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Showing 1 to 20 of 204 for “"prior experience"”.
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Neural Encoding of Prior Experience in Sensorimotor Behavior
… environment to optimize behavior based on past experiences. The main challenge in evaluating this hypothesis is to reconcile conceptual views that have historically been developed at different scales. At the behavioral scale, the effect of statistical regularities is often described by the …
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Evaluating the Role of Prior Experience in Inclusive Design
This thesis investigates the role of prior experience of products and its affect upon interaction. It has been shown within this work that technological experience of products is related to age, and that this has implications for the success of subsequent interaction. This research adds weight to a …
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Cyberbullying: Exploration Of Impact Of Loneliness And Prior Experience On Psychological Distress
… students. It was also hypothesized that prior history of traditional bullying involvement in childhood would moderate the impact of loneliness as a mediator of the relationship between cyberbullying and loneliness. University of Mississippi students (n = 372), primarily females of …
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Effects of appeal of immediate prior experience upon performance on a psycho-educational test battery
The purpose of the study was to determine if preference level of a class from which a student was removed would affect performance on an abbreviated psycho-educational test battery. It also examined the effect of a student's cognitive style on performance on the test battery.Subjects were 76 …
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The Relationship Between Prior Experience and Attitude Toward Energy medicine in Nursing Students and Faculty
… toward energy medicine, unless they have experience with it, they feel inadequate to recommend it to clients or judge the effects it may have on them.</p> <p><strong>Method</strong>: This descriptive, quantitative study was based on surveys distributed to senior nursing students in class …
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The Customer's Path to Loyalty: A Partial Test of the Relationships of Prior Experience, Justice, and Customer Satisfaction
… insufficient information about how the justice experienced in a service encounter affects a customer's satisfaction level. Proactive and reactive service recovery research abounds; service failures have overshadowed service success. This is the first empirical research to investigate across …
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How Do Specialist Expertise, Auditor-Specialist Communication, And Time Pressure Affect Auditors’ Use Of Specialists’ Valuations?
… expertise (or the degree to which their prior experience matches the current task), the opportunity for auditor-specialist pairs to communicate, and the level of time pressure affect the extent to which auditors rely on specialists’ estimates. To investigate the research question, I …
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What is Canadian experience, eh? A financial industry perspective
… research identifies the dimensions of Canadian experience from the perspective of recruiters in the financial industry. Lack of Canadian experience is a systemic barrier to successful economic adaptation of new immigrants to Canada. Using modified grounded theory, semistructured interviews were …
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Analyzing student learning trajectories in an introductory programming MOOC
… distinct behaviors which may correlate with prior experience level. We build models to correlate these trajectories with student characteristics and behaviors of interest, specifically prior experience level and video engagement. Generative modeling allows us to probe the space of submitted …
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Attitudes and Intentions of Social Work and Law Students toward Each Other and Practice Together: A Quantitative Study
… value of social workers, or based on prior experience; and (3) for both groups, there is a significant association between area of study and intentions to practice, with social work students more likely than law students to report future collaborative intent; there is no significant …
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Organizational politics and multisource feedbacklh[electronic resource]
… by peer feedback, and (e) individuals with prior experience with MSFS reported more positive attitudes toward MSFS than did individuals without prior experience with these systems. Contributions, limitations, and potential avenues for future research are discussed.
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Effect of risk perception on travel intention to conflict-ridden destinations
… characteristics, destination image, and prior experience influences the travel intention in conflict-ridden destinations. The main results of the current study confirmed the assumed relationships between perceived risk, individual characteristics (novelty-seeking behaviour), destination …
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Understanding the doer effect for computational subjects with MOOCs
… to a variety of students, predicting student experience levels can benefit instructors. To address these problems, we used data from massive open online courses (MOOCs) to understand how different student activities are correlated with positive learning outcomes. We also considered the doer …
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An investigation of environmental education instructors: motivations, autonomy, experience, and their influences on student outcomes
… and the links between instructor autonomy, prior experience, and program outcomes. I used a multi-methods approach to investigate these themes and have organized the results between two chapters that are manuscripts intended as separate journal publications. Chapter 2 presents a qualitative …
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Case Studies of Turkish Children's Literacy and Oral Language Development in English as a Second Language
… a poor reader and writer in both languages. Prior experience with metalinguistic tasks in Turkish seemed to provide Zehra with the skills necessary for initial literacy acquisition in both languages.
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An Evaluation of Patient Acceptance and Satisfaction of Diabetes Video Conferencing Consultations and Recall of Information
… of the diabetes specialist nurse, equitable experience to F2F), communication (lack of empathy, lack of non-verbal communication, system characteristics) and experience (lack of experience and previous successful experiences). All patients intended to use the VC service again, implying …
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Troublesome or Threshold? : the experience of difficult concepts in prosthetics
This thesis explores what is experienced as difficult, and potentially threshold, concepts in prosthetics. Prosthetics and orthotics education is an under-researched area and this research assists in filling this gap. Consideration is given to the reasons why students have difficulties in learning …
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Factors Influencing The Accuracy Of Task Completion Time Estimates
… whereas the other factor was the person’s prior experience of the task. There was evidence that having prior experience of performing all or a substantial part of the same task enabled participants to more accurately estimate its duration. Additionally, predictions were more accurate when …
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Pedagogical implications and students' perceptions of genre method in an IELTS writing course
… to a variety of factors, such as students’ prior experience in IELTS preparation course. This study also proposed some future research directions such as the integration of IELTS preparation into the ESL courses.
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