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Semantic and Factual Knowledge: A Reaction Time Study of Necessary and Invited Inferences
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An Experimental Study of Contact with the Elderly Upon Second-Grade Students' Attitudes and Factual Knowledge
… inter- generational contact on the attitudes and knowledge of second-grade students and (b) to determine if similarities existed between second- grade students' and their parents' attitudes and knowledge concerning the elderly. Procedure The research population for this study was comprised of 91 …
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Another way to skin a cat : Argument-Driven Inquiry in the human anatomy laboratory
… that varying levels of ADI had on students' knowledge, reasoning, and perceptions. METHODS: This dissertation conducted three studies. Participants in Studies I and II were 126 and 215 undergraduates respectively. Participants in Study III were 108 first-year medical students. Study I …
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Attitudes toward old people and beliefs about aging: A generational study
… of media use, gender, contact with elderly, age, factual knowledge about aging, and parental influence on attitude formation. The results revealed that age, factual knowledge, perceived ageism in mass media and parental influence were significantly related to attitude toward the elderly.
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Attitudes toward old people and beliefs about aging: A generational study
… of media use, gender, contact with elderly, age, factual knowledge about aging, and parental influence on attitude formation. The results revealed that age, factual knowledge, perceived ageism in mass media and parental influence were significantly related to attitude toward the elderly.
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Comparative Study of Recitation and Review in Seventh Grade Programmed Geography
… were: (1) comparing retention of the factual knowledge of the material by students exposed to the two methods immediately after completing the material, and, after a time lapse of six months, and (2) comparing the ability of students to transfer their factual knowledge of the material …
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Students' attitudes toward unions and employment rights issues: a preliminary investigation
… or object (e.g., unions) is a function of one’s factual knowledge regarding that issue or object and one’s socialization experiences regarding that issue or object. Thus, attitude toward unions is a function of factual knowledge about unions and socialization experiences. This study extends this …
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Technical, Practical and Praxial: Understanding Music Teaching in Botswana
… and critical capacity over reproduction of factual knowledge.
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Violence Prevention: Evaluation of an Adapted Curriculum
… distinct sections that were composed of general knowledge statements; statements that indicated an attitudinal predisposition toward violence; and statements that indicated a behavioral predisposition toward violence. After factor analysis the general knowledge section showed three grouping …
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An Analysis of Teacher Interview Questions and Practices Used by Middle School Principals
… according to the following six categories: factual knowledge, cognitive ability, role play, problem-solving, synthesis, and professional opinion. Of the 844 questions asked by all principals, 365 (43%) were coded as factual knowledge and almost none required role play or synthesis. There was …
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Effects of internet use on actual and self-perceived political knowledge, issue certainty and political participation
Current research on political knowledge focuses to a large extent on differences between Internet users and non-users. As Internet use is shown to constantly increase, more complex questions arise related to the impact of Internet on citizens' political involvement. This thesis takes a deeper look …
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Probing Language Models for Contextual ScaleUnderstanding
… a remarkable ability to emit linguistic and factual knowledge in certain fields. Additionally, they seem to encode relational information about different concepts in a knowledge base. However, since they are trained solely on textual corpora, it is unclear whether these models implicitly …
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Conservation Knowledge and Attitudes of Missouri Sixth Grade Students: the Missouri Conservation Survey, 1995-1996
The knowledge and attitudes of students toward conservation issues are important to organizations or agencies that invest time and money into development of educational materials. The Missouri Department of Conservation has developed many educational tools to aid teachers in the integration of …
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Attitudes of nurses to palliative care in nursing homes in the Perth metropolitan region
… on a 7-point Likert Scale (d) to answer 18 factual knowledge questions about palliative care, and (e) to supply some demographic information. The results indicated that cognitive and affective information significantly and independently predicted the attitudes of nurses to palliative care in …
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An analysis of Grade 9 learners' performance in the 2004 Natural Science common tasks for assessment with special reference to science process skills, learning outcomes and assessment standards
… and materials. The cognitive domains were: factual knowledge, conceptual knowledge, and reasoning and analysis.
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Designing for the Future: Promoting Ecoliteracy in the Design of Children's Outdoor Play Environments
… stewardship. In addition to helping kids acquire factual knowledge, outdoor play spaces should cultivate a sense of wonder and delight and an emotional appreciation of the living world. Through research, observation and application, this thesis project identifies design criteria for promoting …
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AN EVALUATION OF A 4 – 8 MATHEMATICS TEACHER PREPARATION PROGRAM AT A LARGE STATE INSTITUTION IN TEXAS
… (2) What content and pedagogical content knowledge can 4-8 mathematics pre-service teachers demonstrate at their respective points in the program? (3) What are the pre-service teachers’ perceptions of preparedness for teaching mathematics? The first research question was addressed by …
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The Other in the Other: Using the Stories of Quince Duncan to Teach Costa Rican Culture and History in the Foreign Language Classroom
… and students will learn for than just factual knowledge. This thesis provides teachers with materials to teach about Costa Rica’s historical events through the lens Duncan's stories provide. Students can become aware of the ways in which people at the margins and centers of a society …
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