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- Creator:
- Nieto, David
- Description:
- Middle school student academic achievement is interconnected with social and emotional developmental and learning. Social and emotional development and learning center on academic and social skills, such as managing emotions, goal setting, establishing positive peer and adult relationships, and solving interpersonal problems. The American education system has progressively become more standardized. The problem this study addresses is the challenge middle schools face in meeting adolescent social–emotional developmental needs while meeting federal, state, and local mandated achievement benchmarks. The purpose of this case study evaluation research was to provide a formative evaluation on the social and emotional learning strategies within Response to Intervention (RtI) and their impact on student achievement as measured by (a) standardized assessments, (b) school climate, (c) attendance rates, and (d) discipline rates at one middle school in Los Angeles County, California. Primary data sets are from school years 2010–2015. Data demonstrated that academic achievement rose steadily throughout the implementation of RtI. The results of this study are encouraging for educational professionals and those interested in the effects of social and emotional learning strategies on student achievement. The recommendations serve to strength the RtI structure and iv practices. The recommendations identify best practices in the implementation and improvements to the delivery model. RtI will continue to be a delivery structure that provides students with supports and intervention where all students can be successful.
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Campus Tesim:
- Fullerton
- Department:
- Department of Educational Leadership
- Creator:
- Henry, Jamie
- Description:
- Sexually transmitted diseases are a major public health problem that can be effectively prevented through condom use. The number of young adults in colleges contracting STDs has been increasing exponentially in recent years, especially among women. The purpose of this assessment is to summarize the specific factors associated with condom use, and how these factors relate to differences in STDs in young college men and women. Addressing condom use in college populations involves understanding gender-specific barriers and relationship power dynamics. According to past literature findings, increasing condom use in young adults primarily relies on empowering women in relationships where they perceive themselves to have low power and increasing their sexual assertiveness. This review explores various studies to examine the application of behavioral health theories, identify common themes in gender differences in college populations and to aid the development of appropriate interventions
- Resource Type:
- Masters Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Fullerton
- Department:
- Department of Psychology
- Creator:
- Beach, Alyssa
- Description:
- Cetacean bonebeds containing multiple articulated individuals are extremely rare, with only a handful of occurrences documented worldwide. In 1997, three bonebeds containing mostly articulated and well preserved cetacean remains were uncovered during grading in sedimentary rocks assigned to the Paularino Member of the Topanga Formation near Bonita Canyon, Newport Beach, California. Multiple bonebeds within a single stratigraphic unit, such as those discovered at Bonita Canyon Planning Area 26, represent a rare class of deep marine fossil accumulations that have not been previously studied in detail. Taphonomic, stratigraphic, and geochemical data was collected from fourteen jacketed specimens removed from Bonita Canyon Planning Area 26 in order to determine the paleoenvironmental conditions that led to the accumulation of the bonebeds and to shed more light on these types of fossil accumulations. Results of this study indicate that the Bonita Canyon bonebeds do not represent a condensed facies, as previously proposed (The Keith Companies, 1998); rather they represent a composite concentration deposited in a continental shelf environment during a period of high sedimentation rates, where episodes of high energy gravity flows alternated with periods of low energy accumulation along a NE-SW trending submarine fan sequence. High net rates of sedimentation correspond with the creation of high accommodation space as the result of the opening of the Los Angeles Basin, a progressive marine transgression, and subsidence of the Topanga Basin as the result of the shift in the tectonic regime along western North America from a subduction zone to transform margin during the mid to late Miocene. Overall, this study provides valuable insight into the iii sedimentologic and taphonomic processes that lead to the formation of cetacean bonebeds, and demonstrate that high sedimentation rates may lead to well-preserved cetacean remains.
- Resource Type:
- Masters Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Fullerton
- Department:
- Department of Geological Sciences
- Creator:
- Leyva, Whitney
- Description:
- Strength coaches are searching for the best way to train their athletes to be bigger, faster, and stronger in order to increase performance. A unique form of power training is to try and invoke a postactivation potentiation (PAP). PAP is based on the premise of performing a heavy resistance exercise followed by a power exercise, resulting in increased power performance. Back squats (BS) are normally used, but a less researched tool is the hex bar deadlift. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to compare the potentiating effects of the back squat vs. HBDL on vertical jump performance. Ten resistance-trained men (age=22.15±2.66yrs, ht=178.10±7.20cm, mass=78.91±8.67kg) volunteered to participate and performed 3 pre countermovement jumps (CMJ) then 3 repetitions of BS or HBDL at 85% 1RM. To perform the CMJ, subjects jumped with arm swing on a force plate. The BS was performed with a standard barbell in a power rack with a safety squat device to insure a quad parallel position. The HBDL was performed using the low handles without straps. Following the BS or HBDL, subjects rested 8 minutes then performed 3 post CMJ. A control condition consisted of 3 pre CMJ, 8 minutes of standing rest, then 3 post CMJ. For jump height, there was an interaction of condition x time where the control and squat conditions resulted in a significant decrease in post vertical jump with no difference in deadlift. Manipulation of critical variables determines PAP outcomes. PAP is highly individualized and training experience of the subjects may have been too low to demonstrate increased performance.
- Resource Type:
- Masters Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Fullerton
- Department:
- Department of Kinesiology
- Creator:
- Francuz, Madeleine
- Description:
- Psychological distress is described as unpleasant feelings or emotions that negatively impact an individual’s level of functioning (Ridner, 2004, Williams, 2003). Furthermore, the personality traits of neuroticism and extraversion are strongly associated with psychological distress. Specifically, higher levels of neuroticism and lower levels of extraversion are linked to higher levels of psychological distress. However, the mechanisms that underlie these links are not well understood. Social support is one plausible candidate as a mechanism through which neuroticism, and extraversion are linked to psychological distress. The proposed study examined the extent to which social support mediates the association between neuroticism and psychological distress and between extraversion and psychological distress. This study used data from the Midlife Development in the United States (MIDUS) study, which includes a sample of 7,108 adults ranging in age from 25 to 74 years old. The results showed that extraversion and neuroticism were negatively correlated. Extraversion was positively correlated with social support, and negatively correlated with psychological distress. Neuroticism was negatively correlated with social support, and negatively correlated with psychological distress. Social support was also negatively correlated with psychological distress. A series of regression analyses were run in SPSS in order to test the proposed mediations. No support for the proposed mediations were found, but extraversion, social support, and iii neuroticism were found to each independently predict psychological distress. Study implications, limitations, and the suggested direction of future research are all discussed.
- Resource Type:
- Masters Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Fullerton
- Department:
- Department of Psychology
- Creator:
- Ayers, Jessica
- Description:
- Women’s intrasexual competition became a salient topic of investigation after a paper detailing the different evolutionary pressures ancestral women would have faced as primary care givers of dependent offspring was published. Since then, the majority of research on this topic has come from a “direct threat” perspective, focusing on how women gain and maintain access to mates when a sexual rival poses a direct threat to a current or future romantic relationship. However, the most understudied area of competition centers on women’s competition when mating-related outcomes (i.e., increased mating opportunities, necessary mate guarding) are not immediately present. In this study, I propose a model of women’s competition that combines dynamic cooperation and sexual economics theory to explain competition when mating related consequences are not readily present. To test the “coordinated condemnation” model of women’s same-sex competition, I manipulated the amount of cleavage shown in an image across two conditions and asked women to rate her on various characteristics. Using a large and diverse sample of women (N = 732), I documented that participants shown the target image with visible cleavage perceived her more negatively than participants shown the target image with a modesty panel, even in domains seemingly unrelated to physical attractiveness and mating. The participant’s physical attractiveness, intrasexual competitiveness, social comparison orientation, and ovulatory cycle phase did not moderate this effect, and their relationship status did not mediate this effect.
- Resource Type:
- Masters Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Fullerton
- Department:
- Department of Psychology
- Creator:
- Johnson, Jamie
- Description:
- Medical adherence is a big issue in today’s society, with non-adherence rates in the medical world as high as 30% (Cramer & Rosenheck, 1998). Lack of adherence is not only costly to society long term, but can also cost people their lives (Levine et al., 2013). This study is aimed at investigating the link between non-adherence and negative emotions to gain insight into this problem. To gather data, researchers constructed a survey to collect demographic information from pre-surgical patients (N = 383; 51% female) at a community hospital in Riverside, California. Months later, researchers administered a survey to assess patient emotions as well as the General Adherence Scale (DiMatteo et al., 1993) to assess levels of adherence following their surgery. It was hypothesized that patients who reported more negative emotions would report lower levels of adherence. Specifically, patients who experience regret, dissatisfaction, disappointment and sadness would have lower levels of adherence. The reasoning for these hypotheses is based on previous research which shows a trend of positive emotions being associated with higher levels of adherence, which would be congruent with the hypothesis that negative emotions would lead to lower levels of adherence (Cuffee et al., 2012). The results of the study found that, as predicted, happiness is associated with higher levels of adherence. It was also found that the negative emotions in this study were not significantly related to adherence.
- Resource Type:
- Masters Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Fullerton
- Department:
- Department of Psychology
- Creator:
- Malebranche, Mark R., II
- Description:
- The subject of an American national identity has been a source of debate for centuries. Some argue it had naturally evolved by the time of the American Revolution while others argue there was no cohesive “American” people at the time of the war. By looking at the ways in which the American colonists interpreted the presence of the Hessian soldiers contracted by the British government during the struggle, this conversation can be continued in a new and unique way. The Hessians themselves have often been ignored by the historical record, though studying these men reveals that at the time of the American Revolution, the colonists remained divided and were rather a collection of different peoples. I approach this study by looking primarily at the wartime press of New York and Pennsylvania, put in context with the events of the Revolution, along with some of the early American historians (Mercy Otis Warren, David Ramsay, John Marshall, and Washington Irving) writing in the decades following the Treaty of Paris. Differences and similarities in the ways they discussed the Hessian involvement during the American Revolution reveal a lack of cohesive identity during and in the decades following the war.
- Resource Type:
- Masters Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Fullerton
- Department:
- Department of History
- Creator:
- Kadhim, Ahmed Kamil
- Description:
- Lightweight concrete has been used in construction because of its properties, such as thermal, and fire resistances although it is more expensive and less available than normal weight concrete. One way to save time, cost, and to provide an alternative to lightweight concrete in construction projects is to reduce the number of installed insulations on precast wall panels and to improve the properties of normal weight concrete panels, respectively. These goals can be achieved by improving the four properties of precast panels, such as thermal resistance, fire resistance, heat capacity, and sound insulation by using perlite as insulation. The main goals of this research are getting buildings constructed or modified in less time and cost by producing superior wall panels and improving the properties of normal weight panels. Superior wall panels are new panels that provide the four properties listed above. Precast panels with different cross sections, concrete type, and different amounts of perlite will be investigated to observe the impact of each factor on the mentioned properties. The cost of each panel will be studied, and analytical methods will be used to find the optimum panel that provides the four mentioned properties with least cost. Moreover, theoretical methods will be applied to calculate the four properties for each panel.
- Resource Type:
- Masters Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Fullerton
- Department:
- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Creator:
- Knight, Timothy
- Description:
- The hierarchy of Britain’s social system in the 18th and early 19th centuries was rigidly stratified and patriarchal, with a limited noble class, or peerage, a small but burgeoning middling class, and a substantial lower class of either peasants or urban workers. Those from the middle class frequently found their options for social and economic growth to be limited in the absence of patronal connections. As such, social networking, or interactions between an individual and an array of contacts, though often considered a relatively recent phenomenon, was integral to those who intended to ascend to a higher social or economic status, even in an era that lacked modern communications technologies. This study focuses on the network interactions, specifically deconstructing examples of patronage, deference, and information-brokering, in an attempt to characterize the career construction historical legacy of three British Royal Navy Admirals, Edward Hawke, Horatio Nelson, and Cuthbert Collingwood, as a product of meticulous communications via letter-writing and cultivating connections. While their own deliberate historical agency was important, this study contends that a reciprocal binary interaction between each man and a number of others of different spheres of social contacts, both above and below their own social standing, greatly influenced their ability to ascend to the highest ranks of both social and military standing in Britain during the Age of Napoleon.
- Resource Type:
- Masters Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Fullerton
- Department:
- Department of History