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Showing 1 to 20 of 69 for “"Effective Practice"”.
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Home Visitors' Conceptions of Effective Practice in Home Visiting
… used to investigate home visitor conceptions on effective home visiting during a video-based professional development intervention. Home visitors (N = 5) employed by an Early Head Start-Home Based Option (EHS-HBO) program each recorded 8-14 of their home visits and met individually with a …
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Experiential learning: The development of a pedagogic framework for effective practice.
… (Rickards, 2007: 430), bringing theory and practice together in a way that has been hitherto unseen in the existing body of literature (Nichol, 2002; Norris, 2006; Rickards, 2007). The research fieldwork, conducted to date over a period of over fifteen years, adopts a mode two research …
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Best Practice: Bringing the Elements of Effective Practice to the College Writing Classroom
… innate talent rather than sustained, deliberate practice. As a result, these students may lack the motivation to improve their writing abilities, leading to a vicious cycle in which they come to increasingly resent writing as a curricular and extracurricular activity. This dissertation argues …
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Standards-based educational accountability and at-risk schools: Implications for teacher empowerment for effective practice
… and its corollary quality assurance practices have increasingly been integrated in education in recent years. This development has however been criticized as having unintended negative consequences on learning. Studies have indicated that its reliance on assessments that are primarily …
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The Link Between Meditation and Effective Practice: Increasing the Pace of the Acquisition of Skill in Musical Practice
<p>This thesis seeks to explore the idea of effective practice as being meditative in nature. Effective practice and meditation are both viewed independently, and elements of both are discussed. Meditation, in the literature, is viewed in different lights and is defined in many ways. This makes it …
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School Practices and Student Achievement
… The Department conducted a study to identify the practices used by schools showing improvement. Six effective practice domains were identified. The current study was a follow-up to the research conducted by the Virginia Department of Education. A questionnaire measuring the six effective practice …
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The relationship between attitude toward economic issues and delivery of human caring in perioperative nursing
… economy calls for nurses to work more cost-effectively. Using Watson's model of Human Care as the conceptual framework, this study looked at the relationship between attitudes toward economic issues and human caring in perioperative nursing; The NCAS and BHNAS self-reporting scales consisted …
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An investigation of the factors which influence the degree of patient involvement in the physiotherapeutic consultation
… explore physiotherapists’ ability to recognise effective practice in patient involvement by means of a regional study using video vignettes of simulated consultations; v) ascertain to what extent physiotherapists involve patients in their physiotherapy care by means of an in-depth local …
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Amount of Practice and Practice Strategies of Seventh Grade Orchestra Students
… between middle school orchestra student practice habits and achievement on a teacher-assigned etude. The researcher taught the concepts on a pretest and then introduced a similar etude with instructions to practice for one week, recording practice time and strategies. Two observers …
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The Application of Dual-medium and parallel-medium models of bi-lingual education at two primary schools in the Western Cape
… Cape. The author assumes that parallel-medium in practice uses only one language of learning and teaching (LoLT), and thus lead to monolingual classroom practice. The author used qualitative techniques (observations, interviews, and document analyses.), and triangulation method, to understand the …
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Knowledge sharing practices in academic libraries with special reference to the Unisa Library
In recent years it has been acknowledged that the practice of knowledge management can play an important role to ensure an organisation’s competitive edge within an industry. This study focuses on knowledge sharing practices in university libraries with special reference to the Unisa Library. The …
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How to Identify leading indicators for scenario monitoring
… leaders. Scenario planning is recognized as an effective tool used to explore ambiguous business environment dynamics over a long time horizon and identifying ways to translate uncertainty into potential future strategies. After the potential scenarios are developed and formulated into business …
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Large-scale online environmental mapping: from theory to implementation
… based on modern sensing techonologies in a cost-effective practice. Our research asserts the validity of the proposed frameworks through both theory and implementation.
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A Call for Action: Challenging Educator Beliefs and Structures to Support Significant Student Learning
… student achievement, educators at all levels of practice must engage in intentional learning experiences that call their beliefs and practices into question and engages them in meaningful discourse. The argument is made that this type of professional learning happens at a belief altering level, …
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Microworlds, Poetry and Programming: Block-Based Programming for Literacy and Computational Thinking in Secondary Education in Wales
… for defined aspects of literacy?(iii) What effective practice recommendations for microworld pedagogic design can be made? <br/><br/>The work comprises five studies, four of which took place at a school where the teacher-researcher is employed as a full time teacher of ICT. The project …
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Justice and Ethics in Penal Practice.
… of) an alliance between moral principles and effective practice the complexity of ‘penality’ - both in terms of the influences that shape it and of its many meanings, functions and consequences. The commentary concludes with an attempt to identify the original contributions to knowledge made …
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Tradizione orale, letteratura e violenza nell'Amazzonia peruviana: l'epoca del "caucho"
… a cultural resistance operation, but also an effective practice of decolonization, in the way that they give an account of the unbalanced power relationships and present an alternative way to understand them.
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Media Literacy: A Global Methodology for Teaching and Learning in the 21st Century
… new knowledge to inform robust pedagogy and effective practice for media literacy education that is applicable globally. Conducted over 25 years, this research formulates and verifies an approach to media literacy that is consistent, replicable, measurable and scalable. These academic outputs …
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Educational Assistants Supporting Inclusive Education in Secondary Schools
… framework that will make the use of EAs a more effective practice for student and school. Fifteen EAs working in secondary schools within a school board in southwestern Ontario which was moving to a more inclusive model of education were individually interviewed. EAs chosen for the study had a …
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The Effect of an Interprofessional Hospital Rotation on Senior Dental Hygiene Students’ Interprofessional Identity
… efforts are adequately preparing them for effective practice in IP teams. Methods: A pretest-posttest survey design was implemented to measure changes in University of Minnesota senior dental hygiene (DH) students’ IPI before and after an interprofessional hospital rotation. Changes in …
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