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- Creator:
- Patil, Amruta Navnath
- Description:
- The purpose of this paper is to help implement some concepts studied during the Master of Science in Engineering Management program in context of a specific company and its supply chain. The idea to provide solutions to minimize costs, improve supply chain and implement efficient forecasting techniques. It will serve as a termination masters project and will go in conjunction of the final project presentation to provide insights on the below topics: • Understanding of the disruption of the production and supply chain due to an unforeseen extreme situation. • Analysis of the various costs involved in servicing the demand and how it impacts profitability • Building a Cost Minimization Matrix that will suggest optimal production plans. • When to Produce and How much to Produce. • Showcasing cost saving opportunities by adapting policies of continuous evaluation. • Providing Suggestions and Recommendations on Improving KPI’s. For this Project we will be looking into the analysis of Niagara Bottling’s most common SKU’s that have demand all year round. They also have seasonality and trends attached with their demand patterns. We will look at the Direct Cost of Manufacturing and Shipping of these SKU’s. The major factor of this project will be to analyze these costs and demand patterns changes in an extreme unforeseen situation of the pandemic of 2020 that disrupted supply chains all around the world and has a continuing effect on the overall business of manufacturing. This will help us derive a model that will suggest production plans by continuously monitoring forecast and unusual demand fluctuations so that we can better prepare to meet service levels and increase profitability.
- Resource Type:
- Graduate project
- Campus Tesim:
- Pomona
- Department:
- Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering
- Creator:
- Farid, Morvarid
- Description:
- California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) passed Senate Bill 1371 in 2014 with an overall goal to reduce methane emissions by 40% by 2030. Utilities are mandated to implement mandatory best practices and report on their annual emissions to avoid penalties. As a part of this initiative utilities are actively looking for opportunities to enhance their systems and implement new technologies in response to Senate Bill 1371. There are aerial-based technologies available for utilities to proactivity find methane plumes. The aerial-based technology presented in this report uses LiDAR technology mounted to a helicopter. It identifies leaks on systems sized 10 CFH or larger and detects emissions on customer-owned facilities from houseline leaks and incomplete combustion from gas-fired equipment. However, this method does not replace the traditional walking survey as it does not detect small leaks. This report intends to help utilities operationalize this type of technology efficiently. There are three main problems identified. One is the scheduling part of these flight operations in a way that don’t overload the operational groups. The second is how the plans are effectively communicated with these operational groups. Third, how leadership can be more effective and efficient in this implementation. Lastly, how much does this technology cost and how can it be reduced. To solve problem one, a linear programming model is introduced to best sequence flight areas and schedule resources. The model minimizes the number of days flown consecutively for all districts, allowing time between flight operations in any district. This way, the impacted districts can handle and complete work orders before receiving the next batch of data. Following this methodology will allow utilities to reduce their costs. The second problem is addressed by implementing project management tools and techniques to develop a communication strategy for external and internal communications. Followed by recommendations for leadership and a cost analysis.
- Resource Type:
- Graduate project
- Campus Tesim:
- Pomona
- Department:
- Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering
- Creator:
- Campos, Carina
- Description:
- After the dissolution of the Redevelopment Agencies in California in 2012, cities were forced to find alternative funding streams to fund essential economic activity. As such, Business Improvement Districts or BIDs for short, have proven to become an economic development tool used by local governments to supplement services previously funded by the Redevelopment Agencies. This project examines historic Front Street in Norwalk, California as an area that can benefit from implementing a BID. It identifies five determinants that contribute to the effectiveness of BIDs. They are public safety, cleanliness, marketing and promotion and event programming. This project studied two case studies by conducting audits, making observations and implementing the Gehl Institute’s Public Life Tools. Ultimately findings showed that implementing a BID in the City of Norwalk could prove to be a helpful tool to fund essential economic activity, however, specifically for the City of Norwalk, before it can implement a BID, thought must be given to how it will bring investment to the area. Although brief recommendations were provided, such is beyond the area of study of this research and requires a deeper analysis. Thereafter, once Front Street boasts investment, implementing a BID will be much more effective in continuing the revitalization efforts in its downtown area.
- Resource Type:
- Graduate project
- Campus Tesim:
- Pomona
- Department:
- Urban & Regional Planning
- Creator:
- Miller, Lindsey
- Description:
- This project reviewed the effectiveness of marketing on enrollment rates in the CPP Payment Plan offered by the Office of Student Accounting & Cashiering. Marketing is used as a tool to inform students a payment plan is an available and affordable option when paying tuition. A survey was sent to active Cal Poly Pomona students to gather data related to demographics, as well as student’s knowledge of the payment plan. This study found that 96% of participants had heard about the payment plan offered, but 78% of those participants have not previously participated in the plan. A discussion of literature found that low-income minority students have a greater need for financial assistance when it comes to affording college. This study further analyzed low-income students, low-income students who are parents, and low-income Hispanic/ Latino students to determine what percentage were participating in the plan. Survey data found that 4% of low-income students who are parents, 11% of low-income students, and 34% of low-income Hispanic/Latino students have previously participated in the plan. While marketing techniques such as email may be an effective form of notifying students, it does not necessarily impact the enrollment rates.
- Resource Type:
- Graduate project
- Campus Tesim:
- Pomona
- Department:
- Political Science
- Creator:
- Velez, Fabian
- Description:
- The City of Covina is a city within the County of Los Angeles which faces an unusual issue of having pockets within the City which are under the jurisdiction of the County due to the expansion of City boundaries around areas which chose to remain under County jurisdiction. In August of 2019, an item was brought forth to the City Council which considered the annexation of the islands. This report examines the feasibility of the annexation by breaking down the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats through a SWOT analysis. The recommendation reached after the research is for the City Council, should they wish to proceed with the annexations, do so in a phased approach beginning with the six islands within the City’s boundaries which do not overlap with outer City borders.
- Resource Type:
- Graduate project
- Campus Tesim:
- Pomona
- Department:
- Political Science
- Creator:
- Zheng, Hao
- Description:
- In the field of web application development, there are three main parts in code implementation: backend architecture, frontend implementation, CI/CI pipeline. Since backend architecture is extremely important, therefore it is crucial to design a maintainable and extensible backend architecture for further development. The paper is to demonstrate building a solid backend architecture for an online library website. The complete implementation of the architecture is split into four sections: microservices designing, database architecture, backend architecture, and REST API designing. In the introduction, the problems of traditional software development methodology are pointed out. The concepts of microservice and Docker are then introduced in Section 1. Section 2 demonstrates how to design the database architecture by illustrating ER diagrams and database controller packages. Section 3 demonstrates the specific steps of implementing backend logic for microservices using Python. REST APIs, the bridge connecting backend services and frontend clients, are introduced in Section 4. The verification of REST APIs using unit testing and postman is also introduced at the end of the paper. Each section explains related concepts and demonstrates specific steps of the implementation. The complete picture of the architecture is clear to illustrate the maintainability and extensibility of the system.
- Resource Type:
- Graduate project
- Campus Tesim:
- Pomona
- Department:
- Computer Science
7. Physical and Numerical Hydrological Modeling of Bell Canyon Within the San Dimas Experimental Forest
- Creator:
- Hernandez, Kevin
- Description:
- The San Dimas Experimental Forest (SDEF) has been used as an outdoor hydrological laboratory since 1934 by the United States Forest Service to investigate watershed management practices, understand the effects of forest fires, and conduct ecological studies. This study focuses on modeling a specific area within the SDEF's Big Dalton watershed, Bell Canyon (857 acres), through the creation of a scaled physical hydrological model and a numerical hydrological model. The scaled physical model downsizes Bell Canyon to produce a fiberglass mold house on a utility cart. Rainfall is applied at different intensities to the scaled physical model using a pump, piping, and sprinklers. The runoff from Bell Canyon is measured using a scale and Arduino microcontroller, allowing for the development of hydrographs. The numerical model in HEC-HMS is based on the full-scale Bell Canyon area and is compared to the scaled physical model to understand the similitude relationships between the two hydrological models.
- Resource Type:
- Masters Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Pomona
- Department:
- Civil Engineering
- Creator:
- Aguirre, Gerardo
- Description:
- Research surrounding the education of minority and disadvantaged student populations has historically been focused on the “deficit model”, the notion that examines the weaknesses of a group rather than their strengths. This study investigated the educational journey of one particular group of students belonging to an overlooked minority population, the migrant farmworker student. The educational plight of the migrant farmworker student can be characterized as collateral damage to an agricultural industry that profits from the undereducation of this group. The failure of schools to pursue the academic achievements of migrant farmworker students effectively enables continued profits for cities and the agricultural economy in the U.S. by reproducing the migrant farmworker labor force. To discard the deficit model, this study conducted a comparative analysis of existing grounded theory-based case studies of migrant farmworker students in California and Texas to identify and evaluate the success factors of these students as they navigate through the Migrant Education Program (MEP) and the College Assistance Migrant Program (CAMP). The results of this study identified success factors such as cultural capital, institutional agents, role models, parental involvement, academic learned capital, and fictive kinship associated with migrant farmworker student upward mobility. The intent of this study is to inform the MEP and CAMP on what currently makes these students successful to focus program objectives in the future. Additionally, I examined the intersection of education and planning. The key findings of this research focus on identifying the mechanisms by which the field of planning includes education policy in the context of a cities infrastructure.
- Resource Type:
- Masters Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Pomona
- Department:
- Urban & Regional Planning
- Creator:
- Yan, Yichi
- Description:
- Music is one of the human hobbies and artistic pursuits. We have conducted extensive and in-depth research on music long ago and put forward many music theories. In the history of music, composers have never stopped summarizing composition techniques. With the development of computer technology and artificial intelligence, people have the idea of letting computers create music by themselves. Many kinds of neural network models can be used to generate music. For the most common fully connected neural network, the operation is complicated, the calculation speed is slow, and there is no special solution to the continuous problem. For example, the CNN convolutional neural network, although in many ways a fully connected neural network, But is also a model structure that cannot optimize and replace the problem of continuous sequence. This article will explain how to use the machine learning frameworks Tensorflow and Keras to build an LSTM neural network model to automatically synthesize a piece of music by learning music data.
- Resource Type:
- Graduate project
- Campus Tesim:
- Pomona
- Department:
- Computer Science
- Creator:
- Agunwah, Reginald
- Description:
- The Hog Back slide is a large rockslide in the southern foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains, located approximately five miles north of San Antonio Heights. This broad mound of translated slide boulders produced a natural dam across San Antonio Canyon in late Pleistocene time. The purpose my study is to investigate the fracture geometry that led to the failure of the Hog Back slide by the means of field mapping and stereonet analysis. This investigation builds on my previous senior thesis work that addressed the disturbed and/or displaced slide blocks. I completed a series of ten mapping traverses to acquire new rock observations and structural measurements, and constrain their locations with a GPS receiver. A synthesis of this research is used to develop a mechanical model for the failure of the Hog Back Slide. Through the new rock observations and structural measurements, the displaced contact that was found within the Hogback slide remained relatively intact, even after the slide mass had translated 1,300 feet to the southeast. The distribution of clast sizes that were observed show that part of the felsic gneiss was emplaced as a megaclast. The clast sizes seen with the quartz diorite were more distributed and widespread. A mechanical analysis of the clasts and the in-place rock show that there may have been many factors that could have caused the failure, such as tectonic events, mechanical weathering, and chemical weathering. Wherever the rock is exposed, it consistently shows the same kind of geometry in the planar structures contained therein. The foliations of the in-place rock generally strike northwest, with dips to the southwest. The foliations of the transported felsic gneiss clasts strike northwest and dip to the southwest. The foliations of the transported quartz diorite clasts strike in all directions with no preferred dip angle. The most logical conclusion to be derived from this information is that the toe of the slide acted as a cushion for the head of the slide, allowing the felsic gneiss slide mass to retain an orientation similar to the bedrock measurements in the source area.
- Resource Type:
- Masters Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Pomona
- Department:
- Geological Sciences
- Creator:
- Lin, Long
- Description:
- This project is a design and implementation of continuous integration, continuous delivery, and continuous deployment (CI/CD) for a modern Dev-Ops environment. The pipeline bridges the gap between development and deployment teams by automating the building, testing, and deployment of applications. The entirety of the pipeline includes shared repositories on Github with different branches for each environment, namely, feature branch for adding new features, develop branch for pre-production environment testing, and master branch for live consumer used production environment, and Amazon EC2 instances for running the pipelines automatically upon changes from repositories and automatically updated servers. The Github repositories architecture is designed and implemented based on the Git Flow architecture with some variations. The CI/CD Jenkins pipelines gets triggered from designated Github repositories for different branches, pull requests, merge, and release. With the CI/CD Jenkins pipelines, developers can push their changes or add new features to an application without worrying about updating current versions of pre-production and production servers with chosen tested features for applications.
- Resource Type:
- Graduate project
- Campus Tesim:
- Pomona
- Department:
- Computer Science
- Creator:
- Xue, Wen
- Description:
- The tourism industry has suffered significant losses since the outbreak of COVID-19, which began in China in late 2019, although it has been under control in China since March 2020. As the largest city in China, Shanghai can be utilized as an example to illustrate the tourism industry's recovery in the post-pandemic era. As such, the purpose of this study is to explore how Shanghai has revived its tourism industry, providing a feasible policy and plan for other Destination Marketing Organizations (DMO) in the post-pandemic period. Under the framework of tourism resilience and crisis recovery, this study employs a case study method to unveil how the Shanghai tourism industry has recovered and rebounded from the pandemic. With the archived data from the Shanghai tourism industry, the study analyzes in detail the pandemic prevention policy and specific tourism recovery strategies for the post-pandemic era. The results of the study confirm the role of crisis recovery in Shanghai’s tourism industry through threat identification as well as crisis planning, response, recovery, and learning. Furthermore, the findings of the study reveal the diverse and innovative development of the market, local community connectivity, improved employee capability, active participation by tourism enterprises, and polycentric governance in Shanghai's tourism industry, all of which reflect the effects of tourism resilience. The study offers practical implications for other DMOs to develop relevant tourism recovery plans and policies both during and after the pandemic.
- Resource Type:
- Graduate project
- Campus Tesim:
- Pomona
- Department:
- Collins College of Hospitality Management
- Creator:
- Valencia, Danielle
- Description:
- Clostridium species make up a large portion of the intestinal microbiota in humans and animals with strong implications that they are necessary for overall gut function. Dysbiosis due to decreased abundances and diversity of Clostridium often cause major health consequences due to the resulting lack of intestinal short chain fatty acids such as butyrate provided by these organisms. Safe and effective results have been reported upon oral administration of Clostridium probiotic supplements for symptom reduction and disease prevention indicating their prospective use as a therapeutic agent. We hypothesized that intestinal butyrate producing Clostridium can be isolated from the feces of animals and that some of these isolates will have the potential to be used safely as a probiotic dietary supplement. Enrichment and isolation of Clostridium from horse, cattle, sheep, pig, and goat fecal samples were identified and characterized by their colony morphology on egg yolk agar, microscopic morphology by staining, biochemical reactions, and 16S rRNA sequencing results. A total of 6 species from 134 Clostridia isolates were identified and the butyrate kinase gene was confirmed in all of these isolates implicating the ability to produce butyrate. Based on hemolysis and antibiotic susceptibility tests outlined by the European Food and Safety Authority, 6 isolates were considered to be potentially safe as a probiotic and were further biochemically characterized by API microbial identification kits. Of these probiotic candidates, Paeniclostridium sordellii isolates P1F and P2E were determined to be unsafe for use as a probiotic due to the high risk of virulence factors and horizontal gene transfer of toxins. Clostridium senegalense isolate C4H was potentially the safest for use as a probiotic followed by Clostridium tepidum isolates C4B, P2D, and P4D.
- Resource Type:
- Masters Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Pomona
- Department:
- Biological Sciences
- Creator:
- Cheng, Melody
- Description:
- This study developed a full stack productivity application, called Day Line using the MERN stack (Mongo, Express, React, Node.js). The application provides users with data visualization for all their daily activities and does statistical analysis to show users how many hours they spend on activities in a day, week, month, and year. The goal of the application is to help users improve their time management by showing users how much time they spend on all the activities they do in their daily life. Users can input the activities they want to track in a day then through data visualization they can see their days simplified into a digestible format and view a side by side comparison about all the hours spent on each activity. Thus, with data visualization and statistics, users can make the changes they want to see with their time. It was found that this application helped users with visualizing their time, reflecting on their day, and improved time management for some users.
- Resource Type:
- Graduate project
- Campus Tesim:
- Pomona
- Department:
- Computer Science
- Creator:
- Dave, Janam
- Description:
- Invasive Pulmonary Aspergillosis (IPA) causes 50-90% mortality with present forms of oral and intravenous (IV) antifungal drugs, emphasizing the need for improved treatments. To explore this, we built an aerosol system to deliver inhalable, antifungal therapy to mice. We investigated the in vivo efficacy of inhalable liposomal Amphotericin B, AmBisomeⓇ (AmBi), given as monotherapy or in combination with IV AmBi for the treatment of IPA in Aspergillus fumigatus infected mice. Swiss-Webster female mice were immunosuppressed with the steroid triamcinolone acetonide or cyclophosphamide and challenged d0 with 9 x 106 A. fumigatus (ATCC#13073). For all in vivo studies, mice were placed in a 12-compartment chamber (one mouse/compartment) and exposed to aerosol (aero) AmBi. In study 1, we compared the efficacy of IV vs. aero AmBi. Mice were treated 1X daily with either IV AmBi (7.5 mg/kg), 20 mins of aero AmBi (1.33 µg/mL in nebulizer) or IV phosphate buffered saline (PBS) for a total of 3 treatments. In study 2, we varied the aero AmBi monotherapy dosing regimen, starting 4h post-challenge and given 5X, once daily for 10 or 20 minutes/treatment or given every other day and compared it to IV AmBi monotherapy given three times, once daily. In study 3, we investigated treatment regimens that would be more clinically applicable since IPA is often diagnosed late. We did this by delaying aero AmBi monotherapy to 8h or combining aero AmBi at 8h with IV AmBi therapy starting at 12h to treat an established, systemic infection. In study 4, we used the same treatment schedule as in study 3 to test the efficacy of aero AmBi monotherapy vs. aero AmBi combined with IV AmBi in a cyclophosphamide immunosuppressed IPA mouse model. Finally, we tested the efficacy of aero AmBi monotherapy or its combination with IV AmBi to treat IPA caused by different strains of A. fumigatus (strains V079 and V080). In study 1 aero AmBi monotherapy was more effective than IV AmBi monotherapy in reducing lung CFU/g, but less effective at reducing liver, kidney or spleen CFU/g, indicating that aero AmBi monotherapy may need further optimization to reduce the fungal burden in the internal organs. Even though reduction of CFU/g in these internal organs was limited, mouse survival was very good with aero AmBi monotherapy (75%) compared to IV AmBi monotherapy (43%) and PBS (33%) suggesting that aero AmBi was preventing fungal dissemination from the lungs to the internal organs. In study 2, longer (20 minutes vs 10 minutes/treatment) aero AmBi monotherapy had exceptional survival (100%, p ≤ 0.05 vs all other groups). Intermittent every other day aero AmBi and daily IV AmBi monotherapy were less effective (43% survival). In study 3, when treatment started later at 8h. The combination of 3 IV AmBi treatments with 5 aero AmBi treatments was as effective as earlier aero AmBi monotherapy beginning at 4h (86% survival for both treatments). The delayed combination treatment was also significantly better in reducing organ fungal burden. In study 4, in the cyclophosphamide immunosuppressed IPA model (A. fumigatus ATCC 13073), the combination treatment yielded 100% survival. In study 5, combination treatment in the steroid suppressed IPA model, yielded 100% survival following infection with A. fumigatus strain V079 and 86% with V080, with significant reduction in organ fungal burden (p ≤ 0.05 vs. IV AmBi alone). Compared to IV AmBi monotherapy, aero AmBi monotherapy given early or combined with IV AmBi for delayed therapy significantly increased survival, reduced lung fungal burden and decreased dissemination to the internal organs. These results suggest that aero AmBi may be a promising treatment option to reduce the high mortality associated with IPA.
- Resource Type:
- Masters Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Pomona
- Department:
- Biological Sciences
- Creator:
- Lucia, Kelly
- Description:
- This thesis explores implementation of the California Environmental Quality Act (“CEQA”) in the Western Riverside County geographical and political subregion. Specifically, this research was conducted to determine how many (if any) of the twenty member agencies of the Western Riverside Council of Governments (“WRCOG”) included in this study have followed State CEQA Guidelines Section §15064.7 recommendation to publish local thresholds of significance. For those that had, the research sought to understand the process undertaken to establish those thresholds. For those that had not, the research questioned what thresholds were being used to determine environmental significance. In order to understand the body of knowledge relevant to the subject, the researcher performed a thorough literature review of academic journals, case law, public records readily available online, and other accessible sources. Next, the researcher submitted public records requests to twenty WRCOG member agencies to obtain public hearing notices, staff reports, resolutions, meeting minutes, environmental impact reports, and other relevant documents. After analyzing the information provided through the public records request process and obtaining approval from the California State Polytechnical University, Pomona Institutional Review Board (“IRB”), the researcher conducted interviews with subject matter experts in the field. Finally, the data collected was synthesized into qualitative content analysis, policy recommendations, and conclusions as provided herein. This study is important to urban and regional planning research because the California Environmental Quality Act heavily influences all stages of planning, entitlement, and development in the rapidly growing Western Riverside County.
- Resource Type:
- Masters Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Pomona
- Department:
- Urban & Regional Planning
- Creator:
- Chen, Chenghao
- Description:
- Searching on the internet is a part of our life nowadays, we simply type words or sentences in the search box and expect the desired results. Many searching engines that we use nowadays such as Google, Bing, and DuckDuckGo use Natural Language Processing to enhance their search results. As more information available online and new words and terms exist, some of the traditional methods of searching simply cannot find what we desired accurately, therefore we should not merely rely on traditional ways of searching and discover more alternatives. In this project, we will discuss some of the Natural Language Processing approaches that could potentially enhance the searching results by using some of the techniques such as Bag of Words, Word2Vec, and stop word filter how to improve the results by apply word filtering. Lastly, we will also test some of the state-of-the-art question and answering models such as BERT.
- Resource Type:
- Graduate project
- Campus Tesim:
- Pomona
- Department:
- Computer Science
- Creator:
- Hwang, Jiyoung
- Description:
- Along with the rapid growth of advanced mobile technology, the advancement of interactive technology has recently received more attention. Unlike generalized mobile applications, interactive mobile applications solely focus on interactive functions for two- way communication between hotels and guests during their hotel stay. Many researchers in the lodging industry have primarily focused on the topics of mobile technologies by generalizing the use of technology and its influences on behavioral intentions. However, there have been insufficient studies to find the impact of interactive mobile applications in the lodging industry despite its popularity and significance. Therefore, the current study examined the impact of interactive mobile applications regarding usefulness, ease to use, and enjoyment on consumers’ intentions used in hotels. Moreover, this study researched the moderating influences of different cultural orientations concerning hotel guests’ attitude and their intention to use mobile application's interactive functions by containing the moderating role of self-construal. A total of 201 usable responses were employed for data analysis. The results indicated significant positive relationships among hotel guests’ perceptions, attitudes, and behavioral intentions. Moreover, the moderating role test verified that self-construal has significant moderating interaction for two relationships: perceived usefulness and attitude, along with perceived ease of use and attitude.
- Resource Type:
- Masters Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Pomona
- Department:
- Collins College of Hospitality Management
- Creator:
- Siat, Katherine
- Description:
- It is a college professor’s responsibility to offer their university students a high quality education (Harnash-Glazer & Meyer, 1991; Hill, Lomas, & MacGregorr, 2003). Because a student’s academic performance is a significant factor in determining whether they persist or not, it is important to examine the role that college professors have in a student’s academic outcomes (Stewart, Lim, & Kim, 2015). With this in mind, effective feedback in a learning environment has been noted as one of the most helpful forms of support that teachers can give their students (Nicol & Macfarlane-Dick, 2004; Irons, 2007; Yorke, 2003). It is necessary for college professors to think about the kind of feedback that they give their students, and which feedback methods improve both an instructor’s quality of teaching and a student’s quality of learning (Leckey & Neil, 2001). For instance, some helpful forms of feedback that faculty communicate in their courses are: opinions on the quality of education students are receiving, their views on teaching and learning, classroom climate, and others (Harvey, 2003). The research related to effective feedback strategies in a college setting can be seen in Hattie and Timperleys’ (2007) research as well as Black and Williams’ (1998), which posits how valuable effective feedback is for better learning when partnered with quality instruction. In addition to this literature, Nicol and Macfarlane-Dick (2006) as well as Black and McCormick (2010) explore lesser-known feedback methods that initiate more engaging and self-reflective learning processes for students. These alternative methods enhance student learning and performance by engaging students in activities that help them acknowledge, internalize, and act on the feedback that they receive from their teachers, peers, and personal performance outcomes. The objective of this project was to design an eLearning program for faculty that was both interesting and interactive. This program would showcase a diverse range of communication tools that faculty could use to increase the academic performance of their students. The main focus of this project was to share effective feedback strategies and activities that could be integrated into course activities and assignments. The goal of this program was to share some suggestions and methods for improving feedback, hoping that faculty might be inspired to adopt and customize some of the featured approaches within their own courses. Some multimedia elements included in this program were videos, images, audio narration, and interactive activities. Some activities featured in the learning module were quizzes, matching activities and scenarios. There were also portions of the program that encouraged faculty to self-reflect on the feedback practices they use in their courses, and how those practices could be optimized. The eLearning program, Articulate Rise, was used to create this project. The ADDIE methodology was used throughout the creation and evaluation of this project in order to track the needs, learning objectives, and project outcomes (Budoya et al., 2019). When developing the eLearning program, the Cognitive Theory of Multimedia Learning was followed to ensure that learners were interacted with program in the most memorable and effective way (Mayer, 2005). To field test the project, an anonymous survey was given to participants after they reviewed the eLearning portion. These participants voluntarily agreed to participate in the study and survey. This survey followed Kirkpatrick’s Four-Level Training Evaluation model, which measures training quality with increasing depth as the levels ascend. Kirkpatrick devised the four levels of training outcomes: Reaction, Learning, Behavior, and Results. The survey for this project was evaluated through Level 1, which is also known as the Reaction Level. This level measures the participants’ experience and first impressions of the quality and execution of the training (Ulum, 2015). Forty-nine college professors from a 4-year public university in Southern California were invited to participate in this field test. Of those 49 professors, 17 reviewed the eLearning module and completed the survey. The survey consisted of twelve questions: 4 multiple choice, 5 Likert scale questions, and 3 short answers. Though the study was limited in scope, the results were encouraging, as the professors responded favorably to the eLearning module. This project suggests that college professors would benefit from effective feedback strategies shared through an eLearning module. If this project were to be replicated, increasing the case studies and concrete examples of feedback strategies would aid the participants in understanding and applying the material to their own courses. Though this project focused on general feedback strategies for college professors, an eLearning program focused on feedback for large class sizes could benefit teachers who might be hesitant to adopt some of the more time-consuming feedback strategies featured in this module.
- Resource Type:
- Graduate project
- Campus Tesim:
- Pomona
- Department:
- Education
- Creator:
- De La O, Adriana
- Description:
- English language learners should be provided with a dual immersion education program that incorporates both English and their primary language. The programs that are currently available for English language learners do not provide the instruction in all the native languages that students speak. Based on information found on the California Department of Education site, the state of California offers 184 Spanish two-way immersion programs, 8 Korean two-way immersion programs, 1 Japanese, 5 Cantonese, and 4 Mandarin. In California, those programs provided are not enough to serve the English learners who speak one of the 60 different registered languages. One of the three programs that the Department of Education has in place is the Alternative Program (AIE). The Alternative program allows, “students receive instruction based on their English proficiency level and academic subjects are taught using their first languages” (California Department of Education, 2016). The guidelines to this program state that a parental exception waiver must be submitted in order for a student to be placed in it. The wording in the description of the program state, “as defined by the school district” therefore, the districts decide when this program is provided. The Ontario-Montclair School District provides a Dual Language Immersion program at two elementary schools. The students who take advantage of this program are mainly English-only speakers. The families attending these schools are informed and involved. They are knowledgeable on the advantages of speaking two languages. Ideally, schools running this program should include 50% English speakers and 50% the targeted native language. The students that this program was initially created to benefit are not using it. Therefore, we still have many English language learners who are falling under the long-term English language learner label, there are numerous that are not getting reclassified, and many others who are rushed through the other series of programs offered but are not given enough time to fully immerse themselves in the English language. Taking advantage of the rich diversity in our country can globally prepare our future leaders. Properly implementing the dual immersion program and treating each EL student similar to a student on an IEP, would provide our country with future multi-linguals, we would have a better understanding of the different cultures that we encounter, we would be able to tolerate the others with different backgrounds and most importantly, we might eliminate the fear among each other. That same fear that has driven politicians to make decisions that harm our educational system, our minority students, our community and essentially affected the implementation of a wide variety of bilingual programs across the country.
- Resource Type:
- Masters Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Pomona
- Department:
- Education