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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"personal belief"”.
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Person-oriented and process-oriented teachers : an investigation of the links between ESOL teachers' personal belief systems and approaches to teaching
… in research into language teaching, teacher beliefs and classroom interaction, in order to investigate the question: Do teachers of ESOL have an identifiable and coherent system of beliefs about teaching and learning that may account for different approaches to teaching? A qualitative …
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To Advance a Race: A Historical Analysis of the Intersection of Personal Belief, Industrial Philanthropy and Black Liberal Arts Higher Education in Fayette McKenzie's Presidency at Fisk University, 1915-1925
… arts higher education. Analysis of McKenzie's personal papers and other primary and secondary sources provide a strong scholarly basis to examine his administration from multiple perspectives. Through an enhanced understanding of the forces that shaped McKenzie's presidency, the research will …
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Student Misconceptions in Science: The Human Digestive System
Students bring their personal belief systems with them into classrooms. In the science classroom, these beliefs may be misconceptions, ideas that are not congruent with currently accepted scientific facts and theories. This study sought to identify student misconceptions as they pertained to a unit …
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Objective Poetics: Victorian Literature and the Science of Aesthetics
… ended up merely projecting their subjective beliefs onto nature itself. To prevent this epistemic misunderstanding, I suggest, philosophers began to emphasise the need for what they called “objectivity.” This meant attempting to regulate the unconscious biases of subjects through adopting …
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Competencies needed for effective ministry by beginning pastors in Church of God congregations in the United States
… honesty, integrity, love for God and people, personal belief in the gospel, being filled with the Holy Spirit, commitment to Christian standards, a sense of being called to ministry, and a strong commitment to ministry.Other important competencies are knowledge (cognitive domain): the nature …
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The negative relationship between immunization rates and outbreaks: an argument for improving awareness and provider recommendations, advocating for, and developing intervention strategies to increase immunization rates across California.
… low, due to compounding factors such as rising personal belief exemptions, mistrust of government and doctors, and lack of strong provider recommendations. To address these needs, a culmination of five main goals were developed: familiarization with the CIC; support California Medical …
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Understanding leader representations: Beyond implicit leadership theory
… leaders, individuals select the leader based on personal belief alignment when the context of the leader selection is personally relevant, or based on cognitive expectations when the context is low in personal relevance. In addition, when experiencing moments of greater personal relevance, …
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Prevention of Vaccine-Preventable Diseases through Information and Education at the California Department of Public Health
… of fully vaccinating their children are due to personal belief exemptions (PBEs), concerns regarding vaccine-related side effects, and low provider recommendation. The Information and Education section is in charge of creating statewide campaigns and educational materials to help increase …
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Everyone to the Front
… a Renaissance Faire to get by. Drawing from her personal belief that art should be shocking rather than beautiful, after having been profoundly affected by Andres Serrano’s transgressive piece <em>Piss Christ</em> when she herself was fresh out of college, Layne’s course material focuses on …
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Pre-service Teachers' Self-efficacy for Teaching Mathematics
<p>Teachers self-efficacy beliefs start forming upon entering their teacher education programs and continue to develop throughout their first few years of teaching. They then remain relatively stable for the remainder of their teaching careers. Teachers' self-efficacy beliefs have been shown to …
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Attitudes, opinions, and beliefs of musicians serving Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) congregations within the United States regarding continuing education in music and worship arts
… gathered data from participants regarding their personal information, details about their congregation, about their responsibilities with their congregations, their personal belief statements about their position with their congregation and their interest in and/or barriers to receiving further …
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The Development of Culturally Responsive Literacy Practices in the Classrooms of Three Teachers
… twelve-week qualitative study examined teacher beliefs pertaining to their own culture and that of their students, and whether or not those beliefs would change once teachers had undergone professional development regarding culturally responsive instruction. This study also analyzed the extent …
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An Exploratory Comparative Study of Students' Thinking in Arts Classrooms
… also had a positive effect on students' self-beliefs regarding their intelligence and understanding in the context of visual art.</p> <p>This study suggests that infusion of best practice research toward the development of balanced thinking and overall cognitive development in the arts is …
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Fair or Unfair? Chinese Undergraduates’ Perceptions of College Classroom Assessments
… to college classroom settings in relation to personal justice beliefs and fairness dimensions at a private university in China. Organizational justice theory offered the theoretical framework for identifying major factors influencing students’ general fairness perceptions and their emotional …
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Investigating How Participation In a Techonology-Based Project Has Influenced Education Faculty Members' Beliefs and Practices with Technology Integration: Factors That Influence Faculty Technology Integration and Implications for Faculty's Integration of Technology
… technology-based project. Their practices, beliefs, and factors that influence their beliefs and practices with technology integration are the focus of this study. Based on the literature and the research studies, the following questions were formulated in the following: 1. How has …
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Influencing infection control practice: Assessing the impact of a supportive intervention for nurses
… knowledge and skills in infection control, their personal belief systems and self-preservation instincts. In addition, the recommendation to use Contact Precautions for patients with infectious conditions such as CDAD and MRSA may itself counteract attempts to promote the routine use of infection …
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Authentic Identity: A Visual Grounded Theory of Construction and Sustainability of Professional Identity in Adult Nursing
… economic, and philosophical ramifications to personal and professional agency is the focus of this thesis. Professional socialisation within adult nursing is recognised as problematic, with dissonance arising from numerous factors, including that of being an unrecognised discipline (Cummings, …
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Discontinuance from the Ministry by Seventh-day Adventist Ministers : a Qualitative Study
… were family life, the work environment, and the personal belief system of the minister. The survey also invited the former Seventh-day Adventist ministers to write about their experience working for the denomination. Fifty-four chose to do so. In addition, the ministers were asked to indicate …
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The socialization of African American women as faculty members in religiously-affiliated universities
… value and on the African American woman’s personal belief in social-justice activism. These faculty members can be carriers of the social-justice mission, satisfied, productive, and welcoming of the challenge to move the mission forward. That said, Jesuit institutions can become diversity …
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A Study of the Condition of "Good Work" in Educational Leadership in Iowa
… effective communication, integrated personal belief systems, and personal efficacy. Efforts to do good work are challege by resource limitations, political mandates and accountability systems, systemic and societal changes, and subtle shift to a market based educational system, and …
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