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Showing 1 to 20 of 70 for “"What Matters"”.
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Personal Identity, Survival And What Matters
… alternative approach is from the perspective of what I call ‘continuance’. I use ‘continuance’ to refer to some kind of ‘continuing life’ that is embodied in some person or persons. The term will be used as a neutral term for discussing the continuity of a person without any implications of …
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Acceptance or denial: what matters most in college admissions
<p>The purpose of this study was to investigate the perceptions of selected college admissions officers regarding the most important criteria of a high school senior's application for admission into 4-year public undergraduate colleges and universities in New Jersey. The researcher surveyed …
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What Matters Most? Measuring Service Quality to Improve Schools
<p>Over the recent years an observable trend has emerged in the field of education. Parents are empowered and encouraged to make school choice decisions for their children and have become consumers of the educational delivery system. They are inundated information regarding the “product” of the …
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Parental Time or Money: What Matters More for Children's School Success?
Previous research suggests that the home environment explains up to one half of the association between poverty and low cognitive skills. Building on this research, this study provides a more nuanced analysis of the family processes through which socioeconomic status (SES) is associated with …
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What matters to me? Photovoice with people living with severe mental illness
… issued with cameras and asked to photograph ‘What Matters to Me?’ in their everyday life. The question was a deliberate attempt to usurp the medical dialogue ‘What is a Matter?’ Participants were issued with disposable cameras and the photographs formed the basis for individual interviews. …
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Through the Eyes of School Personnel Administrators: What Matters in Selecting Elementary School Principals
… school districts in Iowa. Second, to describe what a typical hiring process looks like in these districts and whether or not that process has changed over time. Procedures: Data were collected through two sources: A survey of 58 members of the Iowa Association of School Personnel Administrators …
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Expert teaching: what matters to expert teachers? A cultural-historical perspective on relational expertise
… of teachers. Expert teachers’ perceptions of what matters to them in their own practice has been under-researched. Drawing on cultural-historical theory, this study considers teachers’ own understandings of expert teaching, and how their motives relate to their teaching actions. The study …
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Connecting to what matters : how meaning in life is explored and developed in coaching
… time and space to reflect, and connect to what matters (Stelter, 2019). However, while coaching approaches claim to support coachees to make meaning there is currently no theoretical understanding of how meaning exploration and development takes place within coaching. Purpose: This study …
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Experiencing Nonprofits in Vietnam: What Matters Most to the People Nonprofits Aim to Serve
… Efficiency - I am looking for signs I can get what I need in a timely manner. The four dimensions of effectiveness include: relational, technical, accessibility, and other dimensions of effectiveness. Regardless of the viewpoint, the relational dimension of an encounter is central to …
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Perceptions of persons with dementia on what matters in making decisions about advance care planning
… make decisions about engaging in ACP, as well as what facilitators and barriers exist when it comes to engaging in ACP. Findings were examined through the lens of the Ottawa Decision Support Framework. The original study had a convenience sample of seven PWDs and family caregiver dyads, as well as …
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Density and What Matters: A Study of People's Attitudes Toward and Perceptions of Urban Density
As long as the population keeps growing and lands are desired, the research on how the city could be developed is needed. Higher density development, considered as the alternative for urban sprawl, is a new trend for future development. The barrier between advocacy of higher density environment and …
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Examining What Matters to Older Adults with Increased Risk of Adverse Functional Outcomes in Emergency Medicine
… an opportunity to identify and address <em>what matters</em> to ED patients.</p> <p><strong>Purpose: </strong>The purpose of this study was to describe <em>what matters</em> to older adults at risk for functional decline. The research question was: <em>What matters</em> to older adults at …
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What matters in data use: examining equity and data driven decision making in diverse elementary schools
… arrangements for diverse student populations. What has been needed is an organizing framework for school leaders to provide equity focused questions within schools. In the first paper, I explore the utility of the Hodges Persell (1979) framework in creating appropriate equity-focused questions …
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Choosing your coach: what matters and when. An interpretative phenomenological exploration of the voice of the coachee
… and how this perspective sheds new light on what matters to the coachee and when. A number of important themes emerged. Firstly, the different levels of understanding and meaning attached to coaching, and how the meaning attached had an impact on what coachees requested from their coach and …
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Understanding What Matters Most to Immigrant Youth Living with Mental Health Concerns: A Community Priority Setting Activity in Alberta
… makers and health decision makers to understand what the mental health needs of immigrant youth are. By addressing the uncertainties, the Albertan healthcare system can create suitable resources and strategies to approach this underserved population. The results of this study can also foster more …
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What matters most : researching the critical factors for maximizing automotive innovation profitability, and their implications of systems-based innovations
… innovations are examined in attempt to determine what critical factors had the most impact on profitability (or lack thereof). The results are then placed in a systems context, and a framework is generated to conceptualize the critical inputs to the systems innovation process. The foundation of …
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What matters in Making and Cloth(ing)-led Facilitation in healthcare? Towards a practice framework for enhancing participation and collaboration.
… materiality – to understand how they work and what they do. Two distinct types of Making and Cloth(ing)-led Facilitation are reviewed in the thesis: 1. A Facilitated Workshop: Semi-structured interviews with selected Facilitators, accompanied by reflections on the researcher’s own practice, …
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What Matters, Not What is The Matter: A Novel Approach to Empathising and Understanding the Third Space of the Healthcare Waiting Room
… improvements, where the intention is to address ‘what matters to someone’ and not just ‘what’s the matter with someone’. There is a need to ensure such developments meet the stated goals of world-class facilities and well-designed spaces to speed up recovery and ensure the appropriate treatments. …
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Developing a customisation blueprint for management consultancies to better serve their clients.
… service to clients. This study seeks to find out what matters to clients when purchasing consultancy, how clients substantiate this and how it affects their decision-making. This study also seeks to establish if the factors influencing buyer’s evaluation of the consultant can be favourably …
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