A self-report questionnaire on academic achievement, birth order, and family structure; the Student Adaptation to College Questionnaire; the Parental Authority Questionnaire; and the Coping Humor Scale were administered to 257 first-year college students. Researchers examined the relationships among (a) authoritative parenting style, ...

on the learning style of the learners. In this system, several styles of instruction are provided to learners of instructional design theories with the learning styles theory is adopted, in an attempt to propose an adaptation material pages, in the Content Area, differentiates depending on the learning ...

This study investigates the managerial career development of two Arab women, pioneer principals within the Arab education system in Israel. Using in-depth interviews relating to the characteristics of the different stages leading up to and within their careers as school principals (childhood and academic studies; the struggle to achieve the position; and the period in their ...

Describes investigation examining relationships between stepparenting styles (model of parenting styles adapted for stepparents, including Authoritarian, Authoritative, Supportive, and Disengaged) and adolescent adjustment. Suggests Disengaged style was associated with lowest and Supportive ...

This study attempted to establish the relationship of cognitive aptitudes and styles to measures of general and more subtle academic achievement. It was expected that the associations of aptitudes and styles to general measures of achievement would conver...

With the large numbers of African American children who are not successful in school, more attention needs to be devoted to developing methods and processes by which they can effectively learn, achieve, and be empowered. The performance statistics for African American students in public schools are alarming. Their suspension rates are high, and 20 percent of them are likely to drop out of school ...

The amount, range, and quality of information available to students and other academic users have increased enormously in recent years. Consequently, it is possible for individuals to either suffer from information overload or to get lost in cyberspace while trying to locate relevant information. This paper looks at the relevance of cognitive styles and ...

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The purpose of this study was to assess the mediating effect of self-efficacy on the relationship between identity styles and academic achievement. Four-hundred high school students (200 male, 200 female) who were selected through cluster random sampling, completed the Revised Identity Styles Inventory (ISI, 6G) and Morgan-Jink Student ...

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Detecting Learners' Profiles based on the Index of Learning Styles Data* Silvia Rita Violaa based on learning styles is considered by several adaptive systems, aiming at providing content that matches with the learning styles of students in order to make learning easier for them. However

Abstract. In this paper we build on research reported in the areas of Adaptive Educational Hypermedia and learning styles in order to deal with critical issues influencing the design of adaptation based on the learning style information. In more detail we concentrate on: (i) the different learning ...

There are many factors that influence the academic success and motivation of students. Social cognitive theory contends that individuals learn and perform based upon a triadic reciprocality of personal factors, behavior, and the environment. Personal factors such as beliefs, behaviors, and the environment equally influence one another. Existing literature suggests that ...

of Style): medicine, health, and biological sciences. Chicago/ Turabian: mainly for history papers/Works Cited). WHAT FORMAT SHOULD I USE? Academic papers must be written in a particular style. Ask your techniques used by academic writers to include information from outside sources in their papers. Outside

Examines relationships among Ohio superintendents' leadership styles, style adaptability, and certain district characteristics identified as change oriented. Survey data from 611 superintendents showed that only district expenditure per student was significantly and positively related to leadership-style ...

The purpose of this research and development endeavor was to design and implement an adaptive intelligent interface for a command-and-control-style domain. The primary functionality of the resulting interface was to be able to adapt its presentation of in...

... the components of an individual's psychological type and cognitive style, as measured by the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), and preferences ...

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When children learn science in school, they are learning both new ways of thinking about the world and new ways of using language to make meaning. This essay examines some characteristic ways in which academic styles of language are used in the sciences and some ways in which these contrast with conversational styles of language that ...

... The Style Guide addresses three areas of style: (1) application/user interactions of dialogues; (2) conventions for developing applications; and (3 ...

The academic style (conduct) of academic circles has become a hot topic in the media. This article presents an interview conducted by "China Newsweek" with Vice Director Yuan Zhenguo of the Ministry of Education, Social Sciences Department. In this interview, Zhenguo talks about the Ministry of Education's plan to set up such ...

The authors attempted to examine how Taiwanese junior high school students' perfectionistic tendencies and implicit theories of intelligence were related to their academic emotions and approach versus avoidance self-regulation, and to determine differences in contingent self-worth, emotions, and self-regulation among students with different subtypes of perfectionism. A total ...

This paper investigates the relationship between learning style, as determined by Kolb's Learning Style Inventory, age and one measure of academic performance in design assignments for two cohorts of first- and third-year architecture students. The paper focuses on the results of a cross-curriculum learning style ...

This study evaluated the effectiveness of a military-style residential treatment program for adolescents with academic and conduct problems. Two hundred twelve referred adolescents were separated into 3 groups for analyses: (a) adolescents who completed the 22-week program, (b) adolescents who prematurely withdrew, and (c) wait-list controls. Adolescents' ...

Style Adaptive Bayesian Tracking Using Explicit Manifold Learning Chan-Su Lee and Ahmed Elgammal learned from the training data. The tracking of the high dimensional style vector st itself will be hard: Tracking for new subjects can be hard as we used small number of people for learning style

The dominant leadership style is defined by the situation and the kind of organizational environment and climate. This, however, does not sufficiently define the leadership qualities in school organizations. There are other factors which also determine the dominant leadership style, which are the traits and style, teachers commitments, ...

of the second class adopt categorizations of learning styles that belong to the `cognitive personality elements performance compared to randomly constituted groups. #12;Moreover, different learning style categorizations may on the effectiveness and/or efficiency of adaptation, which are measured through learners' performance, learning ...

Does gender style adaptation detract from attributes increasingly required for successful leadership in future operations. Specifically, do women occupying leadership positions (military and civilian) adapt, exhibiting traditionally male leadership styles...

An experimental study investigated the influence of informational dependence on information appropriation as a function of epistemic authority's styles. In a 2x2 design, university students were informed that acknowledging epistemic dependence was related either to academic success or to academic failure, and were exposed to ...

Detecting the needs of learners is a challenging but essential task to be able to provide adaptivity. In this paper we present a tool that enables learning management systems (LMS) to detect learning styles based on the behavior of learners during an online course. By calculating the learning styles and filling the student model of LMS ...

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Differences and tensions between the Baby Boom generation (born 1945-1962) and Generation X (born 1963-1981) have profound implications for the future of academic medicine. By and large, department heads and senior faculty are Boomers; today's residents and junior faculty are Generation X'ers. Looking at these issues in terms of the generations involved offers insights into a ...

This study was conducted to determine if the dissimilarity of cognitive style between the instructor and the student was related to student engagement in nine undergraduate classes. Kirton's Adaption-Innovation Inventory was used to measure cognitive style as a preference to a method of solving problems: either more ...

Parenting styles have consistently been shown to relate to various outcomes such as youth psychopathology, behavior problems, and academic performance. Building on the research in the parenting style literature, along with examining components of self-determination theory, the present study examined the relations among authoritative ...

Ideally, a physics class would improve both students' academic abilities and their attitudes towards physics. This study was designed both to investigate any correlation between academic ability and epistemology, and to examine the effects of teaching style on academic and epistemological growth. Over four hundred ...

The Group Embedded Figures Test and the Spatial Visualization Test were administered to 95 industrial technology and vocational college students. Significant differences appeared between the cognitive styles of Asian and Hispanic students and those of whites. The significant relationship between cognitive style and academic achievement ...

One of the main concerns when providing learning style adaptation in Adaptive Educational Hypermedia Systems is the number of questions the students have to answer. Most of the times, adaptive material available will discriminate among a few categories for each learning style dimension. ...

Cristina Gacek is a lecturer at the School of Computing Science at the Newcastle University, where she is part of the dependability group. Her previous academic research experience was working as a researcher in her current organization, as a graduate res...

Low levels of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), posttraumatic stress symptoms (PTSS), and psychosocial distress have been reported in pediatric cancer survivors. One explanation is the relatively high prevalence of the repressive adaptive style (low distress, high restraint) in this population. We investigated the relationship between this ...

Attributional style is hypothesized to be a causative factor in depression vulnerability; however, no studies to date have examined whether manipulation of attributional style influences depressed mood. The purpose of this study was to determine whether computer-based cognitive bias modification (CBM) procedures could modify attributional ...

The authors describe the development and validation of the Cognitive Style Indicator (CoSI) using 3 diverse samples (N = 5,924; N = 1,580; and N = 635). Reliability, item, and factor analyses demonstrated the internal consistency and homogeneity of 3 cognitive styles: knowing, planning, and creating. The authors also found substantial support for the ...

Personalized instruction is seen as a desideratum of today's e-learning systems. The focus of this paper is on those platforms that use learning styles as personalization criterion called learning style-based adaptive educational systems. The paper presents an innovative approach based on an integrative set of learning preferences that ...

Repressive adaptation has been conceptualized as one pathway to psychological resilience in children with cancer, but the physiological costs of maintaining a repressive adaptive style are currently unknown. The goal of this study was to examine physiological functioning as a function of adaptive ...

Using songs in a language class takes advantage of the natural connection between students and music. This article describes a project that develops writing and speaking through song, using technology to help build students' knowledge of U.S. culture as well as their ability to communicate using descriptive, narrative, and expository rhetorical styles. The project consists of ...

"Discrete Mathematics for Computer Science is the perfect text to combine the fields of mathematics and computer science. Written by leading academics in these fields, the text introduces your students to all of the mathematics they need to know, with the exception of linear algebra, to succeed in computer science. The book explores basic combinatorics, number and graph ...

This research examines 480 current event-explanation units using the CAVE technique (Schulman, Castellon, & Seligman, 1989) to note the relationship between positive and negative explanatory style and achievement of prospective early childhood and upper elementary female teachers. This study found a significant positive relationship between explanatory ...

Abstract. We present Adaptive Bayes, an adaptive incremental version of Na�ve Bayes, to model a prediction task based on learning styles in the context of an Adaptive Hypermedia Educational System. Since the student�s preferences can change over time, this task is related with a problem known as concept drift ...

The major purpose of this monograph is to provide counselors in elementary and secondary schools with information on learning style to enable them to diagnose the learning style of each student, utilize counseling interventions that complement individual learning style preferences and consult with teachers and parents regarding the ...

This presentation from the EB 2009 Trainee Symposium provides information on how to establish a leadership style and also provides guidelines for effective communication and case studies.

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A challenge of student modeling in adaptive virtual learning environments is to get enough information about the learner. Information about the learner such as the domain competence, the learning style or the cognitive traits of a learner is very important for an adaptive environment to achieve its main aim, namely to ...

Learning styles, as well as the best ways of responding with corresponding instructional strategies, have been intensively studied in the classical educational (classroom) setting. There is much less research of application of learning styles in the new educational space, created by the Web. Moreover, authoring applications are scarce, and they do not ...

Faculty in academic and service settings are searching for mechanisms for improving effectiveness and efficiency of teaching students with diverse learning styles. This article describes the Dunn, Dunn, and Price Productivity Environmental Preference Survey (PEPS), a computerized learning style inventory, that provides both individual ...

The Use of Learning Objects and Learning Styles in a Multi-Agent Education System Shanghua Sun upon a learning style theory as the foundation for its adaptivity. In this paper, we describe the pedagogical use of the learning objects and learning styles. We present a novel approach to the incorporation

a Web- based instructional system must also include information about student learning style and media instruction, learning styles, media preferences This paper is based on work begun with Fuyau Lin and Sherry must also include information about: Learning Styles #12;Dunn, et al. [2] describe learning style

of plagiarism and how to properly attribute sources using the Chicago Manual of Style. The LBJ School of Public of Style (notes and bibliography system). Key (adapted from the Chicago Manual of Style, 16th edition) P: MLA parenthetical citation B: Bibliography entry N: Chicago documentation ...

the author may specify a "VERBvsIM" attribute of the concept "personal" to indicate this cognitive style]. The effect of the "mobile behavior" of FD/FI cognitive style is described in [22]. One of the ideas in AHA that knowledge about the users cognitive styles may significantly influence users performance in an educational

's Index of Learning Styles questionnaire to determine the student's learning style. This is matched rather than later. In the second phase, learning styles come into play. Again, we find many competing or supplementary learning style models, focussing on three aspects: the learning environment, the structure

This research addresses significant relationships between the components of an individual's psychological type and cognitive style, as measured by the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), and preferences within the academic environment, as indicated on the...

Measuring the effect of providing educational experiences individualized to the learning style of the students is an open research issue. This paper aims at presenting a case study of a dedicated adaptive educational system called WELSA. First, the adaptation logic, methods and techniques employed in WELSA are briefly presented. Next, ...

Title of program: REDUCED TENSOR MATRIX ELEMENTS 2 Catalogue number: AAKP Program obtainable from: CPC Program Library, Queen's University of Belfast N. Ireland (see application form in this issue) Computer: Installation: IBM 360/75 University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ont. Canada Operating system: OS/360 HASP II Programming languages used: FORTRAN IV High speed store required: 102 K bytes No. of ...

Through the administration of self-report surveys, this study examined the relationships among a) parenting styles, b) family structure, c) academic achievement, d) birth order, e) gender, and f) humor on the initial personal-emotional, social, academic, and commitment to college adjustment among 257 first-quarter college freshmen. ...

This study explored relations between religiosity, both parent and student, and maternal parenting style and student academic self-regulation, academic achievement, and risk behavior among African-American youth attending a parochial college. Eighty-five students completed self-report survey measures of religiosity, self-regulation, ...

Teaching styles can be considered from two approaches--the life style approach and the spectrum approach. The first is a relatively static approach borrowed from management research and organizational development. It identifies teaching styles based on Maslow's (1970) hierarchy of human needs. Teaching styles are ...

This paper reports on the main findings of a longitudinal study of the learning styles of one cohort of undergraduate pre-registration nursing students at an Irish university. The Honey and Mumford (2000a) Learning Styles Questionnaire was administered to a sample of students in their first (n=202) and final year of study (n=166), the final sample number ...

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Timid, shy, quiet. 8. Argumentative, confronting. Adaptable, flexible. Nonchalant, casually indifferent. Lighthearted, carefree. 20. Sociable, enjoys company of ...

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The research investigated the contributions of three cognitive styles (Type A, Cognitive Complexity and the General Incongruity Adaptation Level - GIAL) on risk taking in a visual motor task. The research was further concerned with uncovering possible rel...

This paper comprises results concluding the research activity done so far regarding enhanced web services and system integration. The objective of the paper is to define the software architecture for a coherent framework and methodology for enhancing existing web services into an integrated system. This document presents the research work that has been done so far in this aspect by applying the ...

Baumrind (1971) developed one of the two major traditions of Parental Acceptance/ Rejection Theory, in which she categorizes parenting styles into authoritarian, authoritative, and permissive categories. Research indicates that culture, ethnicity and socioeconomic status influence a family�s tendency toward a particular parenting style. This study ...

The purpose of this study is to examine if attachment styles predict emotional intelligence (intrapersonal, interpersonal, adaptability, stress management, and general mood). Participants of the study consisted of 463 (272 females, 191 males) undergraduate students selected randomly from different faculties of Selcuk University. Regression and correlation ...

and the Academic Culture � Teaching and Learning Styles � Other Factors Affecting Student Learning � Resources on Diversity and Teaching and Learning Styles Chapter4-KnowingYourStudents II.CoursePlanning-Management #12;Page and learning styles, regionalism, class, family history, and religion impact the ...

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Recent research on the learning process has shown that students tend to learn in different ways and that they prefer to use different teaching resources as well. Many researchers agree on the fact that learning materials shouldn't just reflect of the teacher's style, but should be designed for all kinds of students and all kind of learning styles. Even ...

The future of the community college system will depend on sound leadership, and its success will rely on how well academic deans effectively direct their units. The study investigated the dean's leadership styles using Bolman and Deal's Leadership Orientation Instrument to discover their primary leadership frame with a focus on how data may be used to ...

The purpose of the present study is to investigate the effects of Brain-based learning (BBL) on the academic achievement of students with different learning styles. The study group consists of students from the department of Social Sciences Teacher Education in the Faculty of Education at Mugla University (N=68). In the study, a pre-test-post-test ...

This paper describes the use of adaptation patterns in the task of formulating standards for adaptive educational hypermedia (AEH) systems that is currently under investigation by the EU ADAPT project. Within this project, design dimensions for high granularity patterns have been established. In this paper we focus on detailing lower ...

This paper describes the use of adaptation patterns in the task of formulating standards for adaptive educational hypermedia (AEH) systems that is currently under investigation by the EU ADAPT project. Within this project, design dimensions for high granularity patterns have been established. In this paper we focus on detailing lower ...

Learning styles are incorporated more and more in e-education, mostly in order to provide adaptivity with respect to the learning styles of students. For identifying learning styles, at the present time questionnaires are widely used. While such questionnaires exist for most learning style ...

The study examined the incremental validity of thinking styles in predicting academic achievement after controlling for personality and achievement motivation in the hypermedia-based learning environment. Seventy-two Chinese college students from Shanghai, the People's Republic of China, took part in this instructional experiment. The End-Of-Semester test ...

This report discusses a study of 31 postsecondary students (20 males and 11 females) with learning disabilities (LD) and/or with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) that examined college achievement and attributional styles. Students completed a combined Academic Attributional Style and Coping with ...

This paper investigates the motivational profiles of students in schools that participate in a professional development program (the CASE project), which has reported remarkable success in raising students' academic achievement. On the basis of new work on the characterization and measurement of motivational orientation, beliefs, and self-view, the question was raised of ...

This study surveyed general education teachers in four private elementary/secondary schools in New Delhi, India, concerning their attitudes toward mainstreaming students with mild to severe disabilities and factors that teachers considered essential for successful mainstreaming. The 98-item survey elicited 32 responses. Results are discussed in terms of the attitudes of the teachers about ...

In this paper we present a general framework, called NUCLEO, for the application of socio-constructive educational approaches in higher education. The underlying pedagogical approach relies on an adaptation model in order to improve group dynamics, as this has been identified as one of the key features in the success of collaborative learning scenarios. Students' learning ...

Studies have shown that, while learning different concepts, people sometimes take different approaches (learning styles). Accordingly, their performance reflected differently in their academic studies. With the effect of globalisation to the educational environments, the influence of individual learning styles on educational ...

The purpose of this study is to find out the demographic characteristics and cognitive styles of student teachers in various subject areas in Turkey. Under this general purpose, the following research questions were used to conduct the study: (1) Does the gender of the student teacher influence cognitive style?; (2) Does the educational level of the ...

Few intelligent learning systems exist which are dynamic and able to provide personalized learning materials to satisfy individual students � requirements. We have developed an agent-based learning system that incorporates learning objects to facilitate personalization, and is based on a learning style theory as the pedagogic foundation for adaptivity. ...

The aim of this study is to adapt the ESPA29 scale of parental socialization styles in adolescence to the Basque language. The study of its psychometric properties is based on the search for evidence of internal and external validity. The first focuses on the assessment of the dimensionality of the scale by means of exploratory factor analysis. The ...

A study at Carleton College (Minnesota) investigated: (1) the attitudes and values of incoming freshmen; (2) the extent of change in student collegiate styles over a period of 10 years; and (3) how students with different styles and orientations used college resources and organizations and pursued their education. The research was based on survey data ...

The curriculum of our medical school has a hybrid structure including both traditional training (lectures) and problem-based learning (PBL) applications. The purpose of this study was to determine the learning styles of our medical students and investigate the relation of learning styles with each of satisfaction with different instruction methods and ...

The curriculum of our medical school has a hybrid structure including both traditional training (lectures) and problem-based learning (PBL) applications. The purpose of this study was to determine the learning styles of our medical students and investigate the relation of learning styles with each of satisfaction with different instruction methods and ...

The curriculum of our medical school has a hybrid structure including both traditional training (lectures) and problem-based learning (PBL) applications. The purpose of this study was to determine the learning styles of our medical students and investigate the relation of learning styles with each of satisfaction with different instruction methods and ...

New Report Reviews Climate Change Impacts and Management Adaptations The recently released was prepared by a team of experts from governmental, academ...

This NASA Life Sciences & You 24 page magazine style guide covers the study of human adaptation to space and how it is helping us to understand aging and ...

grid will be of little value if Americans prove unable to adapt their life styles to electric cars or to the idea that it will be cheaper to wash their clothes at night rather...

... adapting to a broad range of learning styles in the design of the materials and programs. selecting a broad range of components which can be easily ...

... Page 16. 6 styles of leadership, such as transactional versus transformational leadership, we developed our own categorization scheme. ...

... speaker solved one scenario using each system, so that user behavior and satis ... to adapt their speech style (as well as their language) to reduce the ...

Much has been written about leadership in business management, but very little research has been done on leadership in academic departments. Department chairs have the authority to make most departmental decisions, but rarely does formal training exist for this position. Therefore, there is a need to study how the leadership styles among department chairs ...

This article explores current faculty methods with the application and evaluation of the American Psychological Association (APA) style. Specific aims were to determine concerns related to APA style, review faculty grading practices, identify institutional resources, and report potential solutions for improving application of APA ...

In this paper, successful approaches to teaching undergraduate physics and engineering students using strategies developed from two independent learning style models will be described. The first learning style model to be described is the Dunn and Dunn Learning Style Model. The Dunn and Dunn Learning Style Model is ...

In medicine, the challenges faced by female faculty members who are attempting to achieve academic advancement have been well described. Various strategies have been proposed to increase academic productivity to aid the promotion of women in medicine. We propose an innovative collaboration strategy that encourages completion of an ...

In medicine, the challenges faced by female faculty members who are attempting to achieve academic advancement have been well described. Various strategies have been proposed to increase academic productivity to aid the promotion of women in medicine. We propose an innovative collaboration strategy that encourages completion of an ...

Internet supported teacher education programs at the university are increasing, as is the need for qualified teachers in rural areas and inner cities. This study focused on the thinking styles of online learners in a post baccalaureate teacher education program. In order to more effectively meet students individual learning needs, 184 students were asked to take the ...

As universities put increasing pressure on student retention and success, academic advising has become an increasingly visible and important part of the university. One of the first examinations of advising contrasted two major styles: prescriptive and developmental (Crookston, 1972). Prescriptive styles are based on the expertise of ...

propose a new approach to supporting intelligent grouping based on learners' learning styles. Our ap- proach achieves the balance of different levels of learning styles in group composition. We demonstrate improve adaptive collaborative activities [3, 4]. We thus apply learning styles to the grouping process

approach that adapts to individual learning styles without the need for a radical change in the current to be addressed prior to developing any teaching approach. They include the classification of learning styles or situations is therefore necessary. Engineering Student Learning Styles Felder and Silverman [4] ...

A measure of academic parenting practices was developed through parent and teacher interviews and subsequently administered to 91 Hong Kong Chinese fifth graders, who also rated their mothers' restrictiveness and concern, school motivation, and self-perceived academic competence. Children's actual school grades were obtained from school records. The new ...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between the cognitive style and teaching style preferences of instructors enrolled in the Reserve Officer Training Corps instructor course at the Academic Instructor School at Maxwell Air Force base. Sixty-five cases were examined for two research questions: (1) To what ...

Context: Learning theory and pedagogic research are unfamiliar to many educators trained in the sciences. Athletic training educators must learn to appreciate the theoretic and practical value of pedagogic research, including learning styles.Objective: To extend the learning styles research in athletic training by introducing the Mind ...

As the Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management turn toward ecosystem and adaptive models of forest stewardship, they are being called on to develop meaningful and lasting relations with citizens. These new management styles require not only impro...

College and university presidents are the public face of not only their institution but also of higher education in general. Internal and external audiences alike turn to the president for leadership, inspiration, and action. While the gender demographics of student and faculty groups in higher education have become more equal, gender parity at the presidential level is not yet realized. About one ...

The objective of this investigation was to ascertain whether and how the introduction of a new technology (WebCT) influenced faculty teaching styles while facilitating small group problem-based learning (PBL) sessions in a professional veterinary medical (PVM) program. The following questions guided the study: (1) How does the use of technology affect faculty teaching ...

Recently the Packaging Technology and Pressurized Systems (PT&PS) organization at the Savannah River National Laboratory was asked to develop an adapter for performing the leak-rate test of a Chalfant-style containment vessel. The PT&PS organization collaborated with designers at the Department of Energy's Pantex Plant to develop ...

Reduction of ineffective parenting is promoted in parent training components of mental health treatment for children with externalizing behavior disorders, but minimal research has considered whether disciplinary style and lower abuse risk could also be associated with positive functioning in such children. The present study examined whether lower dysfunctional disciplinary ...

in academic writing. How does academic English differ from text-book English? Some students believe, or sometimes for the public at large. The style of English you use will depend on the purpose of the assignment 5584 - 2 - How does the purpose of written academic English differ from that of spoken English? Spoken

Organization The University of Waterloo is organized by academic units which offer a variety of academic plans that of the University of Oxford (except where noted). Degree Hoods For the Bachelor's degree, hoods are black silk (OD) � black silk hood in the American style, seafoam green border, and gold lining 1. Master

of an individual's health; life- style and environment account for the rest. "The poor health of the poorReport 14 | January 2010 The Blue Ridge Academic Health Group The Role of Academic Health Centers in Addressing the Social Determinants of Health #12;#12;Mission: The Blue Ridge Academic Health Group seeks to ...

"Research indicates that a disparity may exist between the method of instruction and learning style of underrepresented minorities and, in particular, Hispanic students who are enrolled in Management Information Systems or Computer Science (MIS/CS) courses. As a major focus, this paper discusses the current research which investigates the nature of learning performance for ...

To consider how Web-based learning program is utilized by learners with different cognitive styles, this study presents a Web-based learning system (WBLS) and analyzes learners' browsing data recorded in the log file to identify how learners' cognitive styles and learning behavior are related. In order to develop an adapted WBLS, this ...

Results of exploratory research on defense mechanisms and psychiatric symptomatology are reported about Black students enrolled in classes on the campus of one Historically Black College and University. Theoretical influences are twofold: ego mechanisms of defense conceptualized hierarchically and a culture-specific view of defense mechanism functioning. Exploratory hypotheses are: that defense ...

Cognitive styles are the lenses through which individuals habitually process information from their environment. In this study, we evaluated whether different cognitive style individual difference variables, such as explanatory style and dispositional optimism, could predict changes in affective state over time in community-dwelling ...

With the growing demand in e-learning, numerous research works have been done to enhance teaching quality in e-learning environments. Among these studies, researchers have indicated that adaptive learning is a critical requirement for promoting the learning performance of students. Adaptive learning provides adaptive learning ...

The purpose of this study was to examine whether field-dependent/independent style awareness affects learning outcomes and learning strategies used in a hypermedia instructional module. Field-dependent/independent style was measured using the Global Embedded Figures Test. Style awareness meant that students were provided with ...

We present novel methods for capturing the key characteristics of hair influenced by water and styling products. Our approach includes a dynamics system that adaptively accounts for changing stiffness and weight of the hair, a geometric representation that can alter the physical depiction of hair based on the substance(s) present on it, and a rendering ...

This paper reports the first stage in the development of a tool, the Six Staffordshire Teaching Styles Questionnaire, designed to raise awareness in teachers about their teaching style. Effective teachers are adaptable and flexible in providing variety in their teaching activities, aiming to match their manipulation of the teaching and ...

This paper reports the first stage in the development of a tool, the Six Staffordshire Teaching Styles Questionnaire, designed to raise awareness in teachers about their teaching style. Effective teachers are adaptable and flexible in providing variety in their teaching activities, aiming to match their manipulation of the teaching and ...

The types of difficulties associated with career attitudes were studied using Super's model of career maturity (1990) in a group of 620 Portuguese students from grades 9 and 12. A cluster analysis identified four styles with different patterns of association between time perspective, attributional beliefs, self-esteem and career attitudes. The adaptive ...

Two Israeli grade 7 classes, with different teachers, were monitored and the lessons coded according to categories that were based on the conceptual framework of speech acts theory combined with role theory. The two classes differed in their academic composition: one class was dominated by females and the other was balanced by gender. Different classroom interactions were ...

Although often viewed as burdensome, academic writing guidelines are rarely treated as actively problematic. Even progressive scholars are unlikely to challenge the cultural assumptions or political investments of academic style guides. Yet standards regarding clarity, precision, appropriateness, sensitivity, and objectivity are not ...

, dependability in the face of unexpected runtime conditions, designing self-healing capabilities into software for software engineers who develop such systems. We argue for the potential of self-healing mechanismsArchitectural Styles for Adaptable Self-Healing Dependable Systems Matthew J. Hawthorne Empirical

Center for Adaptive Optics, and a research contract from Bausch and Lomb. ABSTRACT There is currently aberrations are corrected with an adaptive optics system. All these results suggest that many, though not all to accurately correct it with adaptive optics 3 have moved the wave aberration from an obscure academic ...

In the past decade, a number of adaptive hypermedia learning systems have been developed. However, most of these systems tailor presentation content and navigational support solely according to students' prior knowledge. On the other hand, previous research suggested that cognitive styles significantly affect student learning because they refer to how ...

This paper reports research on the learning style preferences of 1616 university students learning foreign languages for academic purposes across eight fields of study in a given educational and cultural context, namely, tertiary education in Greece. Data was collected by using the Style Analysis Survey the outcomes of which were ...

Tutors' perceptions of their supervisor/leader in the Academic Skills/Learning Resources Center at Bowie State College were surveyed. Twenty tutors employed by the center through the Special Services for Disadvantaged Students project were administered the Leader Effectiveness and Adaptability Description questionnaire developed by Hersey and Blanchard. ...

In Finland, quality assurance related to the Bologna process has been adapted to existing systems of higher education at the national level and a form of implementation is also recognised at the level of the higher education institution. In universities, varied outcomes of quality assurance are based on interaction of organisational structures, management ...

The advent of e-learning in higher education has entailed extensive use of online discussion boards to promote collaborative learning among students; however, the role of instructors as online facilitators is typically ill-defined due to a lack of sufficient standards or guidelines for good practice. In their audit of online discussion forum postings in a nursing program, Phil Clegg and John Heap ...

This collection of eight lesson plans is designed to assist teachers in providing mathematics instruction to elementary and secondary education students with different types of disabilities. The lessons use tactics for teaching mathematics content derived from Lovitt (1995), who summarized techniques found to be effective in increasing the mathematics achievement of students with learning ...

Career clusters are part of a response to changing work and a changing workplace, a way of broadening the focus of secondary career and technical education (CTE). The following are some of the changes in work and the workplace: the nature and structure of work; leadership styles and organizational structures; the knowledge and skills needed; values and commitment; and the ...

Assessing student attainment in the major field of study is increasingly important to employers and accrediting bodies alike. Construction and manufacturing firms do not like engineers who design faulty bridges and airplanes. Marketing firms want to hire students who understand the difference between a niche market and a global market. School districts want teachers who understand the different ...

Motivated by the discouraging fact that only 7 percent of the local high school graduates were proceeding on to college or university education, a group of teachers, junior high through university, involved in the California Academic Partnership (CAP) Project, decided to analyze what was being taught and the methods being used. Collaborating with other teachers at these ...

The study focuses on design education using Experiential Learning Theory (ELT) and explores the effects of learning styles and gender on the performance scores of freshman design students in three successive academic years. Findings indicate that the distribution of design students through learning style type preference was more ...

The two primary objectives of this study were: to identify the preferred teaching styles of secondary-school students and to compare these preferences with those of university students from past research; and to examine the contributions of students' preferred teaching styles to their academic achievement. A sample of 298 students from ...

This paper examines whether the relationship between parenting style and adolescent depressive symptoms, smoking, and academic grades varies according to ethnicity, gender, and socioeconomic status. Four parenting styles are distinguished, based on patterns of parent-adolescent decision making: autocratic (parents decide), ...

This study examined the effects of the two facets of authoritative teaching--high academic press and caring for students--on student interest and achievement in mathematics for middle and high school students (N = 3,602 in 198 classrooms), and whether those effects are moderated by students' ethnicity (Hispanic, Vietnamese, and Caucasian Non-Hispanic). Tested with hierarchical ...

Factors that restrict or support academic achievement are a major concern for nurse educators. The authors examined selected academic and nonacademic factors, including the Kolb Learning Styles Inventory III, that affected the ability of prelicensure baccalaureate nursing students in acquiring pharmacology knowledge. This study used a ...

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Online searches of bibliographic databases were conducted for scientists and technologists in one academic and one industrial setting. In order to determine the effect of this new technological development on its users' information-seeking habits, and to ...

to participate in high performing groups � Understand personal leadership styles and it's application to organizational leadership � Be able to assess and understand different cultures and its impact relating to selfdirection, critical thinking, business and personal communication, working within

business strategies. Topics covered will be: defining what leadership is, what makes a leader to participate in high performing groups � Understand personal leadership styles and it's application to organizational leadership � Be able to assess and understand different cultures and its impact

In a key activity of a scientific-writing program that has been incorporated into a 100-level chemistry course, students analyze a journal-style write-up of an experiment that requires little scientific background to understand--the baking of chocolate chi

management style inventories; and, reviewing the mechanics of the course management system, etc. Additionally of their responsibility to maintain a high quality of integrity in all of their work. All work must be the student's own be subject to further action under the University Guidelines for Academic Integrity. Students are required

(endnotes). All sources are then listed at the end of the document in a `Bibliography' 2 of reasons: � Footnotes/endnotes are less disruptive to the text than intext citations � they are commonly used in Arts and Humanities academic writing � the Chicago style is supported by EndNote

Integrating learning styles in adaptive educational systems is a relatively recent trend in technology enhanced learning. The rationale is that adapting courses to the learning preferences of the students has a positive effect on the learning process, leading to an increased efficiency, effectiveness and/or learner satisfaction. The ...

Advances in the technology available for the design and delivery of online courses, together with the increasingly diverse learning needs of students, have encouraged a stronger focus on instructional design that is more closely aligned to learner requirements and contexts. The 21st century learner is accustomed to acquiring information in a variety of ways and technology can support a learning ...

As the number of courses offered online increases rapidly, it is important for teachers and institutions to identify specific learner characteristics of successful online students. This paper reports on a study that compared an online group of freshmen computer science majors with an equivalent on-campus group to find if their individual learning styles play a role in the ...

This international research examines the learning style preferences of Taiwanese students by gender and age in an attempt to determine which of the five learning style stimuli (environmental, emotional, sociological, physiological and psychological) are more likely to be a factor in student academic success. Utilizing an international ...