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Showing 1 to 20 of 47 for “"self-direction"”.
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Parental Involvement in the Lives of College Students: Impact on Student Independence, Self-Direction, and Critical Thinking
… on the development of independence, self-direction, and critical thinking. This study also attempts to understand the viewpoint of the parent specifically, and how the parent communicates with their son or daughter to achieve specific developmental outcomes.</p><p>In this study, I …
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Culture and the Perceived Reparability of Shame: The Role of Self-Construals
… (i.e., repairing the culturally-congruent self); especially when that aspect of self is shamed. Four studies test this hypothesis by randomly assigning individuals to experience (Study 1) or recall (Study 2 through 4) a shameful situation that targeted the independent or interdependent …
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Facilitating Healthy Parenting Attitudes Among Adolescents Using Filial Therapy in a High School Curriculum
… (3) increasing the ability to allow children self-direction, and (4) increasing the level of involvement with children. Additionally, this study was designed to determine the effectiveness of filial therapy in facilitating healthy parenting attitudes of nonparenting adolescents. A research …
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Self-Directed Learning and Persistence in Online Asynchronous Undergraduate Programs
… offered support services. The characteristic of self-direction is an important concept in understanding student readiness for online education. The purpose of this study was to analyze the difference in self-direction, as measured by the Oddi Continuing Learning Inventory (OCLI), between students …
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Self-directed learning among Thai nurses in clinical practice
… research was to explain the process of nurses’ self-directed learning in clinical practice according to their self-perceptions. The researcher applied a phenomenological research approach as it enabled the researcher to discover and understand the direct daily experiences of nurses as they …
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The development and pilot testing of a Cholesterol Saturated Fat Index (CSI) scorecard for dietary self-monitoring
… of treatment for hypercholesterolemia. Self-monitoring is a strategy used to achieve self-direction in adopting and maintaining a cholesterol-lowering dietary pattern. The Cholesterol Saturated Fat Index (CSI) illustrates the atherogenic potential of food. Given that saturated fat and …
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An exploration of learner autonomy in an international university in Japan
… of identity construction), which amounts to self-definition through self-direction on the basis of authentic values arrived at through self-reading; in relation to the affordances and constraints inherent to the embodied, sociohistorical and emplaced self. This universal construct is …
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Filial Therapy with Teachers of Deaf and Hard of Hearing Preschool Children
… of acceptance to their students; 3) allowance of self-direction by their students. A second purpose was to determine the effectiveness of Filial Therapy training in reducing experimental group students': 1) overall behavior problems; 2) internalizing behaviors; and 3) externalizing behavior …
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Integrating new values into Mongolian public management
… public sector employees transcending their selfish interests, emphasize the well-being of others, protection of order, harmony in relations, life safety and stability. Then self-direction values with emphases on independent thought and action, and creativity are important for them. This …
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Value education of youth
… In den religiösen Schulen waren Benevolence und Self-Direction die meist geschätzten Werte, während Power die niedrigste Priorität besaß. Die Veränderung der Werte Conformity, Hedonism und Universalism ließ sich sowohl durch die Religiosität der Schüler/innen wie auch durch deren …
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A Comparison of Skill Level of Parents Trained in the Landreth Filial Therapy Model and Graduate Students Trained in Play Therapy
… Acceptance to the child and Allowing the Child Self-Direction. Although the graduate students' mean post-training scores revealed a higher attainment of skill level, the parents made greater mean change of score on all measures except Involvement. The study supports the use of the Landreth …
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Personal Value Priorities in Autonomous Vehicle Discourse
… Values Dictionary (PVD). Our results found that self-direction, achievement, power, stimulation, and conformity had an overall positive inclination in AV discourse. However, we also found value conflicts between both data sets, indicating a potential dissonance between professional opinions and …
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Engaging Students in 21st Century Skills through Non-Formal Learning
… skill (flexibility and adaptability, initiative, self-direction and productivity, leadership, responsibility and accountability), and Socio-Cultural skill (communication and collaboration) while students participated in the intentionally designed non-formal learning experience of orienteering. The …
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Understanding Faculty and Non-Traditional Student Perceptions of Self-Directed Learning in a Practical Nursing Program
… nursing faculty and student perspectives of self-directed learning in a practical nursing program. It also explored the degree to which student's perceptions of self-directed learning exhibited factors consistent with that of critical thinking. This study is important because self-directed …
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A qualitative study of team-based self-management in a Southern African organization
… describing, understanding and characterising a Self Directed Work Team's experience in its context. It is found, through a variety of triangulated case study methods, that the selected team's work, and its members' perception of it, have changed significantly from traditional 'foreman …
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A qualitative study of faculty/student perceptions of RN to baccalaureate nursing degree curricula and instructional needs through focus groups and follow-up interviews
… outcomes (professionalism, professional self-esteem, critical thinking); 4) institutional factors (advising and admissions processes, separation from traditional BSN students); 5) teaching methodologies (discussion, sharing, student presentations); 6) adult learning principles …
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Filial Therapy with Israeli Parents
… acceptance to their children; (c) allowance of self-direction by their children; (d) involvement in their children's play activities; (e) feelings of efficacy as parents; and (f) reduction of parental stress. The experimental group consisted of fourteen Israeli children who their parents …
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The Functional Dissection of Motion Processing Pathways in the Human Visual Cortex Using fMRI-Guided TMS
… literature; translational, radial and rotational direction discrimination tasks and identification of the position of a focus of expansion. These results assert that TO-1 and TO-2 are functionally distinct subdivisions of hV5/MT+, as we have shown that both TO-1 and TO-2 are responsible for …
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Effects of Specific Strategy Training on the Written Expression of Learning Disabled Students Grades 3-6
… under the contrasting conditions of teacher direction and self-direction. The standard intervention group served as the control group and did not receive strateqy training. The teacher-directed group was involved in strateqy training and was monitored during strategy use by the teacher. The …
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Filial Therapy Training with Undergraduate Teacher Trainees; Child-Teacher Relationship Training
… in empathy towards children, allowing the child self direction, communication of acceptance, and involvement as measured by the MEACI. Significant ("<.05) increases were also reported on teacher trainees in the experimental group on play therapy attitudes, knowledge, and skills as measured by the …
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