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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"parent attitudes"”.
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A Comparative Study of Parent Attitudes Toward Public Education
… an effort to determine the collective opinion of parents of Fairview R-11 students regarding the performance and status of the teachers and administrators as Fairview R-11 School, West Plains, Missouri. A survey was given to 247 parents and the response data was compared to national opinion polls. …
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An Assessment of Parent Attitudes Toward Special Education Services in Rural Greene County, Missouri
… of 1975 (P.L.94-142) mandates the inclusion of parent's rights pertaining to the education of their handicapped children. This study presents the findings of a parent survey conducted in rural Greene County, Missouri. Parents of handicapped children responded to a questionnaire consisting of …
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Changing parent attitudes and improving the intellectual abilities of three, four and five year old children through participation in a home start program
The purpose of this study was to determine whether there were any changes, attributable to participation in a Home Start program, in a mother's attitude towards children or in the children's measured intelligence.
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What are parents' opinions towards their children's transition from school to adulthood?
… research was to determine if training affected parent attitudes towards the transition planning process. Twenty-one parent volunteers participated in this study. Parents answered survey questions about their attitudes before attending two training sessions. A second survey was then completed to …
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Assessment of three key vaccine attitudes and exploration of their impact on vaccine uptake status in college students.
Personal attitudes towards vaccination as well as attitudes of friends and parents are likely key variables in predicting vaccination uptake (Flu, COVID-19, and HPV) in college students. Previous research has shown attitudes to be important predictors of health behaviors. However, there is no …
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The effect of home musical environment on child attitude and aptitude
… in music. Factors that were explored were parent attitudes, parent music background, child attitudes, child aptitudes, age, and gender roles. Parents (N=95) from a suburban elementary school completed an online survey to determine the nature of the musical environment of their home. Their …
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Assessing the Efficacy of Pre-Service Trainings for Treatment Foster Parents
… trainings: Model Approach to Partnerships in Parenting (MAPP, n = 81) and Pressley Ridge's Treatment Foster Care pre-service training (PR-TFC, n = 71) on treatment foster parents' parenting attitudes, readiness to provide treatment foster care, and attitudes toward providing treatment foster …
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The Lived Experineces of Parents and Their Perceptions of Preschool in one neighborhood in Eastern Virginia
… of quantitative and qualitative data regarding parents' positive and negative attitudes and beliefs about preschool, misconceptions arise regarding parental decisions to support or not to support their child's academic, social and emotional development prior to kindergarten. In a large urban …
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Development of an instrument assessing parenting behaviors
A paper-and-pencil instrument measuring parenting behaviors in hypothetical child rearing Situations was developed, based on Maccoby and Martin’s (1983) fourfold classification of parenting typologies. Maccoby and Martin’s model was expanded and examined from a circumplex perspective; the dimension …
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Educational Interventions for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders: Perceptions of Parents and Teachers in a Northeast Tennessee School System.
… case study investigated the perceptions of parents of children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD), special education teachers, and general education teachers in a Northeast Tennessee public school system regarding educational interventions for children with ASD including what interventions …
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Transferring the stigma of mathematics during COVID-19 : exploring correlations between parent and student perceptions about mathematics.
… study examined the relationship between parent and student attitudes and perceptions about mathematics. Compulsory education lists mathematics as one of the four core subjects. The State of Texas assesses students annually in third-grade mathematics through Algebra I, and some districts …
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Current Parent Involvement Practices in Georgia Title I Schools as Reported by Title I District-Level School Administrators
The current parent involvement practices in Georgia Title I schools as reported by Title I district-level school administrators are described in this quantitative study. Data gathered describe strategies, means of communication, barriers, personnel, and staff development impacting parent …
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Benefits reported by parents registered at the Fort Wayne Community School Title I Parent Resource Center from January 1980 through June 1980
The purpose of the study was to determine attitudes of parents toward the Fort Wayne Community School Title I Parent Resource Center. Specifically, the study was designed to measure the quality of services extended during the first six months of Resource Center operation, January 1980 through June …
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A study of factors related to the reading ability of beginning kindergarten children
… children were examined through child and parent interviews.A word call and comprehension test was developed and given to 1,858 beginning kindergarten children of thirty-one public schools of Delaware County, Indiana. A stratified random sampling procedure was employed. The strata were …
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Socioeconomic, Demographic, Attitudinal and Involvement Factors Associated with Math Achievement in Elementary School.
… socioeconomic factors, demographic factors, parent and student attitudes, and parent involvement were associated with math achievement. Students in Grade 5 were selected as the population for this study. Random sampling procedures were used to select the sample. Students in the sample …