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Title: Whose paradise? : the problem of reduced work and autonomy
Creator: Negrey, Cynthia, 1953-
Date: 1988
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: Whose performance counts? : equity concerns in performance funding policies
Creator: Opoczynski, Renata
Date: 2017
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations
Description: While accountability in higher education has been a topic of debate for decades, in recent years the discussions have shifted to emphasize efficiency and economic measures of success. A prominent example of this accountability movement is the increase in popularity of performance funding policies. These policies connect specific outcomes on state selected metrics to increased state funding (Goldstein, 2012). Performance funding policies purport to increase efficiency by rewarding reductions...
Show moreWhile accountability in higher education has been a topic of debate for decades, in recent years the discussions have shifted to emphasize efficiency and economic measures of success. A prominent example of this accountability movement is the increase in popularity of performance funding policies. These policies connect specific outcomes on state selected metrics to increased state funding (Goldstein, 2012). Performance funding policies purport to increase efficiency by rewarding reductions in cost and increases in specific economic outcomes. However, many of these policies neglect a similar emphasis on maintaining access, which may lead to undesirable consequences including reducing the enrollment of traditionally underserved students (students from low socioeconomic status (SES) families and historically underserved students of color) (Dougherty et al., 2014). Therefore, this study explored whether performance funding policies have an effect on underrepresented students' enrollment. Through a fixed effects panel analysis covering the years 2000 to 2014, this study explored any changes in enrollment of underserved minority students and Pell Grant receiving students in public four-year institutions. Findings from this study demonstrate that performance funding does have the potential to influence enrollment profiles at U.S. public four-year institutions. Specifically, this study found it changed the enrollment of underserved minority students. Further, these influences may not be equitable across all institutions, and instead may effect lower status institutions in a different manner than higher status institutions. Specifically, those with more flexibility in their enrollment profile may be more likely to change their enrollment of both Pell Grant students and underserved minority students. These findings have profound implications for higher education institutions, policy formation, and social equity.
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Title: Whose preferences count? A study of the effects of community size and characteristics on the distribution of the benefits of schooling
Creator: McDowell, George Robert, 1938-
Date: 1975
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: Why certified teachers fail to enter the teaching profession
Creator: Harper, Edward Harold
Date: 1958
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: Why did it sound better in the practice room? : a guide to music performance anxiety and how to cope with it through journal writing
Creator: Miller, Tess Anissa
Date: 2004
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: Why do high court judges join? : joining behavior and Australia's seriatim tradition
Creator: Wood, Rebecca Danielle
Date: 2008
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: Why do highly engaging middle school teachers saturate their classrooms with motivating instruction?
Creator: Raphael, Lisa Marcy
Date: 2005
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: Why do people comply and cooperate with the police? : a cultural explanation
Creator: Lee, Sung Uook
Date: 2020
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations
Description: The current dissertation examines police legitimacy in the South Korean context. Prior research has tended to focus on the relational aspects of police-citizen relationships and is generally suggestive of an important role for a variety of relational constructs. Although important, this work has tended to pay less attention to person-level constructs within individuals. Furthermore, prior police legitimacy research lacks examination of cultural values as well and only focuses on police...
Show moreThe current dissertation examines police legitimacy in the South Korean context. Prior research has tended to focus on the relational aspects of police-citizen relationships and is generally suggestive of an important role for a variety of relational constructs. Although important, this work has tended to pay less attention to person-level constructs within individuals. Furthermore, prior police legitimacy research lacks examination of cultural values as well and only focuses on police-citizen encounters. Additionally, although recent studies regarding South Korean public perception of police legitimacy have been emerging, more extensive investigation is needed. The primary goal of the current study is to examine the impact of propensity to trust and Confucian values on perceived police legitimacy, operationalized here using the Integrated Framework of Legitimacy (Hamm et al, 2017). To this end, the current dissertation uses data collected from South Korean university students to contribute to the literature (1) an evaluation of the role of person-level constructs in predicting public perceptions of police legitimacy and (2) a first test of the IFL in the South Korean context.
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Title: Why do some preservice teachers trust digital technology and others don't? : conceptualizing the intersection of trust, technology, and education
Creator: Francis, Andrea Ploucher
Date: 2010
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: Why do we still call it homophobia? : exploring the evidence for a state-trait model of sexual prejudice
Creator: Bluestein, Brooke M.
Date: 2017
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations
Description: Sexual prejudice occurs when one makes automatic or intentional negative evaluations of sexual minority (i.e., non-heterosexual) individuals due to their actual or perceived sexual orientation. The current study sought to extend the extant literature on sexual prejudice by using an experimental design to concurrently examine factors associated with two of the most prominent models of sexual prejudice: the personality model of homophobia and the negative affective response model of homophobia....
Show moreSexual prejudice occurs when one makes automatic or intentional negative evaluations of sexual minority (i.e., non-heterosexual) individuals due to their actual or perceived sexual orientation. The current study sought to extend the extant literature on sexual prejudice by using an experimental design to concurrently examine factors associated with two of the most prominent models of sexual prejudice: the personality model of homophobia and the negative affective response model of homophobia. Although the extant literature often portrays them as competing models, this study examined whether integrating elements from both models would create a more comprehensive, state-trait model of sexual prejudice that would better predict endorsement of anti-gay attitudes and negative reactions to lesbian, gay, or bisexual (LGB) stimuli. Participants (n = 350) were invited to participate in a two-part online study that examined the relationships among two individual-level personality factors (i.e., right-wing authoritarianism [RWA] and social dominance orientation [SDO]), negative affect (i.e., fear, hostility, guilt, and cognitive and somatic symptoms of anxiety), and exposure to gay male video stimuli. This study utilized video clips drawn from mainstream news media stories about gay men; the videos were empirically selected during a pilot study that examined the reactions of participants (n = 147) who were high on either RWA or SDO to six potential videos about gay men. Results from the full study indicated that double high participants (i.e., individuals who were simultaneously high on RWA and SDO) and participants who were high on RWA alone endorsed greater levels of sexual prejudice than participants low on both RWA and SDO; participants who were high on SDO alone did not endorse more sexually prejudiced attitudes. However, neither sexual prejudice nor emotion regulation significantly moderated the relationship between exposure to gay male material and negative affective response. Finally, although the results indicated that the relationship between personality and sexual prejudice was significant in the integrated state-trait model, the simplified model (i.e., the model that did not include the categorical personality variable as a predictor) was an overall better fit for the data. Nonetheless, because sexual prejudice can have negative implications for both sexual minority individuals and those who hold these prejudiced attitudes, it is imperative that research continues to explore which factors contribute to stigma, prejudiced attitudes, and discrimination against sexual minority individuals.
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Title: Why does misinformation persist? : cognitive explanations of the implicit message effect
Creator: Reynolds, Reed Miller
Date: 2020
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations
Description: Recent controversies have emerged regarding false information in contemporary discourse. Research suggests that misinformation communicated implicitly is harder to correct than explicitly stated misinformation (the implicitness effect), but the mechanism has remained speculative. Prior research has proposed the failure to monitor (FTM) hypothesis, including the prediction that inadequate information retrieval may explain the implicitness effect. This study experimentally varied misinformation...
Show moreRecent controversies have emerged regarding false information in contemporary discourse. Research suggests that misinformation communicated implicitly is harder to correct than explicitly stated misinformation (the implicitness effect), but the mechanism has remained speculative. Prior research has proposed the failure to monitor (FTM) hypothesis, including the prediction that inadequate information retrieval may explain the implicitness effect. This study experimentally varied misinformation implicitness and correction strength, measuring outcomes including misinformation persistence (MP), attribution accessibility, and mental representations generated by participants. Results indicate the accessibility of misinformation-consistent attributions is associated with increased MP, but accessibility does not mediate the implicitness effect. In contrast, misintegration, a cognitive process that makes the misinformation consistent with corrections, moderates the implicitness effect. Analyses reveal several distinct mechanisms that predict misinformation persistence, including message characteristics, receiver ability to retrieve critical information, and the quality of receiver-generated inferences. Theoretical implications are discussed.
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Title: Why school superintendents are dismissed or encouraged to leave their positions : a study as expressed by members or boards of education involved in selected cases in Michigan
Creator: Holloway, Hugh Horace
Date: 1966
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: Why subordinates lie to their superiors? : a model or organizational deception
Creator: Hubbell, Anne P. (Anne Patricia)
Date: 2000
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: Wide-sense martingale approach to linear discrete-time optimal estimation
Creator: Kara, Halit, 1934-
Date: 1971
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: Wife abuse attitudes and attributions : the role of fear of crime and sex-role ideology
Creator: Finke, Helene Lensky
Date: 1994
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: Wilderness land allocation in a multiple use forest management framework in the Pacific Northwest
Creator: Hughes, Jay Melvin, 1930-
Date: 1964
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations

Title: Wildlife Management and Conservation on Private Land in Namibia : an Ethnographic Account
Creator: Klataske, Ryan Thomas
Date: 2017
Collection: Electronic Theses & Dissertations
Description: Threats to wildlife in Africa and elsewhere around the world raise the question: how can humans work together in the Anthropocene to manage and conserve wildlife and other natural resources? By documenting the use of common property as a tool for wildlife management and conservation on private ranchland in Namibia, this dissertation documents one unique possibility. Drawing on anthropological data and information collected over 13 months of ethnographic research, it examines how and why...
Show moreThreats to wildlife in Africa and elsewhere around the world raise the question: how can humans work together in the Anthropocene to manage and conserve wildlife and other natural resources? By documenting the use of common property as a tool for wildlife management and conservation on private ranchland in Namibia, this dissertation documents one unique possibility. Drawing on anthropological data and information collected over 13 months of ethnographic research, it examines how and why groups of white ranchers have used common property as a tool for managing common-pool wildlife across boundaries of private land. These arrangements and the territories they govern are called freehold or commercial conservancies. This research resulted in an in-depth case study of one of the largest and most active conservancies in the country, as well as a rich collection of stakeholder narratives and observations on the interactions of a wide range of different actors. The findings suggest that common property offered not only a tool for conservation, but also a strategy for survival in post-apartheid southern Africa. After acquiring extensive rights to the wildlife on their land in the 1960s-70s, private landowners in Namibia still faced the challenge of managing this fugitive common-pool resource. While some landowners sought to prevent overexploitation and enclosure, others saw conservancies as a defense mechanism against the state, and as a strategy to escape the threat of land reform. By working together, white ranchers in Namibia have attempted to construct a new niche for themselves based on the conservation and sustainable use of African wildlife. Since the early 1990s, freehold conservancy members have transformed their relationship to wildlife and each other, contributing to the conservation of wildlife and habitat on private land. Yet, despite their accomplishments, many ranchers see their efforts as failing or falling short. Their disillusionment, as documented in this dissertation, stems from the politics of land, fear of a potentially predatory state, and an insecure sense of belonging.
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