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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"implicit theory"”.
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A Field Investigation of Implicit Theory Congruence in Leader-Follower Relationships
… congruence between leaders' and followers' implicit theories of leadership (ILTs) and followership (IFTs) in both partners' perspectives of the leader-follower relationship. While most literature focuses on assessments of the leader-member exchange (LMX) relationship, this study examined …
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About the relation between implicit Theory of Mind & the comprehension of complement sentences
… plays a causal role for the development of a Theory of Mind (ToM). Children start to succeed on complementation tasks in which they are required to report the content of an embedded clause in the second half of the fourth year. Traditional ToM tasks test the child’s ability to predict that a …
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Initial Testing Of The Continuous Employee Development Model: Outcome Expectations And Work-related Implicit Theory
… tested. New scales were created for work-related implicit theory and outcome expectations and the validity of these scales and these variables in the model were investigated. Alternate models were also contrasted with the Garofano and Salas model (2005). The study used self-report surveys …
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School-age children's implicit theories of intelligence and competence perception and their relation to motivation for learning
… of this study was to demonstrate how a child's implicit theory of intelligence and perceived competence in self-concept domains deemed important to the child could predict the locus (intrinsic or extrinsic) of that child's motivation to learn.
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School-age children's implicit theories of intelligence and competence perception and their relation to motivation for learning
… of this study was to demonstrate how a child's implicit theory of intelligence and perceived competence in self-concept domains deemed important to the child could predict the locus (intrinsic or extrinsic) of that child's motivation to learn.
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An Examination of Implicit Beliefs and Ability Judgments Among School Psychologists
<p>Problem.</p> <p>Implicit theory research establishes that teachers’ implicit beliefs influence the stereotypes that they form, their beliefs about the nature of intelligence, and their behavior. It seems essential that research should consider the implicit beliefs about intelligence among school …
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A formative evaluation of the theory, process, and outcomes of the Earthchild Project
… its development and improvement. The programme’s implicit theory was articulated using information gained through programme documentation and interviews and a focus group conducted with programme stakeholders. The logic and plausibility of the resulting theory was assessed and compared to social …
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Leadership as Rhetorical Action: The Power of the Powerless in Search of Its "People"
… Power of the Powerless. Havel's text reveals his implicit theory of rhetoric that enhances McGee's original theoretic contribution. The thesis concludes that leadership is an interaction imbedded in rhetoric, and argues that a rhetorical theory of leadership broadens the spectrum in which …
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A Conditional Reasoning Measure of Goal Orientation : Preliminary Development
… measures provide an indirect way to assess implicit cognitions associated with personality constructs. In the study, a conditional reasoning measure of goal orientation was preliminarily developed. This measure attempted to indirectly assesses an individual's implicit theory of intelligence, …
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The Relationship of Growth Mindset and Goal-setting in a First-year College Course
… mindset has not. Firstyear college students’ implicit theory of intelligence, or mindset, was measured before they were randomly assigned to set either a mastery- or performance-based goal in relation to their first exam in a difficult chemistry course. Upon receiving their first exam score, …
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Mediator behavior and interest: Effects on mediator and disputant perceptions
… Journal, 2, 41-56, 1986) was used as an implicit theory of mediation to test the influence of mediator behavior and interest on mediator self-perceptions of concern and mediator perceptions of the likelihood of agreement. It was hypothesized that mediators with high interest, feeling …
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Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Marshall McLuhan and Communication Ethics: The Taming of Americanitis
… reading enhances understanding of the implicit theory of human communication and communication ethics informing McLuhan’s Media Ecology criticism. Once elucidated, McLuhan’s theoretical assumptions, aims and ends comport with theoretical dimensions of Merleau-Ponty’s existential …
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Power from Below: Power, Democracy and Socialist Theory
This dissertation reframes socialist theory through the concept of power. The goal of this reconceptualization is to overcome the main limits of Marxism on issues of usefulness for activists, of accessibility for ordinary people, of the integration of feminist and anti-racist perspectives, and on …
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Implicit Theories and Beta Change in Longitudinal Evaluations of Training Effectiveness: An Investigation Using Item Response Theory
… confirmatory factor analysis and item response theory to identify gamma and beta change on a multidimensional, multisource managerial performance appraisal instrument and to examine relations among the change types, training program content, and raters' implicit theories of performance. Results …
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Modelling The World : The Social Constructions Of Systems Analysts
… simulation modelling methodology, and its implicit theory of social system behaviour. System dynamics is policy oriented and is directed towards the control and management of social systems. It originally evolved in the context of military systems and then the application of systems …
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Effects of a Growth Mindset Intervention on First-Year College Student Academic Performance
… by a complex array of factors, including implicit theories of intelligence, or mindset. Previous research has shown that students’ mindset, whether they view intelligence as a fixed quantity or something that can be incrementally increased, can predict academic achievement. Students who …
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An examination of how tutor-practitioners conceptualise and enact practice-based-knowing in a small Higher Education Fashion School : a social practice theory approach
… and researcher reflexivity. Social practice theory (SPT) is applied within the research, composed of Trowler’s meso level analytical construct of a Teaching and Learning Regime (TLR) and Schatzki’s conceptual relationship between practice as a connected entity and practice as performance, to …
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Thinking about Acting: The use of causal knowledge for the sake of intentional action in Heraclitus, Hippocratic On Regimen and Democritus
… sources, including Heraclitus, who presents an implicit theory of action in his account of '*logos*'. This theory proposes a framework in which the success of decision-making including ethical and political decision-making hinges upon a comprehensive grasp of *logos*. The stronger a grasp of …
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"In a shattered language": a feminist poetics of trauma.
… traumatization. My analysis also revises trauma theory from a feminist perspective by investigating domestic traumas such as rape, incest, and mental illness as portrayed in poetry by North American women writers in the twentieth century. The dissertation opens with a brief Prologue, which views …