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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Career stage"”.
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Examining Construct Stability Across Career Stage Cohorts
… test taken at different points in a test taker's career, taking into account changes is experience over time. A single medical certification exam administration was used to analyze the construct stability of the certification exam across testing cohorts at varied stages in their medical careers. …
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Absenteeism among public health nurses : does commitment matter?
… profession. Job satisfaction, job involvement, career stage and the absence culture were examined as moderators of the relationship between absenteeism and commitment. The sample comprised of 227 public sector nurses (54% response rate) from 11 day clinics and hospitals within the Western Cape …
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A study of the influence of ecological factors and personal teacher characteristics on the implementation of an innovation
… climate, content area, adult development group, career stage, and conceptual level did have on the implementation of an innovation by junior high school teachers in an urban school system. Formal instrumentation consisted of the Organizational Climate Index (OCI) (Stern, Steinkoff & Richman, …
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De-Marginalizing Science in the Early Elementary Classroom: Fostering Reform-Based Teacher Change through Professional Development, Accountability, and Addressing Teachers' Dilemmas
… to examine the impact of teachers' dilemmas, career stage, coaching, and other forms of support on elementary teachers' abilities to teach science more often and in more reform-based ways. The conceptual lenses used to guide this dissertation include the theory related to teacher change, …
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Job embeddedness and turnover intentions: The moderating role of affectivity traits, career stages and perceptions of organisational politics
… moderating effects of affectivity traits, career stage and perceptions of organisational politics (POP) on the JE–turnover intentions relationship. Analyses revealed that composite JE and its dimensions and sub-dimensions (except community fit) were negatively related to turnover …
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An empirical study of the value of professional association meetings from the perspective of attendees
… preferred certain meeting attributes. Career theories were used to provide an explanatory schema for interpreting individual differences. The findings of this study support four meeting attributes; the three hypothesized-education, networking and leadership, plus a fourth, named …
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Women, work, and family: ways to well-being
… number of children, job flexibility, job hours, career stage, and job status and the outcome variable, well-being. Data from a national sample of 277 married, employed women representing dual-employed families were subjected to path analytic analyses using LISREL 7. Findings generally supported …
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The role of fairness, transparency, and feedback in driving motivation and performance among employees in incentive-based roles
… employees, and whether relationships varied by career stage. Data were collected from two independent samples in incentive-based roles: an internet-based pool (N = 295) and employees from a large southeastern U.S. manufacturing organization (N = 91). Hierarchical multiple regression and …
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The influence of living a calling on work continuity intentions and the mediating effects of subjective age and occupational future time perspective
… intentions to retire fully, intentions to pursue career-related bridge employment, and intentions to pursue non-career related bridge employment. Drawing from continuity theory and socioemotional selectivity theory, it was hypothesized that the relationship between living a calling and these later …
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University Faculty Members’ Understanding of Their Role: Identity, Power, and Silence
… professorial identity (shaped by such factors as career stage, university culture, and faculty affiliation), professorial power (powers that participants experienced as well as the ways in which they exercised power), and professorial silencing (as a response to fiscal realities coupled with …
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Job dissatisfaction among therapeutic recreation specialists
… ranking of job security and persons in the late career stage's lower than expected ranking of job security. The conclusion drawn from this study is that therapeutic recreation specialists in the Southwest experience job dissatisfaction primarily due to a perceived lack of respect and credibility …
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Teacher sense-making of english curriculum reform in China: a sociocultural perspective on teacher change and development
… relations between the teacher at a certain career stage and their social reality in a reform context reflects a negotiated process of sense-making between teacher self and external demands and constitutes a 'social situation of teacher development'. The Vygotskian construct of perezhivanie, …
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Comparison of the level of career development between beginning, practicum, and graduating counselor education students
… study examines the difference in the level of career development among beginning counselor education students, practicum students, and graduating counselor education students. Career development was measured using the Career Development Inventory, which is available only online via the Vocopher …
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Development of the Multicultural Curriculum Appraisal (MCCA): A Process to Promote Multicultural Infusion into APA Accredited Doctoral Program Curriculum
… subjective socioeconomic scale, and in the early career stage demonstrated higher scores on the Multicultural Curriculum Appraisal. Additionally, participants who identified institutional barriers also demonstrated higher scores on the Multicultural Curriculum Appraisal. This study lays the …
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The role of employee value propositions and corporate brand preferences in talent attraction
… that may entice potential candidates to pursue a career opportunity within an organisation. The current study adopted a descriptive research design, following a quantitative research approach. Primary data was collected from students, graduates and employed job seekers in their early career stage …
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The socialisation of early career principals in Western Australia
… and understand the socialisation of early career principals in Western Australian public schools. It is widely acknowledged that school principals are critical in the successful education of students and delivering on this is seen to be the core purpose of the role. It is evident that the …
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Professional Development and Learning of In-Service Teachers at Different Career Stages in China: A Teacher Knowledge Building Perspective
… be provided for in-service teachers at different career stages. This research aims to add to the paucity of research that explores what PDL approaches are best suited for in-service teachers at different career stages. By integrating personal and environmental factors encompassing working years, …
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Career Narratives of Women Professors in South Africa
… background, educational history, trajectory of career development, professional experiences, and relation between personal life and professional life. All interviews were audio-taped and then transcribed. Using narrative analysis, the interview transcripts were then analysed. The processes of …