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- Creator:
- Hightower, Whitney Jennifer
- Description:
- This applied research project investigates the use of culturally responsive teaching as a means of increasing students' knowledge and understanding in social studies, and provides a culturally responsive unit incorporating primary sources on the Japanese-American internment during World War II. Culturally responsive teaching as a whole instructional and curricular approach is defined, and includes equitable pedagogy and social justice analysis and application. (See more in text.)
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Department:
- Elementary Education
2. Any truth
- Creator:
- Kellis, Melody T.
- Description:
- In 2003 I came home to the United States after living in Europe for almost eight years. The week of my return was also the week that Colin Powell made his presentation to the United Nations regarding the American "proof' for war against Iraq. As I left Europe I watched the BBC and CNN International, both news outlets I had grown to rely on during my time abroad. My beliefs regarding current international affairs had been constructed by those news outlets as my country went through a contentious presidential election in 2000, was attacked on September 11, 2001, went to war in Afghanistan and considered going to war again, this time against Iraq. I still quite vividly remember turning on the news after I returned home and the confusion that followed. The proof that Colin Powell had presented was interpreted completely differently here. I realized over the passing weeks that almost all the news events had been interpreted and reported very differently in my hometown. Nobody wanted to hear me talk about what people thought in Europe, in Asia. I was called anti-American by close family friends -I felt angry and isolated. In the midst of all of this, my artwork changed direction completely and an entire body of work, culminating in my thesis, was born. Initially my work assumed a political perspective and was focused on simply showing different reports of the same news event. In conversations with my professors, however, I realized that my vision of this topic was quite limited and would benefit from an expansion of perspective. I began to disregard the notion of right and wrong and instead focus on the construction of media itself. I studied Media Literacy and documentary and questioned the very notion of truth through film or media. As I progressed in my theoretical studies regarding media truth, I also advanced in my profession as a television editor. I lefilned the tricks of the trade, so to speak, from the inside. Initially, I became an editor to make documentfilies, and cinema verite documentaries in particular. This "filmmaker as tly-on-the-wall" approach had become my personal favorite and the form of documentary that I felt came the closest to telling the truth, or at least inspiring the viewer to interpret events using his/her own critical thinking skills. In 2007 I began conceptualizing my thesis project. At the same time I was hired to work on a few reality shows. The film Any Truth, my thesis project, is what resulted from my studies and the realistic professional demands that are put on an editor in the work place to tell a story, no - to create a story as compellingly as possible not for the sake of the truth but for the eyeballs.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Department:
- Art
- Creator:
- Hocking, Sheldon M.
- Description:
- Today is difficult, there really aren't many things left that seem to be pure. I think love is pure. I think art is pure. And magic. Magic is everything we don't know ... Fritz Scholderl I have long been fascinated by the magic and power of objects and images to affect memory, emotion and experience. I began these paintings with memories of personal experiences, then conjured images which served as literal and personal or symbolic metaphors relating to my past (times, places, people, etc.). With each piece I started with an idea, but without a preconcieved idea of what the finished painting would look like. The metaphors and composition evolved in the process of making the picture. [see more in text]
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Department:
- Art
- Creator:
- Bates, Rebecca Joyce
- Description:
- To become part of any literary tradition is to call upon the classics while inventing new and individual ideas and concepts. In my writing I strive to find a balance between the old and the new . I have been heavily influenced by authors in the literary canon such as Jane Austen , Charlotte and Emily Bronte , and George Eliot, while being deeply interested in contemporary writers like Libba Bray and Brad Barkley. This has created a deep fascination in me for finding the balance between the traditional and the contemporary and what will happen when the two clash . The novel seeks to capture a moment in time and wrap its pages around the intense questions of identity in a time and place where traditional and contemporary society are grating against each other. The identity in question is that of eighteen-year-old Tara Worthington , the middle-child in an old-money southern family. The novel 's theme revolves around the idea of holding onto traditions of the past while also struggling to move forward and away from the old . What can stay and what must be left behind when the two worlds will not combine? I intend to set up as many dichotomies as possible such as the left and the right, north and south , the traditional and the contemporary. In placing all these ideas together I hope to illustrate the struggle that happens in one person when faced with all of them.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Department:
- English
- Creator:
- Steiger, Laura L.
- Description:
- Construct accessibility has been found to play an important role in the interpretation of social information. Even when a construct is primed implicitly it has been proven to have a temporary effect on person perception. The present experiment examined the effects of increasing the construct accessibility for the traits of friendliness and hostility on social perception. The interaction of these two trait categories with person perception and gender was also investigated. Subjects performed a task in which they were unknowingly exposed to either 0%, 20%, or 80% friendly or hostile words. Next, subjects read a behavioral description that was ambiguously related to both hostility and friendliness, and rated the stimulus person on several trait scales. Although there were no significant priming effects in the experimental condition, two separate experiments indicate that effects would have been found had the exposure time during the priming task been slower. There was a significant gender difference in the hostility rating of the behavioral description across conditions; the implications of this are discussed.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Department:
- Psychology
- Creator:
- Holtreman, Isabel
- Description:
- Hostile Takeover: A Love Story is a romantic comedy about Frannie O'Riley, an overgrown tom boy who has trouble opening up her heart to love and romance. Frannie works in her father's construction company, a company that had once been successful but is struggling to stay afloat in the current economic climate. In order to ride out this wave, where no one wants to build, the O'Rileys decide they will survive by doing smaller renovation jobs. As Frannie attempts to book more work, she discovers there's a new company in town that's snatching up all the leads and business. Being the fireball that she is, Frannie sets out to find the owner and to convince him to get the hell out of her city. Erek Butowski, the progressive and groovy owner of EMB Homes, rejects Frannie's request, but as much as he infuriates her, they're drawn to one another and the sparks begin to fly. When they finally connect, Frannie begins to learn how to open up her heart to love and to her dormant feminine side. But the bliss doesn't last long because their philosophies are diametrically opposed and Frannie dumps him. This breaks her heart, however, because she's already in love. In the end, Frannie manages to show Erek the error of his ways, he wins her back and they live happily ever after.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Department:
- Cinema and Television Arts
7. Jim Crow, Louis J. Winston, and the survival of black politicos in post-bellum Natchez, Mississippi
- Creator:
- Nomelli, Sheryl Lynn
- Description:
- This study explores politics, Jim Crow, and the effect of white relationships on the survival of black politicos through the life and achievements of Louis J. Winston during the most controversial period of history experienced by the South. Born into slavery, to a wealthy white father on the eve of the Civil War in 1848, Winston rose to unprecedented heights in his political and economic career in the post-Reconstruction era of Natchez, Mississippi. Winston was elected as Circuit Clerk of Adams County for twenty consecutive years, served as County Assessor and Collector of Port, founded two successful building and loan investment companies, began his own law practice, started up a Republican newspaper, which he published and edited for nineteen years, served on the school board of the Union School, and founded the fraternal organization, Woodman of Union. Primary research from court records, land deeds, wills, and a variety of documents in Natchez and Greenville, Mississippi, reveal Winston's intimate connection to an unusual white heritage brought him unprecedented success among elite whites and blacks, but in the end was not enough to carry him through the turbulent times in which he lived.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Department:
- History
- Creator:
- Mayes, Frank
- Description:
- In preparing this recital, I wanted to play a variety of clarinet music, including some that to my knowledge has never been performed outside of a teachers studio. I also included two standard works of the repertoire and two works of the twentieth century. The entire first half of the recital was un-accompanied, for clarinet alone. The second half had two works with piano accompaniment and one work with pre-recorded electronic sounds on magnetic tape to be played back during the performance of the work. The entire recital made use of mylar (mirror like) panels behind the performer and special subtle color changes in lighting in order to warm the stage and create a slightly different setting for each work. I began with the Rose Etude Number One in order to begin with a musically expressive and welcoming piece. Cyrille Rose began teaching at the Paris Conservatoire immediately following the death of Klose in 1880. He wrote several etude books that are well known to all clarinetists with Etude Number One being his most popular. Etude Number Two from Twenty Five Etudes de Virtuosite, by Henri Sarlit is a transcription of a Chopin Etude Opus 10 no. 2. It is kept in the original key of the piano etude A minor, thus sounding a whole step lower than the piano when played on a B-flat clarinet. It is representative of a period in nineteenth century music when the repertoire of the clarinet was so limited that transcriptions had to be employed. (See more in text.)
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Department:
- Music
- Creator:
- Schuylar, Regan
- Description:
- Recently my work has moved from a lighter view of people in their daily encounters to an examination of people foundering in the ruins of their lives in homes built on shifting sands. As politics vacillate and our foundations quake, many cannot swim or stay afloat; and many others teeter on erratic fulcrums. These stygian canvases I now employ seem the right ambience for these troubled souls. My references to buckled houses, to the many natural disasters that have beset southern California, and to playful dancers fronting a burning house, speak to the issues of ruin, hedonism and a hunger for material things which blinds humanity to the destruction we perpetuate on our home, our only home--this planet. These tortured people who have fallen prey to the habit of torturing themselves are dark targets of a life I know too well. The somberness of my work in value and subject matter has been, for me, brightened by the delight I feel when employing the painting process and the elements therein; the color, value, shapes, etc., on the roughened shady surface of my canvas. The joy of painting is thus closely entwined with the pain which springs each day from a perusal of the morning news, and somehow alleviates the pain. This strange ill-mated dichotomy has forged for me a meaningful experience these past many months, and not unlike Jacob's wrestle with the archangel, I feel I have wrestled with the art angel.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Department:
- Art
- Creator:
- Courter, William Farrell
- Description:
- Population growth in Southern California throughout the decade of the 1980s brought about a furtherance in the augmentation of an already dynamic urban fringe to the east of the city of Los Angeles, and a continuing diminishment of local agricultural lands. Southwestern Riverside County has been directly affected by the population surge, and the resulting expansion of the urban realm of the Los Angeles metropolis. Urban proliferation and development are examined, as they relate to the consumption of formerly non-urban lands, from two perspectives: 1) A theoretical standpoint; and 2) An historical and geographical description of urban growth, and agricultural extenuation definitively related to Los Angeles. Former, remnant, and currently productive agricultural lands within the Los Angeles agglomeration are utilized as examples supporting_ or contradicting some common location theories. Through these perspectives urban growth in southwestern Riverside County during the 1980s is examined and related to suburban development coterminous to the Temucula Approved Viticultural Area. The result of these analyses demonstrates the antithetical nature of urban and agricultural landscapes, the competition for land between urban and agricultural usages along routes facilitating ease of movement, and the possibility for the maintenance of a heterogeneous landscape of wine grape vineyards and extensive urban development in the Temecula area. Also, the significance of zoning and preservation measures is discussed within the context of the unique, but not unusual, site and situation of southwestern Riverside County.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Department:
- Geography and Environmental Studies
- Creator:
- Siefert, Lucy A.
- Description:
- The songs presented here, whether by well-known or obscure composers, are, for the most part, less familiar. However, each is intrinsically attractive, musically valid, and of more than just historical interest. Monteverdi's Scherzi Musicali (1632) consists of miscellaneous earlier pieces in a light vein. Strophic songs utilizing solo voice and basso continuo are presented on the program. "Ecco di dolci raggi" is incomplete in this publication. It appears in an earlier collection with five strophes. "Eilt, Ihr stunden, kommt herbei" is from Bach's 1738 cantata for the midsummer feast of St. John the Baptist. The constant movement and violin-voice duet bring to mind the style of A. Scarlatti. Wolf's Spanisches Liederbuch was composed in 1889-90, using German translations of Spanish poetry. There is some attempt at Spanish flavor, particularly in "Sagt, seid Ihr es," but these songs are primarily Wolf's Germanic response to the texts. Debussy's works are the epitome of the Impressionistic style, as these songs illustrate. "L'Echelonnement des Haies" and "La Mer est plus belle" are views of England by Paul Verlaine. The other two songs use sentimental poems by Paul Bourget. Rainier's Three Greek Epigrams, from the Greek of Anyte of Tegea, were composed in 1937. They feature bold rhythms, ostinato passages, block sonorities, use of the augmented fourth, and a vocal line of often instrumental character. The Spanish songs by Guridi and Nin are based on folk forms and melodies. Their charm lies in the unusual rhythms and unexpected harmonic twists, together with pervasive guitar idioms. As a whole, this recital displays various facets of musical art through the centuries, but all with a common goal: the sincere expression of beauty.
- Resource Type:
- Audio recording and Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Department:
- Music
- Creator:
- Henry, Lorelei Lee
- Description:
- My thesis will focus on three of O'Brien's Vietnam War novels: The Things They Carried, Going After Cacciato, and In the Lake of the Woods. I will show how O'Brien develops these stories in terms of individual, social, cultural, and historical aspects in ways similar to, and perhaps indebted to Hemingway and Conrad. However, I will also demonstrate that O'Brien is correct in seei11g differences between his own approach and that of these authors, and other war literature writers. Where the suggestive style of Hemingway and Conrad minimize horrid detail, O'Brien's style highlights horror in an evocative, Gothic depiction of the true horror of war: the degeneration of men, the impossibility of regeneration, and the absolute moral desolation that results from the experience of war. O'Brien will thus be seen as representative of his generation, given to exaggeration, excess, overt disgust, anger, and fear. Chapter I will address the way in which O'Brien's depiction of the Vietnam War aligns it with World War I. In many ways, the cultural climate of the 1960s made the war a battle not unlike The Great War, in which Romantic ideals of nationalism and patriotism crumbled at the hands of a more personal disillusionment with war. The horrific individual, social, and cultural ramifications of war are brought to the forefront in O'Brien's works. Like Hemingway, O'Brien discusses very similar issues, central to the war of his time, in which, like Hemingway, the wasteland of the battlefield becomes an individual wasteland. In many ways, society was not prepared for either war, or for the shock, horror and degradation that war entails. We can see this clearly in the depiction of war as a degenerative force on society and culture in both Hemingway and O'Brien. Aligning the two wars historically also sets up social and cultural parallels between O'Brien and Hemingway. O'Brien is quoted as stating his admiration for Hemingway's work, and critics have noted the similarities between O'Brien's Vietnam stories and Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms. However, a much clearer connection exists between O'Brien's works and Hemingway's In Our Time, which depicts the transformation of Romantic idealism at the hands of Modernist fragmentation and alienation. The similarities between O'Brien and Hemingway are seen most strikingly between "Speaking of Courage," from The Things They Carried and "Soldier's Home" from In Our Time. Like Hemingway, O'Brien points out the failure of a Romantic ideal of war, the loss of patriotism and nationalism, to reveal the impossibility of individual, social, or cultural post-war regeneration. The Modernist wasteland that begins with Krebs ends logically in O'Brien. In Chapter Two, I will compare O'Brien's In the Lake of the Woods to Conrad's Heart of Darkness. Where Hemingway's style mutes some of the awful details of war, O'Brien's style elaborates these details in order that the horror of war, in both the realistic and the Conradian sense, can be more clearly depicted. In In the Lake of the Woods, as in Heart of Darkness, one character's journey toward another through a dark and mysterious outer landscape mirrors an inner, moral journey, and exposes a figurative darkness lurking within the novel's protagonist. John Wade, a Vietnam veteran who now faces the shame and guilt not only of losing a political election, but also of his participation in the My Lai Massacre, is haunted by a past he cannot reconcile with his present life. Wade's psyche, already overshadowed by a traumatic childhood, grows morally darker as a direct result of his violent and horrific Vietnam War experience, which takes place in a dark and chaotic jungle reminiscent of Conrad's Congo. Although O'Brien's works are clearly indebted to Hemingway for the depiction of war as degenerative, and also to Conrad for the depiction of war as horror and moral terror, the most profitable way to read them is in terms of those elements we think of as Gothic, for then they become like confessionals, attempting to justify and resolve the transgressive individual, social, and cultural conflicts created by war. Chapter Three examines O'Brien's novels in terms of the Gothic genre, which sheds new light on the victory of fear over bravery, of terror over courage, of the loss of self at the hands of "the other," and of ghosts, the memories of war that arise from that dark landscape to haunt those that survived. By placing soldiers within a haunted landscape, issues of bravery and courage no longer lie solely within the realm of the characters' will, but, as in Gothic novels, are subject to outside forces that are constantly at odds with reality. When we examine O'Brien's Vietnam stories as discussing the failure of a Romantic ideal, as the reflection of individual, historical, social, and cultural anxiety, then they can be seen in terms of horror, where the stripped-down wasteland of Hemingway and the festering horror of Conrad come together in a Gothic world. O' Brien's The Things They Carried, In the Lake of the Woods, and Going After Cacciato, mediated by Gothic elements, reveal an individual, historical, social, and cultural anxiety beyond that which can be accomplished within the war literature genre.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Department:
- English
- Creator:
- Stark, Stacy A.
- Description:
- This project examined the components of successful teacher induction programs, most specifically mentoring, support group meetings, and peer collegiality. The focus of this project was on assisting teachers with their incredibly diverse student populations. Diversity was defined as variations in academic achievement and ability, socioeconomic status, and ethnic and linguistic backgrounds, The goal of the program was to foster teachers' use of varied and 'best practice' instructional strategies and to increase new teacher retention, while acknowledging and accommodating the developmental stages through which novices pass during their induction years. The literature reviewed showed the successes experienced by model induction program participants. Features from many of these models were replicated in the creation of this model.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Department:
- Special Education
- Creator:
- Munsch, Alexander Paul
- Description:
- Che dite, o miei pensieri by Antonio Caldara is a typical example of the chamber cantata form of the Middle Baroque period. It contains two da capo arias of contrasting character, each preceded by a recitative. The aria Meta di voi gua vadano from the opera Don Giovanni by W.A. Mozart is an action aria. The overall form of this aria is A(abcba)B(de)-coda which provides for a large variety of dramatic expression. The first three songs by Gustav Mahler are settings of poems by Frederick Ruckert. The forth (Der Tamboursg'sell) is from the collection Des Knaben Wunderhorn. Surprise shifts between major and minor tonalities, rich harmonies, unprepa.red key changes, and shifting metric patterns are some of the more obvious characteristics to be found in these songs. The five songs by Arthur Bliss are part of his collection Seven American Poems. They include short settings of poems by Elinor Wylie and Edna St. Vincent Millay. Although they appear to have atonal elements in them, they are merely tonal pieces which contain, at times, severe chromatic alterations. (See more in text.)
- Resource Type:
- Audio recording and Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Department:
- Music
- Creator:
- Khadem, Zahire
- Description:
- My thesis exhibition, The Body: A Grotesque Discombobulation, deals with issues of the human condition. In my mixed media drawings I depict fragmented and damaged bodies or body parts to explore physical and psychological disintegration. By abstracting representational subject matter the work lends itself to multiple interpretations and thus engages a wider audience. I defy the convention of the square plane so that the drawings begin to interact with one another, thus working individually and as a unified installation.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Department:
- Art
- Creator:
- Ruzicka, Alyssa L.
- Description:
- Cognitive workload theories typically assume linear additive impacts on performance as cognitive workload increases (O'Donnell & Eggemeier, 1986; Tsang & Wilson, 1997). Meanwhile, current trends suggest inclusion of variability analysis may be of benefit (Balota & Spieler, 1999; Brown & Heathcote, 2003; Van Zandt, 2002). The first study replicates Cooper and Shepard's mental rotation study (1973), confirming that mean response times shift in the analysis of variance (ANOVA), but that significant variability changes are also present. The second study adds a grouped-response dual tone discrimination task, revealing similar trends in means shifts and further significant increases in variability as difficulty rises. Implications for the development and analysis of cognitive theories of cognitive workload are discussed.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Department:
- Psychology
- Creator:
- Sweo, Robert Edward
- Description:
- This study was conducted to determine the effect of hand used and input task on input device selection. Forty-two right handed subjects were tested on both hands, across three input tasks: selection, position and orientation. Input device was used as a between subjects variable with an equal number of subjects carrying out the tasks with a mechanical mouse, trackball or graphics tablet. Of the three input devices tested in this experiment the graphics tablet allowed the fastest data entry. Performance on the graphics tablet was equal to or better than either the mouse or trackball on every task with either hand. Performance with the trackball and mouse was nearly equal on all the tasks, with either hand. Methodological limitations in this study made it difficult to assess the effects of hand used on input device. Further investigation is necessary before any firm conclusions can be reached. The variable that measured which direction the subject had to look from the target object to find the test object (horizontal, vertical or diagonal) entered into a three way interaction with hand and input device on the selection task. Analysis of the data showed most of the difference occurred in the left hand results. The left hand trackball users did equally well in each direction, while the mouse users did best on diagonal movements, worst on vertical and the graphics tablet users did best on horizontal movements but showed no difference for diagonal or vertical movements. The implications and limitations of this studies results are discussed and recommendations for future research are made.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Department:
- Psychology
- Creator:
- Hirsch, Haim Daniel
- Description:
- To determine how trust is affected by an interface containing the anthropomorphic representation of an intelligent agent, 593 visitors to a popular automotive Web site were surveyed on their use of an online agent-like system. The type of Personification (plain text-only, text with an icon representing the agent, text with an icon and a biography about the agent) and Message Style (Structured and Anthropomorphic) were manipulated. A significant interaction was found for all three derived factors: Decision Support, F(2, 587) = 5.79, p ? .01; Implicit Trust, F(2, 587) = 6.08, p ? .01; and System Competence, F(2, 587) = 3.29, p ? .05. The lack of main effects indicates that simple manipulations may not have the large impact typically assumed in the literature. Interface Designers wishing to enhance the acceptance of systems that include intelligent agents should ensure that the anthropomorphic characteristics as a whole, including the communication style and visual representation, should form a strongly cohesive and consistent presentation to the user.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Department:
- Psychology
- Creator:
- Ishimaru, Reiko
- Description:
- The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics has long advocated the use of calculators at all levels of mathematics instruction. Research (Hembree, 1986; Dunham & Dick, 1994) has indicated that students using calculators possess a better attitude toward mathematics. With that in mind, this study focused on the use of the graphing calculator and its influence on student attitudes toward mathematics in high school. In the study, questionnaires were given by four public high school teachers in four mathematics classes. The questionnaires were concerned with attitudes toward the graphing calculator itself and toward mathematics. The questionnaires were administered to approximately 140 students as a pre-survey at the beginning of a mathematics course and again at the conclusion of the same course after students had calculator instruction and experience working with the graphing calculator. Journals were kept by the teachers to provide additional opportunity to measure any changes in attitudes. Teachers recorded student reactions to learning with the graphing calculator. Some notes also included possible ways of improving the activities used in the instruction. Open-ended questions were also given to the students after the selected calculator lessons. These questionnaires provided a place for the students to express their feelings in their own words. These remarks provided more data to determine the student attitude changes. At the conclusion of the semester, the students were ranked by their final course grade in the classes under study. The students were then grouped into top one third, middle one third, and bottom one third of each class. The three groups were labeled high, medium, and low respectively. From each group, five students were randomly selected to be used for our data analysis. The findings verified the expectation that the graphing calculator and its use in mathematics classes would have a positive impact on the attitudes of students towards mathematics. Findings and conclusions were made based on the results of the questionnaires, open-ended questions and journal entries.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Department:
- Secondary Education
- Creator:
- David, Suzanne R.
- Description:
- The effect of database linking structure on complex search task performance was examined. Database structure was either hierarchical only or hierarchical with added relational links (mixed structure). Participants were asked to provide answers to five complex task scenarios, using one of two versions of a large, unfamiliar database. Participants also completed a questionnaire about their subjective ratings and comments about the database. The results indicated that the mixed structure facilitated better performance with respect to time for task completion and number of information and menu screens visited. No significant difference was found for accuracy/ completeness of response. Likewise, no significant difference was found with respect to subjective satisfaction or cognitive/navigational disorientation. The results appear to support the position that properly implemented relational links aid users in information search tasks.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Department:
- Psychology