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- Creator:
- Bickel, Tanja
- Description:
- The research suggests that seating arrangements in the classroom shape students’ learning experiences. However, the emphasis in most classrooms seems to be placed in behavior management rather than actual learning. This study investigated how classroom seating arrangements shape middle school students’ experiences in the classroom and focused on two questions: (1) How do students perceive the ways that seating arrangements shape their learning experiences in my classroom?; (2) In what way does in-class behavior suggest that seating influences student learning? Through the use of a student survey, student focus groups, and classroom observations, I found that students believe they learn best when seating arrangements provide peer support and access to resources, and that students believe they do their best learning when they are seated in table groups or working independently. The implications of this study include that the nature of the task should dictate the student seating arrangement.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- San Marcos
- Department:
- Education
2. Utilization of Oral Health Services among Hispanics in California: A Systematic Literature Review
- Creator:
- Phan, Richard
- Description:
- According to the Surgeon General of the United States, many Americans do not understand the importance of good dental hygiene, causing an overwhelming amount of disparities in oral health, especially in Hispanics. In general, Hispanics have the poorest dental hygiene care when compared to other racial and ethnic groups in the United States. Currently, there are little or no published research specifically on Hispanics living in California and their utilization of oral health services. The aim of this study is to conduct a systematic review of existing literature based on in-depth analysis of peer-reviewed published articles with a goal to review utilization of oral health care services by Hispanics living in California. The study reviewed how levels of educational attainment, levels of acculturation, levels of household incomes, gender, and age are associated with dental health utilization among California Hispanics. The results show that although California Hispanics require oral health services, limited resources such as finances, proper knowledge, and access to care makes this population at higher risk towards preventative oral care.
- Resource Type:
- Project
- Campus Tesim:
- San Marcos
- Department:
- Public Health
- Creator:
- Brotman, Andrea
- Description:
- The need to provide appropriate support for students with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) during recess and lunch is essential. This paper presents a workshop for paraprofessionals, recess supervisors and custodians to learn strategies to help students with ASD initiate appropriate social interactions and communications with their peers during recess and lunch. The content of the workshop is intended to provide an understanding of common characteristics of students with ASD and their need for both social skills and friendship development. The workshop also includes an explanation of the different states of student engagement on the playground as well as methods to boost appropriate engagement. Specific tips are provided throughout the workshop, along with video demonstrations, discussions and games to encourage participation.
- Resource Type:
- Project
- Campus Tesim:
- San Marcos
- Department:
- Special Education
- Creator:
- Hill, David and Wang, Zixian
- Description:
- Cart Mart Inc. would like a comprehensive assessment of its existing logistics strategy to help decide what influences the operation. It would like to know whether consolidation would benefit expansion goals. In this manner, the company wants to explore better alternatives to the way it currently conducts business. Ideally, it would like to focus on improvements that help the company maximize efficiencies in operations and logistics. This includes the right size, function, and type of each facility, as well as, the prime locations to relocate to best accommodate their customers efficiently. Opportunity The motivation of Cart Mart is to take advantage of the growing low speed vehicle industry. This involves capitalizing on the underdeveloped areas surrounding its current business locations to increase market share. Cart Mart currently operates primarily in the Southern California region. The sales, distribution, and service of low speed vehicles also offers considerable opportunities in neighboring states. For Cart Mart, there are two main opportunities. One is to expand in its current Southern California area and reposition its super-hub to improve logistic efficiencies while consolidating functions to reduce redundancies. In the same manner, additional growth opportunities involve expansions into regions that incorporate the Las Vegas, NV and Phoenix, AZ metropolitan areas. This analysis will help to determine if a planned pre-staged central location for a distribution center will improve logistical efficiencies for future expansions.
- Resource Type:
- Project
- Campus Tesim:
- San Marcos
- Department:
- Business Administration
- Creator:
- Chamberlin, Christine
- Description:
- Teaching can be an emotional profession, as teachers are faced with a wide variety of situations in any given day and are required to act quickly and flexibly as the situation demands. Teaching can be a stressful job with stressors from school administration, state standards, parental demands and student needs. To manage a classroom and deliver effective instruction requires social-emotional self-management as well pedagogical skills. Designed to help develop and strengthen their social emotional competencies, the professional development developed as the product of this thesis project offers a two part professional development, through a PowerPoint presentation as well as an independent activity for the teachers to engage in between the professional development meetings. There will be ample opportunity for the teachers to engage in discussions regarding this professional development and to share their own reflections.
- Resource Type:
- Project
- Campus Tesim:
- San Marcos
- Department:
- Education
6. Yo lo he mirado, yo lo he vivido: The Sexual and Reproductive Health of Three Generations of Latinas
- Creator:
- Avila, Daisy
- Description:
- This study focuses on the lived sexual and reproductive health experiences of four families, each with three generations of Latinas living in the Eastern Coachella Valley. Existing literature has portrayed Latinx communities through a deficit lens, where their culture, language and healing practices are coded as barriers. Chicana Feminist Epistemology (CFE) was foundational in placing the testimonios and platicas of Latina daughters, mother and granddaughters at the forefront of knowledge production and publication. A Public Health Critical Race (PHCR) praxis was the lens through which I contextualized the everyday health realities of Latinas navigating medicalized systems within the United States. Through twelve semi-structured interviews, one of which is my own, we communicate the ways in which our upbringings influence the women we are today. Findings of this study highlight the current obstacles we navigate in medical and educational institutions situated within a rural region, the intergenerational wisdom and remedios that shape our cultural capital and healthcare advocacy, and the narratives of resilience that we share amongst generations of mujeres.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- San Marcos
- Department:
- Sociological Practice
- Creator:
- Zheng, Huiping
- Description:
- The Efficient Market Hypothesis (EMH) says that there is no better forecast of stock price possible. If one believes in the EMH, then the stock price movements should follow a random walk. Stock price changes should be random and unpredictable. Despite this hypothesis, we decided to build three back-propagation neural networks and three recurrent neural networks to forecast the daily closing price of stock indexes (S&P500, Dow Jones, and NASDAQ). Our experiments showed that the price is predictable and much better than the random guess. Using a simple shortterm investment strategy, a good annual profit rate can be obtained. Different activation functions and different data preprocessing techniques were tested in order to dynamically determine the best neural network topology. We explored more than six hundred network structures for each neural network in our experiments. The same data sets were also analyzed by statistical models using a commercial statistics package. We find that the parameters of the statistical models can help us in determining the recurrent neural network structure. Comparing the forecasting results, our recurrent neural networks outperform the statistical models in terms of the annual profit rates.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- San Marcos
- Department:
- Computer Science
- Creator:
- Jara, Shawntanet
- Description:
- Social emotional learning (SEL) has emerged as a major thematic and programmatic emphasis in American education today (Hoffman, 2009). SEL is increasingly influencing the day-to-day practice of schools and communities (Elias, 1997). At the same time, increasing proportions of the student population in the United States comes from homes that are culturally and linguistically diverse (Orosco & Aceves, 2009). A contributing factor to the success of SEL is Culturally Responnsive and Sustaining Teaching (CRST) because culture is at the heart of all we do in the name of education. The impact of educator and parent perceptions at the intersection of SEL and CRST may hinder efforts of supporting students to thrive academically and socially. Futhermore, CRST has commonly been examined from the lens of low income and academically struggling schools, with limited research from the lens of affluence and academic prosperity. The purpose of this study explored and described how three affluent, resource-rich, and academically thriving Kindergarten-3rd grade schools support and/or inhibit SEL and CRST its impact on how student experience school. Affluent districts with high test scores may perceive themselves to be protected from the need to address culture head on. The majority of research regarding CRST is in low-income, urban communites, isolating upper middle income communities and perpetuatung the assumption that CRST does not apply to them. I challenge this dominant discourse as culture belongs to everyone and should be accessible in discourse in our schools. Our students are growing up in a diverse world and their successful navigation through it depends on the decisions our educators make in normalizing culture and emotions, take in and explore perspectives, and engage in daily reality checks. In affluent districts (and districts in general) where the majority of educators are white and female there is privilege that comes with that status and even more privilege when that status is placed within an affluent setting. Unless educators make a concerted effort to challenge their assumptions about what it means to be white, what it means to be a person of color and the impacts of being either on learning, working, relationships, behavior, etc. we will not properly equip students with the SEL competencies needed to make academic strides. Among this exploration was to understand what factors shape beliefs and practices of educators and parents regarding SEL and to what degree CRST practices contributed to these factors. SEL is comprised of five competencies of self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, relationship skills, and responsible decision making. Exploring how educators enact these competencies in an effort to know students and develop sustained authentic relationships is critical to social and academic success of every student. Drawing on parent and educator surveys, semi-structured interviews with teachers, classroom observations, student focus groups and student surveys, I attended to the beliefs, practices, knowledge, and attitudes that contributed to or withheld ways in which SEL and CRST work in tandem. I aimed to illuminate beliefs and practices in order to further understand how SEL and CRST practices correlate, interact and if not, why the lack of integration. Key words: Social Emotional Learning; Culturally Responsive and Sustaining Teaching; SEL Beliefs; SEL Practices; CRST Beliefs; CRST Practices In a very real sense we have two minds, one that thinks and one that feels. -Daniel Goleman (Emotional Intelligence)
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Campus Tesim:
- San Marcos
- Department:
- Education
- Creator:
- Sanders, Jamie
- Description:
- Teachers often use silent reading to help students practice independent reading skills to build comprehension and improve reading proficiency. The purpose of this study was to explore how the classroom environment and its factors shaped my second grade students' engagement during silent reading time. I asked: (1) How are the students in my classroom experiencing silent reading time?; (2) What classroom environmental factors are shaping students' silent reading experiences in the classroom? Through surveys, interviews, video-recordings of silent reading time, and document collection, I learned that students of varying proficiency levels enjoy silent reading time and find it important to their daily schedule. Data also suggested that they enjoyed this silent reading time when in a comfortable and quiet environment. Implications include opportunities for teachers to structure the classroom environment for optimal silent reading.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- San Marcos
- Department:
- Education
- Creator:
- Jousselin, Matthew
- Description:
- Company X focuses on providing support and training for individuals with developmental disabilities. The overall cybersecurity posture of the organization does not rank high on their funding priority list. As a rule of thumb, an organization should spend between 7% and 10% of its IT budget on security (Violino, 2019). Company X requires a considerable amount of Personally Identifiable Information (PII) to perform their services. This includes: parents’ address, clients’ Social Security Number, State Identification Number, medical insurance number, medical history, and bank account numbers. Clearly, this is a substantial amount of sensitive information. Such PII should and must be protected by HIPAA law. The cybersecurity resource burden falls hard on nonprofit organizations and cybercriminals have discovered the gold mine that is nonprofit data (Nimishakavi, 2017). Although cybercriminals are equally likely to target nonprofits and major companies, nonprofits struggle to meet the expense of providing adequate protection for the data they collect. In 2019, The Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) received a total of 467,361 complaints with reported losses exceeding $3.5 billion. The most prevalent crime types reported were Phishing/ Vishing/ Smishing/ Pharming, Non-Payment/Non-Delivery, Extortion, and Personal Data Breach (Gorham, 2019). What makes the issues more troubling is the fact that a considerable amount of that information can be stored on the managers’ and employees’ personal laptops and cell phone. This can increase the risk of a cyber-related events occurring. With that in mind, the purpose of this project is to create a security plan for Company X to protect such confidential information.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- San Marcos
- Department:
- Cybersecurity