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Showing 1 to 20 of 62 for “"opinion survey"”.
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Omaha City Services: An Opinion Survey
The purpose of this opinion survey was threefold: a. To determine perceptions of residents of six neighborhoods in Omaha of the quality of selected City services in their own neighborhoods and in other neighborhoods in relation to their own. These perceptions were to be solicited in terms of their …
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An Opinion Survey of Elementary Teachers from Various Districts throughout Washington State Concerning Decision Making Procedures in Their Respective Districts
It was the purpose of this study to identify teachers' attitudes concerning the decision-making procedures as well as their assessment of existing practices of school operations in their respective districts regarding (1) curriculum, (2) materials and equipment, and (3) personnel. Knowledge of …
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Factors Affecting Occupational Status of Teachers in Tanzania Mainland: an Opinion Survey of Tutors in Colleges of Education in the Southern Zone
The study intended to explore factors affecting the occupationa~ status of teachers in Tanzania mainland, with special reference to tutors in the colleges of education. Apart from adapting a conceptual framework which indicates the position held by teachers in the larger community, a variety of …
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Factors influencing selected male college students' condom usage
… and intention to use condoms), the Sexual Opinion Survey, and the Attitude Toward Condoms Scale. The scores on the Attitude Toward Condoms Scale ranged from extremely negative to extremely positive, but the mean was close to the middle of the scale. The item correlation between the Attitude …
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Electronic Versus Paper Surveys in an Upward Feedback Application: Are the Methods Equivalent?
… the equivalency of paper vs. electronic survey data collection formats in an upward feedback application. Findings are similar to recent research utilizing employee opinion survey data. Format explained less than 1% of variance in managers' total scores over that of ratee and rater …
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Evaluation of the Non-Graded Primary Reading Program at Munich Elementary No. 1
… previously employed program as revealed by an opinion survey of the teachers involved in the program.
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Assessing Measurement Equivalence of the English and Spanish Versions on an Employee Attitude Survey Using Multigroup Analysis in Structural Equation Modeling.
… of English and Spanish versions of an employee opinion survey. The concept of measurement equivalence was defined as consisting of four components: sample equivalence, semantic equivalence, conceptual equivalence and scalar equivalence. The results revealed that the two language versions of the …
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Development and evaluation of a self-instruction method for analysing spatial information
… of spatial data is identified. A postal opinion survey confirmed that a self-instruction programme for map reading (MapTrix, Innes, 2001) is effective. Using the test-intervention-test method, the importance of mathematics instruction for improving map analysis is recognised.
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Fiscal and institutional factors and taxpayer culture as explanations for the 2018 VAT increase in South Africa
… desk review and statistical analysis of a public opinion survey. By examining the underlying dynamics that influence fiscal policy decisions, it explains how fiscal and institutional factors and taxpayer culture interacted to bring about the decision to increase the VAT rate. It finds that policy …
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A national study of school board members' opinions about Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome and education
… major purpose of this study was to ascertain the opinions of school board members about Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) as it relates to the curriculum of America's public schools and employment and other policies governing those schools. The presence of the AIDS virus in the general …
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Explicit Estimates for Cell Counts and Modeling The Missing Data Indicators in Three-Way Contingency Table by Log-Linear Models
… of the BRD model approach to Slovenian public opinion survey data reveals the effect of smaller sample size to the validity of the method for three-way table.</p>
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An Application of Proactive Organizational Communication in Support of an Institutional Objective: Increasing Enrollment At Springfield Catholic High School
… insight into answers to this question, an opinion survey was conducted of 138 Catholic families during the spring of 1987. The results of this survey were compiled and analyzed. Subsequent findings revealed a valid argument that the enrollment problem could be related to a communication …
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Communicating the modern entrepreneurial university in the 21st century: a case study of academic capitalism and media messaging in the pursuit of revenues and national prominence at Louisiana State University
… the framework of results from a national public opinion survey on LSU’s image. Results suggest strong support for the concept of university entrepreneurialism, but indicate the American public, aside from athletics, doesn’t know much about LSU academics or research. Testing of LSU-related …
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Interest groups, public opinion, and path dependence: how Canada and the U.S diverged on healthcare policy
… policy divergence and its impacts on public opinion. In this thesis, I comparatively examine the passage of Medicare in the United States in 1965 with the Canadian Medical Care Act of 1966 and present the results of a nationally representative U.S. public opinion survey. I find that a …
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Political representation of the poor in the U.S. political system : a discussion of theory and practice
… "informal" mechanism examined is the public opinion survey. The normative framework is grounded in the notion that being poor in an affluent nation is an attached, personal interest--a substantive understanding of the interests of the poor cannot be determined through intellectual …
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Employee perceptions of Transnamib holdings' financial performance and corporate image
… the financial performance results of internal opinion survey. In order to achieve this aim, the following specific objectives were formulated: to determine the relationship between financial performance and corporate image TransNamib Holdings Limited employees have; to recommend relevant …
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Internal Revenue Service Restructuring and Reform Act of 1998: a test of New Public Management
… Partial replication of the IRS’s 1990 Taxpayer Opinion Survey showed taxpayers’ perceptions of the IRS have not improved. In fact, the IRS’s receipt of top quality service evaluations universally decreased. Analysis of selected enforcement/compliance data showed that the number of IRS auditors …
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An Approach for Conducting Stakeholder Interviews for a Novel Technology, as applied to the Locomotive Industry
This thesis describes the development of a survey to interview US freight railroad engineers for the information requirements and the possible benefits of a new type of “augmented reality head up display” (AR-HUD). The goal is to use a windscreen mounted transparent display to provide a wide …
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Determination of the end of functional service life for concrete bridge components
… of Transportation (DOT) bridge engineers via an opinion survey. A field study of 18 existing concrete bridges that had been designated for rehabilitation was conducted to develop concrete bridge component maps showing areas of physical damage. Deck damage maps were produced using a ground-based …
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DISPERSAL BEHAVIOR OF WHITE-TAILED DEER IN AN AGRICULTURAL LANDSCAPE
… 3) create and test the performance of expert opinion and step selection function resistance models at predicting deer dispersal movements, and 4) fit single and multiple random walk models to dispersal path data to determine movement states occurring within this behavior. During 2011-2014, I …
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