Browsing by Author "Kwok, Oi-Man"
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Altinsoy, Fatma (2017-07-21)The quality of university education has never been more important. Academics and university administrators have paid significant attention to create the conditions that assure the quality of higher education. Measuring ...
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Chen, Sylvia (2010-01-14)This study was designed to remedy the current lack of information on the causes of depression among Chinese women in the United States. It is based on an integrated understanding of depression, anger, female gender ...
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Silva, Ticiane Otavio dos Reis (2022-07-29)Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is the most common neurodevelopmental disorder in childhood with boys being almost twice as likely to be diagnosed than girls. Children and adolescents with ADHD are at higher ...
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Yu, Chia-Yuan (2014-07-01)Traffic safety has become an important concern in recent years. Built environmental characteristics have been identified as a critical factor in affecting traffic safety. However, several research gaps remain in the ...
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Rendon Santiago, Tania (2017-06-15)Through the years, scholars have made various developments in the area of caregiver research. As a result, policy makers and program developers have been able to better assist individuals with Intellectual Disabilities ...
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Mathis, Carlton William (2013-07-12)This dissertation seeks to build on the growing research literature concerning the intergenerational consequences of paternal imprisonment for their children. The existing literature has explored the cumulative process of ...
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Chang, Yu Ting (2013-05-03)This dissertation is a historically comparative study of adult mortality between Taiwan and the United States throughout the 20th century. The 20th century was characterized by the largest rise in life expectancy at birth ...
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Heo, Nayoung (2017-04-20)I laid out the results of the multilevel ordered logit regression analyses of the school survey data that I collected in 2015 to compare the educational outcomes between the multicultural students (born to a foreign-born ...
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Barlow, Kevin Lynn (2014-12-12)An effective and acceptable accountability system for education continues to puzzle educators and researchers. The focus of the present study was on two high profile accountability system models: status-based models and ...
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Dreke, Linda L. (2010-07-14)The current study tested the effect of ego resilience on engagement and achievement as mediated by social relatedness, using three waves of data and controlling for the stability of each construct as well as within wave ...
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Cho, Eunhee (2014-11-12)This dissertation investigated two issues: cross-language transfer among three typologically distant languages—Korean, English, and Chinese—and the language learning motivation of Korean students as it relates to two foreign ...
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Qin, Lixia (2019-03-25)Most of the teacher distribution and turnover studies have built on within-country analysis. The results from those studies, however, are often inconsistent. The purpose of my dissertation research is to investigate the ...
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Fletcher, Katherine Eng (2023-08-08)When researchers do not have two independent samples with which to cross-validate their instrument, the common advice is to randomly split the sample and conduct the exploratory factor analysis (EFA) on the first half and ...
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SooHoo, Michelle Marie (2018-06-19)As the median age of second-generation Asian Americans continues to grow past the age of maturity, it becomes increasingly important to better understand the mental health needs of Chinese American emerging adults. The ...
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Jung, Eunju (2014-08-04)A widely used tool for testing measurement invariance is multi-group confirmatory factor analysis (MCFA). Identification of MCFA models is usually done by imposing invariance constraints on parameters of chosen reference ...
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Barrois, Lisa Katherine (2010-10-12)The current study utilized structural equation modeling to test an indirect model of the effects of Teacher-Student Relationship Quality (TSRQ) on reading and math achievement via the indirect effects of TSRQ on engagement ...
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Amuta, Ann Oyare (2015-07-24)Obesity rates have dramatically increased in prevalence among children and adolescents. This increase is complemented by the appearance and increasing prevalence of Type 2 Diabetes mellitus (T2D). The numbers of youth with ...
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Guo, Wenhong (2020-11-05)English acquisition can be extremely difficult for EFL or ESL students because of the tedious experience of learning English words, which leads to less intrinsic learning motivation and poor learning outcomes. With widespread ...
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Wang, Huan (2017-12-08)Under common-item nonequivalent groups design linking, the functionality of common items as bridge between two parallel forms entails strict content and statistical restrictions on these items. Despite representativeness ...
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Li, Yun (2018-11-14)Since the invention of the first recording device in the 1800s, the film and music industries began designing and implementing non-speech audio in their production process. In the field of education, sound was intensively ...