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Showing 1 to 20 of 7401 for “"developmental"”.
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Validity of the Developmental Checklist of the Developmental Observation Checklist System
This study investigates the use of the Developmental Checklist (DC) of the Developmental Observation Checklist System (DOCS; Hresko, Miguel, Sherbenou, & Burton, 1994) as a screening measure for children birth to three years of age. Kentucky regulations require the use of the DC for screening in …
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Symptomatic developmental venous anomalies
Developmental Venous Anomalies are a normal variant that may be associated with other cerebral vascular malformation. They have bean previously referred to Venous angiomas. DVAs are the most frequently encountered cerebral vascular malformation and their incidence is reported to be high as2.6%. …
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A Developmental Theory of Intention
In this dissertation, I advance a developmental theory of intention, according to which an intention is an action under development. In chapter 1, I define and explain the major theories in contention and offer some motivations for each. The theory that an intention is a belief (cognitivism) can …
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Teaching social justice: developmental considerations
… other curricular challenges. Being informed of developmental opportunities and challenges with young people of different ages can allow teachers to be more efficient and effective in teaching about diversity. An ethnographic content analysis was conducted with educators who elected to learn how …
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Social Innovators and Developmental Stages
… how they make meaning. The study identified the developmental stage of each participant through the use of constructive-developmental theory, a stage theory of adult development, and the administration of Cook-Greuter's instrument, Leadership Maturity Assessment for Professionals. The research …
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Developmental Pathways To Conduct Problems
This study tests the predictions made by several causal theories proposing different etiologies for childhood-onset and adolescent-onset conduct problems. It investigates a variety of causal factors proven to be important for the development of antisocial behaviors, specifically …
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Plagiocephaly: Developmental and Medical Outcomes
… with craniosynostosis may be considered for developmental screening to determine whether they fall at risk for developmental delay, children with plagiocephaly are typically not seen as being at risk, their condition typically treated as a cosmetic problem. This study consisted of 85 …
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Memory consolidation in developmental disorders
… and math seem to be a relative weakness in neurodevelopmental disorders; repeated learning trials may be needed to allow diagnosis-specific deficits to emerge; cognitive variables predict academic, but not social functioning; consolidation could be treated as a separate, emergent variable and …
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Functional genomics of developmental disorders
… as a diagnostic biomarker for children with rare developmental disorders in chromatin-modifying genes. I show that DNA methylation signatures are a general property of these genes, that they have substantial clinical and diagnostic utility, and that they can be used to resolve variants of …
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Hout Bay: a developmental strategy
The Hout Bay Valley, surrounded by mountains and the Atlantic Ocean, is a unique ecological entity operating within the wider Metropolitan context of Cape Town. Sited as it is on the fringe of the expanding urban periphery of Cape Town, it is a beautiful legacy, a serious responsibility, an area of …
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Undergraduate Developmental Mathematics Students' Fraction Understandings
… fractions are well-documented for undergraduate developmental mathematics students. Thus, it may not be surprising that fractions act as a gate-keeping topic for college-level mathematics. However, research on the way(s) that undergraduate developmental mathematics students understand fractions …
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A developmental study of temporal judgment
<p>Temporal disorganization is a symptom of disorder manifested by both the aged psychotic and the harmless sanile. The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship of temporal judgment, specifically the adult human’s ability to judge the passage of time accurately, to chronological …
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Developmental Education Repeaters: Stories About Repetition
<p>Developmental education students make up almost half of the community college population in the United States (Bettinger & Long, 2005). Approximately 42% of first-time freshmen at community colleges must enroll in at least one developmental education course in English, reading and/or math (NCES, …
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Exploring Best Practices in Developmental Mathematics
… struggling with poor student success rates in developmental math. Therefore, this qualitative study focused on employing best practices in developmental mathematics at an urban community college in Dayton, Ohio. Guiding the study were the following research questions: What are the best …
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Developmental coordination disorder: a contextualised perspective
This research project investigated the lived experience of DCD in the daily lives of young adult students. The participants were eight students aged between 19 and 22 years of age who self-reported DCD. Semi-structured interviews were utilised to capture the students’ accounts of their daily lives …
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