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(2019-03-01)Department: EpidemiologyHalf of women in the United States use alcohol during pregnancy and most exposure occurs in the first weeks of gestation. Although most women who use alcohol change their behavior after pregnancy recognition, information ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2021-05)Intrusive parenting behavior is associated with a variety of poor child outcomes. Given this, it is important to understand predictors of negative parenting behavior so that we might identify parents who are at risk of ...
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(2005-07-19)Department: Education & Human DevelopmentThis study was an exploration of the differences that lie within the private school sector in British Columbia using school evaluation catalogues and student achievement data. Content analysis was used to analyze the ...
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(2023-03-22)Department: Computer ScienceBariatric surgery require effective pre-, intra-, and post-surgery care coordination to optimize patient outcomes and minimize complications. Assessing care coordination structures of the healthcare teams for these patients ...
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(2012-10-29)Department: Special EducationThe purposes of this study were to examine (1) the extent to which taking notes about text and writing an extended response about text would enhance reading comprehension for fourth grade students, (2) whether note taking ...
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(2016-07-25)Department: Learning, Teaching and DiversityPrior research on teacher learning in the context of large-scale instructional reform suggests that it is important to attend to both school and district factors and teacher-level factors when trying to understand variation ...
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(2019-07-17)Department: SociologyEven as the fastest growing racial/ethnic group in the United States, Asians remain an underrepresented and understudied group. Moreover, research on Asians in the United States has been limited to traditional immigrant ...
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(2012-07-26)Department: Teaching, Learning, and DiversityThis three-paper dissertation investigates how mathematics coaches support teachers to develop ambitious instructional practices that will provide richer opportunities for students’ learning. The goal of the first study ...
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(2012-12-12)Department: Community Research and ActionThis work reflects an exploratory ecological study of a charter school (CDS) serving refugee, immigrant, and native-born American students in kindergarten through sixth grade. Bronfrenbrenner's (1977; 1986) ecology of human ...
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(2022-05-16)Department: ChemistryKnowledge of peptide and protein structure is critical for understanding how they carry out their biological roles. In this dissertation, I describe how two-dimensional infrared (2D IR) spectroscopy coupled with isotope ...
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(2009-04-21)Department: Community Research and ActionThis thesis uses Foucault’s conceptualization of power to examine power dynamics in two health and human service organizations. Foucault suggests that power should be observed by assessing relationships, cultures, and ...
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(2015-07-24)Department: PsychologyDevelopment of prevention programs is essential in areas of high health and cost impact on society, and although many programs are able to demonstrate efficacy under idealistic conditions, these effects often diminish as ...
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(2013-07-03)Department: Special EducationThe present study examined teacher characteristics that may impact teacher efficacy or distinguish between teachers with high and low efficacy in the area of writing. A random sample of 997 third and fourth grade teachers ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2020-03-25)The goal of the current study is to investigate the neural mechanisms and time course of emotion and associations with individual differences in rumination in a sample of depressed adolescents. Rumination is the repetitive ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2010-04)
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2014)
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2019)Since the historic 2001 passage and subsequent implementation of the No Child Left Behind Act, NCLB, schools and districts across the nation have been held accountable in one way or another for student achievement. These ...
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(2020-06-03)Department: EpidemiologyPregnancy is an ideal time for positive lifestyle modifications, including sustaining physical activity behavior. However, medical association guidelines specifically avoid giving recommendations on the optimal frequency ...
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(2023-04-26)Purpose: The purpose of this study was to describe the complex syntax in second-grade teachers’ classroom talk and explore the relation of teachers’ complex syntax to (1) vocabulary, (2) classroom socioeconomic status, and ...
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(Vanderbilt University, 2024-03-27)With the publication of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-V) in 2013, newfound interest grew around the comorbidity of ASD and ADHD. However, the restructuring of both diagnosable ...