DSpace at Carthage College: Recent submissions
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Does Spending More Money on College Baseball Recruiting Result in More Wins for the Baseball Program?
(2017)The purpose of this study was to determine if spending more money on college baseball recruiting produced more wins for the college’s baseball program. The college baseball teams that were studied included all eight programs ... -
A Comparison Study of the Efficacy of Self-contained Bilingual Education and Monolingual General Education for Bilingual Students
(2017)There are two program models under consideration in this study. The first model is self-contained bilingual, which includes students who are learning both English and Spanish and speak mostly Spanish at home. This group ... -
An Analysis of the Perception of Nutritional Knowledge of Parents and Teachers: Do We Really Know What Nutrients Do?
(2017)It has been argued for decades that good nutrition is extremely beneficial, but, how many parents and teachers actually use this information to help advance their children and students academically? Studies have been ... -
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together on the Side of the Pool? Factors That Lead to Disparities in Swimming Participation
(2018)Earlier research on drowning disparities between White and minority Americans suggest that embedded values can lead to lack of attention and access to aquatic activities. The purpose of this study was to identify advertising ... -
PERCEPTIONS OF THE USE OF GENERIC MASCULINE IN SPANISH BY STUDENTS OF SPANISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE AND ITS RELATIONSHIP TO A SEXIST USE OF THE LANGUAGE.
(2018)The aim of this study was to understand both the effects that the use of the masculine generic and the use of gender-fair language have on students of Spanish as a second language. Its purpose was not only to answer the ... -
The Collegiate Male Athlete Perspective of Female Athletic Trainers
(2018)Gender issues in the workplace are continually being discussed, but have yet to be discussed through the lens of Midwestern collegiate athletics. Despite the fact that females make up more than half of all athletic trainers, ... -
Teaching Writing Techniques: The Impact on Creative Online Writing
(2018)Creative writing is a common trend, but Creative Online Writing in a second language is a seemingly unexplored field. There are few studies that have analyzed the impacts of websites for cultivating the art of thinking and ... -
A World of Difference: Engaging Through Experiential Service Learning
(2018)This study investigated student perceptions of engagement that can be used to better understand engagement in an experiential and service learning educational environment. The targeted population consisted of former students ... -
Gender Comparison of the Effects of Injuries on Athletes
(2018)The purpose of this research study was to investigate the emotional and psychological responses to injury in both male and female collegiate athletes. The study involved 126 male and 126 female collegiate athletes. These ... -
A Guide to a Healthy Player Coach Relationship
(2019)The purpose of this project was to provide information to beginning coaches and others new to leadership positions. This document contains information on the qualities a good coach should display. The idea that sports are ... -
Ideology in Education—A Critical Discourse Analysis of Chinese and Western Ideolo gical Differences in Education from Are Our Kids Tough Enough? —Chinese School
(2018)Research on ideology in education has illustrated that ideologies are grounded in educational pedagogies. However, little is known about cross-cultural ideological differences in education. The researcher conducted a ... -
Effects of Differentiated Instructional Techniques on High School Biology Academic Achievement
(2018)The purpose of this study was to investigate if consistent use of differentiated instruction techniques, including differentiated vocabulary and reading strategies, would improve student performance on a common summative ... -
A Comparison of Test Scores for Co-Taught Classrooms vs. Individual Classrooms
(2018)This study examined a comparison of classroom performance test scores of co-taught classrooms and individual taught classrooms at the 6th, 7th, and 8th grade benchmarks. The study was unique because it utilized the Wisconsin ... -
Teachers’ Perceptions of Effective Co-Teaching
(2018)This study was designed to evaluate the perceptions that general and special education teachers have toward effective co-teaching. The researcher used an anonymous survey to gather information from 39 teachers who were ... -
The Effectiveness of Reader’s Workshop
(2018)This study examined whether or not Reader’s Workshop was effective in improving student achievement scores, based on the scores in Reading and Language Arts found on the schools’ publicly available statewide report card ... -
A Cross-Sectional Analysis of DIII Athletes’ Perceptions of Sport Psychology
(2019)The focus of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) has been the “protection of student-athlete well-being, maintenance of amateurism in collegiate sports, and support for the pursuit of excellence in academic ... -
The Effects of Project-Based Learning on High School Girl's Attitudes Towards Chemistry
(2019)The goal of this study was to examine the effects of project-based learning in chemistry on high school girls’ perceived communal value of chemistry, personal communal values, attitudes and motivations in chemistry, and ... -
Comparison of Supported and Unsupported Environments for Students with Level One Autism
(2019)The research ahead explores the differences in two types of classroom environments. The first type of environment to be discussed is an inclusive classroom supported environment. Inclusion is a classroom with both special ... -
Mental Health and Suicide Awareness Programs within the Athletic Department
(2019)This project focuses on the need for mental health and suicide awareness programs within the athletic department. There is a stigma around mental health that needs to be broken and this project explores methods that could ... -
Genetic mutation of Kcnj16 identifies Kir5.1-containing channels as key regulators of acute and chronic pH homeostasis
(The FASEB Journal, 2019-01-08)Acute and chronic homeostatic pH regulation is critical for the maintenance of optimal cellular function. Renal mechanisms dominate global pH regulation over longer time frames, and rapid adjustments in ventilation compensate ...
