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Peace Education For Incarcerated Youth, Robin Pauline Russell
Peace Education For Incarcerated Youth, Robin Pauline Russell
Theses Digitization Project
Teaching incarcerated adolescents can be challenging for teachers to gain students' attention while strengthening their character as part of their rehabilitation and re-socilizaton process.
Using Standardized Test Reading Comprehension Software To Improve Student Academic Achievement In Reading Comprehension, Andy James Kubitza
Using Standardized Test Reading Comprehension Software To Improve Student Academic Achievement In Reading Comprehension, Andy James Kubitza
Theses Digitization Project
The purpose of this quantitative design research study for fourth grade students was to examine whether a web-based Standardized Test Preparation Intervention for reading comprehension was more effective and efficient in improving student academic achievement in reading comprehension than a paper-based Standarized Test Preparation Intervention. It was found that the paper-based reading comprehension intervention was equally effective as the web-based.
Dual-Language Drama As A Door To Classic Literature, Ezekiel Glenn Stear
Dual-Language Drama As A Door To Classic Literature, Ezekiel Glenn Stear
Theses Digitization Project
The author believes that the mediation of classic literature through drama would increase student's opportunity for academic success on the secondary and post-secondary levels of education. This project develops curriculum and materials using dramatic adaptations of ancient literature created by the author.
Noncontact Anterior Cruciate Ligament Injuries: An Analysis Of Program Interventions For Female Soccer Players, Amber Louise Jacobsen
Noncontact Anterior Cruciate Ligament Injuries: An Analysis Of Program Interventions For Female Soccer Players, Amber Louise Jacobsen
Theses Digitization Project
The purpose of this project was to review anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) literature and develop a performance evaluation and injury risk assessment (PIER) for female soccer players. A strategy guide for decreasing injury risk and enhancing performance was developed in hopes to bring awareness to the athletic community about ACL injury for female soccer players.
The Effects Of Experiential Learning: An Examination Of Three Styles Of Experiential Education Programs And Their Implications For Conventional Classrooms, Mary Pizarchik
Theses Digitization Project
Using methodologies of interviews and observation, this study focuses on three distinctive and successful kinds of experiential education: a summer arts program, an outdoor science program and a wilderness education program. The project applies insights from the programs to the central question of this thesis: How can experiential learning be utilized within the traditional classroom given the constraints of the No Child Left Behind Law and standardized teaching?
A Qualitative Study Supporting The Development Of A Community Family Literacy Center In Isolated Communities, Sioux Annette Rees-Mitchell
A Qualitative Study Supporting The Development Of A Community Family Literacy Center In Isolated Communities, Sioux Annette Rees-Mitchell
Theses Digitization Project
The purpose of this study is to provide a community with the resources necessary to help children become proficient readers. This qualitative study explored the literature on attributes of successful Community Family Literacy Centers and before and after school tutoring programs. Community Family Literacy Centers are localized places where families can build literacy skills in a supportive and safe environment.
Does Intensive Reading Interventions Cause Alienation In Ninth Grade High School Students?, Allan Lee Aab
Does Intensive Reading Interventions Cause Alienation In Ninth Grade High School Students?, Allan Lee Aab
Theses Digitization Project
The objective of this research was to determine if students who are enrolled in intensive reading intervention classes due to limited reading and comprehension skill, experience greater alienation than students not enrolled in these classes. Ninth and tenth grade students from March Valley School, a small alternative high school in Moreno Valley, CA participated in this study.
Promoting Responsible Environmental Behavior In Second Grade Students, Mary Annette Kirchhoff
Promoting Responsible Environmental Behavior In Second Grade Students, Mary Annette Kirchhoff
Theses Digitization Project
This project provides a convenient way to incorporate environmental education into the already exiting curriculum. Many of the environmental lessons and activities provided in this project cover language arts and math standards as well as providing students with the environmental knowledge, sensitivity, and skills they need.
Engaged: A Teacher Resource Based On Fun Factor, Jay Marcus Jones
Engaged: A Teacher Resource Based On Fun Factor, Jay Marcus Jones
Theses Digitization Project
The purpose of this project was to develop a teacher resource in which content is both standards based and student demonstrated as "fun" in which to participate. The form of this resource is a website called Engaged. It will ultimately consist of several folioed and interconnected web pages. Academic content is to be all teacher supplied. At risk youth are in danger of being left behind, not only in schools, but by society as a whole. Through classroom teachers it has the potential to provide at-risk-youth a vital bridge across the digital divide.
Integrating Spatial Thinking Into The Curriculum Through Geographic Information Systems And The Santa Ana River Watershed, JoaquíN Javier Baca
Integrating Spatial Thinking Into The Curriculum Through Geographic Information Systems And The Santa Ana River Watershed, JoaquíN Javier Baca
Theses Digitization Project
Lesson plans were developed in order to address the inter-disciplinary nature inherent in environmental education by drawing on place-based learning approaches and relating natural and human made aspects of watershed dynamics.
Stewardship Of Creation: A Guidebook For The Episcopal Church, Kristy Leann Chambers
Stewardship Of Creation: A Guidebook For The Episcopal Church, Kristy Leann Chambers
Theses Digitization Project
The purpose of this project was to develop an environmental education program guidebook for use by the Episcopal Church.
An Integrated Approach To Writing: Using Writer's Workshop, Step Up To Writing And Six Traits Of Writing To Teach The California State Standards, Daisy Marie Tawney
An Integrated Approach To Writing: Using Writer's Workshop, Step Up To Writing And Six Traits Of Writing To Teach The California State Standards, Daisy Marie Tawney
Theses Digitization Project
This project researcher designed, implemented and collected data on an integrated approach to writing instruction for her third grade students in the Etiwanda School District. The literature review showed the importance of teaching students the purpose for writing, the traits of writing and the process of writing. Research showed the effectiveness of teaching students the six traits of writing and the writing process as indicated by student writing achievement scores.
An Online Community Helping Left-Handed Right Brained Students Succeed, Amber Elizabeth Hladik
An Online Community Helping Left-Handed Right Brained Students Succeed, Amber Elizabeth Hladik
Theses Digitization Project
The purpose of this project is to develop a website that helps left handed students, their parents, and teachers to help left-handers, whether they are left-or-right-brain dominant, succeed. This website will be a tool to get to know their children and students better. The project consists of a paper and a website to educate about left-handed people.
Impact Of Environmental Expo On Eight Graders' Self-Perceived Environmental Behaviors, Laura Anne Borg
Impact Of Environmental Expo On Eight Graders' Self-Perceived Environmental Behaviors, Laura Anne Borg
Theses Digitization Project
This study sought to determine the impact of a free-choice environmental learning event on "at-risk" eighth graders' self-perceived environmentally responsible behaviors.
Project Think: Transforming History Into New Knowledge, Susan Heather Young
Project Think: Transforming History Into New Knowledge, Susan Heather Young
Theses Digitization Project
Project THINK was designed as a classroom project that combined the use of instructional multimedia technology, linked to the California History/Social Science standards, which engaged gifted middle school students in the design of these standards-based video materials.
Standardization In The Development And Delivery Methods Of Technology Workshops, Sherwin Anthony Smith
Standardization In The Development And Delivery Methods Of Technology Workshops, Sherwin Anthony Smith
Theses Digitization Project
Trainers have long relied on visual content to make their training more effective. As the use of computer-based delivery has become an accepted method of distributing training and instructional materials, a system of standardizing the development and delivery of training workshops was worthy of considerable attention. The study concludes that while many of the older studies do not directly address the use of computer-based presentation applications, a development process can be achieved to streamline the creation of instructional content while maintaining consistency and quality in the content created.
Aesthetic Scanning: Refining Critical Thinking Through Oral Language Activities, Elaine Diana Golledge
Aesthetic Scanning: Refining Critical Thinking Through Oral Language Activities, Elaine Diana Golledge
Theses Digitization Project
This study examines the use of aesthetics in the art education curriculum as a strategy for building oral language skills and critical thinking skills. In this study reproduced artworks were used to stimulate discussion; students learned to scan paintings using a technique called aesthetic scanning during which they learn how to look at a painting orally through guided questioning by the classroom teacher. It was concluded that providing oral language opportunities through the implementation of the aesthetic scanning program was an effective way to promote oral language skills and critical thinking skills in the kindergarten classroom. Arts, as a core …
Using Music Therapy And Visuals To Facilitate Language In Exceptional Preschoolers, Kimberly Joy Albert
Using Music Therapy And Visuals To Facilitate Language In Exceptional Preschoolers, Kimberly Joy Albert
Theses Digitization Project
The purpose of this project is to explore the effectiveness of combining music and visual supports as a means of facilitating communication in exceptional preschoolers. The results indicate that music and visual supports have some merit for increasing verbal responses.
Using Popular Song Lyrics To Teach Character And Peace Education, Stacy Shayne Corbett
Using Popular Song Lyrics To Teach Character And Peace Education, Stacy Shayne Corbett
Theses Digitization Project
The purpose of this project is to develop an integrative unit for peace education that is based on analyzing song lyrics and developing critical literacy.
Effectiveness Of Interactive Web Based Review, Eric John Viebach
Effectiveness Of Interactive Web Based Review, Eric John Viebach
Theses Digitization Project
There were three main goals of this study. First, utilize technology in a non-conventional way to enhance student's study process. Second, gauge if the students access such a tool when it is available to them. Third, assess the student's learning based on the study tools available. This project also examined if there was a difference in comprehension of post-World War II era information between students who use the online test preparation program and those that received only traditional instruction.
Using The Concrete-Representation-Abstract Instruction To Teach Algebra To Students With Learning Disabilities, Edward William Sung
Using The Concrete-Representation-Abstract Instruction To Teach Algebra To Students With Learning Disabilities, Edward William Sung
Theses Digitization Project
This project explored the Concrete to Representational to Abstract instruction (CRA instruction) as a strategy to teach abstract math concepts for secondary students with learning disabilities. Through the review of literature, multiple researchers suggested that students with learning disabilities need to be exposed to a variety of instructional strategies to develop problem solving skills in algebra concepts.
21st Century Skills For 21st Century Learners, Jennifer Lynne Shopshear
21st Century Skills For 21st Century Learners, Jennifer Lynne Shopshear
Theses Digitization Project
The purpose of the project was to develop and implement a survey for the purpose of better understanding how teacher's attitude affect their ability to achieve success and overcome challenges associated with the implementation of a 1 on 1 Learning Program. This project was intended to increase awareness as to how teachers currently use technology, their attitudes about the technology they use, and their perceptions as to how students will use technology. Research in this study affirms this can improve teacher/student achievements; promote creativity and motivation through effective communication. The significance of this project was to identify teacher's attitudes about …
Increasing Fluency In Struggling Readers Through Newspaper Reading, Kimberly Bonice Koch
Increasing Fluency In Struggling Readers Through Newspaper Reading, Kimberly Bonice Koch
Theses Digitization Project
The focus on this study was on improving the oral reading fluency of third grade students who struggle in reading. One third grade teacher and six of her students participated in this 4 week study that examined the effect on fluency of newspaper reading and various constructive reading and engagement activites. These six students were assigned to an Optimal Learning Model pull-out fluency instruction using the newspaper as text. Results from the Developmental Reading Assessment instrument reveal significantly improved effects in the number if miscues, correct words per minute, and prosody for the six students. From the results, it is …
The Use Of Reciprocal Teaching As A Mediational Tool To Enhance Reading Comprehension, Luz Elena Nguyen
The Use Of Reciprocal Teaching As A Mediational Tool To Enhance Reading Comprehension, Luz Elena Nguyen
Theses Digitization Project
The purpose of this project was to study how Reciprocal Teaching can best serve students in a third grade classroom for reading comprehension. A curriculum was developed to help the classroom teacher find a better way to teach reading comprehension using four important reading strategies: predicting, summarzing, clarifying and questioning. Several mediated tools were developed to enhance reading comprehension with clear explanations on how to implement Reciprocal Teaching with the current curriculum and California Standards on comprehension.
Creating A School Based Family Literacy Institute, Teresa Ann Cimino
Creating A School Based Family Literacy Institute, Teresa Ann Cimino
Theses Digitization Project
The purpose of this project is to assist parents, through the development of a school-based Family Literacy Institute, to learn to actively help their children when they read at home. The study will teach parents how to pick appropriate books for and with their children and use them as a read aloud. It is, also, to get parents involved with their children's literacy development and to support their educational experiences from elementary school through high school.
Crime And The Sorcerer's Stone: Using Harry Potter To Teach Theories Of Crime, Julie Elizabeth Humphrey
Crime And The Sorcerer's Stone: Using Harry Potter To Teach Theories Of Crime, Julie Elizabeth Humphrey
Theses Digitization Project
The purpose of this study was to take a piece of popular culture, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone and use it as a pedagogical tool in a graduate criminal theory course to serve as a pilot study. Evaluation data showed that using the Sorcerer's Stone is an effective way to teach students how to apply criminological theory hypothetical examples of behavior.
Environmental Education Curriculum For The California Conservation Corps, Barbara Katherine Cook
Environmental Education Curriculum For The California Conservation Corps, Barbara Katherine Cook
Theses Digitization Project
This project was developed to provide curriculum for young adults in the California Conservation Corps to help them connect to their employment with attitude and knowledge acquisition related to the outdoors.
Incorporating Multicultural Education Criteria Into Project Learning Tree Curricula, Alondra Marcela Blandon
Incorporating Multicultural Education Criteria Into Project Learning Tree Curricula, Alondra Marcela Blandon
Theses Digitization Project
Many environmental educators have realized that in order to effectively teach environmental sensitivity and literacy, they must approach their audience through a cultural context. Thus, environmental education lessons need to incorporate strategies used in multicultural education in order to be more culturally inclusive. This project includes the identification of multicultural education criteria and the application of these to three lessons from Project Learning Tree: PreK-8 Environmental Education Activity Guide.
Three Branches Of Government Webquest, Erica Lian Corioso
Three Branches Of Government Webquest, Erica Lian Corioso
Theses Digitization Project
The general purpose of this project was to enhance the retention of social studies curriculum via internet technology. Specifically, this project involved a webquest about the three branches of government.
An Assessment Of Foster Youth And The California High School Exit Exam, Michael Lynn Edwards Jr., Brandon Bowman Thayn
An Assessment Of Foster Youth And The California High School Exit Exam, Michael Lynn Edwards Jr., Brandon Bowman Thayn
Theses Digitization Project
The purpose of this study was to identify possible variables that may contribute to a foster child's passing or failing of the California High School Exit Exam.