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administrator recommended three schools, of which two schools agreed to participate in the
study. A total of 10 schools were invited to participate. Of these six schools agreed to participate.
A total of twenty-one teachers of children enrolled in the 5 th grade were invited to participate. Of
these, sixteen agreed to participate. Teacher participation in this study was completely voluntary.
There was no penalty for their choosing not to participate. For example, if a teacher chose not to
participate, the children in his or her classroom were not considered for participation in the
study. The study required both teacher-participation and child participation.
Participating classroom teachers sent home parental consent packets with 486 children
enrolled in the 5 th grade. Packets contained a parent cover letter and two parent consent forms.
One hundred sixty-five parents returned a copy of their signed parent consent form to their
child’s teacher by the date indicated in the cover letter. This represents a 33.9 percent return rate.
Of the 165 children with parental consent, only 158 children signed child assent forms agreeing
to participate in the study. This represents a 95.8 percent child assent rate. Common reasons
given by the seven children with parent consent to not participate were that the child did not
want to participate or that the child was absent on the day the survey was administered. The
principal investigator assigned a unique child identification code to each participating child who
returned a signed parent consent. Teachers signed, dated and returned teacher consent forms to
the principal investigator. The principal investigator then provided each teacher with a list of
child names and corresponding child identification codes to use when completing the online
teacher’s survey. Teachers completed their online questionnaires on school computers at their
convenience. Participating children met in groups of 5 to 25 during school hours to complete the
online CBVS on school computers. At each school, on the day of that the children completed
their surveys, the principal investigator set up the online computer surveys prior to participant
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