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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 ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
Assessing conceptual ecologies.
(1998)
The participants of this study developed diagrams and repertory grid matrices that assessed their perceptions of the relationships between concepts related to "research". The diagrams and matrices suggested a level of ...
Psychological ecology.
(1998)
A naturalist account of representational content is developed from five related themes. First, an explanation of content should attempt to give those conditions that are relevant and sufficient for the existence of ...
Iconic and schematic maps: A comparative study.
(1998)
One study finding is disappointing: that schematic maps do not promote greater map comprehension than do iconic maps. However, the study suggests that prior verbal instruction may have positive results for recalling map ...