Browsing by Subject "achievement"
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(2011-04-18)Department: Latin American StudiesThis thesis evaluates the impact of the Brazilian Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) Program, Bolsa Família, on educational outcomes with special attention to student performance. In Brazil, CCTs in education first appeared ...
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(2015-11-20)Department: PsychologyCurrent theories of the relationship between personality and depression largely ignore conscientiousness and grit, leaving little conceptual framework for investigation. Among the handful of studies having investigated ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2014)The practice of critical discourse analysis examines the relationship between language, institutions, and power. This capstone essay critically examines the bimodal, culture-bound, racialized discourses to describe both ...
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(Vanderbilt University. Peabody College, 2015-07-30)This Capstone project explores the relationship between homeschooled students and the college admission process. Specifically, this essay is designed to answer the following question: Are homeschooled learners being ...
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(2013-04-08)Department: Leadership and Policy StudiesThis project uses a large multi-state dataset to address three aspects of the relationship between tracking and student achievement that have been understudied. Chapter II establishes that rigorous instruction is substantially ...