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“I Can’t Believe I’m Marching for Reality”: Examining the Rhetorical Role of Science in the “Post-Truth” Era

Creator:: Baker, Carlee A.
Abstract:: In the months preceding the 2016 presidential election and during the Trump presidency, rhetoric, composition, and communications scholars expressed an urgent concern about the threat that Trump and his political affiliates posed to the status of truth in political life (McComiskey; Rice; Harsin; Cloud). However, the conversations surrounding the discipline’s...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Giving Birth to Reality : Experiences of Motherhood in the Stories of Eminent Tibetan Buddhist Practitioners

Creator:: Gallagher, Katelin
Abstract:: Tibetan Buddhism has offered two distinct, seemingly dichotomous perspectives about motherhood as it relates to traversing the spiritual path. In the first, mothering is the antithesis to spiritual development and realization, as it tethers a practitioner to the mundane duties of saṃsāra, the cycle of rebirth and suffering, propelling her...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Barstow, Dr. Courtney Campbell, Dr. Barbara Muraca, Dr. John Edwards, Dr. Jessica Beck, Dr. Lissy

Variations of Mathematics in College Algebra Instruction : An Investigation Through the Lenses of Three Observation Protocols

Creator:: Gibbons, Claire J.
Abstract:: College Algebra is a prerequisite for calculus and is thus an important stepping stone in the careers of STEM-intending undergraduates. However, College Algebra has low pass rates across the United States, interrupting students’ pathways to success. To address this concern, a research-oriented university in the Northwest United States restructured its...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: also thanks her committee members, Dr. Elise Lockwood, Dr. Tevian Dray, and Dr. Jessica Beck for

Virtual Liberatory Women of Color Mentorship

Creator:: McAloney, Kimberly A.
Abstract:: Higher education literature lacks frameworks and models that consider women of color mentoring and fewer that discuss virtual mentorship among women of color. This work examined a successful and productive virtual mentorship and explored the key features of the mentorship, how the mentorship was maintained virtually, and the benefits and...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: committee members: Kathryn McIntosh, Lucy Arellano, Larry Roper, Jessica Beck, and Allison Hurst - Thank

Making Sense of Social Justice Education: A Case Study of the Difference, Power, and Discrimination Program

Creator:: Furman, Kali
Abstract:: Utilizing anti-racist feminist research methodologies, Making Sense of Social Justice Education: A Case Study of the Difference, Power, and Discrimination Program, argues that institutions of higher education must attend to local histories of student activism and faculty development in their efforts to create social justice-informed structural change. Increasingly colleges and...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: me in this work as you entered retirement. To Dr. Jessica Beck, my time in the Graduate Certificate

Mathematics Graduate Student Instructors as a Complex System

Creator:: Gibbons, Claire J.
Abstract:: Mathematics Graduate Student Instructors (GSIs) have a significant impact on the teaching and learning of mathematics in post-secondary contexts through their work as instructors of record, tutors, graders, and recitation, laboratory, or discussion leaders for mathematics courses. Perhaps more importantly, GSIs are future teachers of mathematics: more than 60 percent...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: . Elise Lockwood, and Dr. Jessica Beck, thank you for being my dream team. When my confidence wavered, I

Graduate Teaching Assistants (GTAs) in a Studio Learning Environment: Practices, Epistemologies, and Pedagogical Development

Creator:: Smith, Christina
Abstract:: Providing transformational learning opportunities for undergraduate students demands changes to teaching practices. In large-enrollment introductory courses, graduate teaching assistants (GTAs) play an important role in facilitating student learning in small group environments. However GTAs are not provided the pedagogical development necessary to support them to be effective in their teaching...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: graduate career as well as all members of my committee: Dr. Devlin Montfort, Dr. Devon Quick, Dr. Jessica

Kinesiology’s Knowledge Production, Mass Translation, and Utilization Problem: Critical Appraisal and Theoretical Analysis of Physical Activity Websites

Creator:: Thomas, Jafra D.
Abstract:: Through this dissertation, the quality of freely available physical activity promotion web articles that lay adults would likely locate online was critically appraised and theoretically analyzed. Three broad categories were considered. They were 1) message consistency with national health guidelines for physical activity; 2) suitability for health-related communication; and 3)...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Program of Study Committee, and my Kinesiology Program Qualifying Exam Committee: Jessica Beck, Ph.D

Keeping a Roof Overhead : An Examination of Housing Strategies Among Low-Income White Families in Rural Trailer Parks

Creator:: Barrett-Rivera, Brenda C.
Abstract:: Housing is a critical component of family life, however, keeping a safe and stable roof overhead is increasingly difficult for the approximately 21 million low-income families in the United States (Urban Institute, n.d.; U.S. Census, 2015). Low-income families struggle to keep a roof overhead within the context of rising housing...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: truly mine. Thank you to my Graduate Council Representative, Jessica Beck, for teaching me new ways to

ScholarsArchive@OSU

“I Can’t Believe I’m Marching for Reality”: Examining the Rhetorical Role of Science in the “Post-Truth” Era

Giving Birth to Reality : Experiences of Motherhood in the Stories of Eminent Tibetan Buddhist Practitioners

Variations of Mathematics in College Algebra Instruction : An Investigation Through the Lenses of Three Observation Protocols

Virtual Liberatory Women of Color Mentorship

Making Sense of Social Justice Education: A Case Study of the Difference, Power, and Discrimination Program

Mathematics Graduate Student Instructors as a Complex System

Graduate Teaching Assistants (GTAs) in a Studio Learning Environment: Practices, Epistemologies, and Pedagogical Development

Kinesiology’s Knowledge Production, Mass Translation, and Utilization Problem: Critical Appraisal and Theoretical Analysis of Physical Activity Websites

Keeping a Roof Overhead : An Examination of Housing Strategies Among Low-Income White Families in Rural Trailer Parks

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