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Showing 1 to 20 of 3403 for “"Skill"”.
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Rewards to skill supply, skill demand and skill match-mismatch: Studies using the Adult Literacy and Lifeskills survey
… studies. The focus is on the potential causes of skill mismatch, the extent of skill mismatch, the socio-demographic make-up of skill mismatch, and the consequences of skill mismatch in terms of earnings as well as employer sponsored adult education/training. A distinction is made between skill …
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School leadership skill development
… between what is currently understood about skills for school leadership and the need for a greater understanding of those skills. The importance of developing leadership skills to improve school performance and effectiveness is great. In the field of school leadership, most leaders enter …
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Social skill in the workplace : what is social skill and how does it matter?
Social skill is becoming increasingly important in today's workplace because organizational structures are becoming flatter with more service-oriented positions. Strong social skill can facilitate interpersonal interactions, which can in turn lead to effective job outcomes. Although the change in …
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The development of skill : the coefficient of variation as an index of skill acquisition
… and execution of processes underlying a skilled action. The results were interpreted in terms of how practice contributes to the acquisition of performance skill.
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Design of golf skill tests
Thesis (M.A.)--Michigan State University. Dept. of Health, Physical Education, and Recreation, 1964
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Skill Evaluation in Women's Volleyball
… Women's Volleyball Team recorded and rated all skills (pass, set, attack, etc.) and recorded rally outcomes (point for BYU, rally continues, point for opponent) for the entire 2006 home volleyball season. Only sequences of events occurring on BYU's side of the net were considered. Events …
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Essays on persistent management skill
… include the existence of persistent management skill, the management strategies and profitability, farm growth and the land investing behavior associated with farm wealth. To address these questions, farm management performance is analyzed based on yearly Illinois Farm Business Farm Management …
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Process skill in community design
… is improved as a result of one person's skill in process mechanics is examined. The proposition is sustained on the basis of observations and analyses made over a three year period in a community development corporation. Knowledge is gained regarding the method by which one can develop …
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Towards the Dark Side of Political Skill: Development and Validation of the Dark Political Skill Scale
… I develop and validate the Dark Political Skill Scale. Intended to supplement the existing Political Skill Inventory (PSI; Ferris et al., 2005), the Dark Political Skill Scale captures the more covert and deceptive side of political effectiveness in the workplace. Across three studies, I …
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The Cross-Section of Investing Skill
… I develop an efficient method for estimating the skill of mutual fund managers. Outliers are especially helpful for disentangling skill from luck when I explicitly model the cross-sectional distribution of managerial skill using a flexible and realistic function. Forecasted performance is …
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LEARNING OF MOTOR SKILL IN PRETEENS
… subjects were initially given a new motor skill to be learned. Sixty children participated in the study. They ranged in age from seven to ten, 30 boys and 30 girls, all elementary school students in the city of Catania, Italy. Experimental protocol defined the preteen s learning of an …
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Exploration and the acquisition of skill
… in acquiring a novel perceptual-motor skill, and an evaluation of the impact of this acquisition process on the perceptual-motor workspace. The process of learning a novel perceptual-motor skill entails a search for solutions to the task. This process of exploratory behavior reflects …
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Skill and Virtue after 'Know-How'
… for thinking of ethical virtue as a kind of skill in light of the discussions of ‘knowledge-how’ that begin with Gilbert Ryle. Chapter 1 offers an account of Ryle’s interest in the notion of knowledge-how as partially underpinned by the hope that ethical virtue might be well-understood as a …
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A computational model of skill acquisition.
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mathematics, 1973.
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A computational theory of physical skill.
Thesis. 1976. Ph.D.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
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Essays on employer credit screening, manufacturing skill gaps, and the relationship between skill demands and capital intensity
… of three essays that explore hiring criteria, skill demands and labor market outcomes. The first essay investigates the use of worker credit status as a hiring screen. The practice has sparked debate, with opponents asserting that it amounts to discrimination and proponents maintaining that it …
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Skill-biased technological change, unemployment and inequality
Esta tesis solo está en formato papel por lo que se debe consultar en la propia Biblioteca Di Tella. La consulta se hace solo bajo reserva escribiendo a serviciosbiblio@utdt.edu.
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Human Movement Sonification for Motor Skill Learning
… sound can be used as a method to enhance motor skill learning via the provision of augmented perceptual feedback. A small but growing number of studies hint at the substantial efficacy of this approach, termed 'movement sonification'. However there has been sparse discussion in Psychology about …
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