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Author:: Head-Dylla, Candace
Title:: EXPLORING THE READING MOTIVATION OF STUDENTS FROM A PUBLIC SCHOOL SERVING ONLY AMERICAN INDIAN STUDENTS: A MIXED METHODS STUDY
Graduate Program:: Educational Leadership
Keywords:: deficit views
pathologizing practices
educational leadership
Native American
American Indian
reading motivation
reading achievement and motivation
stratification
cultural and linguistic diversity
File:: Download Candace_dissertation_with_app.pdf
Committee Members:: Nona Ann Prestine, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Nona Ann Prestine, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Dr John Tippeconnic, Committee Member
Dr Susan Faircloth, Committee Member
Rayne Audrey Sperling, Committee Member

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Author:: Galinova, Elena
Title:: The Construction of Meritocracy within Mass Higher Education: Organizational Dynamics of Honors Programs at American Colleges and Universities
Graduate Program:: Educational Theory and Policy
Keywords:: stratification
meritocracy
higher education
honors programs
organizations
selective college admissions
File:: Download Elena_Galinova_ETD.pdf
Committee Members:: Gerald K Letendre, Committee Member
Roger Lewis Geiger, Committee Member
Cheryl Achterberg, Committee Member
David P Baker, Committee Chair/Co-Chair

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Author:: SASIDHARAN, LEKSHMI
Title:: CAUSAL MODELING APPROACH TO DETERMINE THE EFFECTIVENESS OF TRAFFIC SAFETY COUNTERMEASURES
Graduate Program:: Civil Engineering
Keywords:: regression estimation
causal models
propensity scores
matching
stratification
File:: Download LEKSHMI-DISSERTATION.pdf
Committee Members:: Eric Todd Donnell, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Eric Todd Donnell, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Paul Peter Jovanis, Committee Member
Martin T Pietrucha, Committee Member
Joseph Francis Schafer, Committee Member

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Author:: Ramachandran, Sanjiv
Title:: Subgrid modeling using transport equations: large-eddy simulation of the atmospheric boundary layer
Graduate Program:: Meteorology
Keywords:: Subgrid
transport equations
atmospheric boundary layer
stratification
File:: Download dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:: John Corry Wyngaard, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
John Corry Wyngaard, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Yvette Pamela Richardson, Committee Member
James Gordon Brasseur, Committee Member
Marcelo Chamecki, Committee Member
Joel Peltier, Committee Member

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Author:: Warner, Cody Wray
Title:: Home again, home again: Incarceration, residential mobility, and neighborhood destinations
Graduate Program:: Sociology
Keywords:: incarceration
stratification
prisoner reentry
residential mobility
life course transitions
social mobility
File:: Download warner_dissertation_final.pdf
Committee Members:: Glenn A Firebaugh, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Derek Allen Kreager, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Barrett Alan Lee, Committee Member
Jeremy Staff, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kai Arthur Schafft, Committee Member

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Author:: Salinas, Daniel R
Title:: Educational Expansion, School Sector and Social Stratification: Changing Mechanisms of Educational Inequality in Latin America
Graduate Program:: Educational Theory and Policy
Keywords:: Education
school expansion
inequality
Chile
Mexico
Private schools
stratification
File:: Download Salinas__2014__PhD_Dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:: David P Baker, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Katerina Bodovski, Committee Member
Soo Yong Byun, Committee Member
Glenn A Firebaugh, Committee Member

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Author:: Ertrachter, Karen Alexis
Title:: Same Schools, Different Classes: Socio-Economic StatusHomophily in Adolescent Friendship Networks
Graduate Program:: Sociology
Keywords:: sociology
demography
social networks
adolescence
stratification
socio-economic status
homophily
SES
File:: Download FinalThesisErtrachter.pdf
Committee Members:: Diane Helen Felmlee, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

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Author:: Baumgartner, Erin Marie
Title:: Does early childhood education climate matter? The relationship between state policy, school readiness, and enrollment in organized care
Graduate Program:: Sociology
Keywords:: school readiness
early childhood
sociology
stratification
race
education policy
education
File:: Download Baumgartner_dissertation_school_readiness_FINAL.pdf
Committee Members:: Michelle Lynn Frisco, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Valarie Elizabeth King, Committee Member
Emily Kate Greenman, Committee Member
Katerina Bodovski, Committee Member

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Author:: Boynton, Charles
Title:: Racial-Ethnic Variation in the Residential Environments of Rich Americans
Graduate Program:: Sociology
Keywords:: race
ethnicity
income
housing
neighborhoods
satisfaction
social capital
race
ethnicity
income
housing
neighborhoods
stratification
social capital
File:: Download 2019.10.17_Boynton_Thesis_FINAL.pdf
Committee Members:: Barrett Alan Lee, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
John David Iceland, Committee Member
Stephen Augustus Matthews, Committee Member
Jennifer Lynne Van Hook, Program Head/Chair

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Author:: Huang, Xinyi
Title:: Data-driven approach for turbulence modeling in rotating flows and stratified flows
Graduate Program:: Mechanical Engineering (PHD)
Keywords:: computational fluid dynamics
rotation
stratification
turbulence modeling
large-eddy simulation
wall modeling
RANS simulation
data-driven approach
uncertainty quantification
File:: Download 2023_PSU_ME_Xinyi_Huang_Dissertation_Spring.pdf
Committee Members:: Robert Kunz, Major Field Member
Chaopeng Shen, Outside Unit & Field Member
Xiang Yang, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Adri van Duin, Major Field Member
Robert Kunz, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

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