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Showing 1 to 20 of 41 for “"Parents--Attitudes"”.
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Leisure-learning : revitalising the role of museums : a survey of Cape Town parents' attitudes towards museums
… of the role of museums was distributed to parents via nine schools in Cape Town. Each school represented a different socioeconomic package so that the sample included parents with varying educational status and incomes. Parents of school-going children were sampled because they may be …
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Understanding the role of parents’ attitudes in children’s alcohol use: Evaluation of a universal parent-oriented alcohol consumption prevention programme
… use behaviour among children. Thus, targeting parents in prevention programmes has become more common in the past 20 years. This thesis aimed to investigate the relationship between parental attitudes towards children’s alcohol use and their children’s alcohol use and to evaluate a universal …
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Measuring Preschool Parents’ Attitudes Towards Science: Development and Psychometric Evaluation of a Parent Version of the Dimension of Attitudes Towards Science Instrument.
… or theoretical framework exists for preschool parents’ attitudes towards science. The purpose of this study was to develop and validate a measure of preschool parents’ attitudes towards science with a corresponding theoretical framework, as well as explore related constructs. To develop the …
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The Effects of a Parent Education Program on the Attitudes of Parents and the Achievement of Selected Primary Students
The parents were pre and posttested on the inventory instrument. There was significant improvement in parents' attitudes toward their children and the school, but no significant difference in their attitudes toward themselves as parents.
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Attitudes toward prenatal diagnosis and termination of pregnancy in Saudi Arabia
… biology will soon make it possible to offer parents prenatal testing for a large number of different genetic disorders. The tests that have been offered to date are available because of technology, not because of the burden or prevalence of the condition. Parents' attitudes to different …
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Parent schema of the professionalism of teachers and medical doctors
… of the prototype of professional, by examining parents' attitudes toward two groups of practitioners: teachers and medical doctors.
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An Experimental Study of Contact with the Elderly Upon Second-Grade Students' Attitudes and Factual Knowledge
… effects of inter- generational contact on the attitudes and knowledge of second-grade students and (b) to determine if similarities existed between second- grade students' and their parents' attitudes and knowledge concerning the elderly. Procedure The research population for this study was …
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An Examination of the Relationship Between Parental Attitudes and Student Achievement on Standardized Test Scores in Mathematics
… study was to examine the relationship between parents' attitudes toward mathematics and students' standardized test scores in mathematics. Eighty-four parents of fourth-grade students in a southeastern military dependent school system were surveyed to determine their attitudes to mathematics …
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The effects of parent training on parent-child interactions in an urban community
… the effectiveness of parent training to change parents' attitudes towards parent-child interactions were examined. Three parents, together with their children in a Head Start program participated in the study. A multiple baseline design across paired parent and child was used. Baseline data were …
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Differential Parenting Practices Within Families: Associations With Siblings' Academic And Behavioral Outcomes
… widely studied, with results commonly linking parents' attitudes and behaviors with child outcomes. Few studies, however, have examined and analyzed the link between differential or inconsistent parenting within families and the academic and behavioral outcomes of siblings. Thus, the main …
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The effects of parent education on the childrearing attitudes of parents
… the effects of a program of parent education on parents' attitudes toward their children, twenty-three self-selected parents from various communities in Southwestern Virginia were surveyed. Eighteen parents, comprising the experimental treatment condition, received training in parent group …
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Parental Attitudes Towards Early Childhood Education in Lower Sorbian: Challenges in Developing Bilingualism in a Critically Endangered Language
This dissertation explored reasons why parents choose daycare education for their children through the medium of Lower Sorbian. Lower Sorbian or Wendish is a critically endangered West Slavic minority language spoken in the area around Cottbus, a town in eastern Germany near the Polish border. As …
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The attribution and transmission of parent-youth attitudes during the launching stage
Recent studies on the transmission of attitudes between parents and youths have shown that many of the contradictions of earlier research can be resolved by focusing on perceived rather than actual attitudes. The present study examined the relative value of perceived and actual attitudes in …
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The Development of Judgments and Beliefs about Homosexuality
… adolescents' (13-14-year-olds), and their parents' beliefs about same-sex relationships. In particular, participants' beliefs about the acceptability and legal regulation of homosexuality, their beliefs about tolerating someone with anti-gay attitudes and excluding someone on the basis of …
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A Description of the Read Aloud Practices of Elementary School Teachers
… other possible designs for similar research. Parents’ attitudes toward and practices of reading aloud was also addressed.
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Exploring the Experiences and Perspectives of Parents from Marginalised and Minority Backgrounds in Leicester City on Traditional British Arts and Cultural Activities, and Their Role in Shaping Children's Artistic and Cultural Participation
… Against this background, the thesis examines how parents' attitudes, conceptions, and experiences regarding traditional arts and cultural activities in the UK, influenced by their minority backgrounds, affect their children's participation in these activities during critical stages of development. …
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Socioemotional Development of Low-Income Children in the Public School Intervention Program
… family characteristics uniquely contributed to parents' and teachers' ratings of the children's social skills and problem behaviors. A series of exploratory factor analyses (EFA), using principal components extraction and varimax rotation, were conducted to identify from the available database …
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An analysis of the attitudes of a select group of mothers and fathers toward parenting and infant learning
The purposes of this study were to describe the attitudes of parents toward parenting and infant learning and to determine the effect of a parenting program on those attitudes.Subjects of the study consisted of fifty-five mothers and fathers. There were thirty-one mothers and twenty-four fathers. …
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