This Cities and Urban Land Use curriculum unit is intended to provide high school teachers of Advanced Placement Human Geography with a guide to teaching the broad and complex subject of urban geography. It may also add to the body of qualitative...
Scituate Reservoir Watershed (R.I.); Geographic information systems -- Rhode Island -- Scituate Reservoir Watershed; Remote sensing -- Rhode Island -- Scituate Reservoir Watershed; Water -- Pollution -- Rhode Island -- Scituate Reservoir Watershed...
Several years ago, the GIS Department at Fuss & O'Neill, was approached by Rich Blodgett, Manager of Environmental Resources for the Providence Water Supply Board with a request. The Environmental Resources Department of Providence Water, as the...
Since the 1980's law enforcement has deployed traffic enforcement camera systems to monitor roadways for traffic violations. There are a variety of commercially available systems today that can capture images of vehicles running red lights, passing...
As an Advanced Placement Calculus (APC) teacher I have observed many students struggle with the transition from pre-calculus to calculus. Many of these students were successful in algebra, geometry, and even pre-calculus but the concepts of...
The academic success rate between juvenile parolees and juvenile probationers are investigated. Data for this analysis was obtained from a research project through the Pilot Reintegration Educational Program (PREP), which sought to successfully...
Factories -- Remodeling for other use -- Connecticut -- Middlesex County; Historic buildings -- Remodeling for other use -- Connecticut -- Middlesex County
The purpose of this study, completed in 2007, was to locate and identify the surviving Industrial Revolution century factories in the fifteen towns of Middlesex County, Connecticut and determine if they, as artifacts of America’s “Industrial...
Ambulance service -- Connecticut -- Middletown; Investment of public funds -- Connecticut -- Middletown
The project was designed to analyze Middletown, Connecticut’s residents, city managers, and elected officials’ attitudes towards a transfer from a privately run ambulance service to one that is publicly run. The project was supported by the...
Cognitive shortcomings are common traits among the offender population. It is this deficit in social reasoning that leads many individuals to the criminal justice system. The modification of such irrational thoughts has been demonstrated to...
Algebra --- Study and teaching (Secondary); Educational tests and measurements --- Connecticut; Achievement tests --- Connecticut
Each year thousands of students are tracked into mathematics classes. In these particular classes, students may struggle or find their mathematics skills less academically able than their classmates and give up on the tasks that are introduced to...
Central Connecticut State University; Augmented reality
Augmented reality is the concept of overlaying digital information on top of the real worldview. One application that makes use of Augmented Reality is the Layar Reality Browser, which shows what is around oneself by displaying real time digital...
Mobile communication systems -- United States; Wireless communication systems -- United States; Communication in education -- United States
The purpose of this Capstone Project is to research and provide a solution on how mobile technology can be used as a communication tool between a faculty member and his or her students. The solution will be to allow faculty members the ability to...
The purpose of the project is to create the best marketing model that can be used to predict future sales. This project will be based upon a data set that includes market research data. We will be using multiple tools and data mining techniques to...
This project focused on designing an individualized plan of instruction in mathematics. The participants in this project were adult incarcerated males between 18 and 52 years of age. These men were enrolled in an Adult Basic Education program...
Libraries -- Technological innovations; Mobile computing
Considering the year-over-year growth in mobile technologies, we came up with an idea about applying mobile oriented technologies within the Central Connecticut State University (CCSU) library website. The library mobile application is now fully...
Mathematics -- Study and teaching (Elementary) -- Connecticut
The purpose of this project is to develop and implement instructional, mathematics programs that are based on the students' individual developmental and cognitive levels of functioning. The goal is to teach students with meaning so that they gain...
Visual communication -- Study and teaching (Secondary); Photography -- Study and teaching (Secondary)
The current Advanced Photography course at Glastonbury High School has been primarily an extension of the Introduction to Photography course. There is a need to improve the Advanced Photography course, adding three (3) comprehensive units, Portrait...
Autism in children -- Diagnosis; Autism in children -- Case studies
Autism has many definitions, but its most specific definition describes it as a developmental disorder that affects verbal and non-verbal communication as well as social interaction. It affects a person’s ability to respond appropriately to their...
This study explored the qualitative and quantitative impact of the implementation of a co-teaching model by teams in middle school language arts and mathematics classrooms. Although there were no significant quantitative findings for either...
Training School on school enrollment one year after release. It is based on a sample of 177 Hartford students released from a secure placement between September 2001 and December 2003. The primary findings of this study suggest that juveniles...
Geographic information systems; Emergency management; Fire departments -- Communication systems -- Rural conditions
The purpose of this thesis project was to develop a Geographic Information System (GIS) application that would increase the efficiency of a certain rural volunteer fire department which does not employ emergency dispatching personnel. The Goal was...
