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Evaluating the complexity of the SAT: Observations and students’ self-reports of challenges and strategies on the critical reading section of the SAT

Rivera-Torres, Karla Rivera-Torres
Advisor(s): Bailey, Alison L.

UCLA Electronic Theses and Dissertations (2017)

Limited research exists on how students qualitatively interact with high-stakes standardized assessments. Using a think aloud methodology, this study focused on investigating the challenges Reclassified Fluent English Proficient (RFEP) and English Learner (EL) high school students report while completing the critical reading section of the SAT, and the challenges the researcher observed. Another aim of the study was to investigate what types of reading, vocabulary, and testing strategies the students reported while taking the test and the strategies the researcher observed. The results yielded a higher percentage of reported challenges in the areas of reading and vocabulary, than observed challenges. For the strategies, there was a breakdown of observed and reported metacognitive and cognitive strategies for the areas of reading, vocabulary, and testing. There was a higher percentage of observed metacognitive strategies of underlining and rereading. In addition, reading strategies such as summarizing and analyzing were observed in this study, and a higher percentage of vocabulary and testing strategies were reported by the students during their think alouds. The study also examined the similarities and differences in challenges and strategies by student performance level on the critical reading test that was given to the students to complete. It was observed that the lower performance group experienced more reading challenges and the higher performance group reported more strategies overall. Considering that the vocabulary words in the reading passage played a big role in the challenges reported by the students, it can be said that the study has implications for the area of testing development, in that more appropriate reading passages should be created for RFEP and EL students. The study also has implications for educators in that they could implement a think aloud methodology in their English language arts curriculum and teach their students to be more metacognitive about their own challenges while reading. The results of this study suggest that the students who used a broader range of metacognitive strategies (including, reading, vocabulary, and testing strategies) had a better reading comprehension performance than the other students. Students can also learn what types of strategies to apply to try to overcome their challenges and comprehend the text they are reading.

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24 Cities Creat group to Protect Ozone Layer

Rivera, Carla

ICLEI – International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives (1989)

A two-day conference in Irvine exploringdepletion of the Earth's ozone layerended Saturday with establishment of thefirst nationwide group of elected officialsaimed at eliminating substances harmful tothe atmosphere.

Representatives of two dozen U.S. andCanadian cities said creation of the NorthAmerican Congress of Local Governmentsfor a Stratospheric Protection Accord represents a new and potentially sweepingmovement in the campaign to stop depletion of the ozone layer.

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Creative Commons 'BY' version 4.0 license

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Bella Laeta

Rivera, Kyle

Contemporary Music Score Collection (2020)

This music score was submitted for the Kaleidoscope 2020 Call for Scores, an open access collaboration with the UCLA Music Library.

Multimedia
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Surreal

Rivera, Diana

CMPM 80K (2020)

Surreal by Diana C. Rivera Surreal tells a story about a regular person enjoying a road trip with their partner. Sleep is necessary when on a road trip and this story tells the many dreams or reality that the person is dreaming or actually seeing. The goal of the game is for the player to depict the differences if they can.

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Creative Commons 'BY-NC' version 4.0 license

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Exposure to Multicultural Environments: Influence on Social Relationships and Altruistic Behavior

Rivera, Paola

Volume 1 (2019) (2019)

This research explores the relationship between multiculturalism, diversity, and altruistic behaviors. The researchers hypothesized that individuals with more accepting attitudes toward multiculturalismwould be more comfortable with diversity and manifest more altruistic behavior compared to those with less acceptingattitudes toward multiculturalism. In addition, the researchers also hypothesized that individuals primed with multicultural images would be more likely to be comfortable with diversity and showmore altruistic behavior than those primed with American images. Multiple 2x2 ANOVA tests were utilized to study the effects ofmulticultural attitudes and cultural priming on comfort with diversity and altruistic behavior. No significant main effect of the priming strategies was found; however, attitudes toward multiculturalismdid have a significant effect on all three of the dependent variables, such that participants that scored high on multicultural acceptance were more accepting of diversity and more likely todonate both time and money to a person in need.

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Escape the Lab

Rivera, Gabriel

CMPM 80K (2020)

You wake up without any memory of where you are or what happened to you. You realize quickly that you are in a lab, with violent noises in the distance, all you can think of is to do one thing. Escape.