Teacher management of asthmatic children: The contributions of knowledge and self-efficacy.
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Title
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Teacher management of asthmatic children: The contributions of knowledge and self-efficacy.
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Identifier
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AAI9924795
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identifier
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9924795
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Creator
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Appea, Stephen Kwesi.
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Contributor
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Adviser: Barry J. Zimmerman
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Date
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1999
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Education, Educational Psychology | Education, Health
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Abstract
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Although asthma is the most common chronic disease of school-age children, little is known about how teachers cope with the challenge of providing instruction to asthmatic students. This study represents an initial attempt to develop a profile of American inner-city public school teachers in an environment where asthma is endemic.;A few European and Australian studies have investigated teacher knowledge of asthma but have not examined the relationship between asthma knowledge, self-efficacy and classroom asthma management. The present study was the first effort to examine inter-relationships between asthma knowledge, management and self-efficacy within the context of a proposed multi-process model of teacher asthma domains in order to develop a profile of urban teachers of asthmatic students. Self efficacy was found to contribute as much to teacher classroom asthma management as asthma knowledge itself, thus providing support for a conceptual model of teacher asthma management in which self-efficacy is a vital component.;Many teachers were found to have very low levels of asthma knowledge, however, teachers who had asthma themselves or vicarious experience with the disease through a close personal relation displayed significantly greater asthma knowledge, efficacy, and management colleagues without such experience.;The small number of trained teachers in the study also showed significantly greater levels of asthma knowledge, efficacy and management than the vast majority of their untrained counterparts. A major implication of the study is that teachers need to be trained in order to more effectively cope with the challenge of asthmatic students.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
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degree
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Ph.D.
