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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"north georgia"”.
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Hydrological Drought Analysis for Seven North Georgia Watersheds (1970-2000)
… used to determine droughts from 1970-2000 in 7 North Georgia catchments. Because other studies have shown the importance of time on index performance, SPI and SDI were calculated on data aggregated for 1, 3, 6, 9, 12, and 24 month intervals. The performance of the indices was evaluated using the …
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Untold Stories and Silenced Voices: Lives Inside a North Georgia Elementary School
… white student populations in a rural/suburban North Georgia elementary school. I explore the obstacles and challenges they face as they experience the negative and crippling effects of the policies and practices forced upon them in their teaching and learning environments. Drawing upon the …
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"We Run a Different School Within a School": Educator Perceptions of Guatemala-Maya Students in a North Georgia Public School System
… the education of Guatemalan-Maya students in a North Georgia public school system, framed through interviews with educators. The educators selected for this study worked almost exclusively with elementary, middle, and high-school age Guatemalan-Maya students. The perspectives of the teachers are …
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The relationship of personal and professional teacher diversity belief typologies to average student mathematics achievement in middle schools serving the diverse populations of north Georgia
… achievement in middle level math class rooms in North Georgia in 2009. The study attempted to answer the following research questions: 1. What were the personal/professional diversity belief typologies for middle level teachers who teach diverse populations? 2. Was there a significant …
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Ghosts Among the Kudzu
… that explores ghosts and legends in and around North Georgia.</p>
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Qualitative Exploration of Principal Behaviors in Elementary Schools Classified with High Climate and High Achievement
… achieving/high climate elementary schools in North Georgia and the impact of these behaviors on future principal professional learning practices. This research study was conducted using a qualitative case study with a phenomenological approach. The particular phenomena studied in this research …
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Student academic success as related to student age and gender
… on a state mandated assessment for a cohort of North Georgia elementary school students in their first, second, and third grade years. Study results indicated that student age had a statistically significant impact on academic achievement for students in their first and third grade years on the …
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Examining Teachers’ Practices and Perspectives of Family Engagement in a Rural High School Setting
… from the “Pocahontas High School” located in North Georgia. The significance of the study, a literature review, methodology, and findings of this study were also provided in detail.</p>
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Wonders for the Dead
… <em>Wonders for the Dead </em>is set in North Georgia during the Great Depression, and interwoven into the main narrative are interludes that take the reader back a generation and provide more insight into the lives of the characters. All of these threads connect into a cohesive story …
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Effective School District Recruitment Strategies of African American Teachers
… to increase African American teacher hiring in Georgia. This study examined the district strategies that were implemented to recruit and hire minority teachers and the challenges the districts encountered in recruiting African American teachers in Georgia. The researcher examined the Certified …
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An investigation into predictors of middle school mathematics achievement as measured by the Georgia criterion-referenced competency tests
… study was to locate variables from 2006 and 2007 Georgia Criterion-Referenced Competency Test (CRCT) that could predict mathematics performance on the 2008 CRCT for a cohort of 449 students in two middle schools in Murray County in north Georgia. The student population was 80% Caucasian, 17% …
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The Effect of Sample Size on Rapid Bioassessment Scores and Management Efficiency
… 29 streams located in several subecoregions of Georgia to examine how the rapid bioassessment scores perform across subsample sizes of 100, 200, and 300 organisms. Subsample sizes of 100 and 200 organisms were found to underestimate richness, functional feeding group, habit, HBI and NCBI for …
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Health and social disparities influence opioid misuse among adult females living in rural areas
… we conducted a qualitative analysis of the rural North Georgia area to supplement findings from the quantitative analysis data.</p>
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The Outcomes of Offering a Working Lunch Session in Improving Adolescent Students’ Assignment Completion Rate and Academic Achievement in Mathematics
… students in a Title I middle school in North Georgia. Along with the numerical data, students’ pre- and post-interviews were conducted to get a qualitative perspective on students’ views of punishment and how they think and feel that a zero in the grade book verses a working lunch …
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Factors in seventh grade academics associated with performance levels on the tenth grade biology end of course test in selected middle and high schools in northwest Georgia
… sample from the middle schools in three North Georgia counties who took the four CRCTs in the 2006-2007 school year, and took the biology EOCT in the 2009-2010 school year. Chi square was used to determine the relationships of the various demographic variables on three biology EOCT …
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Weight, Temperature, and Transcutaneous Bilirubin of the Term Neonate at Discharge: A Comparative Study Between a Traditional Nursery and Rooming-in Model of Care
… electronic neonate records from one hospital in north Georgia were examined and divided based on when the model of neonate care changed from the traditional nursery care setting to full rooming-in, which was early November 2010: Group 1 (traditional care) consisted of 51 term neonates discharged …
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Influence of Non-Monetary Factors On Paraprofessionals’ Perceptions of Workplace Belongingness
… sense of workplace belongingness within a North Georgia suburban school district. The study utilized the Integrative Belongingness Framework (IBF). Data were collected from 103 current and former paraprofessionals using a validated, self-report survey. Multiple linear regression analyses …
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Transition Competencies: Secondary Special Education Teachers' Perceptions of Their Frequency of Performance
… special education services within an urban, north Georgia school district. The data analyses revealed significant relationships among teachers’ perceptions of their frequency of performance across the transition domains. Additionally, the findings revealed a difference between teachers’ …
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Public-Private Partnership in Local Administration: An Exploratory Study of the City of Sandy Springs
… of Sandy Springs, in the Greater Atlanta area, North Georgia. The City of Sandy Springs’s innovative experiments with a different layer of public-private partnership has created immense curiosity among municipalities around the nation for a plausible new governing model that could revolutionize …