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- Creator:
- Weaver, Della
- Description:
- Older adults comprise an increasingly large percentage of our population. Older adults have expressed a desire to remain in their own homes instead of alternative living situations, such as assisted living facilities as they age. The public administration challenge that has arisen is a lack of funding to support older adults' wishes to age in place. This exploratory sequential mixed methods study aims to determine to what extent federal and state fiscal policies exist to support built environments for older adults to remain in their homes. Are current policies regarding funding for built environments to support aging and independence sufficient to enable older adults to retain their residence in current homes? A survey and interview-based, a mixed methodology will be used. The results of methodological approaches will be evaluated using the Advocacy Coalition Framework. The results of this study should conclude that there will be an increase in advocacy for federal and state financial incentives to those who wish to develop built environments for aging in place. Given the COVID-19 pandemic's impacts on those who reside in assisted living facilities, the anticipation of increased, wide-spread desire for alternatives to close-proximity retirement communities will become highly sought after in the coming years.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Department:
- Political Science
- Creator:
- Patterson, Cheryl Lynn
- Description:
- The purpose of this study was to develop Consumer Survival skill educational programs for learning disabled incarcerated youth. Interest in this topic evolved from working with this population and discovering that a complete curriculum to meet their specialized needs was not available. The curriculum for basic Consumer Survival Education was targeted at teens and young adults of this unique group. It required pulling together current available resources and developing many original materials and teaching strategies. The materials were used and evaluated by four teachers who work with learning disabled incarcerated youth. Questionnaires and oral interviews were used for data collection. The results of the study indicated a need for mastery of consumer skills and therefore provided a firm base for acquiring additional, advanced life skills. Providing for functional competence in society was a goal of the curriculum. The results of the analysis were used to make additions and adaptations which would increase the relevancy of the curriculum.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Department:
- Family and Consumer Sciences
- Creator:
- Kimball, Mary Eleanor
- Description:
- The hypothesis that Graphoanalysis (GA) is a valid predictor of scores on the Guilford-Zimmerman Temperament Survey was tested by correlating Graphoanalyses of writing samples from 30 Ss, done separately by two Graphoanalysts (Gs), with results of the Guilford-Zimmerman Temperament Survey ( GZ), taken by the same 30 Ss. The hypothesis that GA is a reliable measure was tested by calculating Pearson's r and a z-score for the two sets of GA results. A specific group of GA traits was assigned to each GZ trait and correlated with it; each GA trait in the group was also separately correlated with its assigned GZ trait. Correlations of groups of GA traits with GZ traits produced significant correlations (p<0.05) associated with the GZ traits of Sociability, Objectivity, and Friendliness, and their respective GA correlates, out of 18 correlations calculated. Correlations of GZ traits with individual GA traits produced 8 significant correlations, out of 102 calculated. Since these numbers of significant correlations might have occurred by chance alone, the results are not held to support the hypothesis that GA scores will predict GZ scores. Fifty-one traits were evaluated by each G. The degree of agreement between them was tested by Pearson's r; the absolute agreement, by the Z-score for binomial distributions for an n of 30 or more. r was significant (p<0.05) for 16 of the 51 traits. The z-score showed significant results for 37 of the 51 (p<0.05). These results tend to support the hypothesis that GA is a reliable experimental tool. Difficulties in scoring and data analysis in both measures were discussed.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Department:
- Psychology
- Creator:
- Williams, Douglas Joseph
- Description:
- A study of the statistical correlation between answers given by a randomly selected population of hospital personnel to a communications measuring questionnaire and assumed budget, work performance, and personnel morale indicators was conducted. The questionnaires were designed to measure verbal and written communications, both formal and informal, involving four groups of personnel. The groups were: executives, managers, staff, and employees. The responses to the questionnaire were coded and placed into a Statistical Program for the Social Sciences computer program for analysis. Also placed into the program were certain assumed measures of employee performance from a morale and budget perspective. These included turnover rates by department and three values derived from standardized statistics from the Commission for Administrative Services in Hospitals (CASH). The program was then run and the resulting tabulations and correlations between these factors analyzed. The testing of the hypothesis resulted in a significant statistical correlation between communication questionnaire responses and performance indices, including turnover rate, deviation from projected budgets, and hours required to complete a certain task. The study recognizes the potential for error in statistical interpretation, and stresses the importance of a careful review of the findings for any associations drawn.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Department:
- Health Sciences
- Creator:
- Henderson, Malcolm T.
- Description:
- Since I have been away from the secondary classes for the deaf, have become increasingly aware of changes that I would like to see made in the program here in Los Angeles. With regard to the operation of the program itself, probably the changes needed the most are in the area of supervision and coordination of the entire program. At present there is but a single coordinator charged with the responsibility of administering the secondary program for the deaf located in six different facilities scattered throughout the district. In addition to this, there are a few classes in elementary schools and the entire itinerant lipreading instruction program that fall under her direct jurisdiction. Clearly this person is over - loaded with responsibilities, so that the quality of her work is not at all what she would wish it to be. I would like to see the board create the position of supervising teacher of the secondary classes for the deaf. The person in this position could take over a major part of the load that is now on th~ shoulders of the coordinator. This person would supervise the work of all the special secondary teachers of the deaf, coordinate curricula, administer achievement tests, etc.
- Resource Type:
- Graduate project
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Department:
- Deaf Studies
- Creator:
- Lee, Ambre
- Description:
- Establishing and maintaining a professional teacher blog enables teachers to publish, reflect, share, collaborate, and enrich their professional presence. While publishing has long been the standard for university professors, secondary teachers do not have the same expectations placed upon them. Primarily, this is due to time constraints, but the result is that secondary teachers do not always remain current in their field. To this point, a weekly writing practice can enable teachers to stay engaged and relevant in their particular field of study in regards to pedagogy and current research. Blogging enables teachers to understand writing for a purpose and for an audience, which increases credibility when insisting on the same from students. Since reflection is one of the most important aspects of improving one's teaching practice, the blog seems like an essential tool for every teacher. Finally, in an environment of questionable evaluation procedures for teachers, a teacher blog enables the teacher to highlight successes in the classroom and demonstrate his/her teaching pedagogy instead of being limited to one or two observations a year. I plan to utilize my teacher blog in a number of ways: Create a dialogue for secondary Special Day Class teachers about issues that aren't addressed anywhere else. Share and reflect on teaching practices. Read and write about current research in special education. Maintain a focus on potential interventions for both reading and writing at the secondary level. Lastly, increase my professional online presence.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Department:
- English
- Creator:
- Kim, Elizabeth
- Description:
- Being a successful reader is a challenge that many students face today. Although teachers utilize many strategies, the lack of sight words, also known as high frequency words (HFW), limits their reading skill. HFW words must become automatic as they appear with high frequency in grade-level texts. The problem that teachers face is that many students fail to master these high frequency words as they progress through the grade levels. To help reduce this ongoing problem, this project presents seven units of lesson plans that integrate musical tunes found on YouTube to help students fluently read a critical set of HFW. The project focuses on the first 100 of the 1,000 HFW list appropriate for K-2nd grade students reading at or below basic level.
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Department:
- Elementary Education
- Creator:
- Gottlieb, Joyce R.
- Description:
- The purpose of this study is to demonstrate the survival and celebration of the classical myth of Phaëthon in the visual arts of sixteenth-century Italy, with particular attention to the meaning and function of this myth for patron and artist. The earliest reference to the myth dates back to the Greeks. However, the account given by the Augustan poet Ovid, in his second book of the Metamorphoses, was the most influential in the sixteenth century. The literary and visual traditions which accompanied the myth of Phaëthon from antiquity through the late Middle Ages will serve as historical background to the appearance of Phaëthon in the sixteenth century. It will be argued that the employment of the classical myth of Phaëthon in the sixteenth century was determined by political and religious exigencies, as well as the iconographic interests and needs of the patron and artist. It will further be suggested that in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the formal decorative possibilities of the subject matter served to carry on the tradition of Phaëthon’s artistic life. In the broader context of the tradition and transmission of antiquity, the celebration of the myth of Phaëthon in the Cinquecento offers support to the survival of classical mythological figures, and attests to the influence of Ovid on sixteenth-century Italian art.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Department:
- Art
- Creator:
- Booth, Richard
- Description:
- This study describes the use of a project management system by hospital administration in controlling, scheduling and assigning activities related to the preparation and implementation of the transition from an existing hospital to a newly constructed hospital of nearly equal size. The project being reported covers a span of several years and involved over a thousand tasks. The system being studied was developed by Professor Fred M. Feiler of UCLA and LOG/AN Inc. of Los Angeles, California. It is a relatively simple and inexpensive management system available to small organizations involved in projects of construction, expansion and development.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Department:
- Health Sciences
- Creator:
- Han, Augustina Harsono
- Description:
- When a computer is used to analyze a digital filter, a nodal analysis is applied to obtain a system transfer function. While other approaches have been used in the past, the sparse matrix technique is the most efficient for solving the nodal matrix equations. This project focuses upon the sparse matrix technique described by Wasniewski, et al, [2]. The two computer programs listed in the appendices, GAUSS and SPARSE, are compared to each other by means of a series of examples, The first GAUSS, uses the well-known Gaussian elimination method, and the second SPARSE, uses the sparse matrix technique for solving the nodal matrix equations. The results indicate that the SPARSE program requires less computer memory and computation time. Finally, three digital filter examples are presented in this paper. Each is tested with the computer programs SPARSE and GAUSS, and the output presented consists of plots of the three basic frequency responses of each filter example – magnitude in decibels, phase in radians, and group delay in samples.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Northridge
- Department:
- Electrical and Computer Engineering