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Showing 1 to 20 of 195 for “"research instrument"”.
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‘Experimenting with the Globe’: the reconstructed Bankside Theatre as a research instrument in research through practice in performance (PaR), movement pattern analysis (MPA) and Shakespeare studies
The starting point for this research undertaking was my observation that the New Globe can be seen to represent rather more than a reconstructed Shakespearean theatre space. The thesis sets out to make the apparently controversial case for the New Globe as a research “mechanism”, meant, according …
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Participative decision making (PDM) at South African universities
… decision making (POM) steps. To this end a research instrument called a questionnaire, was designed and used to achieve these aims. Moreover, this research instrument, after construction by the researcher, was validated by means of factor analysis (FA). The research instrument was first …
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Nurses in transition: Nurses' use of continuing education in preparing for work in developing countries
… the conference, 63 accepted and completed the research instrument.
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Development of performance models for co-operative information systems in an organisational context
… users in an emergent fashion to perform tasks. A research instrument is developed using a survey questionnaire to elicit users judgements of the extent to which a CIS is employed to fulfil a range of co-operative tasks. This research instrument is applied to a longitudinal study of Novell …
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Academic Persistence and Attrition Among Freshman Traditional and Non-Traditional Students at a Public Midwestern Commuter University
<p><em>Problem.</em> This research examined student background characteristics, student social and institutional integrations, and their relation to attrition rates of freshman students at a public Midwestern commuter university.</p> <p><em>Method.</em> A quantitative research methodology based on …
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Family relationships, interpersonal relations, coping strategies, and stressful behavioral response patterns of anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa individuals
… patients, and 19 non-clinical individuals. The research instrument was designed to measure transgenerational family processes, interpersonal relations orientations, coping strategies, and stressful behavioral response patterns of anorexics and bulimics. Separate multivariate analysis of variance …
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Teaching of social science learning area in the context of curriculum change in senior phase of General Education and Training Band (GET) in schools under Empangeni education circuit
… of some schools in the circuit. The first research instrument was administered to Senior Phase educators to solicit their experiences of teaching learning areas since the implementation of NCS introduced the interdisciplinary approach to teaching and learning in schools. The second research …
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An assessment for religious contexts: An ecological assessment tool for church environments
The Assessment of Religious Contexts (ARC) is a research instrument that seeks to measure the environment of a local church. The development of the ARC and initial studies of its reliability and validity comprise the present thesis. At the outset, the relevance and importance of the study are …
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The human papillomavirus and cancer: a multiphase study investigating preventative behaviours in young males
… generate items to include in a newly developed research instrument. Post pilot the research instrument was utilised in a cross sectional online survey to explore the attitudes, beliefs, and behavioural intention of young men (n= 359) with regard to receiving the HPV vaccine, and using a condom …
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An analysis of the educational needs of end user and information systems personnel as perceived by each other
… by means of the analytical survey method. The research instrument used was an adapted version of an instrument previously validated and used by Nelson (1991). The research instrument was completed by 168 employees within ten different organizations. The findings suggest that within six …
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The prevalence and sources of perceived occupational stress among teachers in Western Australian government metropolitan primary schools
… of this study. First, the study develops an instrument which measures the perceived levels of occupational stress and reveals the sources of such stress. Second, the study applies this instrument to determine the perceived levels, and sources, of occupational stress among primary school …
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Serviço de arquivo médico e estatística do Hospital Estadual de Emergência e Trauma Senador Humberto Lucena na perspectiva dos seus usuários
… Lucena. It is characterized as descriptive research with quantitative and qualitative approach. For data collection, the research instrument used was the questionnaire with objective and subjective variables, prepared with Likert rating scale, containing five alternatives ranging from …
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Meaning(s) in “Sustainable Tourism”: A Social Semiotic Approach
… sector, the Tourism industry, Universities and research centres, the Third sector and Environmental and tourism consultancies, have been analysed for the purpose of this study. The findings of the thesis add value to both theory and practice. The theoretical contribution is twofold. …
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Ecuadorian Children: an Investigation Into the Effects Frequenting the Street Has on the Children of Cuenca, Ecuador.
… saw themselves contributing to their future. The research instrument used in this study was a modified youth questionnaire previously developed by Tyler and Tyler (1991) in a study with street children/youth in Bogóta, Colombia. The results are presented in 11 case studies of children who ranged …
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The correlation between church leaders' understanding of the issue of child sexual abuse and preventive steps taken within their churches
The research examined the relationship between knowledge of faith-based church leaders regarding the facts of child sexual abuse and the practice of child sexual abuse prevention steps utilized within the church. It examined the historical, theological, biblical, and ethical concerns about child …
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As representações sociais dos usuários da Biblioteca Setorial do CCEN sobre o profissional Bibliotecário
… librarian and university library. About the research instrument used, the questionnaire was chosen, which was used to obtain data. The survey reveals the current image of the professional librarian in the face of numerous changes in our social environment, when it came to be called the …
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Predictors of bulimia among university women
… of 771 undergraduate women at Virginia Tech. The research instrument was designed to accurately estimate the frequency of bulimia among university women. Bulimia was operationalized in specific behavioral terms that extend the DSM-III definition. The response rate for the mail survey was 87%, with …
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Death Anxiety and Clinical Experience in Generic Baccalaureate Nursing Students
… nursing in the upper midwest was utilized. The research instrument consisted of demographic data, a 7 point Likert like version of Templer's Death Anxiety Scale, and two 7 point Likert-like questions relating to clinical experience anxiety. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics. …
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An exposé of the current state of CRM in the hotel industry
… As this thesis intends to be an example of basic research as well as applied research, the topic of CRM has been examined on both the conceptual level and at the practical level. While the secondary research gives a solid theoretical grounding, the primary research explores the reality of CRM in …
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Association of Open Communication, Perceived Trust, and Relational Satisfaction Among Married Couples
… to 24 volunteers. Based on the results, the research instrument was further refined and then distributed to 59 volunteers, married at least 10 years to the same person. In order to insure a homogeneous sample with respect to certain demographic variables, volunteers from Southwest Missouri …
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