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Personal Growth in Social Context: A High School Senior's Search for Meaning in and Through Writing
(Written Communication, 1997-01-01)
The different emphases that theorists and teachers place on the product and process of writing in their accounts of how writers construct meaning have been influenced by different traditions of Western thought that have ...
Assessing Student Perceptions of Affective Outcomes of Special Education Programs: Instrument Development, Validation, and Comparisons to Regular Education Students
(Educational and Psychological Measurement, 1997-08-01)
The development of the 45-item likert-type response scale Student Survey for assessing the following five affective goals of Connecticut's Common Core of Learning is described: Academic Competence, Social Competence, Social ...
Vehicle and Labor Requirements for Yard Waste Collection
(Waste Management & Research, 1997-12-01)
Curbside collection of yard waste material is costly because the amounts collected per residence are small compared to the total waste stream and time is wasted driving by non-setting-out residences. In this paper, ...
The Use of Statistical Quality Control Charts to Evaluate Changes in Individual Performance
(Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting, 1997-10-01)
An employee's readiness to perform (RTP) has become an important issue facing today's industries. Some industries have turned to cognitive performance testing to provide answers regarding their employee's abilities to work ...
Pay-for-Performance Systems in State Government: Perceptions of State Agency Personnel Managers*
(Review of Public Personnel Administration, 1997-01-01)
Pay for performance has been a widely used method of compensation in the public sector since the early 1980s, but a growing body of research has indicated that numerous problems can be associated with the application of ...
Representative Bureaucracy: Examining the Linkage between Passive and Active Representation in the Farmers Home Administration
(The American Review of Public Administration, 1997-03-01)
Despite the extensive literature on representative bureaucracy, only a few studies have examined empirically whether bureaucracies with different levels of representativeness produce different policy outputs. This study ...
Managerial Emotionality in Chinese Factories
(Management Communication Quarterly, 1997-08-01)
Managerial emotion may be experienced and handled differently when reason and emotion are understood to be continuously (e.g., Eastern cultures) rather than dichotomously (e.g., Western cultures) related. Using a social ...
Russian City Planning, Democratic Reform, and Privatization: Emerging Trends
(Journal of Planning Education and Research, 1997-03-01)
The emerging democratic and privatization reforms are shaping city planning practice in Russia. This paper provides a brief history of city planning, a typical schema of city governance, and describes some of the effects ...