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Understanding Playground Behaviors And Injury Potential To Elementary Children
… premiums and a moral obligation to protect children on a playground while at recess increase liability exposures for a school district. This study explored the behaviors exhibited by elementary school children and playground monitors and the subsequent occurrence of increased or decreased …
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Cultural enrichment: connecting african american elementary children to academic achievement
<p>A large, growing number of mis-educated American citizens are being produced by America's public schools. Many of these students are being funneled into the penal system shortly after dropping out of high school. This phenomenon is especially prevalent among African American male students, many …
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Techniques to Help Disadvantaged Intermediate Elementary Children Learn to Read
… done in the area of helping disadvantaged elementary children learn to read, the importance of this research to scholastic growth and whether or not it merits the time required for development of techniques and activities. The second objective is to formulate a collection of techniques and …
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Nutritional Comparison of Packed and School Lunches for Elementary Children
Over 50 million children attend public elementary and secondary schools in the United States each day. Children spend a substantial portion of their waking hours in school and consume one-third to one-half of their daily calories there, making schools a promising site to influence dietary quality …
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Farmers Market Education with Supplemental Voucher Improves Farmers Market Awareness in Elementary Children
… In addition, an $8 FM voucher was provided to children for purchases of fruit and vegetables at the local FM. The voucher was valid for two weeks and fruit and vegetable purchases were recorded each week. <strong>Results:</strong>This study reported improved FM awareness among …
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A Comparison of Ideal/actual Teacher Characteristics by Elementary Children and Classroom Teachers
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Efficacy of a School-Wide Teambuilding Program for Increasing School Belonging Amongst Elementary Children
… TEAM, for improving school belonging amongst elementary-age children following one school year of implementation. In addition, the study examined the differential effects of the program based on student grade level and gender. Pre- and post-intervention surveys of school belonging were …
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The Relationship Between Teacher Expectations, Feedback, and Task Persistence in Elementary Children During Physical Education
Numerous studies have been done regarding the factors that effect on task persistence of students at an activity. However, little research has been done on the influence of teacher expectations , gender interactions , and teacher feedback. This study examined how these variables affect student task …
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The impact of a school garden on fruit and vegetable availability at home for elementary children
… of FV and on household food security of elementary children. A secondary aim of the study was to examine the impact of both the school garden and parental FV consumption on children’s FV preferences and consumption. Nine third-grade students completed this study. T-tests and ANOVA …
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The Relationship Between Musical Aptitude and Reading Achievement
… scores and reading achievement scores of upper elementary students. The variables analyzed include a test presenting musical aptitude scores and a test presenting reading achievement scores. The following problem and hypothesis were examined. (1) Is there a relationship between musical aptitude …
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Gender Differences and Similarities in the Work-family Interface: The Importance of Considering Family Life Stages
… Six family life stage groups were created: no children and workers age 35 or less, transition to parenthood, preschool children, elementary children, teenagers, and empty nest (workers age 50 years or older and no children dependent). The findings indicate that gender differences increase when …
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An exploration of the reading strategies used by sixth grade students of varying reading abilities when reading Internet sources to answer questions
… varying reading abilities of the subjects, upper elementary children use traditional as well as additional reading strategies when they read online articles. Using grounded theory, four reading strategy themes emerged consistently from three different reading sessions: determining importance (DI), …
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The effect of social skills training for elementary students with learning disabilities
… of the social skills program "Skillstreaming the Elementary School Child" for elementary children with learning disabilities. Two first grade and two second grade students participated in the study. All students were classified as specific learning disabled and were included in the general …
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Attitudes of Elementary Classroom Teachers Towards the Preparation of Elementary Classroom Teachers
… of this study was to assess the attitudes of elementary classroom teachers in southwest Missouri towards the preparation of elementary classroom teachers. A survey was given to seventy-two teachers in southwest Missouri. The data was collected and tabulated in percentages. Fifty percent of the …
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The role of teachers in classroom peer networks
… (SIENA) was conducted on a sample of 2,389 elementary children in 107 classrooms to investigate the development of friendship networks and victimization over time. Meta-analytic random effects and mixed effects models were applied via ‘metaphor’ package to test the moderating role of early …
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The Effects Of Closed-Captioned Television On The Oral Reading Fluency Of Low Socioeconomic 2nd Grade Students
… could have on the oral reading fluency of elementary children living in poverty. 2nd grade students from a Title I school in the Mississippi Delta were assigned to two different groups: the treatment group participated in viewing the Arthur video series with captions, while the control …
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The effects of cooperative learning on the spelling achievement of intermediate elementary students
… used six intact classes of intermediate grade elementary children. Three classes were grouped cooperatively for spelling instruction and three classes were not grouped cooperatively for spelling instruction. The study included the scores of 135 students, 68 in the control group and 67 in the …
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Science Experiences Of Six Elementary Student Teachers: A Case Study
… study focused on the science experiences of six elementary student teachers. The purpose of the study was to learn how preservice teachers make meaning of science teaching during their student teaching experience. The sources of data were interviews with participants, descriptive field notes from …
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