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  • Personal teaching efficacy and ethnic attributions as contributors to caucasian preservice teachers' behavior toward international children

    Creator:
    Burt, Linda S.
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    Two theoretical models were examined based on the contributions of preservice teachers' personal teaching efficacy, ethnic causal attributions, past teaching, and international interaction experiences to their behaviors toward international children in multicultural small group activity sessions. Path analytic results revealed that for both models, these variables together did not significantly...
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    Dissertation
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    : Alan I. Sugawara Two theoretical models were examined based on the contributions of preservice

  • A survey of family involvement in schools : the Corvallis, Oregon School District family

    Creator:
    McCoy, P. K.
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    Masters Thesis
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    approved: Alan Su gawara During the 1992-93 school year, the Family Involvement Advisory Committee

  • Parental attitudes toward fathering and fathers' involvement with infants

    Creator:
    Furneaux, Noël Annette
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    The present study examined fathers' and mothers' attitudes toward fathering and fathers' involvement with their infant sons and daughters. Subjects included 42 pairs of parents with infants from upper and middle socioeconomic class families. All subjects were of the Caucasian race. The Attitudes Toward Fathering Scale and the Father Behavioral...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Toward Fathering and Fathers' Involvement with Infants Abstract approved: Redacted for Privacy Dr. Alan

  • Different worlds? : asymmetry in graduate student marriages

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    Sakashita, Shari S.
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    That graduate study is detrimental to marriages has received empirical support. This study utilized systems theory to examine and help explain the dissolution process of graduate student marriages. Specifically, it examined the impact of marital structure on perceptions of marital quality. Drawing primarily from Scheinkman's (1988) qualitative study, spouses in...
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    Masters Thesis
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Shari S. Sakashita for the degree

  • The effects of the family context and parent involvement on perceptions of children's school achievement

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    Katzev, Aphra R.
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    The study examined dimensions of the family context associated with variations in parent involvement and parent perceptions of children's school achievement using data from 1,085 male and 2,239 female respondents with a child between the ages of 5 and 18 years collected in the 1987-88 National Survey of Families and...
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    Dissertation
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    School A' ievement Abstract approved: Alan Acock The study examined dimensions of the family context

  • Examining multidimensional resilience in at-risk adolescents

    Creator:
    Taylor, Amanda L.
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    The bulk of resilience research has focused on developmental outcomes in a single domain of functioning (e.g., academic achievement), overlooking the complex interplay of positive and negative developmental outcomes that may co-occur within an individual (Luthar, Cicchetti, & Becker, 2000). Resilience may strengthen over time and across domains (e.g., psychological...
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    Dissertation
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    : ______________________________________________________ Alan C. Acock The bulk of resilience research has focused on developmental outcomes in a

  • The efficiency of a retrospective pretest : how does the parenting ladder perform?

    Creator:
    Kneedler, Blythe K.
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    As program participants integrate new knowledge and understanding into previous standards regarding attitudes or perceptions, these altered standards violate the assumption of consistency inherent to the pretest-posttest method for measuring change over time. If this violation, or response-shift bias, is not controlled results can be misleading, which carries serious implications...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Retrospective Pretest: How Does the Parenting Ladder Perform? Abstract Approved: -- _i Alan Acock As

  • Effects of insecure attachment on marital interactions : examining the family stress model

    Creator:
    Wicks, Steven M.
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    This exploratory study posited that being in an insecure marriage would increase marital conflict and perceived relational aggression when the couple is experiencing economic constraints. The cross-sectional design assessed two groups of marriages: secure and insecure. A structural equation model using multiple group comparison tested the effect of each type...
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    Masters Thesis
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    . Abstract approved: Alan C. Acock This exploratory study posited that being in an insecure marriage

  • Evaluation of a social-emotional and character development program

    Creator:
    Washburn, Isaac J.
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    The effects of a school-based social-emotional and character development program, Positive Action, on the developmental trajectory of character development was evaluated using data from three randomized trials. Results come from 1) 4-years of data from elementary children in 20 Hawai`i schools, 2) 3-years of data from elementary children in 14...
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    Dissertation
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    Character Development Program Abstract approved: Alan C. Acock The effects of a

  • Preoperational spatial representation among preschool children in small-scale space

    Creator:
    Kozick, Stephanie A.
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    This study examined the effects of stage of preoperational thought, sex and mode of exploration on preschoolers ability to represent a small-scale model configuration of objects. Forty-eight subjects between the ages of 2 years, 5 months and 5 years, 4 months were classed in spatial conceptualization as either Stage I...
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    Dissertation
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    : Redacted for Privacy Dr. Alan I(JSugawara This study examined the effects of stage of preoperational