Electronic Theses and Dissertations
About: Electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) are the graduate research outputs of Texas Tech University. They represent years of work from our Master's and Doctoral graduates. If you find the ThinkTech digital repository useful, please tell us! Share how open access to scholarship benefits you. Your story matters to us.
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An evaluation of Texas secondary special education professionals perceptions teaching transition skills to individuals with low incidence disabilities
(2022-12)This study investigated Texas secondary special education teachers’ confidence in using evidence-based practices to teach transition skills to students with low incidence disabilities. The focus of this study is to examine ... -
Health information in NASM accredited U.S. university music programs: Perceptions among music administrators, piano faculty, and piano students regarding available resources and assistance
(2022-12)The purpose of this study was to investigate perceptions regarding how U.S. university music programs are currently instituting guidelines set forth by the 2011 Health and Safety Standard of the National Association of ... -
“It’s kind of a funny story”: A narrative intervention for depression
(2022-12)Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting lockdowns, rates of depression have substantially increased, motivating research on more scalable treatments, such as narrative interventions. Although previous ... -
Effects of invasive piscivorous Brown Trout (Salmo trutta) on native fish populations of the Jemez River, New Mexico
(2022-12)Invasive predators can harm native fish populations in both marine and freshwater systems. Brown trout (Salmo trutta) are among the most harmful invasive species and have been introduced in lakes and rivers throughout the ... -
Empowered Nepantleras: Borderland Latina graduates’ perceptions of effective institutional support from their four-year Hispanic-serving institutions
(2022-12)There exists a critical opportunity gap in Latinx postsecondary education completion, graduation, and degree attainment. The issue of unequal outcomes in degree attainment by Latinxs has only slowly improved over the past ... -
Speciation and bioaccessibility of arsenic in drinking water filtration waste: Environmental implications for soils and human health
(2022-12)Arsenic contaminated drinking water is a critical problem in many parts of the world, including at least four million people in Latin America. In northwestern Costa Rica, arsenic ranges from 20 to over 80 µg arsenic L-1; ... -
Towards a probabilistic foundation for non-relativistic and relativistic quantum theory
(2022-12)The controversy on the interpretation and conceptual foundations of quantum mechanics has been accompanying the theory since its inception in the 1920s. The question of which probability theory ought to be used to statistically ... -
Analogous sonic archetypal representation: Symbolic lineage in syntactic modal structures
(2022-12)The lineage systems of musical meaning trace themselves to antiquity. Through lines of compositional use, emotional connotation, and symbolic meaning can be discovered through topics and experimentation that reveals common ... -
White folks walking: Exploring Bishop’s invitation into diverse books through poetic inquiry
(2022-12)Purpose In 1990, Rudine Sims Bishop opened the summer printing of Perspectives: Choosing and Using Books for the Classroom with a short but profound essay. With it, she put onto paper what many had been saying for decades, ... -
Uncertainty Analysis of Healthcare Data via Statistical Modeling and Optimization
(2020-08-01)Healthcare data have been useful resources for improving patient care in the health care system. Many efforts have been made to analyze healthcare data of different structures to draw actionable insights into the appropriate ... -
The Impact of Social Support on Graduate Student Mental Health
(2014-08)The researcher conducted a two-part dissertation study examining the relationships among stress, social support and mental health outcomes for graduate students in the United States. Participants were recruited via online ... -
A Two-Essay Dissertation Examining Individual Tax Reform and the Implied Cost of Equity Capital
(2013-08-01)ESSAY 1: Prior studies of the Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2003, which cut individual tax rates on both dividends and capital gains, unexpectedly find that non-dividend firms were more favorably affected ... -
Influence of Personal Growth Initiative on the Relationship Between Culture and Work Values
(2013-05-01)The importance of understanding work values has become increasingly relevant as research supports a positive relationship between the fulfillment of work values and job satisfaction (Super, 1973; Hoppe, 1990; Rounds, 1990). ... -
Wellbeing Leadership in Higher Education: A Collective Case Study of Chief Wellness Officers
(2022-12)This qualitative collective case study examined the research associated with leadership in higher education settings with a focus on developing understanding of wellbeing programs and the Chief Wellness Officer (CWO) role. ... -
Hadronic vector boson decay and the art of calorimeter calibration
(2002-12)Presented here are several studies involving the energy measurement of particles using calorimeters. The first study involves the effects of radiation damage on the response of a prototype calorimeter for the Compact ... -
The relationship of early recollections to occupational choice
(1967-08)Psychologists have been interested in relating various factors pertaining to occupational choice for many years. Such occupationally related factors as intelligence, education, physical ability, aptitudes, environmental ... -
Attitudes toward love, sexuality, and marriage among young adult children of divorce
(1991-08)Longitudinal studies (Hetherington, Cox & Cox, 1985; Wallerstein, 1985, 1987) have established that the effects of parental divorce in childhood and adolescence are longstanding. Older research had indicated that males ...
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