Young adolescent girls engage in many leisure and academic activities outside of school that support literacy practices and identity formation. The use of mobile devices and online spaces has become an integral component ...

Retention is a genuine, valid apprehension for many two-year colleges and four-year universities in the United States. As many as 1 in 3 first-year students do not return for the sophomore year due to variety of reasons, ...

The purpose of the foster care system is to promote safety, stability and wellbeing for children who have experienced maltreatment with the intent that children will heal and become stable adults. However, adolescents who ...

The purpose of this study was to understand the effectiveness of IPE-Sim as a learning methodology. Interprofessional education (IPE) provides a collaborative approach to educating students from different health-related ...

Those experiencing homelessness (IEHs) are more likely to have more health issues, more unmet health needs, higher occurrences of excess morbidity and mortality, have less control over manageable chronic health conditions, ...

Poor reading skills can impact high school students identified with a specific learning disability and affect overall academic achievement. This is due in part to secondary-level academic requirements with limited opportunities ...

The purpose of this dissertation is to fill a need for a meta-analysis of single-subject studies on the effectiveness of video self-modeling (VSM) with broad clinical populations. Although there has been a previous ...

Creativity has been part of occupational therapy (OT) since the field began (Hall, 1918; Slagle, 1939). Today, creative thinking is still valued in OT but we know little about how practitioners apply it (Fletcher, 2010). ...

Kate Chopin has a merited place in the literary canon for her works of realism—specifically The Awakening and “Athenaise”—that reveal progressive messages about a woman’s search for identity. Although objective in her ...

Technology usage within schools is prevalent and research has focused on the value, challenges, and benefits of using technology within classrooms (Brown, Englehardt, & Mathers, 2016). However, little research exists to ...