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Doctoral Lecture Recital: 2017-10-13 – Jennifer Rodriguez, flute
Lecture recital presented at the UNT College of Music M230 (Choir Room) in partial fulfillment of the Doctor of Musical Arts (DMA) degree.
Date:
October 13, 2017
Creator:
Rodriguez, Jennifer
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Doctoral Lecture Recital: 2017-11-11 – Hsiang-Chu Chuang, cello
Lecture recital presented at the UNT College of Music Recital Hall in partial fulfillment of the Doctor of Musical Arts (DMA) degree.
Date:
November 11, 2017
Creator:
Chuang, Hsiang-Chu
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Doctoral Lecture Recital: 2017-11-13 – Dave Ekstrum, tenor
Lecture recital presented at the UNT College of Music Recital Hall in partial fulfillment of the Doctor of Musical Arts (DMA) degree.
Date:
November 13, 2017
Creator:
Ekstrum, Dave
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Doctoral Lecture Recital: 2017-04-08 – Chul Woong Chang, baritone
Lecture recital presented at the UNT College of Music Recital Hall in partial fulfillment of the Doctor of Musical Arts (DMA) degree.
Date:
April 8, 2017
Creator:
Chang, Chul Woong
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Doctoral Lecture Recital: 2017-04-24 – Christopher McWilliams, percussion
Lecture recital presented at the UNT College of Music Recital Hall in partial fulfillment of the Doctor of Musical Arts (DMA) degree.
Date:
April 24, 2017
Creator:
McWilliams, Chris
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Doctoral Lecture Recital: 2017-03-08 – Elizabeth Ann Potts, flute
Lecture recital presented at the UNT College of Music Recital Hall in partial fulfillment of the Doctor of Musical Arts (DMA) degree.
Date:
March 8, 2017
Creator:
Potts, Elizabeth (Elizabeth Ann)
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Doctoral Lecture Recital: 2017-03-20 – Brian Horton, composer
Lecture recital presented at the UNT College of Music Voertman Hall in partial fulfillment of the Doctor of Musical Arts (DMA) degree.
Date:
March 20, 2017
Creator:
Horton, Brian (Saxophonist)
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Doctoral Lecture Recital: 2017-03-25 – Rhea Edelman, violin
Lecture recital presented at the UNT College of Music Choir Room (M230) in partial fulfillment of the Doctor of Musical Arts (DMA) degree.
Date:
March 25, 2017
Creator:
Edelman, Rhea
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Building an Effective Piano Technique while Avoiding Injury: A Comparison of the Exercises in Alfred Cortot's "Rational Principles of Pianoforte Technique" and Carl Tausig's "Daily Studies for the Pianoforte"
It is the teacher's responsibility to guide students in building an effective and injury-free piano technique. Improper technique, poor training and bad posture at the instrument all may cause problems such as lack of muscle control, weakness, or tension in the hands. Many teachers are interested in finding information about specific exercises dealing with finger strengthening, stretching, and warm-up strategies, as well as guidelines for safe practicing. It is therefore important for both teachers and students to understand how to build a technique from the earliest years of instruction. Carl Tausig (1841-1871) and Alfred Cortot (1877-1962) both contributed to the development of piano technique by writing books that include a significant number of exercises and excerpts. Their books incorporate detailed instructions on how to play each exercise effectively and without fatigue. Subsequently, Heinrich Ehrlich (1822-1899) collected and systematically arranged Tausig's notes, complementing them with detailed information on how to play Tausig's exercises without causing injury. This dissertation compares and contrasts the exercises found in Alfred Cortot's book, Rational Principles of Pianoforte Technique, and Carl Tausig's book, Daily Studies for the Pianoforte. The latter is based on the practical guidebook, How to Practise on the Piano: Reflections and Suggestions, written by …
Date:
May 2017
Creator:
Woo, Laehyung
Object Type:
Thesis or Dissertation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
An Argument in Favor of the Saxhorn Basse (French Tuba) in the Modern Symphony Orchestra
The French tuba was a much-needed addition to the brasswind musical instrument family, adding depth, projection and a unique color to French orchestral literature. Its ancestors the serpent and ophicleide both lacked the tonal stability and sonic power to adequately present the bass wind role in a robust orchestra. Through the efforts of its developer and patent-holder Adolphe Sax, the French tuba made converts among players and composers, effectively creating its own niche in music history. Musical tastes change however, and the French tuba has been largely supplanted by tubists using instruments twice its size. Since French composers composed specifically with the distinct timbre of the French tuba in mind, this unique and characteristic musical entity deserves a resurgence in performances of French orchestral repertoire.
Date:
May 2017
Creator:
Kleinsteuber, Carl
Object Type:
Thesis or Dissertation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
A Phenomenological Study of Gay and Lesbian College Students' Spiritual Experiences at Religious Higher Education Institutions
Despite recent scholarly interest in college students' spirituality and spiritual development, as well as research indicating that students are interested in spirituality and have a strong desire to integrate spirituality into their lives, few researchers have addressed the spiritual experiences of gay and lesbian college students. Utilizing a phenomenological qualitative approach, I explored the spiritual experiences of nine gay and lesbian college students at two religiously affiliated universities in the southwest region of the United States. The ages of the participants ranged from 19 to 23, with a mean of 21. There were five female, three male, and one gender queer participants. Seven participants identified as white, while the other two participants identified as Hispanic. I identified three major themes related to their lived experience of spirituality: (1) spiritual quest characterized by struggle and pain, (2) finding reconciliation and acceptance, and (3) the importance of support from the university, student groups, friends, and family. Implications for practice included the importance of establishing an official recognized student organization to support gay and lesbian students, creating spaces for personal reflection, meditation, prayer, and solitude as well as safe spaces, the need for educational and outreach programs for faculty, staff, and students, and …
Date:
May 2017
Creator:
Bryan, Vanessa Roberts
Object Type:
Thesis or Dissertation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Culturally Competent Evaluations
Significant growth in the number of English language learners (ELLs) in U.S. schools is anticipated to continue, demanding that educators and evaluators have the skills necessary to distinguishing language difference from disability and provide appropriate services to these students. However, little research exists examining the role of evaluator's cultural competence in evaluating ELLs for special education; furthermore, what does exist shows that many evaluators report low levels of self-efficacy as it relates to assessing ELLs. The first chapter of the dissertation reports on a review of 21 articles conducted to address best practices for evaluating culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD) learners, evaluator self-efficacy, and recommendations for conducting culturally competent assessments and evaluations. The majority of the articles identified in this review focused on recommendations for best practices for conducting evaluations rather than reporting empirical findings related to the topic. Only one study was identified that focused on appropriate training needed by evaluation staff to effectively discriminate between language difference and a disability. Based on the findings of this review, additional research, using a rigorous methodology is needed. Addressing that need, the second chapter reports the results of a study conducted to examine the effectiveness of Project PEAC3E (Preparing Evaluators to …
Date:
May 2017
Creator:
Chen, Cristina Rodríguez
Object Type:
Thesis or Dissertation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Using Posterior Predictive Checking of Item Response Theory Models to Study Invariance Violations
The common practice for testing measurement invariance is to constrain parameters to be equal over groups, and then evaluate the model-data fit to reject or fail to reject the restrictive model. Posterior predictive checking (PPC) provides an alternative approach to evaluating model-data discrepancy. This paper explores the utility of PPC in estimating measurement invariance. The simulation results show that the posterior predictive p (PP p) values of item parameter estimates respond to various invariance violations, whereas the PP p values of item-fit index may fail to detect such violations. The current paper suggests comparing group estimates and restrictive model estimates with posterior predictive distributions in order to demonstrate the pattern of misfit graphically.
Date:
May 2017
Creator:
Xin, Xin
Object Type:
Thesis or Dissertation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Spectral Evidence
Spectral Evidence is a collection of poems that instigates a variety of omens, signs, divinations, and folktales to explore the concept of wish fulfillment. They arise in obedience to the compulsion to repeat past dramas brought on by failed love, the nostalgia of childhood, the damning legacy of language, the restriction of gender roles, death, etc. In order to quell these anxieties, the speaker looks beyond the self to both history and mythology, often invented mythologies as an attempt to control or recast the story-to give shape to the obscurities of life by creating a system of belief in order to forge meaning or confuse oneself into believing. In many ways this collection is all about belief or in wanting to believe. Through language, God is written into existence. God is the name of the blanket we put over the mystery to give it shape. Here, in this collection, God is an ant's egg. a cherry pit, a colony of white moths, a severed hand, the color red, a little bird. This collection explores these vehicles of meaning, the words that provide the shell of meaning, and the power of invention in hopes to gain control over what is deemed …
Date:
May 2017
Creator:
Edwards, Trista
Object Type:
Thesis or Dissertation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Effectiveness of Hybrid Problem-Based Learning versus Manual-Based Learning in the Microbiology Laboratory
Promising results from the use of problem-based learning (PBL) as a teaching method in medical programs have encouraged many institutions to incorporate PBL into their curricula. This study investigates how applying hybrid-PBL (H-PBL) in a microbiology laboratory impacts students' higher-order thinking as compared to applying a lecture-based pedagogy. The experimental design compared the learning outcomes of two groups of students: the control group and the H-PBL group, for whom PBL cases comprised 30% of the curriculum. Both groups were taught basic skills for the microbiology lab by the same instructor. Using the traditional teaching style for the control group, the instructor offered each student what they needed for their experiments. The H-PBL group practiced experimental design, data analysis, theory proposal, and created research questions by using six study cases that were closely linked to the area of study. The outcome was measured using a pre- and post- assessment consisting of 24 questions that was designed by following Bloom's taxonomy of learning levels. A one-way ANOVA was used to analyze the data. The results showed that for the first three levels of Bloom's taxonomy— knowledge, comprehension, and application—there were no statistically significant differences between the H-PBL and control group gain scores …
Date:
May 2017
Creator:
Alharbi, Najwa
Object Type:
Thesis or Dissertation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Multimodal Design for Secondary English Language Arts: A Portraiture Study
Employing the research approach known as portraiture, this study investigated the varying ways in which three secondary English language arts teachers at a visual and performing arts high school conceptualized and designed multimodal literacy learning. Also studied were the ways in which their students responded to these designs; and in keeping with portraiture, attention went to the changes in the researcher's own understandings. This multi-case study and cross-case analysis built on prior multimodal literacy research in secondary education, but unlike previous studies, gave major attention to how teachers' conceptualization of multimodality and their own roles related to the designs that they produced. Since the school emphasized arts as well as academics, particular attention went to teachers' conceptions of, and designs for, arts-related multimodalities. Data for the portraits came from observations, teacher and student interviews, artifacts, and a researcher journal. Recursive analysis focused on repetitive refrains, resonant metaphors, and emergent themes, which provided data for "painting" the teachers' portraits in prose. Findings show the connections among teachers' beliefs, values, and the multimodal designs, which included images, movement, sound, classroom displays, and room arrangements. The three teachers took dramatically different approaches to multimodal designs as they created their productions of English language …
Date:
May 2017
Creator:
Price, Cecelia Joyce
Object Type:
Thesis or Dissertation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Doctoral Lecture Recital: 2017-09-12 – Eun Young Shin, piano
Lecture recital presented at the UNT College of Music Recital Hall in partial fulfillment of the Doctor of Musical Arts (DMA) degree.
Date:
September 12, 2017
Creator:
Shin, Eun Young
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Doctoral Lecture Recital: 2017-06-24 – Chenyi Cao, piano
Lecture recital presented at the UNT College of Music Recital Hall in partial fulfillment of the Doctor of Musical Arts (DMA) degree.
Date:
June 24, 2017
Creator:
Cao, Chenyi
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Doctoral Lecture Recital: 2017-06-26 – Yu-Ching Hsu, piano
Lecture recital presented at the UNT College of Music Recital Hall in partial fulfillment of the Doctor of Musical Arts (DMA) degree.
Date:
June 26, 2017
Creator:
Hsu, Yu-Ching
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Doctoral Lecture Recital: 2017-10-26 — Alejandro (Alex) Fraile, alto saxophone
Lecture recital presented at the UNT College of Music Voertman Hall in partial fulfillment of the Doctor of Musical Arts (DMA) degree.
Date:
October 26, 2017
Creator:
Fraile, Alex
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Doctoral Lecture Recital: 2017-11-05 — Eun Cho, violin
Lecture recital presented at the UNT College of Music Recital Hall in partial fulfillment of the Doctor of Musical Arts (DMA) degree.
Date:
November 5, 2017
Creator:
Cho, Eun
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Doctoral Lecture Recital: 2017-04-19 – Irving Paul Ray, euphonium
Lecture recital presented at the UNT College of Music Recital Hall in partial fulfillment of the Doctor of Musical Arts (DMA) degree.
Date:
April 19, 2017
Creator:
Ray, Irving Paul
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Doctoral Lecture Recital: 2017-02-27 – Justin Binek, voice
Lecture recital presented at the UNT College of Music Kenton Hall in partial fulfillment of the Doctor of Musical Arts (DMA) degree.
Date:
February 27, 2017
Creator:
Binek, Justin
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Effects of Bring Your Own Device Initiatives Related to Instructional Planning and the Classroom Environment in Two Texas High Schools
This study was an examination of 20 North Texas high school teachers' perceptions about the effects of bring your own device (BYOD) initiatives on instructional planning and classroom environment. The BYOD initiative at two high school campuses was studied through a qualitative approach, i.e. a collective case study. Data were collected through interviews, classroom observations, and reviews of participants' lesson planning documents. The findings indicated teachers had to plan for inequitable technology access, technology support, effective classroom management, and relevant content to support student learning effectively. Teachers participated in professional development focused on planning for student devices, effective use of instructional technology, and classroom management during this type of instruction. Results revealed that, during instruction that included students' devices, teachers believed student engagement and content retention were greater. Observation data also indicated that students were more engaged in the instruction. The interviews and classroom observations indicated that students assumed a more active role in their learning during these lessons, and teachers facilitated and provided more support as needed. Effective planning and classroom management were identified as key components in the success of this type of initiative. Overall, the study supports the necessity for relevant professional development for teachers and campus …
Date:
May 2017
Creator:
Miller, Shawn J.
Object Type:
Thesis or Dissertation
System:
The UNT Digital Library