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Showing 1 to 20 of 65 for “"Educational Status"”.
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Intergenerational persistence of educational status in South Africa
… results, displaying a clear increase in educational mobility in terms of the estimated regression and correlation coefficients for both father-son and mother-daughter pairs. However, decomposing this result into educational cohorts, the distribution of the increase in educational mobility …
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The role of educational status in the matching of workers to jobs in emerging high-tech firms
… advantages associated with having a prestigious educational background. In particular, I consider the role of educational status in the matching of technical workers to jobs in high-tech entrepreneurial firms. Distinctively among studies of the role of educational prestige in the firmworker …
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Inside the 'black box' : a critical interpretive perspective on the internal dynamics of schooling at Learn to Live and their impact on youths' at risk social-educational status
Participation in social and educational environments is crucial for young people’s development, well-being and opportunities for leading a fulfilling and successful life. Many South African youngsters – and particularly street children – are often excluded from meaningful participation in their …
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Are immigrants in Massachusetts accessing welfare? : an exploratory study of families in Boston and the Merrimack Valley
… the Merrimack Valley to ascertain the employment status of household heads and the use of public benefits by immigrant headed families. The study surveyed Spanish and Portuguese speaking individuals at 300% or below of the poverty level with children under the age of 18. The survey measured …
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Peoples's beliefs about causation of Disease and implications for choice of Health care in Lusaka
… socio-demographic characteristics such as age, educational status and occupational status of respondents; and the extent to which beliefs about causation affect utilisation of health care services. This study found that people distinguish three main causes of disease -natural, supernatural and …
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Interaction of college students with twentieth century music in a computer environment
… study was to determine the extent to which the educational status of music listeners is reflected in the content of their written discourse about a serial composition to which they listen in a non-directed situation. The problem was stated as follows: what difference in the content of written …
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Deterrents to participation in web-based graduate nursing programs
… was found between computer literacy, current educational status, employment status, and annual household income and the overall scale mean. No significant differences were found between respondents’ age, ethnicity, gender, years of being a registered nurse, marital status, number of children, …
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Developing purpose as a psychosocial task related to college students' perceived tendency to seek help from counseling centers
… study. The association between students' sex, educational status and type of problem, and their tendency to seek help was also investigated. Finally, this project explored students' likelihood of seeking help from persons other than professional counselors. Students' level of "developing …
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Students' Criteria for Course Selection: Towards a Metadata Standard for Distributed Higher Education
… An emerging solution is metadata. In the educational domain, the IEEE Learning Technology Standards Committee (LTSC) has specified a Learning Object Metadata (LOM) standard. This exploratory study (a) determined criteria students think are important for selecting higher education courses, …
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Pretreatment Characteristics of Legally Coerced Drug Treatment Seekers
… and those under legal coercion on gender, age, educational status, pretreatment criminality and current treatment modality. In addition, differences between the legally coerced and not legally coerced clients varied across geographic regions.</p>
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A comparative analysis of the value orientations of secondary vocational and technical education teachers in Virginia public schools
… (sex, race, residence background, age, educational status, years of teaching experience, and years of occupational experience), Virginia secondary teachers of agriculture, business, distribution, health occupations, home economics, industrial arts, and trades and industries do not differ …
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The Effects of the Handwriting Without Tears Program on the Handwriting of Students in Inclusion Classrooms
… = .014) within a 10-week period, regardless of educational status or gender.</p>
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Male attitudes toward the timing of parenthood
… significant correlations between age, marital status, parental status, age at birth of first child, number of children in family, wait from marriage to first birth, job status, educational status, religious preference and attitude toward timing of parenthood. The sample consisted of 103 males …
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Articulation Trends in Allied Health Programs
<p>The educational environment emphasizes student access to instructional opportunities. Many health programs are located in community colleges or hospitals, and in order to advance educational status, students must be able to transfer credits between multiple educational institutions. …
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Remembering the Cultural Trauma Legacies of Slavery: African American Young Adult Perceptions on Racism, Ethnic Identity, and Racial Socialization
… stereotype stigmatization. In addition, educational status impacts young adults' ethnic identity formation and racial socialization experiences. College enrolled young adults express both higher stages of ethnic identity, inclusive of a greater sense of collective group responsibility; …
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Supporting students in higher education through relational augmentation
… how students experiencing difficulty with their educational endeavors can enhance their educational status by establishing relationships with members of the Rowan University Department of Public Safety. For this purpose, seven students and seven police and security officers were selected to …
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An investigation into the risk and protective factors associated with youth offending
… in terms of their anger levels and their current educational status. The fourth chapter applies the risk and protective factors paradigm to a qualitative case study in order to demonstrate the intrinsic relationship between risk and protective factors and the applicability of the paradigm to …
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The determinants of participation in microfinance and its impact on rural welfare: case study of the National Development Bank Botswana's Temo Bokamoso Lending programme in Kweneng District
… indicated that some variables like gender and educational status had little effect on the probability of participation. A number of policy variables which include age, previous experience of credit use, respondents' perception of group collateral, distance from the National Development Bank, …
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A study and evaluation of client dropout at a drug counsellling centre in Cape Town
… symptoms. Dropouts also tend to have lower educational status and are more frequently employed in relation to the average client. The dropouts experience anxiety during the initial contact, which is often met by uncaring therapist attitudes. Finally, the study demonstrates that inflexible …
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Adults referred to the ADHD clinic in Iceland : clinical characteristics
… ADHD diagnosis was associated with lower educational status and more parental and teachers concerns about development and behaviour in childhood. Participants with ADHD also reported more ADHD symptoms on the ADHD Rating Scale, both in childhood and adulthood, compared to the other two …
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