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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Quality Literature"”.
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Key elements of a quality literature program
3rd grade -- Group discussion -- Literary elements (setting, plot development, characterization) -- Comparison charts, study groups, journals -- Shared meaning.
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Using Literature to Support Second Graders' Critical Literacy of Civil Rights
… was designed to explore the use of children's literature to engage second grade students in critical literacy. I drew on multiple domains examining the use of children's literature in students' critical literacy development. I used data to analyze the kinds of perspectives children's literature …
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Determinants of services expectations : an application to the airline industry
… attention in both satisfaction and perceived quality literature domains but no agreement has been reached concerning the nature and formation of expectations. The present study reviewed the antecedents of consumer expectations discussed in the literature and incorporated some of them into a …
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Three considerations for wind band, an analysis and examination of Down Longford Way/Shenandoah by Percy Grainger (arr. Osmon), Shepherd’s Hey by Percy Grainger, and Halcyon Hearts by Katahj Copley
… as well as considerations for the selection of quality literature are included to provide additional contextual information. The goal of this report is to provide resources to conductors and teachers who seek to program these selected works for wind band.
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Encouraging parent-student literacy conversations: hosting an upper elementary family literacy event
… this study focused on encouraging critical, high-quality literature conversations at home to benefit students' literacy development. Teacher researchers collected data using parent surveys, attendance records, anecdotal observations, and teacher research journals. Careful analysis of this data …
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Investigating the Implementation of Whole Languge: Strengths and Weaknesses
… early literacy to first grade students. From the literature it appears that while Whole Language does have benefits, it cannot stand alone in the teaching of early literacy.</p> <p>Five professionals in teaching early literacy skills were interviewed in person or by email. They were asked if they …
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An investigation into the nature, determinants, and dynamics of service quality expectations
On the basis of a review of the substantive quality and service marketing literature current knowledge regarding service quality expectations was found either absent or deficient. The phenomenon is of increasing importance to both marketing researchers and management and was therefore judged worthy …
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A church musician's resource guide to the available resources from the Choral Public Domain Library for the Liturgical Year A
… This monograph provides a measure of quality control of the broad database presenting a usable resource guide for the church musician faced with the selection and presentation of liturgically suitable choral works every Sunday. Previous guides have been either so general that they make …
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Service quality in nursing homes. A construct, measurement and performance model to increase client focus.
This thesis is concerned with the quality of care for the elderly in nursing homes, responding to a critical social and demographic imperative. The aim of this study is to provide a service quality construct for nursing homes to increase client focus and satisfaction. The research is underpinned by …
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The Portrayal of the Family Unit In Children’s Choice Award Books
… see themselves and their families in the literature they read (Bracken, Wigutoff & Baker, 1981; Powell, Gillespie, Swearingen & Clements, 1993). Many researchers believe children can also benefit from literature that includes diverse families unlike their own (Allen, Allen & Sigler, 1993; …
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Data quality enhancement in oil reservoir operations : an application of IPMAP
This thesis presents a study of data quality enhancement opportunities in upstream oil and gas industry. Information Product MAP (IPMAP) methodology is used in reservoir pressure and reservoir simulation data, to propose data quality recommendations for the company under study. In particular, a new …
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Female directors on audit committees and audit quality : evidence from the UK
… female directors on audit committees and audit quality is not convincing, as it fails to effectively consider the practitioners’ audit quality assessments. By utilising both the audit fees and meeting or beating the zero earnings benchmark as audit quality proxies, this study captures the …
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Investigating the Impact of a Mentor Text Inquiry Approach to Narrative Writing Instruction on Attitude, Self-Efficacy, and Writing Processes of Fourth Grade Students in an Urban Elementary School
… to write something original. It is a piece of quality literature text that students can use as an exemplar text to model their own attempts for writing. This study explored the development of writing skills of an intact class of fourth grade students (n = 35) in order to assess the impact of …
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A Data Quality Framework for the Secondary Use of Electronic Health Information
… that is captured in the EHR is of sufficient quality to support these secondary uses. This research demonstrated that a healthcare data quality framework can be developed that produces metrics that characterize underlying EHR data quality and it can be used to quantify the impact of data …
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Industrial policy, skill formation, and job quality in the Danish, German and English offshore wind turbine industries
… of industrial policy, skill formation, and job quality in the offshore wind turbine manufacturing industry in Denmark, Germany and England. It engages with the comparative industrial relations, skill formation, and job quality literature and proposes an alternative analytical and theoretical …
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Industrial policy, skill formation, and job quality in the Danish, German and English offshore wind turbine industries
… of industrial policy, skill formation, and job quality in the offshore wind turbine manufacturing industry in Denmark, Germany and England. It engages with the comparative industrial relations, skill formation, and job quality literature and proposes an alternative analytical and theoretical …
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The repertoire selection practices of Georgia public school elementary choral directors
… (Broeker, 1998, p. 46). A survey of the extant literature on repertoire selection practices reveals a wealth of information regarding suggested criteria for selecting proper choral literature for the elementary chorus. However, it appears that there has been little research conducted or data …
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The Applicability of the Human Sigma Model to Service Quality Management in the UK Tourism Industry: an operational analysis
The dominant focus in the service quality literature in general, and within the tourism and hospitality sector service literature in particular, has been on the drivers of customer-perceived service quality. That is, although the role of front-line employees in service quality has been …
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An analysis of the feasibility of developing a generic model for the implementation of total quality management within the National Health Service
… not grounded in empirical data. Thus, the TQM literature is inundated with TQM models that are based on anecdotal evidence and the personal prescriptions of TQM writers'. This situation has led to a call by a number of writers' for an empirically determined implementation model for TQM; …
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An examination of major works for wind band and percussion ensemble: Spring wind – weather movement I and Storm warning and dance – Weather movement II by Steve Riley, Prelude op. 34, no. 14 by Dmitri Shostakovich and Tempered steel by Charles R. Young.
… plans and procedures for the preparation of the literature. The recital was performed by Kansas State University’s Symphony Band on March 13, 2007 in McCain Auditorium at 7:30pm.
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