The John M. Pfau Library is at work on a project to digitize its collection of CSUSB Master's Theses, Master's Projects, and Doctoral Dissertations. Prior to 2014, the theses were available only in hard copy. Starting in 2014, all theses, projects, and dissertations were produced in digital versions only. View theses 2014-present here.
Initial funding for the digitization project was provided by a grant from CSUSB's Vital and Expanded Technologies Initiative, which allocates designated funds from the Student Success Initiative fee. We thank the VETI committee for supporting this project to showcase the intellectual endeavors of CSUSB graduates.
The first digitized theses were posted here in January 2017. We will digitize the oldest theses first. The files will be scanned with OCR to make the text accessible to users with visual disabilities and will receive basic structural markup to make them friendly to screen-readers. For privacy, advisors’ signatures will be redacted before the files are posted.
In keeping with ScholarWorks' mission as an open access repository, all files will be freely available. Based on our interpretation of the HathiTrust and Google Books copyright cases, the library considers that digitizing and indexing texts for accessibility constitutes a fair use, and for that reason we will not be seeking copyright permission from each individual author.
Opting Out or Requesting Quick Digitization
If you are the author of a CSUSB thesis and do not want the full text of your work posted in ScholarWorks, please notify us via the Digitization Project Request Form. Alternatively, if you would like your thesis digitized as soon as possible, please use the request form to let us know that too! All such requests will be honored, but must come from the author of the work.
Because post-2014 theses/projects in Creative Writing were not posted in ScholarWorks, the digitization project will not post older Creative Writing theses without the author’s express permission.
If you have any questions, please contact project coordinator Stacy Magedanz, magedanz@csusb.edu or (909) 537-5103.
Theses/Dissertations from 2006
Semantic tableaux program, Sirisha Lakshmi Vadaparty
How youth in transitional housing perceive the independent living program and aftercare services at Cameron Hill, Savannah VanKummer and Richard Vela
Autism and family functioning: The role of parental coping, Liliana Vargas
Child protective service worker's perception of how housing issues affect their decisions, Amanda Vasquez and Dorothy Ann Mokate Wilson
Social workers' perceptions of team decision-making, Jennifer Yvonne Veal
Parents' perspectives and barriers regarding childhood overweight, Sharon Trower Vejnar
Parents' perspectives and barriers regarding childhood overweight, Sharon Trower Vejnar
Parenting styles and parents' attitudes toward learning and performance in their children, Chaoping Violet Wang
Online hotel booking system, Junxian Wang
A comparative study of the motivations of potential versus experienced foster care providers, Maria Maxine Weiss
Use of read alouds to increase reading comprehension, Heather Cynthia Williams
Alternative minimum tax: A middle class burden, Kelly Ann Williams
Multi-warehouse inventory control system, Tzu-Hsiao Yin
International extension program online registration system, Hau Yu
Performance measures: Traditional versus new models, Hasan Zafer Yuksel
Connecting the teacher and parents through a website to monitor student progress, Shazia Ahmad Zaidi
Analysis of trade dependence and correlation of market returns to hedge portfolio risk, Carl Eric Zeise
Theses/Dissertations from 2005
The need for social work intervention for the elderly patients and their family members, Yasuyo Abo
Combating social differences within institutions: The need for a curriculum based on social awareness in our schools, Robert Abrams
Cultural competence needs of non-Latino foster parents: A study of transcultural foster care with Latino children, Myriam Renee Aguilar and Amanda Nicole Robles
Business-to-business e-markets in textile industry: An empirical perspective, Kazim Akalin
Foster caregivers' opinions on the causes of multiple placements among foster children, Erika Yolanda Alatorre and Angelica Lemus
Influences of supervisor and peer support on transfer of training, Suzanne Michelle Anderson
A model for instructional integration for science and English-language development, Patricia Diane Andreano
The affects [sic] of behavior on celebrity image, Christina Marlene Arredondo
Style: A new perspective on Kate Chopin, Daniel Arredondo
Treatment of mentally ill juvenile offenders in the criminal justice system, Robin Michelle Atlas
Why are those computers sitting over there gathering dust, Bradford Ralph Austin
Using a teacher created website to provide 24/7 access to student assignments: An abstract, Dianne Lenore Austin
The geo-spatial analysis and environmental factors of narcotics hot spots, Stefanie Wrae Balchak
The study to determine customers preference of using claims system via the internet at National Insurance Company Limited, Thailand, Kunthorn Baosuwan
Attitude and satisfaction with internet banking of Bank of Ayudhya Public Company Limited, Thailand, Siriwan Baosuwan
Extroversion and introversion as factors affecting adult English-as-a-second-language learners, David Augustine Baptiste
Credit union service organization products and services: Implications, decisions, and strategies, Michael Burnett Bare
Measure it!: Developing an electronic resource for scientific measurement skills, Gregory Berenato
The solvability of polynomials by radicals: A search for unsolvable and solvable quintic examples, Robert Lewis Beyronneau
Exploring creative writing in the middle school classroom via the effective use of multimedia, Nicole Allison Bezi
Coordinated compliance review: Guidebook for the English language learner coordinator, Dilma Cordeiro Bonzer
Attitudes towards the use of computers by registered nurses, M Luther Borgardt
Long term effects of day treatment programs for adults with severe and persistent mental illness: Effectiveness measured in rates of recidivism, Glenna Denise Briney
Bridge employment: Can occupational self-efficacy determine which bridges are crossed?, Alex Brody
The representation of rape in Sir Philip Sidney's Arcadias, Angela Denise Bullard
192 IgG-Saporin lesions of the nucleus basalis magnocellularis impair serial reversal learning in rats, Sara Michelle Cabrera
Child welfare workers' perceptions of reunification services: Are timeframes feasible?, Nancy Razo Calderon and Elisa Adriana Hernandez
Play therapy interventions and their effectiveness in a school-based counseling program, Nancy Cardenas
Successful midlife aging in a changing work environment: A model of midlife adaptation, Autumn Nichole Carroll
The council-manager plan, or, Managing for results?: Profiles and management styles of eight city managers in San Bernardino County, Leatricia Michelle Cash
Impact of media spokeswomen on teen girls' body image, Senem Bahar Cevik
The effects of verbal recognition on work performance and intrinsic motivation: Using behavior modification techniques, Rodney Eric Chalmers
An interdisciplinary comparison of master's thesis abstracts, Patricia Belle Chance
Virtual Sports Stock Exchange, Chi-Chih Chen
Constructivism and mediated learning in designing English-as-a foreign-language instruction, Chun-Hsiu Chen
Chinese Restaurant Online System, Yaming Chen
Advising module: Graduate application system for the Computer Science Graduate Program, Yen-Hsi Chiang
Curriculum integration connecting academic and career and technical education, Crystal Yvette Clark
American forensic social workers' knowledge of and skepticism toward dissociative identity disorder, Amy Lee Consolati
A proposed resource development plan for the Department of Communication Studies, California State University San Bernardino, Donna Louise Cooley
Cholinergic basal forebrain involvement in the acquisition of differential reinforcement of low rate responding tasks in rats, Sean Ryan Corley
From 9/11 to Iraq: Analysis and critique of the rhetoric of the Bush Administration leading to the war in Iraq, LaKesha Nicole Covington
Politics and directors' performance evaluation: Perceptions of senior student affairs officers and directors, Nicole Christine Cowley
Teaching vocabulary through integrated curriculum improves reading comprehension, Linda Carol Cox
Reading fluency instruction in upper elementary international school classrooms, Jinky Lunaspe Dagoon
Do educators value school social workers?, Keynasia Kami Daniels
The literacy event horizon: Examining orality and literacy in Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony, Andréa Diane Davis
The inclusion of parents in early childhood language and behavior development, Kathryn Lee Demoville
A secure, payment-based email delivery system, Ni Deng
Vacation spots or homes?: Children who live in motels, Katrina Michele Devine
Online project management system, Amit Dhir
The effects of pet ownership and attachment on caregivers' mental health, Eveleen Irene Dimaggio and Nicole Renee Hughes
The Children's Forest Association fire ecology hike, Michael Stephen Dufilho
Transition from foster care to adoption: Services needed for building adoption permanency for children, Colleen O'Neill Duggin
Constructivism for the English-as-a-second-language learning environment and professional development, Starley Beatrix Dullien
In time on time: Website for teachers of English to speakers of other languages, Starley Beatrix Dullien
The cross-cultural research of United States and Thailand: The relationship between celebrity endorsers and types of product endorsed, Sudawadee Eamsobhana
Kin caregivers' perceptions of social worker and agency services and support, Diana Ray Egan and Meri Lynn Vandom
What teachers and probation officers identify as the most influential risk factors that lead youth to criminal behavior, Raymond Deion Ephriam and Antonio Castro
Special care units: Recreational activities for patients with Alzheimer's disease, Christina Marie Erickson-Taube
Lessons in Character Development, Virginia Lizette Escobar
The relationship between self-esteem and glycemic control in 13-17 year old adolescent girls with type 1 diabetes mellitus, Annabelle Lucia Sandoval Esparza
Career and technical education: General office occupations, Joyce Johnson Fairman
Symmetric generation of finite homomorphic images?, Lee Farber
An empirical study: Usage of the Unified Modeling Language in the Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degree programs at California State University, San Bernardino, Cynthia Patrice Farquhar
A developmental care program in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Arrowhead Regional Medical Center, Shirley Marie Farr
Utility computing: Certification model, costing model, and related architecture development, Saif Ahmed Faruqui
"Is it really a natural fit?": The construction of "technology" in composition studies, Irina Fealy
Spirituality and compliance correlates of hemodialysis patients, Paula Luz Ferro and Gloria Del Fernandez
Environmental education and high school backpacking, David Russell Ficke
An effective science education program can be a deterrent to the drop out of Hispanic females, Sally Anne Field
Does California's scripted curriculum affect students' motivation to read, Francene Marie Fisher
A queer look at feminist science fiction: Examing Sally Miller Gearhart's The Kanshou, Jennifer Jodelle Floerke
Factors affecting coaches with stress and burnout, Kirk Jack Frazer
The usage of Internet technologies by high school students in the completion of educational tasks outside of the school setting, Seth Freehling
Recycling program for the Shalom Institute, Lisa Kritzer Friedman
Comparison of effectiveness between Merit Software and traditional grammar instruction for ninth grade students, Cynthia JoAnn Furr
Disintermediation in the United States air travel industry who hold the power of booking strength, Preenida Gajaseni
Cultural factors affecting Latino diabetics, Maud Danitza Garcia
Get the right price every day, Gerardo Javier Garcia Sotelo
Hazweb: An Internet approach to mapping hazardous locations, Kevin Gonzago
