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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"national dataset"”.
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The Multifaceted Nature of Mathematics Knowledge for Teaching: Understanding the Use of Teachers' Specialized Content Knowledge and the Role of Teachers' Beliefs from a Practice-based Perspective
… through confirmatory factor analysis on a large, national dataset of middle school mathematics teacher survey responses involving mathematics knowledge for teaching. SCK was found to be vital in quality mathematics instruction yet not sufficient. Teacher beliefs about the delivery of mathematics …
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Context is key: evaluating SWPBIS Tier 1 implementation in high schools
… and (b) a secondary analysis of a large, national, dataset of SWPBIS implementation. To this end, we analyzed the conceptual roots and history of SWPBIS, Tier 1 fidelity and core practice elements, along with an updated review of research examining the relations between high school Tier 1 …
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“You can’t sit with us”: Relational aggression as an indicator of impairment in the conceptualization of conduct behaviors
… of conduct problems using a large national dataset. Participants included 11,873 youth from the Adolescent Brain and Cognitive Development Study. Latent profile analyses (LPA) were performed on a subset of this sample (N=1,970) who endorsed the presence of at least one conduct …
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Perceptions of Leadership: An Analysis of College Students' Understandings of the Concept of Leadership
… Study of Leadership (MSL) project, a national research study on college student leadership and the college experience. Data for the MSL were collected through an online survey with over 91,000 undergraduate college student respondents from 101 diverse U.S. colleges and universities. …
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The Wartime Origins of Postwar Democratization: Civil War, Rebel Governance, and Political Regimes
… and qualitative methods. An original cross-national dataset on rebel governance for all civil wars ending between 1950 and 2006 serves as the basis, first, for a novel empirical analysis of rebel governance in civil war, then for statistical tests of the theory. To further probe the theory's …
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Vegetarian Diet and Health Outcomes
… and non-vegetarians.</p> <p>Methods: The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health) dataset is a national dataset spanning decades and data collected in 5 phases. All 3 studies used a cross sectional design with phase 3 data. Statistical analysis was performed …
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Interstellar Gas Clouds and Gen. Ed. Astronomy Students: Who Are They? How Do They Behave?
… to the Light and Spectroscopy Concept Inventory national dataset. We use classical test theory to form a framework of results that is used to evaluate item difficulties, item discriminations, and the overall reliability of the LSCI. We perform an analysis of individual student’s normalized gains, …
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Essays on employer credit screening, manufacturing skill gaps, and the relationship between skill demands and capital intensity
… strategy along with credit proxy variables in a national dataset to test whether credit status reveals information about an employee's character that is predictive of employee productivity. The study finds that the character-related portion of credit status is not a significant predictor of …
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K-12 STEM Educators and the Inclusive Classroom
… Staffing Survey Teacher Questionnaire (SASS TQ) national dataset. The first study focused on K-12 STEM educator participation and perceived utility regarding their professional development experience concerning students with disabilities and LEP. Quantitative analysis revealed an overall lower …
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Improving Predictions of Stormwater Quantity and Quality through the Application of Modeling and Data Analysis Techniques from National to Catchment Scales
… study applied machine learning approaches with a national dataset along with monitoring and modeling studies at watershed scales to improve predictions of stormwater quantity and quality. First, we obtained stormwater quality data from the National Stormwater Quality Database (NSQD), which is the …
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The Paths To Becoming A Mathematics Teacher
… outcome of interest was examined using the NCES dataset Baccalaureate &Beyond:93/97, which provides thousands of variables on academic path, demographics, and labor market histories for over 8,000 individuals. It was analyzed using the NCES online analytic tool DAS to generate tables showing …
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Association between early maternal depression and child growth: A group-based trajectory modeling analysis
… investigate the research questions. FFCWS is a national dataset that has information on 4,898 women from predominantly non-marital, low-income, minority groups in the United States. This study used information collected at the birth of the child (wave 1) through age 9 (wave 5). The analytic …
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The Impact of Early Teacher Bias and Academic Risk on Children’s Current and Future Academic Achievement
… Study Kindergarten Cohort (ECLSK:2011) national dataset collected by the US Department of Education was analyzed in this study. Causal inference methods were leveraged to extend prior predictive findings and deepen the understanding of the complex mechanisms surrounding academic …
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Spatial signatures and mental maps: Using offenders’ activity locations to enhance geographic profiling for crime investigations
… sex offences between 2009 and 2018. This national dataset included details of the offenders’ crime locations and their pre-crime activity locations such as home addresses, family members’ home addresses, schools, and the locations of prior crimes and other police interactions. I then …
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Multimetric assessment of freshwater macroinvertebrate communities in Flanders, Belgium
… the WFD. To ensure that boundary values for the national biological assessment methods are comparable along all member states in Europe, regional intercalibration exercises were envisaged by the WFD for each quality element and for each category of water body. For river macroinvertebrates, the …