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Families and Health: An Empirical Resource Guide for Researchers and Practitioners
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Proulx, Christine M.; Snyder, Linley A. – Family Relations, 2009
As evidence mounts indicating that the quality of family relationships affects family member health and that the health of family members influences the quality of family relationships and family functioning, it becomes crucial for family scientists to determine and understand the mechanisms underlying these associations. An empirical resource…
Descriptors: Family Relationship, Researchers, Resource Materials, Health
Independent Reading: The Relationship of Challenge, Non-Fiction and Gender to Achievement
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Topping, K. J.; Samuels, J.; Paul, T. – British Educational Research Journal, 2008
To explore whether different balances of fiction/non-fiction reading and challenge might help explain differences in reading achievement between genders, data on 45,670 pupils who independently read over 3 million books were analysed. Moderate (rather than high or low) levels of challenge were positively associated with achievement gain, but…
Descriptors: Independent Reading, Reading Achievement, Achievement Gains, Gender Differences
Walking the Talk in Bullying Prevention: Teacher Implementation Variables Related to Initial Impact of the "Steps to Respect" Program
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Hirschstein, Miriam K.; Edstrom, Leihua Van Schoiack; Frey, Karin S.; Snell, Jennie L.; MacKenzie, Elizabeth P. – School Psychology Review, 2007
This study examined relationships between teacher implementation of a comprehensive bullying prevention program and student outcomes. Implementation in third- through sixth-grade classrooms (N = 36) was measured by observation and teacher report. Student outcomes were measured by student surveys and teacher ratings of peer social skills (N = 549)…
Descriptors: Bullying, Prevention, Student Surveys, Classrooms
Educational Placement of Hearing Impaired Students as Related to Family Characteristics, Student Characteristics, and Preschool Intervention.
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Weisel, Amatzia – Journal of Special Education, 1989
Israeli elementary-level hearing-impaired students (N=188) were studied to determine the relation between background variables (family characteristics, student characteristics, and educational intervention) and educational placement (special schools, special classes, or regular classes). Placement was found to be related to socioeconomic status,…
Descriptors: Correlation, Early Intervention, Elementary Education, Family Characteristics
Teacher Beliefs, Perceptions of Behavior Problems, and Intervention Preferences.
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Short, Rick Jay; Short, Paula M. – Journal of Social Studies Research, 1989
Investigates the relationship among teacher beliefs about control, perceptions of behavior problems, and preference of interventions in classroom management. Administers two questionnaires to secondary faculty that showed a correlation between control beliefs and interventions. Control beliefs ranged from custodial to humanistic. Includes tables…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Classroom Environment, Classroom Techniques, Correlation
Literacy Achievement during Kindergarten: Examining Key Contributors in an At-Risk Sample
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Walpole, Sharon; Chow, Sy-Miin; Justice, Laura M. – Early Education and Development, 2004
This study investigated the contributions of initial literacy, oral language, and social adjustment to literacy achievement at the end of the kindergarten year. Data were collected across the kindergarten year from 48 children attending a school serving primarily children from low-income households with research-based curriculum and intervention…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Intervention, Social Adjustment, Spelling