretical rigor. The main objective of this study is to identify the determinants of success in interorganizational collaboration. There is extensive literature on...
Show moreRegional planning and management are problematic in many countries. Control over land and natural resources is fragmented among different levels of government and agencies with narrow missions. Interorganizational collaboration is advocated as a solution, but research to date has predominantly involved case studies with little theoretical rigor. The main objective of this study is to identify the determinants of success in interorganizational collaboration. There is extensive literature on why organizations collaborate, but what factors make collaborations successful is not well documented. To add to the knowledge of this field, this research integrates theory and empirical research from organizational theory, management studies, public administration, urban and regional planning, and environmental planning and natural resource management to define operational measures of successful collaborative planning and applies multivariate analysis to assess hypothesized determinants of success. Natural resource management provides a very good opportunity to examine this due to the fragmentation of administrative structure. However, the implications of the results are not limited to natural resource management. The findings will be useful in understanding collaborative planning and decision making in many other interorganizational settings including regional planning, metropolitan area planning, economic development, and growth management. Understanding what makes collaborations work is important, because despite the documented need to collaborate, many efforts take years to bear fruit, and most do not achieve much. I believe this is due to poor understanding of the collaboration process and its elements. If this process is thoroughly examined and the factors that lead to success are determined, it will help future collaboration efforts immensely by identifying the circumstances in which collaboration is most likely to succeed and the factors that can be manipulated to enhance the likelihood of success. The research methodology includes multivariate analysis of a mail survey of participants in 70 collaborative natural resource planning processes. Representatives of 3 to 4 organizations that collaborated in the development or revision of a management plan for one of six natural resource management program types were surveyed: (1) Remedial Action Plan development under the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement, (2) the National Estuary Program of the United States Environmental Protection Agency Office of Water, (3) the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's National Marine Sanctuary Program, (4) Habitat Conservation Plan development under the Endangered Species Act, (5) the Surface Water Improvement and Management Program of Florida Water Management Districts, and (6) National Estuarine Research Reserves administered by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The survey included questions on the measures and determinants of success identified from the collaboration literature as well as open-ended questions designed to help identify other ways to define success and other determinants of success. The dependent variable, success, is measured objectively and subjectively and includes responses to single survey questions as well as arithmetic average indices of four major theoretical categories (realization of goals, satisfaction of collaboration participants, enhanced interorganizational relations, and efficiency) and component-based scales. Principal Component Analysis was utilized to determine the elements of the components and their weights. The independent variables, determinants of success, are also grouped together by arithmetic average indices based on theoretical groupings as well as component-based scales. The determinants of success include member factors that are related to the participants in the collaboration, process factors that are related to discretion over the process of collaborating, and resource factors that may be beyond the control of the collaboration participants. The results of the multivariate regression analysis support the hypothesis that most of the member factors, process factors and resource factors influence the success of interorganizational collaboration. However, due to multicollinearity between the independent variables it is not possible to investigate the individual contributions of each factor to success. The models show clearly that the relationship between the parties, equity in decision making, participant characteristics (inclusion of all affected stakeholders, proportional representation, and effective leadership), agreement between the participants on ground rules and the scope of the collaboration, and ripeness of the issue are important for collaboration success no matter how success is measured.
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Date Issued: 2004
Identifier: FSU_migr_etd-0793
Format: Thesis

Title: Co-Parenting in the Context of Divorce: Evaluation and Application of the Multidimensional Co-Parenting Scales for Dissolved Relationships.
Creator: Ferraro, Anthony J. (Anthony James), Lucier-Greer, Mallory, Tillman, Kathryn H., Cui, Ming, Holtrop, Kendal, Florida State University, College of Human Sciences, Department of...
Show moreFerraro, Anthony J. (Anthony James), Lucier-Greer, Mallory, Tillman, Kathryn H., Cui, Ming, Holtrop, Kendal, Florida State University, College of Human Sciences, Department of Family and Child Sciences
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Abstract/Description: The experience of divorce can be a complex and challenging experience, particularly for families with minor children. Divorce intrinsically facilitates several related transitions that can include changes in financial circumstances, residence or geographic location, and various interpersonal relationships. Among the most drastic changes in relationships during this time can be the relationship between former spouses. Divorce may terminate the romantic relationship among partners, but for...
Show moreThe experience of divorce can be a complex and challenging experience, particularly for families with minor children. Divorce intrinsically facilitates several related transitions that can include changes in financial circumstances, residence or geographic location, and various interpersonal relationships. Among the most drastic changes in relationships during this time can be the relationship between former spouses. Divorce may terminate the romantic relationship among partners, but for those with shared children, the joint responsibility in childrearing remains. How parents relate to each other in the capacity of childrearing is what is referred to as the co-parenting relationship. Within the divorce literature, limited research exists which considers comprehensive parent-reports of a range of co-parenting behaviors that are typical within the literature on co-parenting among continuously married intact families. This dissertation built upon this gap in the literature to advance understanding of a new measure of co-parenting behaviors among parents who have experienced a relationship dissolution. This measure, the Multidimensional Co-parenting Scales for Dissolved Relationships (MCS-DR), consists of four scales: (1) support, (2) overt conflict, (3) internally-regulated covert conflict, and (4) externally-regulated covert conflict. Support and overt conflict are commonly assessed dimensions within the divorce literature. However, internally-regulated covert conflict and externally-regulated covert conflict represent an understudied set of behaviors that distinguish between actions that an individual parent controls themselves and behaviors that fall outside of their control. Using this measure as a vehicle, the two studies herein sought to better understand (1) the utility of measuring covert co-parenting conflict in the divorce literature, (2) how physical custody status, a critical component of the post-divorce experience, can influence or shape the experience of co-parenting, and (3) what leverage points exist that can help to alleviate the impact of post-divorce stress on individual wellbeing. Study 1 involved the assessment of the MCS-DR for measurement equivalence across three distinctive physical custody statuses. Results indicated that nonresident parents and parents who shared joint custody demonstrated similar measurement related to factor loadings and intercept-levels across all four scales of the MCS-DR. Post-hoc tests were conducted to examine measurement equivalence between resident parents and a combined group of nonresident parents and joint custody parents. Findings suggested that although factor loadings were similar across all constructs, only internally-regulated covert conflict demonstrated similar intercept-levels across each custody group. Study 2 involved the assessment of competing models, comparing the well-established Quality of Coparental Communication Scale (QCCS) and the MCS-DR in predicting a latent variable of adverse mental health symptomology. Using a stress process approach, each model considered dimensions of co-parenting as sources of chronic stress manifesting in the form of adverse mental health symptomology, with self-efficacy acting as a mediator. Results indicated that the MCS-DR predicted a significantly greater proportion of the variance in self-efficacy, and three indicators of adverse mental health symptomology compared to the QCCS. Indirect effects were found in both models from a single dimension of co-parenting to adverse mental health symptomology through self-efficacy. Taken together the results of these studies provide further support for the utility of the MCS-DR, the value of assessing covert co-parenting conflict following divorce, and contextual considerations in studying divorcing families. Suggestions for future research, divorce education programming, and intervention are presented.
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Date Issued: 2017
Identifier: FSU_SUMMER2017_Ferraro_fsu_0071E_13969
Format: Thesis

Title: Constraints to Family Leisure and Perceptions of Family Functioning of U.S. Army Personnel Who Have Experienced Deployment.
Creator: Duncan, James Michael, Lucier-Greer, Mallory, Joiner, Thomas, Holtrop, Kendal, McWey, Lenore M., Florida State University, College of Human Sciences, Department of Family and...
Show moreDuncan, James Michael, Lucier-Greer, Mallory, Joiner, Thomas, Holtrop, Kendal, McWey, Lenore M., Florida State University, College of Human Sciences, Department of Family and Child Sciences
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Abstract/Description: Family leisure is conceptualized as engagement and satisfaction with experiences that involve joint participation in activities with other family members during one’s free time. Although family leisure has been linked to family functioning, the process by which family leisure contributes to family functioning, particularly in the context of leisure constraints, has yet to be explicated. Guided by theory, this study examined the relationships between leisure constraints and family functioning...
Show moreFamily leisure is conceptualized as engagement and satisfaction with experiences that involve joint participation in activities with other family members during one’s free time. Although family leisure has been linked to family functioning, the process by which family leisure contributes to family functioning, particularly in the context of leisure constraints, has yet to be explicated. Guided by theory, this study examined the relationships between leisure constraints and family functioning of United States Army personnel who have recently experienced deployments and evaluated the role of family leisure between these relationships. Two theoretically competing models were empirically tested to determine whether family leisure mediated or moderated the relationships between leisure constraints and family functioning. Leisure constraints were conceptualized as factors that inhibit a person’s ability to engage in leisure or derive satisfaction from leisure; these leisure constraints fall under one of three domains: structural constraints, interpersonal constraints, and intrapersonal constraints. For this study, relevant leisure constraints for United States Army personnel were identified. Structural constraints were defined as tangible, contextual factors that influence a person’s ability to function effectively in a leisure setting; perceptions of financial management were identified as a salient structural constraint for this population. Interpersonal constraints were defined as relationship factors that inhibit a person’s ability to function in a leisure setting; relationship warmth was identified as a salient interpersonal constraint for this population. Intrapersonal constraints were defined as perceptions of personal or internal processes that inhibit a person’s ability to function in a leisure setting; coping with the military lifestyle was identified as a salient intrapersonal constraint for this population. Family functioning was measured as a latent concept that included dimensions of family flexibility and family communication, both of which have been identified by the military as vital components to creating military family readiness. The construct of family leisure encompassed aspects of leisure engagement and leisure satisfaction. The first model was theoretically derived from leisure constraint theory and examined whether family leisure served as a mediating influence between leisure constraints and family functioning. The second model, theoretically derived from effort recovery theory, evaluated family leisure as a moderating influence between the variables of interest, leisure constraints and family functioning. The study sample consisted of 222 active duty United States Army personnel stationed in the continental United States, who were in a committed romantic relationship for at least two years, and had at least one adolescent child between the ages of 11 and 18. Studying military members who have significant others and adolescent children is important as the military operating environment is one characterized by high rates of transition and instability that can have a significant influence on informal networks, namely familial relationships. Family relationships are highly correlated with military family readiness, the ability of the family to effectively respond to military needs. Results indicated that family leisure fit best as a mediator and did not fit as well as a moderator for this sample of military members. More specifically, family leisure partially mediated the relationships between the leisure constraint variables of interest and family functioning. The leisure constraints of financial management and relationship warmth were significantly associated with family functioning. However, the direct relationship between military coping and family functioning was non-significant. For the indirect relationships, all leisure constraints were significantly associated with family leisure, and, in turn, family leisure was significantly associated with family functioning. This model fit similarly when accounting for the depressive symptomology of the active duty service member. In the competing model, no moderating effects were found for the study variables of interest. Results from this study can be used by service providers and policy makers who can advocate for family leisure as a leverage point for promoting healthy military families post-deployment. Practical applications include disseminating information to military families about leisure resources to provide families with new avenues to promote positive family functioning.
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Date Issued: 2017
Identifier: FSU_SUMMER2017_Duncan_fsu_0071E_13954
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