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Showing 1 to 20 of 33 for “"Basic Training"”.
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A Study of Academic Performance in Police Basic Training
… that attended the Department of Criminal Justice Training (DOCJT) for their basic training academy in Richmond, Ky. This study focused on the academic portion of recruit training only. This study assessed whether education level is a valid predictor of a recruit officers academic performance and …
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Creating Better Citizens? Investigating U.S. Marine Corps Basic Training
… I investigated these claims by exploring basic training in one branch of the United States (U.S.) military, the Marine Corps. I conducted semi-structured, in-depth interviews with 10 enlisted Marine Corps veterans and 7 drill instructors to ascertain their perceptions regarding the …
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Scheduling basic training for the Federal Armed Forces of Germany
… of a personal computer-based system to schedule basic training for Federal Armed Forces of Germany (Bundeswehr) conscripts. Each quarter 20,000 conscripts undergo three months of basic training in over 100 different units. The training objectives fit in 450 training topics which are currently …
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Changing the Guards: Expanding Cultural Diversity Training in Correctional Officer Basic Training
… examined the effectiveness of cultural diversity training in state basic correctional officer training programs. In recent years, the demographics of the U.S. prison population has become much more culturally diverse. This shift is noted by recent academic literature from scholars who have …
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Becoming an Agile Warrior - An Examination of using a Constructivist Approach to Learning During Basic Training in the British Army.
… This method was to be trialled at Phase 1 training establishments. This EdD thesis sought to both unpack the current understanding of the complexities of Phase 1 training including its design and implementation, and evaluate a potential solution in linking the design, instructors, recruits …
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Evaluation of a colored background on printed nutrition education material
… education research project was conducted using basic training candidates at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center (FLETC), Glynco, Georgia. Prior to the administration of the full scale project, a test questionnaire was developed and evaluated and a project pilot test was conducted. The …
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Informal learning in the police subculture: a case study of probationary special agents of a federal criminal investigative agency
… has evolved to include formalized training. A review of the literature revealed a perception that the academy curriculum is insufficient preparation for the realities of the field. As a result, the new graduates must learn the ropes while on the job. This study focused on how new …
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An evaluation of the instructional practices in voice teaching at Australian performing art institutions
… evaluate the practices and techniques of vocal training for student actors at a tertiary level, through a survey of experienced voice practitioners in Australian performing arts schools, appropriate texts, consideration of contexts and my own professional experience. Vocal instruction starts …
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Women and War: the Impact of Feminization on Our Military
… A history of the performance of women in basic training, their specialized military occupation, combat, and our highest military institutions was analyzed. There was then a comparison between the physical, psychological, and psychosocial differences between men and women using the fields …
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Combat motivation in the eighteenth-century British army
… received motivation from several sources. Basic training in the eighteenth-century British army laid the foundations for certain relationships among military personnel which contributed to combat motivation. One such relationship was a network of primary ties among soldiers. The …
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Predicting the number of potential military recruits over the next ten years with application to recruiter placement
… enlisting) and accessions (those who reported to basic training) from October 1998- September 2006. Records contained home of record ZIP code and demographic information including age, race, gender, and education. Woods and Poole population data, provided by Navy Recruiting Command (CNRC), was …
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Demilitarization in the department of correctional services: an analysis of the issues and attitudes
… at their employment were required to undergo a basic training course of nine months, which was later reduced to six months. They were also classified into ranks and were also wearing uniform. They were used to call each other by rank which signified hierarchy. These ranks were being used to …
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Conhecimento que o professor de matemática da educação básica da cidade de Cabaceiras – PB tem acerca do uso de recursos tecnológicos.
… use them in the classroom, because they had in basic training or vocational training and the opportunity to deal with the technologies as teaching methodology. The teachers are not prepared to work in this new technological reality, they do not feel prepared to diversify classes and relate the …
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Comparison of classification techniques for speechaudio applications
… learning software and neural networks with basic training algorithms. This thesis provides an extensive experimental simulation of the speech classification problem. In this thesis, the Extended Kalman Filter algorithm is proposed to train a neural network classifier. Our experiments show …
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Fighting Tigers with a Stick: An Evaluation of U.S. Army Recruitment, Training, and Their Combat Outcomes in the Korean War
… or not American GIs received proper combat training before and during the war. Indeed, problems existed with American infantry training before and during the early phases of the Korean War. Recruitment standards slipped while leaders reduced the length of basic training. Unit level training …
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The Empirical Development of an Instructional Product for the Training of Seventh-day Adventist Literature Evangelists
<p><em>Problem</em>. This study addressed the training needs of SDA literature evangelists through an empirically developed curriculum.</p> <p><em>Method.</em> The instructional product development method of Baker and Schutz (1971) served as the basis for this research. After the need for the …
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An exploration of the perceptions of caregivers regarding the psychosocial support needs of hearing impaired children: A case study of the Usko Nghaamwa Special School in the Ohangwena region, Namibia.
… teachers indicated that they had not received training in sign language or special education. The study also found that there was no peer-to-peer support group for special educators. Parents indicated that they had little understanding of ways to deal with a hearing impaired child; they mostly …
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Munnur hestsins við frumtamningu : forathugun á íslenskum tamningatrippum
… of Icelandic youngsters during their first training phase, and to describe other reactions expressed by the horses when introduced to the headgear equipment. For ten weeks, eight horses were started with commonly used headgear equipment in Iceland, applying methods of first basic training …
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