Browsing by Subject "qualitative"
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(2012-02-14)Childhood overweight/obesity (CHO) is a serious health concern for children and adolescents. Despite increased efforts to prevent CHO, prevalence rates have actually increased. Evidence suggests that parents are critical ...
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(Frontiers, 2014-12-08)Purpose: To investigate African-American fathers’ (AAF) perceptions regarding the applicability and need for their involvement as a health connection for their children and describe how participating fathers’ behavior was ...
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(2019-05-21)The purpose of this study was to understand the adaptation process for undergraduate student veterans at a large research-intensive public university in the southwestern United States. The study of this adaptation process ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2004-09-30)This qualitative study was aimed at developing an understanding of how persons involved in the investigation or deliberation of child abuse and neglect cases think and feel about the process of weighing evidence and drawing ...
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(2019-03-12)How does media shape our leadership identities? How are leaders portrayed in television and film, and how does this influence our self-development? There is research on media effects and how we are shaped by the media we ...
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(2016-04-14)This dissertation presents three studies designed to elucidate the phenomenon of hunger and food insecurity among older adults of Mexican heritage in Texas-Mexico border colonias. First, a comprehensive background of the ...
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(2019-08-27)The purpose of this case study was to investigate teachers’ perceptions of fairness under the new Texas teacher evaluation system (T-TESS). Using the theoretical framework of procedural justice, the qualitative study ...
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(2021-12-07)Using a qualitative methodology with a critical qualitative inquiry methodological approach, this dissertation explored the academic experiences of 15 Latino/x males from South Central Los Angeles in higher education through ...
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(2016-12-05)Educators and students struggle with engagement in many educational settings and at all levels. A lack of engagement has been reported to contribute to an ever-widening gap between how students develop knowledge, skills, ...
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(2011-02-22)Bilingual education in the United States has been at the forefront of educational politics and debates since its inception. Arguments over language of instruction and program goals overshadow the deeper philosophical, ...
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Motherhood, Media and Reality: Analyzing Female Audience Reception of Celebrity Parenthood as News (2012-10-19)The growing cultural commodity of celebrity news and its increasing focus on celebrities' families is examined by this project to determine what consequence communications about celebrity pregnancy and parenthood have on ...
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(2023-05-09)This qualitative ethnographic study explores the perspectives of individuals who self-medicate with psilocybin outside of clinical research contexts. Semi-structured interviews were conducted to understand their motivations, ...
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(2009-05-15)The primary purpose of the study was to reveal the perceptions of three newlyarrived male Korean students enrolled in Texas A&M University during the 2007 fall semester regarding their experiences with culture shock and ...
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(2010-07-14)Researchers have found that 40 to 50 percent of youth's time can be classified as free or residual, which yields great opportunities for their participation in leisure and recreation activities. When all structured ...
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(2015-08-06)The purpose of this exploratory study was to examine how administrators from a single, rural school district in southeast Texas experienced the implementation of a reform policy, the Optional Flexible Year Program (OFYP), ...
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(2022-04-20)The Covid-19 pandemic in the Spring 2020 semester heralded unprecedented changes to higher education institutions. Most colleges and universities across the globe moved to emergency remote or synchronous online courses for ...