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Showing 1 to 20 of 38 for “"professional backgrounds"”.
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The Personal and Professional Backgrounds of Georgia's Female High School Principals
… of this study was to describe the personal and professional backgrounds of the female public high school principals in Georgia. Both quantitative and qualitative methods were employed to conduct the research. A demographic questionnaire, which included items addressing personal, educational, and …
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Staff Perceptions of Patient Engagement
… and whether staff from a range of mental health professional backgrounds construct it in the same way. Little attention has also been given to what staff feel affects their ability to engage patients within the context of a low secure inpatient unit for people with learning disabilities and …
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A Study of the Academic and Professional Preparation of the Public School Superintendents in the State of Washington
… study were (1) to determine the academic and professional backgrounds of the superintendent and their relative value to his present position, (2) to determine what superintendents would recommend to be included in a course of study for prospective administrators, (3) to establish a value …
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Teachers' overall job satisfaction : factors that contribute to job satisfaction for New Mexico's public elementary school teachers
… delved into the personal experiences and diverse professional backgrounds of educators. It employed Alderfer's ERG Theory as a framework to scrutinize the participants' feedback concerning the three categories of job satisfaction: existence, relatedness, and growth. The primary focus of the study …
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Understanding the experiences of working mothers in financial services toward family supportive practices
… employed mothers from diverse demographic and professional backgrounds were analysed using thematic analysis. The mothers generally experienced the organisation as supportive of their dual work and family commitments. Specifically, flexibility and supportive supervisors were the most important …
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Presidential Fundraising: A Multiple Case Study of Rural Serving Oklahoma Community Colleges
… of other essential roles, characteristics, professional backgrounds, and stressors that have affected college presidents. The study was conducted to explore, understand, and describe the perceptions of community college presidents in rural serving Oklahoma institutions as to their roles and …
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An Evaluation of the Standard Setting Performance of the FASB
… and Board member characteristics, particularly professional backgrounds and political affiliations. To analyze the performance of the Board, I follow the operations management literature to construct a set of variables that capture team effectiveness and managerial performance. A factor analysis …
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Synthetic tutor : profiling students and mass-customizing learning processes dynamically in design scripting education
… teach students with diverse educational and professional backgrounds, some of who may need individualized tutoring. This thesis specifically explores applications of artificial intelligence (machine learning and computer vision algorithms) in which humans and machines mutually improve their …
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Decentralized Finance: Using Visualization to Demonstrate Core Concepts and Research Applications
… conducted with participants from a variety of professional backgrounds and experiences with DeFi. Subsequent analyses were done on participant opinion and sentiment to determine an increase or decrease in conceptual understanding of DeFi. As a key result of this research development and …
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Recovery oriented services : strategies and barriers
… The participants were from a variety of professional backgrounds and worked for a recovery oriented Early Intervention Team. The interviews were analysed using Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis.Results: Participants highlighted the importance of having a strong team culture which …
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An investigation of optimal job characteristics for recruiting and retaining Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) professionals
… In this thesis, the targeted demographics are professionals who hold at least one bachelor's degree in STEM fields or work in STEM fields. By collecting, organizing, and analyzing the survey data set, the research attempts to identify series of workplace autonomy policies and work task …
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Factors influencing the acquisition and development of interpersonal skills among high school principals
… principals were asked about their personal and professional backgrounds. Questions about their professional background included topics such as degrees and majors, positions held in education, and length of time in education and in those positions. Their personal background included questions …
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Do you trust a robot journalist? The perceived credibility of AI generated articles in Germany
… participants of different ages and from diverse professional backgrounds. The assessed credibility was analysed through a qualitative phenomenological approach that incorporates experimental elements. The experimental component refers to the controlled exposure of participants to two distinct …
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Small-scale and Amenity Focused Forestry: Filling a Market Niche
… to be. Informants came from a wide variety of professional backgrounds, including forestry, logging, arboriculture, landscaping, and woodworking. In addition, about 20 public-forest professionals were interviewed to determine how they and their programs are changing in response to emerging …
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Secondary traumatic stress and countertransference in survivor therapists: the role of empathy and differentiation of self
… in a sample of mental health professionals currently treating traumatized clients who have also experienced a personal trauma themselves (i.e., survivor therapists). First, I examined the theoretical link between empathy, conceptualized through both cognitive and affective …
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An exploration of how integrative therapists working with clients presenting with complex trauma use EMDR as part of their practice: a grounded theory study
… clients. EMDR therapists come from a range of professional backgrounds and basic EMDR training provides limited guidance on how to integrate it into a therapist’s existing practice. This research therefore aimed to explore how Counselling Psychologists and Psychotherapists, who define their …
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A qualitative exploration of the impact of stress and workplace adversity on healthcare staff experiences, well-being and resilience
… 11 staff were interviewed from a range of professional backgrounds across two forensic services. A model of staff perceptions of the factors which contribute to well-being and resilience when working in secure forensic services was developed. Staff resources were depleted through: working …
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ARIZONA SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENTS AND READING: BACKGROUNDS, OPINIONS, PRACTICES, AND WORKING CONDITIONS.
This study examines the educational and professional backgrounds, opinions, practices, and working conditions of Arizona school superintendents with respect to their districts' reading programs. The questions investigated for this study were: (1) What are the educational, professional and reading …
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A comparison of jazz studies curricula in master's programs in the United States
… identify elements relating to the academic and professional background of the jazz studies directors, and the collective graduate jazz faculty as a unit.A third goal was to establish a composite sketch of the typical graduate jazz program and curriculum in the United States.Using the process of …
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