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Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"urbanicity"”.
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An Analysis of Highly Qualified Special Education Teachers in High Poverty Urban and Rural Areas
… among K-12 public schools according to the urbanicity of the school and the proportion of students in poverty within a school. Variables included those related to teacher qualifications, demographic characteristics, and school characteristics. The findings demonstrated that there were …
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Linking community variables to parenting behaviours and youth risk behaviours
… test a model Hnking community disadvantage and urbanicity factors to parenting variables (i.e., monitoring, warmth, and knowledge) and to youth risk behavior (i.e., substance use and delinquency), measured both concurrently and one year after the assessment of parenting variables. The model …
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Economic Inequality Through a Contextual Lens: Spatial Variation in Beliefs, Opinion, and Policy Support
… policies? Which strategies for measuring urbanicity and economic conditions best reflect perceptual processes and other contextual mechanisms? The first chapter, “Attitudes in an Urban Context: Metropolitan Urbanicity and Support for Social Welfare Spending,” examines the association …
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Exploring Geographic Variations in Community and Consumer Food Environments for Children
… FEs among varying levels of neighbourhood urbanicity and socioeconomic status, and Canada-US differences in three North American study areas: London, ON, Middlesex County, ON, and Rochester, NY, through the use of children’s menu audits and GIS-based analysis. In the London-Middlesex …
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Navigating the Framework: Evaluating Program Placement for Secondary English Learners in Texas Schools
… secondary schools to determine how district urbanicity, program model, and contextual factors affect academic achievement, language proficiency, and reclassification. Specifically, the research addressed: (1) How do EL performance outcomes on the State of Texas Assessments of Academic …
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Towards an understanding of mental disorders in urban areas
… increased risk of schizophrenia associated with urbanicity has presented one of the most frequently replicated findings within psychiatric epidemiology. Despite the exclusion of several potential confounders, few specific socioenvironmental risk factors, which presumably underpin the 'urbanicity' …
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College and Career Readiness: Access to Advanced Mathematics and Science Courses in Virginia Public High Schools
… the percentage of minority students, and urbanicity locale. The results of this study indicated that student access to advanced mathematics and science course offerings, excluding and including AP mathematics and science courses, as in indicator of college and career readiness, differed …
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Community violence exposure and adolescents' academic functioning
… and mediating models by gender and level of urbanicity. Analyses suggest that community violence exposure is directly associated with poor academic outcomes, even after controlling for cognitive ability and socioeconomic status. The direct model applied equally well to adolescents across …
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The Cities on the Hill: Urban Politics in National Institutions
… divide between cities and rural areas. This urbanicity divide is stronger than it has ever been in our modern history, but it began with the development of an urban political order that changed the Democratic Party during the New Deal era. These cities, despite being the site of serious, …
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Built Environment and Risk of Obesity in the United States: A Multilevel Modeling Approach
… Furthermore, models for areas of different urbanicity levels were tested. The national study found that obesity risk initially increases with the urbanicity level and then drops, resembling an inverted-V shape. The results lend support to the role of built environment in influencing people’s …
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Is School Size Important? A Study of the Relationship Between School Size and Advanced Achievement in Public Secondary Schools in Virginia
… the following variables; socioeconomic status, urbanicity of school, per-pupil expenditure, and student-teacher ratio. The combinations of variables used in the current study were determined by knowledge gained in the review of the literature. Level of award on the Virginia Index of Performance, …
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Far-Right Extremism in America: A Geospatial Analysis of Incident Distribution
… rates, higher education levels and higher urbanicity in counties all indicate an increased likelihood a violent extremist far-right incident will take place.</p>
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Access to Care Factors Connected to Age at Evaluation for Children Assessed for Autism Spectrum Disorders
… of interest included sex, race/ethnicity, urbanicity, maternal education and severity of symptoms. This study analyzed 71 children ranging from 22 to 94 months as part of a database collected by the Autism Clinic at Children's Medical Center Dallas. We found that male children with higher …
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SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL BARRIERS TO HEALTHCARE ACCESS AND UTILIZATION FOR LESBIAN, GAY, AND BISEXUAL PEOPLE IN CALIFORNIA.
… in healthcare access at the intersections of urbanicity, race/ethnicity, and sexual identity; 2) examine differences in healthcare access at the intersections of sexual identity, gender, and income; and 3) determine whether non-identifying sexual minorities have disparate access to healthcare …
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Personal and Social Factors That Influence Advanced Course-Taking during High School
… as defined by school demographic variables of urbanicity, minority concentration, and poverty concentration. The study analyzed longitudinal data from the National Education Longitudinal Study of 1988 (NELS: 88), using structural equation modeling. Results indicated that parental involvement …
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Planning Towards Equal Spatial Accessibility of NCI Cancer Centers Across Geographic Areas and Demographic Groups in the U.S.
… Centers across geographic area, divisions and urbanicity. It also evaluates demographic disparities across ethnic and poverty groups. Then this research examines two planning objectives to minimize the inequalities in accessibility. One is to minimize the geographic inequality while the other …
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Empowering Equity in Postsecondary Transition for Marginalized Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students with Disabilities by Implementing a Culturally Responsive Summary of Performance Teacher Training and Support Program
… economic levels, gender, disability, and urbanicity. Working with students on communication skills, such as code-switching, allows teachers to explicitly work with students in a culturally responsive manner. Finally, by implementing the CRSOP the teachers reported a positive change in …
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School Counselors and Their Multicultural Counseling Competence and Awareness of the National Achievement Gap: A National Study
… race/ethnicity, gender, school level, and school urbanicity and questions that examined school counselors' awareness of the national achievement gap. The results of the current study suggested that school counselors possessed a self-perceived MCC between somewhat competent and competent. The …
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Exploring the Scale-up of a Free Community-Based Physical Activity Intervention to Rural and Smaller Urban Settings in Southwestern Ontario
… areas with limited local amenities and lower urbanicity engaged in less physical activity. The environmental scan revealed numerous recreational facilities (n = 238) and organized programs (n = 212) in smaller communities, demonstrating their capacity to adopt physical activity promotion …
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Strain, depression, and adolescent substance use: A temporal-ordering analysis
… to the salient social context of poverty and urbanicity. Data for this dissertation were drawn from five waves (2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, and 2010) of interview data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (1997) consisting of 16,868 person-waves constructed from 6,392 adolescents …
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