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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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    for his collaboration on the study' s application to early childhood education; and, Dr. Margaret

  • The influence of children's learning-related social skills and the home literacy environment on early literacy skills

    Creator:
    Farris, Carrie L.
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    The present study investigated how the home literacy environment and children's learning-related social skills independently and interactively predicted early literacy skills in a sample of 72 children. Hierarchical regressions revealed that the home literacy environment predicted children's early reading and vocabulary skills, when controlling for maternal education and child age....
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    predicted children's early reading and vocabulary skills, when controlling for maternal education and child

  • The development, application, and evaluation of a culturally-appropriate, fully-integrated parenting curriculum

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    Alaniz, Jody A.
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    Few parenting curricula exist that are culturally-appropriate to the Mexican-immigrant population served by many programs. The Even Start family literacy program has four integrated components, making it more difficult to find appropriate curricula for the families they serve. During Winter 2006, discussion groups were conducted with participants in two Even...
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    , early childhood education, and parent-child interaction. Even Start is expected to integrate the four

  • Transition to kindergarten for children with disabilities: school practices and parent involvement

    Creator:
    Dogaru, Cristian M.
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    Using Pianta and Walsh's (1996) Contextual Systems Model (CSM), this study analyzed parent involvement in school as a key element for transition to kindergarten for children with disabilities and their families, along with the practices schools employ to improve school-family collaboration. Focusing on the relationship between the school system and...
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    environment. 12 The early years of education are critical for children's future academic and social

  • Molecular and cellular characterization of the intracellular phenotype of Mycobacterium avium

    Creator:
    Early, Julie V.
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    Mycobacterium avium cause disseminated disease in immunocompromised people such as AIDS patients. Subsequent to crossing the intestinal epithelium, M. avium thrive within vacuoles in macrophages. The bacteria exhibit a different, more invasive, phenotype after being in macrophages compared to M. avium from laboratory conditions. We hypothesized that this intracellular phenotype...
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    , Kelley and Schorey 2004). The MAC-containing phagosome acquires early endosome markers like Rab5, but

  • Mathematical approaches to the physics of mesoscale oceanography

    Creator:
    Early, Jeffrey J.
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    The long-term evolution of Gaussian eddies is studied in an equivalent barotropic model using both linear and nonlinear quasi-geostrophic theory in an attempt to understand westward propagating satellite altimetry tracked mesoscale eddies. By examining both individual eddies and a large basin seeded with eddies, it is shown that long term...
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    request. Jeffrey J. Early, Author ACKNOWLEDGMENTS First and foremost I would like to thank my advisor

  • Middle Eastern mothers' perspectives of U.S. early childhood schools

    Creator:
    Badiee, Shahrnaz
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    I determined the perspectives of Middle Eastern mothers concerning U.S. early childhood schools using qualitative methodologies. The ecological perspective model presented by Bronfenbrenner was the ideal framework for investigating the Middle Eastern children's experiences in this study that considered the importance of the sociocultural contexts of children and their families....
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    provide readers an overview of early childhood development, the psychological developmental theory and

  • Early family risk and children's academic achievement

    Creator:
    Sektnan, Michaella A.
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    Children who have multiple family risk factors are at increased risk for poor developmental outcomes, including poor academic achievement. The present study focused on charting the pathways through which early family risk – as indexed by ethnic minority status, low maternal education, low family income, and chronic maternal depressive symptoms...
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    Development and Family Studies presented on December 10, 2007. Title: Early Family Risk and Children’s

  • A scale of student teaching concerns for use with early childhood education teacher trainees

    Creator:
    Arroyo, Aline Asa
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    Effective teacher training programs have been a concern for many years. While most teacher training programs have been evaluated by follow-up studies valuable information can be gained by assessing the needs and concerns of teacher trainees as they progress through their teacher training experiences. The primary purpose of this study...
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    DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY in HUMAN DEVELOPMENT AND FAMILY STUDIES presented on August 8, 1985. Title: A

  • Exploring the foundations of science interest development in early childhood

    Creator:
    Pattison, Scott A.
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    There is growing evidence that children develop science-related interests in early childhood, before they enter school, and that these interests may have long-term implications for science participation and achievement. Although researchers have made headway in describing interest development in the preschool years, little is currently known about the proximal processes...
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    revised co-regulation model of early childhood science interest development, and suggest future