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Expressing political and administrative values through stories: A semiotic analysis of the National Performance Review.
(1998)
The argument presented here is that the stories in NPR are effective at communicating the values intended by the authors of the report. This finding supports what many administrative theorists have recently postulated about ...
Students' stress: The relationship of college students' stress variables to goal orientations, academic self-concept, and achievement variables.
(1997)
Results revealed that Academic Self-Concept was the most influential and predictive of GPA. Cognitive Appraisal Strategies and Negative Personal Beliefs Stressors had strong influences on Academic Self-Concept. Furthermore, ...
The application of music history and music theory in keyboard study to facilitate the development of beginning stages of critical thinking.
(1997)
Each weekly session was video-taped. Written observations by the researcher were organized under these headings: amount of dialogue between the researcher and student, the student's interest in the workbook activities, ...
Integration of the ecological and error models of overconfidence using a multiple-trace memory model.
(1999)
This research examined a memory processes account of the calibration of probability judgments. A multiple-trace memory model, MINERVA-DM (MDM; Dougherty, Ogden, & Gettys, 1999), was used to integrate the ecological ...
Transfer of learning in choral settings.
(1998)
Effective choral pedagogy should be concerned with more than the next performance. Conductors who hope to enable the efficient development of performance skill must design instruction that induces transfer on a conceptual ...
Multiple intelligences. N characters in search for a solution: An approach for a personal and social heuristic.
(1999)
In phenomenology (Spiegelberg, 1984) if consciousness perceives value to sane approach in addressing problems (the phenomena arising through the participants, use of the heuristic coincide with participants' beliefs they ...
Computer-mediated communication in collaborative writing.
(1998)
The purpose of this study was to determine if using computers to communicate during group writing tasks is an effective mode of communication. Three-person teams wrote term papers in one of the following media styles: ...
The effects of technological distortion and visual "literacy" in political advertising /
(1997)
This research advances the argument that technology can be used to influence the meaning being drawn by the viewer from the video image. Although using technologically distorted images or not played little significance in ...
Delivering continuing professional education at a distance: The correlation of field dependence/independence and learning using the World Wide Web.
(1999)
Field independent participant scores showed an advantage on performance measures. Field dependence/independence was not predictive of learner completion rates, frequency of reporting a sense of 'becoming lost', or navigational ...
The relationship of structural components of sociotropy and autonomy with gender identity and depression.
(1998)
Newman, Gray, and Fuqua (1996) observed that definitions of sociotropy and autonomy, as well as specific items on the SAS, appear to overlap in some fundamental ways with definitions of femininity and masculinity. In a ...