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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Play Time"”.
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Factors Predicting Return to Play in Sports-Related Concussion: An Empirical Evaluation
… injury, diagnostic concerns, and return to play decision making. While much research has been dedicated to these areas, one in particular, return to play, is the focus of this current research study. To date, there has not been a method for accurately predicting return to play time after an …
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Play in a Working -Class Taiwanese Preschool
… study was to investigate children's everyday play in a working class Taiwanese preschool. Because Taiwan is currently rethinking the direction of early childhood education, it is timely to look closely at play in a preschool setting. Since recent debates in the U.S. have led some American …
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Orbital
… pattern, Orbital is capable of immersing the player quickly and completely for the entirety of play time.
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Relationships between types of teacher intervention and preschool children's play
… types of teacher intervention and children's play patterns in preschool settings. An event sampling observation technique was used to examine the relationship between teachers' interventions and children's play, four play areas, and children's gender. Ten teachers were observed during free …
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Preschool Play Behaviors: The Relationship to Sociometric Status, Divergent Thinking and Classroom Materials
… this research was to study preschool children's play behaviors and their relationship to: sociometric status, divergent thinking ability, and classroom materials. Ninety-five four-year-olds were observed during free play time and were administered three sociometric tests and a divergent thinking …
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Designing and prototyping networked collaborative play structures
Much of children's play time has shifted from outdoor activities to human-screen interactions on smart devices. While the digital world offers many creative play outlets that would be impossible in the physical world, the physical world has a wealth of hands-on learning and cooperative play …
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Imaginative play with blended reality characters
… of its unique blended physical and digital play context and the evaluation of its impact on children's play are the contents of this thesis. A play test study with thirty-four children aged three and a half to seven was conducted using non-reactive, unobtrusive observational methods and a …
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Evaluating the user-experience of existing strategies to limit video game session length
… facilitate are fundamental to the activity; players are known to invest a lot of time playing games in search of those experiences. Digital games research is polarized. Some studies find games to be a healthy hobby with positive effects; games promote well-being through regular experience of …
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Filial Therapy Training with Undergraduate Teacher Trainees; Child-Teacher Relationship Training
… training, adapted from child-centered play therapy procedures and skills training (filial therapy), with undergraduate teacher trainees. Specifically, this research determined if Child-Teacher Relationship training facilitated change in teacher trainees' interactions with children, …
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The Acquisition of Verb Inflection in Libyan Arabic: The Role of Input
… over a period of thirteen months at home during play time, meal times, and story reading sessions. The thesis contributes to the theoretical debate about the question of whether young children have adult-like syntactic representations, and what role parental/carer input plays in the acquisition …
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Perspectives on curriculum and pedagogy in a private kindergarten in China
… to develop their own interests in the areas of play provision linked to individual intelligences. Whilst practitioners and parents valued play-based activities in the MI programme, children conceptualised play differently and viewed some activities as 'learning' rather than 'play', which were …
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Understanding social withdrawal in children: a multimethod approach
… purpose of the present study was to conduct a multimethod behavioral assessment of childhood social withdrawal. Fourth and fifth grade children identified by teachers as socially withdrawn were compared with children identified by teachers as socially well-adjusted. A teacher nomination procedure …
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Geographilia in Children's Urban Spaces: Investigating How Children Explore Outdoor Places and Connect with Natural Objects.
… The benefits children receive from outdoor play time are well documented by scholars across many disciplines. Interacting within an unstructured natural setting can foster physical, social, emotional, and spiritual growth. The lessons learned in such an environment not only help children …
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Geographilia in Children's Urban Spaces: Investigating How Children Explore Outdoor Places and Connect with Natural Objects.
… The benefits children receive from outdoor play time are well documented by scholars across many disciplines. Interacting within an unstructured natural setting can foster physical, social, emotional, and spiritual growth. The lessons learned in such an environment not only help children …
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Learning (contexts) environments of young children in Zambia: daily experiences, quality of care and developmental outcomes in day care centres in Lusaka.
… assessed include daily routines such as learning time, play time, eating time, and safety of children. To assess quality, teacher qualifications, salary, child-teacher ratio, and teaching aids where considered. The results indicate that adequate preschools pay their teachers a good amount of money …
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Body size, socioeconomic status and training background of a select group of U16 South African rugby union players (2010-2013): The impact on national selection
… short duration, high intensity exercise in which players frequently collide into one another while running at high speeds. Players are commonly required to engage in phases of play involving contact such as tackling, rucking, mauling and scrumming. These phases of play require certain physical …
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A Comparative Study of the Perceptions of Elementary School Administrators, Teachers, and Students Regarding recess and Free Play in the Public School.
… severely limited or eliminated recess and free-play opportunities is on the rise across the nation. School officials cite the increasing levels of state and federal pressure to perform on standardized tests as the primary reason for this shift away from the playground. The threat of lawsuits and …
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Head Start and child care providers' feeding practices: a potential avenue for obesity prevention in young children
… style meal service (FSMS) during child care mealtimes. Cross-sectional data was collected in 2011 and 2012 where 118 child care providers from 24 center-based programs (6 Head Start [HS], 11 Child and Adult Care Food Program [CACFP] funded, 7 non-CACFP) completed self-administered surveys …
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Investigations in to the physiological and metabolic demands of elite rugby players: understanding how best to fuel the athlete
… collision sport with emphasis placed on players possessing high lean body-mass and low body-fat. After an 8-12 week pre-season focused on physiological adaptations, emphasis shifts towards optimizing competitive performance and recovery through periodising player’s diets and training. In …
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The Island of Last Hope + Time-play with purpose: minoritised stories in contemporary children's time-slip literature
… Last Hope', followed by a critical commentary, 'Time-play with purpose: minoritised stories in contemporary children's time-slip literature'. The commentary offers a new approach to ‘time-play’ fiction for children, demonstrating how exploring this area of scholarship as a practising writer can …
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