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Showing 1 to 20 of 32 for “"Self-rating of"”.
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An On-Road Investigation of Commercial Motor Vehicle Operators and Self-Rating of Alertness and Temporal Separation as Indicators of Driver Fatigue
… trigger-based data collection system capable of evaluating driver performance in an extended duration real-world commercial motor vehicle environment. The complexities associated with the development of the system, both technological and logistical and the necessary modifications to the plan …
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Development And Implementation Of A Simple Wound Care Guideline For Minor Skin Lesions: A Quality Improvement Project
<p>Purpose: The purpose of this QI project was to use the best available evidence and expert opinion to develop and implement a simple inpatient nursing care guideline for minor skin lesions.</p> <p>Participants and Setting: This wound care guideline was developed for nurses working on inpatient …
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The Use of Intuition by Intrapartal Nurses
… in this qualitative, descriptive study of the use of intuition in caring for laboring clients. Demographic information, including participant self-rating of intuitive ability on a visual analog scale, was obtained. Personal interviews with a predetermined interview schedule were …
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Collaborative Leadership in Middle Schools and Teacher Job Satisfaction: A Search for Relationships
… survey and the Principal Leadership Survey-Self (PLS-S). Data were also collected from 183 teachers who completed a demographic survey, the Principal Leadership Survey-Other (PLS-O), the School Participant Empowerment Scale (SPES), and the Minnesota Satisfaction Questionnaire (MSQ). Sub …
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Analysis of an adventure-based marriage enrichment program
The effectiveness of an adventure-based marriage enrichment program in increasing marital intimacy was studied. Thirty seven married couples from a relatively conservative Protestant religion composed the sample. The sample was composed of volunteer participants ranging in age from 21-47. The …
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The study of factors which influence ratings of adequacy of the teacher preparation program at Iowa State University
<p>The major purpose of this study was to conceptualize and test a model to determine if certain factors influence ratings of adequacy of the teacher preparation program one year after graduation from Iowa State University. The study was based on longitudinal research data collected by the Research …
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Retired professional women's past, current and future perceptions of their life satisfaction, health status and locus of control
This thesis examines one hundred retired professional women's (remembered) past, current, and future perceptions of their life satisfaction, health status, and locus of control. Participants in this Melbourne study completed a questionnaire which included the Life Satisfaction Index-A (LSI-A), …
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Student self-assessment, portfolios, and the context of the classroom
1 PDF file (ix, 407 pages)
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Children's Behaviors and Emotions in Small -Group Argumentative Discussion: Explore the Influence of Big Five Personality Factors
The assessment and structure of personality traits and small group learning during classroom discussions are both research fields that have undergone fast development in the past few decades. However, very few studies have investigated the relationship between individual personality characteristics …
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The effect of music versus non-music on focus of attention in pediatric injection patients
<p>Receiving vaccinations is a part of growing up in the United States; however, as necessary as vaccinations are, many children find the process to be frightening and painful. A review of literature indicates that non-pharmacological interventions, such as distraction, are generally effective in …
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Premenstrual syndrome and marital satisfaction
… on marital relationships has not been an area of research interest, even though one woman in twenty, or even one every ten, may be so afflicted that her life is disrupted premenstrually month after month. This study was designed to explore this research area through the use of prospective …
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Motivation for Sport Persistence: An Empirical Examination of Underlying Theoretical Constructs
The purpose of this investigation was to examine the motives interscholastic sport participants have for sport participation and withdrawal. Particular emphasis was placed on an independent and simultaneous examination of the theoretical constructs of achievement goal orientations, perceived …
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An investigation of adult attachment and parental style
This study was a partial test of the theoretical model of the ability to parent proposed by Ricks (1985). The purpose of the study was to examine the variables of marital quality, model of self, the recalled quality of attachment to ones' parents and sex of subject as related to current parenting …
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Factors influencing instrumentality beliefs in a merit pay environment
… the purpose was to investigate the relationship of: (1) of perceived performance appraisal accuracy, merit increase satisfaction, trust in top management, and trust in supervisor to instrumentality beliefs, (2) of performance appraisals, deviations between self and supervisor ratings of …
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The third space: The use of self-study to examine the culture of a science classroom
1 PDF file (ix, 137 pages)
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Attitudes of personnel officials concerning sex-role differentiation in secretarial occupations
… drawn. 1. It can be concluded that the personnel officials' sex did not significantly affect their attitudes toward secretarial workers. Male and female personnel officials responded in a similar manner to the 30 office situations described on the Situational Attitude Scale for Secretarial …
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The Impact of Student Evaluative Feedback on the Perception of the Teaching Faculty at Andrews University
… Educational researchers have little consensus of opinion regarding the usefulness of student evaluations and much less of the use of student evaluative feedback as a means of improving teachers' performance. However, because a movement of educational accountability pervades institutions of …
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