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Showing 1 to 20 of 718 for “"survey instrument"”.
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Geotourism in the Crown of the Continent: Developing and Testing the Geotourism Survey Instrument
… Continent: Developing and Testing the Geotourism Survey Instrument (GSI) Co-Chairperson: Norma P. Nickerson Co-Chairperson: Keith Bosak The perceived failures of mass tourism to holistically benefit a destination’s character, has created a global concern for the future of tourism destinations …
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Geotourism in the Crown of the Continent: Developing and Testing the Geotourism Survey Instrument
… Continent: Developing and Testing the Geotourism Survey Instrument (GSI) Co-Chairperson: Norma P. Nickerson Co-Chairperson: Keith Bosak The perceived failures of mass tourism to holistically benefit a destination’s character, has created a global concern for the future of tourism destinations …
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The Development and Validation of a Vocational Interest Survey Instrument With Audio-Visual Format
<p>Problem. Many present day vocational interest surveys rely exclusively on printed reading materials to assess youngsters' vocational interest . The use of printed reading materials alone may not best serve the youngsters who are unable to read or who learn best through a different kind of …
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What informs a firm’s Attractiveness as an Alliance Partner? The development of a survey instrument.
Strategic alliances are defined as inter-organisational collaborative arrangements whose purpose is to achieve the strategic targets of partners (Das and Teng, 1998). Within the pharmaceutical industry, they represent a key form of disintegration that enables organisations to create a network based …
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Development and validation of a novel survey instrument regarding stress in doctoral engineering students’ workplaces
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2025-08-01
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Measuring and characterising the functional business financial literacy of entrepreneurs: a framework and survey instrument
… competencies framework is used to develop a survey instrument. This research aims to focus the instrument creation on microbusiness entrepreneurs to address their business financial knowledge and their behaviour and attitudes. Rigour in the formulation of the instrument is ensured through an …
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An exploratory study of college students' attitudes toward dietary protein: Development of a dietary protein assessment survey instrument
… of this exploratory study was to develop a survey to estimate college students’ attitudes towards dietary protein. The dimensionality of the attitude constructs in the Dietary Protein Assessment Survey (DPAS) instrument was explored in this study. The survey consisted of 64 questions, …
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An Exploration of Assessing, Affecting, and Analyzing Attitudes and Attitude Change through the Use of a Multimedia Survey Instrument
This study explores the use of a multimedia survey instrument which includes an integrated treatment in the context of a one semester human sexuality course. The instrument was created to assess and affect student attitudes and to improve data collection and analysis options. A literature review on …
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Crowdsourcing corporate water data : a validity test of a pilot survey instrument to map public water management related risk worldwide
… began an initial pilot study in 2017 with a survey of six multinational companies and 41 of their industrial processing and manufacturing facilities in 14 countries. These corporations were selected because they operate facilities globally, pursue extensive internal environmental …
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Assessing Reliability of Expert Ratings Among Judges Responding to a Survey Instrument Developed to Study the Long Term Efficacy of the ABET Engineering Criteria, EC2000
… for rater-dependent data analysis. A survey instrument cannot provide “good” information if it is not reliable; in other words, reliability is central to the validation of an instrument. When judges cannot be shown to reliably rate a performance, item, or target, the question becomes …
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Child Friendliness of Restaurants: A Pilot Study
The objective of this study was to develop an instrument to measure the child friendliness of restaurants using a combination of previous literature and focus groups. The pilot study consisted of a thirty-six item survey instrument that was distributed to forty individuals. Among the forty …
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Texas Public School Principals' Application of Procedures in Identification and Prevention of Sexual Harassment
The procedural survey on sexual harassment procedures sent to 300 Texas principals had a response rate of 48.3 %. The mean score on the procedural survey for all 300 principals was 69.30 %. Eighteen research questions were addressed in detail in Chapter 4. Only five showed a significant correlation …
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Elementary school principals' attitudes and training as they relate to their least restrictive environment (LRE) practices toward self-contained learning disabled and/or emotionally impaired students
… schools. A review of literature indicated no instruments emphasizing elementary school principals' attitudes, training, and current LRE practices. A survey instrument was developed that was sensitive to the above variables. The sample which responded to the survey instrument included 46 …
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Examining the Relationship Between Family Leisure and Physical Activity in Seventh and Eighth Grade Students
… school (N=526). Data were collected through a survey instrument sent home with students via their homeroom teacher. The instrument was accompanied by: (a) minor assent form, (b) parental informed consent form, and (c) survey instrument for the parent respondents including relevant demographic …
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Surveying the future: an innovative tool for expressing stakeholder vision as demonstrated in Lawrence Township public schools
<p>The purpose of this study is to create a survey instrument that will allow all stakeholders in a school district to share their thoughts, opinions, and attitudes regarding their vision for the future. The results of this survey will be used to create a vision statement to clarify goals, …
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Development and Validation of Supervisory and Organizational Support Measures
… support from supervisors and organizations. No instrument was found to evaluate the impact of supervisory support and the use of organizational and professional strategies. The Supervisory and Organizational Support (SOS) survey instrument was created in response to the need for reliable and …
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Teacher Perceptions of School Climate in Selected Georgia Elementary Schools
… the paper was gathered by using a 19 question survey instrument. With 16 quantitative questions using a scale of strongly agree, agree, disagree, to strongly disagree. The respondents' answers were shown in frequency distributions and percentage tables for each school. Three qualitative …
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Sustainable Safari Practices: Proximity to Wildlife, Educational Intervention and the Quality of Experience
… in previous research, we develop and deliver a survey instrument designed to measure the perceived quality of experience of the safari tourist while controlling for the viewing proximity variable. The survey instrument involves responding to stock photos selected to represent the safari-tour …
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