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Showing 1 to 20 of 38 for “"children's responses"”.
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Children's Responses to Grammatically Complete and Incomplete Prompts to Imitate
… programs instruct clinicians and parents of children with language learning difficulty to expand their child's utterance by adding one or two words. This often results in a telegraphic utterance, one that is devoid of function words and inflectional endings. Other programs not only advocate …
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A socio-cultural study exploring Greek and English 11-year-old children's responses to wordless picturebooks
… Through the identification of themes in their responses, the study explores the children's engagement while interpreting these books, and also demonstrates how wordless picturebooks can be addressed to and enjoyed by fluent readers. The central tenets of the thesis are described through a …
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Socialization of coping with peer victimization and negative emotionality: Interactive contributions to children's responses to stress and depressive symptoms
… of coping and child negative emotionality to children’s responses to peer aggression and depressive symptoms. Children (n = 289, M age = 8.00, SD = .37) and their parents completed questionnaires at two waves over a one-year period. Results revealed that active socialization of coping …
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Children's responses to Maurice Sendak's "Where the wild things are" : a study conducted at a Cape Town public library
… main hypotheses under scrutiny is that a child's responses to a children's book are likely to be influenced to a significant degree by his stage of cognitive development. A second major premise is that domains of human development and existence other than the cognitive (such as the emotional, …
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"""How did we get here?"" An examination of the collection of contemporary Caribbean juvenile literature in the children's library of the National Library of Trinidad and Tobago and Trinidadian children's responses to selected titles"
… the West Indian Juvenile collection of Caribbean children's literature housed at the Port of Spain Children's Library of the National Library of Trinidad and Tobago to determine its characteristics and contents, and to elicit the responses of a group of children, aged 11 to 13, to selected works …
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Nutrition Knowledge Assessment of Preschool Children
… for a classroom teacher to interview preschool children for assessment of nutrition knowledge concepts. Specifically, knowledge of vegetable concepts which included identification of the food, the food group, the source, preparation methods and use by the body was measured. The assessment was …
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What do children hear? : what do children understand?
'What Do Children Hear? What Do Children Understand?' is a study of a prep grade of children and their interaction in a day-to-day classroom teaching-learning situation. It is a brief glimpse at the complexity that is a part of teaching children. Research studies show and acknowledge differences in …
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The effect of stimulus presentation on original thinking by preschool children
… dimension and mode of exploration on preschool children's responses to two original thinking tasks. Eighty children from four child care centers ranging in age from 46-65 months comprised the five condition groups: 2-D stimuli for visual exploration only, 2-D stimuli for visual plus haptic …
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Investigating the Various Ways Parental Incarceration Affects Children: An Application of Mixture Regression
… risk and resiliency theory, the various ways children are affected by fathers' concurrent and previous incarceration are outlined. Using mixture regression, the various ways children are affected are identified. Child, family, and neighborhood characteristics are used to predict these effects. …
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Native American Children and Their Reports of Hope: A Factor Analytic Comparison
… included (a) the Hope Interview and (b) the Children's Hope Scale. By assessing these variables, this study addressed the following questions: (a) Is the conceptualization of hope that is used predominately with European American samples, similar to the conceptualization of hope among Native …
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Parents' Responses to Children's Success and Failure: Differences Between Chinese and European American Parents
… cultural differences in how parents respond to children's performance. Whether such differences account for cultural differences in children's responses was also studied. In Study 1, Chinese fifth-graders (N = 188) reported that parents deemphasized their academic success and emphasized their …
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The effects of Chinese immigrants' acculturation and changes in family environment on childrens' product influence in family purchase decisions
… i.e., acculturation, family climate, and children's product influence. The acculturation construct was measured according to fathers', mothers' and children's responses. Family climate was measured by ten FES subscales. Four product areas were used to investigate children's product …
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An examination of children's strategy responses to two types of conflict situations
… to provide a more differential assessment of children's responses to interpersonal conflict. A distinction was made between two types of peer conflict situations: equal legitimacy conflict situations and rights infraction conflict situations. Equal legitimacy conflict situations involve …
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The children's chapel, Unitarian Church of Montreal : two case studies of the role of the mural in the transformation of the room into a sacred space
In the Summer of 1998, I painted a mural in the Children's Chapel at the Unitarian Church of Montreal. What was once a plain room with little atmosphere has become, somehow, a magical space. It's clear that the mural is appreciated and acknowledged as having played a major role in this …
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Literature as Mirror: Analyzing the Oral, Written, and Artistic Responses of Young Mexican -Origin Children to Mexican American -Themed Picture Storybooks
Data consisted of oral, written, and artistic responses to the oral readings in Spanish of four focal texts, as well as family interviews. Coding and analysis of students' responses revealed cultural connections across Sipe's (2000) five response categories: analytical, personal, transparent, …
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Young Childrens' Understanding of Superstitions
The aim of this study was to examine young children's understanding of superstitions—specifically bad luck superstitions. Children between the ages of 4 and 9 received a set of interview questions concerning their experiences with superstitions, their beliefs about the efficacy of superstitions, …
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Coping with Peer Victimization in Middle Childhood
… there are competing theories on whether children's coping responses are important determinants of future victimization (Perry citations; Limber, 2004), but little longitudinal research has been conducted to test the competing theories. Utilizing student and teacher reports, the current …
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The use of children's free drawings in assessing the presence of paediatric pain
… aims to investigate the use of hospitalized children's free drawings to assess the presence of post-operative pain in patients where language barriers previously prevented the use of existing pain assessment methods. This research involved 50 children ages 6 - 13 years, mostly from …
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A Descriptive Study of the Impact of Migraine Headaches on Children's Lifestyles
… significant prevalence of migraine headaches in children, yet there is less focused attention on migraines in children than in adults. Pediatric migraine is a very complex disorder with debilitating symptoms that disrupt activities of daily living, school, and play. The purpose of this study was …
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