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Towards A Practice Theory of Goal-setting: Assessing the theoretical goal-setting of The Leprosy Mission in Nigeria
Goal-setting is indispensable for effective healthcare management. Yet, literature evidence suggests many organisations worldwide do not know how to formulate ‘SMART’ goals. Evidence of how existing theories work in practice is scarce, and the practices in low-income countries are unknown. …
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Toward a functional approach to goal setting
… be associated with performance improvements is goal setting (within and across days). Easy-to-achieve goals will likely produce gradual trends in improvement and difficult-to-achieve goals steeper trends. The purpose of the current experiments was to study the effects of setting easy-to-achieve …
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Patient participation in physical therapy goal-setting
… planning in physical therapy is effective goal-setting. The Guide to Physical Therapist Practice recommends that therapists identify the patient’s goals and objectives during the initial evaluation as a way to maximize treatment outcomes. The purpose of this study was to examine whether …
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The Role of Attention in Goal Setting
This study examined the role of attention in goal setting theory, using techniques adapted from selective attention research. Specifically, it explored activation and suppression of goal related information in the presence of two conflicting assigned goals. Pre vs. post goal completion and goal …
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Motivation and Goal-Setting in College Athletes
Motivation and goal-setting are important concepts in athletics and sport and exercise psychology. However, little research has compared motivation and goal-setting by gender. The self-determination theory was used and the purpose of this study was to determine if there is a difference between male …
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Adaptive goal-setting in tasks with multiple criteria
Thesis (Sc. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 1989.
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Individual goal setting and performance in a group context
Call number: LD2668 .T4 1986 L48
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Individual goal setting and performance in a group context
Call number: LD2668 .T4 1986 L48
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Psychological Needs and Goal Setting Among Adolescents with Autism
… role of psychological needs in the context of goal setting among students with autism. Using a mixed methodology approach, we selected the American Institutes for Research Self-Determination Scale (AIR-S) as a measure for self-determination in children, in the context of goal setting in a …
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Individual and Group Goal Setting for Individual Task Performance
… explore the comparison of individual and group goal setting for the task performance of individuals. In the first experiment, goal setting occurred for a problem-solving task and an error-checking task. For both tasks, two versions were constructed to reflect low and high task difficulty. The …
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The Effects of Goal Setting in a Developmental Algebra Course
… of this study was to study the effects of goal setting on students in a developmental algebra course. This study examined the effects on test scores for students that were prescribed a test score goal, students that created their own test score goal, and then compared to a control group. …
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The Career Goal-Setting Processes of Black Woman Engineering Majors
… the literature, this study explored the career goal-setting (CGS) processes of Black woman engineering majors (BWEMs) through qualitative inquiry. Using a phenomenological approach, the researcher implemented a two-interview sequence with five Black/African American women enrolled in their final …
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Goal setting for improvement in product development performance of organizations
… for performance improvement interventions. Goal setting theory, a proven theory that is widely applied in individual performance improvement has got limited attention in R&D performance improvement approaches and frameworks. Practitioners in the industry point to the need for goal setting in …
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Goal Setting in Sports: Increasing the Rate of Dribbling a Basketball
… in organized sports, and sports practice settings serve as an occasion both for the development of sports skills and for social skills. Because of this, youth sports coaching practices may be considered a particularly important factor in child development. Research in the area of youth …
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A goal setting approach to a healthy lifestyle in adolescent females
… implementation and exploratory evaluation of a goal setting program to help facilitate behaviour change in the areas of healthy eating and physical activity in female adolescents. Forty-two female adolescents enrolled in high school who were between 13 and 17 years of age participated in the …
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Effect Of Goal-Setting And Self-Generated Feedback On Student Speechmaking
<p>This investigation examined how goal setting strategies and self-generated feedback from video affects student grade improvement on subsequent speaking occasions. Students (N =140) across ten course sections were conveniently assigned to experimental conditions manipulating video use and goal …
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The effects of goal setting procedures and personal discretion on individuals' creativity
… situational factors were examined: productivity goal setting, creativity goal setting (i.e., a goal to be creative), and personal discretion in work procedures. These factors were chosen because of the relevance to creativity and their use in organizations. A laboratory study was conducted with a …
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Goal setting and feedback in the reduction of heavy drinking in females
… Subjects were randomly assigned to one of three goal-setting conditions (no goal; proximal drinking reduction goal, distal drinking reduction goal). Within each of these three goal conditions subjects were randomly assigned to receive feedback on their drinking behavior or to not receive drinking …
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The effects of feedback frequency and goal setting on data processing performance
… In addition, subjects assigned to the Difficult Goal/Frequent Feedback condition were more satisfied with the task and performance feedback than other subjects. Results are discussed in light of current viewpoints in applied psychology and human-computer interaction.
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