• Competitive balance in college football: Additional analysis on the effects of changes in conference membership 

  Stoldt, G. Clayton, 1962-; Perline, Martin M.; Vermillion, Mark C. (Kent State University, 2013)

  Numerous studies (Perline & Stoldt, 2007; Perline, Stoldt & Vermillion, 2012: Rhoads, 2004) have indicated that changes in college athletic conference membership at the NCAA Division I FBS level result in greater levels ...

• Member turnover among intercollegiate athletic conferences: A contributing factor to competitive imbalance among football playing-institutions 

  Perline, Martin M.; Noble, Jeffrey S.; Stoldt, G. Clayton, 1962- (American Press, 2015)

• Big 12 football: Competitive balance before and after realignment 

  Noble, Jeffrey S.; Perline, Martin M.; Stoldt, G. Clayton, 1962- (2016-07-08)

  Conference realignment among athletic programs that compete at the Division I level of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) has been prevalent among various institutions over the past decade, particularly ...

• The Big East Breakup: Effects on Competitive Balance 

  Noble, Jeffrey S.; Perline, Martin M.; Stoldt, G. Clayton, 1962- (Kent State University, 2018-04-30)

  Whereas much of the research on competitive balance deals with the addition of one or more members to a conference and compares the competitive balance before and after the addition(s), the authors of this study investigated ...

• Competitive balance in NCAA “Power Conferences:” The case of men’s and women’s basketball 

  Perline, Martin M.; Noble, Jeffrey S.; Stoldt, G. Clayton, 1962- (2018-08-16)

  The uncertainty of outcome hypothesis as well as past research has suggested that unless there is competitive balance among teams fans lose interest and revenue declines. It follows that the greater the sources of revenue ...

• Transforming attitude towards learning: Cognitive and metacognitive thinking and critical coreflection 

  Shetler, Elizabeth (Wichita State University, 2020-05-01)

  INTRODUCTION: Cognition can be defined as all mental processes and abilities in which people engage on a daily basis such as memory, learning, problem solving, and evaluation, reasoning and decision-making. Cognition helps ...

• Investigating connections between dialectical thinking and creative problem solving 

  Lubbers-Payne, Mercedes; Herrin, Deanna (Wichita State University, 2020-05-01)

  The purpose of this study was to explore the connection between the way college students think and how creatively they can problem-solve. We hypothesized that older adult college students (50+) would use more dialectical ...

• Self-advocacy levels in college TRIO participants and their collegiate non-TRIO participating peers 

  Lubbers-Payne, Mercedes (Wichita State University, 2020-05-01)

  Self-advocacy is, essentially, one's ability to represent themselves or their interests. Consider self-advocacy like a circle with two prongs; those prongs would be self-determination (Ryan and Deci, 2000) and Self-Efficacy ...

• Labeled individuals: The influence of stereotypes on communication between American and Non-American students 

  Lamei, Lena (Wichita State University, 2020-05-01)

  Skin shades, gender, country of origin, accents, and even our names make a big difference in how we are perceived, welcomed, beaten up, appreciated, or degraded. All of us might have been carrying a scar of being labeled ...

• Building bridges and strengthening bonds: Hispanic family engagement and student activity 

  Bosch, Jason; Jasso, Kayla; Umeri, Mercy; Ellison, Ricki; Huff, Tamara; Moeckel, Stuart (Wichita State University, 2020-05-01)

  This qualitative case study examined perceptions of ways in which Hispanic family engagement influenced Hispanic student achievement in a Midwestern school district. Using work in Social Capital Theory from Bourdieu, Putnam, ...

• Why come to school? Learning from middle school students' perspectives on chronic absenteeism 

  Berry, Bobby D.; Hawkins, Kevin C.; Holt-Fields, LaWanda; McClintock, Amy; Montford, John; Monk-Morgan, Kaye; Royal, Christy L. (Wichita State University, 2020-05-01)

  INTRODUCTION: Chronic absenteeism is a long known barrier to educational success and academic achievement (McClusky, Bynum & Patchin, 2004). While governing agencies have established policies and standards for attendance, ...

• Telling their stories: Voices of first-generation students at a Midwestern university 

  Akella, Nirupama; Stegman, Miranda; Hatfield, Adam; Drumright, Michelle; Isanda, Kepha; Rangel, Melinda; Stubblefield, Deborah (Wichita State University, 2020-05-01)

  INTRODUCTION: First generation college students (FGCS) are those whose parents did not receive a Bachelor's degree. Although their numbers on college campuses are increasing, FGCS tend to have lower attendance and/or ...

• Sport Public Relations Class Project: Alumni Society Revitalization 

  Stoldt, G. Clayton, 1962-; Calder, Courtney (2020)

  Students in a graduate sport public relations class were assigned a project that enabled them to learn about donor relations and the campaign planning process. The project called for students to revitalize the sport ...

• Social-cognitive factors of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics career interests 

  Mau, Wei-Cheng J.; Chen, Shr-Jya; Lin, Chi-Chau (Springer, 2020-04-22)

  Guided by the social cognitive career theory (SCCT), this study examines the factors influencing science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) career interests and the career goals of college students in Taiwan ...

• Editorial: Goodbye: New begining 

  Rivera, Edil Torres (Sociedad Interamericana de Psicologia, 2020-03-08)

  As I am beginning to write this final editorial as the editor of the Interamerican Journal of Psychology (IJP), I can help but to have reflections about these few years. In 2011, when I began this process in where the ...

• Navigating the education bureaucracy: How principals make sense of distributed leadership in practice 

  Hayes, Michele R. (Wichita State University, 2019-12)

  Distributed leadership has been accepted as the term used to describe various forms of shared or collaborative leadership practices in schools (Harris, 2013; Leithwood & Mascall, 2008). Principals are charged with enacting ...

• Examining determinants of sport event attendance: a multilevel analysis of a major league baseball season 

  Lim, Namhun; Pedersen, Paul M. (Taylor & Francis, 2018-12-31)

  Attendance data in sports leagues are organized at more than one level and thus are nested data with factors varying by individual games (e.g. single game attendance figure), which are nested within the factors varying by ...

• TAM + ARCS = SNT framework for higher education 

  Akella, Nirupama (IGI Global, 2019-10)

  This chapter studies the challenge and issue of developing a sound social networking technology (SNT) framework to affect positive student engagement and consequently effective learning. The author aims to enable educational ...

• Chapter 2 -- An emerging conceptualization of epistemological beliefs and their role in learning 

  Schommer-Aikins, Marlene (Routledge, 2019-06-06)

  This chapter introduces an emerging theory of individuals’ beliefs about the nature of knowledge and learning, or epistemological beliefs. It reviews research that tests aspects of this theory and highlights the critical ...

• An exploratory study of teachers’ experience with interagency collaboration for the education of students with EBD 

  Cornell, Heidi R.; Sayman, Donna (Taylor & Francis, 2019-12-18)

  Interagency collaboration can easily be recognized as an intensive supportive practice that helps meet the complex needs of students with emotional and behavioral disorders (EBD). The purpose of this study was to explore ...

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