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Showing 1 to 20 of 42 for “"economic disadvantage"”.
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Economic Disadvantage, Nativity, and Academic Performance and School Punishment Among Latino/a Children
… This study examines the relationship between economic disadvantage and academic performance and school punishment through Family Stress Process Theory, providing a contextual analysis of resource instability. The additional myriad of legal and social constraints that parental nativity provides …
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Race, Social Disorganization and Delinquency
… in offending are largely accounted for by economic disadvantage. Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (<em>n</em> = 4,290), the relationship between race and delinquency was examined looking at social disorganization factors. It was hypothesized that there …
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ASSESSING THE IMPACT OF ECONOMIC MARGINALIZATION, GENDER INEQUALITY, AND OTHER EXOGENOUS FACTORS OF SOCIAL DISORGANIZATION ON FEMALE PROPERTY CRIME OFFENDING ACROSS US CITIES: A RACIALLY AND ETHNICALLY DISAGGREGATED ANALYSIS
… the influence of race and gender specific economic disadvantage, gender inequality, and other social disadvantage indicators on female non-violent and violent property crime offending. This dissertation found that economic marginality, gender inequality, and exogenous factors of social …
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Essays in Applied Microeconomics
… effects based on students’ gender, age, and economic disadvantage. Referring to the differential patterns of brain development and hormonal regulation by gender, the second chapter examines the potential differential impact of age on academic performance across genders and subject domains. I …
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The Change: A Narrative-Informed Case Study Exploring the Tension between Structures and Agency in the Educational Trajectories of Engineering Students from Underserved Backgrounds
… highlights the influence of family, community, economic, and political environments on the educational journeys of underserved engineering students, as students described navigating and adapting to these various social environments. Students also describe their environments as dynamic, with …
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Variation in Organizational Resources and Nurse & Patient Outcomes at Hospitals Serving Economically Disadvantaged Patients
… by low quality care at hospitals serving economically disadvantaged patients. The organizational resources available to nurses, including appropriate levels of nurse staffing and a positive practice environment, are strongly associated with care quality, as well as nurse and patient …
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Our Journeys: A Narrative Inquiry into the Experiences of Students from Working Class Backgrounds as They Pursue Higher Education
… students in higher education. Themes related to economic disadvantage, poor academic preparation, lack of moral support and financial stressors illustrate concepts of the grand narrative. Themes related to family structure, self-regulation, and deference to authority challenge the dominant …
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Emergent Learning in an Emerging World
… Learners, student diversity information, economic disadvantage information, the socio-economic status of each school community, and the state standardized testing results for each school. To analyze these data findings each factor was compared across each school then compared to …
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Timely intervention: before it's too hard: an investigation into the effectiveness of off-site intervention programs for students exhibiting behavioural difficulties in mainstream schools
… of schooling places the students at a social and economic disadvantage for the rest of their lives. Intervention programs attempt to address students’ behavioural and social issues and assist them to maintain their connection with education. This thesis examines an intervention program in …
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Infant mortality and childhood nutrition in Ondo State, Nigeria : their correlates and socio-cultural explanations
… (ODHS) to assess the effects of certain socio-economic variables and some of the Mosley and Chen's (1984) proximate determinants on infant mortality and childhood nutrition. Qualitative information from two phases of a micro-level study of an Ondo State town was also used to provide the context …
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Infant mortality and childhood nutrition in Ondo State, Nigeria : their correlates and socio-cultural explanations
… (ODHS) to assess the effects of certain socio-economic variables and some of the Mosley and Chen's (1984) proximate determinants on infant mortality and childhood nutrition. Qualitative information from two phases of a micro-level study of an Ondo State town was also used to provide the context …
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Implementation of The Essential Elements of Standards-Focused Middle-Level Schools and Programs and Their Relationship to Student Achievement
… these Essential Elements. After controlling for economic disadvantage, the data about implementation in these schools was compared to the student achievement as measured by the New York State testing program. </p> <p>Based on the data, it is apparent that implementation of the Essential Elements …
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Manaaki whenua. Manaaki tangata: Care for the land, care for the people: Leading critical school reform with mana whenua and whānau Māori
… resulting in high levels of endemic social and economic disadvantage in many Māori communities. This thesis examines the leadership praxis of two Pākehā principals, to understand how, with more respectful connections with Māori communities, they were able to address education disparities and …
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Determining the outcomes of vaccination against Mycoplasma hyosynoviae by identifying optimal application times
… swine has been identified as both a welfare and economic disadvantage in swine production. Thus, there is a need to investigate control and prevention measures against M. hyosynoviae in commercial conditions. Identifying the natural humoral immune response to M. hyosynoviae and then evaluating …
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Voicing desistance: Female perspective on giving up crime
… women in the CJS stem from backgrounds of abuse, economic disadvantage and alcohol, drug and mental health issues. Yet we must move away from the dichotomy of narratives of victimisation and survival and recognise that women have agency. We must challenge the neo-liberal and patriarchal approach …
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Risk factors for coronary heart disease and mediation by socio-economic status : An analysis of the 1995 National Health Survey
… shows CHD prevalence to be predicted by socio-economic status (SES) variables. This study aims to identify the extent to which risk and protective factors predict CHD prevalence in an Australian National survey and whether the association between risk factors and CHD is confounded by SES …
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Examining the perceived benefit of education for Aboriginal secondary students in Western Australia
… and urban Australians and face continued socio-economic disadvantage. Many contemporary voices have called for quantitative evidence for Indigenous education policy. The current thesis responds to this gap in the literature by developing a factor model of Indigenous education engagement, and …
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Unruly School Spaces: An Ethnographic Exploration of Year 8 Students Experiences Of Space, Gender and Well-Being in a South Wales Secondary School
… area of South Wales, with significant socio-economic disadvantage, by using space as a conceptual lens through which to view their social practices, and I hope to inform educational research, policy and practice in Wales with these findings.
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Unruly School Spaces: an ethnographic exploration of Year Eight student experiences of space, gender and well-being in a South Wales secondary school
… area of South Wales, with significant socio-economic disadvantage, by using space as a conceptual lens through which to view their social practices, and I hope to inform educational research, policy and practice in Wales with these findings.
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A Comparative Analysis of Education Reform and its Impact on Socio-Economic Reform in the Twentieth Century
… between education policy and socio-economic disadvantage. Although the focus of the project is primarily the last four decades of the twentieth century, there is an initial consideration of immediate post-war discourses on poverty and education focusing on the impact that these had …
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