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R. Ikuenobe Osolease – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The purpose of this study is to identify the best model that explains the relationship between conflicting risk structures and decision quality. Using confirmatory factor analysis and hierarchical regression techniques as statistical methods, the author confirmed that changes in the conflicting risk structures correlated with changes in decision…
Descriptors: Computer Security, Information Security, Risk Management, Risk
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Nagel, Robert L.; Pappas, Eric C.; Swain, Matthew S.; Hazard, Gretchen A. – International Journal of Higher Education, 2015
In order to train young professionals, instructional methodologies in engineering need not only teach students knowledge, but must also instill the values and teach the behaviors--"competencies" students can demonstrate--required of professional practice. Herein, we focus on understanding the values and behaviors of students with respect…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Student Attitudes, Values, Teamwork
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Tseng, Hung Wei; Yeh, Hsin-Te – Computers & Education, 2013
Teamwork factors can facilitate team members, committing themselves to the purposes of maximizing their own and others' contributions and successes. It is important for online instructors to comprehend students' expectations on learning collaboratively. The aims of this study were to investigate online collaborative learning experiences and to…
Descriptors: Teamwork, Trust (Psychology), Student Attitudes, Learning Experience
Cicala, Steve; Fryer, Roland G., Jr.; Spenkuch, Jorg L. – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2011
We develop a Roy model of social interactions in which individuals sort into peer groups based on comparative advantage. Two key results emerge: First, when comparative advantage is the guiding principle of peer group organization, the effect of moving a student into an environment with higher-achieving peers depends on where in the ability…
Descriptors: Group Behavior, Peer Groups, Peer Influence, Test Construction
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Harton, Helen C.; Green, Laura R.; Jackson, Craig; Latane, Bibb – Teaching of Psychology, 1998
Describes an in-class exercise using students' discussion of their answers on a multiple choice test to demonstrate the powerful effects and pervasiveness of social influence. After a brief multiple choice test, students discuss their answers with their neighbors and then answer again. Similar response patterns emerge among the participants. (MJP)
Descriptors: Cluster Analysis, Correlation, Demonstrations (Educational), Group Behavior
Gibson, Dennis Lee; Dunnette, Marvin D. – 1971
A self-report inventory was compared with a situational test as a predictor of the verbal behavior of individual members of small interpersonal skills training groups. As hypothesized, the situational test was a better predictor than was the self-report inventory. A powerful social conformity effect may have operated in both the situational test…
Descriptors: Behavior, Behavior Patterns, Behavior Rating Scales, College Students