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    • 35 Figure 3. Student Engagement After a Classroom Energizer Resting As a control, the researcher allowed the students to have one rest day. This involved the students coming into the researcher’s classroom and simply resting (sitting quietly) at th...
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    • The Human Element 36 2005, p. 11). So, in conducting this type of study, one of the first things that researchers need to understand is that, “ethnography is not one research approach, but is a qualitative research paradigm that encompasses a...
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    • 21 CHAPTER FOUR: DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSIONS Methamphetamine Impurities The hypothesis, that a distinct pattern of impurities present in illicit methamphetamine specimens could be characterized by GC/MS, was supported during this research, despite...
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    • 109 2010. Of the total number of surveys collected, 212 were rejected for incompleteness or respondents did not meet the residency or age requirements discussed; 973 were deemed usable. Data analysis methodology. Software packages. Predictive...
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    • 110 Evaluation of Fit section (Hoyle, 1995). SEM consists of several steps including model specification, estimation, evaluation of model fit, model modification and interpretation (Hoyle, 1995). Model specification. In the specification step, a...
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    • 111 direct and indirect effects of an independent variable on a dependent variable comprises the total effect between the variables (Hoyle, 1995). Identification is an important consideration in model specification. In essence, identification is...
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    • 112 implied covariance matrix and the observed matrix are used to calculate the residual matrix. The smaller the residual matrix, the better the model estimation, thus iteration continues until the residual matrix is minimized (Hoyle, 1995). This...
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    • 31 Chapter 4 Results RTI has been a nationwide initiative, because “to meet the needs of all students, the educational system must use its collective resources to intervene early and provide appropriate interventions and supports to prevent...
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    • 53 Researcher’s Journal As participants were taking each test, the researcher observed and kept notes of the administration of the tests, students’ actions, the format of the tests, and some similarities and differences between the tests and...
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    • 118 Tables 7 and 8 represent the frequency and descriptive analyses, respectively, for Section F: Information Sources. Table 7 indicates whether or not the respondents had heard about Austria from the given source while Table 8 shows whether or not...
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    • 119 variable. The data were evaluated for assumptions of SEM: normality, linearity, multicollinearity and singularity, and adequacy of covariances. ----------------------- Insert Table 9 Here ----------------------- Results derived within larger...
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    • 120 evidenced in Table 10. EQS also provided information on multivariate normality. Histograms were not normally distributed for the variables. The normalized estimate of 41.35 indicated that the variables were not normally distributed. A scaling...
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    • 123 ----------------------- Insert Table 12 Here ----------------------- SEM Data Analysis Structural equation modeling (SEM) was used to examine the hypothesized relationships among the constructs in the study. The hypothesized models were...
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    • 15 Table 6: Total number of samples successfully amplified and their percentage for each amount of DNA in solution. Totals represent the number of samples successfully amplified for each amount of DNA in solution plus earlier successes. For...
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    • 98 The final learning style surveyed, intrapersonal, showed fewer males with a preference of working alone. The educator, during her years of teaching, has observed that boys chose to work alone rather than with other students. After the...
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    • 99 The average response to the statements “I do not enjoy math, I find math boring, and I am not interested in math” was neutral, didn’t agree or disagreed. The students signed up for the next class required because it was expected. The...
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    • 100 the statement, “Math is hard for me even when I study” and after the real-life math activities involving the bodily/kinesthetic learning style disagreed strongly. Females were neutral but changed slightly after the activities (see Figure...

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