Global ETD Search
Search theses and dissertations gathered from participating repositories worldwide. Every result links back to the library that holds it. No account is needed.
Results
Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"Sentence completion"”.
-
The Development and Validation of a Sentence-Completion Method: a Semi-Structured Projective Technique Designed for Personality Study
… success-rate of rehabilitation efforts. The sentence-completion method is popularly used by clinicians. However, the available incomplete-sentence blanks used at the elementary-school level rely almost entirely on face validity. Public Legislation 94-142 and the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 …
-
An investigation into the socio-musical identity of at risk adolescents involved in music therapy
… research paradigm. The data comprises of sentence completion exercises designed to elicit information regarding at risk adolescents’ attitudes towards music. The data is coded, categorized and organized into themes. The themes highlight five different life aspects through which these at …
-
Efficient machine learning: models and accelerations
… presents the cogent confabulation network for sentence completion problem. We use Chinese language as a case study to describe our exploration of the cogent confabulation based text recognition models. The exploration and optimization of the cogent confabulation based models have been conducted …
-
Toward a grounded theory of trigger events and leadership development in early adulthood
… participants completed the Washington University Sentence Completion Test (WUSCT), where their respective leadership developmental stage was measured. Second, participants were involved in two in-depth interviews where an understanding was reached as to how various trigger events have impacted …
-
The psychological and social implications of patient motivation and satisfaction with orthgnathic surgery
… qualities of four MMPI scales, two Bloom Sentence Completion scales, and seven Dental Inventory scales were used to identify presurgical, orthognathic patients who were likely to express postsurgical dissatisfaction.All variables were considered jointly to assess their significance in …
-
An exploratory study of the relations between aspects of autonomy and concrete operational abilities
… a modified Piagetian Inventory, and a modified sentence completion test of autonomy. The Vineland Scale was administered to their parents, and teachers completed a teacher rating scale of autonomy, developed for this study. Through regression analyses, it was found, in line with previous …
-
Vocational Satisfaction Among Roman Catholic Priests
… responded to three measures of adjustment; a sentence completion form, a standardized self-actualization scale, and a specially designed question-naire, they also answered a series of questions measuring their opinion of the church and their satisfaction with the priesthood.</p> <p>The …
-
EVALUATING DISTRIBUTED WORD REPRESENTATIONS FOR PREDICTING MISSING WORDS IN SENTENCES
… with selecting the right missing word in the sentence, given five possible options. For this NLP task we trained each of these methods using a training corpus that contained texts of around five hundred 19th century novels from Project Gutenberg. The test set contained 1040 sentences where one …
-
Effects of rational behavior training on attitudes of rehabilitation support personnel
… showed high significance for two of the Bloom Sentence Completion Survey's (BSCS) seven individual tests used to measure positive attitudes. These were Psychological and Physical at the p $<$ 0.007 level. The Dysfunctional Attitude Scale (DAS) scores indicated a significant decrease, at the p …
-
Teen Court Offenders, Their Experience, and Re-Offending: Processing the Soft End of Juvenile Justice
Teen courts, in which youths sentence other youths for low-level, first-time offenses, are becoming a popular alternative to traditional court processing for juvenile offenders. Despite this recent rapid proliferation, there has been little scholarly research on teen courts' effect on youths' …
-
Correlates of the MMPI-A Immaturity (IMM) Scale in an Adolescent Psychiatric Population
… Issues Test (DIT), the Washington University Sentence Completion Test (WUSCT), the Extended Objective Measure of Ego Identity Status - Second Revision (EOM-EIS-2), and the Wechsler Intelligence Scales including the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children - Third Revision (WISC-III), the …
-
Cinematherapy as a Clinical Intervention: Theoretical Rationale and Empirical Credibility
… Scale (BHS; Beck & Steer, 1993) and an adapted sentence completion task for 11 weeks in order to assess the effect that the cinematherapy intervention had on the subject's perception toward the future (hope) and general disposition toward life (optimism). Data obtained during the treatment …
-
Authoritarianism revisited: a study among Afrikaans and English middle-class women
… in the study. The Washington University Sentence Completion test (WUSCT) served as a control measure of adherence to social norms. Afrikaans women were expected to score significantly higher on the RWA, SCO and SR measures, and to show less variability in their responses to these scales, …
-
The effects of media exposure on body dissatisfaction and cognitive bias in adolescent girls and boys
… the feature then completed a word-stem and a sentence completion task, two visual analogue scales measuring body dissatisfaction, and a measure of socio-cultural influence. Girls exposed to an appearance-related magazine feature had higher levels of bodyshape dissatisfaction than those exposed …
-
A Qualitative Analysis of High Achieving African-American Females' Perceptions on Factors That Impact on Time High School Graduation in Southeastern Virginia
… included open-ended interview questions and a sentence completion questionnaire. All interview questions were centered on the support provided by the school, community, or family. The results of the study showed parents; specifically the mothers of the participants had the greatest impact on …
-
Social knowledge of food: How and why people talk about foods
… speaker. In Study 3, the collaborative talk as sentence completions of knowledge about food was qualitatively analysed from conversations of 30 to 45 minutes produced by four groups consisting of four or five Japanese participants who were friends. From a social contingency view, the analysis …
-
Clinical Utility of Advanced Neuroimaging Techniques in the Presurgical Assessment of Patients with Epilepsy
… participated in two task-based fMRI paradigms: sentence completion and word generation. The analysis involved GLM and LI calculations for three regions of interest using tools specific to each software. 144 LIs were calculated for each of the four processing pipelines. Overlap of activations …
-
The role of affect and cognitive schemata in the assessment of psychopathy
… positively related to errors on affective word sentence completion with slower response times. These predictions were not supported. The third study included 101 male prisoners and 108 male university students. An assessment of cognitive schema and affect was also developed. A further core …
-
Swazi college students' mastery of English logical connectives in science
… collected by means of modified Gap Filling and Sentence Completion items, derived from Gardner's pioneering work, by adapting and refining certain items to be more relevant and meaningful in the local South African context. The data was processed by means of comparing Gardner's form N pupils' …
Page 1 of 2