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Music As An Instructional Modality To Increase Attending Behavior Of Elementary Students, Zachary Grossman Mar 2023

Music As An Instructional Modality To Increase Attending Behavior Of Elementary Students, Zachary Grossman

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Audio and audiovisual cues, when used as teaching tools, result in desirable learning outcomes for young learners when compared to visual cues alone (Havy et al., 2017; Kirkham et al., 2019; Sloutsky & Napolitano, 2003). Previous research has demonstrated that music can be an effective delivery method for teaching math in the elementary classrooms (An & Tillman, 2015; An et al., 2014; Azaryahu et al., 2020). However, the effectiveness of music at increasing attending behavior specifically has not been assessed in these studies. This study evaluated the effectiveness of music based instruction on students’ attending behaviors compared to non-music based …


Natural Disasters And Human Capital: Empirical Evidence From Indonesia, Lei Lv Mar 2023

Natural Disasters And Human Capital: Empirical Evidence From Indonesia, Lei Lv

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

In developing countries, natural disasters could destroy physical capital and adversely affect human capital accumulation by disrupting individual decisions. Such decisions play a critical role in determining individuals' human capital accumulation process and have a lifelong effect on their happiness and economic prosperity. To better understand how natural disasters affect human capital in developing countries, this dissertation uses the earthquakes in Indonesia as a natural experiment to study how this earthquake affects health, child marriage, and education. For the first chapter, I study how the 2006 Yogyakarta Earthquake a affects water-related acute disease symptomsin the short and long run. By …


A Mixed Methods Evaluation Of A World Health Organization Competency-Based Training Package For Foundational Helping Skills Among Pre-Service And In-Service Health Workers In Nepal, Peru And Uganda, Gloria A. Pedersen, Pragya Shrestha, Josephine Akellot, Alejandra Sepulveda, Nagendra P. Luitel, Rosco Kasujja, Carmen Contreras, Jerome T. Galea, Leydi Moran, Vibha Neupane, Damodar Rimal, Alison Schafer, Brandon A. Kohrt Jan 2023

A Mixed Methods Evaluation Of A World Health Organization Competency-Based Training Package For Foundational Helping Skills Among Pre-Service And In-Service Health Workers In Nepal, Peru And Uganda, Gloria A. Pedersen, Pragya Shrestha, Josephine Akellot, Alejandra Sepulveda, Nagendra P. Luitel, Rosco Kasujja, Carmen Contreras, Jerome T. Galea, Leydi Moran, Vibha Neupane, Damodar Rimal, Alison Schafer, Brandon A. Kohrt

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