Coping with everyday life stressors is a salient topic in our fast-paced society. The field of Health Psychology has an active interest in the study of personality in the stress and coping process, and its relationship to well-being. The present...
Twelfth grade (Education) -- Connecticut; Education, Secondary -- Connecticut -- Administration; High school principals|zConnecticut
Creating a culminating experience, a capstone, for high school students before graduation is a secondary reform initiative that is of interest to leaders in schools, to state policy leaders, and to legislators. Grass roots implementation of...
Algebra --- Study and teaching (Secondary); Educational tests and measurements --- Connecticut; Achievement tests --- Connecticut
Each year thousands of students are tracked into mathematics classes. In these particular classes, students may struggle or find their mathematics skills less academically able than their classmates and give up on the tasks that are introduced to...
Home and school -- Connecticut -- Plymouth -- Case studies; Education -- Parent participation -- Connecticut -- Plymouth -- Case studies; Parent-teacher relationships -- Connecticut -- Plymouth -- Case studies; Academic achievement -- Connecticut...
Evidence abounds that students whose families are involved in their education have more academic success at school than students whose parents are less involved. The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between effective...
Flamenco is a passion, an art, an identity and a culture. Its development over the centuries is complex, its legend unforgettable. This research will inform both the aficionado and the non-aficionado of flamenco's three components (songs, dance and...
Languages, Modern -- Study and teaching (Elementary); Spanish language -- Study and teaching (Elementary)
In April of 1983 the National Commission on Excellence in Education issued a report entitled “A Nation at Risk,” in which the Commission summarized the values of foreign language study and made recommendations for future instruction. The report...
School management and organization -- Longitudinal studies
In this thesis I explored, through in-depth literature review, survey, and teacher interviews, the value and feasibility of creating and maintaining a K-12 student portfolio that would present a learning history of each student over an extended...
Eating disorders -- Diagnosis; College students -- Health and hygiene
Orthorexia is characterized as an unhealthy obsession with healthy food. In contrast with anorexia nervosa (AN), the quality of food takes precedence over the quantity consumed. Nevertheless, orthorexia shares many of the same dangerous health...
Art -- Study and teaching (Elementary); Art and technology -- Study and teaching (Elementary); Discovery Education (Firm)
Our world is immersed in and enthralled by technology. The appealing quality of images, communication and music on-demand can possibly be put to good use by teachers of the visual arts. The curriculum could include multimedia as a core...
Oxytocin (OT) is a neuropeptide hormone/neurotransmitter that has been receiving increased attention from both neuroscientists and neuropsychologists due to its behavioral effects on the brain and nervous system. At first, it was discovered to be...
Pathological gambling is a severe, crippling, epidemic in our modern society. Pathological gambling has been linked with a host of personality disorders. The present study will examine the relationship between pathological gambling and the Big...
Blacks -- Race identity -- United States; Blacks -- United States -- Attitudes; Blacks -- United States -- Psychology
Racial identity has been associated with various facets of the lives of Blacks. Previous studies have associated African Americans’ racial identity with the development of self-esteem, psychopathology and academic achievement amongst other...
Short stories, Latin American; Hispanic American women in literature; Women and literature -- Latin America -- History
Since the beginning of time people have used storytelling to pass on history and entertain. During the Middle Ages more formal short stories began to take shape. With the invention of the printing press and the exploration of the New World, short...
Sixteenth-century North America had neither European castle nor king, classical ruins or antiquities, no ancient or cultural history; no sense of a past, no memories, no art and no literature; yet it had a present and a future. To Europeans, it was...
Supported Living Arrangements (SLAs) are residential programs designed to facilitate the integration of developmentally disabled individuals into the community. Clients of these programs live in independent apartments and receive approximately...
Narration (Rhetoric) -- Study and teaching (Primary)
The concept of using writing frames for writing instruction has been a popular concern in the area of education. Writing is considered one of the most difficult academic subjects for children because it requires transformation of the spoken words...
Visual communication -- Study and teaching (Secondary); Photography -- Study and teaching (Secondary)
The current Advanced Photography course at Glastonbury High School has been primarily an extension of the Introduction to Photography course. There is a need to improve the Advanced Photography course, adding three (3) comprehensive units, Portrait...
Education -- Parent participation; First-generation college students
The impact of family structure and parent involvement on college enrollment among potential first and later generation college students was explored using longitudinal data from the National Center of Educational Statistics. Logistical analyses...
Dick, Philip K. -- Criticism and interpretation; Borges, Jorge Luis,1899-1986 -- Criticism and interpretation; Mysticism in literature
The mysticism of Philip K. Dick and Jorge Luis Borges make for a pairing that exposes a similarity of technique in the invention of imaginary worlds. The use of the double becomes an especially noticeable method that will be explored at length. ...
Monitor (Ironclad); United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Naval operations; Armored vessels -- History -- 19th century
The object of this study is the restoration to the public memory of the revolutionary United States Ship (USS) Monitor. It follows the history of the vessel from inception to destruction and on to its recent discovery utilizing the works of...
