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Barriers Of Services To Foster Youths In Riverside County Group Homes, Garcea Maria Moss Jan 2000

Barriers Of Services To Foster Youths In Riverside County Group Homes, Garcea Maria Moss

Theses Digitization Project

The qualitative research study focuses on barriers of services to foster youth that reside in a group home placement in Riverside County. To obtain data regarding this issue, fifteen group home providers were administered a questionnaire pertaining to the concerns and problems associated with service delivery when attempting to attain services for foster youth. The results of the study reveal that fragmentation of services largely exists in Riverside County, and further suggest an array of reasons associated with this breakdown of services.


Remote View Manager For Visual Foxpro Application, Sustanie Harding Jan 2000

Remote View Manager For Visual Foxpro Application, Sustanie Harding

Theses Digitization Project

In this project, the Remote View Mapping (RVM) tool has been developed to assist programmers in the maintenance of the Database Container (DBC). The purpose of the RVM is to establish a relationship between open applications and the DBC.


The Business Situational Humor Response Questionnaire: A Measurement Tool For The Workplace, Helen Kilinski-Dupuis Jan 2000

The Business Situational Humor Response Questionnaire: A Measurement Tool For The Workplace, Helen Kilinski-Dupuis

Theses Digitization Project

No abstract provided.


The Development Of California State College In Coachella Valley, Abby Mozoras Jan 2000

The Development Of California State College In Coachella Valley, Abby Mozoras

Theses Digitization Project

"The purpose of this study is A) to identify the criteria for establishing permanent off-campus facility for existing centers. B) To identify the number of students from College of the Desert (COD) who are planning to continue their education at the California State University, Coachella Valley Campus (CVC.) C) To determine whether a permanent CSU Campus in Coachella Valley will motivate students from College of the Desert (COD) to get their bachelor's degree locally. D) To identify the degree programs in which COD students are most interested-in. E) To determine whether ethnicity (Hispanic students are the target group) plays a …


A Proposal For Using A Literature-Based Functional Curricula For Primary Moderate Cognitively Delayed Learners, Robert Michael Kevin Risley Jan 2000

A Proposal For Using A Literature-Based Functional Curricula For Primary Moderate Cognitively Delayed Learners, Robert Michael Kevin Risley

Theses Digitization Project

The goal of this project is to suggest a way to combine a functional curricula (domains) with literacy experiences.


An Evaluation Of Adhd Children And Parental Stress Within The Latino Culture, Christine Ortiz Jan 2000

An Evaluation Of Adhd Children And Parental Stress Within The Latino Culture, Christine Ortiz

Theses Digitization Project

No abstract provided.


Evaluation Of The Operation New Hope Alternative School And Lifestyle Improvement Program For At-Risk Juveniles, Matthew Ashley Robby Jan 2000

Evaluation Of The Operation New Hope Alternative School And Lifestyle Improvement Program For At-Risk Juveniles, Matthew Ashley Robby

Theses Digitization Project

No abstract provided.


Language, Myth, And Perceptions In Writing About The Natural Environment, William Laurence Redman Jan 2000

Language, Myth, And Perceptions In Writing About The Natural Environment, William Laurence Redman

Theses Digitization Project

No abstract provided.


Ultrasonic Vocalizations Of Preweanling Rats The Interaction Of K-Opioid And A₂-Noradrenergic Systems, Arbi Nazarian Jan 2000

Ultrasonic Vocalizations Of Preweanling Rats The Interaction Of K-Opioid And A₂-Noradrenergic Systems, Arbi Nazarian

Theses Digitization Project

No abstract provided.


Strategies To Increase The Critical Reading Skills Of Secondary Students, Laurie Ann Guy Jan 2000

Strategies To Increase The Critical Reading Skills Of Secondary Students, Laurie Ann Guy

Theses Digitization Project

This paper will examine what research has revealed about reading and learning in the areas of word recognition, scaffolding to develop understanding, metacognition and application of new knowledge in real world situations. The study then will go on to link what is known about learning to strategies that have already been developed by secondary teachers to increase critical reading skills.


The Joshua Tree (Yucca Brevifolia) Hotel A Third And Fourth Grade Elementary Curriculum, Michelle Maresh Jan 2000

The Joshua Tree (Yucca Brevifolia) Hotel A Third And Fourth Grade Elementary Curriculum, Michelle Maresh

Theses Digitization Project

Focusing primarily on the ecological relationships of the Joshua tree in Joshua Tree National Park, this teaching unit includes ten pre-visit, in-class lessions; Ranger-led lessons at Joshua Tree National Park Education Center; and ten post-visit, in-class lessons. Lessons are for students in grades three and four and formatted using the breakthrough lesson strategies, based on the constructivist educational theory. The teacher background section addresses classification, structure, range, xerophytic adaptations, ecological relationships, and natural history of the Joshua tree.


Cognitive Behavioral Intervention For Children With Disruptive Behavior Disorders In Residential Treatment, Kathryn Joanne Morin Silva Jan 2000

Cognitive Behavioral Intervention For Children With Disruptive Behavior Disorders In Residential Treatment, Kathryn Joanne Morin Silva

Theses Digitization Project

Increasing numbers of children being referred for mental health services are exhibiting problematic behaviors that can be subsumed under the category of Disruptive Behavior Disorders. This study with its foundations in a post-positivist approach was designed to explore treatment effectiveness of cognitive behavioral intervention applied to adolescents at Oak Grove Institute, a residential treatment facility. This study hypothesized that Wexler's PRISM Model, with its integration of affect, would be instrumental in modifying disruptive behavior as measured at Oak Grove Institute. Although the small sample size precluded statistically significant findings, there were interesting results with respect to two dependant variables. Findings …


Military Retirement Satisfaction And Adjustment: The Effects Of Planning, Having Transferable Knowledge, Skills, And Abilities, And Having Identified With, And Been Committed To, The Navy On A Sample Of Retired Naval Officers, Peter Edward Spiegel Jan 2000

Military Retirement Satisfaction And Adjustment: The Effects Of Planning, Having Transferable Knowledge, Skills, And Abilities, And Having Identified With, And Been Committed To, The Navy On A Sample Of Retired Naval Officers, Peter Edward Spiegel

Theses Digitization Project

We examined military retirement. We sought to determine if preretirement planning, having knowledge, skills, and abilities (KSAs) that are readily transferable, and being committed to, and/or identifying with, the Navy would affect the retirement satisfaction and adjustment of a retired naval officers sample. Results indicated that both planning and transferability influenced retirement satisfaction and adjustment, while organizational commitment and identification did not. Implications of our findings, as well as a brief overview of some general retirement issues are included.


Evolution And The Big-5 Personality Factors: Individual Differences In Response To Sexual And Emotional Infidelity, Lesley Marie Johnson Jan 2000

Evolution And The Big-5 Personality Factors: Individual Differences In Response To Sexual And Emotional Infidelity, Lesley Marie Johnson

Theses Digitization Project

This study is designed to investigate individual differences in response to emotional and sexual infidelity and by doing so place the Big-5 model of personality in another important social context.


Anatomy Of The Social Worker, Arazola Nadine Session Jan 2000

Anatomy Of The Social Worker, Arazola Nadine Session

Theses Digitization Project

This study explores the past experiences of graduate social work students enrolled in the Masters in Social Work program at California State University, San Bernardino.


Veterinary Technician Assistant Curriculum Guideline, Mickey Ellen Rash Jan 2000

Veterinary Technician Assistant Curriculum Guideline, Mickey Ellen Rash

Theses Digitization Project

The purpose of this thesis was to develop a core curriculum to be presented to the state for consideration as the established curriculum guideline for veterinary technician assistants/veterinary assistant programs.


Writing To Learn In The Secondary Social Studies Classroom: Strategies For The Disinclined, Sharon Price Mckiernan Jan 2000

Writing To Learn In The Secondary Social Studies Classroom: Strategies For The Disinclined, Sharon Price Mckiernan

Theses Digitization Project

This thesis begins with sufficient research to support the contention that secondary teachers should be using writing in the classroom, proceeds to question why some are not, and then supplies specific lesson plan ideas which can be adapted to suit most needs in the secondary history classrooms.


Investigation Of The Effectiveness Of Interface Constraints In The Solution Of Hyperbolic Second-Order Differential Equations, Paul Jerome Silva Jan 2000

Investigation Of The Effectiveness Of Interface Constraints In The Solution Of Hyperbolic Second-Order Differential Equations, Paul Jerome Silva

Theses Digitization Project

Solutions to differential equations describing the behavior of physical quantities (e.g., displacement, temperature, electric field strength) often only have finite range of validity over a subdomain. Interest beyond the subdomain often arises. As a result, the problem of making the solution compatible across the connecting subdomain interfaces must be dealt with. Four different compatibility methods are examined here for hyperbolic (time varying) second-order differential equations. These methods are used to match two different solutions, one in each subdomain along the connecting interface. The entire domain that is examined here is a unit square in the Cartesian plane. The four compatibility …


The Promise Of Restorative Justice: An Outcomes Evaluation Of An Orange County Victim Offender Reconciliation Program, With Focus On The Victim's Perspective, Charlaine Annette Cecilia White Jan 2000

The Promise Of Restorative Justice: An Outcomes Evaluation Of An Orange County Victim Offender Reconciliation Program, With Focus On The Victim's Perspective, Charlaine Annette Cecilia White

Theses Digitization Project

Victim-offender reconciliation programs (VORPs), the hallmark of the restorative justice movement, offer an alternative to the retributive approach to crime. These programs seek to bring the victim and offender together for purposes of working out a mediated settlement agreement.


Challenging The Boundaries Of Academic Discourse, Charles Henry Williams Jan 2000

Challenging The Boundaries Of Academic Discourse, Charles Henry Williams

Theses Digitization Project

This thesis suggests other ways of helping students resist blind submission to the discourse of the university. The primary objective is to discuss meaningful ways of transforming composition classrooms into counter hegemonic cultural environments where students can critically examine the complications of cultural dynamics and power relations within the communication process.


Long Term Drug And Alcohol Treatment Program: An Outcome Study Comparing Secular-Based Treatment With Faith-Based Treatment For Addiction, Ruby Lee Adams Jan 2000

Long Term Drug And Alcohol Treatment Program: An Outcome Study Comparing Secular-Based Treatment With Faith-Based Treatment For Addiction, Ruby Lee Adams

Theses Digitization Project

The study was conducted to see if there is as much or more of a difference in outcome of treatment for addiction in faith-based treatment than secular-based treatment. The research was conducted using a sample of thirty-seven respondents from various sites in Southern California who volunteered to fill out the questionnaire. Data was collected using a self-administrated survey questionnaire.


Writing, Computers, And Rhetorical Situations: A Composition Odyssey, Kristine Louise Potter Jan 2000

Writing, Computers, And Rhetorical Situations: A Composition Odyssey, Kristine Louise Potter

Theses Digitization Project

This thesis, an autoethnography, explores my own, personal experiences using technology in various writing situations: my writing process, collaborative publishing, my M.A. internship, online tutoring, and my first experience teaching college English composition in a computer classroom.


Left-Handed Teaching Techniques For The Right Handed, Martha Jane Longo-Bartel Jan 2000

Left-Handed Teaching Techniques For The Right Handed, Martha Jane Longo-Bartel

Theses Digitization Project

Left-handedness is an invisible handicap in today's classrooms. The education systsem in the United States makes special considerations and accommodations for special needs of students, yet left-handed individuals do not receive much consideration in a mainstream classroom. Experts say that up to twenty percent of children in Canada and the United States are left-handed. This project discusses how these left-handed children have to work in a right-handed world. The focus of this study was to provide right-handed teachers with teaching techniques, positive suggestions, and common sense approaches to accomodate the left-handed pupil.


Determining How Stressors Effect The Onset Of Substance Abuse In Runaways, Christopher Parrish Rosselli Jan 2000

Determining How Stressors Effect The Onset Of Substance Abuse In Runaways, Christopher Parrish Rosselli

Theses Digitization Project

In America, it is estimated that between 500,000 and two million children run away each year. A majority of these runaways become involved with illegal substance abuse. This study questions whether children experience substance abuse prior to their running away or if their substance abuse is an attempt to cope with the new stressors created by street life. Data collection will include having 50 volunteers complete a questionnaire, with consideration of race and gender. The findings suggested that no relationship exist between runaways engaging in drug use and the amount of stress experienced at home or during the runaway.


Culture Teaching In Efl Through Computer/Critical Thinking, Jung-Im Woo Jan 2000

Culture Teaching In Efl Through Computer/Critical Thinking, Jung-Im Woo

Theses Digitization Project

The purpose of this project is to develop computer-assisted language learning (CALL) lesson plans using the Internet and to offer an example for academic senior high school teachers in South Korea of exemplary treatment of cultural topics that promote critical thinking and incorporate crosscultural understanding based on cooperative learning.


The Proof Of Fermat's Last Theorem, Mohamad Trad Jan 2000

The Proof Of Fermat's Last Theorem, Mohamad Trad

Theses Digitization Project

Fermat, Pierre de, is perhaps the most famous number theorist who ever lived. Fermat's Last Theorem states that the equation xn + yn = zn has no non-zero integer solutions for x, y and z when n>2.


The Use Of Drawings For Rapport Building With International Adoptees And Parents, Sharon Jean Mellor Jan 2000

The Use Of Drawings For Rapport Building With International Adoptees And Parents, Sharon Jean Mellor

Theses Digitization Project

"The influx of children adopted into the United States from other countries has increased the need for social workers experienced in practice techniques that asssist in building rapport between the parents and children in these newly formed families. This study explored the use of employing the kinetic family drawing as a tool to build rapport between parents and children. This was an exploratory multiple case design. Six families participated in the process of drawing a picture of their family engaged in an activity together. It was anticipated that the drawings would be an effective tool to build rapport between parent …


African American Males' Attitudes Toward Marriage, Monique Townsend Jan 2000

African American Males' Attitudes Toward Marriage, Monique Townsend

Theses Digitization Project

This study presents the results from an exploratory study that measured 71 African American males' attitudes toward marriage, their ideal marriage partner, and their attitudes toward African American women.


Ambulatory Care Physician Barriers Contributing To The Low Advance Directive Education Rate, Cindy Lynn Grant Jan 2000

Ambulatory Care Physician Barriers Contributing To The Low Advance Directive Education Rate, Cindy Lynn Grant

Theses Digitization Project

No abstract provided.


Dissociative Identity Disorder: Integration Versus Non-Integration, Kris Jane Strande Jan 2000

Dissociative Identity Disorder: Integration Versus Non-Integration, Kris Jane Strande

Theses Digitization Project

For the mental health professional, the client with Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) can be exciting, exhausting and frustrating. Formal education offers little help in treatment and diagnosis of this disorder. This paper will explore the most utilized treatment goals available to the professional and the client. Although most "experts" in the field of Dissociative Disorders subscribe to the treatment goal of integration, this study challenges that idea. As the results of the study indicate, integration was not the most utilized goal of treatment among the participants of this study.