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Showing 1 to 20 of 54 for “"High-need"”.
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Causes and effects of physical injuries to Prison Officers employed in a high risk and high need offender management environment in Western Australia
Prison Officers (POs) involved in high need offender management frequently face risks that could affect their health, safety and wellbeing. Several studies have shown that direct client centred violence, inadequate management systems and the general nature of prison environments are major factors …
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Development of a process to support stakeholder engaged children's nursing workforce planning for high-need, lower-resourced Primary Health Care systems in Malawi
… framework is a distinctive response to the needs of African health systems. Advanced and specialist nurses in Africa are establishing their newly introduced roles into health systems in transition, within challenged and challenging practice contexts which demand high levels of adaptability. …
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A Comparison Between First-Year Alternative Certified Teachers and First-Year Traditional Certified Teachers Based on Students' Academic achievement: The Case of a High-Need Urban Southeast District in Virginia
… way to ease the teacher shortages in a midsize high-need urban school system, and at the same time, to evaluate its impact on students' academic achievement. The results of this study provide evidence that the students taught by first year T2T teachers achieve as well as or better than their …
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The Effect of Working Conditions on Teacher Effectiveness: Value-added Scores and Student Perception of Teaching
… teaching was found to be significantly worse in high-need schools than schools serving fewer minority students or students from low-incoming families, but teacher value-added score was not significantly different between the high versus low needs schools. The findings of the study significantly …
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Teacher Perceptions Regarding Teacher Retention in an Urban Middle School: What School Leaders Need to Know
… education” which breeds an entirely new scope of needs for public urban school success. Teachers who work in urban schools with large numbers of low socio-economic minority students feel less satisfied and are more likely to turn over; meaning that turnover is high with low morale in the very …
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Designing behavioral health integration in primary care : a practical outcomes-based framework
… with comorbid physical, behavioral, and social needs-often referred to as high-need patients-tend to be the most frequent utilizers of the health care system. The US health care system, with fragmented behavioral and medical health care sectors, is unable to effectively meet the complex needs of …
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An Exploratory Study of New Teacher Induction in Title I Elementary Schools in Georgia
… programs address educators' unique challenges in high-need settings. Key findings highlight the importance of intentional mentor pairing, scaffolded support structures, and the inclusion of reflective practices to foster professional growth and teacher retention. The study also identifies gaps in …
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Sensitivity of state aid allocation to measures of needs and resources in local governments
… redistribution efforts to local governments with higher levels of need and lower levels of resources are not particularly good. Redistribution tendencies present in 1982 declined by 1992 in both the North and South. Southern local governments in 1982 and 1992 did not show more willingness, or …
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Essays on Human Capital Investment
… to improve achievement among students in high-poverty primary and secondary schools. The third chapter examines an intervention designed to assist high-need families on the brink of homelessness. The chapters are also linked methodologically: in each, I exploit the exact timing of policy …
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EU import notifications as a protectionist move: an examination of the relation between tariff and non-tariff barriers in seafood trade
… notifications by importing countries with a high need for protection.
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The Strategic Fit Between Board of Directors Characteristics and the External Environment, and its Effect on Firm Reputation
… stronger for firms operating in industries with high need for legitimacy. This study seeks to contribute to strategy research and practice by proposing that corporate governance research and managerial practice can benefit from a perspective that considers a more nuanced picture of the board of …
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Public Transit Accessibility and Need Indices: Approaches for Measuring Service Gap
<p>The integration of transit needs into transit accessibility indexing is important for the evaluation of existing transportation systems and, service gaps, and for the identification of priority areas for future investments in transportation infrastructure. This thesis details an …
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Creating & Validating a Teacher Resilience Scale in the U.S. Context
… force faces significant challenges, including high attrition rates and an aging workforce, exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Prior research highlights teacher resilience as a critical factor in addressing these challenges, emphasizing its multi-dimensional and contextual nature. While …
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Pedagogical Content Knowledge in Early Mathematics: What Teachers Know and How It Associates with Teaching and Learning
… outcomes. A total of 182 teachers working with high need students from Pre-K through Grade 3 in an urban public school system participated in the study and analyzed a video of mathematics teaching through an online survey. The results painted a bleak picture regarding the profile of early …
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Reducing Narcissistic Defensiveness Through the Activation of Belonging
<p>People with high levels of narcissism possess extremely positive self-evaluations that may mask underlying feelings of inferiority and a need for love and acceptance. People with high levels of narcissism defend their inflated self-evaluations through chronic self-enhancement processes, which …
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A Qualitative Exploration of Cultic Experience in Relation to Mental Health Difficulties
… of themselves as‘outsiders’ with a consequent high ‘need to belong’) to produce effects which participants within this research experience as lasting difficulties in living. The thesis goes on to explore which main-stream psychological paradigms might lend themselves to an understanding of this …
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New housing in old Chinatown : barriers and incentives to affordable housing development
… leaders want to know how to meet the high need for well-maintained affordable housing within the neighborhood. This thesis will examine the barriers that prevent affordable housing development in San Francisco's Chinatown. While affordable housing is a citywide issue not limited to …
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Creating an asset management model for Massachusetts state-aided public housing : a study of policies and practices to inform the Massachusetts Department of Housing and Community Development
… include unique resident populations (one is high-need, low-income and the other is independent and financially stable) and the objectives of each sector (one is considered a public service and the other is profit-driven). This thesis investigates the models and mechanisms of two asset …
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