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The Relationship Between The Functions Of School Refusal Behavior And Family Environment, Rachel Marie Schafer
The Relationship Between The Functions Of School Refusal Behavior And Family Environment, Rachel Marie Schafer
UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones
The current study examined the relationship between the functions of school refusal behavior and family environment characteristics in a community sample of youth. The primary aim was to determine the family environments most strongly associated with each function of school refusal behavior in an ethnically diverse, community-based sample of youths referred to the legal process for absenteeism. Hypotheses for the current study were based on the premise that family environment characteristics of the community sample of youths with problematic absenteeism would generally resemble those identified in previous clinical samples. The first hypothesis was that youth who refuse school primarily to …
International Study Program For Indoor Environmental Research, Stoil Pamoukov
International Study Program For Indoor Environmental Research, Stoil Pamoukov
UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones
This study examined the effect on student performance, perception and mood caused by different physical classroom environmental conditions. Three classroom physical environmental conditions were investigated; room temperature, light intensity and sound level. A two phase pilot study was performed where these conditions were compounded into one and two levels were selected in such a way to create a normal and extreme classroom physical environment. A total of 154 undergraduate UNLV students participated in the two phase pilot laboratory study in which they completed tasks related to reading and listening to an oral presentation of a passage of high density technical …
Resilient Leadership In High Poverty Schools, Edward P. San Nicolas
Resilient Leadership In High Poverty Schools, Edward P. San Nicolas
UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones
Children in high poverty schools often receive inadequate services in dilapidated facilities while enduring inexperienced and unprepared educators (Darling-Hammond, 2004). Communities with a dense impoverished population in turn create school wide poverty, which is ultimately more detrimental than individual family poverty (Books, 2004). With most teachers leaving impoverished urban schools within the first five years, it is no surprise of the difficulty to retain qualified and professional school leaders. As suggested by Haberman (2005), attracting educators with specific qualities to fill these critical roles may be the best route to lasting success. Equally important is the possibility to transform existing …
Adult Estimation, Eye Movements And Math Anxiety, Robert T. Durette
Adult Estimation, Eye Movements And Math Anxiety, Robert T. Durette
UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones
In this experiment the estimation ability of college undergraduates was examined using a number line task, with lines numbered 0-to-100, 0-to1,000 and 0-to-723 presented on a computer monitor. Previous research on kindergarteners' through 6th graders' ability to estimate showed a progression from a logarithmic mental representation of numbers to a linear mental number line. Children's ability to estimate was found to correlate strongly with math achievement. We used this task to examine the hypothesis that remnants of the underlying logarithmic number line representation persist into adulthood despite formal educational experience with the number system (e.g. Dehaene, 1997). 0 to …