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Showing 1 to 20 of 915 for “"attrition"”.
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Student nurse attrition
… currently surrounds the subject of student nurse attrition. A mainly qualitative approach was employed using self report questionnaires, semi structured interviews, focus groups and evidence derived from past documentation and records. Methodological triangulation was employed in order to use …
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The attrition of change
… because of what this study describes as the `attrition' of change. This thesis presents an historical case study of a secondary school that was once one of Canada's most renowned, innovative schools in the 1970s, and now 26 years later, can be described as a conventional secondary school. …
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Attrition in Pediatric Weight Management
… weight management programs have high rates of attrition, ranging from 27 to 73%. Given the paucity of literature in this area, there is little evidence upon which build a response to this problem. The goal of this study was to better understand family attrition from a single, tertiary-care …
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Predictors of Addiction Treatment Attrition
… it is imperative that risk factors for attrition are identified, and that programs strive to combat these risks through personalized engagement and individually tailored treatment programs. This study aims to identify specific risk factors for treatment attrition in the Intensive …
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Teacher attrition and mentoring: an examination of teacher attrition and first year experiences: implications for policy
… of Education has become concerned with attrition and retention in our teacher workforce. Very low retention, particularly with that of new teachers, is linked to poor quality of education for students. Regular examination of these conditions utilizing the Department of Education's …
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Trauma-informed practice: principles and attrition
… psychological symptom severity influences attrition has produced inconsistent findings. No review to date has analyzed outcomes across studies. This meta-analysis compared baseline severity scores of, a) clinician-rated PTSD symptoms, b) self-report PTSD symptoms, and c) comorbid …
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Countering Teacher Attrition with Appreciative Inquiry
Teacher attrition, or leaving the profession prior to retirement, is a real-world problem that school districts across the United States are faced to solve. As rates of teacher attrition continue to increase, it is necessary to find solutions to counter this situation. The purpose of this …
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Syntactic Attrition in L2 Mandarin Speakers
… to discover how a learner's L1 affects the attrition process of word order in Mandarin Chinese. To find out how certain Chinese syntactic structures were subject to attrition over time and how syntactic errors could be attributed to L1 transfer, five types of Chinese syntax that either …
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Investigating activation changes as driving (L1-) attrition
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2027-08-01
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Modeling Attrition in a Military Selection Context
Attrition, employee turnover, self-selection, and withdrawal all refer to an employee’s exit from an organization, or from an organization’s recruitment or selection process. When individuals with the desired knowledge, skills, abilities, and other qualities (KSAOs) attrit, it represents lost …
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Logging off: attrition in online community college courses
… study was to investigate factors for student attrition from online community college courses. The demand for online and distance education opportunities is growing on a national level. The increase in online courses is a direct result of the type of individuals who select to learn virtually. …
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Reasons for attrition from a smoking cessation program.
… might individually or in combination predict attrition from the NTVHCS smoking cessation program. Results indicate that shame-proneness, guilt, anger/hostility, and depression did not individually predict attrition. Persons with high levels of smoking situational self-efficacy tend to utilize …
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Job satisfaction and attrition among special education teachers
… alleviates special education teacher's attrition rates. A survey, relating to job satisfaction and attrition, was administered to full time special education teachers at an out of district Special Services School via staff email. Results of the study, indicated that there was …
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Chinese Foreign Language Attrition: Investigating Aspect Marker Usage
… effect that rote memorization has on language attrition. More specifically, the loss of grammatical aspect markers is investigated. This study measures the general language attrition of a memorized narrative and an open-ended narrative between time one (T1) and time two (T2) measurements. …
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Study of attrition among enlisted women in the Navy
… thesis examines data on the possible reasons for attrition among enlisted women in the Navy. Cross-tabulations are employed to analyze the most prevalent reasons for attrition among women in the Navy across occupations and compared with men. Entry cohorts from fiscal years 1986 through 1990 were …
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Predictors of Attrition in an Interdisciplinary Pain Management Program
… such programs has been well-documented; however, attrition has also been identified as a neglected topic in outcome studies. OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to investigate the extent to which demographic/clinical characteristics predict attrition in an IPP. Study aims also included examining …
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Retention and Attrition of Doctoral Candidates in Higher Education
A number of studies have been conducted on the attrition rates of undergraduate and graduate students. However, the body of knowledge concerning attrition for doctoral students, especially those who have attained the level of “all but dissertation” (ABD), is limited. The purpose of this research …
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A system dynamics approach to aircraft survivability-attrition analysis
… Frederick W. Lanchester represented the attrition rates of two opposing forces in the form of two differential equations, functions of the size and combat effectiveness of each side. Lanchester's model was an intellectual breakthrough in the analysis of warfare insofar as it provided a …
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The Delayed Entry Program's effects on initial entry training attrition
… period is completed. Attempts to explain these attrition rates have focused around USAREC's Delayed Entry Program (DEP) management. The DEP serves a variety of roles for USAREC and is used as an inventory system of recruits which acts to smooth out the seasonal fluctuations in demand for lET …
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