Master's Theses

Master's Theses

 
The Master's Theses Collection contains materials created by Fort Hays State University graduate students in partial fulfillment of the requirements for their master's degrees from 1930 through the present. Works prior to Spring 2010 may be limited to on-campus access due to copyright restrictions. If you have questions about access to individual works, or if you are an author of a thesis who would like to make it openly accessible, please contact ScholarsRepository@fhsu.edu.

Follow


Theses from 1994

PDF

The Ku Klux Klan and the Press in Western Kansas, 1921-1926 : An Examination of Hays, Larned and Wallace County, Betsy Crawford-Gore

PDF

The Effects of Personalized AIDS Messages on Perceived Personal Risk and Sexual Behaviors Among College Students, Lori L. Jenkins

PDF

The Relationship Between Communication Apprehension, Rhetorical Sensitivity, and Loneliness in Early Marriage, Shannon McDowell

PDF

Small Mammal Populations of the Principal Agricultural Crops in North-Central Kansas, Thomas L. Welker

PDF

Conflict Management Styles Used by Members of the Kansas Highway Patrol to Handle Conflict Situations, Lonnie Whitten

PDF

Attribution Style Comparisons Between Genders and Between Learning Disabled, Normal Achieving, and Gifted Groups, Jacalyn M. Seba

PDF

Relationships Between Social Skills, Social Support, and Problem Behaviors for Boys in Residential Facilities for Conduct Disorders, Matthew Shepherd

PDF

The Effect of Contingent Teacher Touch and the Relationship of Proximity and On-Task Behavior in Elementary School Students, Deanna Ward Berry

PDF

Interpretation of Groundwater Quality in Lower Cretaceous Rocks of Western Kansas Using Borehole Geophysical Logs, Kevin R. Collins

PDF

Urban-Rural, Age, and Gender Differences for Children on the Wechsler Intelligence Scales and Their Relationship to Social Intelligence, Diana M. Dellere

PDF

Job Satisfaction, Gloria Carolyn Carson

PDF

The Relationship Between Religiosity and Psychic Phenomena, Carol Dewey

PDF

Ageism in Higher Education : Age-Based Stereotyping and Attitudes Toward Nontraditional Students at Fort Hays State University, Lisa Lynn Krueger Kinyon

PDF

The Beckerdite Local Biota, (Miocene: Early Hemphillian) Clark County, Southwestern Kansas, Gregory A. Liggett

PDF

Biotic Regions of Kansas: Mammals and the Environment, Julie M. McCullough

PDF

Career Maturity of Welfare Recipients, Carol M. Beckman

PDF

Attitudes and Beliefs of School Administrators Toward Inclusion, Patricia Ann Herbig

PDF

Occupational Sex-Role Stereotyping in Secondary Students, Maribeth Long

PDF

Educators' Comfort Levels with Classroom Initiatives Identified in Kansas' Quality Performance Accreditation, T. Zoann Torrey

PDF

Stress and Western Kansas High School Students, Janet K. Walker

PDF

University Faculty Attitudes Toward Homosexuality, James Anthony Gourley

PDF

A Follow-Up Study in Vocational Rehabilitation, Douglas M. Main

PDF

Attitudes of Graduating Seniors Toward High School, Julie Sue Maurath

PDF

A Test of Language Planning Processing in Schizophrenia: An Explanation for Verbal Hallucinations, Suzanne Louise Meyer

PDF

Recruitment and Selection Practices at Selected Municipal and County Law Enforcement Agencies in the State of Kansas, Ellyn K. Ness

Theses from 1993

PDF

Elderly Women's Perceptions of Reminiscence, Debra A. McDonald

PDF

Selected Variables and College Achievement, Robert R. Glenn

PDF

A Survey of the Vertebrates of Slate Creek Salt Marsh, Sumner County, Kansas, with an Emphasis on Waterbirds, Eugene A. Young

PDF

Bats of Jewel Cave National Monument, South Dakota, John M. Anderson

PDF

Meeting the Needs of High Risk Children: The School Support Teacher Role, Grizel Hidalgo-Tablada

PDF

A Replication of the Characteristics of an Effective University Professor as Determined by Student Ratings, Drew A. Hosman

PDF

Effect of Hands-on Instruction, Gender and Socioeconomic Status on Science Content Achievement of Fifth Grade Students, Quaife Nichols

PDF

A Study of Attitudes Toward Reading of Western Kansas Students in Grades One Through Six in a Selected School, Navene N. Rains

PDF

Parent and Teacher Attitudes Toward a Continuous Progress Model, Germaine L. Taggart

PDF

Monthly Variation in the Incidence of Cerebrovascular Accidents, Donna Kay Gifford

PDF

Climatic Implications of Terrestrial Arthropods from the Parachute Creek Member (Middle Eocene), Green River Formation, Garfield County, Colorado, Larry A. Codington

PDF

Marital Violence: The Effect of Provocation on College Students' Perception of an Incident of Wife Abuse, Nancy R. Meade

PDF

Identifying Students at Risk of Developing Eating Disorders : A Replication of Sherri D. Wineland Matlock's Thesis, Denise M. Guy

PDF

An Epideictic Rhetorical Analysis of President William Jefferson Clinton's Inaugural Address : "American Renewal.", Nicholas H. Owen

PDF

The Utility of Dsm-Iii-R Decision Trees in Relation to Diagnostic Speed and Accuracy, Robert D. Morgan

PDF

The Effects of a Kansas Education Class on Students' Knowledge and Attitudes of Human Immunodeficiency Virus and Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome, R. Warren Sager

PDF

Perceptual Differences of Adolescents and Parents Concerning the Context and Usefulness of Sexuality/Aids Communication, Brenda Werth-Benoit

PDF

Selection of Potential Landfill Sites for Ellis County, Kansas Utilizing the Geographic Information System Idrisi, Theron Barton

PDF

Learning Disabled Locus of Control Orientation : Birth Order and Parental Perceptions, Christine L. Nolte

PDF

Loneliness and Communication Apprehension in Marriage, Patricia A. Ault-Duell

PDF

Children's Attitudes Toward Physical Activity and Self-Esteem, Stan R. Ewy

PDF

Perceived Threat of Tuberculosis and Compliance with Tuberculin Skin Testing Among International College Students, Woung-Ru Tang

PDF

School Violence: Its Effect on Secondary Teachers in Rural Kansas Settings, Kent Ullom

PDF

One Dozen Provocative Squats, James M. Adams

PDF

A Local Study of the Roles and Functions of the Secondary School Counselor, Deborah Elaine Schalesky

PDF

An Evaluation of the Kansas Case Management Program in a Community Support Services Network, Terry Seirer Becker

PDF

Effects of Mood States on Self-Control, Shantel Lindsey-Randolph

PDF

Drawing, Shingo Ozaki

PDF

Relationship Between Cognitive Development and Social Integration in Students in Transition, Jeanne Mann

PDF

The Effects of Uniforms, Sex and Race on Children's Perceptions of Police Officers, Margaret R. Letterman

PDF

Geology and Avifauna of the Late Pleistocene and Middle Holocene Blonquist Rockshelter, Summit County, Utah, Barbara A. Beasley

PDF

Acceptance of Family Violence in Relation to Sex-Role Stereotyping : Attitudes Among Professional Groups and the General Population, Betty A. Bolte

PDF

Attributes Superintendents Rate Important in Elementary Principal Candidates, Leticia A. Porter

PDF

Characteristics and Perceived Burdens of Adult Caregivers of Aged Relatives, Mary Jane Koranda

PDF

Primal Essence, Donna Roberts

PDF

Habitat Preference of Cervus Elaphus on the Southern Great Plains, James Robinson

PDF

Habitat Breadths of Small Mammals in Northeastern Kansas, Eric R. Schreiber

PDF

Study Behaviors of Undergraduate and Graduate Students, Jana R. Howard

PDF

Variables Affecting Categories of Forgiving Behaviors in Relationships, Karen Ohmart

PDF

Coaches' Attitudes Toward Female Certified Athletic Trainers, Jodi Lyn Cox

PDF

The Pseudopotential Approach to the Low-Energy Electron Scattering Cross-Section of Gaseous Lasers, Zhongyi Gu

PDF

Selected Variables and a Self-Management Program with Adolescents, Eva Marie Junk

PDF

The Roles and Functions of the High School Principal, Dennis C. Shipp

PDF

Group Activities Designed to Modify Motivational Orientation and Learning Strategies, Genevieve R. Hagerman

PDF

Job Satisfaction in Human Services : A Rehabilitation Agency, Rita G. Brown

PDF

Tracing Trajectories of Change: Personal Construct Theory as Applied to Women Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse, Christine E. Poage

PDF

A Hot Breakfast Program in an Elementary School, Sheryl Neeland

PDF

A Biography of Edgar Francis McNeil: Educator, Coach, and Administrator, Michael R. Miller

PDF

A Comparison of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator Extraversion- Introversion Scale, and the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory 0 Scale (Social Introversion), Michael R. McVay

PDF

International Standards for Data Communications Technologies, Ke-Ting Zheng

PDF

Biostratigraphy of Mosasauridae (Squamata, Varanoidea) from the Smoky Hill Chalk Member, Niobrara Chalk (Upper Cretaceous) of Western Kansas, Bruce Schumacher

PDF

The Vegetation of Slate Creek Wetland, Michael D. Proctor

PDF

Symbolic Interpretations of Man and Nature, David Chalfant

PDF

The Original Heart, Frederick T.S. Fung

PDF

The Ephemeral, Morgan D. Gallatin

PDF

Attitudes of Rural Nurses Toward Homosexuals and Willingness to Care for AIDS Clients, Connie L. Hoskins

PDF

The Human Vehicle, Mitchel Sommers

Theses from 1992

PDF

Social Support and Cancer Patients, Darcy Basgall-Newell

PDF

Aspects of the Functional Morphology, Phylogeny, and Paleoecology of the North American Miocene Rhinoceros, Aphelops, David Wilcots

PDF

A Study or Predictive Validity Using Development Indicators for the Assessment of Learning (Dial/Dial-R) and California Test of Basic Skills (Ctbs), Elizabeth A. Billinger

PDF

A Consultant's Guide to Historical Reenactment Activities on the Plains, 1823-1873, Randy Smith

PDF

Factors Affecting Teachers' Perceptions of Inservice Effectiveness, Kathy E. Cook

PDF

Coping with Anger-Provoking Incidents, Michael R. Krueger

PDF

Plant Communities of Lake Scott State Park Scott County, Kansas, Jean M. Stramel

PDF

Fear of Success, Deanna L. Barnett

PDF

College Students' Perception of a Disabled Counselor, Henrique Braga

PDF

Artifactual Communication in Cheyenne Ceremonial Dance, Sheryle Robinson

PDF

Effectiveness of Different Dimensions of Social Support for Threats and Challenges, Kelli Pfau Johnson

PDF

The Role and Function of the Elementary School Counselor as Perceived by Elementary School Counselors, Randel B. Josserand

PDF

An Investigation of the Influence of a Six-Week Extended School Year Program on Maintaining the Development Level of Young Children with Disabilities, Shelly M. Post

PDF

Geochemistry of Groundwater and Gases in the Vadose Zone in Selected Parts of Hays, Kansas, Satya P. Sinha

PDF

Small Mammals at Interchanges of an Interstate Highway, Thomas W. Haner

PDF

Perceived Quality of Life in Women with Breast Cancer, Donna Stephenson

PDF

A Tempest in Prairie Politics: The Rise of Populism in Ellis County, Kansas, Brian Tittel

PDF

Comparison Between Coping Adaptiveness and Sex-Role Orientation, Sean Wagner