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Hari, Sindhu. "MOBILE APPLICATION FOR ATTENDANCE SYSTEM COYOTE-ATTENDANCE." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2017. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd/440.
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Mobile Attendance Application is a cross platform mobile application where students can mark attendance from their smartphones. This application takes multiple parameters into consideration to determine if the student is physically present in the class or not. i.e. the GPS location, Coyote login ID. This application also has the functionality to generate the attendance sheets in excel format to the instructor. The application is aimed to save class time at no extra cost of purchasing any special peripheral devices. User authentication is one of the important factors in this proposed system. Every student is authenticated based on his/her unique user identification number.
If a student does not have access to a mobile device or if the device battery is dead, then he/she can indicate to the instructor who can mark the attendance in the instructor’s smartphone.
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Cosme, Marilyn. "What impact does an attendance incentive program have on student attendance? /." Full text available online, 2005. http://www.lib.rowan.edu/home/research/articles/rowan_theses.
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Pfund, Rory A., Meredith K. Ginley, Kristyn Zajac, and Carla J. Rash. "Effect of Contingency Management for Attendance on Treatment Attendance and Abstinence." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2021. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/8890.
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Contingency management (CM), an intervention that typically provides financial incentives for abstinence, has also been applied to treatment engagement. However, little is known about the magnitude of treatment effects when financial incentives are provided for attendance. A systematic search was conducted to identify studies that included incentives for attendance, either in isolation or in combination with incentives for abstinence. Meta-analysis was used to estimate the effect sizes on treatment attendance and abstinence. A total of 10 studies including 12 CM treatments (6 incentives for attendance only and 6 incentives for both attendance and abstinence) with 1,673 participants were identified. Results indicated a moderate effect (d = 0.47, 95% confidence interval (CI) [0.24, 0.68]) on attendance relative to non-reward active comparison conditions, p <.001. Frequency of incentives for attendance was significantly associated with larger effect sizes. Results also indicated a small effect (d = 0.22, 95% CI [0.11, 0.32]) on abstinence relative to non-reward comparisons, p <.001. Overall, this meta-analysis supported financial incentives for attendance to increase treatment engagement, with smaller effects on abstinence compared to those observed in meta-analyses on financial incentives for abstinence. Although financial incentives for attendance increased clients' attendance, the impact on abstinence was weaker than conditions that included both incentives for attendance and abstinence. Clinics implementing CM should consider these differential effects in the selection of reinforcement targets.
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Hileman, Annmarie Long. "Student attitudes about class absences, class attendance, and requiring attendance at Virginia Tech." Thesis, This resource online, 1992. http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-10062009-020224/.
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Meredew, Victoria. "Perceived control and school attendance." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2011. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/perceived-control-and-school-attendance(1d33d2ef-f07c-45d6-af17-3d30acfa7fba).html.
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This research explores the link between pupils’ perceived control and their level of attendance in school. Whilst there is research into the link between perceived control and disaffection in pupils it has not been possible to identify any research which links school non-attendance to perceived control. Research into pupils’ reasons for non-attendance identified a range of different factors, many of which the author felt could be attributed to perceived control. Forty-one participants took part in the study. Participants were male and female year nine pupils at two secondary schools in the north west of England. Participants were grouped according to their levels of attendance as high (98%+) attenders, mid-range attenders (90-94%) and low (below 80%) levels of attendance. Participants’ levels of perceived control were measured using the Multi-dimensional Measure of Children’s Perceptions of Control (MMCPC) (Connell 1985). This research also explored the pupils’ experiences of school using appreciative inquiry. Responses on the MMCPC were analysed using a one way ANOVA and descriptive statistics. No significant differences were found between scores for each of the attendance groups and the reasons for this are discussed. Thematic analysis of focus groups with an appreciative inquiry structure identified key themes raised by pupils in regard to positive experiences in school. The findings for both parts of the research are discussed and suggestions for the implications for future research and the practice of teachers and educational psychologists supporting attendance in school are made.
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Wyer, Sarah Jane. "Increasing attendance at cardiac rehabilitation." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2001. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/36404/.
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As cardiac rehabilitation (CR) results in reduced mortality and morbidity (e.g. Dusseldorp et al, 1999), it is essential that as many people as possible are given the opportunity to benefit from it. Yet despite proven benefits, uptake of services can be low. This study sought to explore and possibly influence factors which predict attendance, with the ultimate goal of increasing attendance at a CR programme. Whilst sociodemographic and health care systemic factors predict CR attendance, recent research has focused on investigating the role of factors more amenable to change such as psychological factors (e.g. Johnston et al, 1999). Recommendations based on the reviewed research literature are presented as ways of increasing attendance at CR. It was evident from the review that psychological factors predicted attendance. In order to increase our understanding of these factors, interviews were carried out with attenders and non-attenders of CR (n=21). Several differentiating themes were identified: use of medical versus psychological model, illness perception, causal attribution, and attitude to CR. The results were interpreted using the Self Regulatory Model and the Theory of Planned Behaviour. Finally, a simple cost effective psychological intervention was developed and implemented to influence patients' beliefs about recovery and CR, in order to increase their attendance rates at a CR programme (n=87). Using a randomised control trial design, MI patients who received an intervention in the form of two letters, were shown to be significantly more likely to attend CR than those who received normal care (p <0.0025). In conclusion, there are a number of different ways that CR attendance can be increased. Firstly by being aware of how sociodemographic and health care systemic factors influence attendance and providing services accordingly. And secondly by understanding the role of psychological factors on attendance and implementing psychological interventions accordingly.
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Fessler, Pirmin, and Alyssa Schneebaum. "The Returns to Preschool Attendance." WU Vienna University of Economics and Business, 2016. http://epub.wu.ac.at/5176/1/wp233.pdf.
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Preschool attendance is widely recognized as a key ingredient for later socioeconomic success, mothers' labor market participation, and leveling the playing field for children from disadvantaged backgrounds. However, the empirical evidence for these claims is still relatively scarce, particularly in Europe. Using data from the 2011 Austrian European Union Statistics of Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC), we contribute to this literature in all mentioned dimensions. In particular, we investigate the effect of preschool attendance on an individual's later educational attainment, the probability that they work full time and their hourly wages, the likelihood of the mother working when the child is 14 years old, and on the overall distribution of wages. We find strong and positive effects of preschool attendance on educational attainment, the probability of working full time, hourly wages, and the probability that the mother is in the labor market. Full time workers at the bottom and the top of the distribution tend to benefit less than those in the middle. Women in particular benefit more in terms of years of schooling and the probability of working full time. Other disadvantaged groups (second migration migrants; people with less educated parents) also often benefit more in terms of education and work. (authors' abstract)Series: Department of Economics Working Paper Series
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Altrudo, Christina. "Church Contributions and Church Attendance." Miami University Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=muhonors1110985982.
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James, Emma Louise. "Pupil voice in school non attendance : exploring the perceptions of pupils, whose attendance is below 85%." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2016. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/7027/.
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This study focused on school non-attendance, from the perspective of young people (YP) whose families were supported by a Local authority (LA) family intervention team (FIT). Detailed case studies allowed YP to reflect on their lived experience of non-attendance and share this with the researcher. To achieve this, the School Refusal Assessment Scale (SRAS) was used with a semi-structured interview schedule - specially devised to allow YP and the researcher to gain a deeper understanding of their non-attendance. Further data collection with key workers (KW), using semi-structured interviews, sought to gain an insight into the context in which school non-attendance was occurring and how future research may be made more accessible to this population. It was evident that YP value school and recognise the importance of it in achieving future aspirations. Social relationships were highly important, but influenced each YP in a different way. KW noted the importance of trust in both encouraging YP to engage in research and in maintaining relationships to work with and support YP. It was concluded that giving YP the opportunity to explore their perceptions and understanding of non-attendance was necessary in both understanding and supporting improvement in attendance.
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Kuriakose, R. B., and F. Aghdasi. "Automatic student attendance register using RFID." Interim : Interdisciplinary Journal, Vol 6, Issue 2: Central University of Technology Free State Bloemfontein, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/11462/406.
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Published ArticleThe purpose of this project is to investigate the application of Radio Frequency Identification, RFID, to automatic student attendance register. The aim is that the students in any class can be recorded when they carry their student cards with them without having to individually swipe the card or allocate special interaction time. The successful implementation of this proposal will facilitate such record keeping in a non-intrusive and efficient manner and will provide the platform for further research on the correlation between attendance and performance of the students. The opportunity for related research is identified regarding the range of the parameters involved, ensuring that individual identifications do not clash and interfacing challenges with the central record keeping are overcome.
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Dinis, Joel Eduardo dos Santos. "Attendance control system based on smartphone." Master's thesis, Universidade de Aveiro, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10773/14059.
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Mestrado em Engenharia Electrónica e de TelecomunicaçõesAttendance control systems are associated with labour legislation for the protection of employees and employers. School attendances' issues may be directly connected to academic achievements at the same time it is di cult to control by children's parents. To solve these problems, there are several systems available and the di erence between them is essentially the technology adopted to make them work. Nowadays, mobile equipment market has a great diversity with smartphone equipments having the highest demands and high growth rates. Due to the huge capacities of their operating systems and hardware, smartphones have now the possibility to be used as part of an attendance control system. In this dissertation, it is developed an attendance control system based on smarphone and virtual doors composed of two Access Points (APs). This system has the advantage of being inexpensive and, since the application runs in the background of the operating system, attendance detection becomes a fully automatic process. Moreover, since a smartphone is a personal equipment which is hardly shared with other person, attempts to defraud the control system are very unlikely to happen.
Os sistemas de registo de assiduidade estão associados a legislação laboral para defender os interesses dos empregados e dos empregadores. O controlo de presenças em escolas adquiriu também extrema importância estando cada vez mais associado ao sucesso académico. Atualmente existe uma panóplia de sistemas deste tipo cujas diferenças estão essencialmente ao nível da tecnologia utilizada como base de funcionamento do sistema. O mercado de equipamentos m oveis apresenta igualmente grande diversidade e um rápido e sustentado crescimento, sendo mesmo um dos mercados com maiores taxas de crescimento ano ap os ano na área das tecnologias de informação. A venda de smartphones representa j a mais de metade da venda deste tipo de equipamentos. Devido as enormes potencialidades dos seus sistemas operativos e do seu hardware, estes equipamentos abriram a possibilidade da sua utilização como parte integrante de um sistema de registo de assiduidade. Nesta dissertação e proposto um sistema de registo de assiduidade baseado em smartphone e em portarias virtuais compostas por dois Access Point. O sistema apresenta como principais vantagens o facto de ser barato, a aplicação correr em segundo plano no sistema operativo tornando o processo de picagem um processo automático, e também por ser um dispositivo que o utilizador tem dificuldade em ceder a terceiros, reduzindo por isso tentativas de fraude ao sistema de controlo de assiduidade.
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Modise, Dimakatso William. "Managing learner attendance in middle schools." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/52950.
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Learner attendance in school is a focus for teachers to improve learner achievement (Applegate, 2003: 25). Colorado (2008:1) was of the opinion that one of the most important things your child can do to achieve academic success is to go to school every day . Thus, managing learner attendance has been and continues to be a major goal of many schools. The Department of Basic Education has developed a policy to promote regular school attendance (DBE, 2010:10) (hereafter referred to as the Policy). The key aspect of the Policy is that all learners must attend school on every day of school. The Policy was developed in response to the need for procedures for the recording, management and monitoring of learner attendance. The purpose of this paper is to find out what strategies principals are using to manage learner attendance in the three selected middle schools in the Tshwane North District of Gauteng Department of Education. In South Africa, middle schools are also referred to as Senior Phase, a level that falls between primary and secondary schools with grades seven to nine. The study applied the case study design and utilised the qualitative approach. Data was collected through individual semi-structured interviews with school principals, HoDs responsible for learner attendance and class teachers. Content analysis was used to analyse the management of learner attendance. Key findings of this research suggest that there are specific strategies in place used by principals to manage learner attendance in middle schools. Principals in middle schools actively managed the attendance records of their incoming learners, and engaged the learners and parents at the first incidence of non-attendance. Principals reached out to the community to build a culture of regular school attendance by identifying the causes of poor learner attendance. They conducted follow-ups on learners who absented themselves more than one or three days per week. They reached up to their district leadership and submitted quarterly attendance registers to their district offices for professional support.Dissertation (MEd)--University of Pretoria, 2015.
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Mak, Kin-ming, and 麥健銘. "Emergency psychiatric attendance in a Hong Kong hospital: a local experience in understanding factors associatedwith re-attendance." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2006. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B3972489X.
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Wiehe, Jennifer Nelson. "Skipping school : an exploratory study of truancy /." Digital version accessible at:, 1999. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/main.
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Mak, Kin-ming. "Emergency psychiatric attendance in a Hong Kong hospital : a local experience in understanding factors associated with re-attendance /." View the Table of Contents & Abstract, 2006. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B3688635X.
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McMillan, Nancy C. "Secondary school attendance policies in Indiana, attendance and withdrawal percentages, and other selected factors : a multi-variate analysis." Virtual Press, 1991. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/833005.
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The purpose of this study was to determine if any relationship exists among the factors of:(1) strictness of a secondary school's attendance policy,(2) its attendance percentages, and(3) its withdrawal/expulsion/push out percentages with respect to the school's:(4) student enrollment totals of grades seven through twelve;(5) proximity to an urban or metropolitan area; and(6) socio-economic status of the students.This quantitative study involved four (4) independent variables [policy strictness, enrollment size, urban location, and SES] and two (2) dependent variables [attendance percentages and withdrawal percentages]. Six (6) null hypotheses were tested.A questionnaire was sent to the principal of each of the 668 secondary schools which housed any combination of grades 7 through 12. The primary focus of the survey instrument was to have the schools self-determine the strictness of their attendance policies which were in effect for the 1989-90 school year.The attendance, withdrawal, SES, urban type, and enrollment size data were obtained from the Indiana Department of Education office in Indianapolis. The 1989-90 school year data was used. Each school's DOE-AG (Attendance & Graduates) and DOE-WD (Withdrawal) statistics reported in June of 1990 was compared to the questionnaire answers.Three (3) two-way analysis of variance tests (ANOVA) and F-tests for mean differences were used in the treatment of the data. Post hoc tests using the LSD procedure were also used on all groups showing significant differences at the 0.05 level.Eight of the twelve F-tests showed significant differences at the .05 level and in fact were found to be below a .001 level of probability that the differences were by chance. Also, significant interaction was found between two of the groups (policy group and urban type) when compared to attendance percentage.The findings were:(1) Attendance was most influenced by school size and urban type location than the other factors of policy strictness or socio-economic status of the students. Attendance rates were the poorest in large schools and in schools located closer to urban areas.(2) Withdrawal rates were to be highest in large schools and in schools located in metropolitan areas.(3) Strictness of a school's attendance policy did not seem to have a predictable impact upon the attendance rates of the student body with respect to the school's size, urban location, or the socio-economic status of the students.Department of Educational Leadership
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Guthrie, Laverne Marie. "Non-attendance in psychotherapy, a comparative study." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp05/mq20892.pdf.
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Zhang, Chenmin. "Four-station microcomputer based classroom attendance logger." Virtual Press, 1991. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/834630.
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Taking attendance in classes having large numbers of students is a time consuming task. Most teachers would rather not do so in order to increase instruction time. An alternative way for taking attendance is developed in this project.This thesis describes a Four-Station-Microcomputer-Based Student Logger (FSAL) device designed and constructed for solving this problem. With this portable device, four students can input their identification codes at the same time. Approximately ten seconds per student is needed to register their attendance. In this manner, a class of one-hundred students could indicate their attendance in less than five minutes.Presented herein is the background information about the microcomputer, the hardware design and the software developed for the FSAL device. This device is located in Department of Physics and Astronomy and is planned to be used in the courses ASTRO 100 and PHYCS 100.Department of Physics and Astronomy
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Neal, Richard David. "Patterns of frequent attendance to general practice." Thesis, University of Leeds, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.440361.
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Khan, Muhammad Jehangir. "Improving school attendance by raising school quality." Thesis, Cardiff University, 2012. http://orca.cf.ac.uk/47546/.
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Using a two generational model of investment in education, this thesis shows that school quality enhancement is very highly valued by the average rural Pakistani family, and by those below the official poverty line. Corollaries are that quality enhancement will be an effective policy for boosting school attendance and that subsistence poverty is not a major reason for keeping children out of school. The empirical strategy is to demonstrate (chapter 4) that school quality variables influence perceived child cognitive achievement. Parental perceptions are critical rather than objective performance (if they diverge) because it is parents that decide whether their children should attend school. These results provide support for the finding in the following chapter (5) that some school quality variables also significantly influence school attendance. Note that the empirical focus of this study is on the more important attendance rather than the commonly discussed school enrolment. The data source, the 2004-5 Pakistan Rural Household Survey, PRHS-II, is the only one currently available for Pakistan that makes available a multitude of school quality measures. Identification in the empirical models of school attendance and cognitive achievement is achieved first by establishing and utilising a distinctive feature of the Pakistani environment; the arbitrary and random allocation of resources to state schools economy and society. The quality variable library is confirmed exogenous with the only instrument in the data set suitable on grounds of relevance (correlation with library), community population. If school resources were adjusted to school need, school attendance would not influence the staff-student ratio. But instrumenting this ratio changes its sign in the predicted fashion. For cognitive achievement, cmp (conditional (recursive) mixed process estimator) (Roodman 2009) is implemented to endogenise staff-student ratio in ordered probit models. Since we have either controlled for endogeneity or established the exogeneity of the quality measures in the attendance and cognitive achievement equations, we can be confident that the parameter estimates correctly capture the impact of school quality variables. The possibility that other variables, not instrumented in the school attendance or cognitive achievement equations, are endogenous does not bias these estimates. Nor does including a range of extra community characteristics in the school attendance and cognitive achievement equations affect the school quality parameter values estimated. School quality measures must be measured at the community/village level to capture the options for school non-attenders. This reduces the precision with which the standard errors can be estimated. Normally it is appropriate to cluster standard errors at the village level, and these results are presented. Judging by parental assessment of child performance, in rural Pakistan private schools achieve better outcomes than state schools. Despite comparatively low private school fees, the average rural household with three children is unable to afford to send their children to private schools. Simply expanding private schooling provision then is not a solution to the currently poor education available to these households. In any event such expansion is not without its problems because there are typically arbitrary political or regulatory barriers to establishing private schools. Therefore this thesis suggest that improving (perceived) state school quality may be the most effective strategy for improving human capital in rural Pakistan.
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Hussey, Ian. "The engagement of newcomers in church attendance." Thesis, Australian Catholic University, 2010. https://acuresearchbank.acu.edu.au/download/389c269c56c060ec324be0daebb9fec9c8811bfb92e32cba151670a6368796f5/1400034/Hussey_2010_The_engagement_of_newcomwers_in_church.pdf.
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Christian church attendance in Australia is static or declining. Contrary to this trend Some churches have been identified as attracting increased numbers of attenders. Within this group of new attenders there is a category of attendees joining churches for the first time, or rejoining after a substantial absence of years. These can be called “Newcomers.” The research problem focuses on exploring this atypical population. Hence, the purpose of this research is to explore the engagement of Newcomers in church attendance. The focus of the research is local churches which have high percentages of Newcomers.
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Mametja, Selaelo Mabu. "Factors associated with late antenatal care attendance." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/9401.
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Includes bibliographical references.The prevalence of late attendance for antenatal care in South Africa remains high despite the reported benefits of early initiation of antenatal care. The study aimedat identifying factors associated with late initiation of antenatal care. Methods: Cross sectional survey data collected for a FAS prevention programme in rural and urban South Africa were used. The primary study made use of face-to-face interviews with female participants the age range of 18 to 44 years. The dependent variable, gestational age, was categorized into a binary variable across 4 months gestational age. Independent variables consisted of scales and categorical variables (mostly binary) within the following domains: (a) socio-demographic factors; (b) characteristics of index pregnancy including substance use information; (c) psychosocial factors; (d) community factors; and (e) partner characteristics.
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Baghzouz, Mina, Sarah Flocks, Thu Nguyen, and Marti Lindsey. "Comprehension and Attendance of Prescription Warning Labels." The University of Arizona, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/614203.
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Class of 2014 AbstractSpecific Aims: The purpose of this study is to determine if people who take or manage medications attend to the prescription warning labels (PWLs) and if education levels affect how they interpret these warnings. The primary hypothesis is that people without a high school degree/equivalent will have more difficulty correctly interpreting PWLs. Methods: A survey was designed to assess whether or not the general population attends to warning labels and if education levels affect how they interpret these warnings. The survey contained questions to assess PWL attendance, a quiz to assess PWL interpretation, and demographic information. Surveys were collected at Joel Valdez Main Library in Tucson, AZ from August 2013 to January 2014. For data analysis, the percentage of participants who attended to warning labels was calculated. To compare the two education groups a Chi square analysis was performed. Main Results: A total of 113 participants took the survey and 4 were excluded from analysis. The survey was completed by 55 men (51.4%) and 52 women (48.6%). The mean age of participants was 46.9 years (SD +/- 15.3). Of the participants who took and /or managed medications, 46.8 % of them attended to the PWLs. There was a significant difference in the number of correct responses between the education groups for only one of the PWLs (“external use only”) with a p-value of 0.03. Conclusion: The majority of the general public does not attend to PWLs. Education level does not significantly affect the interpretation of most PWLs.
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Ali, Gregory James. "Decreasing Appointment Non-Attendance in Primary Care." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/577190.
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There are a variety of reasons why patients will not show up to their doctors' appointments. Some reasons are remedial (e.g., not having transportation can lead to other transport options), whereas others are not (e.g., not wanting to hear bad news). But regardless of the specific reason, changing the behavior so that it complies with the doctor's orders is difficult to know in advance. This thesis investigates this complex issue in three ways: (1) using electronic medical record data, (2) conducting a survey of patients, and (3) assessing the patient workflow through the clinic based on a cycle-time analysis. The EMR data revealed 30% of patients who did not show up to their appointments, most of whom were new patients and pediatric patients. To better understand the reasons why patients did not show up for their appointments, patient surveys were then conducted. The results showed that transportation (42%) and getting off of work (21%) were the primary reasons why patients could not show up to their appointment. The surveys indicated that 8% of all members waited for over 45 minutes before seeing a medical professional. To understand why patients had to wait over 45 minutes for their appointment, patients were observed during their office visits and a cycle-time analysis was conducted to assess the workflow of the patient through the medical clinic. The results indicated that the work flow was inefficient due to poor scheduling practices and communication breakdowns. A discussion of the findings and implications for healthcare practice are provided.
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Palmero, Mauro, and Kelly Price-Rhea. "Influence of Facility Atmospherics on Spectator Attendance." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2015. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/842.
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The purpose of this study was to explore spectators’ level of satisfaction toward atmospherics in the sport environment—facility—and to show the influence atmospherics has on spectators’ intention to attend sporting events. A group of undergraduate students (N = 145) attending men’s basketball games at a typical NCAA Division I mid-major university responded to a survey. The respondents indicated that they were satisfied with event security and ticket pricing and close to satisfied with all other variables, but they were dissatisfied with parking and merchandise price. A principal component analysis and a discriminant analysis were conducted to identify which constructs better differentiate respondents attending fewer games (one to five) from those attending more games (six and more). Results show that entertainment and facility atmosphere contribute to attracting spectators to the games, but facility services contribute to avoidance behavior. In addition, implications and future research options are given.
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Smith, Heather Kathleen. "Church attendance of adults with developmental disabilities." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1997. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/1362.
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Janowski, Roselinde Katharina. "Predictors of Attendance and the Impact of Attendance on Outcomes for a Parenting Programme in Two Southeast Asian Countries." Master's thesis, Faculty of Humanities, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/32756.
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Background: Children living in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) experience alarmingly high rates of maltreatment, frequently at the hands of caregivers. Group-based parenting programmes show promise for reducing and preventing child maltreatment, as well as for improving positive parenting, child behaviour problems, and caregiver mental health. However, parenting programmes can only benefit families if caregivers participate in them. Using secondary data, this study thus aimed to 1) identify factors that affect attendance and 2) investigate the impact of attendance on outcomes within two randomised controlled trials of Parenting for Lifelong Health (PLH) for Young Children for caregivers of children aged 2-9 years in Thailand (N = 120) and 2-6 years in the Philippines (N = 120). The interventions were delivered within existing service delivery systems in both countries, over eight weekly sessions (Thailand) or 12 sessions every second week (Philippines). Method: To address the first aim of this study, multivariable logistic regression models with robust sandwich estimators were used to examine family baseline characteristic as predictors of caregiver attendance in sessions. An exploratory approach was taken to test a range of factors that have previously been linked to attendance in parenting programmes, including economic and educational, social and health, parenting and child behaviour, and sociodemographic characteristics. To address the second aim, caregiver self-reports and observational assessments (Thailand only) from baseline, post-test, and follow-up were analysed using complier average causal effect (CACE) analyses to test the impact of attendance variability on the primary outcomes of child maltreatment, as well as secondary outcomes of positive parenting, dysfunctional parenting, child behaviour problems, and caregiver mental health. Results: Caregivers in Thailand attended 82.3% of sessions while those in the Philippines attended 61.8%. Overall, few baseline factors were significantly associated with attendance. In Thailand, caregivers who were less educated and those who were older were significantly more likely to attend sessions. In the Philippines, caregivers who were less healthy, those that who used more emotional abuse, and those who had boys rather than girls were significantly more likely to attend. Notably, caregivers who experienced higher rates of intimate partner violence significantly attended 8% fewer sessions in the Philippines. A comparison of CACE estimates to intention-to-treat estimates at post-test and at follow-up showed greater benefits of the intervention amongst caregivers who attended more sessions. Specifically, the strongest intervention effects were found for caregivers who attended at least 75% of the programme. Conclusion: This study showed no evidence that disadvantages related to lower socio-economic status were associated with attendance, suggesting that it is possible for vulnerable families in LMICs to attend parenting programmes. However, developing retention strategies that target subgroups who are at greater risk of missing sessions is especially important as higher attendance at sessions is positively related to greater improvements in caregiver and child outcomes.
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Thaden, Lyssa Luise. "An integrated approach to capital effects analysis of college going for the class of 2004 /." Pullman, Wash. : Washington State University, 2010. http://www.dissertations.wsu.edu/Dissertations/Spring2010/l_thaden_042310.pdf.
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George, Janice C. "The effect of career goals and socioeconomic mobility on nontraditional students' intrinsic motivation for college attendance." unrestricted, 2007. http://etd.gsu.edu/theses/available/etd-11272007-012005/.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Georgia State University, 2007.Title from file title page. Philo Hutcheson, committee chair; Carolyn Furlow, Benjamin Baez, Hayward Richardson, committee members. Electronic text (174 p. : ill.) : digital, PDF file. Description based on contents viewed Aug. 20, 2008. Includes bibliographical references (p. 150-164).
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Goodkey, Lori J. "Men's experience of non-voluntary attendance in counselling." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape3/PQDD_0005/MQ59754.pdf.
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Lagerlund, Magdalena. "Factors affecting attendance at population-based mammography screening /." Stockholm, 2002. http://diss.kib.ki.se/2002/91-7349-061-x/.
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Forniss, Jill. "Truancy and the Georgia compulsory school attendance law." DigitalCommons@Robert W. Woodruff Library, Atlanta University Center, 2004. http://digitalcommons.auctr.edu/dissertations/223.
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Truancy has become a major problem for many schools in the United States. Many states have adopted truancy laws and programs to help combat this growing problem. The purpose of this study is to examine the impact of two interventions used to address attendance problems and to assess their effectiveness among elementary school truants. The sample population was taken from the System Administration Student Information (SASI) report of three elementary schools in the Atlanta Public School System. SASI reports from the 2002-2003 school year were compared to the SASI report of the 2003-2004 school year. The hypothesis that notifying parents of students with truancy during the 2002-2003 academic year, along with sending them a copy of the Georgia Compulsory Attendance Law, will have a positive effect on truant behaviors and attendance patterns during the 2003-2004 school year was supported by the findings.
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Taylor, Howard. "Child work and school attendance in urban India." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.299990.
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Kamanda, Mamusu. "School attendance at basic education in West Africa." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2013. https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/366479/.
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The proportion of children entering primary school at the stipulated age in 2010 in Sub-Saharan Africa was 57%. For the same year, the net attendance ratios for primary and lower secondary education were 76% and 47% respectively. These figures are correlated in that delayed school enrolment increases the risk of dropout which in turn shortens the school life expectancy for children. These observations are the motivation behind this research. By writing this thesis, three substantive research questions have been explored: (1) what is Sierra Leone’s progress towards achieving universal basic education (2) what are the determinants of school attendance at basic education in West Africa and (3) does living in a community with more educated mothers enhance children’s school attendance at basic education. Three countries have been used: Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Ghana. Sierra Leone and Liberia have been used to reflect poor and post-conflict states with transitional and premature education systems respectively. Ghana is representative of middle income and politically stable countries with more advanced education systems in the region. The most recent Demographic and Health Survey for the three countries are used for analysis. Four empirical chapters are presented. The first chapter addresses research question 1. It applies simple statistical analyses to United Nations indicators for evaluating progress towards universal education. The second and third chapters answer the second research question and the final chapter answers the third research question. These three chapters employ multilevel statistical techniques to model the determinants of primary and junior secondary school attendance. The second empirical chapter focuses on the interaction between household and community poverty with the aim of investigating whether the attendance of poor children suffers more than affluent children by residing in a poor community. The third empirical chapter explores the determinants of junior secondary school attendance with the aim of deducing whether there are significant differences between post-conflict countries and more stable countries. The final chapter focuses on the relationship between mothers’ education and school attendance at basic education, arguing that living in a community with a high proportion of more educated mothers enhances the likelihood that a child will attend school, irrespective of the child’s background. The results from the first chapter show that the realisation of UBE is distant in Sierra Leone. There has been a decline in the number of children entering primary education; junior secondary education has however doubled although it remains low at 21%. Children from the poorest households are the most excluded from school followed by rural children and girls. The results from the second empirical chapter showed that there is a significant interaction between household and community poverty where poor children living in poor communities experience a greater depreciation in their probability of attending school than more affluent children who live in the same deprived environment in Sierra Leone. No such interaction was found in Liberia or Ghana. In the third empirical chapter, the sex of the child, agricultural livelihood within a community, household wealth and area of residence were significant in Sierra Leone and Liberia. In Ghana, sex of the household head and maternal orphanhood were significant. The hypothesis of the relationship between mothers’ community education and children’s school attendance for the final empirical chapter was confirmed.
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Fletcher, Tifani R., Andrea D. Clements, Beth A. Bailey, and Lana McGrady. "Religious Surrender and Attendance Scale Predicts Prenatal Depression." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2012. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/7268.
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Prenatal depression is a significant problem because of the myriad psychosocial, somatic and obstetrical complications it poses. Numerous studies have confirmed that religiosity is related to positive health consequences, such as decreased levels of depression, but few have looked at religiosity’s relation to prenatal depression. Evidence is accumulating that Surrender to God, a specific measure of religiosity, is a possible mechanism by which religiosity positively impacts health, and this study is an investigation of Surrender’s relationship to prenatal depression. The 3-item Religious Surrender and Attendance Scale (RSAS-3) is a brief religiosity measurement that incorporates Surrender and church attendance. RSAS-3 was previously found to better predict stress levels during pregnancy than church attendance alone, and it was theorized that it would also be useful in predicting depression levels. Participants in the current study included 330 pregnant women who were enrolled in the state funded project, Tennessee Intervention for Pregnant Smokers, which enrolled smokers and nonsmokers. Participants met with a case manager at their prenatal care provider and completed two packets of questionnaires: one in the first trimester and one in the third trimester. Measures used in this study included the RSAS-3, and the Centers for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale (CESD-10). Participants were paid $20 for each research meeting. Zero order correlations revealed that Education level and RSAS-3 were significantly negatively related to depression levels in the first trimester and approaching significance in the third trimester. Education was therefore included in the hierarchical regression model in step 1 and RSAS-3 in step 2. Hierarchical multiple regression revealed that the full model explained 4% of the variance in 1st trimester depression scores (F 2, 325) = 11.5, p <.001., with RSAS-3 explaining an additional 2.6% of the variance in depression after controlling for education, R squared change = .026, F change (1, 325) p = .003 The full model for 3rd trimester depression explained 6.7% of the variance in 1st trimester depression scores (F 2, 197) = 9.00, p <.001. RSAS-3 explained an additional 1.7% of the variance in depression after controlling for education, R squared change = .017, F change (1, 197) p = .058. RSAS-3 was found to predict depression levels throughout pregnancy, with those scoring higher on RSAS-3 having significantly lower depression scores. A noteworthy strength of the current study is the prospective design. While being religious does not guarantee depression will not occur, early treatment of depression symptoms can assuage negative health consequences for the mother and child. If further research verifies a causal mechanism between Surrender and depression, non-pharmacologic treatments utilizing religious coping may be useful for prenatal depression.
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Xu, Weibin. "Attribute Non Attendance in a Revealed Preference Study." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/82935.
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This dissertation investigates attribute non-attendance in an urban random utility model (RUM). Using the RUM, this dissertation also investigates the local residents' willingness to pay (WTP) to improve the conditions of the riparian vegetation in southern Sydney, Australia. To elicit self-reported ANA, in the survey we ask respondents either how important they think of the attributes in a public green space or how frequently they use the attributes when they visit a public green space and use this information to estimate stated ANA and inferred ANA models. Stated ANA model results show that ANA does impact the WTP estimates for most of the site attributes but people in the non-attendance group do not necessarily have zero or lower WTP for these attributes. However, stated model results do show that self-reported ANA statements from 'importance questions' for some attributes such as riparian vegetation are more consistent with the estimated ANA. This finding suggests that elicitation method affects the accuracy of self-reported ANA. We also find that the consistency between respondents' self-reported ANA and the estimated ANA from inferred ANA models largely depends on the particular attribute but it can be concluded that when respondents say they 'never' used the site attributes or see the attribute as 'unimportant' or 'somewhat unimportant', it is very likely that they truly ignored the attributes in their decision making process. Our study also finds that respondents are willing to pay a compensation to improve the conditions of the riparian vegetation and the WTP increases if the channel is less modified and there is more vegetation. For example, an average respondent with 19 trips annually is willing to pay $58 to improve the riparian vegetation condition from the lowest level to the highest level. Another interesting finding of the study is that those who considered riparian vegetation in decision making processes differentiated between different riparian vegetation conditions more than those who did not. The importance sample results also show that ignoring the ANA in model estimation will under-estimate the annual value of the vegetation improvement for a person with 20 trips by $2.85.Ph. D.
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Leitch, Angela Maria. "The unexamined system: Indigenous students' secondary school attendance." Thesis, Griffith University, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/376519.
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Since 2008, various Prime Ministers of Australia have used the “closing the gap” report to focus on the low level of school attendance and educational achievement of Indigenous students. Consequentially, new strategies focusing on schools, Indigenous parents and students are implemented, and the following year the Prime Minister repeats the call for improvement. It seems that nothing changes.
This cyclical issue raises fundamental questions, “Why does a gap in attendance between Indigenous and non-Indigenous students persist, and are there unexamined factors that perpetuate the ‘wicked’ problem?” Perhaps it is not the individual school, teacher, parent or student who is the largest impediment to Indigenous student attendance and academic success. Are there other factors that remain unexamined, including the values and beliefs upon which the practices of the education system are built?
Using the methodological approach and tools generated from critical race theory (CRT) this study critically examines Queensland state school data and identifies systemic factors that are preventing or impacting on Indigenous student attendance. Data sets are predominantly reviewed using quantitative analysis techniques, aligning with the current educational focus on policy informed by quantitative rather than qualitative research (Lingard, Creagh, & Vass, 2012). In addition, qualitative methods are used to examine how racism is endemic in educational policies.
Key results from this study indicate that, in Queensland, educational policy, decision- making, and practices maintain the white dominant ideology that impacts on Indigenous students’ success, and renders them invisible. The results also demonstrate that Indigenous parents/caregivers and secondary school students’ opinions of school differ from those of their non-Indigenous peers. The thesis presents new understandings of how race continues to impact on the education system and facilitates a rationale for why Indigenous students have a higher rate of non-attendance than their non-Indigenous peers. The evidence base has the potential to change the way blame is apportioned for Indigenous student non-attendance, by shifting the focus from Indigenous parents and students to the education system.
The study recommends two practical changes within the education system. Firstly, that an accredited professional development program for both policy makers and senior officers and above within the public service occurs, focusing on unconscious racial bias. Secondly, that a review of public sector policies be undertaken to address the part that seemingly neutral language plays in enabling the ‘wicked’ problem to persist, beginning with the qualitative analysis methods presented in this thesis.
Finally, the study suggests that future research should focus on how the legacy of colonisation, in addition to race, impacts on Indigenous students’ educational outcomes. More detailed qualitative research should be undertaken to explicate the reasons for unexplained absences of Indigenous school students. Understandings about unexplained absences will assist in the development of alternative, targeted, evidence based strategies focusing on all areas affecting Indigenous students’ attendance.Thesis (Masters)
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Arnett, Michael C. "The relationship between average daily attendance, school policies and procedures and principals' emphasis on attendance issues in selected Florida secondary schools." Doctoral diss., University of Central Florida, 2010. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/4674.
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Much of the historical research that has taken place over the past 50 years regarding student absenteeism has focused on influences on students over which the principal had very little control such as student demographics, family characteristics and the student personal or psychological factors. Researchers have begun analyzing school climate and its effect on student attendance from the perspectives of students and teachers. School climate is the one aspect that influences a student attendance patterns and can be modified by the principal. This study sought to identify if there was a relationship between the high school principals' perspective on student absenteeism and the percentage of average daily attendance of the school. Much of the emphasis placed on improving attendance has been examined at the school level. This study, though focused on student absenteeism from the principal's perspective, was also approached in regard to actions within the school's control. It may well be, that districts need to take a stronger leadership role with respect to attendance. Providing more information to principals could contribute initially to improving principals' desire to be proactive in regard to attendance. District officials should examine carefully the support they provide that will result in proactive policies in the schools. It would seem appropriate that district level and building level policies would be examined by district and building leaders with a goal of establishing policies that not only support building leaders but also support individual teachers and encourage them to be proactive in their approach to attendance for every student in the class room.ID: 029050036; System requirements: World Wide Web browser and PDF reader.; Mode of access: World Wide Web.; Thesis (Ed.D.)--University of Central Florida, 2010.; Includes bibliographical references (p. 130-135).
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Ardura, Garcia Cristina. "Emergency care re-attendance for acute childhood asthma in a low-resource setting : the Childhood Asthma Re-attendance Assessment (CARA) study." Thesis, University of Liverpool, 2018. http://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/3021153/.
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Background Asthma is a public health problem in Latin America, where asthmatic children are mainly treated at emergency rooms during acute attacks. These attacks result in loss of lung function and quality of life for the asthmatic child and family, risk of death and high direct and indirect economic costs. In order to improve paediatric asthma management in Esmeraldas, Ecuador, we aimed to identify predictors of recurrent asthma attacks requiring emergency care and to explore the caregivers’ (CGs) and health care workers’ (HCWs) perceptions of barriers and facilitators to asthma health and home care access. Methods First, a systematic review and meta-analysis of published studies analysing predictors for emergency department (ED) re-attendance or hospital readmission for acute asthma in children was performed. Second, a prospective cohort study of children treated for an asthma attack at an emergency room in Esmeraldas, Ecuador, was undertaken to define the characteristics of these children, determine the rate of ED re-attendance for acute asthma and identify the predictors for this to occur. Third, a qualitative study to explore acute asthma significance and perceived barriers and facilitators for health and home care access from the asthmatic children’s CGs’ and HCWs’ perspective was performed. Results In both the meta-analysis and prospective cohort study, children of a younger age and a history of severe asthma attacks during the previous year were at a greater risk of ED re-attendance for acute asthma. Forty six percent of the children recruited during the prospective cohort suffered a subsequent asthma attack requiring emergency care in the following 6 months. Other identified predictors of ED re-attendance for acute asthma were: existing asthma diagnosis (AOR: 2.17, 95% CI: 1.19-3.94; AHR: 1.66, 95% CI: 1.15-2.39); food triggers (AOR: 1.99, 95% CI: 1.11-3.55); existing eczema diagnosis (AOR: 4.22, 95% CI 1.02-17.54); and urban residence as protective (AHR: 0.69, 95% CI: 0.50-0.95). Twelve HCWs and 20 CGs participated in the in-depth interviews and focus group discussions, expressing a differing significance of asthma attacks. This difference was also observed between experienced and inexperienced HCWs. Multiple barriers and several facilitators were identified by HCWs and CGs that affect health and home care access for asthmatic children. When shown the predictors of ED-reattendance for acute asthma combined in a risk-assessment tool, both HCWs and CGs reported finding the tool easy to use and understand, as well as a useful aid in the decision-making process concerning asthma treatment and follow-up. Conclusion A combination of several question-based predictors may result in an effective and simple risk-assessment tool to be used at the ED to identify asthmatic children at a higher risk of recurrent severe asthma attacks. Increasing CGs’ and HCWs’ asthma knowledge as well as HCWs’ communication skills, to establish a patient centred approach with a shared decision-making process could mean a difference in the quality of the asthma care in this setting. The use of the described recurrent risk assessment tool could prove useful in this process, as reported by the participants in this study.
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Smith, Wayne Keith. "An Evaluation of the Attendance Policy and Program and Its Perceived Effects on High School Attendance in Newport News Public Schools." Diss., Virginia Tech, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/30501.
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The purpose of this quantitative study is to determine the effects of the attendance policy and attendance program after one year of implementation in Newport News Public Schools with a total high school population of approximately 5,820 students. The school district recently implemented a new attendance policy and program to address high school student absenteeism.
This multi-faceted study examined the effects of this new policy by conducting statistical analyses of attendance data, programmatic data, and surveys of students, parents, and teachers. This allowed for the examination of the primary question. Whether there is a differential impact of the policy among the grades (9,10,11) during the 1996-1997 school year with respect to high school attendance after adjusting for initial differences on the 1995-1996 high school attendance through the use of an analysis of covariance? Additionally, the perceptions of students, parents, and teachers regarding the new attendance policy were examined along with the degree to which a specially-designed program, Saturday Redemptive School, affected the academic pass rate of participants. Findings show significant main effects and non-significant interaction at the pre-established alpha level of .05. Survey results may have implied a change in the attendance policy and Saturday Redemptive School. The findings from the Chi-square Test were not significant at the pre-established alpha level of .05.
The results of this study provides valuable information in the formulation of attendance policies by local and state inner-city district level administrators regarding the effectiveness of school attendance policy and attendance programs.Ed. D.
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F, Fitzgerald Ryan. "Student and faculty perceptions of the causes and solutions to truancy." Menomonie, WI : University of Wisconsin--Stout, 2005. http://www.uwstout.edu/lib/thesis/2005/2005fitzgeraldr.pdf.
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Hubbard, Jodi L. "Teacher perceptions regarding truancy causes and early intervention strategies /." Online version, 2003. http://www.uwstout.edu/lib/thesis/2003/2003hubbardj.pdf.
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Ngah, Zahari. "A formative evaluation research into the use of psychology service by adolescents and young people : a preliminary investigation ito attendance/non-attendance." Thesis, University of Surrey, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.246040.
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Aucott, Clare. "An exploration of pupils', parents' and teachers' perceptions of the causes of pupil non-attendance and the reasons for improvements in attendance." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2014. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/5337/.
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Non-attendance has been explored by educationalists since compulsory education was introduced (Brown, 1983; Irving and Parker-Jenkins; 1995). However, few studies have focused on cases of improved attendance and furthermore, triangulated the views of pupils, parents and teachers in such cases. The current study employed a multiple case study design to explore the views of pupils, parents and teachers with regards to the causes of the pupils’ non-attendance and the reasons for the improvements in their attendance. It was found that the greatest improvement in attendance was evident when there was a shared understanding of the causes of non-attendance between at least the parent and teacher, the interventions put in place aimed to address these causes and there was a shared responsibility for improving attendance. In addition to this, the findings highlighted a number of factors that may lead to further improvements in the pupils’ attendance. These included: teachers recognising and addressing school related factors; a greater understanding of the reasons for the pupils’ refusal behaviour; the pupils’ views being acted upon; and consideration of the impact of the pupils’ non-attendance. The implications of the findings with regards to the professional practice of Educational Psychologists are discussed along with future research.
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Hodder, Catherine. "Demography of nineteenth century New Zealand education gender and regional differences in school retention /." The University of Waikato, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10289/2226.
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Abstract This thesis examines the progress of pupils through New Zealand schools in the last two decades of the nineteenth century and the first decade of the twentieth century. The purpose of this study was to apply demographic techniques to primary historical education data to enable the progress of pupils to be quantified and to allow comparisons to be made among different Education Districts and longitudinally over a period of some three decades. The present work applies demographic methods using cohort and period analyses to overcome difficulties in direct comparisons of historical education data because of differences in population structure and differing examination pass rates in various Education Districts. This approach allows the determination of retention rates of pupils both by age and by level from Standard 4 to Standard 6 using primary data from the nineteenth century. In addition, gender differences in retention by age are analysed from the 1880s to the end of the first decade of the twentieth century. Previous published work considered school attendance only in general terms and usually on a national basis, but generally without analysing specific educational data on gender differences. Studies prior to the present work have suggested that in the nineteenth century Education Districts differed in school enrolments (Hodder, 1996) and it is thus likely that there were differences in school retention of pupils between various Education Districts. Pilot research to the present work developed demographic methods for studying retention of pupil populations allowing for changes in the number and structure of the pupils populations over time (Hodder, 2005). These pilot methods are applied in the present research to study pupil retention in all thirteen Education Districts over the approximately 30 years from the 1880s. In addition to age and level cohorts, gender differences are analysed. Direct comparisons among all Education Districts and over time are now possible. This study has used a novel approach to the analysis of historical education data. The results enable comparisons to be made among all thirteen Education Districts and across several decades; such comparisons have not previously been possible and will facilitate future research on the possible factors affecting pupil retention particularly in relation to employment opportunities for school leavers and differences according to gender. __________ Hodder, C. (1996). Cambridge District High School and its community, 1880 - 1888. Unpublished Master of Arts thesis, Department of Education Studies, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand. Hodder, C. (2005). Old data, new methods: the use of demographic methods to study historical education data. Unpublished Directed Study, Department of Societies and Cultures, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand.
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Dolin, Justa L. "Attendance and reading gains Marshall University Summer Enrichment Program /." Huntington, WV : [Marshall University Libraries], 2006. http://www.marshall.edu/etd/descript.asp?ref=676.
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Arzhilovskiy, Maxim, and Kirill Priyatel. "Factors influencing attendance of ice hockey games in Sweden." Thesis, Internationella Handelshögskolan, Högskolan i Jönköping, IHH, Företagsekonomi, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-18657.
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Commercialization of sport has been growing since 80s and club owners tend to pay more and more attention not just to cups and titles but to commercial success as well. Nevertheless, fans are still the key source of revenues. Besides direct spending while attending games popular clubs and crowded stadiums grab attention of generous advertisers. That is why the problem of sports attendance becomes more and more important though ice hockey attendance is still not the most popular topic among sports marketing researchers. The majority of them cover Canada and the United States while European leagues suffer from the lack of studies as much bigger attention is paid to sport number one – soccer. In the same time, Sweden is one of the few countries in the world where ice hockey might be as popular as soccer. Swedish ice hockey league is one of the strongest in the world but still many clubs fail to sell out their arenas at every game. So the main purpose of this research is to identify factors that influence attendance of ice hockey games in Sweden and reveal their impact on attendance. The analysis is conducted using quantitative methods, where econometrical and statistical approaches are primary tools. In order to test factors influencing attendance a multiple regression model was set up. The dataset was compiled using secondary data and consisted of 1317 regular season ice hockey matches played during 4 seasons (from 2008/2009 to 2011/2012) of the top Swedish ice hockey league called Elitserien. The main sources for compiling the dataset were game reports provided by Swedish Ice Hockey Association and Elitserien. The present study has shown that several factors have strongly positive effect on attendance. Scheduling (games on Friday, Saturday and during Christmas holidays) and rivalry are the most important factors that bring crowds to arenas. Moreover, it can be concluded that higher prices do not affect attendance negatively and clubs can slightly increase ticket prices to improve match day revenues. Finally, on-ice violence attracts Swedish fans while opposite trend exists in North America.
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Vanzella, Yang Adam. "The stratification of attendance at cultural activities in Canada." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/62573.
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Scholars have debated the relative applicability of homology and omnivorousness, two theories of cultural stratification, for explaining links between socioeconomic position and cultural repertoires. However, the discussion has mostly focused on musical tastes rather than attendance at cultural activities. Using data from the 2005 and 2010 Canadian General Social Survey on Time Use, I examine how measures of socioeconomic position predict attendance at twelve different kinds of cultural activities. I apply three analytical techniques to these datasets: (1) binary logistic regressions to investigate the socioeconomic bases of attendance at each cultural activity, (2) ordered logistic regressions to assess the nature of the relationship between socioeconomic position and omnivorous attendance, and (3) latent class analyses to inductively identify patterns of attendance and the socioeconomic bases thereof. Controlling for demographic factors, I find that education and income are both positively associated with attendance at each activity and with omnivorous cultural engagement. The latent class models reveal three distinct groups of attendees: highbrow omnivores, selective omnivores, and inactive people. Education and income predict membership in the two omnivorous groups, with stronger effects for highbrow omnivores. I confirm that omnivorousness is associated with cultural and economic elites but also reveal different gradations of omnivorousness, thus suggesting that the two theoretical frameworks are to a degree entangled with one another.Arts, Faculty of
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Spoke, Mary Lily. "Determination of who benefits most from prenatal class attendance." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/26081.
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A review of numerous studies that had been conducted on the subject of prenatal classes revealed two important themes: the inconclusiveness of prenatal class effectiveness and the apparent predominance of middle class women among prenatal class attenders.
The main purpose of this study was to determine which expectant women appeared to derive the most benefit from attending prenatal classes and to determine what it was that most affected health outcome - attendance at prenatal classes or the characteristics of the mother attending classes.
Two hundred and twenty-two British Columbian mothers who had recently delivered infants constituted the study sample. The study focuses on three variable areas: prenatal class atttendance factor, personal characteristics of the mothers, and health-related outcomes in terms of health knowledge, behaviour and status.
A questionnaire was developed specifically for this study and was issued to the mothers in the sample. The bulk of the data collected derived from the questionnaire responses. Both a mailed and interview format were used. Other data came from official Birth Notices.
The study demonstrated that with regard to a few health-related outcomes, for example, use of labour breathing techniques and infant birthweight over 3000 grams, women who were multiparous, of minority group status and had average education appeared to gain the most from attending prenatal classes. It is not known if parity, ethnicity and education of mothers are characteristics that might predict benefit in terms of other outcomes.
Within the variable sets studied, prenatal class attendance was shown to be the strongest predictor of visits to the physician, infant complications and family planning. Other outcomes, for example, use of labour breathing techniques, delivery mode and infant feeding practice, however, were better predicted by mother's personal characteristics, i.e., parity, language, education and age. In no situation did any of the variables examined make appreciable effects in the outcomes measured.
Despite the weak associations and lack of associations demonstrated between prenatal class attendance and outcomes, the sample mothers cited what they thought were benefits arising from participation in classes. Foremost among these was the social/emotional support mothers received from fellow class participants. As well, knowledge gained about pregnancy, and labour and delivery were found to be categorized as useful by many.
Recommendations resulting from this study centre around improving outreach efforts to women not attending classes. Also, the need to elicit constant feedback from class participants about class content was stressed.Medicine, Faculty of
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Magnusson, Anton, and Jan Larsson. "Implementation of TeliaSonera Incident Management Centre Site Attendance Application." Thesis, Karlstads universitet, Institutionen för matematik och datavetenskap, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-27598.
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TeliaSonera Incident Management Centre Karlstad has been situated in facilities placed in the bedrock of the Kroppkärr district of Karlstad for over ten years. From here TeliaSonera monitors parts of their different kind of networks all over the globe. One part is the monitoring of sites, a structure that holds equipment vital for a network to function. Currently TeliaSonera Incident Management Centre receives about thirty phone calls a dayfrom technicians from all over the world regarding the reporting of attendance on sites. Themain objective is to create a mobile application that can substitute the need of a phone call. The project resulted in the development of two web applications, one application with the purpose to replace the site attendance reporting by phone and another to monitor the incoming reports. The reason for developing a web application was to deliver a platform independentproduct under a short period of time. The site reporting application is resistant to attacks suchas SQL-injections and Cross-Site Scripting. Functionality of web applications is closing in on the functionality behind native applications. Features included in HTML5 allow the developer to take more liberty when programming web applications. These features are utilized in the search and filter functions of the monitoring application in this project. The applications are written in HTML5, JavaScript and PHP and the data is stored in a MySQL database.