Browsing Dissertations and Theses by Title
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Parent Perceptions of the Kindergarten Experience in Issaquah, Washington
Northwest University, July 2013
iii, 38 pagesChallenger Elementary School in Issaquah, WA offers parents of incoming kindergarten students the opportunity to choose between full-day kindergarten (FDK) and half-day kindergarten (HDK). This study sought to understand ... -
Parents’ Experience and Needs After ADHD Diagnosis
Northwest University, 2022
101 pagesWith a focus on exploring how the mental health field could better assist parents throughout their journey in raising a child with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder this phenomenological study comprised six study ... -
Partnerships for Transformational Community Development: Prioritizing Churches as Assets
Northwest University, 2013
67 pagesIn this era of globalization, tackling the root causes of poverty cannot and should not be done from one perspective or by one organization alone. Addressing the complexities of poverty with a goal of sustainable change ... -
The PASL Model: a New Agricultural Development Model for Liberia
Northwest University, April 10, 2018
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Perceived Effects of No Child Left Behind on High School Science Teaching at a Pacific Northwest School
Northwest University, July 2012
iii, 29 pagesThis project examines the effects No Child Left Behind has on high school science instruction at a Pacific Northwest high school, with a focus on whether students perceive a reduction in science curriculum in the science ... -
Perception and Usage of Graphic Novels in High Schools
Northwest University, July 2013
v, 46 pagesThis study sought to address the question of how teachers and librarians in a public high school perceived the instructional utility of graphic novels, and whether that perception was reflected proportionately in actual ... -
Perception of Mentoring at North Lake Community Church
Northwest University, May 2010
vi, 92 pagesThis research project was a qualitative study which used a case study approach to consider the research question. North Lake Community Church in Seattle, Washington, was the subject of the study, and the people within the ... -
Perceptions From Intercultural Students at Tiffany Park Elementary of an Effective Teacher
Northwest University, July 2013
iii, 24 pagesStudents from around the world are continuing to fill the desk chairs of classrooms in America. These students come in with expectations of how they believe the classroom will operate and how their teacher will teach. ... -
Performing Arts and Community Development: Reimagining the Role of Performing Arts in Community Development
Northwest Univiersity, April 19, 2017
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Permaculture as a Means to Reconciliation and Environmental Advocacy in Central Oregon Churches
Northwest University, April 24, 2022
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A Personal Enrichment, Resilience, and Mentoring Program Responding to Issues and Opportunities at the Pringle Home
Northwest University, April 23, 2023
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Personal Transformations In Becoming a Missional Church
Northwest University, July 2010
vi, 104 pagesThis research project is a qualitative study, which used an interview study approach to consider the research question. The subject was pastors who tumed-around plateaued or declining churches to spiritual vitality and ... -
Photography for Justice: Values to Consider
Northwest University, March 2015
53 pagesPhotography is a powerful art form that can be used as a tool to bring awareness and response to causes for justice. Unfortunately, photos have been used in ways that evoke emotion to fill a specific agenda. Photos have ... -
Physical Education: Changes for the Good?
Northwest University, July 2009
iii, 34 pagesOn July 16, 1956 President Dwight D. Eisenhower established the President’s Council on Youth Fitness after learning of the research findings that European children were more fit than American youth. The name was changed ... -
Planting and Growing Prayer Communities in Europe: a Best Practice Guide to Forming 24-7 Prayer's Boiler Room Community
Northwest University, 2011
136 pagesThe distance between European society and Christian Churches has been rapidly increasing over the last hundred years. 24-7 Prayer is an international organization that has a global vision to reconnect all people to Jesus ... -
Political Ideology and Black-and-White Thinking
Northwest University, November 30, 2020
66 pagesThe political ideology of the American people has become increasingly polarized over the last decade; this trend corresponds with increasingly negative views of people with different values. Black-and-white thinking is a ... -
Popular Children’s Literature Trends and My Writing
Northwest University, May 2023
64 pagesThis thesis observes and analyzes trends in children’s literature from 2012 to 2021. It includes the aspects of genre, format, theme, and style. This is based on research and expertise from newspapers, books, and peer-reviewed ... -
The Possible Influence of the Trinitarian View of William Henry Offiler on Certain Aspects of His Eschatology
Northwest Bible College, March 1962
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Post-Prison Housing for Yamhill County, Oregon: Reducing Rates of Homelessness and Recidivism for Those Entering Society After Incarceration
Northwest University, 2019
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The Power of Choice: the Implementation of a Free Choice Reading Program in an Eighth-Grade English Classroom
Northwest University, July 2010
iv, 43 pagesMany of the titles on contemporary middle school reading lists across the country fail to appeal to the interests of today’s adolescents. Oftentimes, this shortfall negatively affects students’ attitudes toward reading and ...