This digital archive of Capstone projects and Master's theses gathers the culminating experiences of both undergraduate and graduate students at CSUMB.
To view capstones and theses separately, please see the links below:
Capstones/Theses from 2011
Capstone Project: Communication connection packet, Celeste Ward
Capstone Project: Confronting the psychological and emotional effects of disability oppression, Ian R. Fagan
Capstone Project: Connecting the dots : how is community involvement essential to academic achievement?, Katherine M. Meyer
Capstone Project: Effects of cyber bullying on middle school students, Christina Chappel
Capstone Project: Effects of obesity on early childhood development and parental involvement, Gema Zamudio
Capstone Project: Elementary physical education, Paula R. Collet
Capstone Project: Encouraging teachers to pursue healthy parent-teacher interactions, Danielle Davenport
Capstone Project: Evaluation of school based flu clinics of 2011, Hang Pham
Capstone Project: Everybody's doing it! yes, but why should you? : educators preventing gangs in schools, Erika La Monica
Capstone Project: Finding fun in the sun : increasing access to summer programs for low socio-economic youth, Jacklyn Rubio
Capstone Project: Group work integration for middle school math students, Richard Cromwell
Capstone Project: Healthy choices, Ruby Vargas
Capstone Project: Helping children with ADHD focus by practicing yoga and meditation, Christina Molthen
Capstone Project: Helping teachers teach : exploring student needs in elementary classrooms, Andrea L. Samuelson
Capstone Project: Inclusion : all students will benefit, Nicole Sammartano
Capstone Project: Incorporating music into language arts curriculum, Jenny Kovitch
Capstone Project: Individual learning plan : glossary of terms, Heidi Kitchen
Capstone Project: Interacting with autism : Summer Surf Camp, Megan C. Moore
Capstone Project: Keep them safe : a look at safety in elementary schools, Michelle Yvonne Ballesteros
Capstone Project: LGBTQ : incorporating it into the classroom, Gentry Willcoxson and Abigail Williams
Capstone Project: Life in the classroom : teaching controversial issues in elementary schools, Laura Benitez
Capstone Project: Making it add up : an examination of the preparation of undergraduates to teach mathematics at CSUMB, Erin Barnes
Capstone Project: Middle school transition, Jacklyn M. Rubio
Capstone Project: Multiculturalism & multicultural education : where do minority teachers teaching minorities fit?, Jessica Salas
Capstone Project: No art left behind : the state of arts education today and solutions for tomorrow, Ashley Siemensma
Capstone Project: Nuts and bolts of an after school program, Nicole Garcia
Capstone Project: Participants of the Orchestra for the Youth of Sweepfire speak up, Kenneth L. Cho
Capstone Project: Physical education for life, Josef Davis
Capstone Project: Playing the villain : cyberbullying, Jessica Cellona
Capstone Project: Potential impacts of groundwater withdrawal and wildfires along the Big Sur River : an assessment of Oncorhynchus mykiss habitat, Casey Lanier
Capstone Project: Rural domestic violence and the faith community, Jennifer Irvin
Capstone Project: Self-managing a chronic disease : the results of a pediatric asthma case-management education strategy, Elena Maciel
Capstone Project: Senior Capstone final project research report : Alzheimer's disease assessment tool, Marcela Vargas
Capstone Project: Senior Capstone final project research report : Emergency Response Unit brochure, Claudia Valencia
Capstone Project: Senior Capstone Project final capstone report : Multiple Sclerosis quality of life project website improvement, Margot Frey
Capstone Project: Senior Capstone Project final research report : breastfeeding friendly businesses, Jazmin Meza
Capstone Project: Senior Capstone Project final research report : girls on the run, Monica Bermudez
Capstone Project: Senior Capstone Project final research report : market make over's, Angelica Carbajal
Capstone Project: Senior Capstone Project final research report : quality improvement for asthma management services, Sally Garcia
Capstone Project: Senior Capstone Project final research report : raising awareness of child abuse through social marketing, Reginald Bennett
Capstone Project: Senior Capstone Project final research report : Seaside community needs survey, Marylou Esquivel
Capstone Project: Senior Capstone Project final research report : social justice 2.0 -- civil rights, cultural diversity, and equal opportunity at Monterey County Department of Social and Employment Services, Germaine Caldwell
Capstone Project: Sex education : redefining the curriculum for seventh through ninth grade, Jessie Gilbert
Capstone Project: Shining the light of autism on Los Arboles Middle School, Lindsay Cellona
Capstone Project: Situated learning in gaming : what makes gaming so educationally promising, Kevin Archuleta
Capstone Project: Teacher attrition : overcoming stress, Samantha Sakay
Capstone Project: Teachers in diverse elementary classrooms address multicultural literature, Brittany Turner
Capstone Project: Technology and bullying, Tamara Lauren Stuck
Capstone Project: The benefits of student-teacher relationships, Chelsea Hanson
Capstone Project: The effectiveness of the Seaside Police Activities League program, Ronald Duer
Capstone Project: The importance of the arts in schools : do the arts help the learning processes of students with special needs?, Suzanne Dolores Boswell
Capstone Project: The nutritional effects of cognitive behaviors in elementary students : Senior Capstone research paper, Laura Derby
Capstone Project: The supersized generation : the dangers of childhood obesity, Natalie I. Noce
Capstone Project: Thrive Zero to Five : a parent's guide and mentor support understanding ages and stages of child development, Leslie Nelson
Capstone Project: Tobacco Retail License Ordinance, Christine Huerta
Capstone Project: Understanding self and society through the visual arts, Catherine Melendez
Capstone Project: What happens when the music is all played out?, Lauren N. Shacklock
Capstone Project: Where should I teach?, Amanda Kelley
Capstone Project: Where will all the dancers go? : creating more instruction opportunities after high school dance, Erica D. Lewis
Master's Thesis: An Assessment of Control Methods for Cape Ivy in Coastal Riparian Ecosystems, Jennifer Stern
Master's Thesis: An assessment of control methods for cape ivy in coastal riparian ecosystems, Jennifer Stern
Master's Thesis: Applied synectics to teach community development for living and learning communities to resident advisors and community assistants at California State University Monterey Bay, Christina Sierra-Jones
Master's Thesis: Combining a token economy and escape extinction to treat food selectivity in students with autism, Jessica Raders
Master's Thesis: Curious food procurement in the eastern North Pacific Kyphosidae, Clinton J. Moran
Master's Thesis: Detecting Change in Benthic Communities at San Cristobal Reef in La Parguera, Puerto Rico, 2007-2009, Jeremy M. Kerr
Master's Thesis: Effects of video modeling and self-monitoring on the social language skills of preschoolers with speech and language impairments, Karen Serrano
Master's Thesis: Evaluating the effects of functional communication training for preschool children with autism, Jane Bambrick
Master's Thesis: Hypoxic and low pH water in the nearshore marine environments of Monterey Bay, California : characterizing a decade of oxygen and pH, and drivers of variability, J. Ashley Tomer Booth
Master's Thesis: Implementing literature circles with English language learners, Jennifer Wrighton
Master's Thesis: Lottia Gigantea Size and Density Differences in Rocky Intertidal Communities near Monterey Bay, California, Shae Mitchell
Master's Thesis: Marine Debris in Central California: Quantifying Type and Abundance of Beach Litter in Monterey Bay, CA, Carolyn Rosevelt
Master's Thesis: Nitrate transport to coastal Monterey Bay : investigating source inputs from Elkhorn Slough, Tanya Novak
Master's Thesis: Patterns in the Temporal Variability of Temperate Reef Fishes and the Implications for Sampling Frequency in Citizen Science Monitoring Programs, Chelsea Parrish-Kuhn
Master's Thesis: Reducing delayed echolalia in children with low incidence disabilities, Pamela Ardith April
Master's Thesis: Rippled Scour Depressions Add Ecologically Significant Heterogeneity to Soft Sediment Habitats on the Continental Shelf, Todd Russell Hallenbeck
Master's Thesis: Supporting English language learners in reading : a project for increasing phonemic awareness skills, Ernestina CantuÌ-Gutierrez
Master's Thesis: Teacher perceptions of including students with moderate to severe disabilities in non-academic courses at the secondary level, Samuel T. Sauer
Master's Thesis: Teaching daily living skills to young adults with autism : the creation of a curriculum guide for special education teachers, Stephanie Iwanciow Haas
Master's Thesis: The Distribution of Demersal Fishes Over Heterogenous Seafloor Habitats: An Application of Landscape Ecology to Video Imagery Collected in a Central California State Marine Conservation Area, Ashley Knight
Master's Thesis: The effects of behavioral skills training on implementation of mand training teaching components, Laura Jean Noland
Master's Thesis: The effects of direct positive feedback for increased classroom performance, Jennifer L. Post
Master's Thesis: The effects of standardized testing on second grade students, Heather C. Goin
Master's Thesis: The impact of primary language support on the math skills of English language learners with learning disabilities, Peter Brian Fleming
Master's Thesis: Using Vessel-Based LiDAR to Quantify Coastal Erosion During El Niño and Inter-El Niño Periods in Monterey, CA, Steven Quan
Master's Thesis: Using video modeling to teach conversational skills to high school students with autism spectrum disorder, Breton R. Gardner
Capstones/Theses from 2010
Capstone Project: Academic improvement in elementary school students with movement and no desks, Amanda Bailey
Capstone Project: Access to information for parents of children with autism, Mikaela R. Bozzo
Capstone Project: Advocacy for arts education in public schools, Guinevere Thomason-Powers
Capstone Project: An integrated surface water-groundwater interaction model for the Carmel River, Jonathan Frame
Capstone Project: Beyond the grant application process : bridging educator motivations with grant provider expectations, Meghan McFadyen
Capstone Project: Bully awareness program, Ester Gonzalez and Jennifer Moreno
Capstone Project: Capstone project : financial literacy, Adam Mitchell
Capstone Project: Capstone project : Zometool : from 0 to the 4th dimension, Michael J. Read
Capstone Project: Children with fetal alcohol syndrome, Sandra Edeza Duje
Capstone Project: Coping with diabetes, Lauren O'Connor
Capstone Project: Education in American prisons : a review of the literature, Ryan McNamara
Capstone Project: Engaging English-language learners through hands-on experience, Dustin L. Nelson
Capstone Project: Exploring my identity through art, Sonia Aguayo
Capstone Project: [Formal instrument training programs in elementary schools], Ryan Daniele
Capstone Project: Gangs and intervention programs in middle schools, Filiberto Camacho
