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- Creator:
- Viswanathan, Kavin
- Description:
- An abrasive blast booth for helicopters has to be designed on an existing plan in a larger size to fit CH-47 and Black Hawk models with a full recovery media floor that must be designed to withstand the load of helicopters.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Sacramento
- Department:
- Mechanical Engineering
- Creator:
- Johnson, Charles Tobias Martin
- Description:
- Part of a retrospective digitization project.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Sacramento
- Department:
- Education (Elementary Education)
- Creator:
- Crane, Mary Elizabeth
- Description:
- 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) What proportion of students entering Sacramento Junior College make changes in major fields of study but persist in enrollment? (2) What are the characteristics of those who make changes in major fields or study, in terms of high school background, choice or junior college major field--original and change, and academic achievement, before and after change? (3) What persistent patterns, if any, emerge in the changes made in major fields? (4) How is the scholastic record affected by changes made in major fields?
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Sacramento
- Department:
- Education (Educational Administration)
4. Revealing
- Creator:
- Sayasone, Som
- Description:
- There is an impulse to make objects out of familiar mundane materials reminiscent of traditional everyday chore. The act of making is fused with the interest in combining practice with performance and routine with ritual. Natural progression comes into existence if the art process is allowed to take its course and substance becomes tangible. Presented here is an account of such a progression. What can be said of an art process if it does not yield a deeper awareness?
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Sacramento
- Department:
- Art (Studio Art)
- Creator:
- Anderson, Bailey
- Description:
- 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 all means, and how it affects others. Although all the answers have not been revealed, I have the ability to explore the possibilities and move forward with new ideas and constructs. This is not a finite exploration, yet one that will continue into my years ahead as an object maker.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Sacramento
- Department:
- Art (Studio Art)
- Creator:
- Harris, Ryan
- Description:
- 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 address them, calling for collaboration between relevant agencies and a redirecting of existing resources to face these new problems has become common place. The purpose of this thesis is to ascertain whether or not task forces composed of multiple public sector entities should be considered effective tools for policy enactment in the state. My exploratory study draws upon existing academic literature on what makes task forces effective to create an interview procedure that was utilized to speak with 6 public officials currently or having previously served on task forces. I then compared how the interviewees felt about what benefited and impeded their task force’s ability to perform with what the literature said drove task force effectiveness and gave each task force a passing or failing grade based on whether or not a task force had more positive or negative factors respectfully. My results show that all task forces in my case selection are vi considered effective by the interviewees who served on them and based on what the reviewed literature suggests would make an effective task force. I conclude that task forces as they are now are indeed effective tools for solving far reaching problems, and any inefficiencies they face are endemic in the public sector itself.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Sacramento
- Department:
- Public Policy and Administration
- Creator:
- Swartz, Regena Moser
- Description:
- 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 encounter the greatest difficulties when they find themselves put to the production test in their first vocational opportunity. By analyzing the specific errors made by students terminating their business training, business educators can isolate sane of the critical areas of learning. In this way some of the major incompetencies of students in typewriting production work, involving tasks which would be similar to those confronting an office worker on his initial assignment as atypist, can be pointed out. The technique of isolating critical areas of learning in a skill subject through error analysis was employed in this study. The value of not limiting the study to particular geographical area factors or influences was recognized and a test of national over-all coverage was selected for the error analysis. The National Business Entrance Typewriting Tests given in the spring of 1952 were selected for this study. Although a number of studies have been made using the NBE tests as a basis, little research has been done on the specific phase of error analysis to determine areas of weakness in students' competencies which might be of special significance to those responsible for guiding studentsin their educational experiences. It is with this educational emphasis that this study is concerned.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Sacramento
- Department:
- Business Education
- Creator:
- Coleman, Thomas William
- Description:
- Part of a retrospective digitization project.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Sacramento
- Department:
- Education (Educational Administration)
- Creator:
- Stiles, Heather V.
- Description:
- 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 characterized by the input of excessive nutrients, which can cause a shift from a relatively clear, macrophyte-dominated condition (oligotrophic) to a turbid, algae-dominated condition at the highest nutrient levels (eutrophic). It has been extensively demonstrated to occur in continuously flooded aquatic systems, but is poorly understood in seasonal wetlands. This study investigated the effects of nutrient addition and the role of vegetation in the manifestation of these effects in California vernal pools – a highly threatened seasonal wetland ecosystem susceptible to eutrophication from nutrient-laden storm water runoff and excrement from grazing animals. Applying predictions observed in continuously aquatic systems and recent nutrient-addition experiments in vernal pools, it was hypothesized that the response of vernal pools to nutrient enrichment will be consistent with eutrophication observed in continuously aquatic systems (e.g., increased algae, turbidity, conductivity, decreased dissolved oxygen) and that the presence of vegetation will mitigate the effects of eutrophication, with beneficial effects to invertebrate populations. The experimental design consisted of five nutrient (phosphorous) treatments replicated three times and placed in a vegetation or vegetation-removal treatment. Turbidity, dissolved oxygen, algae concentration, invertebrate density, invertebrate species richness, pH, and conductivity were measured biweekly over six weeks. Treatment effects were determined using factorial multivariate analysis of variance with Fisher’s Least Significant Different post-hoc tests conducted for significant effects of nutrient addition treatments. Correlations between dependent variables were estimated using Spearman rank correlation coefficients. Vernal pool mesocosms did not exhibit a eutrophic response consistent with continuously aquatic systems when nutrients were added, but this may be attributable to the timing of the study. Nutrient addition did increase invertebrate species richness. The presence of vegetation reduced algal densities and thus lowered turbidity and also had positive effects on invertebrate species richness. This study demonstrated that the presence of vegetation mitigated some adverse effects of eutrophication and informed the ongoing debate regarding the benefit of grazing as a management tool in vernal pool ecosystems.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Sacramento
- Department:
- Biological Sciences (Biological Conservation)
- Creator:
- McGuire, Brendan
- Description:
- 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 the unique aspects of the formation, maintenance, and governance of security organizations addressing violent NGOs. The sources of information used are secondary sources such as academic journals and news articles, along with primary sources such as public statements and speeches. The case study provided an example of an environment that fostered state cooperation through the inherent need for coordination. Economic development played a role within maintaining the Shanghai Cooperation Organization by stabilizing allies and in eroding grass roots support for violent NGOs. Lastly, other factors facilitated expansion of its mission to counter balancing the United States within Central Asia.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Sacramento
- Department:
- International Affairs
- Creator:
- Walters, Martha M.
- Description:
- 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 Janosik of Virginia Tech, Donald Gehring of Bowling Green State University and Dennis Gregory of Old Dominion University. In concert and separately, Janosik, Gehring and Gregory have conducted online and paper surveys directed to students, parents, campus law enforcement officials, judicial affairs officers and residence life administrators seeking data pertaining to compliance with the Clery Act. Data obtained from questionnaires sent by Janosik and Gehring to students indicated only 27% of student respondents were aware of the Clery Act and only 8% of student respondents used the Annual Security Report when making their college decision choice. In separate studies, Janosik, Gehring and Gregory concluded the Clery Act is ineffective in achieving its stated purpose and the compliance requirements are ambiguous and burdensome to comply with. Ultimately, Janosik, Gehring and Gregory opined that the energy and emphasis devoted to the reporting requirements of the Clery Act are misplaced and that students would be better served by administration’s focus on the development of services that make a difference instead of a statistical report. Studies of the nature and type of crime occurring on college campuses conducted by Bromley (1993) and Sloan (1993, 1994) indicate larceny and theft are the most prevalent crimes occurring on campus. However, in studies conducted by Sloan, Fisher and Cullen (1997) and Bennett and Weingand (1994) the failure of students to report crimes such as sexual assault and other serious crimes occurring on campus is prevalent and impedes an accurate depiction of crime on campus. Statement of the Problem This research studied the evolving impact of the landmark federal campus security policy and crime reporting law known as the Jeanne Clery Act on institutions of higher education. Enacted in 1990, following the murder of Jeanne Clery, in her dormitory room at Lehigh University, for the first time in United States history, the Jeanne Clery Act required institutions of higher education disclose campus security policies and annual campus crime statistics. Investigation conducted following Jeanne Clery’s murder revealed numerous incidents of violent crime had occurred on Lehigh’s campus, which was not disclosed to prospective or current students. The Clery family first lobbied for a campus crime reporting law in Pennsylvania and then joined with other campus crime victims to enact a federal law. At the behest of victim advocates, and in response to increasing incidents of violent crime on college campuses, Congress has amended the Jeanne Clery Act several times to clarify the law’s requirements and to increase levels of compliance. Despite the altruistic intent of the Clery Act and Congressional efforts to elucidate the means by which to achieve compliance, administrators at institutions of higher education are complying with the Clery Act in a variable manner. Administrators have defined their skepticism of the Clery Act’s ability to fulfill its own objectives. Sources of Data This study gathered data through qualitative personal interviews regarding personal perceptions of compliance from administrators at three institutions of higher education charged with the responsibility of compliance. This data was analyzed and compared with actual Annual Security Reports filed by the three institutions with the Department of Education and against Annual Security Reports disseminated by the institutions to the public. The Annual Security Reports were analyzed to determine if they fully complied with all requirements of the Clery Act and if they contained identical data. To address the concerns regarding compliance voiced by victim advocates, this researcher conducted a personal interview of S. Daniel Carter, Senior Vice President of Security On Campus, Inc., the 501 non-profit established by the Clery family. To fully understand the compliance requirements of the Clery Act, this researcher attended a compliance training seminar conducted by Security On Campus, Inc. Conclusions Reached The data obtained from the qualitative interviews permitted this researcher to more fully understand personal perceptions of the Clery Act that cannot be obtained through online, impersonal, forced choice questionnaires or surveys. The training seminar provided in depth training in Clery Act compliance requirements and offered the researcher the opportunity for assessment and feedback from Security On Campus, Inc. personnel. The results of the data collected indicated to this researcher that institutions of higher education are complying with the Clery Act at varying levels. Inter-departmental collaboration and training of personnel to fulfill the compliance requirements was not consistent at all three institutions. Greater efforts must be made by institutions of higher education to meet and exceed the requirements of the Clery Act.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Sacramento
- Department:
- Education (Higher Education Leadership)
- Creator:
- Edgerly, Peia Marie
- Description:
- 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 networking tool that targets increasing face-to-face human interaction. It addressed the demographics of users of Meetup and the social and personal development implications of its use. Sources of Data Using Maslow’s Theory of Motivation and Human Needs and Sherbourne and Stewart’s functional components of social support as a guide, the researcher developed a survey instrument targeting demographics of users and the components of functional and social support members may be obtaining through using Meetup for social leisure. Data was collected through an online survey using Survey Monkey. Individuals who participated were invited to the online survey through their Meetup organizers. Conclusions Reached Meetup is an Internet based networking tool that is effectively offering face-to-face social leisure and in doing so, it offers its members the opportunity to meet social needs. This global network was found to provide Belongingness Needs (Level 3), Esteem Needs (Level 4) and Self-Actualization Needs (Level 5) from Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, for its members.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Sacramento
- Department:
- Recreation, Parks, and Tourism Administration
- Creator:
- Taylor, Margaret Irene
- Description:
- 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 quantitative analysis of socioeconomic predictors of pollution burden in Sacramento County to better-inform local environmental justice efforts. Even when controlling for other socioeconomic variables, poverty most significantly predicted pollution burden (b=0.27, p < .001). Social workers should help initiate interdisciplinary collaboration and advocate for low-income communities to decrease disproportionate exposure to pollution and resulting negative health outcomes.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Sacramento
- Department:
- Social Work
- Creator:
- James Reed, Marvin, Jr.
- Description:
- 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 focus has shifted from getting students from just being enrolled in a university to helping them successfully persist to graduation. Today, African American males continue to fall behind White counterparts in relation to college participation, retention, persistence, and degree completion (Noguera, 2003; Polite & Davis, 1999). Statement of the Problem For California State University, Sacramento to increase its current retention and graduation rates regarding the African American male student population, the university must have a retention program for students that provides a holistic, student-centered approach through mentorship, academic advising, and student-to-faculty interactions reflecting the diverse student population; this will establish a sense of belonging and enhance a student’s learning and graduation persistence. In the fall of 2015, the university enrolled 3,820 first time freshmen students. Prior to this enrollment, less than 6% of the African American student population persisted to degree completion from the years 2011-2015 (California State University, Sacramento, 2015). If California State University, Sacramento (Sacramento State) does not proactively identify new strategies for retention of African American males through innovative programming and support services, there is strong potential for the university to not retain current and or potential students due to lack of student engagement. This study examines African American males’ educational persistence by evaluating the impact of the Cooper-Woodson College Enhancement Program at Sacramento State. This study addressed the following questions: 1. What challenges do African American males face in higher education regarding graduation persistence? 2. How does the Cooper-Woodson College program promote persistence and graduation for African American males? 3. How does the Cooper-Woodson College program impact student development through service learning? Methodology This qualitative research sought to understand the impact of the Cooper-Woodson College Enhancement Program on African American males and to analyze factors influencing these students’ persistence to degree completion. Specifically, respondents were 10 African American male students who successfully completed the Cooper-Woodson College Enhancement Program. Students were asked to share the obstacles they faced in higher education, to describe how the Cooper-Woodson College Enhancement Program helped them persist, and to describe their service learning experiences. Conclusions and Recommendations The study concluded that while African American males encounter different obstacles in navigating the educational pipeline, with the support of professors and staff, an inclusive and culturally diverse environment, and community to motivate and or encourage academic success is an obtainable goal. The results of this study can be used by educators and policymakers to develop different initiatives to support, promote, and encourage the educational success of all students of color, particularly African American males.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Sacramento
- Department:
- Education (Higher Education Leadership)
- Creator:
- Chastain, Amanda Nicole
- Description:
- 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 to tact arbitrary pictures, followed by intraverbal training that either related the names of these pictures (e.g., A1B1C1; class-consistent), or included irrelevant names. Next, we exposed participants to baseline MTS training, and tested for emergent visual-visual conditional relations. During Experiment 2, intraverbal training included either class-consistent (CC), or class inconsistent intraverbal (CI) training (e.g., A1B2C3). For both experiments, CC training yielded fewer trials to criterion, and fewer errors during baseline MTS training. Most (94%) participants passed transitivity and symmetry tests following class-consistent training, while 88% passed these tests following irrelevant intraverbal training. However, only 38% passed both following class-inconsistent intraverbal training. These results suggest that verbal behavior may play an important a role in MTS performance.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Sacramento
- Department:
- Psychology (Applied Behavior Analysis)
- Creator:
- Sandoval, Priscilla Maria
- Description:
- 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. It will also challenge and decolonize current modes of knowledge production, while filling the void of voice and candor that exists in current research regarding mental conditions. I am exposing myself and producing this research to give a perspective from the inside out: a patient’s perspective.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Sacramento
- Department:
- Sociology
- Creator:
- Magat, Kimberly A.
- Description:
- 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 systematically replicate the work of Sundberg, San Juan, Dawdy, and Arugelles (1990) in which the authors evaluated the acquisition and functional interdependence of verbal operants for adults following ABI. We used slightly modified procedures (e.g., inclusion of high preference activities, progressive prompt delay) and compared acquisition rates of tacts, mands, and intraverbals with three adult ABI survivors. We also assessed if directly training one verbal operant led to the emergence of untrained, topographically similar verbal operants. We found mand training was successful for all participants and led to the greatest amount of transfer under tact conditions, contrary to Sundberg et al. Potential explanations for the differences between our results and those of Sundberg et al. are discussed.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Sacramento
- Department:
- Psychology (Applied Behavior Analysis)
- Creator:
- Silpasornprasit, Rachel Michele
- Description:
- 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 regard. This study was the first to evaluate the Sacramento Federal Defender’s Office Social Work program. Using the risk-need-responsivity framework as a guide, this secondary data analysis evaluated whom the program was serving, and subsequently who was receiving treatment. The results suggested that the program was primarily serving higher risk post-offenders; however, the highest risk clients were not receiving all of their needs.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Sacramento
- Department:
- Criminal Justice
- Creator:
- Graening, Letia Charlyce
- Description:
- 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 experiences. Also, the literature discusses factors related to persistence, retention, advising, and mentorship. Finally, it presents an exploration of how leadership plays a role in the education of Black males in STEM majors. Statement of the Problem: African-American males are lagging behind in bachelor's degree attainment; only 6.2% of science and engineering bachelor’s degree recipients are African-American males (National Science Foundation, 2014). This number has remained largely unchanged since 2002, when it was 6.1%. With so few African-American males completing STEM bachelor’s degrees, the number of advanced degree seekers in STEM fields is only 4.8%. Additionally, the growth is essentially flat, only slightly up from 4.5% in 2003. It is important to look at the factors that contribute to the likelihood of African-American males continuing their STEM education beyond undergraduate work to increase diversity in academia and the workforce. Methodology: This study utilized qualitative data analysis and narrative inquiry to explore the shared experiences of five African-American males all declared in undergraduate STEM majors during the 2016-2017 academic year at a large, public research intuition. Conclusions and Recommendations: Based on the data, African-American males are more likely to persist in undergraduate STEM majors with financial support and mentorship. They also benefit from counter-spaces created specifically to support their inclusion on campus. While Black male students do report negative experiences while pursuing or related to, their STEM major, they are more likely to persist with support early on from institutional resources. The data also showed that while graduate school is a likely consideration for most Black male STEM majors, their interest in careers opportunities is the more likely outcome of their undergraduate degree completion.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Sacramento
- Department:
- Education (Higher Education Leadership)
- Creator:
- Cederquist, Clay Eric
- Description:
- 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 workers. Participant observation and immersion approaches allowed the researcher to collect data of the daily conversations involving the two groups. The key words and phrases provided field data, which were triangulated by analyzing the content from different dates, co-workers’ descriptions of others’ worker identities and individual self-descriptions of worker identities. Observational data revealed the discursive construction of worker identities based on dyadic and group communication. The Social Identity Theory guided the construct of the worker identities from the field notes. Observed conversations revealed the self-reflective and co-constructed worker identities of the compensated and volunteer workers in the SEO. Results showed that: (a) the worker identities of the volunteer workers included the overall worker identity of Team Member/Village Member, (b) the worker identity of the compensated workers included Coach/Mentor, and (c) the analysis of management and volunteer worker groups revealed salient data on worker identity.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Sacramento
- Department:
- Communication Studies
- Creator:
- Pastor, Ivylynn Amanda
- Description:
- 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 characterize the effects of septal inactivation using muscimol on (1) the basic directional characteristics of HD cells, (2) the control of the HD cell network by visual landmarks, and (3) the maintenance of a stable preferred direction (PD) using idiothetic cues in darkness. Blockade of theta by medial septal infusions of muscimol produced a population of HD cells with PDs that shifted unpredictably between sessions, suggesting that landmark control was affected. Further, a significant population of HD cells was unable to maintain stable PDs when the animals locomoted in the dark, suggesting that idiothetic cue processing was affected. These findings suggest that theta oscillations are necessary for the directional stability of HD cells in anterodorsal thalamus.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Sacramento
- Department:
- Psychology
- Creator:
- Sturdevant, Giselle
- Description:
- 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 how additive non-verbal cues might be translated into social media computer mediated communication. Drawing on the four central components of media richness theory: multiple cues, rapid feedback, natural language, and personal focus, and by applying a social information processing perspective, this study looked at whether people perceive Facebook features to decrease equivocality and uncertainty in Facebook posts. The data collected demonstrated that people perceive Facebook features to decrease equivocality and uncertainty, and that these features function as additive non-verbal cues in communication on Facebook.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Sacramento
- Department:
- Communication Studies
- Creator:
- Jones, Jared Arthur
- Description:
- 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 history of the Fort after John Sutter is a history often overlooked by historians. While the Fort’s significance to California history is focused on the events there in the 1840s, the Fort played an intimate role in Sacramento history in the later nineteenth century and helped foster a romanticism for a time prior to statehood. Sutter’s Fort sparked the preservation movement in California, and the Fort continues to be a lasting symbol of pioneer times in California. Sutter’s Fort is the exemplar that a community can make a difference to prevent further destruction of a historic site and preserve it for future generations.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Sacramento
- Department:
- History (Public History)
- Creator:
- Howland, Timothy Gerard
- Description:
- 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 prerequisite discriminative skills. A few basic studies have evaluated successive-matching-to-sample (S-MTS) procedures as alternatives to traditional MTS with adults. Two experiments evaluated the effectiveness of S-MTS to establish emergent relations with 16 undergraduate college students. Following training of baseline relations (AB/BC), participants were tested to evaluate whether untrained relations (i.e., BA/CB and AC/CA) emerged. Overall, 13 out of 16 participants demonstrated emergent equivalence (AC/CA) responding, indicating that S-MTS might be a viable alternative to traditional MTS to establish emergent relations.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Sacramento
- Department:
- Psychology (Applied Behavior Analysis)
- Creator:
- Aguayo Vazquez, Diana
- Description:
- 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 discharged from the hospital; especially, adults with TBI. This study examines the different experiences for 24 participants who completed a multiple-choice survey after participating in a community art program. Qualtrics, SPSS and Excel were used to analyze t-test and correlations between participants with a TBI and those without a TBI; significant differences between both populations were found, supporting the need theory; and, urging the need for more community integration programs.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Sacramento
- Department:
- Recreation Administration
- Creator:
- Reyes, Bernard
- Description:
- 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; Jones & King, 2012; Rothman, 2012). Of these students, 40% will not graduate with a bachelor's degree in six years (National Center for Education Statistics, 2001, 2012a; Sablan, 2014). In terms of racial background, disparities show that 30.4% of Asian, 35.8% of White/Caucasian, 52.6% of Hispanic, and 65.9% of black students took remedial courses in any field (Chen & Simone, 2016). Consequently, in the current era of high-stakes testing, pressure and tension continue to negatively impact low-income and underrepresented students' pathways toward college (Darling-Hammond, Wilhoit, & Pittenger, 2014; Reardon, 2013; Welton & Williams, 2015). For many of these students, this pressure and tension can affect the ways in which they prepare for and socially integrate into the college culture (Weidman, 1989; Welton & Williams, 2015). Based on this evidence, it is important to consider how socialization processes can help shift the way in which we determine college-readiness beyond the parameters of remedial education. In order to examine first-generation, low-income, and underrepresented students’ transitions into college, this study will examine the impacts on students’ program satisfaction and meaningful socialization through their participation in a transitional summer bridge program (SBP).
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Sacramento
- Department:
- Education (Curriculum and Instruction)
- Creator:
- Majid, Imran
- Description:
- 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, Radford, and Skomsvold (2015), 25% of all undergraduates in the United States worked full-time in 2011, and 34% of students also delayed postsecondary enrollment for at least one year after high school. However, existing literature suggests that faculty, staff, and administrators should develop an understanding of the variations and commonalities within a student’s educational journey, and develop specific policies, practices, and programs to ensure his/her success (Chaplot, Jenkins, Johnstone, & Rassen, 2013). Therefore, postsecondary institutions—including the California State University (CSU) system—are striving to develop a better understanding on how students learn, engage, and involve themselves with their college or university. Because students come from a variety of academic and economic backgrounds, they may enter the college or university with different levels of knowledge and expertise in navigating personal (e.g., a lack of financial resources) and institutional (e.g., inaccurate placement programs) barriers. Higher education institutions also often contain separate colleges or departments that do not have a history of interacting with each other (Weick, 1976). Therefore, students may have different and inconsistent interactions with various campus departments, divisions, and staff. These exchanges may either assist or impede the student’s ability to make timely progression or completion of his/her degree or certificate (Chaplot et al., 2013). Given these factors, higher education institutions may face difficulty in preventing barriers and aligning their culture, processes, and structures with the needs and expectations of every student. This exploratory research project utilized an organizational perspective, along with qualitative data, to explore these institutional barriers within the College of Social Sciences and Interdisciplinary Studies (SSIS) at Sacramento State. Given the national focus on college completion, changes in California’s demographics and economic trends, and the university’s non-traditional student body and historically low four-year graduation rate, Sacramento State represents a unique opportunity to investigate potentially longstanding institutional barriers that may impede student completion of a degree. I conducted 23 semi-structured interviews with faculty, staff, and administrators and six student focus groups across four academic departments within SSIS to develop an insight on the potential factors driving the College’s student success metrics relative to the rest of Sacramento State. While the role of SSIS in promoting student success was unclear, I found that there is “misalignment,” or a lack of consensus between different role-alike groups (such as between students and faculty), about how to best determine, implement, and oversee student success practices and initiatives. While I explored policies about academic preparation, student supports, and course standards, each stakeholder group in my study possessed different views on how to best improve student success at Sacramento State. In general, I found that: a) administrators wanted greater collaboration and communication between academic departments and the university’s central coordinating divisions (i.e., Academic Affairs, Student Affairs, and the President’s Office); b) faculty desired access to resources, such as student progression and post-college data, and greater institutional support to more effectively track, advise, and mentor students; and c) students wished for more consistent, reliable information about transfer and graduation requirements and timely communication about the availability of campus support systems, such as the Women’s Resource Center. Because of the small sample and the specialized nature of my research, this study does not have any definitive, generalizable, findings for the university overall, but there are critically important implications for Sacramento State and SSIS. For example, Sacramento State may want to first consider defining student success, including how the effects of specific initiatives will be measured over time. This systematic conceptualization is important in order for key academic personnel (i.e., faculty, staff, advisers, etc.) to understand the university’s goals and how they will be operationalized. Furthermore, Sacramento State may also want to examine the following five factors as part of its student success initiatives: mission and culture, the role of SSIS, faculty support, advising systems, and data collection. Improvement in these areas may lead to better centralization and coordination of student success programs and services, fewer bureaucratic barriers, and a smoother path to completion for students.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Sacramento
- Department:
- Public Policy and Administration
- Creator:
- Page, Scott V.
- Description:
- 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 HPIS utilizing topographically similar instructions is effective in increasing food acceptance (e.g., Ewry & Fryling, 2016), this study failed to produce an increase in consumption until the procedure was accompanied with escape extinction in the form of a non-removal of the spoon procedure (e.g., Ahearn et al, 1996; Babbitt et al, 1994). This study replicated previous findings demonstrating escape extinction as a necessary component in increasing food acceptance (Daweson et al., 2003). Results are discussed in terms of procedural variations.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Sacramento
- Department:
- Psychology (Applied Behavior Analysis)
- Creator:
- Schrumpf, Duaine Peter.
- Description:
- Part of a retrospective digitization project.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Sacramento
- Department:
- Business Administration (Business Teacher Education)
- Creator:
- Brown, James J.
- Description:
- Part of a retrospective digitization project.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Sacramento
- Department:
- Business Education
- Creator:
- Colombero, Anthony E.
- Description:
- Part of a retrospective digitization project.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Sacramento
- Department:
- Education (Elementary Education)
- Creator:
- Reasenberg, Lang S.
- Description:
- 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, discussed math enrollment with female adolescents and if this support helped guide them to enroll in advanced level mathematics. In addition, this study investigated whether an additive model of social capital provided a stronger network of social support for girls in grade 9 to encourage advanced level math enrollment in grade 11. This study employed secondary data analysis using The High School Longitudinal Study (HSLS), a nationally represented sample (Ingels & Dalton, 2013; Kelly & Zhang, 2016). The HSLS is a longitudinal study of a nationally represented sample size of approximately 25,210 ninth grade students in 944 schools within the United States (Ingels & Dalton, 2013; Kelly & Zhang, 2016). Students in this study were first surveyed in 2009 as 9th grade students and then again two and a half years later in 2012 when the majority of the cohort was in the spring term of their 11th grade year. This study focused on 11,489 female students who participated in the HSLS: 09 base year questionnaire as well as first follow up study of 2012. The study identified that the presence of supportive figure(s) in the lives of female high school students in grade nine predicted advanced math course enrollment in grade 11, and provided evidence for an additive model of social capital. An additive model of social capital suggests that having peers, parents and teachers as sources of support bolsters the academic career of a student (Rosenfeld, Richman, & Bowen, 2000). Future research should examine how this unique network of social support (i.e. peers, parents, and teachers) can interact to provide support for adolescent female students.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Sacramento
- Department:
- Child Development
- Creator:
- Lim, Stephanie
- Description:
- 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 public university volunteered to participate in exchange for course credit. Tests for mediation revealed that emotion dysregulation and cognitive and behavioral avoidance partially mediated the effect of childhood emotional maltreatment on psychological distress. When examined in separate analyses, 65% of the effect of maltreatment on distress is mediated through emotion dysregulation, while 39% of the effect is mediated through cognitive and behavioral avoidance. Given previous findings linking maltreatment to an increased risk for problematic emotional functioning, additional work on how to enhance resilience by improving emotion regulation skills and reducing avoidant behaviors among at-risk children and young adults is needed.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Sacramento
- Department:
- Psychology
- Creator:
- Enakaya, Nyesa Asha
- Description:
- 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 minority – Black, Latino/a, American Indian and Pacific Islander students – have even higher failure rates and lower retention rates than the rest of the student population. Of the nine subjects offered by NSM, the courses in the subject of chemistry consistently have the highest failure rates and lowest retention rates. Despite several calls for an increase in science workers, there have been reports of shortages of college graduates with advanced STEM degrees. It is clear that changes need to be made to help boost the retention rate in order to help meet the demand for science workers. This study uses action research to investigate the effect of using humanistic approaches to science, inclusive pedagogy, and affective learning objectives in order keep students engaged and to increase students’ sense of belonging in a science course. Previous studies have shown that student engagement and a sense of belonging are both positively correlated with academic achievement. By developing techniques and interventions to help students stay engaged with course material, this study demonstrates that small interventions can have a positive effect on student perseverance and sense of belonging. For this study, five new interventions were introduced in the introductory chemistry course CHEM 4: Chemical Calculations. The interventions focused on adding human elements and social relevance to science education. As a result of these interventions, CHEM 4 students indicated that they felt a greater sense of belonging at the end of the semester than they did at the beginning of the semester. Based on student responses on surveys, students also appeared to maintain their level of interest and engagement throughout the semester. While this study shows that the interventions had a positive effect on students during the two semesters that interventions were implemented, the failure rates and achievement gaps for CHEM 4 remained high. Since this study attempted to address student attitudes to impact student performance, it will be important to monitor both immediate and long-term outcomes.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Sacramento
- Department:
- Chemistry
- Creator:
- Brockman, Kiersten
- Description:
- 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 information about prescription drugs. Instead of medications being vetted and suggested by physicians, patients are requesting medications after interactions with pharmaceutical companies through advertisements. The transference of medications as need-based goods prescribed based upon the evaluation and recommendation of experts, to preference-based goods which patients can research and request from their physicians, is vital in understanding how patients perceive the risks and benefits associated with these medications. This thesis explores the role of DTCA in patient belief change and subsequent intention to take a medication, with particular focus on messages of risk about birth control pills. The framework with which the study analyzes belief and intention change is Icek Ajzen’s Theory of Planned Behavior. A survey-based experiment was performed to assess women’s beliefs and intentions after being exposed to an advertisement with a message of risk, the same advertisement with the message of risk removed, or no message. Future research may explore further the relationships between the types of risk messages and their influence on patient beliefs and intentions.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Sacramento
- Department:
- Communication Studies
- Creator:
- Giedt, Eugene Emanuel
- Description:
- Part of a retrospective digitization project.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Sacramento
- Department:
- Education (Secondary Education)
- Creator:
- Giordano, Josephine Ann
- Description:
- Part of a retrospective digitization project.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Sacramento
- Department:
- Education (Elementary Education)
- Creator:
- Nau, Henry F.
- Description:
- Part of a retrospective digitization project.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Sacramento
- Department:
- Education (Secondary Education)
- Creator:
- Smith, James W.
- Description:
- Part of a retrospective digitization project.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Sacramento
- Department:
- Education (Elementary Education)
- Creator:
- Fitz, Katherine Kergel
- Description:
- Part of a retrospective digitization project.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Sacramento
- Department:
- Education (Elementary Education)
- Creator:
- Abi Abdallah, Maroun B.
- Description:
- 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 technical performance and to determine the economic feasibility of this system to generate renewable electricity in the Sacramento Area. The parameters studied are feedstock type, air emissions, biochar production and electrical output. NOx emissions and the electrical output were minor setbacks; this problem can be solved by upgrading the filter system and modifying fuel feedstock by transforming it to briquettes, which will help reduce NOx emissions and improve the power generation efficiency of the unit. Successful results of the proposed project increase the possibility of implementing an environmentally acceptable and sustainable use of biomass residues for carbon negative power generation in Northern California.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Sacramento
- Department:
- Mechanical Engineering
- Creator:
- Gregoire, E. Jean
- Description:
- Part of a retrospective digitization project.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Sacramento
- Department:
- Education (Educational Administration)
- Creator:
- Fels, Marshall W.
- Description:
- Part of a retrospective digitization project.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Sacramento
- Department:
- Counseling
- Creator:
- Ferreira, Joseph Roy
- Description:
- Part of a retrospective digitization project.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Sacramento
- Department:
- Psychology
- Creator:
- Erickson, Paul J.
- Description:
- Part of a retrospective digitization project.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Sacramento
- Department:
- Education (Secondary Education)
- Creator:
- Gibson, Deane Stanley
- Description:
- Part of a retrospective digitization project.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Sacramento
- Department:
- Art
- Creator:
- Casey, John Douglass
- Description:
- Part of a retrospective digitization project.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Sacramento
- Department:
- English
- Creator:
- Oser, William Howard
- Description:
- Part of a retrospective digitization project.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Sacramento
- Department:
- Education (Elementary Education)
- Creator:
- Christin, Denis Armand
- Description:
- Part of a retrospective digitization project.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Sacramento
- Department:
- Education (Elementary Education)
- Creator:
- Bode, William T.
- Description:
- Part of a retrospective digitization project.
- Resource Type:
- Thesis
- Campus Tesim:
- Sacramento
- Department:
- Art