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Bilingual Education Program Type and the Reading Performance of Emergent Bilingual Children: A Multiyear, Texas Investigation
Full text linkIn this study, we examined the extent to which Grade 3 reading performance of Emergent Bilingual students differed by bilingual education program type (i.e., Dual Language Two-Way, Dual Language One-Way, Transitional Early Exit, Transitional Late Exit). We specifically analyzed data for three consecutive years (i.e., 2016-2017, 2017-2018, and 2018-2019) of data about their performance in the three reading reporting categories (i.e., Category 1, Category 2, and Category 3) and the three grade level performance measures (i.e., Approaches Grade Level, Meets Grade Level, and Masters Grade Level) before the pandemic. In all 18 analyses, Emergent Bilingual students in the Dual Language Two-Way program outperformed all other Emergent Bilingual students in the other Bilingual Education program types
Pedal Points: Harmony and the Double-Action Pedal System in Modern Harp Music
Full text linkPedals are an invisible guide in chromatic harp repertoire. While the evolution of tonality and rise in chromaticism incentivized the invention of the double-action pedal harp, the unique restraints and extensions of this technological system influence harmony and pitch collections in chromatic harp music. This thesis explores the pedal harp and the influence the affordance and idiomacy of the pedal layout exerts onto chromatic harp repertoire. It draws on embodiment and schema theory to describe patterns of pedal motion in harp music, thus presenting and demonstrating an original theory of pedal schemas. Pedal schemas are patterns of motion defined by the pedaling movements on the left and right sides of the pedal layout and on the horizontal and vertical planes. The musical examples analyzed through the lens of pedal idiomacy and schemas in this thesis include transcriptions, staples of the canon, and modern experimental music. Following the legacy of pedal idiomacy from its origins to its expansions, the repertoire presents a survey of pedals in harp music from the late 19th century to the late 20th century. This thesis examines the use of harp pedals as crucial tools, not only for playing harmonies and pitch-class collections, but also in generating and inspiring them. For harpist-composers with tangible knowledge of the harp, pedals point the way forward
Exploring Peer Perspectives on Autistic Students: A Vignette Study
Full text linkA 2x2 design was undertaken to determine the effects of vignette character gender and autism disclosure status on social distance scores, reading comprehension performance, and false memory induction. The introduction focuses on the theoretical threads taken from the autism, false memory, and gender literatures and how they combine to create the underpinning of the current design. A second more controlled study was compelled by initial false impressions of the deleterious effects of fast completion times. This second study resulted in lengthened completion times and improved vignette comprehension. Two-way MANOVAs with gender and autism disclosure serving as independent variables on the effect of the linear combination of reading comprehension, false memories, and social distance scores were run. The multivariate analyses turned out significant results for the effect of autism disclosure and the interaction of autism disclosure and vignette character gender on the linear combination of social distance, false memory, and reading comprehension scores. Follow-up analyses indicated that the majority of this effect was derived through the significant effect of disclosure on social distance scores
BULL SPIT
Full text linkBULL SPIT, formally known as “It’s Bullshit!!”, is an exhibition consisting of seven sculptures, four installations, and one performance. The sculptures are informed by my research on low-income, working-class communities of color, analogous to the one I grew up in. The materials for my work include domestic objects such as bedsheets, hardware, uniforms, and miscellaneous items that reflect the contemporary dysfunctional dynamics between families and communities of low-income backgrounds. Cardboard, plastic bags, Styrofoam, and paper are disposable materials manipulated into abject forms to integrate the survival practice developed from the poverty culture of “making the most out of nothing.” The exhibition is a dichotomy of a child’s dream-like memory of growing up in poverty in contrast to the generational adult perspective of trying to climb to a higher socio-economic class. While the forms and imagery are intended to be grotesque and uncomfortable for the viewer, nothing is more disturbing than the adversity and class disparities low-income civilians face daily
Open-Source Forensics Tools are great tools for critical used machines
Full text linkOpen-Source software exists on everything from operating systems to daily productivity applications. In digital forensics, a very popular tool that is used to learn on and expand is Autopsy. Autopsy is known in the digital world due to its potential and wide usage. It is in many built packages of software inside the open-source world of applications. It is built into premade operating systems that are involved in Digital Forensics and Penetration Testing. Prebuilt OS includes Kali Linux and Computer Aided Investigative Environment (CAINE).
In the application to defend Open-Source software being just as good as closed-source software, I will conduct an experiment with a disk image that was provided by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). The image provided was designated for Forensics Image Test purposes. There will be 3 virtual machines set up to show the capabilities of each tool to conduct digital investigation. Kali Linux and CAINE are Ubuntu based operating systems with several tools built in to perform digital forensics. The 3rd Virtual Machine will be Windows based with a fresh and new copy of Autopsy loaded. Utilizing the core application Autopsy, there will be evidence that will be gathered and analyzed. The functionality of the process to solve the digital case will be noted and will be compared to the closed source software. The functionalities of open-source and closed-source tools will be compared for similarities. After analyzing the similarities, the experiment proves that open-source forensic tools are just as effective and can be great tools for digital forensics
Understanding the Addiction Recovery Experience: The Use of Experiential Learning in Undergraduate Human Services
Full text linkSince 2020, the steady rise of overdose and substance use related deaths has created an ongoing need for a greater addiction workforce. Responding to this need, Human Service education programs are strongly encouraged to prepare competent professionals to work in recovery-oriented treatment settings. Research supports experiential learning to foster clinical competency, however its application toward SAMSHA transdisciplinary foundations in human service education is limited or unknown. The authors present an exploration of the use of experiential learning as a teaching tool to foster student competency toward the SAMSHA core transdisciplinary foundations of application to practice and professional readiness
Regression: A Deep Dive into Truck Prices
Full text linkThis regression analysis examines variables affecting used truck pricing and offers insight into the automotive demand factors. This study dives into the process of determining the prices of Ford F150 Supercabs and comparable Chevrolet Silverados. The primary objective is to develop a model that looks at the pricing dynamics, considering factors such as age, mileage, accidents, and brand
Beverage Effect on Events
Full text linkThe intent of this project is to research and analyze how an event and the beliefs systems of an individual can affect what type of beverages are served. For this research, I analyzed information of two different religions and investigated what goes into planning an event. The event chosen was a wedding. To accomplish this task, I had done research over popular beverages served, Catholic and Islamic diets and wedding traditions, as well as, interviewed six people that fell into the Catholic and Islamic beliefs who had weddings
The Regeneration Niche in Bottomland Hardwood Forests: Tree and Herbaceous Communities Along Interacting Gradients of Flood and Light in East Texas Floodplains
No full textThe research contained in this document characterizes environmental niches of bottomland hardwood (BLH) plant species, focusing on how gradients in light availability and flooding shape understory composition and exploring a potential trade-off between shade and flood tolerance. Field surveys demonstrated that small canopy gaps in BLH forest support shade-tolerant tree seedlings and increase understory plant diversity, but suppress shade-intolerant hardwoods such as oaks and hickories. A complementary greenhouse study demonstrated that two oak species exhibited similar responses to the experimental imposition of shading, flooding, and a combination of both. Both species responded to shading by a reduction in dark respiration rate, light compensation point, and height growth rate. Both species responded to flooding by increasing diameter growth rate, but only when not subject to shade. Together, these findings contribute to a broader understanding of the ecological factors that shape species’ distributions within BLH forests
Digital Orchestration in Media Compositions
Full text linkAs composers gain access to better tools, digital mockups have increasingly grown in popularity. Composers often aim to emulate an idealized orchestral sound in their mockups. By understanding the nature of acoustic orchestration and instrumentation, specific techniques and approaches for virtual instruments and sample libraries, and methods to process and manipulate MIDI audio, composers can achieve this idealized sound. This thesis will focus on the common techniques and methods that composers can use to achieve this in digital mockups. Concluding the thesis is an original work that combines digital and live instruments while exploring different techniques to achieve an ideal sound