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Showing 1 to 20 of 32 for “"perceived efficacy"”.
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Perceived efficacy and utilization of the OralCDx brush biopsy
… minimal research has been conducted on the efficacy and utilization rates of OralCDx. The purpose of this study is to determine perceived efficacy and utilization rates of OralCDx nationwide. A 16-item survey was used to survey a random sample of 100 dentists and a 6-item survey was used to …
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Parental Views on the Perceived Efficacy of Parent-Child Interaction Therapy
… this study was to explore parental views on the efficacy of parent-child interaction therapy. Research indicates that early intervention and prevention is essential when treating children with disruptive behaviors. Intervening at an early age prevents the disruptive behaviors from progressing …
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Effect of assessment structure on perceived efficacy in a rocketry course
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2025-03-28 without embargo terms
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Impact of Manipulated Perceived Efficacy and Self-Affirmation on Measures of Risk, Efficacy, and Intention
… the effect of self-affirmation and manipulated perceived efficacy on perceptions of efficacy, risk perception, and risk-reducing behavioural intentions. Participants were undergraduate students who were randomly assigned to a self-affirmation manipulation (self-affirmation versus no …
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THE MORE, THE BETTER? MISALIGNMENT BETWEEN ACTUAL AND PERCEIVED EFFICACY OF A DISAGGREGATE APPROACH TO MULTIPLE-CUE EVALUATIONS
When performing an evaluation involves assessing multiple items of information about a target, evaluators can choose between two opposing strategies: reviewing all target information at once and forming an overall evaluation (a holistic approach) or reviewing each item of information independently …
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Teacher Efficacy in Incorporating Culturally Responsive and High-Leverage Instructional Practices for Students with Disabilities
… 2017). This research study examined teachers’ perceived efficacy in their knowledge and understanding of high-leverage and culturally responsive instructional practices and explored how teachers’ self-efficacy influences their instructional delivery. A survey design was used to provide a …
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An Evaluation Of AVID As A Supplemental Education Program At The Middle School Level
… a quantitative evaluation of the academic efficacy of AVID utilizing anonymized, longitudinal student achievement data. The second section is a qualitative evaluation of the AVID program at one middle school within a district to determine the perceived efficacy of the AVID program among …
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Online communities of practice and teachers perceived sense of efficacy: a mixed methods study of National Association of Agricultural Educators Communities of Practice users
… design mixed methods study was to assess the perceived sense of efficacy of teachers who use the National Association of Agricultural Educators (NAAE) Communities of Practice, an online community for pre-service teachers, secondary educators, and university professors in agricultural …
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An Audio-Visual Ethnographic Case Study of International, Rural, Nonprofit Public Relations Geared Towards Sustainable Development
… the PRCD approach <em>WHW</em> adheres to, and perceived efficacy of community development as a result.</p><p>The data suggest that although <em>WHW</em> does maintain an underlying PRCD philosophy, it does not implement public relations practice as outlined in PRCD. In addition to the paper, …
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Finding the swing voter : definitions and survey methods for voter classification
… vote choice, as well as demographic factors and perceived efficacy. Feeling thermometer responses are found to carry meaningful information about a respondent's relationship to the election and candidate preference.
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Civic and political involvement among young adults: Exploring political talk, political efficacy and political participation in a community context
… (SNS) and their relationships with political efficacy and political participation. Approximately 300 young adults completed a survey covering information-seeking, information access, and information sharing uses for local civic and political purposes. The study hypothesizes that young adults' …
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STRIKING A GREEN BALANCE: ASSESSING EQUITY IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF ELEVATED PUBLIC PARK PROJECTS IN PHILADELPHIA AND WASHINGTON D.C.
… Trust capital emerged as a major theme in the perceived efficacy of development processes that pursue equitable goals. This factor fluctuates with stakeholder perceptions of equity and the legitimization of socioeconomic concerns expressed by the community in urban green infrastructure …
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Breast self-examination: the evaluation of strategies for promoting monthly home-practice
… behaviors, this study attempted to evaluate the efficacy of prompts on the monthly practice of BSE. Specifically, after exposure to a BSE teaching workshop, participants (N = 83), who were faculty and staff members at a state university, were assigned to one of three experimental conditions: …
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Genograms as threat appeals: Using the Extended Parallel Process Model with familial cardiovascular disease
… Parallel Process Model (EPPM) contends that efficacy must exceed threat for protection motivation to dominate resulting in message acceptance and danger control responses. If threat exceeds efficacy, defensive motivation will dominate, resulting in fear control responses and message …
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Reciprocal Teaching as a Reading-Comprehension Strategy Among First-Year Industrial Technology Education Majors at the University of Technology, Jamaica
… 1984) as a possible means of addressing this perceived problem in Jamaica. A total of 133 participants were involved in the study. Specifically, the study explored empirically the existence of a reading-comprehension problem among the first-year Industrial Technology teacher-education majors …
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Privacy vs. Security: Fear appeals, terrorism and the willingness to allow increased government surveillance
… be successful based on the levels of threat and efficacy. The underlining assumption of the theory is that if a person feels fear, that person will take some sort of action to alleviate the fear. EPPM research suggests that, in order to persuade, a fear appeal message must contain language that …
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Lithuanian Emigrants and Home–Country Elections 2014–2016
… for effects of voting costs, political trust and perceived efficacy. In accordance with the Michigan school, emigrants appear to be making at least some of their political choices ideologically, whereas socio–economic factors underscored by the Columbia school are of a lesser bearing at individual …
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Outcome and efficacy expectancies in college student drinking
goals of this study were to modify efficacy and outcome expectancies related to moderate alcohol consumption through written communications and determine subsequent changes in behavioral intentions to consume alcohol. Furthermore, two theoretical models which have attempted to conceptualize the …
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An exploration of women's current hormone discontinuation experiences, influences, decisions, and alternatives
… factors influencing HT decisions, use of CAM and perceived efficacy. Chi-square analysis, Spearman Rho correlation, and logistic regression analysis were conducted for contextual factors and vasomotor symptom experiences. A McNemar test was performed to assess within group differences for …
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Novice foreign language teachers' teaching efficacy beliefs and perceptions of professional support : a mixed-methods study
Self-efficacy is an individual’s judgment of the relative probability of her or his likely success in attaining desired outcomes (Bandura, 1977). For teachers, efficacy beliefs serve as an assessment of their own abilities to promote student learning. Efficacy beliefs are content-specific and are …
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