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Showing 1 to 20 of 187 for “"Absences"”.
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Types of absences allowed teachers without loss of pay in Massachusetts
Thesis (Ed.M.)--Boston University
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The Influence of Student Absences on Grade Point Average in High School
… grade point averages steadily decrease as absences increase. There is no interaction between the effects of attendance levels and intelligence scores on grade point averages. Conclusions. This study shows that students can effectively improve their grade point averages by making a …
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Student attitudes about class absences, class attendance, and requiring attendance at Virginia Tech
… attitudes about class attendance, class absences, and required attendance. Three hundred undergraduates were selected in a random sample; seventy-nine attended one of the six group interview sessions. The reasons students gave for skipping classes included being lazy or tired, dislike of …
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The differential impact of school absences on general and special education high school students
The purpose of this study was to examine the impact of absenteeism on students in general education and students in special education. Archival data from a group of 249 students who completed 9th grade in June 2011 were analyzed in order to examine the relationship between attendance rates and …
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Absences, exclusivities and utopias: Afrikaans film as a cinema of political impotence, 1994 - 2014
This thesis develops a conceptual and theoretical framework within which to position contemporary Afrikaans cinema as a cinema of political impotence. Afrikaans cinema is first located within the tensions of democratic post-transitional South African society and linked to the identity politics of …
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An Ethnographic Study of Employee Absences: The Impact of Uncertainty, Negotiation and the Employment Relationship
… is an ethnographic study of employee absences in a coal-fired electric generation plant located in the mid-west. An anthropological perspective and methodology was employed for the purpose of "getting close" to the daily rhythms of organizational life in order to develop a new …
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The Patterns and Possible Costs of Teacher Absenteeism: Are Teacher Absences an Indicator of Student Achievement?
… to teacher absenteeism revealed that teacher absences are expensive and negatively affects student achievement. The purpose of the quantitative study was to determine if patterns exist among teacher absences and to determine the relationship between teacher absences and student achievement …
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Teacher Absences in the Commonwealth of Virginia: An Analysis of Patterns and Predictors and Implications for Policy
… of school and policy characteristics to teacher absences. The analysis for this study involved computing descriptive statistics, correlating continuous variables, and running multiple regressions for each dataset (school and district for each year) to determine the predictors of the dependent …
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A Study of Teacher Absences in the Elementary Schools of the Highline School District of King County, Washington
… study (1) to classify causes of reported teacher absences; (2) to compare frequency of absences in men and women teachers; (3) to determine months of the year and days of the week showing the greatest number of teacher absences; (4) to compare absence patterns in married and unmarried teachers; …
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Articulated Absences and Silenced Souvenirs: exploring Switzerland’s complicity in the trading of Nazi gold through a counter-archive
… of the secret’, the concept of articulated absences is introduced to consider these objects as symbols for the memory gaps perpetuating Switzerland’s innocent wartime image. The counter-archive provides a framework for the ordering of these articulated absences while questioning the …
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The Short-Term Effects of Student Absences on Student Math Growth and the Moderator Effects of Student Achievement Levels
… study examined the short-term effects of student absences on student math growth and the moderator effects of student achievement levels on fourth and fifth grade students at a high-performing elementary school in central Massachusetts. Through independent-samples t-tests and moderation analysis, …
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Unveiling absences, or unsettling multiculturalism, in Antonio Casella's 'The Sensualist' and Venero Armanno's 'Romeo of the Underworld' and 'The Volcano'
Scopo di questo studio è stato quello di analizzare gli elementi gotici presenti nei romanzi in esame al fine di evidenziarne il rapporto con il concetto di liminality delle varie generazioni di migranti e come la stessa venga veicolata dalla stessa struttura narrativa. Dunque, un rapporto tra …
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A case study of peer-driven efforts to improve instructional effectiveness during teacher absences: Implications for school leaders in an era of accountability
The purpose of this research was to conduct a case study of the role leadership, in this case the school administrator, plays in ensuring the quality of learning opportunities provided to students when the regular classroom teacher is absent. The regular classroom teacher, the substitute teacher, …
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A Survey of Selected Attendance Problems in the Toppenish Junior High School
… the research deals with the relationship between absences and grades, and the question frequently comes up, “Are absences the cause of poor grades, or are poor grades the cause of absences?”</p>
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Absenteeism prediction and labor force optimization in rail dispatcher scheduling
Unplanned employee absences are estimated to account for a loss of 3% of scheduled labor hours. This can be costly in railroad dispatcher scheduling because every absence must be filled through overtime or a qualified extra dispatcher. One factor that complicates this problem is the uncertainty of …
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The effect of teacher attendance on student achievement in two selected school districts
… the study was to determine the impact of teacher absences from the classroom on student achievement. The specific grade level researched was the third grade. Two school corporations, one in Indiana and one in Wyoming, participated in the research study. Changed scores on reading achievement were …
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School-Wide Implementation of Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports and the Impact on Student Absences, Office Discipline Referrals, and Suspensions in Two Suburban Middle Schools
… supports (PBIS) resulted in a change in student absences, office discipline referrals, and suspensions in one middle school and to determine what difference, if any, was there in student absences, office discipline referrals, and suspensions between a school implementing PBIS and a school not …
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School Attendance of High School Dropouts
… determine if there is an identifiable pattern of absences for elementary school student who eventually drop out of high school. If so, attendance patterns could be used as an indicator for students at risk or dropping out. Using attendance data, the study investigated these absences. This study …
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