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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Gate keeping"”.
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Counselor Educators’ Perceptions of Working with Students Who are Unwilling to Set Aside Their Religious Beliefs When Counseling Clients: A Qualitative Study
… literature which focused on areas such as gate-keeping, values conflicts, remediation, referrals, due process, and student dismissal. In this study, the <em>Ward v. Wilbanks et al.</em> and <em>Keeton v. Anderson-Wiley</em> <em>et al</em>. legal cases provided the context within which the …
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Public relations and communication theory, with special reference to corporate social investment
Public relations unique 'gate-keeping role' in a new communication order offers practitioners a definite break with the past and dynamic new challenges for the future. This new-found status rests on the premise that communication theory should provide the basic underlying philosophy for public …
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The Internet and professional journalism: content, practice and values in Irish online news
… not least concerning power relations, gate-keeping and objectivity claims. In many popular and some academic analyses, so-called ‘traditional’ journalism is under examination because of economic forces driving the development of digital networked media, but also because the univocal …
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Undergraduate Developmental Mathematics Students' Fraction Understandings
… it may not be surprising that fractions act as a gate-keeping topic for college-level mathematics. However, research on the way(s) that undergraduate developmental mathematics students understand fractions is scarce. In my dissertation study, first I synthesize the relevant K–12 fraction …
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Doing qualitative research with people and organisations: How do researchers understand and negotiate their research relationships?
… are: the researchers, the funding agencies, the gate-keepers, and the research groups. Whilst, the issues involved with the post-data collection stages of research are not presented here, the issues associated with the pre-data-collection phases and data-collection phases of research are …
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Analysis of One Secondary School's Support Systems for Aspiring First-Generation Latinx College Students: A Case Study
… career centers and summer transition programs, gate-keeping barriers have continued to inhibit Latinx students from obtaining capital needed to navigate higher education (Cunha et al., 2018; Howard & Sharpe, 2019; C. Martinez & Mendoza, 2020; Yasuike, 2019). This qualitative case study, …
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Understanding the decision making process of beginning hormone therapy for trans individuals: a grounded theory study
… of hormones, and the compromising gate-keeping roles of professionals working with this population. Seven participants, who had all made the decision to take hormones, were interviewed. Semi-structured interviews addressed their help seeking behaviour and decision making process to …
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Evaluation of policy regulating access to South African Social Security Agency's disability grants in Umlazi township
… of inclusion and exclusion errors caused by poor gate-keeping, the impact of poverty, unemployment and the chronic illnesses resulting to demand for disability grants.
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An investigation of how English for speakers of other languages (ESOL) is shaped by policy, teachers and learners
… strengthened the role of English as a gate-keeping mechanism of migration through successive interventions in ESOL (Simpson and Cooke 2009). At the same time as this repositioning of ESOL and English, new superdiverse patterns of migration were also emerging, resulting in a greater …
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Habilitation in focus : A human service organization and its challenges
… stress the qualities of the habilitation model. Gate-keeping and doing boundary work within the organization and in relation to the outer world are also important issues that are brought up by the interviewees.
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Assessing Prospective Students for Master's Level CACREP Counseling Programs: Evaluation of Personal-Emotional Characteristics
… counseling profession must do a better job of gate-keeping, and d) that a framework of admission requirements is needed by counselor educators to assist in a more thorough screening and examination of personal characteristics of prospective students. Finally, e) this research established a …
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News Corp Translated: Framing the United States in Bulgaria
… in order to offer insight into the fields of gatekeeping, framing, and corporate ownership bias. Suggestions of bias were found in terms of the overall tone of the articles but not in the amount of coverage. There was a significant difference between the two web sites in the tone of coverage …
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The evolution of the role of stringers, local reporters and citizen journalists in reporting wars and conflicts: the case of the Syrian civil war
… had to adapt to their work improving their gate-keeping function and providing training when possible, allowing them to enter the field of journalism whose boundaries proved to be fluid and shifting. My research shows that the coverage of the Syrian conflict represents a compromise between …
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BLINDED EVALUATIONS OF EFFECT SIZES IN CLINICAL TRIALS: COMPARISONS BETWEEN BAYESIAN AND EM ANALYSES
… bounds. The widely used fixed sequence gate-keeping procedures require prospective ordering of null hypotheses for secondary endpoints. This prospective ordering is often based on a number of untested assumptions about expected treatment differences, the assumed population variance, and …
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Indoda iyanyamezela (a man perseveres): Exploring the perceptions, experiences and the psycho-social challenges of Xhosa young men in the Western Cape who have transitioned from adolescence to manhood without present or involved fathers
… study employed a qualitative approach to investigate factors that shape and influence experiences of Xhosa young men with absent or uninvolved fathers at individual, family, community and societal levels. Semi-structured in-depth individual interviews were conducted using interview guides …
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Student negotiation of an undergraduate accounting assessment
… issues. Assessment serves as the primary gate-keeping mechanism of the profession. However, more than twenty years after the end of apartheid, pass rates remain skewed by factors such as language and race. Accounting education research offers some quantitative studies which investigate …
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Assessment, equity and language of learning : key issues for higher education selection in South Africa
The central problem investigated by this study arises from the fact that South African Senior Certificate results are not, for the majority of educationally disadvantaged candidates, reliable predictors of academic success in Higher Education. Despite this limitation, however, the Senior …