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Showing 1 to 20 of 456 for “"implications for practice"”.
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Coaching Ideology: Contextual Factors and Implications for Practice
… (Patton, 1990), eight coaches were selected for further study. These male and female coaches, aged 17 to 50 years, represented eight different team and individual sports. The athletes they coached ranged from 5 to 18 years old. To examine the relation between ideology and coaching behavior, …
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Scordatura on the Classical Guitar: Implications for Practice and Performance
This performance-based project explores how scordatura (alternate tuning) challenges practice and performance on the classical guitar. A range of scordatura works have been examined to identify what adjustments can be made in practice and performance to facilitate a coherent recital. By analysing …
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Motor Learning Effects of Two Types of Stressors: Implications for Practice Specificity
… both positive and negative effects on motor performance (Szalma & Hancock, 2011; Van Gemmert & Van Galen, 1997). One potential explanation for these diverse findings is that stress increases the amount of neuromotor noise in the system (Van Gemmert, 1997). Low levels of stress may have an …
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Envisioning a Trauma-Sensitive Public Health Department: Implications for Practice, Policy, and Research
… recent attention and research around the health implications of trauma have unmasked this concept as a pervasive public health issue. This has catalyzed a movement to create a paradigm shift that transforms a formerly myopic understanding of trauma towards one that acknowledges the complexity and …
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An exploration of Educational Psychologists' constructions of sexuality and the implications for practice
… understanding in this area to change existing practice. Whilst other disciplines have begun to examine professional practice with regard to heterosexism (defined as a socially created value system which contrasts heterosexuality as normal and non-heterosexuality as inferior, Fish 2008), …
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The Concept Of Confidence Of Older People Living With Frailty And Implications For Practice
… literature. Health and social care policy and practice now focus on frailty interventions to reduce long-term demands of this growing population. Understanding the relationship of the concept of confidence and its associated impact on the physical health and mental well-being of older people …
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Revealing What Urban Early Childhood Teachers Think About Mathematics and How They Teach It: Implications for Practice
… school districts to determine if mathematics reform efforts made a difference in teachers' attitudes and beliefs about mathematics and its teaching. Questionnaires were mailed directly to teachers in one school district and principals distributed questionnaires in the other. Summary scores were …
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Factors and Characteristics of Alumni Role Identity: Implications for Practice in Higher Education Fundraising and Alumni Relations
… donation history is more exact than donor information collected from participants via self-report. Further research into the antecedents of alumni role identity should take both of these findings into account.</p>
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Identified Gifted Boys' Experience Of Giftedness In Alternative High School Settings: Implications For Practice And Programming
… as a gifted learner can provide opportunities for boys to thrive or can place undue pressure and stress, causing them to decline in school, academically and emotionally. This multi-site case study using integral research methodology looked to understand identified gifted boys’ experience of …
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Understanding Climate Change through a Community Definition of Resilience: Qualitative Analysis of Interviews and Implications for Practice
This thesis explores how residents in low-income, rapidly gentrifying neighborhoods conceptualize resilience to climate change and what responses are desired. As part of a Participatory Action Research study in Eastern Massachusetts, I analyzed de-identified interviews with residents and engaged in …
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Cognitive Ability and Personality Predictors of Training Program Skill Acquisition
Strengths and limitations, suggestions for future research, and implications for practice were discussed.
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Continuing Professional Education for the Dietitian: A Critical Analysis of the Professional Development 2001 Model from an Adult Education Lens
… on Dietetic Registration as a new system for recredentialing dietetic practitioners to better ensure professional development. Changes include self-directed learning and reflective inquiry, new, unfamiliar concepts to this profession. To date, neither the Commission on Dietetic …
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Perceptions and experiences of midwives regarding the use of the labour care guide at two state hospitals in Khomas region, Namibia
The Labour Care Guide (LCG) is a new tool for monitoring labour, introduced to replace the partograph, which had been used improperly and inconsistently across various contexts. Early research suggests that healthcare practitioners view the LCG as a tool that enhances the quality of care during …
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Factors Influencing Completion and Non -Completion in Community College Online Courses
The results of this study provide valuable information for community college student service personnel, course designers and policy makers who are interested in reducing attrition rates and improving the quality of instruction in online courses. Although this study was conducted at one institution, …
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Engaging Adolescents in Organized Youth Programs: An Analysis of Individual and Contextual Factors
… feedback from the leaders, (2) leaders' efforts to monitor the setting for the presence of diversions and exciting or novel activities, (3) youth experience of positive interpersonal relationships with peers and the leaders, and (4) the leaders' cultivation of an autonomy-supportive …
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Decision -Making in Child Protection
"Implications for practice. The results suggest that investigators need assistance in using the CERAP form and avoiding heuristics (and their associated errors). Such assistance can take the form of revised CERAP training, periodic ""retraining,"" and support for supervisors in the use of good …
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Transgender veterans' experiences with culture and care: a qualitative study
… were identified through the coding process. Implications for practice, limitations, and implications for future research are discussed within.
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Exploring transracial and transethnic international adoption
… understand ‘racial/ethnic’ identity development for international transracial adoptees. A systematic search for studies was conducted across five databases resulting in the inclusion of 12 studies in the meta-synthesis, which was informed by meta-ethnography methodology. The study proposes a …
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Intergenerational activities: an observational study of the experiences of children and adults
… children and adults. The findings indicate implications for practice as well as future directions for research.
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Control, introversion, and social support: a model of loneliness in Alzheimer's caregivers
… control, social support, and income account for almost two-thirds of the variance in loneliness. An interesting finding was that higher income was associated with higher levels of loneliness in the caregivers. Implications for practice are discussed and recommendations for future research are …
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