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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"elementary age children"”.
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Beverage Selections and Presence Affect Healthy Eating Index Scores in Lunches of Elementary Age Children, Whether from Home or School
… by component food groups. Influence of beverage selections on HEI-2010 scores were examined for each meal origin. <strong>Methods:</strong> Digital plate waste estimations were analyzed for 509 NSLP meals and 524 LBFH from 2nd-5th-grade students in four elementary schools during the 2011-2012 …
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Eye of the beholder: Children respond to beauty in art.
… was to determine if beauty was important to elementary age children when exploring and making aesthetic judgements about works of art and to determine the criteria elementary students used in judging beauty in works of art. This study also explored beauty as a concept that could be used as an …
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Discontinuance of Innovations: Social Network Characteristics, Product Attributes, and Adopter Traits Related to Post -Adoption Behavior
… of alters in the social network, relative advantage, observability, number of elementary age children, and tenure with the innovation.
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Supporting trauma-impacted students through the use of animal assisted education
Wright, Charlotte R. Children living in high poverty large urban areas are frequently exposed to multiple forms of trauma. Experiences of violence, loss, and grief particularly among elementary age children can significantly impact their ability to emotionally regulate themselves, grow …
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Family Perceptions of Family Engagement: A Qualitative Study to Assist Stakeholders
… how professional working families with elementary age children perceive family engagement. Through one-on-one interviews, the researcher gained insight on how families define and perceive family engagement. The open-ended, one-on-one, semi-structured interviews included a purposeful …
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Investigation of the barriers that exist which may inhibit the development of cohesive home and school relationships
… “What barriers are present within the home and elementary school environments that may prevent the formation of productive relationships?” This information was gathered from families who have elementary-age children participating in the Transition Project currently under research at Virginia …
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Opera Education In The Upper Elementary Music Classroom
… with a well-rounded musical education for elementary-age children. Opera can easily be implemented as a part of a well-rounded musical education and can be taught in conjunction with multiple subjects. Anecdotal evidence suggests that children are exposed to negative stereotypes about opera …
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Mother Grin’s Village: A Creative Drama Program
… can promote effective communication skills in children. People of today must be able to deal with multifaceted societal issues. These situations will require interaction with many persons of diverse backgrounds. By examining the usefulness of creative drama in relation to conflict resolution, …
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Can You See Me? Re-Centering Biracial Voices Through Chicana Intervention in Children's Literature
… Biracial Voices through Chicana Intervention in Children’s Literature</em> offers critical reflection on an applied research project: the writing of a children’s book that interrogates how introducing a complex theoretical concept would take form<strong>. </strong>Children’s media introduced in …
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Children's Interface Design for Searching and Browsing
Elementary-age children are among the largest user groups of computers and the Internet, so it is important to design searching and browsing interfaces to support them. However, many interfaces for children do not consider their skills and preferences. Children can perform simple, single item …
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Efficacy of a School-Wide Teambuilding Program for Increasing School Belonging Amongst Elementary Children
… to how much school is valued (Hirschi, 1969; Wehlage et al, 1989). Research has consistently found connections between higher levels of school belonging and more favorable life outcomes in regard to academics, behavior, attendance, school completion, and mental health. Research has also provided …
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An Exploration of Musical Intelligence
This study explored the meaning teachers and children in an elementary school setting make of music. This study utilized an adapted version of Thomas Armstrong's musical intelligence checklist, as well as additional questions probing both teachers and children to relate their past and present …
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Exploring Early Temperament Predictors of Maladaptive Behavior in a Group of Elementary School Age Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder
… to later maladaptive behavior within a group of elementary age children diagnosed with ASD. Maladaptive behavior is a particularly salient outcome, as it impacts the child and family above and beyond the challenges associated with ASD (Hartley, Sikora, and McCoy, 2008; Hastings et al., 2005; …