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Showing 1 to 20 of 41 for “"Elementary Age"”.
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The Impact of Reading Intervention on Retained Elementary-Age Students
… <p>My recommended policy change provides elementary students with a district-wide close reading program to teach comprehension strategies. Through policy measures, I considered the need for a change vision and a detailed action plan to support the needs of elementary students’ reading …
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Parental Perspective and Feeding Practices Effects on Food Neophobia in Elementary-Age School Children
… evaluated. Sixty-eight parents paired with their elementary school children (aged 7-12 years) in San Luis Coastal Unified School District participated in this study. Results indicated that parents reported their children more neophobic than children self-reported neophobia; however, there was a …
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Beverage Selections and Presence Affect Healthy Eating Index Scores in Lunches of Elementary Age Children, Whether from Home or School
… by component food groups. Influence of beverage selections on HEI-2010 scores were examined for each meal origin. <strong>Methods:</strong> Digital plate waste estimations were analyzed for 509 NSLP meals and 524 LBFH from 2nd-5th-grade students in four elementary schools during the 2011-2012 …
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Effects of Culturally Responsive Child-centered Play Therapy Compared to Curriculum-based Small Group Counseling with Elementary-age Hispanic Children Experiencing Externalizing and Internalizing Behavior Problems: a Preliminary Study.
… and Internalizing behavior problems of elementary school-age Hispanic children. Twenty-nine volunteer Hispanic children were randomized to the experimental group (n=15) or the comparison group (n=14). Subjects participated in a weekly 30 minute intervention for a period of 15 weeks. Pre- …
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The Effects of DRO and DRA for Increasing Academic Engagement and Decreasing Disruptive Behavior of Elementary Students in General Education Classrooms
… problem behavior and increasing academically engaged behavior with elementary-age students of typical development in a general education setting. Participants included two elementary-age students receiving general education instruction. Following a functional behavior assessment, the relative …
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Color Effect of Teacher Attire on the Attitudes of Educable Mentally Retarded Pupils
… color red and the color black, on attitudes of elementary age mentally retarded pupils. The attitudes studied were the attitudes directed toward the generalized concept of "school" as manifested by the sum of specific concepts.
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Can You See Me? Re-Centering Biracial Voices Through Chicana Intervention in Children's Literature
… a complex concept to children of upper elementary age to engage with their formation of identity. It is the concept Gloria Anzaldúa expanded upon that helped change many courses of disciplinary thought. She traced her conception and shifts of new mestiza and <em>nepantla</em> through her …
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Impact of Preschool Education on the Academic Achievement of Low Socio-Economic Status Elementary Students
… had an impact on the academic achievement of elementary age students. With limited funding and the demands of No Child Left Behind legislation, schools are constantly evaluating the effectiveness and cost of ongoing programming. In addition, educational literature points to school readiness as …
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Entrepreneurial teaching in creating third spaces for experiential learning: a case study of two science teachers in low-income settings
… summer science camps and science road shows for elementary-age students. Partnering with high school students to lead and mentor younger students, Faith built opportunities for elementary-age students to experience science through experiential, reform-minded science activities designed around …
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Incorporating An Assessment of Mastery Motivation In Elementary School Students Within A School Psychological Evaluation
… collaboration among a group of practicing elementary school psychologists. Conversations were recorded and analyzed. The result was the creation of an informal observational tool for measuring Mastery Motivation to be used a school psychological evaluation. This tool was made available for …
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Eye of the beholder: Children respond to beauty in art.
… was to determine if beauty was important to elementary age children when exploring and making aesthetic judgements about works of art and to determine the criteria elementary students used in judging beauty in works of art. This study also explored beauty as a concept that could be used as an …
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Enhancing Learing With the Use of Assistive Technology for Children on the Autism Spectrum
… of the iPad and the use of the system to assist elementary-age students with learning. The research literature promotes different types of assistive technology used for learning and suggests a few applications to use for the iPad.</p> <p>Four students with autism learned to use an iPad tablet to …
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Motivating Students for Success in Art Education.
… study is intended to analyze the differences of elementary age students from two different public elementary schools and their motivation to learn about art. The analysis will compare and contrast the results of my efforts as an art educator to present the same curricular information to both …
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Discontinuance of Innovations: Social Network Characteristics, Product Attributes, and Adopter Traits Related to Post -Adoption Behavior
… of alters in the social network, relative advantage, observability, number of elementary age children, and tenure with the innovation.
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"i Can't Just Turn Over My Daughter And Let It Be": Black Mothers And The Racial Socialization Of Their Daughters Attending White Schools
… a positive racial-gender identity in their elementary-age daughters attending a predominantly white school. Metropolitan Detroit provides a unique milieu for undertaking this study. The 2005 American Community Survey reports that for the first time in fifty years, Detroit's African American …
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Supporting trauma-impacted students through the use of animal assisted education
… of violence, loss, and grief particularly among elementary age children can significantly impact their ability to emotionally regulate themselves, grow developmentally, and achieve in school. Furthermore, these children are at high risk for unsuccessful outcomes in their adult life, including …
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The Relationship Between Use of Characters and Authors' Sex in the 1982 Young Authors Manuscripts
… own sex. Female authors created more female elementary age characters and male authors created more male characters, the majority of which were unclassifiable as to their age and sex.
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Family Perceptions of Family Engagement: A Qualitative Study to Assist Stakeholders
… how professional working families with elementary age children perceive family engagement. Through one-on-one interviews, the researcher gained insight on how families define and perceive family engagement. The open-ended, one-on-one, semi-structured interviews included a purposeful …
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Investigation of the barriers that exist which may inhibit the development of cohesive home and school relationships
… “What barriers are present within the home and elementary school environments that may prevent the formation of productive relationships?” This information was gathered from families who have elementary-age children participating in the Transition Project currently under research at Virginia …
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