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Post, Ernie – ProQuest LLC, 2014
One purpose of this study was to add insight to help Small Business Development Center (SBDC) entrepreneurial educators understand why over 40% of their adult learners discontinue their learning program prematurely. In addition, this study explored how the comprehensive Self-Directed Learning (SDL) model might inform our understanding of attrition…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, Small Businesses, Adult Learning, Mixed Methods Research
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Fournillier, Janice B. – Qualitative Report, 2009
In this article I draw on an ethnographic case study that examined mas' makers' perceptions of the learning/teaching practices at work in the production of costumes for Trinidad and Tobago's annual Carnival celebrations. During the 2005 Carnival season I spent four months in the field, my country of birth, and collected data through participant…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Theater Arts, Clothing, Cultural Activities
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Abhayawansa, Subhash; Tempone, Irene; Pillay, Soma – Accounting Education, 2012
This study examines the impact of prior learning experience on students' approaches to learning (SAL). It compares SAL of accounting students admitted to university in Australia on the basis of Institutes of Technical and Further Education (TAFE) qualifications (TAFE-to-university) and through direct entry mode (Year 12-to-university). The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Accounting, Undergraduate Students, Student Attitudes
Aryawibawa, I Nyoman – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Many scholars have proposed concepts relevant to spatial reference. Herskovits (1982) proposed that the topological concepts support, contiguity and containment are basic in English, while Levinson et al.'s (2003) examination of nine unrelated languages revealed that the concept attachment is primary. Neither of these proposals is confirmed in…
Descriptors: Morphology (Languages), Foreign Countries, Indonesian, Spatial Ability
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Passos, Maria de Lourdes R. da F.; Matos, Maria Amelia – Behavior Analyst, 2007
Bloomfield's "Linguistics as a Science" (1930/1970), "Language" (1933/1961), and "Language or Ideas?" (1936a/1970), and Skinner's "Verbal Behavior" (1957) and "Science and Human Behavior" (1953) were analyzed in regard to their respective perspectives on science and scientific method, the verbal episode, meaning, and subject matter. Similarities…
Descriptors: Scientific Methodology, Componential Analysis, Structural Analysis (Linguistics), Bibliometrics
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Markauskaite, Lina – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2007
There is growing concern over graduating trainee teachers' insufficient level of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) literacy. The main purpose of this research was to describe the nature of trainee teachers' ICT literacy at the beginning of preservice training: (a) to explore the structure and to identify the main components of…
Descriptors: Factor Analysis, Information Technology, Trainees, Preservice Teacher Education