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Emic Views Of A Reading Intervention: A Qualitative Case Study Of Motivation And Engagement, Joy Dangora Erickson
Emic Views Of A Reading Intervention: A Qualitative Case Study Of Motivation And Engagement, Joy Dangora Erickson
Doctoral Dissertations
Although little attention has been paid to primary-age children’s reading motivation in comparison to older readers, one disturbing trend has been repeatedly observed: reading motivation generally declines across the early elementary years. Given that children’s perceptions of school experiences shape motivation, and motivation impacts achievement, it is imperative that we better understand how school programming intended to promote reading skill development influences younger students’ motivation to read within it and beyond it. This dissertation employs a qualitative case study design, an approach rarely used to examine reading motivation, to begin addressing the first concern; a sample (N=14) of kindergarten, first-grade, …
Peer Support For Addiction In The Inpatient Setting, Rebecca Sweeney
Peer Support For Addiction In The Inpatient Setting, Rebecca Sweeney
DNP Scholarly Projects
Background: In 2006 the Institute of Medicine reported that combined mental illness and substance use disorder was the second leading cause of disability and death in women and the highest cause in men. More recent data obtained from the 2016 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (Ahrnsbratz et al 2016) indicates in 2016 only one in ten of the people who need treatment, receive it. At Cambridge Health Alliance’s Everett Hospital, the site of this pilot project, opioid overdose and acute alcohol intoxication comprise one in every ten visits in the Emergency Department. In January of 2018, CHA partnered …