eScholarship@Goucher: Recent submissions
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Restorative Action
(2020)Black students at Goucher College organized a Blackout protest in the fall of 2018 in response to a hate crime on campus. The Blackout demanded that Goucher’s administration address this crime with urgency, something the ... -
Seymour In My Shoes: Challenging Invisible Power & Bringing Plurality of Voice to Children's Media
(2021-02)Through the summer of 2020, I worked with 16 Baltimore City high school students to create a pitch for a new kind of cultural learning show for kids. This project reflects on that work and examines how we can use the tools ... -
Marvelous in Our Eyes: A Son’s Pilgrimage to Find Meaning in His Parent’s Lives
(2020-12-31)This memoir recounts the author’s efforts to make sense of his father, his mother and his own difficulties growing up. His father, Edward Friedland was a Brooklyn-born, MIT-educated whiz kid of the 1950s, who came of age ... -
Scenes From A Mental Illness
(2021-01-11)This memoir is written in a conversational style from a sister to her brother who suffered from paranoid schizophrenia. The story spans forty-four years focusing on the period between formal diagnosis in 1977 and the ... -
Racing Ourselves: Stories from the Frontlines of Suburban Striver Culture
(2020-12-18)In Racing Ourselves: Stories from the Frontlines of Suburban Striver Culture, author Emily Gaines Buchler delves into the hypercompetitive achievement culture in which she lives, works, and raises a family, Towson, Maryland, ... -
The Public Park as Liminal Space: A Study of Spontaneous and Intentional Behavior and the Impact on Community
(2020-12)Public spaces, such as parks, provide a space and time that exists outside of the familiar. They are set apart from the everyday, thus providing opportunity for engagement in activities, exploration of behaviors, and ... -
Pre-Teaching High Frequency Sight Words and the Effects on Students’ Reading Accuracy
(2020-11)Primary teachers across the United States of America spend a portion of their instruction time teaching their students high frequency sight words. In order for students to become successful readers, they must first have a ... -
For the Survival of Future Generations in the Face of Climate Change: Planning for Alaska Village Migration Using Cultural Heritage Based Principles
(2020-12-11)Climate-induced migration has become the last resort for communities in Alaska whose homes are threatened due to permafrost and shoreline erosion. As the indigenous youth and future leaders of Alaska’s Federation of ... -
The Effects of Stress on Free Throw Percentage
(2020-11)Many athletes involved in competitive sports tend to focus and give most of their attention to the physical aspect. Research has shown that athletes who train their minds and bodies have more success within their sport. ... -
Volunteer Management for Environmental Organizations during COVID-19
(2020-09)Society’s obsession with economic growth has caused the continued overconsumption of natural resources. The environmental movement has been focused on sustainable development, ensuring the needs of humans can be met without ... -
Examining the Total Physical Response Storytelling Method and Traditional Grammar-Based Instruction to Identify Overall Effectiveness Relating to Vocabulary Recall
(2020-12)The field of second language acquisition has undergone a dramatic shift over the past several decades, shifting from grammar-based instruction, memorization, and written dictation to a more organic approach of language ... -
Examining Anxiety in Swimmers: Connecting feelings from training to feelings during competitive performance.
(2020-11-30)This research sought to examine the relationship between anxiety felt during practice and anxiety felt during competition. There was no relationship found, p=.12. The inverted-U theory suggests that a moderate amount of ... -
CinematicAmbiX: Cinematic Sound in Virtual Reality
(2020-11-25)CinematicAmbiX is a three-movement piece of virtual reality art that is focused on sound for film. I sought to separate trailer sounds, foley, and ambience from their standard visual accompaniment. I chose virtual reality ... -
Effective Teaching Strategies for Struggling Readers in the Elementary Grades
(2020-11-25)The purpose of this study was to better understand how classroom reading instruction can be improved to address the needs of struggling readers in the intermediate grades. The measurement tool was a questionnaire. This ... -
Educators Perceptions of Schema Based Instruction and Academic Self-Concept of their Learning Disabled Students
(2020-11-18)The purpose of this study was to examine how teacher implemented strategies and interventions for solving mathematical word problems can help improve the academic self- concept of students with learning disabilities. ... -
Examining the Influence of Coaches and Athletics Administrators on Athletic Trainers Delivery of Health Care.
(2020-11-26)The purpose of this study was to conduct a pilot assessment of a questionnaire that will be used in a future study to assess the influence on athletic trainers regarding the medical decision-making process for returning ... -
Educators Perceptions of the Impact Restorative Practices Have on Classroom Management
(2020-11-25)Studies on the effectiveness of restorative practices have focused mainly on how implementation can improve student behavior. With proper training and implementation, educators can completely shift the climate of a school ... -
A Quasi-Experimental Study of the Impact Varying Levels of Extra Practice Have on Specific Skill Development in School-Age Lacrosse Players
(2020-11-28)The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of extra practice on players’ individual skill development based on players receiving extra practice in solo fashion with a coach versus practicing on their own. The ... -
The Attention Wars: How We Misunderstand Attention and What's Actually Affecting Our Ability to Focus
(2020-08-24)The Attention Wars is a story about how we misunderstand attention and what's actually affecting our ability to focus. Throughout the book, I debunk the belief that our attention is dwindling and show examples from gaming ... -
Investigating Cultural Sustainability and Identity by Analyzing my St. Thomian Family through Autoethnography
(2020-07-28)This capstone explores what aspects of culture, if any, have been sustained, lost, or transformed within my St. Thomian family. This paper is split into two sections, themes from literature and takeaways from dialogues. ...