JMU Scholarly Commons is the home for electronic dissertations from 2020 to the present.
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Theses/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
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
Wellbeing in the Caribbean: Exploring wellness in Afro-Caribbean populations, Lynnquell S. Gardiner
“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
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
Theses/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
The art of sustaining orchestras through intentional educational experiences, Kimberly Souther
Age-related decline in neural synchrony and the FFR, Haley Szabo
Investigating the specific links between adverse childhood experiences and vulnerability to suicide: A mixed methods study, Priyata Thapa
A novel examination of none-of-the-above as it influences examinee item responses, Kathryn N. Thompson
The S9 model: A comprehensive framework for conceptualizing student suicidality, Katherine C. Wilson
Assessing word recognition in infants with a history of chronic otitis media, Sarah Wright
Theses/Dissertations from 2022
Decolonizing and enriching opera: A Nigerian folktale one act opera, Miracle O. Amah
Remote-frequency masking and speech perception in adults, Taylor L. Arbogast
Strategies and methods of training teacher emotional competence, Christina D. Beaton
A poet's voice: Music in service to poetry: Elements of text painting in Juliana Hall's song cycle "How Do I Love Thee?", Hayley Z. Coughin
A poet's voice: Music in service to poetry: Elements of text painting in Juliana Hall's song cycle "How Do I Love Thee?", Hayley Z. Coughin
Black girl magic: The endurance of enslaved mothers’ lessons, Briana G. Gaines
A Compositional Trinity for Viola: Three Caprices Evoking Heritage, Faith, and Urban Culture, Aiveen Gallagher
Quasi-experimental design and outcomes of a graduate clinician and caregiver-infant coaching intervention in a university speech-language pathology program, Shiree C. Harbick
Impact of parental substance misuse on attachment in young adults: A qualitative approach, Susan E. Hardman
Activist, entrepreneur, leader: The influence of social justice advocacy and entrepreneurial orientation on leader self-efficacy, Kathleen Q. Johnson
The relationship between leader composure and career derailment potential, and the moderating effect of race, James D. Krauss
Temporal modulation transfer functions of amplitude-modulated cervical vestibular evoked myogenic potentials in young adults, Kerri Lawlor
Promoting attainment: Examining the impact of institutional expenditure patterns on graduation rates, Matthew Lovesky
Taking time: Part-time students and student learning outcomes assessment, Sarah K. H. MacDonald
Equitable counselor education: Promoting a sense of belonging in master's counseling students, Jessica E. Mastrangelo
CALM-MO: An integrative tool for psychological mindfulness, Charles L. Miller
A survey of cochlear implant clinical protocols in India, Ariana Morris
Exploring the role of defense styles in the relationship between childhood adversity and vicarious trauma, Stewart Nafziger
The relationship between the vestibular ocular reflex and perception in young healthy adults, Susanne Nelson
Delivery of parent-child interaction therapy in a telehealth format: Reducing disruptive behaviors in pediatric traumatic brain injury, Emily D. Pogue
Learning improvement at scale: Improving rhetorical awareness in a first-year writing program, Caroline Prendergast
The relationship between quality of life outcomes and social hearing for cochlear implant recipients using the NCIQ and PIPSL, Bonnie A. Purtill
Musikah v’Ḥalil, “Music and the Flute”: The use of Jewish prayer in flute and piano music, Kathryn L. Rudnik
The use of complex-structure items in multistage testing, Paulius Satkus
Operationalizing the gift of love (GOL) in interpersonal reconstructive therapy (IRT): An examination of the role of meaning reconstruction in therapeutic change., Eliza Stucker-Rozovsky
The “new” normal: A mixed methods study of the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on college student sense of belonging, Hunter Swanson
Amplitude-modulated cVEMP (AMcVEMPs) versus transient cVEMP response properties: Possible implications, Andrew Thorne
An investigation of the violin teaching method of Lin Yaoji from a personal perspective, Mo Zhou
Theses/Dissertations from 2021
How college men describe their understanding of sexual assault, Sarah Anolik
A pedagogical approach to the technical aspects of Eugène Ysaÿe’s solo violin sonatas No. 5 and No. 6, Jianda Bai
Dual task study of cognitive and postural interference: Development of a methodology for use in vestibular disorders, Valerie Beacham
Nature and its place in professional counseling: A qualitative study of expert views, experiences, and future plans, Matthew V. Bukowski
An annotated list and searchable database of works for trumpet and piano by living American composers, Shelby R. Carico
