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- Creator:
- Kalashian, Cassandra
- Description:
- Students who suffer mental health issues often demonstrate poor academic performance. School-based mental health services, developed to help students achieve mental health and improve learning, are gaining popularity, though still not universally available. The purpose of this study was to examine teachers� and students� knowledge of current mental health services and assess which services they indicated as most crucial and beneficial to the student body. A questionnaire was distributed to 54 teachers and 161 students from two high schools in Central California. It was hypothesized that teachers would be more knowledgeable of existing services, rate mental health issues as more serious, and rate mental health services as more necessary than students. Responses were analyzed using independent samples t-tests or between subjects analysis of variances (ANOVAs). Results supported all the research hypotheses. The discussion further examines the findings, their relation to previous research, and the future direction of schoolbased mental health practice and research.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Identifier:
- .b23417419
- Campus Tesim:
- Fresno
- Department:
- Psychology
- Creator:
- Schoendube, Robert M
- Description:
- The purpose and need for this study was to determine: (1) the extent of interscholastic athletic programs in the junior high schools, (2) the present practices in the programs, and (3) to compare these practices with recommended criteria. Junior high school principals of comparably large urban school districts reported on the extent and practices of their programs in the Northern California area. The larger school districts were singled out for study because the smaller school districts, although still predominant in the nation with small enrollments do not consider it feasible to offer a desirable educational program at the excessive costs involved in maintaining a separate junior high school. More specifically, this study was undertaken in order to determine the degree of conformity between the principles and practices of those junior high schools having the 7th, 8th and 9th grades in a separately organized unit with the criteria as stated in the Standards for Junior High School Athletics. Since these standards were formulated to aid administrators in curbing or eliminating indefensible practices in relation to nationally recommended criteria, the knowledge of any inconsistencies in present practices is essential to the continued protection of our educational values. Local districts and state officials could be made aware of these trends and effect changes for the betterment of the program.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Identifier:
- ocm62303850
- Campus Tesim:
- Fresno
- Department:
- Kinesiology
- Creator:
- Tuder, Peggy Jean Davis
- Description:
- Sinece continuity of recording techniques among California speech and hearing therapists is inconsistent, this paper will investigate the various techniques that are presently being used by these therapists. Ihe investigation information will be obtained from the tabulation of & survey questionnaire which will be sent to therapists in several different colleges, universities, and public schools. Ihe tabulated results will then be evaluated to determine if there is a need to standardize techniques for recording articulation errors.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Identifier:
- ocm62868905
- Campus Tesim:
- Fresno
- Department:
- Communicative Disorders and Deaf Studies
- Creator:
- Harris, Laura Denise
- Description:
- The intent of this critical ethnographic study was to identify the perceived role preschool practitioners have in the promotion of self-efficacy in children who have suffered from traumatic events. This study additionally explored the application of the four principal sources which foster self-efficacy (Bandura, 1977) in everyday interactions and in curriculum implemented in the classrooms. Two research questions guided this study that included 1.) What perceived role does the preschool practitioner have in promoting self-efficacy in preschool children who have suffered from traumatic events? 2.) What methods do practitioners use to integrate the four principal sources of forming self-efficacy into the daily classroom experiences for the children who have suffered from trauma? The data sets were collected in the form of field notes that were previously transcribed by an organization employee, tally sheets, and semi-structured interview transcripts. The participants for the semi-structured interview portion of this study included five practitioners employed at various sites within the organization. Social Cognitive Theory provided the lens which data sets were analyzed. After completing the open-coding and axial-coding phases, triangulation was applied which led to the emergence of three key sections that offered insight into the questions specified. These three key sections were (a) practitioner experiences of working with children who experience trauma: children’s displayed behaviors; (b) Research Question 1: practitioner’s perceived role in promotion of self-efficacy; (c) Research Question 2: integration of four principal sources selfefficacy is derived from. The critical ethnography methodology applied in this qualitative study provided the existing body of literature with perceptions drawn from the participant observer perspective. Further research on this topic would provide additional depth and understanding of the perceived role practitioners have in the promotion of self-efficacy in preschool children who have suffered trauma. Also, additional identification of tangible methods used by practitioners to integrate the four principal sources self-efficacy is derived from into the classroom experiences could be used to continue to inform practice. The methods carried out in this study have not been applied often in the previous literature, allowing this research to offer new insight on the topic of self-efficacy in education.
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Campus Tesim:
- Fresno
- Department:
- Educational Leadership
- Creator:
- Richerson, Alexandria
- Description:
- Today, we are bombarded with the stereotype of women as sex objects or princesses. It is not very often that women are portrayed as smart, capable, empowering females who contribute to the world around them. These stereotypes are enforced by the popular media of our time and have led to the use of hostile and benevolent sexism against women. This thesis looks at how benevolent and hostile sexism were supported by courtly love culture in the late Middle Ages. It also looks at how Marie de France and Christine de Pizan combated the benevolent and hostile sexism of the twelfth through fifteenth century, by criticizing courtly love culture and constructing a female image that promoted positive traits, such as intelligence and morality. By examining Marie and Christine, modern women writers can use similar tactics to bring awareness to all women.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Fresno
- Department:
- English
- Creator:
- Swan, Kay
- Description:
- For this reason, individualized reading programs have sprung up all over the nation. The term "Individualized reading" is not altogether satisfactory. Some persons mistakenly assume it means that there is never any opportunity for group or class teaching and sharing. "Personalized reading" and "self-selection reading" are also not entirely descriptive terms because they wrongly imply that assigned reading activities may not be included. Individualized reading Is actually defined as the developmental approach to reading based closely on the specific capacities and needs of children and how they learn.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Identifier:
- ocm62522634
- Campus Tesim:
- Fresno
- Creator:
- Castro, Jamie
- Description:
- Early sexual maturation (precocity) of male salmonids is a serious issue in the modern conservation hatchery. Previous studies have demonstrated a ‘decision window’ of time for sexual maturation for Spring-run Chinook salmon beginning in the fall, during which the fish use biological and environmental cues to “decide” whether to mature for the following season. The months signifying the beginning and end of this fall decision window for California strains remains unclear. Therefore, an experiment was designed to elucidate the beginning and end of the decision window for California strains of male Spring-run Chinook salmon. A total of 628 juvenile males were randomly distributed among six tanks and fed a reduced ration diet during the predicted maturation decision window by adjusting duration and timing of diet reduction for each group. An additional 53 males were fed a high ration diet throughout the decision window. Individual weights and lengths were measured monthly. Precocity ranged from 32% to 10%, with the highest rate observed in the group fed a reduced ration between July- January and the lowest rate observed in the group fed a reduced ration between August-February. Additionally, condition factor (an estimation of adiposity), was observed to increase for males who would mature during the spawning season subsequent to the study period. Thus, it may be possible for hatcheries to implement feed reduction strategies to manage adiposity and precocity in broodstock.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Fresno
- Department:
- Biology
- Creator:
- Fok, Katherine Sik-Ling
- Description:
- An earlier study on the effect of excess DL-methronine on Saccharomyces cerevisiae strain 3701B when cultured on a rich medium showed that there was an inhibition of cultural development during the first 6 to 12 hours. However, a sudden and sharp increase in cultural development occurred after the inhibition period. The purpose of the present study is to observe the effect on S_. cerevisiae when grown on defined and minimal media in the presence of varying concentrations of DL-methionine. The ∝-hydroxylmethyl group of serine is the dominant donor of methyl group in methionine synthesis, and the enzyme catalyzing the transfer of the ∝-hydroxylmethyl group in the formation of methionine is serine hydroxy-methylase. It is our present interest to note the effect of varying concentrations of DL-methionine on the production and activity of serine hydroxymethylase. It is also of Interest to note if varying concentrations of methionine would have any effect on the production of glutamic-oxalacetic aminotransferase, an enzyme which is not directly involved in methionine biosynthetic pathway.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Identifier:
- ocm58533112
- Campus Tesim:
- Fresno
- Department:
- Biology
- Creator:
- Fugelsang, Kenneth C., Davis, Richard J., Damsen, Dave, Clary, Carter D., Amerine, Maynard A., Nelson, Klayton E., Thorsen, Thomas W., Engle, Clark, Dokoozlian, Nick K. Jr., Martini, Louis P., Nury, Fred S., La Vine, Phillip, Bolin, Harold R., Hewitt, W.B., Zoecklein, Bruce W., Fischetti, Tony, Bell, John R., Wilson, Kenneth L., McClellan, W.D., Kessler, J., Brekke, J.E., Miller, Martin W., Petrucci, Vincent E., and Cathey, Scott G.
- Resource Type:
- Text
- Identifier:
- Table grapes: California Table Grape Commission Research Proposal, Table grapes: Potassium Sorbate, Drying/ Trays: Monsanto MP-11, Potassium Sorbate and Raisin Mold, GRA 13.2; GRA 13.4; GRA 15.9; MISC 79.2; RAI 6.11; P.LT 25; GRA 13.1, P. LT-25 (Don't have a label name), Table grapes: Effects of S02, 1979_6, Wine Grapes: Potassium sorbate (see also RAI 6-11) - Table Grapes 1978
- Campus Tesim:
- Fresno
- Creator:
- Taylor, James C
- Description:
- The hypothesis of this study is that it is difficult for an individual to obtain employment in Fresno County, California, after having been convicted of a felony offense. This study will investigate and evaluate the hiring policies and practice of companies in Fresno County, California; will gather specific information about the types of employment available to offenders; and will survey the attitudes of employers about hiring offenders. The hypothesis will be confirmed is statistics are obtained which indicate a restriction in accepting offenders for employment and attitudinal scores which indicate opposition to hiring offenders.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Identifier:
- ocm62863102
- Campus Tesim:
- Fresno
- Department:
- Criminology
- Creator:
- Bostock, Richard M., Rohner, Robert R., Clary, Carter D., Peffer, Thomas E., Supat, Richard S., Kupina, S.A., Hartzell, Robert P., Parra, Mary Ann, Kunkee, R.E., Karle, Harry P., Vare, George A., Marsh, G.L., Carey, Richard, Park, Kyung J., Marois, James J., Petrucci, Vincent E., Park, Kenneth K., Morrison, Janice C., Meyer, Carl, Ough, C.S., Nelson, Klayton E., Ricker, Robert W., Sullivan, James, Ver Mulum, Roger, Berryhill, Clare, Berg, Harold W., and Rossi, Robert
- Resource Type:
- Text
- Identifier:
- The Correlation of Glycerol and Acetic Acid to Mold and Rot Levels In Wine Grapes, 1987_11, Wine Grapes: Defects in mechanically harvested grapes CDFA- 1982-87, GRA 15.10; MISC 83.4
- Campus Tesim:
- Fresno
- Creator:
- Clarke, Kris
- Description:
- The implications of increased immigration have been at the top of the political agenda in many European countries for the past decade. The boundaries of inclusion in national welfare states are a fraught political issue provoking heated debate on the limits entitlements. Human services workers are thus often thrust into the forefront of national integration efforts by having to act as gatekeepers to social and health interventions to increasingly diverse populations in homogenously constructed welfare states. This article explores integration in the Finnish human services through an analysis of the secondary data obtained from two migrant community research projects produced by migrants themselves, a project facilitated by the author. Utilizing a narrative approach to knowledge development, the migrant researchers outlined their communities’ concerns and experiences in the Finnish welfare state. By focusing on how voice and identity was narrated by the migrant researchers, this article explores the relevance of using community research methods to reveal the complexity of migrant community needs. It argues that locally based, community research has the potential to provide a more inclusionary, community-based methodological approach to migrant issues in European social work.
- Resource Type:
- Article
- Identifier:
- Publisher version: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1473325009350673
- Campus Tesim:
- Fresno
- Creator:
- Liptak, M Victoria
- Description:
- This study took an applied systems design approach to investigating social organizations in order to develop a synthetic perspective, one that supports pragmatism’s focus on consequent phenomena. As a case study of reaffirmation processes for four 4-year institutions and their accreditor, WSCUC, it looked for evidence of organizational learning in the related higher education systems of institutions and regional accrediting agencies. It used written documents as evidence of the extended discourse that is the reaffirmation of accreditation process. The documents were analyzed from a set of three perspectives in an effort to build a fuller understanding of the organizations. A structural analysis perspective looked for structural qualities within the discourse and its elements. A categorical analysis perspective considered the evidence of organizational learning that could be found by reviewing the set of documents produced by both WSCUC and the institution as part of the reaffirmation process. The review applied categorical frames adapted from the core strategies identified in Kezar and Eckel (2002b), the five disciplines proposed by Senge (2006), and the six activities identified in Dill (1999). It looked for relationships and interdependencies developed in the content within and between documents. A narrative analysis perspective considered each institution and its relationship with WSCUC through a set of six systemic lenses expanded from the three proposed by Banathy (1995). Each perspective yielded insight into how institutions of higher education reflect on and describe an intentional pursuit of organizational sustainability and improvement, as well as how both institutions and their accreditor use the reaffirmation process to understand and support their own organizational learning. This study supported the position that multiple perspectives can provide better, though not comprehensive, understanding of a system, and that a system can apply these perspectives to design for its intended future.
- Resource Type:
- Dissertation
- Campus Tesim:
- Fresno
- Department:
- Educational Leadership
- Creator:
- Davis, Amber Jill
- Description:
- In 2003, Madera County Department of Social Services joined the second phase of California�s Linkages Program. Since 2003, Madera County has worked to create a Linkages Program design that would meet the specific needs of the county and its clients. Gradually, the department is bringing Linkages into full implementation. The purpose of the following study was to identify the perceptions of Madera County Department of Social Services/Child Welfare and Welfare to Work staff regarding the program, its implementation, and its utility. To accomplish this, semi-structured interviews were conducted with nine staff members from both divisions and from different promotion levels. The findings of this study suggest that, despite expressed needs for further training on procedure and possible benefits, informants have a positive perception of Linkages and have ideas to contribute regarding the future direction of the program.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Identifier:
- .b2340016x
- Campus Tesim:
- Fresno
- Department:
- Social Work Education
- Creator:
- Manning, Emmy Lou
- Description:
- Among the current developments in the field of mental retardation is an increased focus on possibilities for vocational rehabilitation. Research in the field indicates that many of the retarded are educable. According to the Encyclopedia of Social Work, "The mildly retarded (I.Q. from about 50-70, comprising the largest portion of the group (retarded) estimated at five million, are frequently not distinguishable from normal individuals. ... If . . . they are given early assistance in the learning process, affection, supervision, guidance, and wise training, many can become capable of complete and satisfactory assimilation into the community."3 The President's Panel on Mental Retardation was appointed in October 1961, The panel submitted a report one year later. Among other things the report stated "... The retarded should be viewed as a part of. rather than apart from, their fellow citizens. . ..”. It further suggested that greater learning opportunities should be provided to children in depressed areas to alleviate adverse environmental factors. Aside from social values to be gained from educational programs for the retarded, there is the economic factor as well. In a study of 1,578 mentally retarded who were rehabilitated in 1958, it was estimated that their total annual earnings rose from $70,000 before rehabilitation to $2.5 million after rehabilitation. Although the Report of the President's Panel on Mental Retardation*" deals with the entire population of retarded persons in the United States, estimated at five and one-half million, and indicates that only 200,000 of these are cared for in residential institutions, some of the recommendations of the report may apply as well to this latter group. It is obviously meaningful to have in hospital settings for the retarded vocational rehabilitation programs which are successful in placing their students in the community. The purpose of this study is to find out why certain students in one such training program returned to the hospital. And inferentially the study will attempt to suggest what factors might have made for successful adjustment in the community. This could suggest means of improving hospital programs to insure more successful placements. Successful placement would also mean more room for other students, who might not otherwise be able to enter such training programs.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Identifier:
- ocm61118227
- Campus Tesim:
- Fresno
- Department:
- Social Work Education
- Creator:
- ATLAS Collaboration and Gao, Yongsheng
- Description:
- A measurement of the cross section for the production of isolated prompt photons in pp collisions at a center-of-mass energy root s = 7 TeV is presented. The results are based on an integrated luminosity of 4.6 fb(-1) collected with the ATLAS detector at the LHC. The cross section is measured as a function of photon pseudorapidity eta(gamma) and transverse energy E-T(gamma) in the kinematic range 100 <= E-T(gamma) < 1000 GeV and in the regions vertical bar eta(gamma)vertical bar < 1.37 and 1.52 <= vertical bar eta(gamma)vertical bar < 2.37. The results are compared to leading-order parton-shower Monte Carlo models and next-to-leading-order perturbative QCD calculations. Next-to-leading-order perturbative QCD calculations agree well with the measured cross sections as a function of E-T(gamma) and eta(gamma) .
- Resource Type:
- Article
- Identifier:
- Publisher version: dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.89.052004
- Campus Tesim:
- Fresno
