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Extending the Traditional Classroom Through Online Discussion: The Role of Student Motivation
(Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2006-01-01)
Two studies addressed students' motivation and participation in an online discussion board which was part of a traditional lecture-based course. The discussion board represented an external communication resource to extend ...
Alternate methods for sampling in coordinate metrology
(Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part B: Journal of Engineering Manufacture, 2007-06-01)
A variety of inspection equipment exists in industry to capture the points on a surface that will envisage manufacturing form errors. Manufacturing inspection faces a problem of finding optimal methods to capture an evenly ...
Are we All Touching the Same Camel?: Exploring a Model of Participation in Budgeting
(The American Review of Public Administration, 2005-06-01)
Theory offers a vast quantity of normative prescriptions concerning citizen participation in budget decisions. Yet cities struggle with this activity and report unsatisfactory outcomes. Why does this occur? It may be ...
Reporting through the lens of the past: from Challenger to Columbia
(Journalism, 2006-05-01)
Collective memory, the publicly shared meaning of a common past, can structure both news stories and reporters' search for information within the broader context of journalistic practices. It can also provide reporters ...
Voting to Ban Same-Sex Marriage: Interests, Values, and Communities
(American Sociological Review, 2009-12-01)
From 2000 through 2008, initiatives proposing to ban same-sex marriage were on the ballot in 28 states. Although same-sex marriage opponents scored lopsided victories in most cases, voting outcomes varied substantially at ...
Using the Theory of Planned Behavior and cheating justifications to predict academic misconduct
(2009-06-19)
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The purpose of this paper is to show that academic misconduct appears to be on the rise; some research has linked academic misconduct to unethical workplace behaviors. Unlike previous empirically‐driven research, ...
Parent Training Through Play: Parent-Child Interaction Therapy with a Hyperactive Child
(The Family Journal, 2000-04-01)
The Death and Rebirth of a Party System, Peru 1978-2001
(Comparative Political Studies, 2003-12-01)
This article evaluates structural, institutional, and actor-centered explanations of the collapse of the Peruvian party system around 1990 and its surprising partial recovery in 2001. It begins by describing the changes ...
Taking Up Offenses: Secondhand Forgiveness and Group Identification
(Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 2008-10-01)
When a person or group is mistreated, those not directly harmed by the transgression might still experience antipathy toward offenders, leading to secondhand forgiveness dynamics similar to those experienced by firsthand ...