MINDS@UW Eau Claire: Recent submissions
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A Comparison of VCCC and WCCC for Students in a Montessori Setting
(2019-05)This study extended Skinner, Ford, and Yunker's (1991) study to investigate the the effects of different methods of responding during Cover, Copy, Compare on math fact fluency development. An alternating treatments design ... -
School Psychologists' Social Acceptability Ratings of Social Skills Interventions for Students with Autism Spectrum Disorder
(2019-05)The purpose of this study was to examine school psychologists' perceived effectiveness and social acceptability of school-based social skills interventions for students with ASD. Specifically, the study surveyed their ... -
Do Labels Matter? Pre-service Teachers' Acceptability of the Daily Report Card for Students with and without Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder
(2019-05)This study examined teacher acceptability of an evidence-based intervention (Daily Report Card; DRC) based on the presence or absence of the label of Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder within a vignette describing a ... -
Queering Rhetorics of Insanity: An Exploration of the Northern Wisconsin Home for the Feeble Minded and Epileptic
(2019-05)This project discusses the institutional, historical, and cultural narratives surrounding the Northern Wisconsin Center for the Developmentally Disabled-originally known as the Northern Wisconsin Home for the Feeble ... -
Disestablishment in Connecticut: 1816-1818
(2019-05)Disestablishment of the state and church in Connecticut proved to be rich in political and religious history. For years religious dissenters decried the forced support of religion in the state. As the Republican Party ... -
Impact of High Versus Low Preference Rewards on Oral Reading Fluency
(2019-04)Preference assessments have been used to identify preferred items that increase the effectiveness of a reinforcer. Informal preference assessments are most often utilized when an individual can verbally identify their most ... -
Counseling practices of speech-language pathologists serving persons with aphasia: Examining training and preparedness within clinical practice
(2018-12)Purpose: This study examined Speech-Language Pathologists' (SLPs') perspectives on the counseling training they have received, and the counseling skills they are implementing into their practice with individuals with ... -
Students' Digital Media Use in College Writing Classes: An Empirical Study of Preferences, Practices, and Possibilities
(2017-07)This empirical study is an attempt to gauge the extent to which college students are adding visual and other computer-generated elements-such as photos, video, and hyperlinks-to classwork as well as for their personal ... -
" You have to invest ": Speech-language pathologists' perspectives on teaching literacy skills to students who use AAC
(2017-05)Literacy as it relates to students who use augmentative and alternative communication (SWUAAC) currently has limited research in the field of speech language pathology. Research regarding this population states SWUAAC ... -
If Sexual Orientation is a Choice, When Did You Choose? A History of the LGB Student Group at The University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, 1983-2000
(2017-05)The University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire's Gay/Lesbian student organization (GLO) formed in 1983 and was recognized by the University in 1984. The students spent most of their social lives off campus. The student group ... -
"A New Species": Neighborhood and Community Shopping Centers in St. Louis Park, Minnesota, 1941-1956
(2017-05)This thesis examines a topic often overlooked by historians of suburbanization and consumption: the influence of neighborhood and community shopping centers in postwar suburban communities. Conceived during the 1920s and ... -
Modeling Wind Speed Distributions Using Skewed Probability Functions : A Monte Carlo Simulation with Applications to Real Wind Speed Data
(2018-05)The fast depletion of non-renewable energy has challenged researchers to look for clean and fuel-efficient sources. Among the bioenergies, wind energy has shown to be clean, fuel-efficient, and cost-effective. Thus, ... -
Are Chinese Happy (幸福)? : Evidence From the World Value Survey (2012)
(2018-05)Happiness, or life satisfaction, or well-being has become a hot and hotter topic in not only psychological study but also behavioral economics. In 2012, a national survey was conducted by asking Chinese respondents “are ... -
A Preliminary Study of College Students’ Levels of Humility and Disability Attitudes
(2018-05)The purpose of this study was to explore college students' levels of dispositional and intellectual humility and the potential link between humility and disability attitudes. We predicted that those with higher levels of ... -
Modeling with Time Gaps : Application to UW-Eau Claire Housing Incidents
(2018-05)The purpose of this project is to develop a framework for time series analysis on data sets which have long known periods of missing information. Such a situation presents itself when trying to predict judicial code ... -
Analysis of Arabidopsis thaliana Red-Light Response Mutants Identified in a Genetic Enhancer Screen
(2018-05)Plants require light for survival and have developed sophisticated pathways to respond and adapt to the light in their environment. Photoreceptors allow plants to sense specific wavelengths of light, one family being the ... -
Factors Affecting Retention Rates of UW – Eau Claire Hmong Students
(2018-05)Our aim is to look at how retention of Hmong students is negatively affected by racism on campus. Specifically, we will be looking at how Hmong students are more likely to consider leaving the university due to racism ... -
Antifungal Susceptibility of Candida albicans Biofilms under Hyperbaric Conditions
(2018-05)Candia albicans is a fungus notorious for infection of indwelling medical devices and inflamed tissues in immunocompromised patients. Its unique ability to form biofilms, or scaffold-like networks, makes it increasingly ... -
UX Research & Design : For Midwest Meals and Red’s Mercantile
(2018-05)The goal of this creative project was to identify—from both a student and faculty perspective—the challenges and rewards associated with integrating industry-targeted, online courses into a community-based client project ... -
Secondary Physical Education Teachers’ Job Satisfaction in Japan, South Korea, and the United States
(2018-05)Physical education (PE) teachers have high attrition rates worldwide, yet little cross-cultural research exists exploring the factors contributing to their job satisfaction/dissatisfaction. The purpose of this study was ...