Stratified sampling

Abstract Purpose: This study was designed to compare the pragmatic abilities of children and adolescents who suffered a traumatic brain injury to their non-injured age matched peers. Methods: Participants were put into four groups (adolescent TBI, adolescent control group, child TBI, and child control group). The TBI groups sustained a moderate head injury between two and four years prior to the study and were no longer receiving speech therapy. Each participant engaged in the conversational…

They differ because the Role Congruity Theory focuses on the socialization factors that may decrease retention in STEM fields, narrowing in on the idea that people do not like to upset societal gender norms. This can help explain why women aren’t interested in joining STEM. Whereas the Embeddedness Theory and the Expectancy-value model focus on the factors. Both social and personal factors that could potentially increase women’s retention in STEM. They both focus on what factors motivate women.…

These children usually have higher self-esteem and lower levels of anxiety and depressions. The parents provide higher responsiveness to their children with a lower demand. Children with permissive parenting style often have better social skills compared to other children with other parenting styles. However, these children are more prone to problem behavior, such as taking drugs etc. meaning they have lower peer resistance. Additionally, such children usually do not do so well in school.…

The field of industrial relations is fraught with endless contestations between and among parties. Adewunmi (2008) observed that there is no other area of social interaction where the contradictions in a class society are as manifest as in the field of industrial relations. This is the locale where the two major players in the production process- labour and capital are engaged in an endless struggle to control the work process. Central to this conception is power and continuous struggle for…

Intelligence refers to general mental ability to learn, solve novel problems, educe relationships, quickly process information accurately, think rationally, act purposefully, originate useful ideas and effectively adapt to one’s environment. Unfortunately, intelligence testing has not been incorporated in Nigerian educational system in spite of the central role that the trait plays in almost all human behaviour. This is largely due to the absence of a test that reliably and validly measures…

Schools should be a place of safe learning not only for the students but for the teachers as well. There are many advantages of having security within our schools. One of the advantages of security in schools is that fewer incidents, suspensions and expulsions happen when schools have security measures in place (Wren, 2013). Another advantage of having security within our schools is being able to identify information prior to an attack, communities across the country can effectively establish…

Article Summary Criminological research has a heavy presence of studies testing social bond theory. One such study, done by Michael Cretacci, tested religion as a social control. Throughout the article Cretacci claimed that Hirschi originally had data on adding religion as a social control, but for some unknown reason excluded it from the theory (Cretacci, 2003). Cretacci used that missing piece of history to see the effect that religion has on violence across developmental stages. In order to…

Children are not immune to the stressful difficulties that adults face in the world today. While some children experience safe, warm, and nurturing homes, others experience physical and sexual abuse, changes in home or school locations, death or divorce in the family, or major illnesses which causes problems such as low self-esteem, loneliness, fear, and anxiety. Counseling provides a safe, empathetic atmosphere for children to overcome obstacles to their personal growth, and find new ways to…

 The research characteristics of potential research subjects, eg pupils, parents, teachers (eg class and ethnic differences; language and literacy skills; teachers‟ stereotypes).  The research contexts and settings (eg classrooms; pupils‟ homes; staffrooms).  The sensitivity of researching the role of linguistic deprivation in educational underachievement (eg policy and resource implications for schools; the centrality of literacy in the curriculum; victim blaming and stigmatisation; parental…

DATA QUALITY OF ROUTINE HEALTH MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEM: A case of Uasin Gishu County Hospital Health Systems, Kenya SAMUEL KIPRONO CHEBURET (BSc HRIM) STUDENT NUMBER: 201664 RESEARCH PROPOSAL SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENT FOR THE CONFERMENT OF THE DEGREE OF MASTERS OF HEALTH INFORMATION MANAGEMENT, KENYA METHODIST UNIVERSITY 27 June 2015 Declaration This proposal is my original work and has not been presented for a degree in any other University…