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Students' Perceptions Of Recess: An Examination Of Predictors Of Peer Conflict, Kadie Dooley
Students' Perceptions Of Recess: An Examination Of Predictors Of Peer Conflict, Kadie Dooley
College of Education and Human Sciences: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research
Recess plays an important role in students’ school days because it provides students opportunities to interact with their peers in unstructured settings. Some research has explored the relation between peer conflict within school contexts and how it is related to locations of positive play and the presence of adult supervisors. Further, researchers have conducted studies to examine within group differences for gender and grade, as well as between school differences. However, results have been mixed.
This dissertation examined the degree to which the following variables were related to where peer conflict occurs during recess: location of adult supervisors, location of …