Tag: Poster Fall 12

Josh Alvarado & Emily Svendsen-McLean

How Much Debt are You in Due to College?

We are going to collect data on the amount of debt that college students have accumulated thus far while in school. In order to be part of our study, the person must be at least a sophomore, Junior, Senior, or graduate student. This will give us a more accurate number since these students have been in college for at least 3 or more years and will be forced to pay this money back very soon. This is a very important topic for most college students, especially in an election year where higher education and the affordability is a big issue amongst the candidates. It will be a situation many of us will be facing as the economy looks to rebound. 

MATH 315

Tim Bergquist

Banquet Room

1 – 3 PM

Shawna Bradley

Oregon Native American Tribes History and Culture

This presentation will include my teacher work sample binder for my minor placement in a 4th grade classroom The unit I designed and planned was for 33 fourth graders I had three weeks to teach them about Oregon Native American Tribes through a variety of in-depth hands on project based learning activities

EDUC 437

Vivian Moen

Banquet Room

9 – 11 AM

Travis Brown, Samuel Eymann & Allyssa Mittleider

Correlation Between Stress and Illness

Stress and illness are two social factors that affect everyone’s daily life. In our study we looked at how these two correlate with one another by constructing a questionnaire with specific questions relating to stress and illness. It is expected that the questionnaire will reveal information that each participant, who has been sick within a the month prior to taking the questionnaire, will have written about or marked events as “stressful” that they have experienced with the month prior as well. The answer will correspond with each other in such a way that it exemplifies the illness leading to stress.

PSY 350

Nani Skaggs

Banquet Room

1 – 3 PM

Alyxe Bruns, Jordan Myers & Calvin Philpott

The Sarbanes-Oxley Act

The Sarbanes-Oxley Act was passed in 2002 to protect investors from fraudulent accounting activities by corporations. This act was passed in the wake of many high profile corporate scandals, like Enron and WorldCom, and drastically changed the role of an accountant. This presentation will provide an analysis of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and the reform that it caused in the accounting field.

ACTG 499, Senior Capstone

Frank Paliotta

Banquet Room

9 – 11 AM

Krista Bryson, Erik Carrazco, Brianne Lagumina & Johnny Mager

The Halo Effect: The World in Here vs The World Out There

The halo effect is also known as the “What is Beautiful must be Good” effect is an important cognitive bias in understanding people’s perceptions based on individuals’ perceived level of attractiveness. The study of the halo effect can help explain why certain people (highly attractive people) get different opportunities over others. Individual perceived as more attractive are assumed to have positive qualities such as being trustworthy, rich, helpful, kind, and secure. In our study, we are going to see if NCU students have different perceptions of the level attractiveness then what others off our campus have towards pictures of attractive individuals.

COMM 430, Nonverbal Communication

Doyle Srader

Banquet Room

9 – 11 AM

Khala Carpenter

The Personality’s Eye on Emotion: How Personality Affects Emotion Recognition

This study is designed to explore the relationship between personality and one’s ability to recognize emotions based of facial expressions. Participants take a personality test and are then asked to judge people’s emotions. Then they are asked how they made their judgments: based on their thoughts, feelings, or emotions. 

PSY 350

Nani Skaggs

Banquet Room

1 – 3 PM

Erik Carrazco, Matthew Dixon, Brianne Lagumina & Chase Pearson

The Correlation Between Religious Faith and the Need for Closure

This purpose of this study was to find the correlation between an individual’s religious faith and their need for closure. A person’s need for closure directly corresponds to their need to reduce uncertainty. People are looking for answers to their questions, which then helps them reduce their uncertainty giving them a sense of satisfaction. This is backed by the most updated research from our text Close Encounters by Guerrero, et, and other database websites. Our hypothesis states people with a high level of religious faith will be more likely to have a lower need for closure in relationships. Upon completion of this study and final data compilation you will find that our study will lean considerably towards our hypothesis.

COMM 413, Advanced Interpersonal Communication

Doyle Srader

Banquet Room

9 – 11 AM

Tara Cook

Minor Placement Work Sample

In this Minor Placement Work Sample you will find five different sections; planning for instructions, establishing classroom climate, planned learning activities, evaluating student progress, exhibiting professional behavior, and resources. Within each of these sections you will find examples of my growth as a teacher and the examples of learned skills and reflections. You will also find examples of the lessons that I have taught and the solutions to problems I had faced through the course of my teaching experience. 

EDUC 437

Vivian Moen

Banquet Room

9 – 11 AM

Matthew Dixon, Mark Hamilton & Ryan Vermilyea

Expectancy Violations and Gaining Compliance

We tested whether violating someone’s expectations would lead them to more or less be willing to sign a petition.

COMM 430, Nonverbal Communication

Doyle Srader

Banquet Room

9 – 11 AM

Elyssa Emel

Minor Work Sample—Solar System

In this unit, students will be learning about the objects in our solar system: the Sun, the terrestrial planets, the gas giants, the asteroid belt, and the Kuiper belt. They will learn facts about each of the planets, like how big they are and their composition, and record them in the science notebooks they will make. Students will be learning about the order of the planets from the Sun out to the Kuiper belt. They will also be learning about the importance of gravity to keep the planets orbiting around the Sun.

EDUC 437

Vivian Moen

Banquet Room

9 – 11 AM

Tyler Fox & Jordan Miller

The Winning Edge

For our project, we will determine whether the turnover to shot ratio can determine the outcome of a game. We will obtain our data from the GoBeacons website. We will be using both the men’s and the women’s game stats from all the years available for our data. For each individual game we will determine the number of shots and divide it by the number of turnovers. After obtaining this number, we will constructs a histogram that will show the shape of the distribution. After determining the mean, standard deviation, and median we will conduct a hypothesis test to determine if a certain shot to turnover ratio determines a win. 

MATH 315

Tim Bergquist

Banquet Room

1 – 3 PM

Eric Fromm, Sharie Krouse & Jacob Smyth

Detecting Deception

This is a study to determine if deception cues affect the outcome in a courtroom setting. For the court case selection, we use Judge Judy and Judge Joe Brown.

COMM 430, Nonverbal Communication

Doyle Srader

Banquet Room

9 – 11 AM

Brittany Hanania, Kori Kapihe & Stephanie Roland

Financial Regulation in the Business World

This discussion is on the implications of accurate and regulated financial records, as they relate to the areas of taxation and auditing. A summary will be given of the history of American financial regulations and their governing bodies. Analysis of key areas in financial regulations will be compared to international regulations on financial record-keeping. Tax and auditing regulations currently in America will also be analyzed to provide an understanding of the reliability that implementation of such regulation brought about. It is expected that these analyses will support the argument that standardized regulation ensures financial accuracy in the business world.

ACTG 499, Senior Capstone

Frank Paliotta

Banquet Room

9 – 11 AM

Kalyssa Koontz

The Rise of Islam and the Islamic Empires

This work sample was taught in my minor placement at Harrisburg Middle School. The unit includes 11 lessons in which students were engaged in many group learning activities and projects as well as different teaching strategies that address different learning styles. This unit was taught to a 7th grade social studies class that first learned of Islam as a religion, then they learned of Islamic empires and their achievements.

EDUC 437

Vivian Moen

Banquet Room

9 – 11 AM

Lindsey Lloyd & Maren Mansfield

Case Study of a 4th Grade Girl

After studying a 4th grade girl for a few months we have developed theories for her cognitive development, identity development, and spiritual development. Together we will collaborate our information and present a well thought-out display.

EDUC 330/370

Brian Kaelin

Banquet Room

9 – 11 AM

Corinne Maas

Inside the Human Body

In this unit of study, students will expand their knowledge about human body systems and how they work. During the course of this unit of study students will learn the basic parts of these systems: skeletal, muscular, respiratory, circulatory, nervous, and digestive. Students will be involved in this unit for up to three weeks. At the conclusion of the units students should be able to understand the basic concepts of human body systems and how they work together.

EDUC 437

Vivian Moen

Banquet Room

9 – 11 AM

Jenny Maupin

The Silence of Miscarriage Loss

A miscarriage is the spontaneous loss of a pregnancy at 20-weeks of pregnancy or sooner. This type of loss is painful and real. This type of loss is legitimate. This type of loss is marginalized by social groups we belong to (i.e. churches and clubs), family and friends, and the medical community. I will be examining the importance of the role that each of these groups plays in the grief process. Through a survey, I will also be documenting and bringing to light some of the associated negative feelings women go through with this type of loss drawing a comparison to the “5-stages of grief” Kubler-Ross model. There is silence surrounding this issue that is deafening to the women who go through it.

MATH 315

Tim Bergquist

Banquet Room

1 – 3 PM

Sonia Mayhood

Main Reason for Choosing to Attend NCU

Because I attend this university, I am interested in acquiring information about students that go here. I am interested in finding out why students chose to come to this university in particular (sports, location, scholarships, career choice, religious affiliation, tuition, size of school). I also want to see if there are demographics (age, gender, major, marital status, transportation) which have an influence on this decision.

MATH 315

Tim Bergquist

Banquet Room

1 – 3 PM

Shaquille Poston

World Leader in Snowboarding

While looking at the professional athletes related to snowboarding, I will be focusing on the Olympics with my ultimate goal being to conclude which country is statistically the best in this particular sport. I will gather information on each of the top finishers, and, through data analysis and statistical inference, come to my conclusion.

MATH 315

Tim Bergquist

Banquet Room

1 – 3 PM

Matthew Prill, Brittani Smail & Cori Wallace

Should NCU Have a Cheerleading Squad?

For this project the goal is to illustrate if the NCU student population would be in favor of having a cheerleading squad for the school. The aim is to use demographics of gender and grade to display the results. Surveys will be voluntarily taken during different classes all occurring at the same time to avoid repeat results. The results will be displayed in several different ways emphasizing the different demographics.

MATH 315

Tim Bergquist

Banquet Room

1 – 3 PM

Emmelene Romer

Student Use of NCU’s Kellenberger Library Over a Defined Period of Time

I chose to study the number of students that use the Kellenberger Library over a period of time. I intend to focus on seeing if there is a large influx of student use as we approach final exams. During my daily shift as a student worker I collected the data needed for my project and also noted if the patron was a traditional undergraduate student or a graduate student. I will continue to track the number of students up through the first week of December. Once my data has been collected I will analyze it to see if there are any noticeable trends. 

MATH 315

Tim Bergquist

Banquet Room

1 – 3 PM

Christina Salazar

First Grade Animal Adventures

This work sample introduces first grade students to animals and their daily habits It provides large support towards learning about bears and how bears conduct their daily habits Students learned about key terms such as hibernation and omnivores though writing and reading aloud.

EDUC 437

Vivian Moen

Banquet Room

9 – 11 AM

Rachel Schneider

First Grade Literacy Small Group Reading Skills

I will be displaying my Work Sample which reflects a unit I taught in the first grade regarding literacy and includes the classroom information, the lessons I taught, the assessment used, and my reflections regarding this matter.

EDUC 437

Vivian Moen

Banquet Room

9 – 11 AM