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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Defining Quality"”.
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The Role of the Residential Environment in Defining Quality of Life
Quality of life is a concept that has been the center of debate for many decades. This debate has involved many domains of life and has included the residential environment. The residential environment is important in the analysis of quality of life because of the role it plays in the human …
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Teaching in Early Education: Examining the Relationship among Job Satisfaction, Efficacy, Connection to Students and Student Poverty Concentration
… currently in some type of childcare setting. In defining quality, education of teachers is often used as an important indicator but has been shown to be an ineffective way to define quality. The importance of understanding high quality is especially important given gains that children in poverty …
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Die literêre soortlikheid van die fantasie, met spesiale verwysing na die Narnia-verhale van C.S. Lewis, die Huppelkind-reeks van W.O. Kühne en Ken jy die Kierangbos? van Freda Linde
… in which the fantasy element is seen as the defining quality of the fantasy tale. This element consists of the depicting of events that are by nature "outside" of reality. In Chapter 2 the theory discussed in Chapter 1 is applied to three literary works traditionally regarded as fantasies. …
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Recurrent cancer and quality of life : a description of the experiences of oncology patients
… the rising cost of medical care, the issue of quality of life appears to be coming to the forefront in understanding how health care decisions will best be realized for patients. Ethical questions relating to matters such as cost-effective economics, physician-assisted suicide, and quantity of …
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The effects of the implementation of total quality management on the Rappahannock County, Virginia public schools
… 80+ hours of training and were certified as Quality Trainers by the Xerox Corporation and the Virginia Department of Education through a US Department of Education partnership grant. By September 1992, nearly 90% of all Rappahannock school district associates (employees) had received 30+ …
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Challenging 'quality': an investigation of theoretical and pedagogical conceptualisations of 'quality' in the primary school in England
This thesis challenges the way the concept of quality is understood, approached and defined. The concept of quality has fascinated me for over a decade. Initially I was shocked by the importance of the concept and the complete absence of any clear understanding about what it means. In recent years …
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Kepemimpinan dan profesionalisme karyawan, pengaruhnya terhadap kinerja pegawai melalui kepuasan kerja sebagai variabel intervening: Studi empiris pada Kantor Kementerian Agama Kota Malang
… obligation, also employees' professionalism in defining quality of performace. In other word, leadership and employees' professionalism in an institute can also motivate highly work satisfaction is created. Therefore, it affects to the increase of the performace of organization. This study is …
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The price sensitivity of industrial buyers to softwood lumber product and service quality: an investigation of the U.S. wood treating industry
The value-based approach to defining quality was used to investigate the value perceptions of softwood lumber treaters in the United States. Conjoint measurement techniques were used to estimate the trade-offs treaters make between quality enhancing attributes and price. Five intrinsic lumber …
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Quality in All Levels: A Model Defining and Measuring Quality in Bioethics Education
<p>Due to the lack of academic studies in the quality assessment of bioethics education, this dissertation aimed to propose a normative model, Quality in All Levels (QAL), to define and measure quality in bioethics education. The QAL model described quality in bioethics education as conformance to …