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Showing 1 to 20 of 137 for “"Kaufman"”.
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A joint confirmatory factor analysis of the Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children, second edition, and the Woodcock-Johnson Tests of Cognitive Abilities, third edition, with preschool children
… was to explore the construct validity of the Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children, Second Edition (KABC-II; Kaufman & Kaufman, 2004a) and the Woodcock-Johnson Tests of Cognitive Abilities, Third Edition (WJ-III COG; Woodcock, McGrew, & Mather, 2001) with a sample of 200 preschool children, …
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A study of George S. Kaufman's metatheatrics
<p>Known for his comedic plays, George S. Kaufman became one of the most successful playwrights in American theatre history. Part of his success stems from his metatheatrical writing techniques, which he used by incorporating people from his life into his plays and by writing about the business he …
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Efficacy of a Direct Instruction Approach to Promote Early Learning
… group. The children were administered the Kaufman Survey of Early Academic and Language Skills (K-SEALS; Kaufman and Kaufman, 1993) and Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills (DIBELS; Good and Kaminski, 2002) prior to receiving the intervention and upon completion of the study. …
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Evaluation of Attention and Executive Control within a Model of Gf-Gc Cognitive Functioning
… of most contemporary cognitive ability tests (Kaufman and Kaufman, 2004; Wechsler, 2003), as it enumerates general cognitive ability through the evaluation of its multiple components. This study involved an investigation of the Gf-Gc domains including added attention and executive control …
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Exploration of the Relationship Between Moral Judgment Development and Crystallized Intelligence
… session, participants were assessed using the Kaufman Adolescent and Adult Intelligence Test (KAIT; Kaufman & Kaufman, 1993). Results support the idea that DIT and KAIT scores are separate sources of information and influence ATHRI scores differently. Results also show that crystallized …
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Investigating the role of relational responding and relational flexibility in human cognition.
… presented on the IRAP. They then completed the Kaufman Brief Intelligence Test (K-BIT; Kaufman & Kaufman, 1990). Study 2 was a replication and extension of Study 1, in which, participants completed the same relational tasks, but were subsequently exposed to extensive and comprehensive cognitive …
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Mechanisms of Pteridine-Ommochrome Interactions in Drosophila Melanogaster
… unrelated metabolic pathway (Ziegler 1961; Kaufman 1967a). Mutations which alter the synthesis of these pigments are manifested as numerous variations in eye color (Lindsley and Grell 1967). Suppressed production of brown pigment results in the accumulation of ommochrome precursors which in …
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Implementation and application of the fundamental theorem of probability
… and implemented. Developed by Myers, Freund, and Kaufman, it is a tractable reformulation of the computational approach implicit to the Fundamental Theorem of Probability as stated by De Finetti and extended by Lad, Dickey and Rahman. Enhancements to the original algorithm are presented and …
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Symmetries in algebraic Property Testing
… in relation to testing, a direction initiated by Kaufman and Sudan. We investigate the interplay between local testing, symmetry and dual structure in linear codes, by showing both positive and negative results. On the negative side, we exhibit a counterexample to a conjecture proposed by Alon, …
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Consumption in the American Mining West: substitute and complement goods in the foodways of Aurora, Nevada
… in two historic era households, the Levy and Kaufman households. This inquiry seeks to understand household level foodways as well as community foodways patterns in Aurora, Nevada during the late 1800s. The conclusions are inferred from archaeological evidence and are extrapolated to broadly …
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The Laramie Project: The Search For A Personal Acting Method Via The Principles Of Constantin Stanislavksi
… were applied to the roles performed in Moises Kaufman's The Laramie Project. Those roles were Moises Kaufman, Jonas Slonaker, Doug Laws, Anonymous, Detective Rob Debree, Governor Jim Geringer, Reverend Fred Phelps and Dennis Shepard. The purpose of this exploration was to create unique, …
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Bureaucracy at the state level: the quest for responsibility
This thesis replicates Herbert Kaufman's study of the administrative behavior of federal bureau chiefs at the state level. Kaufman asserted that bureau chiefs are not as autonomous as we depicted. Their behavior is confined by the legal, institutional, political and operational constraints. This …
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Analysing Relational Responding Skills and Verbal Ability in Children with Autism, and Typically-developing Children
… Test (PPVT-4; Dunn & Dunn, 1997) and the Kaufman Brief Intelligence Test (K-BIT; Kaufman & Kaufman, 2004), respectively. The verbal assessments were conducted with both groups of participants both before and after relational responding testing/training. The overall aim of the research was …
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Kinetic family drawings as indices of family functioning
… following its inception in 1970. (Burns & Kaufman, 1970; 1972). Upon examination of these studies, however, it is evident that those studies pertaining to aspects of family functioning obtained significant results to a greater degree. It was the contention of the present study, that the KFD …
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Does Social Support Moderate the Effects of Strain on Delinquency More for Females than Males?
… to experience the same types of strains (e.g., Kaufman, 2009; Piquero & Sealock, 2006), the research examines the extent to which social support is a moderator of the effects of strain on delinquency among females, as compared with males. The first wave of the National Longitudinal Study of …
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Minoritized Teacher Identity Construction within Instances of Racialization
… & Pellettiere, 2010; Bayoumi, 2006; Joshi, 2006; Kaufman & Niner, 2019, p. 1). My study invests in understanding racialization's impact on professional identity development and the tools the participants use to navigate society in a time strife with anti Muslim rhetoric. My interest lies in how …
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The effects of breakfast on the school-aged child
… descent. The participants were given the Kaufman Test of Educational Achievement to determine if the children were on grade level. A daily log was kept of what each child ate for breakfast and a daily log was kept identifying their academic performance for the morning. The Spearman Rank …
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Behavioral choices of male humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) on the Hawaiʻian wintering grounds
… Baker, Herman, Perry, Lawton, Straley, Wolman, Kaufman, Winn, Hall, Reinke, and Ostman, 1986). Currently, approximately 4,500 humpback whales migrate down to Hawaiian waters, primarily from Alaskan waters, between the months of November and April (Calambokidis et al., 2001). According to whaling …
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Perverted in Neon
… with finding out what “really” happened to Andy Kaufman is pushed into the fringes of his own life; a kid on restriction discovers a secret level to a video game that threatens to change the nature of his reality; a woman on Airbnb advertises her home—and her life—to potential house renters. The …
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