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Fairclough, Stuart J.; Hilland, Toni A.; Vinson, Don; Stratton, Gareth – Environment and Behavior, 2012
The study purpose was to assess preliminary validity and reliability of the Physical Education and School Sport Environment Inventory (PESSEI), which was designed to audit physical education (PE) and school sport spaces and resources. PE teachers from eight English secondary schools completed the PESSEI. Criterion validity was assessed by…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Predictive Validity, Correlation, Physical Environment
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Torrens, Paul M.; Griffin, William A. – Environment and Behavior, 2013
The authors describe an observational and analytic methodology for recording and interpreting dynamic microprocesses that occur during social interaction, making use of space--time data collection techniques, spatial-statistical analysis, and visualization. The scheme has three investigative foci: Structure, Activity Composition, and Clustering.…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Geographic Information Systems, Geography, Visualization
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Maxwell, Lorraine E. – Environment and Behavior, 2007
A rating scale is developed for preschool classrooms to assess the physical environment's role in children's development of cognitive and social competency. The scale is tested in 98 classrooms, and children are assessed on two measures of competency in a subsample of these classrooms. Findings indicate that the physical environment is related to…
Descriptors: Physical Environment, Rating Scales, Child Care, Young Children
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Stebbins, Robert A. – Environment and Behavior, 1973
Presents hypotheses generated from observational data from schools in Newfoundland and Jamaica on how certain physical conditions in classrooms encourage disorderly behavior there. (JR)
Descriptors: Behavior, Behavior Problems, Classroom Environment, Educational Environment