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Initial Development of the Sex Offender Attitude Scale.
… maintains staunch and unwarranted negative attitudes toward sex offenders, little hope remains for released sex offenders to successfully reintegrate into society. Therefore, it is in the interest of society that we understand the nature of views of sex offenders so that attempts can be made …
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Further Assessment of the Psychometric Properties of the Sex Offender Attitude Scale
… United States are a major public health concern. Attitudes toward sex offenders are generally very negative and to be officially identified as a sex offender brings on collateral consequences that reduce incentives not to reoffend. The extent to which attitudes toward sex offenders affect …
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Occupational Therapy Academic Program Faculty Attitudes Toward Tenure as Measured by the Tenure Attitude Scale
This study explored attitudes of occupational therapy faculty toward tenure and selected alternatives to tenure. A survey method was employed, and the Tenure Attitude Survey Instrument, (TASI), was created for use in the study. Additionally, a questionnaire sought information regarding respondents' …
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Adaptation and validation of a technology attitude scale for use by American teachers at the middle school level
… study was to adapt and validate the Technology Attitude Scale (TAS) for use by American teachers at the middle school level. The study provided an instrument for American middle school teachers to determine students' attitudes toward technology and concepts of technology. The Technology Attitude …
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A construct validity study of the career development inventory and the attitude scale of the career maturity inventory
… by the Career Development Inventory and the Attitude Scale of the Career Maturity Inventory is far from assured. The Attitude Scale of the CMI failed to converge on the attitudinal scales of the CDI and correlated significantly with three out of the four cognitive scales of the CDI. The …
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The validity of the Career Maturity Inventory as a measure of career maturity among first-year community college students in Southwestern Virginia
… to which the five dimensions of career choice attitudes, depicted in Crites Model of Career Maturity in Adolescence, are present in the Attitude Scale of the Career Maturity Inventory when used with first-year, full-time community college students in rural Appalachia. Also, the study sought to …
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The Effects of Sustained Silent Reading and Sustained Silent Writing on the Reading Attitudes of Fourth Grade Students
… and sustained silent writing on the reading attitudes of fourth grade students. The sample consisted of twenty-eight fourth grade students in a self-contained general classroom in a suburban community. Fourteen students made up the treatment group and fourteen students made up the control …
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An Investigation into Teachers’ Attitudes toward Their Own Writing Through the Use of a Valid Writing Attitudes Instrument
This study investigated teachers’ attitudes towards their personal writing using the Linn writing attitude scale. The researcher classified twelve elementary teachers as either perceived positive (6) or negative (6) in their attitudes towards their writing. The researcher then evaluated the …
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Relationships Between Religious Orientation and Academic Attitudes
… orientation to religion, and the Academic Attitude Scale (Wong, 1998), which identifies factors that motivate students to pursue higher education. The three dimensions (Means, End, and Quest) extracted from the Religious Life Inventory were compared to the six subscales (Intrinsic, …
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Effects of two career development programs on career maturity of seventh grade students
… Inventory and Career Maturity Inventory Attitude Scale test instruments. Results of the pretest mean scores for the groups indicated significant differences on the CMI Attitude Scale scores between the"Careers and You" and"Interest Block" groups. Inasmuch as the strength of the difference …
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"We Don't Do That At School": School Psychologists' Reports of Inappropriate Sexual Behavior By Students With Developmental Disabilities At School
… was examined. A questionnaire and an attitude scale were designed to assess the occurrence of these behaviors at school. Participants were practicing school psychologists from nine different states. The participants first identified students with developmental disabilities on their …
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A Study Comparing the Understanding of Selected Principles of College Chemistry by Intermediate Grade Pupils in Ellensburg and Mercer Island, Washington
… and Ellensburg groups; and (3) to develop an attitude scale to reflect pupils' concerns about science.
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The Effects of a Sustained Silent Reading Program on the Reading Attitudes and Habits of Second Grade Students
… Silent Reading (SSR) program on the reading attitudes and habits of second grade students. The subjects were two second grade classes from a suburban school in western New York. The control group of 25 students participated in a reading program using the basal and children's literature. The …
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College course enrollment and its relationship to child-rearing attitudes
… this research was to study whether child-rearing attitudes would differ over time in three different classes in the Department of Management, Housing and Family Development, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. These classes were Creative Expression of Young Children (Class I); …
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Finnish comprehensive vocational institute teachers' sex-role attitudes
… vocational institute teachers' sex-role attitudes and selected personal and professional variables, and to analyze to what extent these variables separately and in combination explained the variance of sex-role attitudes. The independent variables consisted of individual characteristics …
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The Effects of a Non-Basal Holistic Curriculum of Reading in a Fourth Grade Class
… of this study is to determine whether or not attitudes and certain identified reading skills can be affected by using a non-basal holistic curriculum as proposed in the report "Becominq a Nation of Readers" prepared by Richard C. Anderson, Elfrieda H. Hiebert, Judith A. Scott, fan A, G, …
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A study to investigate the attitude of customers towards electronic banking: The case of a South African-based company
It is known that attitude plays a significant role in consumer decision process whether to adopt new technology or not. Differences in attitude towards a product or a service depend on the nature of the product, individuals and the duration in which the product has been in the market. Based on the …
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