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  • The effect of an integrated adapted physical education setting on the motor performance of preschool children with developmental delays

    Creator:
    Zittel, Lauriece L.
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    The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of an integrated adapted physical education setting on the motor performance of preschool children with developmental delays. Subjects in this study participated in segregated and integrated adapted physical education classes. During the integrated conditions, same-age peers without delays participated in...
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    planned, preschool adapted physical education activity. Delimitations The results of this investigation

  • Reform in undergraduate physical education major programs in the United States and in Japan

    Creator:
    Takeshita, Shunichi
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    Undergraduate physical education major programs in the United States and Japan were compared in terms of reform during the period 1972-74 to 1988-90. Two kinds of reform were studied: (1) change from single-track professional preparation to multiple-track preparation and (2) change from a nonacademic discipline-based program to an entirely academic...
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    physical activity (Newell, 1990). This has had several results. Zeigler (1988) states that there has been

  • The impact of space and color in the physical environment on children's cooperative behavior

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    Read, Marilyn Avonia
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    The purpose of this study was to determine whether changes in physical space impacted preschool children's cooperative behavior. These changes in physical space included differentiated and undifferentiated ceiling height and wall color. This study used an experimental design with subjects experiencing four conditions each. The sample consisted of 30 preschool...
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    Dissertation
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    The impact of space and color in the physical environment on

  • Residential placement of patients with dementia : relationship to care recipient and caregiver variables

    Creator:
    Coehlo, Deborah Padgett
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    The occurrence and timing of residential care of patients with dementia is impacted by several care recipient and caregiver variables. Previous research has shown a strong relationship among residential placement and marital status, cognitive decline, deterioration in functional abilities, and presence of behavior problems in the care recipient. Research on...
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    over time and caregivers' physical and mental weil-being and the occurrence and the timing of

  • Perception of clothing clues by five-, nine-, and thirteen-year-olds

    Creator:
    Butzer, Peggy A.
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    The significance of dress in a first encounter situation has been demonstrated empirically: clothing serves as a vehicle for communicating information from one person to another. Thus, it is influential in affecting the formation of first impressions. This study was undertaken to explore the elements of dress that are most...
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    perception was adapted from Shields' (1983) instrument. Subjects were shown three color photographs

  • Sociability, constraints, network involvement, and the self-esteem of older women

    Creator:
    Ames, Sheila A. (Sheila Ann)
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    The major purpose of this exploratory study was to develop an explanatory model of self-esteem and to interpret the model using the Social Exchange framework. To this end, a main effects and an interaction model emerged which offer promise toward understanding the components of self-esteem. This study examined 325 individual...
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    Dissertation
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    , physical health ca- pacity, and sociability, positively correlated with self- esteem as hypothesized but

  • The interrelatedness of sexual intimacy and relationship development

    Creator:
    Christopher, F. Scott
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    Fifty-four premarital couples were interviewed in an attempt to: (a) delineate pathways of premarital involvement; (b) investigate differences in the relationships of individuals who follow different pathways; and (c) examine which background variables predispose individuals to follow a specific pathway. Four sexual pathway types were established using a cluster analytic...
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    , physical attractive- ness, premarital sexual attitudes, and socio-economic status. The Interrelatedness

  • Preschool children's motor development and perceived competence

    Creator:
    Boucher, Barbara H.
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    This study compared the effects of two conditions on the motor development of preschool children and investigated the relationship between preschool children's motor development and perceived competence. Specifically, it provided information for discerning: a) the relative effects of a sensory-motor condition and an unstructured activities condition on the motor development...
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    supported by a doctoral scholarship grant from the Foundation for Physical Therapy. I am very grateful to

  • The relationship of teacher role characteristics, staff development, and school climate to the use of manipulatives in primary grade mathematics

    Creator:
    Smith, Karen Clark
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    A review of the literature revealed that there are many variables that influence teachers' instructional practices. These influential variables fall into three categories: those related to the teacher, which are referred to in this study as teacher role characteristics; those related to the inservice education activities of teachers, referred to...
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    Dissertation
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    staff development activity going on most of the year. Yet, Staff development in education is a curious

  • Fathers' perceptions of their role and interest in parent education

    Creator:
    Van Elswyk, Brent Alan
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    The major purposes of this study were to describe paternal attitudes toward fathering and parent education and to then explore the relationships among these attitudes and interests. Specifically, the study attempted to relate traditional/developmental attitudes of fathers to: (1) expressed interests in knowing more about child rearing; (2) willingness to...
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    child's physical care she was inevitably the most important person in that child's life. While it may be