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Parental Goals for Adolescents
Parental goals reflect parents' desires for particular outcomes in their child's development. Parental goals might be one force that motivates parenting practices and shapes a child's development through adolescence (Chao, 1995; Eccles, 1992). For this reason and because there is lack of past …
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Planning for conjunctive goals
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1985.
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Rational Agents: Prioritized Goals, Goal Dynamics, and Agent Programming Languages with Declarative Goals
… language for modeling an agent's prioritized goals and their dynamics. I use the situation calculus along with Reiter's solution to the frame problem and predicates for describing agents' knowledge as my base formalism. I further enhance this language by introducing a new sort of infinite …
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Adolescent Goals and Their Reports of What They do to Achieve Those Goals
… ranking of a set of equally highly valued goals on a Paired-comparisons Survey was compared with what adolescents say they are doing to achieve those goals. Results of the Paired-comparisons Survey showed that adolescents ranked career, interpersonal, and educational goals rather high and …
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Means-to-goals affective transference
… mechanism for how and why people adopt goals. In Study 1, participants exhibited increased adoption of a target goal (self-reported importance of close relationship maintenance) when a salient attainment means for this goal (writing a personal email to a loved one) had been associated …
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Parental Life Goals for Children
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-09T20:15:03Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 6408398.pdf: 21269990 bytes, checksum: 19670f84b5331b4f11d5c28c8b3d1837 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1964
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Linking goals to outcomes: Exploring students' achievement goals, strategy use, and standards of success for learning
<p>This study explored stability in achievement goals and learning behaviors within a two-part learning project. Based on previous literature exploring stability in achievement goal orientation, it was hypothesized that students' goals and self-efficacy would show evidence of change within and …
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Parents' Goals and Practices: To What Extent do Parental Goals for Socialization Relate to Their Practices?
… to examine the relationship between a parents' goals for their children and their parenting behaviors. An ecological framework (Bronfenbrenner, 1979, 1990) provides the primary theoretical basis for the study, locating the relationship between parent goals and parent practices within a network …
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Treasury Debt Management: Goals and Techniques
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-14T14:17:08Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7820940.pdf: 1959681 bytes, checksum: 667950aca3c10d741492f7d72867533d (MD5) Previous issue date: 1978
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Needs and goals in urban architecture.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture. Thesis. 1971. B.Arch.
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Mood, Social Goals and Children's Outcome Expectancies
… research suggests that emotions, arousal, and goals affect how children reason in social situations, but, thus far, there has been very little research on how these variables interact. It has been hypothesized that emotion could affect any area of social information processing directly, but it …
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Undergraduate students' goals for chemistry laboratory coursework
… benefits to students, yet few of these learning goals are realized in practice. Therefore, this study seeks to characterize undergraduate students’ learning goals for their chemistry laboratory coursework. Data were collected by recording video of students completing laboratory experiments and …
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Self-oriented perfectionism, achievement goals and procrastination
… the purposes was to examine whether achievement goals are factors that contribute to the inconsistent relationship between self-oriented perfectionism and passive procrastination that was found in previous research; the other purpose was to obtain a better picture of active procrastination by …
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Prison Rule Enforcement and Changing Organizational Goals
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The Personal Goals of Elder Community Volunteers
… gerontology. By paying attention to the personal goals that individuals consider important to their life satisfaction, a number of new questions regarding the influence of social participation become apparent. For instance, do people with different goals select different roles in later life? Do …
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Goals and Optimization Procedures of Insurance Agencies
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Goals for teaching secondary mildly handicapped students
… special education teachers' perceptions of goals used to teach secondary mildly handicapped students and to identify hindrances to adopting these goals. A questionnaire was developed and attitudes were assessed by collecting data from secondary special education teachers who taught in the …
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