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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Selection factors"”.
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Differential Prediction of Medical School Selection Factors for Rural and Non-Rural Populations
Differential predictive validity in assessing academic performance in institutions of higher education has been assessed for a number of years. Historically, this body of research focused on gender and ethnicity. This study extends that research to geographic region (e.g., rural and non-rural …
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Identification of Site Selection Factors in the U.S. Franchise Restaurant Industry: An Exploratory Study
… to identify and rank the importance of the site selection factors that influence the U.S. franchise restaurant industry as well as rank the confidence level of the experts. To identify the site selection factors, this study sought assistance and support from restaurant professionals. The Delphi …
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Course Selection Factors Deemed Important by Dental Hygienists Prior to and After the Initiation of Mandatory Continuing Education in the Commonwealth of Virginia
… purpose of this investigation was to assess the factors deemed important by dental hygienists in their selection of continuing education courses prior to and after the initiation of mandatory continuing education in the Commonwealth of Virginia. Under mandatory continuing education, dental …
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The Future Is Now: Examining The Black Student College Selection Process
<p>College selection factors is a subject that seemingly changes on an annual basis, largely due to the shift in the importance of factors to each incoming undergraduate class. This qualitative phenomenological study examined the factors that influence the decision of Black students over a 15-year …
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SCHOOL CHOICE IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS: A CASE STUDY ON PARENTAL DECISION FACTORS FOR HIGH SCHOOL SELECTION IN THE COVID-19 ERA
School selection options place parents at the center of the school choice sector and create market forces that shape schools and impact students. High school selection in a school choice environment has ramifications for parents, students, school leaders, school marketers and policy makers. An …
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Characteristics of Effective Teaching of Eighth Grade Mathematics in Puerto Rico
… two as having low achieving students. Other selection factors included socio-economic status of students and public or private status. Classes were observed during fifteen days in the spring of 1985. Data were collected using an interaction-content strategy in the form of an observational …
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Parental Selection of Public Elementary Schools in an Open Enrollment System
… for their elementary school students, school selection factors which influenced parent school choice decisions, and how long parents considered a transfer before actually requesting one. Procedure. The population included all elementary school parents in one Midwest school district who …
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Predictors of successful outcomes of U.S. Coast Guard construction contracts
… of these results and further proposes additional factors for contract evaluation and award that should improve the chances for successful contract outcomes. Twenty four randomly selected and recently completed U. S. Coast Guard construction contracts were used as the basis for study. The …
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The role of contracts, informal agreements and coalitions in assuring downstream coordination
… from a combination of environmental and rational selection factors. Moreover, the economic, strategic, relational and transactional properties of inter-organizational relations are considered in one integrated framework. It is hoped that the findings of the study would lead to future theoretical …
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Diversity of Form, Content, and Function in the Vocal Signals of Adult Male Blue Monkeys (Cercopithecus mitis stuhlmanni): An Evolutionary Approach to Understanding a Signal Repertoire
… Understanding signaling systems, and the various selection factors relating to their evolution and maintenance, therefore provides unique insight into species' behavior, social dynamics, and evolution. Decades of research has greatly improved knowledge of animal signals and how they are used, yet …
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Obesity and Aggressive Prostate Cancer: Bias and Biology
… factor associations unusually susceptible to selection biases which are largely unabated by conventional statistical adjustment. Using a counterfactual framework to describe the selection processes that give rise to these biases, we demonstrate instances in which the use of marginal structural …