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Showing 1 to 20 of 40 for “"Likert Scales"”.
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Perceptions of Illinois Preservice Vocational Education Teachers Regarding the Instruction of Special Needs Students (Secondary, Preparation)
… to six situational vignettes; four-point Likert scales were used to determine confidence levels and perceived adequacy of preparation.
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Consumer Motivation and the Privacy Paradox
… their data privacy. Second, an experiment using Likert scales and Pareto-optimal choice-based conjoint analysis was created based on the typology created in study one, giving insight into what consumers feel are motivators towards protecting or relinquishing their data privacy. The contribution …
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Service-learning: a study of faculty attitudes at Rowan University
… using a 40-item survey instrument that utilized Likert scales. The collected data were statistically analyzed to determine frequencies, percentages, correlations, and statistical significance. The analysis of the data generally suggested that faculty members agreed that there were benefits to …
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Developing ideal intermediate items for the ideal point model
… since the prevalence of using dominance-based Likert scales in measuring personality and vocational interests. Rather, intermediate items were usually discarded in dominance scale constructions as they were believed to perform poorly in item discrimination (Chernyshenko, Stark, Drasgow, & …
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Matemaattinen minäkäsitys ja ahdistuneisuus nuorten matematiikka-aikomuksia ennustavina tekijöinä
… mathematics anxiety were measured with 4-point Likert scales. Five forced-choice items measured students' plans regarding mathematics at some stage in the future. Logistic regression analysis was used to identify variables that explained the students' mathematics intentions in the future. …
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Effects of availability and use of laboratories on students performance in science subjects in community secondary schools
… where observation, checklist, school records and likert scales were used for data collection. The sample of the study included 6 heads of schools, 6 schools and 36 science teachers. The data were analyzed using frequency, percentages and ratio. Findings revealed that schools did not have …
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Factors that Influence Career Choice in South African Township High School Students
… were the participants’ lack of exposure with likert scales and time contraints to complete surveys.</p> <p><strong>Recommendations for Further Research:</strong> Explore culturally sound career assessments, further listening and learning research, and evaluate the effectiveness of a mentorship …
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Self-Efficacy Among Students in Professional Development
… gathered data through pre/post surveys using Likert scales and reflection papers based on observation and pattern analysis. Qualitative and quantitative data were collected. The aim of this study is to answer two research questions: How will students use their self-efficacy in terms of …
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Cross cultural communication in selected adult ESL classrooms in Vancouver : a study of the cross-cultural situations ESL students and teachers rate as most difficult
… their level of comfort and understanding on Likert scales and made written comments for each situation in the spaces provided. Nineteen students and 10 teachers were also interviewed orally and asked to elaborate on their questionnaire responses. The results from the Likert scale data and the …
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Investigating a Relationship of a Perception of Agency in Task Based Discourse and Change in Concepts: A Practitioner Research in Education
… to examine responses to open ended questions. Likert Scales are also used and conclusions are drawn with a final quantitative analysis of data. Excerpts from a focus group discussion illustrate the process.
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Oh Baby! Evaluating the Impact of Blossom's Natural Childbirth Prep Course on Women's Childbirth Experience
… and sense of self-efficacy regarding childbirth. Likert scales were used and thematic analysis of qualitative data was conducted. All survey respondents (<em>N</em>=13) indicated that the course reduced their fear of childbirth to some degree and prepared their partner to support them during labor …
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A Quantitative Analysis of a Critical Pedagogy in Catholic Secondary School Religious Studies Teachers in the San Francisco Bay Area
… using both binary “yes / no” questions and Likert scales measured the frequency and importance of pedagogical practices related to how to help students interpret and evaluate culture. From November 9, 2016 to February 1, 2017, 119 Catholic secondary school religion teachers participated from …
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Race, Class, Risk and Trust: Risk Communication in Post-Katrina New Orleans
… A trust index was constructed by aggregating Likert-scales responses to questions on the elements of trust in sources, and an SES index was constructed by aggregating education and income responses. After controlling for SES, Whites were shown to have significantly more trust in mass media, …
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To what extent does self-image affect brand preference when shopping for fast moving consumer goods (FMCG's)?: a study of the yellow fats category.
… hours of in-store observations. Quantitative Likert scales were used to measure levels of self-image congruence based on Sirgy’s (1997) approach. The findings of this research have clearly identified that there is a link between self-image and brand preference in the context of yellow fats. …
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The Effects of Engagement in an Internship on Readiness for School Leadership
… leadership for of the participants. Summated Likert scales were used to measure engagement and two of the four conditions of a quality internship: quality of the field supervision and relevance of the internship to the job of principal. Summated scales were used to measure the remaining two …
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An Assessment of the Newport News Teacher Mentoring Program
… program administrators. Three surveys, utilizing Likert scales, were developed to collect data. Descriptive statistics were applied to the data. Data from the three populations were analyzed separately. Each set of data was disaggregated by age, gender, ethnicity, years of experience, position, …
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The effects of memory knowledge on attributions of forgetfulness in younger and older adults
… ability, effort, task difficulty, luck, and two scales measuring attention (external and internal distractions). Participants also rated the degree to which: (a) the forgetting was a sign of mental difficulty, (b) the person should seek training to improve his/her memory, and (c) the person …
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Evaluation of the World Health Organization’s basic emergency care course and online cases in Uganda
… design explored the BEC’s impact. MCQs and Likert scales assessed knowledge and self-efficacy, respectively, among 137 participants pre-BEC, post-BEC and six-months post-BEC using mixed model analysis of variance (ANOVA). FGDs assessed perceptions of the course and online cases post-BEC and …
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Professional vocational technical education competencies for Swaziland teachers of agricultural, commercial, home economics, and technical studies
… to analyze and summarize the data. Measurement scales of importance and performance corresponding to the Likert scales utilized in the survey instrument were employed for data analysis purposes. Major findings were that teachers, regardless of specialty groups (areas), educational levels, and …
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Needs Assessment As A Process For Change Management: Aligning Organizational Performance And Human Capital Investment With Strategic Planning And Change Creation
… using a survey instrument using 6-point Likert scales. </p> <p>Findings suggest that consultants are more familiar with and more frequently utilize NA procedures than leaders. Both leaders and consultants relied on statistics as a source of information to make decisions regarding change, …
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