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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"Empirical development"”.
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Essays in Empirical Development Economics
This thesis consists of three empirical chapters that examine issues in development economics. Chapter 1 focuses on the effects of civil wars on the welfare of individuals. I use a unique data set that contains information on war casualties of the 1992-1995 Bosnian War, and exploit the variation in …
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Essays in empirical development economics
This thesis is a collection of three essays in empirical development economics. The first chapter evaluates the effects on education and wages of a large school construction program undertaken by the Indonesian government between 1973 and 1978. I evaluate the effect of this program on education and …
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The Empirical Development of a Curriculum on Faith Development
… need to be sensitive to the dynamics of faith development as it interfaces with human development over the life span, and with its practical implications. Currently, there is no curriculum available, empirically developed or otherwise, to explore this issue.</p> <p>Method. The underlining …
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The Empirical Development of a Curriculum to Train SDA Professional Youth Leaders
… meet the need for SDA youth ministry training by empirically developing a curriculum to train church youth leaders.</p> <p>Method. The instructional product development of Baker and Schutz (1971) was utilized for this research. After the need for the product was established, instructional …
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The Empirical Development of a Curriculum in Sports Acrobatics and Spiritual Witnessing
… The purpose of this project was to develop empirically a curriculum to assist Seventh-day Adventist sports acrobatic coaches, physical education instructors, physical education majors and minors to integrate spiritual witnessing concepts into their acrobatics programs.</p> <p>Method. The …
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Toward Understanding Team Leadership: The Empirical Development of a Team Leadership Classification System
… system of team leadership through the empirical process of numerical classification. Although the value and importance of leadership have been recognized in the team literature, few empirical studies have been conducted to understand the phenomenon of team leadership. A thorough review …
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The Empirical Development of a Preparation for Marriage Curriculum for Twelfth-Grade Students
… A systematic procedure was undertaken in the development and validation of the product. First, the content of a pre-marriage course was identified through an examination of a large sample of family-life texts, a survey of teacher criticisms and recommendations pertaining to the text …
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The Empirical Development of a College Curriculum of the Epistle to the Galatians
… and spiritual domains. The instructional product development method of Baker and Schutz (1971) was utilized in this study. The product was empirically developed through seven systematic steps. Having established the need for the product, behav iGTu 1 objectives were created. Then the cognitive …
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The Empirical Development of a Curriculum on Psalms Utilizing a Modified Form-Critical Approach
<p>Problem. The purpose of this study was to empirically develop a curriculum on the book of Psalms for readers of the English text that would bridge historical, theological, cultural, and linguistic distance, as well as overcome literary challenges associated with Hebrew poetry including figures …
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Empirical Development of an Instructional Product and its Impact on Mastery of Geometry Concepts
… to address this issue as well. Holistic development is one of the distinguishing features of Seventh-day Adventist instructional programs. Yet, as of 2007, the Pathfinder program, an informal educational program operated by the world-wide Seventh-day Adventist church, had no instructional …
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The Empirical Development of a Curriculum on the Issues Concerning the History of Ancient Israel
… purpose of this study was to meet this need by empirically developing a curriculum for religion majors in Seventh-day Adventist colleges. Issues discussed include the Philosophical Background and Importance of History; the Role of Biblical Hermeneutics; Archaeology and the Bible; the Patriarchal …
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The Empirical Development of an Instructional Product for the Training of Seventh-day Adventist Literature Evangelists
… 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 product was established, a series of behavioral …
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The Empirical Development of an Instructional Product on the Religion of Islam from a Missiological Perspective
… The methodology of this instructional product development followed the pattern of Baker and Schutz (1971) and Naden (1993). After identifying the need, behavioral objectives were established, and criteria were derived from the current literature on the religion of Islam. The instructional …
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The Empirical Development of a Curriculum on Identification of the "Tongues" of 1 Corinthians 14 Utilizing a Socio-Exegetical Approach to Interpretation
… in exegetical Bible commentaries, but no empirically developed curriculum for college-level instruction has been found. The purpose o f this study was to develop such a curriculum. The approach to the interpretation o f the tongues of 1 Corinthians 14 was interdisciplinary: both …
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The Empirical Development of an Instructional Product Designed to Enhance the Cognitive Awareness of and the Modification of Affect Toward the Disability Condition
… The Seventh-day Adventist church had no empirically developed instructional product in the form of an educational curriculum designed to enhance the cognitive awareness of and the modification of affect toward the disability condition. The purpose of this project was to develop …
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Three essays on development economics in China
… is a collection of three independent essays in empirical development economics using data from China. In the first two chapters, I examine the determinants of choices within the household. In the first chapter, I estimate the causal effects of total income, relative female and relative male …
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Essays on development economics
… is a collection of three independent papers in empirical development economics. The first chapter studies the effect of a family planning program in Bangladesh, which successfully reduced fertility, on households' asset accumulation. In developing countries parents expect their children to take …
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Elements of a subject-centered education model in occupational therapy education
… model and their transactions required further empirical development. Elements included the subject of occupation, other topics, and a community of knowers (Palmer, 1998). Video data were collected from U.S. occupational therapy and occupational therapy assistant programs as part of a larger …
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On sensory experience of historic architecture: an empirical review of sensory perceptions in historic buildings, aiming to inform their conservation process.
… historic buildings. The methodology entailed the empirical development of a suitable assessment format, through performing initial on-site surveys that generated data to be added to those of a final sensory assessment, covering three buildings. Buildings were assessed according to Gibsons sensory …
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Sales manager problem resolution styles:measure development and an examination of their salesperson-related consequences
… this gap by reporting on the conceptual and empirical development of an instrument designed to measure sales managers' problem resolution styles. A comprehensive literature review and qualitative research study identified three key constructs relating to sales managers' problem resolution …
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