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- Creator:
- Martinez Belmontes, Alondra
- Description:
- The purpose of this research study is to identify how being an undocumented student has affected the undergraduate academic experiences of current graduate students. This study exhibits narratives from four students who have earned a bachelor’s degree and are currently pursuing a post-baccalaureate credential and/or master’s degree at a university located in the Central Valley. When exploring each individual unique experience during their undergraduate career there is a significant focus on the hardships they endured. However, the research also highlights the types of support that existed and were available at their respective undergraduate campuses. A crucial aspect of this study is the target on acquiring narratives of individuals who have already overcame the difficulties that come with being an undocumented undergraduate student. The goal of this research is to bring awareness to the various amounts of limitations and hardships that undocumented students face daily and to highlight their resilience through their stories of success. The information gathered from this study may be used to better understand undocumented students, and the need to better serve and support these students on higher education campuses. This study explored the exterior and interior factors that exist in higher education for undocumented students. The research is guided by the following question: What are some of the hardships that graduate students have faced as an undocumented student pursuing an undergraduate degree?
- Resource Type:
- Masters Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Fresno
- Department:
- Education
- Creator:
- Young, Stephen.
- Description:
- The use of standardized achievement tests flourishes in the
American educational landscape. First developed in the United States
by Joseph Mayer Rice in the 1880's, the standardized test has one
primary function, to compare the efforts of an examinee, or a group of
examinees, with those of a larger group of examinees that is considered
typical. Rice's own work came about when he tried to compare student
abilities to spell and found that spelling tests and instruction lacked
uniformity within schools and grades, even in the same district.
- Resource Type:
- Masters Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Fresno
- Department:
- Education
- Creator:
- Vance, Ellis.
- Description:
- The education of America's children has been a concern of educators
and lay people since our nation was created. It has been an ongoing concern
which has tried to focus on meeting the needs of each child. And yet, even
though the concern for individual educational needs has been recognized,
little has been done to compensate for the vast differences which exist in
children. To the contrary, for many years, since the passing of the "little
red schoolhouse," children have been placed in a graded lock-step type of
education which assumes that all children, upon reaching a given chronological
age, are ready to absorb a given instructional diet at the same rate.
- Resource Type:
- Masters Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Fresno
- Department:
- Education
- Creator:
- Stansell, Alvin Dean.
- Description:
- The early concept of the school principal did not develop from this little red schoolhouse setting for there was little need for administration in the sense that we know it today. The local school board would hire one teacher who would usually have the responsibility for teaching grades one through eight. There was, therefore, no need to hire another person to be in charge of the school and the one teacher. The administrative functions associated with the school and teacher were left in the hands of the school board members.
- Resource Type:
- Masters Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Fresno
- Department:
- Education
- Creator:
- Reddell, Lynda.
- Description:
- Each year, high school students across the nation enroll in
first-year shorthand, generally with the thought of becoming a secre-
tary. Unfortunately, most of these high schools do not provide a
formal procedure for counselors to follow in placing students in
shorthand, other than perhaps the general impression they have of
the students through their previous grade records, English grades,
and/or reading aptitude. Consequently, many students sign up for
the course simply because their friends are going to take shorthand or
because their parents wish them to.
- Resource Type:
- Masters Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Fresno
- Department:
- Education
- Creator:
- Osborn, Deborah.
- Description:
- North Fork is a small lumber town situated in the foothills of eastern Madera County, California. The town lies sixty miles south of Yosemite National Park, at the border of the yellow pine forest. Logging, public utility companies, and the United States Forest Service employ the majority of the working residents} tourism and the operation of small businesses account for the remainder. According to the 1970 census report for Madera County, more retirement persons are selecting the Oakhurst-North Fork area for their retirement homes.¹ The area is attractive to retiring persons because property is less expensive to purchase and maintain, due to the absence of incorporated areas and the heavy taxation that accompanies urban growth.
- Resource Type:
- Masters Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Fresno
- Department:
- Education
- Creator:
- Hishida, Crystal.
- Description:
- There is an apparent need for effective and realistic vocational rehabilitation services for the handicapped and disabled. In the development and promotion of these services, there is a growing concern for establishment of effective "In-Service Training Programs." McGehee and Thayer state that In-Service training is the formal procedures which an organization uses to facilitate its staffs' learning so that their resultant behavior contributes to the attainment of the organization's goals and objectives.
- Resource Type:
- Masters Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Fresno
- Department:
- Education
- Creator:
- Givens, Robert.
- Description:
- Though education is defined as a function of the
state, the bulk of the decisions and policies that govern
the operation of schools are made on the school district
level. The quality of the educational offering that
results is as varied as the districts that provide them vary
in size, financial base, type of students, leadership, etc.
- Resource Type:
- Masters Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Fresno
- Department:
- Education
- Creator:
- Geissler, Elizabeth Sterling.
- Description:
- A major area of interest to today's educator is the influence of early environment on the child's school achievement. Literature in early childhood education is involved in the debate over assumptions about the relationship between various stages of development and early experience. Early assessment and evaluation are old problems but in an era of accountability, they emerge as dominant issues in the child's early education. One area which remains relatively unexplored is the relationship of the child's art to his stages of intellectual development and academic achievement.
- Resource Type:
- Masters Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Fresno
- Department:
- Education
- Creator:
- Forbes, Evelyn.
- Description:
- This nation, thousands of miles in width and breadth, attempts
offer an education to children and youth of every economic, ethnic, and
cultural background. The enormity of the task to provide quality
educational opportunity for every child in America poses a paramount
challenge. Many of the children at our school doors arrive emotionally,
physically, and psychologically ready and equipped with various skills
for the experience of school. Many other children come unready. A major
consideration faced by educators has been the lack of preparedness
among economically disadvantaged children as they enter the formal
school setting. Not only have these children been deprived materially
and environmentally, but as they entered school, they lacked the
attitudes and previous experiences conducive to academic success.
Because of criteria preset by our society, these disadvantaged children
have frequently failed.
- Resource Type:
- Masters Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Fresno
- Department:
- Education