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Clinical decision making by beginning nurses: a naturalistic study
… with a difficult practice environment. A naturalistic study was conducted to describe clinical decision making from the perspective of beginning nurses and to identify factors which were influential in this process. The study design was emergent, based upon the assumptions that the reality …
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The Staffing: A Naturalistic Study of the Educational Placement Process
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A Naturalistic Study of Professional Education Instructors' Handling of the Mastery/coverage Dilemma
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-12T19:54:28Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7709019.pdf: 6943821 bytes, checksum: f87197da3badc4ad5c7b66fb41e782a2 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1976
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Eight Day Care Children: A Naturalistic Study of Their Interacting Lines of Action
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A Naturalistic Study of Long-term Working Memory Capacity for Meaningful Visual and Auditory Stimuli
<p>The purpose of this study was to explore long-term working memory in experts in an information-rich, dynamic domain. Of particular interest were strategies experts use to enhance long-term working memory capacity when working with verbal versus aural information. Three air traffic control …
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The Problem-Solving Behavior of Two Nine-Year-Old Children While Practicing the Piano: A Naturalistic Study
The conclusions of this study are that the subjects involved in this study did not know how to practice effectively and, although they seemed to have the ability to use thinking skills did not use those skills consistently. A strong link was found between the personality of each subject and how …
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Naturalistic Study Examining the Data/Frame Model of Sensemaking by Assessing Experts in Complex, Time-Pressured Aviation Domains
<p>Research on expert chess players, radiologists and landmine detection personnel suggests a use of cognitive frameworks, alternatively referred to as schemas, templates, scripts, frames and models, to effectively perceive, interpret, understand, recall, and anticipate information. These experts …
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Analysis of the Use of Questions in Small Group Tutorial Teaching in a Medical School: A Naturalistic Study
… very few comments about the students' behavior. Naturalistic techniques were used to portray the communication patterns in the videotaped segments.
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An in-depth, naturalistic study of the regulation of learning in collaborative groups in upper secondary school classrooms
… however, empirical studies of this phenomenon in naturalistic settings are scarce. This study is driven by the author’s position as a practitioner in secondary schools and so sought to investigate the phenomenon in ecologically valid secondary classroom settings, in contrast to the more common …
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The fundamental difference between child and adult language acquisition: a longitudinal, naturalistic study of parameter resetting in Swedish interlanguage
This study addresses the question of Universal Grammar availability in second language acquisition within the framework of Bley-Vroman’s Fundamental Difference Hypothesis, contributing new empirical evidence from learners of Swedish. Johnson and Newport (1989) showed a strong negative correlation …
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Longitudinal, naturalistic study of training and support for implementation of evidence-based youth mental health practices among community providers
… (EBPs). To address this need, the current study describes the reach and impact of a county-wide youth MH initiative aimed at increasing youths' and families' access to effective youth MH services by providing free EBP training and implementation support to MH service providers. …
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Factors influencing language in the nursery school.
A naturalistic study was carried out in three Sheffield nurseries to examine the speech-functions of children and staff in relation to a selection of common indoor play activities. By means of video recording techniques, data were collected representing a total of twenty-two hours of recording, of …
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Interactive media in distance learning for UK farmers: the countryside disc
… own homes and offices? This thesis presents a naturalistic study of how a number of UK farmers benefited from using the Countryside Disc, one of the few examples available of an interactive training program aimed at farmers. The Disc, which is a computer-controlled laser vision videodisc, …
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An evaluation of the post-divorce adjustment of counselled and non-counselled children.
This study is a small scale naturalistic evaluation of an innovative counselling service for children of divorce. Two main research questions are addressed. Firstly, are the children in receipt of counselling different from children of divorce who have not received counselling? Secondly, was the …
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Conditions for health behaviour change
… of health behaviours. Limitations of this "naturalistic" study are discussed and it is concluded that persuasive communication is necessary to motivate young, healthy adults to practise positive health behaviours.
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Foundations of Cognitive, Affective, and Communicative Systems for Neurodiverse Individuals
… datasets, and multiple scientific studies. Each study is built around strengths-based research questions – asking what these individuals can do – and personalized, naturalistic study paradigms. Specifically, I introduce a multi-modal, customizable learning platform, SPRING, designed to motivate …
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Psychological, cardiovascular and haematological aspects of the type A behaviour pattern in relation to coronary heart disease
… or were paired with another Type A. A long-term naturalistic study provided validity for the acute laboratory tasks. Behavioural, cardiovascular and haematological response patterns, and the timing of reactivity, differentiated Type A's from Type B's. Whilst preparing for and following final year …
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Perceptions, expectations and interactions: a study of teachers and pupils in five ethnically mixed primary classrooms
… and pupil achievement were investigated in this naturalistic study of 5 teachers and 90 pupils in their New Zealand ethnically mixed Standard 3 classrooms. A pilot study showed that teachers at this level tended to perceive pupils in terms of constructs reflecting academic work skills, home …
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