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Showing 1 to 20 of 983 for “"Time Spent"”.
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The relationship between the time spent reading at home with parents and reading achievement
… at school. It is hypothesized that the more time parents spend reading to their child at home the higher their scores should be on reading assessments. The sample population consists of 15 students, in grades kindergarten and first, from a parochial school located in southern New Jersey. The …
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Factors Influencing the Amount of Time Spent By Cattle In Streams: Implications for TMDL Development
The amount of time cattle spend standing in streams is one input parameter needed by computer models when total maximum daily load (TMDL) plans are being developed. This input parameter is estimated using professionals' best judgment because experimental data are not available, and estimations are …
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Time Spent at University: The Impact of Volunteering on Political Engagement During Degree Study and Beyond
… apathy amongst young people by demonstrating how time spent at university participating in volunteering and other ‘real-world’ learning activities can increase political engagement for participants. The research takes place in an epoch when students are paying full tuition fees in England and …
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Compositional Associations of Time Spent in Sleep, Screen Time, and Physical Activity with Polysubstance Use in Adolescents
… between the movement behavior composition (time spent in sleep, screen time, and physical activity) and polysubstance use in adolescents. Methods: This cross-sectional study examined 14,701 Canadian adolescents in grades 6-10. The independent variable was the composition of time spent in …
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Prevention of pressure sores in hospital and community with special reference to the time spent for care
… of this study was to evaluate the amount of time which was spent in giving preventive pressure area care in both a sample of hospital patients and a sample of community patients. A pilot study was carried out to test the methodology, which was subsequently used with only minor modifications, …
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Testing reciprocal relationships between marital attitudes, time spent together, and marital satisfaction among newlyweds: a cross-lagged path model
… relationships between marital attitudes, time spent together, and marital satisfaction in a sample of newlyweds (N = 1220). Using cognitive dissonance theory and the investment model, this study tests two sets of theoretically derived unidirectional pathways to provide empirical evidence …
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Instructional Decision-Making Authority and Job Satisfaction of Four-Year Faculty by Primary Job Activity, Percentage of Time Spent Teaching, and Academic Discipline
… this study explored the job satisfaction of full-time faculty at four-year institutions who spent part of their time on teaching activities. The study also looked at differences by primary job activity, percentage of time spent teaching, and academic discipline using Biglan's discipline …
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Time in the “Great Recession”: the impact of the Great recession and being unemployed on time spent in healthy behaviors and with family members.
… the Great Recession and actual job loss on daily time use. Specifically, I examine the effects of being unemployed, living in states with poor economic conditions, and being interviewed during the Great Recession on 1) time spent with family members, 2) time spent sleeping, and 3) time spent …
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An Analysis of Time Spent with Patients During the First Year of a Hearing Aid Fitting and Possible Predictors of the Need for More Time
Being fit with a hearing aid takes time in the clinic with the audiologist. How much time impacts clinic pricing and programming, however, there has been minimal research thus far on this topic. Our study intended to fill this gap and identify any variables that might be predictive of the need for …
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Two essays on women in the labor market : the effects of time spent not employed and the determinants of part-time and full-time work
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics, 1989.
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The effect of immediate or delayed feedback, immediate retention test given after immediate and delayed feedback or omitted : amount of time spent with feedback, and verbal ability on long- and short-term retention of various levels of multiple-choice items and error pattern analyses
… the students' verbal ability, and the amount of time spent with feedback were used as covariates. Also investigated was the relationship of the level of the test item (recall or complex) to the students' ability to profit from immediate or delayed feedback. The interference perseveration …
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Structured Flowcharting Versus Structured Pseudo-Coding in Teaching Problem-Solving Skills in Software Design: A Critical Comparison
… students. Dependent variables were design time spent on computer application problems, time spent correcting those problems, total time spent on those problems, total number of computer runs used, total dollar amount of computer time spent, and students' evaluations of the teaching of …
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Psychological Need Satisfaction and Engagement in Leisure and Work Domains
… self-reported engagement (Van den Broeck, 2008). Time spent on activities has been used as a measure of engagement but not much research has been conducted with need satisfaction. The purpose of this study was three-fold: 1) to assess how need satisfaction may influence time spent in domains; 2) …
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Same-sex vs. co-ed classrooms: do gender differences carry over Into a co-ed college?
… positive correlation (r = .38) between amount of time spent in SSI and change in academic performance, meaning the more time spent in SSI, the larger decrease in academic performance overall. This is inconsistent with hypothesized results, and previous findings. However, for female participants, …
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The enigma machine : unravelling the domestic experience
… that connect one to the 'outside world', time spent indoors is for many people time spent alone. My body of work is concerned with an individual's experience within the confines of the home, where the exterior (physical space) becomes a reflection of the individual's interior experience.
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