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Showing 1 to 20 of 57 for “"knowledge structures"”.
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Self-Monitoring and Partner Knowledge Structures
… in concern about self-presentation, and partner knowledge structures, which is how people organize thoughts about their current romantic partner, is explored in this study. There were two competing hypotheses. If people structure thoughts about their partner in a way similar to how they structure …
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Representing High-Level Knowledge Structures in Massively Parallel Networks
… such as rule-based heuristics and frame-based knowledge structures. Massively parallel networks, on the other hand, have been used mainly to model low-level perceptual processes such as vision, speech, associative memory, and learning. Recent research has started to bridge the gap between these …
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An investigation of experienced auditors' knowledge structures: A reaction time test
… extends prior research by investigating knowledge structures for financial statement errors, using a reaction time method, which previously has not been used to examine these issues. The two candidate knowledge structures, cycle and error type, have been identified in previous research. …
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The relationship of nutrition knowledge structures to accuracy of food label interpretation in adults
… the label. This research explored the specific knowledge required for correct interpretation based on a model in which nutrition knowledge was organized in hierarchical levels: food groups, macronutrients and micronutrients in foods, with each level including dimensions of nutrition terminology, …
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The Effects of Elaborative Vocabulary Instruction on the Vocabulary, Written Explanations, and Knowledge Structures of Sixth-Grade Students With and Without Disabilities
<p>Writing is a complex process that presents challenges for middle school teachers and their students with and without disabilities. A particular area of difficulty is the application of content-area vocabulary in the explanatory writing of sixth-grade students. This two-group quasi-experimental …
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Chronic accessibility of virtue-trait inferences : a social-cognitive approach to the moral personality
… that the moral personality is one in which moral knowledge structures are chronically accessible. A spontaneous trait inference cued-recall paradigm was employed. It was expected that those with chronically accessible moral knowledge structures (N = 61) would spontaneously encode virtue-content …
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Effects of two types of network diagrams on technical systems understanding of college-level aviation mechanic students
… Do functional flow diagrams enhance students' knowledge structures of technical systems? (3) Do functional flow diagrams affect a student's cognitive abilities related to technical system understanding? (4) What is the relationship between the overt characteristics of a functional flow diagram …
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Adolescent Perceptions and Beliefs of Proactive-Reactive Aggression Explored Through the Social Information Processing Model of Aggression.
… with measures of attribution intent, quality of knowledge structures, and reactive-proactive aggression. Correlational analyses revealed significant correlations between attribution intent and aggression, attribution intent and hostile knowledge structures, and attribution intent and proactive …
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Development and Implementation of IT-Enabled Business Processes: A Knowledge Structure View
… develop cognitive representations, called knowledge structures, to represent their complex informational environment. Knowledge structures in turn help individuals to assimilate and process a bewildering flow of informational cues. Given the large degree of communication and information …
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Sistema de caracterización del aprendizaje en un entorno construccionista vía homología SCAECH en la Educación media en Colombia
… homology it is tried to make an approach to the structures of thought that occur in students in the interaction in constructionist environments. In a constructionist environment through the elaboration of parallel artifacts knowledge structures are constructed, if through the use of software and …
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Essays on Technology-Mediated Training: Implications for Design and Evaluation
… rehearsal (i.e., intervention) group formed knowledge structures that shared greater similarity with ERP experts’ knowledge structures compared to the control group. The treatment group also scored significantly higher in terms of business process knowledge and integration knowledge compared …
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Mapping the elements of physical security towards the creation of a holistic physical security model
… purpose of the mapping is to form individual knowledge structures for modelling and provide a relative understanding of overall risk based on different combinations of physical security arrangements. An understanding of overall risk for modelling purposes should lead to improvements in …
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Enhancing Auditor Expertise: Using Cognitive Load Theory to Examine a Reinforcing Feedback Loop Between Knowledge and Ability
Understanding how the knowledge and ability interaction affects task performance is essential for comprehending how accountants learn and develop expertise. The current expertise model assumes this ability is predominately static in the short-term and as a corollary that the influence of this …
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Analytic and constructive processes in the comprehension of text
… and models and theories of the representation of knowledge are evaluated. It is argued that these are limited in that they tend to focus either on the text or the reader: they either examine those procedures that are necessary for text analysis or the knowledge structures required for …
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The relation between pedagogic text and pedagogic practice: a study of two grade seven science classes
… notions of classification, specialization and knowledge structures. The analysis of the pedagogic texts reveals two contrasting textual modalities: independent and dependent texts. Two differing pedagogic practices emerge: localized and generalized practices. The key differences between these …
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A comparative study of progression in the topic matter and materials across the NCS, the NCS work schedule and the CAPS
… in curricula as well as vertical and horizontal knowledge structures. These concepts are: Depth, Curriculum Focus, Curriculum Ordering, Classification (the nature of the boundary between science and other subjects), Classification (the nature of the boundary between science knowledge and everyday …
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Development of POMME, the pest and orchard management expert system
Direct dissemination of expert knowledge to agricultural producers through computer programs will increase product quality as well as profit margin. The construction of an expert system to help farmers manage apple orchards is reported. The system provides advice regarding specific pest management, …
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Knowledge convergence in collaborative concept mapping among radiographic physics undergraduates
… concept mapping enhance group members' knowledge convergence? Second, how does students' participation in interaction influence their knowledge convergence? The students first submitted an individual concept map to represent their solution of an ill-structured problem. They then …
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Implicit Theories of Leader-Follower Relationships
… individuals employ implicit theories, which are knowledge structures or cognitive frameworks that encompass information about the stability or malleability of the nature of a thing. Implicit theories provide individuals with a relatively stable, grounded framework of knowledge, experience, and …
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Teaching analogies and metaphors to enhance communication in interdisciplinary and cross-functional groups
… plays an important role in constructing our knowledge structures. In this study, an instructional tool with group activities has been designed and tested to teach the effective use of analogies and metaphors in interdisciplinary and cross-functional group and team settings. The tool was …
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