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Showing 1 to 20 of 329 for “"Praise."”.
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Praise without perfection
… question about when our actions are morally praiseworthy turn out to be closely related.
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A Comparison of the Effects of Descriptive Praise and General Praise on Acquisition in Young Children
… research comparing the effects of descriptive praise versus general praise on the acquisition of skills has yielded mixed outcomes. That is, some studies have found descriptive praise to be more effective (Fueyo, Saundergras, & Bushell, 1975), whereas others have found negligible differences …
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Revelations : a choral symphony of praise
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Michigan State University. Dept. of Music Composition, 1990
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COMPARING EFFECTS OF PRAISE RATES ON CLASSROOM BEHAVIOR
… of classroom time (Little & Akin-Little, 2008). Praise, a simple classroom behavior management procedure, includes statements commending behavior and is intended to increase the future probability of the behavior that warranted praise. Behavior-specific praise (BSP) has been shown to be an …
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Matching Equation: Teacher Rates of Praise and Reprimands
… contingency to alter the rates of teachers’ praise and reprimand statements. Further, this study assessed the extent of biases and sensitivity to available reinforcement. Although there was variability in biases, sensitivity to reinforcement, and variance explained by the GME, one teacher’s …
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Praise, Politics, and Language: South Indian Murals, 1500-1800
… (bhakti) literature that describes and praises these places and spaces. The final chapter of the dissertation proposes new ways of understanding how the images were perceived and activated by their contemporary audiences. I argue that the kinesthetic experience of the paintings is …
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Investigating the Effectiveness of PRAISE as a Parenting Support Coaching Intervention
… parenting practices and this thesis introduces PRAISE which is a coaching model for parenting adapted to include self-efficacy and empathy as central elements. PRAISE is a solution-focused, cognitive-behavioural brief therapy coaching model and this thesis examines whether PRAISE is an effective …
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Praise and Blame: The Rhetorical Impact of Nineteenth-Century Conduct Manuals
The following is an exploration of the use of epideictic rhetoric strategies in nineteenth-century conduct manuals, Sarah Stickney Ellis’s <i>The Women of England: Their Social Duties and Domestic Habits</i>, and Harriet Martineau’s <i>Household Education</i>. In examining the rhetoric of the …
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Increasing Teachers' Use of Behavior Specific Praise Via a Smart Watch
… procedure to increase teacher behavior specific praise using a Smart Watch. Participants included three Head Start general education teachers. An ABAB design across participants was used to examine the effects of Smart Watch-based prompts on teachers’ praise rate. The study consisted of four …
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Acting from character : how virtue and vice explain praise and blame
This dissertation offers a theory of praise and blame: praiseworthy acts manifest virtue and blameworthy acts are incompatible with virtue. Despite its simplicity, proposals like mine have been largely ignored. After all, don't good people sometimes deserve blame, and bad people sometimes deserve …
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Promoting Preschool Teachers’ Maintenance and Generalization of Behavior-Specific Praise Through Multitiered Consultation
<p>Teachers struggle to provide behavior-specific praise (BSP), which is associated with appropriate classroom management and decreases in student’s problem behavior. The current study used a multiple-baseline design across three Head Start teachers to test the effectiveness of the multitiered …
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The Impact of Coaching on the Implementation of Effort Praise in the Classroom
… they were at in their implementation of effort praise and created SMART goals around how to improve in order to increase student achievement.</p>
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Poems of Debate and Praise: Women as Published Authors in Sixteenth-Century France
<p>Non-fictional, published poetic exchanges between men and women in sixteenth-century France provide new perspectives into how women writers operated in a literary culture whose main producers and dominant voice were male. Contrary to the notion repeated by many critics that women of that period …
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Increasing Generalization of Staff Interactions Through Posted Group Feedback, Individual Feedback, and Social Praise
… group feedback and individual feedback and praise were given at the end of the session first on the percent of time-samples staff interacted appropriately and then on both this percentage and the percent of time-samples staff interacted with different residents. After a reversal to baseline …
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