abstract: The problem of practice addressed in this mixed methods action research study is the underachievement of fifth-grade students in mathematics. This study explores the effects of an innovation designed to help students develop a growth mindset by utilizing self-regulation strategies to improve academic growth in mathematics. Students’ underachievement in mathematics has been illustrated by both state and international assessments. Throughout the decades, mathematics instruction and reforms have varied, but overall students’ psychological needs have been neglected. This innovation was designed to develop students’ psychological characteristics regarding facing challenges in mathematics. For this purpose, two guiding theories were utilized to frame this research study, Dweck’s mindset theory and self-regulation theory. To address the research questions of this study, pre- and post-questionnaire data, observational data and student work was analyzed. Results of the qualitative data indicated that the innovation positively impacted students’ mindsets and use of self-regulation strategies. However, quantitative data indicated the innovation had no effect on students’ use of self-regulation strategies or academic growth, and a negative impact on students’ mindsets. / Dissertation/Thesis / Doctoral Dissertation Educational Leadership and Policy Studies 2020

Background: Students with ASD are facing challenges in inclusive school settings. Despite some research have explore some components of peer-mediated intervention, there is gap between the practical implementation and current knowledge. Research aim: The research aims to synthesize the knowledge about school-based peer-mediated intervention for children with ASD. Method: The systematic review was applied in this research. Intervention component analysis to identify the component of PMI. Reichow’s evaluation instrument were used to assess the quality of included studies.  Conclusion: The content of peer-mediated intervention includes the PMI types, intervention intent and the combination of phases. Intervention outcome includes the measure methods and the result of outcome. The shared phases of conducting peer-mediated interventions are students recruitment, peer training and students meeting. The components of peer training are training package, deliver method and intensity. The components of students meeting are setting, context and intensity. Three of studies were assessed as strong quality of research, ten studies were assessed as adequate quality of research.

Organization Behavior Management (OBM) is a subfield within the discipline of Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) involving the application of ABA principles and practices to organizational settings. One successful intervention used in OBM is the implementation of a performance improvement package. This approach has proven to be an effective problem solving strategy in a variety of settings, based on effective components such as goal-setting, prompting, and feedback. In this endeavor a performance improvement package was applied within an educational setting. In this school district, school psychologists are required to complete documentation for Medicaid reimbursement to the district, but were inconsistent in doing so. The purpose of this study was to improve the consistency of billing for Medicaid reimbursement by 74 school psychologists serving 102 schools. A multiple baseline across three areas was used to assess the effectiveness of the intervention introduced in a sequential manner.

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Suitable Menstrual Hygiene Management (MHM) is necessary for the full enjoyment of human rights. In 2019, Scotland made history as the first country to take such a hands on approach to ensuring MHM, when it placed the ‘Period Products (Free Provision) (Scotland) Bill (2019)’ on its political agenda. The bill aims to provide free period products to all those who need, across the whole of Scotland. It also aims to combat the stigma that currently dominates menstruation discourses. This thesis takes a targeted approach and investigates the bill from the perspective of Agenda-Setting Theories to start the process of understanding how this issue gained a place on the Scottish political agenda. Specifically, it employs a discourse analysis to examine how the issue was defined in the bill at hand, in order to highlight key signs that might have impacted its success. The thesis finds that the bill makes an important connection between MHM and the social struggles for gender equality and socioeconomic equality which has the effect of increasing the social significance of the issue. Additionally the bill is found to situate itself within the framework of international human rights norms which has a legitimizing effect on its claim.

Magister Public Health - MPH / This study analyses media representations of Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting (FGM/C) in two Ugandan daily English newspapers. FGM/C is recognized by the World Health Organization as an extreme form of violation of the rights, health and integrity of women and girls. In Uganda, although the overall prevalence of FGM/C is 0.3 percent of the population, FGM/C remains a harmful practice that constitutes a serious threat to the health of women and girls in communities that practice it. Despite existence of a national legal and policy framework that discourages FGM/C, progress in the eradication of the practice remains slow.

Thesis (M. Dev.) -- University of Limpopo, 2017. / Recent changes in Limpopo Economic Development Agency have placed new external pressure on managers to change their ways of managing Performance Management Systems. The above challenge necessitated the researcher to investigate the contribution of Performance Management System on employees’ behaviour and productivity at Limpopo Economic Development Agency. The study is concerned with the development of effective strategies that will enhance the contribution of Performance management system on employee behaviour and productivity at Limpopo Economic Development Agency. This study used the context of Limpopo Economic Development Agency as its spring board in engaging in the daunting subject of performance management system. Surely with all changes that are involved towards the implementation of performance management system, there is a need to review the way performance management system should be implemented, hence this study. In this study, a mixed research design approach was used in the investigation of the contribution of performance management system on employees’ behaviour and productivity. Questionnaires and semi-structured interviews were employed to collect data from the target population. Due to the nature of the study the researcher has also utilised both purposive sampling and stratified random sampling to select different participants in the study. The main findings of the study, confirmed that there are challenges associated with the implementation of performance management system in Limpopo Economic Development Agency. Apart from these challenges, the study also revealed the factors that contribute towards the management of performance management system in the area of the study. Furthermore, the study also led to suggestions of strategies and recommendations that may assist Limpopo Economic Development Agency to accelerate positive contribution of performance management system in the organisation.

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Syftet med denna studie är att öka kunskapen kring hur förskollärare anser att de arbetar med barns fysiska integritet i förskolan. Studien har genomförts genom att använda oss av strukturerade intervjuer, där fem förskollärare intervjuades. Studiens teori bygger på Baderstens (2004) förståelse av vad en normativ teori är, samt den normativa beskrivning som Skolverket gjort av hur integritetsarbete i förskolan bör gå till. Det är utifrån Skolverkets normativa beskrivning, vilket vi valt att benämna Skolverkets normativa metod, som insamlad data analyserats. Resultatet i vår studie visar att för att öka barns förståelse för sin egen och andras fysiska integritet, hjälper förskollärare barn att sätta gränser. Pedagoger behöver vara närvarande och lyhörda för att se signaler samt kliva in om ett barns gräns blivit överträdd. Resultatet visar även att respondenterna menar att kommunikation är viktigt för att utveckla en förståelse kring fysisk integritet. För att kunna respektera barns fysiska integritet visar resultatet att pedagoger behöver lyssna till varje enskilt barn. Det visar även att relationer är viktiga och att barnen ska känna trygghet till den vuxne, samt att barnen behöver får vara delaktiga i beslut som rör dem själva. Slutsatser utifrån studien är att arbetet med att respektera barns fysiska integritet samt utveckla barns förståelse för sin egen och andras fysiska integritet är nära sammanbundet. Har barnet en förståelse för fysisk integritet har barnet också lättare att respektera någon annans fysiska integritet.

Doctor Scientiae / In utero exposure to teratogens, increasing urbanization, rapid nutritional transition from poverty to affluence, adoption of a Western-style diet and physical inactivity have contributed to the growing obesity epidemic in the low-income countries. To investigate the associations between in utero exposure to alcohol and nicotine on the growth and development of children aged five years from a low-income setting. These effects will be observed in children aged five years as a reduced pancreas and kidney size, higher aorta and carotid intima thickness as well as higher visceral abdominal adiposity measurements.