Browsing Human Development & Quantitative Methodology Theses and Dissertations by Title
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Parent Gender and Child Gender as Factors in the Socialization of Emotion Displays and Emotion Regulation in Preschool Children
(2006-06-02)In recent years, there has been a surge in the examination of the socialization of children's emotions (see Eisenberg, Cumberland, & Spinrad, 1998 for relevant review). Few researchers have examined the socialization ... -
PARENTAL AND SCHOOL INFLUENCES ASSOCIATED WITH FIFTH GRADERS' HEALTHY EATING AND PHYSICAL ACTIVITY BEHAVIORS
(2011)Healthy eating and physical activity behaviors are decreasing among children in the United States. Despite growing evidence that parents and schools are important influences on the healthy development of children and ... -
Paths to compliance: Differing influences of maternal behavior in temperamentally fearful and exuberant infants
(2007-04-15)The goal of this study was to describe the expression of compliance in temperamentally positive and negatively reactive children and the factors that contribute to individual differences in expression of compliance within ... -
Pathways between exposure to violence, maternal depression, family structury [i.e. structure] and child outcomes through parenting: A multi-group analysis
(2007-07-27)Arguably one of the greatest influences on a child's development is the parenting he or she experiences. With that perspective, family stress theory posits that children in low-income families are affected by poverty-related ... -
Peer Collaboration: The Role of Questions and Regulatory Processes in Conceptual-Knowledge Learning
(2009)Peer collaboration and questioning are two pedagogical methods currently used under the assumption that they facilitate conceptual understanding in science classrooms. However, the literature on peer collaboration reveals ... -
Perceived Organizational and Personal Factors Related to Job Satisfaction in Public School Teachers
(1982)Teaching has always been a demanding occupation; and yet, in the last few years, there has been increasing evidence that teachers are expressing greater feelings of anxiety, frustration and dissatisfaction with their ... -
Perceptions of Transition to Civilian Life Among Recently Retired Air Force Officers
(2004-12-16)This study explored the perceptions of recently retired Air Force officers and their wives of their adjustment to civilian life and their general well-being through in-depth personal interviews. The assumptions for this ... -
The Performance of Balance Diagnostics for Propensity-Score Matched Samples in Multilevel Settings
(2019)The purpose of the study was to assess and demonstrate the use of covariate balance diagnostics for samples matched with propensity scores in multilevel settings. A Monte Carlo simulation was conducted that assessed the ... -
Performance of Propensity Score Methods in the Presence of Heterogeneous Treatment Effects
(2016)Estimating an average treatment effect assumes that individuals and groups are homogeneous in their responses to a treatment or intervention. However, treatment effects are often heterogeneous. Selecting the most effective ... -
Posterior predictive model checking for multidimensionality in item response theory and Bayesian networks
(2006-04-26)If data exhibit a dimensional structure more complex than what is assumed, key conditional independence assumptions of the hypothesized model do not hold. The current work pursues posterior predictive model checking, a ... -
Preconscious Influences on Decision Making about Complex Questions
(2005-01-31)There is evidence that the most widely accepted theories and models of judgment, decision making and reasoning are inadequate because they do not accurately describe what people do or are able to do when making decisions. ... -
PREFERENCE-FOR-SOLITUDE, FRIENDSHIP SUPPORT, AND INTERNALIZING DIFFICULTIES DURING EARLY ADOLESCENCE IN THE U.S.A. AND CHINA
(2014)Social withdrawal has been associated with adjustment difficulties across development. Although much is known about shyness, little is known about preference-for-solitude; even less is known about how friendship might ... -
Preschoolers' Early Math Experiences in Varying Contexts: Parent and Child Math Talk During Playful and Didactic Activities
(2015)The home numeracy environment, particularly parent math talk, are predictive of children’s early math development, yet it is not clear what contexts produce high-quality parent-child exchanges about math. Both formal math ... -
PROCESSING OF COMPOUND WORDS BY ADULT KOREAN-ENGLISH BILINGUALS
(2011)The purpose of this dissertation study is to investigate how Korean-English bilinguals process compound words in both English and Korean. The major research question is: when Korean-English bilinguals process Korean or ... -
The processing of past-tense inflection in first language (L1) and second language (L2)
(2012)The present dissertation research investigates how morphologically complex words are processed in isolation and in sentential context by native speakers and second language learners, and how four critical factors in ... -
Promoting Children's Early Mathematical and Statistical Understanding Through Parent-Child Math Games
(2022)Basic statistical literacy is essential for understanding and making inferences from information received from external sources and for developing critical thinking skills necessary for engagement in real-world contexts. ... -
Prompting Rural Students' Use of Prior Knowledge and Experience to Support Comprehension of Unfamiliar Content
(2018)Prior knowledge activation is foundational to students’ text comprehension. Yet, pedagogical techniques that teachers can use to prompt students’ knowledge activation are limited and empirical data on the relative effectiveness ... -
A Proposed Index to Detect Relative Item Performance when the Focal Group Sample Size is Small
(2017)When developing educational assessments, ensuring that the test is fair to all groups of examinees is an essential part of the process. The primary statistical method for identifying potential bias in assessments is known ... -
The Protective Role of Home Learning Activities in the Development of Head Start Children's School Readiness Skills: A Longitudinal Analysis of Learning Growth Rates from Preschool Through First Grade
(2008-11-17)Children's early learning experiences in the home have a significant impact on their readiness for school and future academic success. However, children in poverty often lack a high-quality home learning environment, and ... -
PSYCHOMETRIC ANALYSES BASED ON EVIDENCE-CENTERED DESIGN AND COGNITIVE SCIENCE OF LEARNING TO EXPLORE STUDENTS' PROBLEM-SOLVING IN PHYSICS
(2003-12-04)Most analyses of physics assessment tests have been done within the framework of classical test theory in which only the number of correct answers is considered in the scoring. More sophisticated analyses have been developed ...