Dissertations
Dissertations from Fontbonne students and faculty.
2024
What Determines Investment into Fine Arts Programs in Public High Schools?, Tiandra Bland | Education and Special Education
Examining the Factors Contributing to the Teacher Shortage Crisis in the U.S., Alicia K. Green | Education and Special Education
An Exploration of Dress Codes in Speech-Language Pathology Graduate Programs, Brumbaugh Klaire | Education and Special Education
Individual Placement and Review Committee Process: Perceptions of Parents of Students Who Are Both Deaf and Autistic, Elyza Polsky | Education and Special Education
Connecting Emotional Intelligence Training for Corporate Leadership to Employee Job Performance, Ashley Shannon | Education and Special Education
Manifestation Determination Reviews: What Is the Role of the Speech Language Pathologist and Are the Language Abilities of the Student Considered?, Joan Turner | Education and Special Education
2023
Talking the Talk: Barriers to Culturally Responsive Iconographic Selection on Augmentative Alternative Communication Devices, Aaron Doubet | Education and Special Education
How Backstories Influence the Way Teachers Speak To and About Traumatized Students: A Case Study, Keona Nicole Griffin-King | Education and Special Education
Caregiver Experiences in the Implementation of Learning in Early Intervention for Children with Hearing Loss, Melissa D. Jensen | Education and Special Education
2022
The Impact of Educator Empathetic Mindset on Expectations of Students and Perceptions of Student Performance, Julie Demsko | Education and Special Education
Culturally Responsive Teaching Preparedness: Differences and Similarities Among Preservice and Inservice Educators, Colleen Kinsella | Education and Special Education
Communication-related quality of life: Perspectives of people with aphasia and speech-language pathology students, Ethan Kristek | Education and Special Education
The Craft of Constructing a Classroom Library: Student Collaboration in Book Selection for the Classroom Library, Meredith Murray | Education and Special Education
Caregiver Engagement in Early Intervention for Deaf or Hard of Hearing Children: Does Provider Identity Matter?, Cole M. Renn | Education and Special Education
Examining Educators’ Perceived Impact of Trauma-Informed Training and Professional Development in the Classroom and Related Classroom Behavior Management Practices, Katherina Margaret Roeder | Education and Special Education
2021
The Nature of Learning in a Virtual Literacy Camp for Students Who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing, Paula E. Gross | Education and Special Education
Intertwining Personal and Professional Domains: Examining Challenges, Strategies, and the Impact of Mentoring on Careers of Women in Higher Education Senior Leadership, Janice M. Johnson | Education and Special Education
Higher Education and COVID-19: Impact on Nontraditional Students Following a Traditional Path, R. Lauren Miller | Education and Special Education
Exploring Sense of Belonging in Online Learning Environments Through Myers-Briggs Personality Type Indicators, Jennifer Moore | Education and Special Education
2020
International Early Childhood Education and Care Professionals Practices to Engage Family Members of Young Children with Special Education Needs: A Comparative Study of Professional Practices in China and the United States, Jami Louise Swindell | Education and Special Education
2018
Reconceptions of 'Home' and Identity within the Post-War Bosnian Diaspora in the United States, Adna Karamehic-Oates | Other
2017
Having Enough: Experiences of Students Utilizing a Campus Food Pantry, Jamie Daugherty | Family and Consumer Sciences
Failure to Fail in Dietetics Education: A Descriptive Study, Dena B. French | Family and Consumer Sciences
A Review of Geriatric Content in Accredited Nutrition & Dietetic Programs, Melissa Ramel | Family and Consumer Sciences
2015
Examining White Privilege: Participatory Action Research in Higher Education, Heather French | Education and Special Education
Putting Government in its Place: Cultural Racism, Sentiment, and Neoliberalism in Contemporary United States Responses to Natural Disasters Abroad, Corinne Wohlford Mason | History, Philosophy, and Religion
2014
Effect of Retrieval Practice on Applied Knowledge: Evidence from a Professional Training Program, Jenna M. Voss | Communication Disorders and Deaf Education
2013
Preserving the Sponsoring Tradition: A Study of Catholic Colleges and Universities Founded by Religious Orders, John Michael Pressimone | Other
2011
Alcohol Consumption at Missouri Postsecondary Institutions and the Socio-Ecological Model of Prevention, Janelle Densberger Julian | Other
2006
New Families of Embedded Triply Periodic Minimal Surfaces of Genus Three in Euclidean Space, Adam G. Weyhaupt | Math and Computer Science
2005
Determining the Impact of Self-Directed IEP Instruction on Secondary IEP Documents, Jamie Van Dycke Doronkin | Education and Special Education
1998
Communicative Interactions Between Mothers and Children with Cochlear Implants, Susan T. Lenihan | Communication Disorders and Deaf Education
1991
The Effect of Portfolio-Based Instruction on Composition Students' Final Examination Scores, Course Grades, and Attitudes Toward Writing, Nancy Blattner | Other
1987
The Development of a University Library: The University of Nebraska, 1891-1909, Sharon McCaslin | Library
1986
Commercial Fish Farming in Nigeria, John Okechukwu Emeka | Business Administration
1985
An Inquisitor of Structures: Wallace Stevens and the Quest for the Fresh Spiritual, Donald Paul Burgo | History, Philosophy, and Religion