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Showing 1 to 20 of 83 for “"Frames Of Reference"”.
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Frames of Reference of Beginning Science Teachers
… in DSpace on 2014-12-12T19:54:30Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7709049.pdf: 6497358 bytes, checksum: 2f38a1cd32c5865f03558f4b4611fd08 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1976
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An Analysis of Union-Management Ideological Frames of Reference in Labor Negotiations
The major purpose of this study was to provide a theoretical and empirical analysis of the nature and effects of union-management (U-M) ideological frames of reference in labor negotiations. A U-M ideological frame of reference is defined as an organization of beliefs, values, and attitudes which …
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Frames of reference and electronic anchors: An investigation of map displays for helicopter flight
Maps are important for most forms of navigational flight. Yet for helicopter flight they are critical. Different map displays for Nap of the Earth (NOE) and Low Level helicopter flight were configured according to previous research on spatial cognition in large scale environments. Interest centered …
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Examining the influence of frames of reference on flight instructors' process of informal learning in an aviation setting
Informal learning in the workplace is one of the most predominant forms of learning and is critical to the development of professional knowledge and expertise. Several scholars have acknowledged the need to develop more holistic understandings of informal learning and undertake more research that …
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Software design: communication between human factors engineers and software developers
As computers pervade aspects of daily life, users demand software that is easy to use. It has been suggested that adding human factors engineers (HFEs) to software development teams would help software development companies meet these user demands. However, there are qualitative data which suggest …
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Embodied Data Exploration in Immersive Environments: Application in Geophysical Data Analysis
Immersive analytics is an emerging field of data exploration and analysis in immersive environments. It is an active research area that explores human-centric approaches to data exploration and analysis based on the spatial arrangement and visualization of data elements in immersive 3D …
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Job Factors Associated With Teachers' Motivation to Work
This is a study of job factors associated with teacher motivation to work. Traditional conceptualizations explore job factors associated with teacher motivation from a linking perspective which is highly management-oriented and psychologically manipulative. Recent research on organizational …
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The Impact of Culturally Responsive Teaching on the Achievement of African American Students
… cultural knowledge, prior experiences, frames of reference, and performance styles of students to make learning encounters more relevant and effective. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the impact of culturally responsive teaching on the academic achievement of African American …
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The Far Reaching Impact of Transformative Learning: A Critical Ethnographic Case Study
… case study focused on the lives and experiences of four women who participated in an adult literacy program. This case study approach used critical ethnography as an analytic tool employing grounded theory leading to the development of a substantive theory. In-depth, semi-structured interviews …
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D(reams) of existing wor(l)ds : a postmodern approach to the teaching of Literature in the English classroom
The aim of this dissertation is to present a means to redress imbalances that have operated in and continue to pervade our school classrooms. The singularity that is demanded by compliance, conformity and order of the Modernist era is now rejected in a celebration of in diversity and heterogeneity. …
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Exploring Elementary Pre - Service Teachers Technological Knowledge for Teaching Literacy: a Phenomenological Study
<p>As a result of the fundamental changes to education due to COVID-19, this study focuses on the readiness of pre-service teachers to meet the literacy needs necessary in this technology mediated world by utilizing a theoretical framework that consists of a learning framework: Transformative …
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Rewriting the grammar of secondary schools: lessons in paradigm change from multi-age organisation
… a multi-disciplinary perspective. They speak of incoherence in the traditional structure of schooling caused by same-age organization, more accurately, an incoherence in structuration, the duality of structure and agency described by Giddens (1979). The public works argue that as the …
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Primary care practices by default or by design : case study of a physician
… by his medical practice. He attributes the state of being overwhelmed to the fact that he is unable to implement systems of support for his practice that he has designed. The thesis starts with an overview of the systems of support in Dr. Meaford's primary care practice. In doing so identifiable …
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Getting on the Same Page: The Hermeneutics of Peer Feedback in Composition Classrooms
… benefits to students. Students' interpretations of what is happening/supposed to happen within peer feedback contexts impacts their performances in these contexts, and these interpretations occur through complex interplays of rhetorical, cultural, linguistic, and contextual interpretive fields. …
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Student understanding of the kinematic quantities of angular speed and angular acceleration
… physics students' understanding and reasoning of the concepts, angular speed and angular acceleration. The analysis was based on student responses to various tasks presented to them during one hour long interviews. These responses were characterized from a phenomeno graphic research perspective …
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The redemptive imagination: The fiction of John Irving.
… and Irony, John Barth's "The Literature of Replenishment," and Christian theology as frames of reference, this thesis argues that Irving recognizes the contingency of language systems which shape our personal and public networks of "beliefs, desires and experiences" and presents the …
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An Ethnographic Study of a Literacy Program in a High-Poverty, Ethnically Diverse Elementary School within the Context of No Child Left Behind
This is an ethnographic case study of a high poverty, ethnically diverse elementary school and the transformation that occurred there. The research describes what happened at the school within the context of No Child Left Behind (NCLB) during a nine-year period. The researcher documents the …
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Post-qualification education and professional identity in the contested landscape of Complementary and Alternative Medicine: a case of transformative learning in an online setting
The education of Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) practitioners within Higher Education (HE) is controversial, and has attracted criticism from various quarters, yet little is known about the impact of such courses upon CAM practitioners or upon the CAM profession. A programme of online …
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Characterization of neutron fields around an intense neutron generator
Neutron fields in the vicinity of the University of Ontario Institute of Technology neutron facility have been investigated in a series of simulations and experiments. The neutron fluence at several locations around the neutron generator facility has been simulated using MCNPX 2.7E Monte Carlo …
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