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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"naturalistic research"”.
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A Study of Adult Bilingual-Bicultural Programs of Post-Secondary Education for People of Limited English-Speaking Ability of Hispanic Background in the Chicago Area
… for the study, pertinent literature was researched from both fields, i.e., adult education and bilingual-bicultural education. The research approach to this study was exploratory in nature and was defined as "naturalistic research." Four research units were chosen and treated as four …
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Escalation: Explorative studies of high-risk situations from the theoretical perspectives of complexity and joint cognitive systems
The main aim of the research is to explore different aspects of organisational resilience in escalating situations, with an investigation of both theoretical and practical implications. From the platform of an explorative approach, this study makes use of naturalistic research in the domain of …
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Student affairs administrators' university relationships: a study of language usage in departmental meetings
… observed over a period of eight weeks using a naturalistic research design (Lincoln, 1985) to collect qualitative data about language usage. Data analysis was inductive and was reported as case studies of the unit meetings. Findings of the study revealed several perceptions of dominant …
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The power of heteropolarity and its effects on sexuality educators.
Only a limited amount of research has begun to focus on the role of the sexuality educator and how he or she contributes to the curriculum's effectiveness. A review of the literature reveals a tendency within sexuality education to practice what is known as the heteropolar imperative. …
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Literature-as-lived in practice : young children's sense of voice
… of experiences with picturebook literature. The naturalistic research site was a grade one classroom setting in a large urban school. Student engagement and interactions with read-aloud events and responses to literature through multi-modal representations perpetuated meaning making and personal …
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The professional is personal: an evaluative inquiry into the experience of setting up and managing a university counselling service
… the university counselling service which the researcher set up in 1992 and still manages at Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College. The inquiry explores the experience of the researcher in relation to this role, and also the experiences of other heads of university counselling services. …
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An Exploratory Study of a Female Halfway House/Work Release Center
… Procedure. The data were collected by using Naturalistic Research techniques of participant observation. Additional data were obtained by administering an adapted version of the Battelle questionnaire and the Correctional Institutions Environmental Scale (CIES), as well as using the …
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A multiple-case study of high school students' biology test-preparation : an exploration of what students do and why they do it
… yet test-preparation in South Africa is poorly researched. This study regarded test-preparation as an overlooked area of possible remediation and aimed to explore test-preparation practices by asking what students do as they prepare for tests, what the thinking is behind their actions, and what …
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Case Studies of First-Year Elementary Teachers on St. Croix to Develop a Model for Teacher Leadership
… future of the profession. The purposes of this research were: (1) to examine the assumptions, concerns, beliefs, and perceptions of first-year teachers about their entry into the teaching profession; (2) to investigate the beliefs, concerns, perception, and assumptions of central office …
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Self-Efficacy in the Classroom: A Socio-Cultural Perspective on the Contributing and Detracting Factors
… methods approach, situated from a pragmatic research position was adopted to conduct a naturalistic research project. In order to conduct the research I selected two case study schools and one further supplementary school. Initially I surveyed the participants to discover a comparative …
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A STUDY OF HOW MATHEMATICS TEACHERS IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN HONG KONG CATER FOR STUDENTS’ INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES
… students were in the age-group 12 to 13 years. A naturalistic research design, without any interference from the researcher, was chosen to examine teacher behaviour. The emphasis was on observing, describing, interpreting and exploring events in the complex setting of the classroom, via a case …
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Learned Helpless to Mastery Orientation Transition Process
… of lack of persistence and avoideance, the researcher looked at the causal factors that bring about a change in an individual from a state of Learned Helplessness to a state of Mastery Orientation by studying individuals who have experienced this change without experiencing intentional …
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Borderline personality disorder and its impact on public health: population health and healthcare models from work-based learning and practice
Introduction: Despite extensive research on borderline personality disorder (BPD) and its implications for public health, a cohesive theoretical framework integrating behavioural and general health models to amalgamate data from various fields re-mains absent. I propose that …
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Vision and Radar Fusion for Identification of Vehicles in Traffic
… by the ego vehicle during a trip while in a naturalistic research study. The goal is to validate objects detected by radar using vision, to identify moving preceding vehicles and the lead vehicle. The proposed approach takes advantage of radar data in locating the vehicles and other targets …
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Interpretation in the national parks of New Zealand: the evolution and development of a management practice : a thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Applied Science in the Lincoln University
… national park and environmental agency managers. Naturalistic research methods were used to collect data. These included a series of 38 indepth interviews with former national park managers, and Department of Conservation staff. Archive searches and a literature review served to enrich these data. …
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Leuchtkäfer & Orgelkoralle
Leuchtende Käfer und Medusen, phosphoreszierende Meereswellen oder zu Stein erstarrende Korallen faszinierten den bisher vornehmlich als Dichter portraitierten Naturforscher Adelbert von Chamisso (1781–1838). Intensiver noch als den zoologischen und geologischen Phänomenen, widmete er sich der …