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Showing 1 to 20 of 99 for “"The Use Of Self"”.
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The Use of Self-Recording as a Staff Management Technique
The Problem. While a variety of management techniques have been uti1ized to modify staff behavior, there remains to be found an effective cost and time efficient procedure to modify staff behavior on a long term basis. Procedures. A multiple baseline design in which self-recording was introduced …
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A study into the use of self-efficacy and confidence measurements
This thesis focuses on an aspect of the professional work of the author: that of the training of local trade union representatives by trade unions to ensure they are competent, capable and confident in the delivery of their role in local workplaces. It considers the four levels of evaluation of …
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The third space: The use of self-study to examine the culture of a science classroom
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The use of self-reports and peer reports as measures of self-esteem in middle school students
Many educators and psychologists believe self-esteem is an important variable in the educational process. An adequate level of self-esteem is recognized as being essential for students because it may affect their level of achievement and general state of well being. Self-report measures are the …
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The use of self-instruction with multiple exemplars to teach generalized problem-solving to individuals with severe mental retardation
The purpose of this investigation, was to determine if individuals with severe mental retardation could learn to use self-instruction in combination with multiple exemplars to produce a generalized problem-solving response. Specifically, four residents of a group home who had severe mental …
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EVALUATING THE USE OF SELF-RELEVANT STIMULI IN ATTENTION BIAS MODIFICATION TRAINING AS A TREATMENT FOR ANXIETY: A NEAR-INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY STUDY
… has been identified as a causal mechanism in the development of anxiety. As such, attention bias modification (ABM) was conceived as a treatment option where anxiety is alleviated through a computerized cognitive training regimen that reduces an individual’s attentional bias to threat. …
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An assessment of the effects of the use of self-selected texts from the World Wide Web on foreign language reading comprehension
An assumption of the Whole Language model of reading is that self-selected text use is beneficial to students' reading proficiency. This experiment tests that assumption, and broaches a hitherto unexplored aspect of the reading process, namely students' reasons for text selection. The 68 …
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Prevalence and determinants of the use of self-tests by members of the public to diagnose or screen for conditions without the involvement of a health professional
Self-tests that involve taking a biological sample to diagnose or screen for conditions without a health professional are available to the public, but they could potentially cause harm, such as false reassurance. This study aimed to describe the prevalence of their use and factors associated with …
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Analysis system for self-efficacy training: development and validation of an evaluation tool in diabetes care
The research reported in this thesis investigates the self-efficacy construct in the context of (real world) diabetes self-management programmes. Self-efficacy interventions, although widely implemented in diabetes care, lack basic information on what exactly was delivered. More importantly, there …
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Video cued teacher reflection to guide enhancement of student engagement in a specialist primary classroom
Specialist primary teachers confront the challenging task of teaching extensive learning content of the Western Australian Curriculum, within limited weekly timetabled lessons. This was the motivating factor behind this study aimed at investigating the use of self-tracking video technology as a …
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Using self-regulation to improve academic outcomes of middle school students with behavioral disabilities
The purpose of this investigation was to identify and analyze the use of self-regulation techniques to improve the academic skills of language arts and mathematics for students with behavioral disabilities attending middle school. Self-regulation techniques were presented in a self-contained class …
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Postsecondary Transition With Self-Determination For Deaf and Hard of Hearing (DHH) Students
… transition since secondary school is often a scaffolded environment with supports. The use of self-determination may help ease transition difficulties, but if choice-making and goal-setting opportunities are few, the transitional process may be more complicated. The lack of …
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Counselors' self-discrepancy and its impact on their burnout and wellness
<p>This study explores the relationships between counselors’ professional, personal, and reflected selves as well as between counselors’ self-discrepancies and their burnout and wellness. Moreover, an investigation on the impacts of counselors’ self-discrepancies on their burnout and wellness as a …
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The development of self-injury as a multi-functional behaviour
In order to advance our understanding of self-injury this longitudinal study investigated the experiences of 25 adults who had used or were using self-injury. This was achieved by obtaining verbal narrative accounts of their experiences of using self-injury from its onset during childhood or early …
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The effects of disclosure on university students' perceptions of a person with aphasia.
… is a neurogenic language disorder usually caused by a stroke. The resulting language impairments typically include word-retrieval deficits, which lead to a decreased ability to communicate functionally. This increases the frustration of the person with aphasia (PWA), leading to social …
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Harnessing the Power of Self-Training for Gaze Point Estimation in Dual Camera Transportation Datasets
This thesis proposes a novel approach for efficiently estimating gaze points in dual camera transportation datasets. Traditional methods for gaze point estimation are dependent on large amounts of labeled data, which can be both expensive and time-consuming to collect. Additionally, alignment and …
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The Effects of a Technology-Based Self-Monitoring Intervention on On-Task, Disruptive, and Task-Completion Behaviors for Adolescents with Autism
Individuals with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) often present with difficulty in sustaining engagement and attention, and display disruptive behavior in classroom settings. Without appropriate intervention, these challenging behaviors often persist and negatively impact educational outcomes. …
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Knowing More than We Can Tell: People Are Aware of their Biased Self-Perceptions
<p>There is no question that biases exist in people’s self-perceptions of their personality. However, it is not known whether people are aware of these self-biases. In two studies: N = 130), I examined whether people have insight into their positive and negative self-biases across a range of …
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Autocompasión y evitación experiencial, una relación inversa en adultos jóvenes de Lima Metropolitana
Self-compassion is proposed to be an important mechanism for alleviating the human suffering and understanding its avoidance; however, few investigations have provided empirical evidence about the phenomenon. The present scientific study aims to analyze the relationship between self-compassion (AC) …
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