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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Cognitive reasoning"”.
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Cognitive Development in Student Leaders and Non-leaders
This study examined cognitive development in student leaders and non-leaders. Participants included 60 students (30 student leaders and 30 non-leaders). Each group contained equal numbers of males and females. The Measure of Epistemological Reflection (MER) (Baxter Magolda & Porterfield, 1985) was …
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Ensinando com estratégias função exponencial.
… their applications develop the intellectual reasoning, thinking it was so necessary a reflective study about the difficulty of learning this content. In this perspective, we note that there is difficulty learning in teaching exponential function in the classroom, interfering with the …
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The relationship between locus of control, self efficacy and achievement motivation amongst employees within a financial services organisation
… through the use of competency-based interviews, cognitive measures, and or work simulations (role plays) prior to employment. According to Van Zyl and Visser (1998), psychometric tests are largely based on either overseas or South African middle class White values or norms and knowledge, and are …
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Towards understanding and improving the process of small group collaborative learning in software engineering education
… a framework for the development of teamwork and cognitive reasoning when learning in small groups.
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Managerial Decisions: A Discursive Analysis
… emphasise economic rationality as the basis for cognitive reasoning, decision processes and judgement and as the analytic paradigm. However, in the face of new problems, and in times of profound change, conventional forms of thought may be problematic in themselves. This project suggests and …
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Comparison of a Video Game Based Learning Environment and a Traditional Learning Environment
… are able to apply their empirical knowledge and cognitive reasoning skills. </p><p> This study planned to evaluate and compare the effectiveness of using video games in the classroom to a traditional learning environment. Learners will be evaluated on their perception of the learning environment …
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The Lived Experiences of black African HIV positive fathers in the UK
… acquire an 'insider perspective' into people's cognitive reasoning as well as the social and cultural context surrounding experiences. Method: Six Black African HIV positive fathers were recruited via HIV charities. Participants were requested to attend a 60-90 minute, semi-structured interview …
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Understanding and improving people’s judgments of synergistic risks
… qualitative data is analysed to explore the cognitive reasoning that individuals employ when assessing the risk for combined hazards. The third paper presents a study that assess a new metric for the assessment of risk judgments for combined hazards, and a second study in which …
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Exploring Early Gesture and Language Development Trends in Sesotho-Speaking Infants (8 to 18 Months)
… in particular, strongly predicts literacy, cognitive reasoning, emotional regulation, social interaction, interpersonal relationships and long-term outcomes. Research in this field has historically been dominated by studies conducted in WEIRD (Western, Educated, Industrialised, Rich and …
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The power of words - CEOs' psychological influences: exit, change & hold: the stories of leadership succession: three empirical studies on companies in the FTSE All-Share Index
… CEO turnovers. This study integrates both cognitive and emotional factors, appreciating the proactive roles of CEOs in the leadership succession process. Apart from conventional reasons, e.g. firms' prior perfonnance, old CEOs' power, their future focus attention (FF A) and negative emotion …
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A mixed methods scoping review of gender and life stage as risk factors of injury-related mortality in the Western Cape, South Africa
… primarily to structural causes of violence, and cognitive reasoning and development linked to life stage. Overall, these results highlight gender-linked biases in forensic death reporting. Injury related deaths and homicides affected more males, yet males were primarily represented as …
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An evaluation of a high school preparatory programme
… their mathematics and English performance, their cognitive reasoning ability, and their self-efficacy; and whether students in each of the teaching streams had benefitted equally from the intervention. The evaluation used secondary data collected throughout 2015 and included student' term 2 and …
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Paranoia and social mistrust in UK and Hong Kong children
… factors identified from the adult literature. Cognitive processes (i.e., reasoning bias, theory of mind and executive function) and psychosocial risk factors (i.e., bullying, lone- liness, peer-rated social status, and hostile attribution bias) were studied. 118 children from the follow-up …
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Think, talk, read and write better English: improving L2 literacy skills of Malaysian schoolchildren through collaborative reasoning
… assigned to either participate in Collaborative Reasoning (CR) sessions, an intellectually stimulating, collaborative and productive approach to classroom talk, or to serve as a waitlist control group, receiving CR after the project ended. Students in the CR group participated in twice a week, …