It was the purpose of this study to determine implications for Sacramento Junior College in the changes in the educational programs of a selected ·group of junior college students. More specifically, the study sought to answer these questions: (l) Wha . . .

This is a summary of my cumulative experience as a graduate student in art studio. It is an explanation of decision-making and thought processes as well as a retrospective insight into my work. The past two years have been in contemplation of what it . . .

Increasingly, the state of California has taken to forming task forces in order to tackle new, wide reaching problems such as climate change. These problems often cut across many different agency jurisdictions; and as no one agency is big enough to ad . . .

Those responsible for guiding business students in their learning experiences find themselves vitally interested in focusing attention upon those particular areas in which students are generally the least competent and in which they are likely to enco . . .

Increased nutrient deposition from excessive fertilizer application, manure production, and other industrial discharges into aquatic environments is altering the structure and function of freshwater ecosystems worldwide. Eutrophication is characterize . . .

States have lost their monopoly on force and now face new sources of threat from violent non-governmental organizations (NGO) such as terrorist and separatist groups. This thesis uses the case study of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization to analyze . . .

A review of the literature on compliance with the Clery Act revealed that it has not been studied nationally. Three researchers in the field of higher education have conducted a majority of the research pertaining to the Clery Act. They are: Steven Ja . . .

Meetup is a world-wide online network that has used the face-to-screen medium of the Internet to support face-to-face social leisure experiences and to build community involvement. This work was developed to investigate Meetup as an innovative social . . .

Exposure to environmental hazards and pollution leads to deleterious health outcomes, and low-income and communities of color are disproportionately burdened. The present study utilizes the publicly available dataset “CalEnviroScreen3.0” to conduct a . . .

Trends in higher education have pointed out a huge gap in persistence and degree attainment at universities among certain ethnic groups. Laws and bills have been passed to ensure people of color have the opportunity to access higher education; however . . .

The current study evaluated whether participants' performance on visual-visual matching-to-sample (MTS) tasks were differentially affected by learning how to verbally relate the names of visual stimuli. In Experiment 1, we trained eight participants t . . .

This thesis explores, through my auto-ethnography, how low-income womxn of color experience mental illness, which I would rather refer to as mental variances categorized as illnesses by society, and the navigation of the institutions surrounding it. I . . .

Although verbal deficits are major concerns for individuals following an acquired brain injury (ABI), behavior-analytic research on language training in neurorehabilitation settings is extremely limited. The purpose of the current study was to systema . . .

Within the last few decades, community supervision has expanded enormously within the United States, with evidence-based practice at the forefront of achieving correctional goals. However, fewer studies have examined federal probation programs in this . . .

Brief Literature Review: The literature review includes an exploration of the underrepresentation of African-American males in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) undergraduate majors and the theoretical frameworks that guide those . . .

This study examined the worker identity of volunteer workers and compensated workers in a Sports Entertainment Organization. Participants included 30 volunteer workers and four compensated workers. Interviews were conducted with the compensated worker . . .

Head direction (HD) cells and theta oscillations are thought to be part of a network mediating navigational behavior. Intraseptal infusions of muscimol eliminates theta and produces navigational deficits. The present investigation sought to characteri . . .

Over the last ten years social media sites, such as Facebook, were widely adopted and used as tools to communicate by people around the world. Since communication via Facebook became increasingly more common, it is important that researchers examine h . . .

The history of Sutter’s Fort from the beginning of the Gold Rush to its reconstruction in the 1890s is important in understanding how the Fort became a dilapidated relic of Sacramento’s past and became a reconstructed monument to pioneer times. The hi . . .

The matching-to-sample procedure (MTS) is typically used to teach conditional stimulus-stimulus relations and test for emergent (untaught) relations. Even though MTS has proven to be an effective teaching procedure, successful performance requires pre . . .

With the help of evidence-based research, Western medicine has slowly expanded its practice to non-pharmaceutical modalities. However, minority groups continue to be overlooked and marginalized from returning into their communities after being dischar . . .

Over 29% of all students in public four-year institutions have taken remedial courses (Skomsvold, 2014), and therefore, have not been considered "college-ready" upon entering college (Conley, 2007; Jimenez, Sargrad, Morales, & Thompson, 2016; Jone . . .

Higher education institutions in the United States face a national imperative to boost student persistence and overall educational attainment amidst vacillating fiscal resources and growth in the non-traditional student body. According to Cominole, Ra . . .

This study examined the effectiveness of topographically similar instructions within the high-probability instructional sequence (HPIS) to increase food acceptance in two adolescent males with autism. Although previous research has demonstrated the HP . . .

The goal of this study was to identify who supports the educational planning of girls in grade 9 to predict advanced level math course taking in grade 11. Therefore, this study investigated which supportive figure(s), peers, parents and/or teachers, d . . .

The aim of the present study was to examine the mediating roles of emotion dysregulation and cognitive and behavioral avoidance in the relationship between childhood maltreatment and psychological distress. A total of 305 participants from a large pub . . .

The College of Natural Science and Mathematics, NSM, at California State University Sacramento has a low retention rate, high failure rate and a large achievement gap for freshmen students. Freshmen students who are part of the underrepresented minori . . .

Direct to Consumer Advertising (DTCA) has flooded media channels since the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted pharmaceutical companies the ability to advertise medications to patients in the 1980’s. This has altered how patients receive inform . . .

Increased concern about environmental sustainability and air quality management has driven research into novel technologies of generating electrical power. We conducted a number of runs and studies on a modular biomass conversion system to evaluate te . . .

The purpose of this study is to determine the use of political campaign lawn signs as an information channel in the nonpartisan Supervisorial election in the Fourth District of San Joaquin County in which Lodi is the largest urban area. The study was . . .

The study concerns generally a comparison of certain socio-economic factors involved in the more serious cases of truancy in the Grant Union High School District. Specifically, the problem for investigation is to formulate a description of certain sel . . .

The purpose of this study is to obtain an over-all view of the music curricula, schedules, materials, and teaching situations as they exist in the schools of fifteen northern California counties. It has the endorsement of: Music Education Research Cou . . .

The initial purpose of the program was to determine whether severely mentally retarded children could profit from public school experiences. A second purpose was to discover the cost of maintaining day classes for these children in comparison to the c . . .

According to Krogstad and Lopez (2015) "the Hispanic population reached a new high of 55.4 million in 2014 (or 17.4% of the total U.S. population), an increase of 1.2 million (2.1 %) from the year before. California still leads the list (15.0 million) . . .

It is the purpose of this study to determine the reaction to frustration of a group of mentally retarded children, as measured by the Rosenzweig Picture Frustration Study. Following are two hypothesis which the writer poses in regards to the reaction . . .

Among general supervisors of elementary schools there is a difference of opinion as to the needs of teachers torsupervisory services. The majority of opinions have been based upon personal observation and a background of experience in working with tea . . .

The basic problem with which this study is concerned is: What may a high school mathematics teacher do to make provisions for meeting the special needs of superior students? It is recognized that no short, unique formula should be expected . Although . . .

The purpose of this study is to determine the adequacy of natural and artificial lighting of classrooms of Placer High School and College and to make general recommendations for the improvement of lighting in these classrooms. This involves several mi . . .

It is the purpose of this study to investigate the philosophical and psychological foundations of the problem of using algebra as a means of teaching high school students to do critical and reflective thinking when dealing with problems of everyday li . . .

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the grouping procedures used in the placement of Grant Union High School freshmen into classes of various mathematical levels according to the results of standardized tests. Specifically, the following factors . . .

It was the purpose of this study to determine if a difference exists between the attitudes of classroom teachers and public school speech correctionists toward stuttering. In addition to this question, the following questions were proposed: (1) Do the . . .

It was the purpose of this study to formulate a desirable curriculum pattern for a minimal sequence of college courses in Speech Correction; said pattern to be based on an investigation of the Speech Correction curriculums offered by thirty U.S. colle . . .

For many years differences of opinion have existed as to the ideal class size for maximum pupil achievement in elementary grades. Even at the primary level there is a wide range of opinion as evidenced by the results of a poll of five hundred school a . . .

It is the purpose of this study to determine the opinions of the parents of pupils attending the Arden-Carmichael School District schools as to the relative merits of conferences and report cards for reporting pupil progress. Several phases of the pro . . .

It was the purpose of this study (1) to compare the social acceptance, in certain specific areas, of elementary school children who were newly entered in a school and who had attended several other schools with the social acceptance of children who we . . .

Victims of Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) regularly experience a range of negative effects following their violent experiences. Thus, this study sought to determine the affects IPV has on its victims. Specifically, this research focused on victims' f . . .

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the relationship between Peak Expiratory Flow and appendicular skeletal muscle mass as well as trunk lean mass using a comprehensive spirometry assessment. It also aimed to assess the relationship between appe . . .

This study analyzes the effects of political stability, political quality, and political shocks on 1-year, 10-year, and 30-year local currency bonds, as well as their influence on the slope of the yield curve. The data were collected from Bloomberg, I . . .

Healthcare and legal professionals continue to explore varying risk factors and rationale for child maltreatment to highlight the ongoing cycle of violence and establish preventative measures. However, research documenting significant relationships am . . .