Glover, DerekLaw, SueTaylor & Francis GroupWestminster Studies in EducationGlover, D., Law, S. (2003) `Perceptions Of Pressure: External And Internal Influences On Secondary School Policy Making Directed At Enhanced Teaching And Learning', Westminster Studies in Education Vol. 24, No. 1, pp. ...
In Part 1: external influences, we ask: which roles do external influences such as perception, action, language, and sociality play in acquiring abstract concepts (that are, by traditional definition, detached from perception and action) and in conceptual development? What is the evidence for ...
The purpose of this study is to compare the influences of state characteristics related to student assessment, accreditation emphasis on student assessment, and institutional dynamics supporting student assessment on the approaches to student assessment that institutions have initiated. We conducted this stud...
The results indicated that teachers’ perception of time was stable; their perception of access to technology increased; and their perception of beliefs, training, and technical support declined over time. Other studies revealed that when teachers’ beliefs did change, the changes happened incrementally...
Experimental and mathematical results indicate that the information indeed spreads much quicker and broader with mutual effects of the internal and external influences. More importantly, the present model reveals that the event characteristic would highly determine the essential spreading patterns once the ...
Moreover, the mediation tests showed that coping strategy serves as a mediator between transparent communication and uncertainty perception and between transparent communication and relational management. The findings suggested that control coping reinforces the effects of transparent communication on uncertainty...
There is also other evidence for distinct processes underlying the neurocognitive vs. affective influences on social skills65. Therefore, it is possible that the update rate taps onto one mechanism, but not all. Further studies, which include direct clinical measures, are needed to clarify the ...
On the basis of the findings, we develop a framework that captures the buyers’ internal and external motives that can be generalized to the overall luxury markets, called “Dark motives-counterfeit purchase framework”. The framework includes 16 motives for buying online counterfeit product (i.e....
We directly asked physicians to rate their confidence rather than rely on proxy measures of confidence used in other work.8,9,12 While self-report confidence measures may not reflect physicians’ actual confidence, they are more likely to be accurate than when external raters attempt to infer ...
The measuring device and method described herein provides a measuring tool to assist the user in judging and recording the effects of external stimuli and internal feelings on the user's eustress/distress spectrum which then contributes to one's ability to live a life of ease vs. disease. The...