ODU theses and dissertations since 1965 are available in this collection.
Theses and dissertations completed at Eastern Virginia Medical School prior to integration with ODU on July 1, 2024 are not included in Digital Commons unless they were completed as part of a cross-institutional program with ODU. Works completed after July 1, 2024 are being added but are incomplete.
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Theses/Dissertations from 1971
Thesis: Trap Manifested Behavior Trap Reflected Density Trap Reflected Distribution and Foods Consumed by Raccoons (Procyon Lotor L.) in Two Natural Areas of Virginia, Elton L. Winslow
Thesis: A Comparison of Tactile Reaction Time in Blind and Sighted Subjects, Lynne Young
Theses/Dissertations from 1970
Thesis: The Responsibilities and Functions of School Counselors in Chesapeake Secondary Schools as Perceived by Counselors, Joyce Ann Anderson
Thesis: An Evaluation of Old Dominion University Counseling Services by Selected Graduates of the School of Education, Carol Jean Anthony
Thesis: The Neo-Classical Contributions to the Theory of International Trade, Mohammed Arifeen
Thesis: Britain and the Free Trade Area Negotiations of 1956-1958, George Y. Ballentine
Thesis: Defoe's Theory of Evil, Jeanette Martin Bass
Thesis: Policies and Procedures Employed by Personnel Administrators in the Recruitment Process of Public School Teachers in Virginia, Gabriele Sylvia Blankenship
Thesis: Erasure of Sediment Surface Features by Mellita quinquiesperforata (Leske), Walter Richard Boehmer
Thesis: A Survey of Selected Objectives, Opinions, and Attitudes of High School Seniors in Norfolk, Virginia, Robert Eugene Brown
Thesis: Student Evaluation of a Reading Improvement Course, Patricia K. Brumbly
Thesis: A Numerical Solution to the Problem of Rotation Near the Ground, David D. Chen
Thesis: A Follow-up Survey of the Graduates of the Cooperative Program of the Norfolk City Schools and the Leigh Memorial Hospital School of Licensed Practical Nursing, Joseph Patrick Clarke
Thesis: A Descriptive Survey of Elementary Teachers' Attitudes Toward Faculty Meetings, Charles Clay
Thesis: A Comparison of Fine Motor Skill Acquisition of Normal and Educable Mentally Retarded Age-Mates, Cheryl S. Curtiss
Thesis: An Investigation of a Gas Measurement Technique Employing Ultraviolet Excitation, Alphonso Vincent Diaz
Thesis: An Experimental Study of Lateral Soil Pressures and Moments on Flexible Sheet Piles, James H. Donahue
Thesis: A Descriptive Study of the Selection of General Goals of Life by Urban University Entering Freshmen, Walter Rupert Earl
Thesis: An Analysis of Professional Negotiation in the Public School Systems of Virginia, Ernest Michael Ellis
Thesis: A Study of Language Proficiency Skills of Elementary Pupils Achieving in Congruence with Capacity and Pupils Not Achieving in Congruence with Capacity, Edna Scott Faulk
Thesis: Excitation of Hydrogen Atoms by Fast Protons, Edward Ellis Fitchard
Thesis: Characteristics of Graduate Students in Counselor Education in Old Dominion University, Robert F. Graves Jr.
Thesis: The Use and Effectiveness of Computers for Administrative Purposes in the Tidewater Public Secondary Schools, William Carlisle Harrell
Thesis: The Role and Function of the Elementary School Guidance Counselor-Consultant as Perceived by a Selected Group of Elementary School Classroom Teachers, Betty Ann Swartz Harrison
Thesis: An Evaluation of an Electromagnetic Current Meter for Study of Water Particle Motion, George Milton Hecker
Thesis: Reading Interests and Habits of Physicians, Priscilla B. Holman
Thesis: An Economic Base Study of the Southeastern Virginia Planning District, Toby Lee Jarman
Thesis: Income Velocity in the United States, 1961-1968, William F. Kennedy
Thesis: A Survey of the Facilities in the Norfolk City Senior High Schools for the Gifted Student, Ernest Henderson Knox
Thesis: The Relationship of Final Grade Achievement in Seventh Grade English and Social Studies with a Reading Achievement Test, Judith Mitchell Knox
Thesis: Emily Dickinson's Poetics, Edith Lodge
Thesis: The Knit of Identity in Some Fiction by Elizabeth Bowen, Vi Christensen Mullin
Thesis: The Intensification of American Confessional Poetry in the 'Sixties: Robert Lowell and Some Leading Questions, H. C. Nash
Thesis: Major Themes in the Works of Ernest Dowson, Alison Charles Phillips
Thesis: The Effects of Transformational Grammar Instruction Upon the Sentence Structure of Ninth Grade Students, Stanley Herbert Ross
Thesis: Grain Size Reconnaissance of the Virginia-North Carolina Inner Shelf Analysis by Settling Technique, Robert Bailey Sanford Jr.
Thesis: An Investigation of Selected Current Practices in the Recruitment of Industrial Arts Education Majors in the State of Virginia, David Ernest Sawyer
Thesis: The Elasticity of Investment Demand: An Empirical Survey, Donald E. Schatz
Thesis: Parent Counseling for Parents of Mentally Retarded Children by a Local Association for Retarded Children, Luther J. Shipman
Thesis: An Investigation Into the Incidence of Psychogenic Factors Underlying the Temporomandibular Joint Pain/Dysfunction Syndrome, Ernest William Small
Thesis: The Form of Charles Dickens's Dombey and Son: A Study in Mixed Modes, David Lee Smith
Thesis: The Uses of Processions in Shakespeare's Plays, William F. Sodini
Thesis: Occult Symbolism in W. B. Yeats's The Herne's Egg, Sandra Ford Swift
Thesis: Advance Organizers and Study Guides: Techniques Designed to Increase the Effectiveness of Science Motion Pictures as Instructional Tools Within the Curriculum Sequence, John Holston Tashner
Thesis: A Study of Elasto-Viscous Material Under Moving Rigid Wheel, Sou-nan Wang
Thesis: The Conflict of Purposes in Bernard Shaw's "Mrs. Warren's Profession", Marlie Parker Wasserman
Thesis: Factors Which Influenced Pre-Service Teacher Education Students in Two Virginia Colleges, Marjorie Johnson White
Thesis: The Need for Assistant Elementary School Principals in the Public Schools of Norfolk, Virginia, Joseph Lee Wiggins
Theses/Dissertations from 1969
Thesis: The Impact of the Immigration Act of 1924 on American-Japanese Relations, Mazika E. Anthony
Thesis: An Experimental Study of a Type of Vortex Sink Rate Sensors, Rao V. Arimilli
Thesis: William Blake and Isaac Watts, Lois Ballard
Thesis: The Elementary Principalship in the City Schools of Virginia Beach, Lois H. Barbour
Thesis: Selected Aspects of the Demand for Money Function, Geraldine Bocchieri
Thesis: Simulation and Analysis of a Second-Order System with an Added Finite Pole and/or Zero, William Robert Bodwell
Thesis: Ambassador Harry Frank Guggenheim in Cuba: 1929-1933, Donald Ross Brimmer
Thesis: The Relationship of the Education of Parents to Achievement of Pupils in a Selected Fourth Grade, Virginia R. Brinkley
Thesis: A Fluorescent Tracer Study at a Tidal Inlet (Rudee Inlet, Virginia), James W. Bunch
Thesis: Unit Approach vs. Subject Matter Approach in Meeting Educational Goals for EMRs, Nora Eley Cartledge
Thesis: A Study of the Professional Preparation and Growth of Elementary School Teachers in a Suburban School System in Tidewater Virginia, Mabel Brumley Church
Thesis: Some Summary Theories of Inflation Causation, Carl M. Colonna
Thesis: A Statistical Analysis of Dependency Tendencies in Visually Impaired Caucasian Adolescents in a Residential School Placement, John White Cornett
Thesis: A Marriage of Convenience, Norfolk and the Navy, 1917-1967, Theodore A. Curtin
Thesis: A Survey and Appraisal of the Nongraded Approach to Education in the Elementary School, James Roszel Darden
Thesis: A Comparison of the Organizational Climate Description Questionnaire and Assumed Similarity of Opposites Scales as Measurement of Elementary School Organizational Climate, Robert Matthew Devine
Thesis: A Study of Attitudes Values and Religious Practices of Catholic Secondary Students from Parochial and Public Schools, John Joseph Dorgan
Thesis: Compensatory Education for Students at Jacox Junior High School, John Henry Edwards III
Thesis: A Survey of Secondary School Principals in Virginia, Daniel Peter Elliott
Thesis: A Survey of Pupil Personnel Services in Selected Primary Schools in Virginia, Phyllis Wiggens Fary
Thesis: Correlation Between Creativity as Measured by Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking Figural Forms A and B and Intelligence as Measured by the Lorge-Thorndike Intelligence Test of Fifty Sixth Grade Students, Thomas A. Felton
Thesis: An Evaluation of Kindergarten Children's Reactions to a Selected Group of Story Books, Bonnie Jean Folkerts
Thesis: The Relationship of Three Selected Admission Variables to Student Achievement in a Diploma School of Nursing, Elsie M. Futrell
Thesis: A Replication of Gouldner's Latent Role Identifications of Cosmopolitan and Local in a Public High School, Ronald S. Godwin
Thesis: A Survey of the Attitudes and Opinions of Ninth and Twelfth Grade Males Toward Apprenticeship Training, Shirley Nichols Gray
Thesis: An Evaluation of a Counseling Program by the Students Graduates and Faculty of a Diploma School of Nursing, Sister Geraldine Gresser
Thesis: The Poetry of Hart Crane: An Analysis of the Concept of Regeneration, Shirley S. Hafezi
Thesis: Parent Counseling for Parents of Special Education Students in the Public Schools, Janyce Halprin
Thesis: The Fragmented Individual in the Poetry of John Crowe Ransom, Jahaila Morris Harper
Thesis: An Analysis in Terms of Trade, Nobuhiro Hayashi
Thesis: The Rives Affair: The Study of a Southeast Virginia Railroad Controversy, 1830-1846, William F. Heyer
Thesis: A Study of Career Choice of Secondary Students in a Military Academy, Wilton Holmgren
Thesis: Current Practices in the Use and Handling of Confidential Information in Student Cumulative Folders, Phyllis Webster Jamison
Thesis: A Survey of the Guidance Practices and Needs of Williams Intermediate School as Viewed by Faculty and Students, Mary Louise Jensen
Thesis: Joseph Priestley: An Eighteenth Century Unitarian, Carol Lynn Knight
Thesis: A Study of Thin-Film Superconducting Junctions, William P. Korink
Thesis: A Survey of Parents' Knowledge of College Selection and Application Procedures, Susan Stevenson Landis
Thesis: The Stage Yankee in the Plays of Eugene O'Neill, Sue Farquharson Law
Thesis: A Study of Selected Groups of Old Dominion College Freshmen Women, Dorothy F. Lippincott
Thesis: The Correlation Between Reading Readiness Scores and Achievement of Fifty Second Grade Parochial School Students, Ruth Hearn Marchand
Thesis: Child Labor Reform Movement in Virginia: 1890-1938, Yukiko Maritani
Thesis: A Comparison of the Budget Formulation Procedures Used in the Six Cities of the Hampton Roads Complex, William George Matton Jr.
Thesis: An Analysis of Factors Involved in Coordinating Vocational Services Between Counselors of the Public High Schools and Counselors of the Public Employment Service in Norfolk, Virginia, James Verne McGowan
Thesis: The Progress of the Japanese-American Commodity Trade and the Commercial Policy Since 1945, Akio Mitake
Thesis: An Empirical Examination of Selected Aspects of the Coffee Market, John Michael Morgan
Thesis: A Study of the Relationship Between One's Religious Belief and One's Philosophy of Human Nature, Sister Mary Richard Norris
Thesis: A Study of Evil in Melville's Bartleby the Scrivener Benito Cereno and Billy Budd, Kwitoslawa Pascnyn
Thesis: A Re-evaluation of Marlowe's Use of the Classics in Hero and Leander, Naomi M. Patz
Thesis: Patrick Hurley and China Policy, Bruce W. Platz
Thesis: John Skelton's Satire of the Burial Rites of the Roman Church in "Philip Sparrow", Jean M. Regone
Thesis: An Investigation into the Knowledge of Literary Allusion of Selected High School and College Students, Lawrence D. Roberts
Thesis: Origin Implementation and Evaluation of the Occupational Work-Study Program in the City Schools of Portsmouth, Virginia, James Columbus Robinson