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Donna Shea Tssa Spring 2010, Donna Shea Nov 2010

Donna Shea Tssa Spring 2010, Donna Shea

Teaching Skills Study Awards (TSSA) Reports

Enhances faculty's teaching by attending a conference devoted to university teaching, a high-impact practice, evidence-based practice or a newly developing teaching practice.


Pa Der Vang Tssa Fall 2008, Pa Der Vang Oct 2010

Pa Der Vang Tssa Fall 2008, Pa Der Vang

Teaching Skills Study Awards (TSSA) Reports

Enhances faculty's teaching by attending a conference devoted to university teaching, a high-impact practice, evidence-based practice or a newly developing teaching practice.


Jeffrey Boeckman Tssa Fall 2006, Jeffrey Boekman Oct 2010

Jeffrey Boeckman Tssa Fall 2006, Jeffrey Boekman

Teaching Skills Study Awards (TSSA) Reports

Enhances faculty's teaching by attending a conference devoted to university teaching, a high-impact practice, evidence-based practice or a newly developing teaching practice.


Aaron Moffett Tssa Winter 2010, Aaron Moffett Oct 2010

Aaron Moffett Tssa Winter 2010, Aaron Moffett

Teaching Skills Study Awards (TSSA) Reports

Enhances faculty's teaching by attending a conference devoted to university teaching, a high-impact practice, evidence-based practice or a newly developing teaching practice.


Eun-Ok Baek Tssa Spring 2009, Erun-Ok Baek Sep 2010

Eun-Ok Baek Tssa Spring 2009, Erun-Ok Baek

Teaching Skills Study Awards (TSSA) Reports

Enhances faculty's teaching by attending a conference devoted to university teaching, a high-impact practice, evidence-based practice or a newly developing teaching practice.


David Baker Cd Summer 2010, David Baker Sep 2010

David Baker Cd Summer 2010, David Baker

Innovative Course Redesign Grant Reports

Supports faculty to redesign or develop a course in ways that implement high-impact, evidence-based, and/or innovative teaching strategies to improve student learning.


Glen Hirshberg Cd Spring 2009, Glen Hirshberg Sep 2010

Glen Hirshberg Cd Spring 2009, Glen Hirshberg

Innovative Course Redesign Grant Reports

Supports faculty to redesign or develop a course in ways that implement high-impact, evidence-based, and/or innovative teaching strategies to improve student learning.


Shawn Mcmurran Tssa Fall 2008, Shawn Mcmurran Aug 2010

Shawn Mcmurran Tssa Fall 2008, Shawn Mcmurran

Teaching Skills Study Awards (TSSA) Reports

Enhances faculty's teaching by attending a conference devoted to university teaching, a high-impact practice, evidence-based practice or a newly developing teaching practice.


Kurt Kowalski Tssa Spring 2009, Kurt Kowalski Aug 2010

Kurt Kowalski Tssa Spring 2009, Kurt Kowalski

Teaching Skills Study Awards (TSSA) Reports

Enhances faculty's teaching by attending a conference devoted to university teaching, a high-impact practice, evidence-based practice or a newly developing teaching practice.


Social Themes As Reflected In Film: Scholarship, Criticism, And Theory, Leslie M. Kong Jul 2010

Social Themes As Reflected In Film: Scholarship, Criticism, And Theory, Leslie M. Kong

Library Faculty Publications & Presentations

As faculty, we strive to develop methodologies to make more meaningful to students the concepts and principles taught in our courses. Over the years, growing literature has developed that supports the use of popular films, as well as documentaries, in college and university curricula. This essay is not intended as an exhaustive or comprehensive study of resources in this area, but rather as a guide to works that faculty will find relevant in supporting various courses.


David Marshall Cd Summer 2009, David Marshall Jun 2010

David Marshall Cd Summer 2009, David Marshall

Innovative Course Redesign Grant Reports

Supports faculty to redesign or develop a course in ways that implement high-impact, evidence-based, and/or innovative teaching strategies to improve student learning.


Ora Robinson Tssa Winter 2010, Ora Robinson Jun 2010

Ora Robinson Tssa Winter 2010, Ora Robinson

Teaching Skills Study Awards (TSSA) Reports

Enhances faculty's teaching by attending a conference devoted to university teaching, a high-impact practice, evidence-based practice or a newly developing teaching practice.


Ted Coleman Tssa Winter 2010, Ted Coleman Mar 2010

Ted Coleman Tssa Winter 2010, Ted Coleman

Teaching Skills Study Awards (TSSA) Reports

Enhances faculty's teaching by attending a conference devoted to university teaching, a high-impact practice, evidence-based practice or a newly developing teaching practice.


Josephine Mendoza Tssa Winter 2009, Josephine Mendoza Feb 2010

Josephine Mendoza Tssa Winter 2009, Josephine Mendoza

Teaching Skills Study Awards (TSSA) Reports

Enhances faculty's teaching by attending a conference devoted to university teaching, a high-impact practice, evidence-based practice or a newly developing teaching practice.


Elizabeth Martin Cd Spring 2009, Elizabeth Martin Feb 2010

Elizabeth Martin Cd Spring 2009, Elizabeth Martin

Innovative Course Redesign Grant Reports

Supports faculty to redesign or develop a course in ways that implement high-impact, evidence-based, and/or innovative teaching strategies to improve student learning.


Shawn Mcmurran Tssa Winter 2010, Shawn Mcmurran Feb 2010

Shawn Mcmurran Tssa Winter 2010, Shawn Mcmurran

Teaching Skills Study Awards (TSSA) Reports

Enhances faculty's teaching by attending a conference devoted to university teaching, a high-impact practice, evidence-based practice or a newly developing teaching practice.


A Comparison Of Student Learning Using Two Teaching Methods: Case Study And Direct Instruction, Laura Elaine Elmer Jan 2010

A Comparison Of Student Learning Using Two Teaching Methods: Case Study And Direct Instruction, Laura Elaine Elmer

Theses Digitization Project

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of using case studies as an instructional method.


Let Them Moodle: Utilizing An Open Source Learning Management System To Extend The English Classroom, Mark Randall Rousseau-Smith Jan 2010

Let Them Moodle: Utilizing An Open Source Learning Management System To Extend The English Classroom, Mark Randall Rousseau-Smith

Theses Digitization Project

The purpose of the project was to install a Moodle installation on a server and deploy it to select teachers while developing a series of training modules to help assist teachers to utilize Moodle as an online supplement to their classroom teaching. The goal was to give the teachers involved an additional outlet for learning beyond the classroom setting. Specifically, this project centered on creating video tutorials and a demo class aimed to help teachers utilize this powerful medium. Moodle activities are items such as blogs, forums, wikis, and quizzes among many other learner-centric technologies. The participants to pilot this …


Quality Inclusion Of Students With Disabilities In General Physical Education, Natalie Jean Phillips Jan 2010

Quality Inclusion Of Students With Disabilities In General Physical Education, Natalie Jean Phillips

Theses Digitization Project

A study conducted in one Southern California school district found that students with disabilities are often marginalized when it comes to participating in physically demanding sports and activities. This study was conducted to examine the participation levels of students with disabilities in physical education classes. Secondary physical education teachers throughout the southern California school district were surveyed about the inclusion of students with disabilities in their classes. This study also meant to measure teachers' knowledge and behaviors surrounding inclusive practices of students with disabilities. The survey consisted of 10 questions and was distributed via e-mail to 10 chosen school sites. …


The Effect Of Cold Calling And Culture On Communication Apprehension, Kimberly Noreen Aguilar Jan 2010

The Effect Of Cold Calling And Culture On Communication Apprehension, Kimberly Noreen Aguilar

Theses Digitization Project

The purpose of this study was to ascertain whether cold calling improved, maintained, or worsened students' levels of communication apprehension (CA) and sought to understand the effects that culture and cold calling may have on students with CA within the framework of Uncertainty Reduction Theory.


Bebop To Hiphop: Music Creation For Science Content Retention, Christopher Claud Markermorse Jan 2010

Bebop To Hiphop: Music Creation For Science Content Retention, Christopher Claud Markermorse

Theses Digitization Project

The purpose of this project is to develop a way of combining Visual and Performing Arts instructional standards and methods, instructional technology, and science instruction to maximize science content retention through song creation.


Affirmative Acts: The Need For American Black Theatre In The Classroom, Angela Batrice Brooks-Van Niel Jan 2010

Affirmative Acts: The Need For American Black Theatre In The Classroom, Angela Batrice Brooks-Van Niel

Theses Digitization Project

The purpose of this study is to reveal that racial inequality in American Theatre is still in existence: that while our country has gained some level of integration, several societal and artistic echelons evidence a remaining tendency towards discrimination--a separatist sense of culture that unfortunately informs elementary and secondary classrooms all across the United States as well as still exists in the general arts.


Social Studies Through Web 2.0: A Study Of Online Learning, Kenneth Michael Snell Jan 2010

Social Studies Through Web 2.0: A Study Of Online Learning, Kenneth Michael Snell

Theses Digitization Project

The purpose of this project was to develop a social network site, complete with the abilities to create home pages, blog and participate in a message board (Web 2.0) to create a learning environment, based on constructivist principles and asynchonous learning, to teach a unit of U.S. Government.


Can Use Of Technology In A Science Classroom Help Improve Reading Comprehension?, Michael Lawrence Carlin Jan 2010

Can Use Of Technology In A Science Classroom Help Improve Reading Comprehension?, Michael Lawrence Carlin

Theses Digitization Project

This study will show that by using technology to spark an interest in science curriculum and providing subsequent reading material related to that curriculum, educators will notice an improvement in their students' reading comprehension skills. Two classes from a high school in the Phoenix school district of comparable reading comprehension abilities were given two inquiry-based lesson plans to execute.


The Artistry Of Teaching: Commedia Dell'arte's Improvisational Strategies And Its Implications For Classroom Participation, Jean Artemis Vezzalini Jan 2010

The Artistry Of Teaching: Commedia Dell'arte's Improvisational Strategies And Its Implications For Classroom Participation, Jean Artemis Vezzalini

Theses Digitization Project

The purpose of this study was to determine if instructor improvisation affects student participation in the classroom. The participants in this project were professors/instructors at Cal State University San Bernardino (CSUSB) and the CSUSB Palm Desert Campus.


An Online System For Tracking Class Participation, Bruce Donald Rhodewalt Jan 2010

An Online System For Tracking Class Participation, Bruce Donald Rhodewalt

Theses Digitization Project

This project examines an online system for tracking class participation points. The system addresses two primary issues: how to quantify class participation and how to report class participation. This will serve all stakeholders: for students and parents, quantifying participation conveys a sense of objectivity (crucial if participation is to be fairly included in the grade) ; for teachers, the daily collection and collation of partcipation data ensures that the data is reliable, i.e., worthy of including in a student's grade.


English Literacy Development In The Spanish Speaking Home: The Effects Of Training Parents In The Use Of Reading Comprehension Strategies While Their Children Read, Rommel Manuel Guerrero Jan 2010

English Literacy Development In The Spanish Speaking Home: The Effects Of Training Parents In The Use Of Reading Comprehension Strategies While Their Children Read, Rommel Manuel Guerrero

Theses Digitization Project

The purpose of this project was to measure the impact Spanish speaking parents can have on the English reading comprehension of their children who are learning English. This study also investigated the effect of training monolingual Spanish speaking parents is reading comprehension strategies in Spanish while their children read English text.


Phonological Awareness And Its Affect On Second Language Acquisition, Mallory Ann Ruiz Jan 2010

Phonological Awareness And Its Affect On Second Language Acquisition, Mallory Ann Ruiz

Theses Digitization Project

The purpose of this thesis is to explore the role phonological awareness plays in the second language (L2) classroom among English as Second Language (ESL) learners. In order to better understand the reasons behind second language (L2) student's phonological improvements, phonological awareness was tested to see what affect, if any, it had on student's intelligible speech. Six English as Second Language (ESL) college students participated in the study in which they provided three audio recordings of their English speech over the course of ten weeks.


Ethical Decision-Making Under High-Stakes Testing, Jennifer-Jane Alene Blum Jan 2010

Ethical Decision-Making Under High-Stakes Testing, Jennifer-Jane Alene Blum

Theses Digitization Project

In this research project, it was found that the pressure to meet accountability standards have intensified. The pressure to conform to testing curriculum created ethical dilemmas over the focus on curriculum or on test preparation. Educators are increasingly placed in an ethical dilemma of knowing what is needed to meet students' needs but rendered unable to meet those needs because of demands to conform to testing expectations under the new accountability system.


The Benefits Of Resistance Training For Children, Colleen Michaela Vranich Kiemele Jan 2010

The Benefits Of Resistance Training For Children, Colleen Michaela Vranich Kiemele

Theses Digitization Project

The purpose of this project is to conduct a literature review on the topic of resistance training for children in order to educate parents, teachers, coaches, and others who may be working with children in a resistance training capacity about the benefits that can be derived from resistance training program and the safety measures which must be in place.