JMU Scholarly Commons is the home for electronic dissertations from 2020 to the present.
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Dissertations from 2026
Developing resilience in first year collegiate athletes: The effectiveness of a resilience and strengths based course, Dorian James Hayden
Dissertations from 2025
Parent–Child Interaction Therapy adapted for older children, Luke W. Badley
Intertrial coherence as a measure of synchrony in ocular vestibular evoked myogenic potentials and the effect of gaze angle, Sydney Brown
Ethics and clinical supervision: Understanding the needs of counselors in training and self-efficacy development in clinical supervisors, Brooke Carroll
A mixed methods approach to understanding athletic training preceptorships through measuring situational leadership, Jordan R. Dawson
Exploring EcoWellness and Attachment Dynamics: Understanding Parental Experiences, Youth Perceptions, and Counseling Implications, Katelyn Dolieslager, Deborah Sturm, Renee Staton, and Cara Meixner
Examining the Effectiveness of Imago Relationship Therapy in Married Couples, Anne Erickson
Understanding the impact of interaction between attention and working memory on listening effort, Husna Firdose
Establishing the feasibility of sustained sinusoidal cervical vestibular evoked myogenic potentials in young adults, Ashton Fowlkes
There’s a Crisis Brewing in Higher Education, Caroline M. Graham
The Sonata for Double Bass and Piano by Ruth Gipps: A new edition, Nicholas M. Greer-Young
The impact of inclusive leadership and restorative justice practices on the organizational commitment of student conduct professionals, Cover Heishman
Governance Oversight and Financial Sustainability: Examining the Impact on Nonprofit Financial Performance, Diana K. Kamwibua
Bob Becker: An examination of his compositional approach and his chamber work Never in Word, KaiPo Lan
A Qualitative Exploration of Sibling Relationships Impacted by Autism: “We’ll be brothers forever”, Julia M. Linger
From Clicks to Classifications: Examining Effects and Addressing Rapid Guessing in Longitudinal DCMs, Nicolas Mireles
Elements of Greek Identity in the Eight Dances from the Greek Islands by Yiannis Constantinidis, Afroditi Mitsopoulou
A Discussion of Rodion Shchedrin’s Ten Piano Pieces, Op. 20, Wei Mo
The Influence of Board Characteristics on the Financial Health of Nonprofit Organizations in the U.S., Kennedy Musyoka
Neur "Aud" Diversity: Subjective Listening Effort in Neurotypical and Neurodiverse Young Adults During Distracting Listening Tasks, Jamilah S. Odeh
LGBTQIA+ Competency in Counseling: Understanding Current Trends, Educational Experiences, and Counselor Identity Implications, Tyler Puryear
The application of time-frequency analysis to ocular vestibular evoked myogenic potentials, Hannah R. Richardson
Unmasking masculinities in counseling: From conformity to connection, Kyle R. Rose
Bridging Research and Practice: Audiologists’ Approaches to the Occlusion Effect for Bone Conduction Thresholds, Joanna R. G. Schachtner
Clinician Training, Support, and Self-Efficacy in Supporting Patients with Severe Persistent Mental Illness, Jaclyn Sharkey
The Percussionist’s Guide to Developing Performance Skills and Emotional Connection, Shelby N. Shelton
Minimize barriers, maximize success: Optimizing the private trumpet lesson experience for students with ADHD, Stefanie Marie Tetzloff
The Relationship Between the Vestibulo-Ocular Reflex and Vestibular Perception in Trained Dancers Using Sinusoidal Harmonic Acceleration Testing, Diana Trinidad
The Jack Pine and Four Other Solo Piano Works Composed by Five Canadian Women in the Twenty-first century, Huanwen Wang
Exploring trauma education and the intersection of self-efficacy, Ashlea Yearwood
Dissertations from 2024
Investigating the direction of item parameter bias in the presence of rapid guessing, Sarah Alahmadi
An exploration of the value in integrating pre-treatment assessments of caregiver-child Dyad functioning, Emery Qian Brautigan
Perceived environmental uncertainty levels of NCAA athletic directors, Tiffany Brutus and Tiffany Brutus
Assessing trends in cochlear implant recipients' quality of life score over time, Rebecca Civil
Addressing youth mental health through school counseling, advocacy, and student voice, Elizabeth Dinwiddie
A multimethod exploration of indirect request interpretation across neurotypes and developmental stages, Faith Frost
Wellbeing in the Caribbean: Exploring wellness in Afro-Caribbean populations, Lynnquell S. Gardiner
The leadership gender gap: Gender differences in leadership self-efficacy and motivation to lead in leadership development, Brooke Z. Graham
“Neur-aud-diversity”: Assessing ADHD through speech-on-speech masking, Rebecca Hales
Revolutionizing counselor education through cultural humility: A critical examination of pedagogical practices, educators’ experiences, and determining factors, Renee L. Haskins
A survey of collegiate voice students with asthma and allergies and their perceived impact on singer health and performance experiences – A pilot study, Nicole Dorothy Jenkins
Assessing the effects of EMG target levels on cVEMP thresholds, Melanie Johnson
Exploring the intersection of mental health, self-advocacy, and sense of belonging among rural, first-generation college students, Sarah Johnson
Exploring counseling self-efficacy development among graduate speech-language pathology students, Rebecca Jones
Impressionism in the hands of Griffes, Bauer, and Howe, and the musical climate in early 20th-century America, Elaine Sara Lim
Lived experiences of Korean immigrant women in the U.S., Jinok Lim
Department chair authentic leadership style and faculty job satisfaction among Hospitality Management faculty., Theresa Lind
Building leader self-efficacy in Kenyan teenage girls, Maureen Malomba
Small business recovery and innovation after the COVID-19 crisis: Moderated mediation involving leadership styles and leader data usage, Jalal Maqableh
Bridging the gap between clinical practice and evidence for hyolaryngeal excursion assessment during a clinical swallow evaluation, Kelsey Murray
Pedagogical tools and techniques for the development of harmonic audiation, ensemble intonation, and textual imagery through the choral music of Ola Gjeilo, Nikolaos Myrogiannis-Koukos
Antiracism in higher education: An integrated psychological perspective, Rhea E. Nesbitt
Magnitude estimations of angular motion: Test-retest reliability, Elizabeth C. Pahygiannis
Are hearing aids designed for all parts of the world? An ecological momentary assessment study, Preeti Pandey
Factors that help and hinder experience of reflective functioning in an attachment-based intervention: An enhanced critical incident technique analysis of parents’ experiences, Shelly-Ann Peart James
Facilitating parental scaffolding of joint book reading with toddlers, Tiffany Pempek Rahl
Cultivating emotional competencies in therapists-in-training, Tara Rajagopal
The effect of dance training on the VOR during the video head impulse test, Miranda Scalzo
Creating an evaluation instrument for governing board chairs at institutions of higher education, Kristi Shackelford
A qualitative lens for exploring ethical reasoning: Developing the 8 Key Question Codebook, Yelisey Shapovalov
The effect of listening level on listening effort: A pupillometry study, Noelle Elizabeth Steele
Technology leadership influence on intention to use AI-based Early Alert Systems (EAS) at Higher Education Institutions (HEIs), Tatjana Titareva
The impact of transformational leadership and knowledge sharing on intention to use gamification in teaching, Truong Minh Vu
Using recurrent neural networks to predict mastery outcomes from learning journey clickstream data, Sean A. York
The ‘well-Rounded’ artist: An intersectionality of stage presence, artistry, and entrepreneurship, Megan E. Zuhowski
Dissertations from 2023
Etudes for marimba: An assessment of intermediate and advanced techniques with four new works, William Alderman
The origins and development of the Cuban Danzas for the piano in the works of Manuel Saumell, Ignacio Cervantes, Ernesto Lecuona and Gisela Hernandez, Yanet Bermudez Ortiz
The effect of microglial cell dysfunction on multi-modal pre-pulse inhibition, Michelle Besser
An examination of Maria Schneider’s big band artistry through the lens of wind band arranging, Amy Birdsong
Camargo Guarnieri's Twenty Estudos: A commitment to Brazilian nationalism and virtuosity, Steven Brancaleone
Reevaluating student engagement: Exploring and applying alternative assignments in higher education undergraduate applied saxophone, Anthony S. Cincotta II
Developing and establishing validity evidence for a measure of Situational Leadership in an outdoor leadership context, Guy B. DeBrun
Higher education vulnerability: An assessment model, Daniel A. Finseth
Affectionately attached: The impact of attachment styles on sexual self-concept among adults who identify as LGBTGEQIAP+, Karli M. Fleitas
Effects of age on amplitude-modulated cVEMP temporal modulation transfer function, Raghav H. Jha
Impact of diabetes mellitus on vestibular function: A scoping review, Ellen M. Jones
An introduction to five selected modern Korean art songs, Gagok, by composers Guisook Lee and Jiyoun Chung, Ji Hee Kim
Maurice Ravel’s Le Tombeau de Couperin: Human emotions, grief, and the history of the Tombeau, Tin V. La
Reality of counseling in pediatric audiology clinical practice, Lara Leggio
Role of EMG monitoring on cVEMP testing in preschool age children, Brenna Murray
Leading a community promise: A mixed method study exploring the dynamics of adaptive leadership and student success, Elizabeth M. Narehood
Selected Lieder transcriptions of Franz Liszt and Leopold Godowsky: A comparative analysis, Jeremiah Padilla
The reed-above embouchure: History, geography and new avenues for clarinet pedagogy, Gregorio Maria Paone
The directional effect of target position on spatial selective auditory attention, Heesung Park
Observing how college students process culturally responsive test items, Chris R. Patterson
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on youth experiencing homelessness: A qualitative study, Bryan A. Pecoraro
Children’s experiences of parental death, “Lost but still remembered”, Nour Salem
Designing movement-based Interventions to promote self-regulation in early childhood, Gayatri Sardana
The lived experience of counseling students in natural disaster, Amy M. Sirocky-Meck
