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Eman, Saima; Khalid, Ansab; Nicolson, Roderick I. – International Journal of Emotional Education, 2019
'Emotional reactivity' (ER) is an important construct in the analysis of individual temperamental differences, and has accounted for significant variance in studies with respect to its definition. Between 1920 and 2015, the meaning of ER has varied from physiology of emotional reactions, to stress, depression, and as a sub-type of empathy. This…
Descriptors: Emotional Response, Definitions, Vocabulary, Personality Traits
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Duckworth, Angela L.; Meindl, Peter – Journal of Character Education, 2018
Robert McGrath (this issue) has proposed a useful way of bringing the field closer to a consensual definition of character education. We support much of his proposal. Like McGrath, we believe the goal of character education should be to increase the expression of qualities that benefit one's self and others. We also agree that character education…
Descriptors: Values Education, Definitions, Criticism, Educational Objectives
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Topping, Keith – Education Sciences, 2021
The present paper offers a definition of peer assessment and then reviews the major syntheses on its effectiveness. However, the main part of this paper is preoccupied with how to do PA successfully. A typology of 44 elements explains the differences between the many types of peer assessment. Then a theoretical model outlines some of the processes…
Descriptors: Peer Evaluation, Definitions, Program Effectiveness, Models
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Bermudez-Gonzalez, Daniel; Miranda-Jiménez, Sabino; García-Moreno, Raúl-Ulises; Calderón-Nepamuceno, Dora – Research-publishing.net, 2016
Nowadays, machine learning techniques are being used in several Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks such as Opinion Mining (OM). OM is used to analyse and determine the affective orientation of texts. Usually, OM approaches use affective dictionaries in order to conduct sentiment analysis. These lexicons are labeled manually with affective…
Descriptors: Dictionaries, Spanish, Natural Language Processing, Psychological Patterns
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Werth, James L., Jr. – Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 1996
Reviews the concept of rational suicide and compares it with one researcher's list of commonalities of suicide. Claims that the list cannot accommodate rational suicide. Suggests that the list is biased against rational suicide and should be renamed so it cannot be maintained that suicide must be irrational. (RJM)
Descriptors: Classification, Cognitive Structures, Definitions, Psychological Patterns
Tsai, Luke Y. – 1998
This briefing paper is intended to provide basic information about the diagnosis, educational programming, and special needs of children and youth with Pervasive Developmental Disorders (PDD), a group of neurological disorders usually evident by age 3 and characterized by impairments in social interaction, imaginative activity, and verbal and…
Descriptors: Classification, Clinical Diagnosis, Communication Disorders, Communication Skills