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Showing 1 to 20 of 43 for “"Suburban community"”.
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The Politics and Practicalities of Reentry: A Case Study of the Reentry Environment in a Suburban Community
… and budgetary considerations, the role of the community in reentry remains largely unexplored.</p><p>This dissertation examines how reentry is done at the community level; by practitioners of reentry, those who are in the process of reentry, and those who influence the political and structural …
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Life with HIV in a suburban community: an exploration of experiences pertaining to health and social care service access
… examines HIV within urban or rural contexts; the suburban gradient is not sufficiently described, despite how an overwhelming proportion of Canadians live in this form of community. This inquiry investigated how people living with HIV (PLWH) in a suburban, Ontario, Canada community access health …
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Headed for the Heartland: Decision-making Factors for International Students to Attend Rural and Suburban Community College in Illinois
… growth in international student enrollment at community colleges, little is known about how the international students learn about community colleges and ultimately decide to attend. The purpose of this research is to identify what factors lead international students to decide to attend …
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Midcentury modern: a memoir
… re-inventing itself in a prototypical post war suburban community. Interrogates the stories we tell about ourselves, our families, communities and society.</p>
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The relationships between problem solving style as measured by the Myers Briggs Type Indicator and achievement in college chemistry at the community college
… in use. The sample population was taken from a suburban community college. It was found that problem solving style does increase the variance explained by the currently used predictive tool. There is a non-simplistic relationship between problem solving style as measured by the MBTI and …
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A Phenomenological Study Of The First Year College Experience Of First-generation Latinx Students
… of a private independent high school in a suburban community, and research was conducted through interviewing the participants. Analyzing their perceptions garnered a deeper understanding of and insight into their lived experience in order to help develop strategies and programs to better …
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Aspirational Homeownership in a Time of Crisis: An ethnography of new homeowners in an Ottawa suburb
… research with new homeowners in a small suburban community in Ottawa called Findlay Creek and a Peircian semiotic approach, this thesis looks to translate the deeper meaning of homeownership and the experience of the perceived housing crisis. It argues that the phrase ‘the housing crisis’ …
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The effect of using technology and self-monitoring to teach basic facts to children at risk
… graders from an elementary school in a small suburban community in southern New Jersey. The study took place over 11 weeks and was conducted by the classroom teacher. The first week consisted of collecting baseline data followed by five weeks of students using the Everyday Mathematics online …
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Leisure Involvement and Alcohol Use of Adolescents
… and eleventh grade students of a semi-rural suburban community situated in the midwestern United States. Students completed a survey which included alcohol use items contained in the American Drug and Alcohol Survey. A modified Kelly Leisure Activity Scale was used to assess students' …
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The Effects of Sustained Silent Reading and Sustained Silent Writing on the Reading Attitudes of Fourth Grade Students
… in a self-contained general classroom in a suburban community. Fourteen students made up the treatment group and fourteen students made up the control group. A modified form of the Estes Reading Attitude Scale was used as a pretreatment equivalency measure for both groups. The treatment …
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An Investigation to determine if there is a Significant Correlation between Children’s Ability to Read and their Ability to do Mathematics
… fourth grade students from an upstate New York suburban community were the subjects for this study. The Metropolitan Achievement Tests were administered to all subjects by their regular classroom teachers during the first week in May. For the purpose of analysis, the raw score for total reading …
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Recycle : resource recovery in Belmont Massachusetts
… This thesis is an exploration into the ways a suburban community might proceed to do this in a useful and a meaningful way. A site in Belmont, Massachusetts was chosen to illustrate this proposal.
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Using self-management strategies to increase on-task behavior of students with ADD/ADHD
… with ADD/ADHD in an inclusive setting in a suburban community in the northeastern United States. Three 8th grade students participated in the study. The students' appropriate responses, inappropriate actions and inappropriate vocalizations were observed prior to and after self-management …
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The pursuit of procedural justice and police legitimacy: A case study of community police officers’ perceptions of the perceived benefits of higher education
<p>This is a case study of suburban community police officers and their perception of benefits of higher education as it relates to outcomes of procedural justice and legitimacy. Acknowledging controversial, high-profile incidents which have caused the police profession to be generalized in a …
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A multicontextual study of environmental influences on the development of eating disordered symptomology in adolescents
… eleventh, and twelfth grade adolescents in a suburban community were surveyed through self-report questionnaires; the Eating Attitudes Test (EAT), select subscales of the Eating Disorder Inventory-2 (EDI-2), and a modified version of the Multidimensional Media Influence Scale (MMIS). …
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