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Pillay, Hitendra; Boulton-Lewis, Gillian; Wilss, Lynn; Rhodes, Sean – Journal of Education and Work, 2003
Thirty-nine participants aged over 40 and 16 participants aged under 40, from a medical organization and a transport organization, were interviewed to obtain data regarding their conceptions of work and learning at work amid changing workplace practices. A phenomenographic approach was adopted to analyse the data. Frequency distributions of…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Older Adults, Education Work Relationship, Young Adults
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Blackhurst, Anne E.; Auger, Richard W.; Wahl, Kay Herting – Professional School Counseling, 2003
Through focused interviews with 119 elementary students, researchers examined children's understanding of vocational preparation requirements for 15 well-known jobs and participants' preferred occupations. Results indicated that, by fifth grade, children have developed the conceptual framework for understanding vocational preparation requirements…
Descriptors: Grade 5, Guidance Programs, Career Guidance, Interviews
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Marrelli, Anne F. – Performance Improvement, 2005
This sixth article in the Performance Technologist's Toolbox series focuses on the critical incident method of data collection. Critical incidents are narrative descriptions of important events that occur on the job and how employees behave in those situations. Critical incidents document the work context, the specific situation that arose, the…
Descriptors: Work Environment, Critical Incidents Method, Interviews, Personal Narratives
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Siu, Oi-Ling; Phillips, David R. – International Journal of Aging and Human Development, 2002
The "dual-channel" hypothesis (Lawton, 1996), which suggests the dual-antecedent pattern for positive and negative aspects of psychological well-being, was tested by examining the differential relationships between objective and subjective measures of family support (family contact, family quality, perceived importance of family) and…
Descriptors: Family (Sociological Unit), Social Support Groups, Foreign Countries, Psychology
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Bowling, Ann; Gabriel, Zahava; Dykes, Joanna; Dowding, Lee Marriott; Evans, Olga; Fleissig, Anne; Banister, David; Sutton, Stephen – International Journal of Aging and Human Development, 2003
This study aimed to explore older peoples' definitions of, and priorities for, a good quality of life for themselves and their peers. Nine hundred and ninety-nine people aged 65 and over, living at home in Britain, were interviewed for the study. Good social relationships were the most commonly mentioned constituent that gave respondents' lives…
Descriptors: Older Adults, Definitions, Quality of Life, Educational Quality
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Nilsson, Margareta; Sarvimaki, Anneli; Ekman, Sirkka-Liisa – International Journal of Aging and Human Development, 2003
The aim of the study was to highlight the oldest old people's view of their future from a perspective of philosophy of life. Data was collected by means of life story interviews with 15 persons. The analysis was performed by utilizing a phenomenological hermeneutic method and the interpretation was guided by the conceptual framework of philosophy…
Descriptors: Older Adults, World Views, Interviews, Time Perspective
Davis, Barbara H.; Waite, Susan Field – Professional Educator, 2006
This paper describes a school/university graduate induction program that has provided support to beginning teachers since 1994. A 10-year follow-up study of program graduates was recently conducted to examine these questions: (a) How many graduates are still in the education profession? (b) How many have remained in the classroom? and (c) What are…
Descriptors: Graduate Surveys, Professional Development Schools, Beginning Teacher Induction, Program Effectiveness
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Hage, Sally M. – Journal of Counseling & Development, 2006
Systematic analysis of interview data for 6 African American and 4 European American women who were survivors of battering and who are marginalized in society indicated that the women used active strategies (e.g., social support resources) to preserve their sense of self and agency within the conditions of violence. Previous experiences of abuse…
Descriptors: Profiles, Females, Interviews, African Americans
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Plum, Catherine – History of Education Quarterly, 2005
In this article, the author discusses how the municipal authorities eliminate the names of all schools in eastern Berlin in 1990 to formalize the spontaneous purge of school identities. She added, that the renaming of primary and secondary schools at this historical juncture provides a unique vantage point for examining what the democratic turning…
Descriptors: Social Systems, Organizational Change, Foreign Countries, Educational Change
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Dale, Emily; Jahoda, Andrew; Knott, Fiona – Autism: The International Journal of Research & Practice, 2006
Although the impact of autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) on the family is well recognized, the way mothers attempt to make sense of the diagnosis is largely unexplored. However, in other disabilities, attributions have been shown to predict a variety of outcomes including maternal wellbeing and engagement in treatment. Using Weiner's (1985)…
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Clinical Diagnosis, Stress Variables
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Bonomi, Amy E.; Holt, Victoria L.; Martin, Diane P.; Thompson, Robert S. – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2006
This article evaluates whether female victims of severe physical, psychological, or sexual intimate partner violence (IPV) call police more often than other abused women. Abused women (431) reported frequency of contacting police (dependent variable), nature and severity of IPV experienced, and characteristics of themselves and their perpetrator…
Descriptors: Family Violence, Females, Police, Help Seeking
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Grubb, Norton W.; Flessa, Joseph J. – Educational Administration Quarterly, 2006
Background: Current federal, state, and local school accountability measures as well as policy initiatives that call for improved leadership have placed increasing demands on principals. Many districts face shortages of appropriate candidates for the job; popularly, this shortage is explained by the fact that simply too few hero-principals exist…
Descriptors: Accountability, Principals, Educational Improvement, School Administration
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Tampas, Joanna W.; Harkrider, Ashley W.; Hedrick, Mark S. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2005
Auditory event-related potentials (mismatch negativity and P300) and behavioral discrimination were measured to synthetically generated consonant-vowel (CV) speech and nonspeech contrasts in 10 young adults with normal auditory systems. Previous research has demonstrated that behavioral and P300 responses reflect a phonetic, categorical level of…
Descriptors: Phonetics, Young Adults, Acoustics, Auditory Perception
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Lecavalier, Luc; Aman, Michael G.; Scahill, Lawrence; McDougle, Christopher J.; McCracken, James T.; Vitiello, Benedetto; Tierney, Elaine; Arnold, L. Eugene; Ghuman, Jaswinder K.; Loftin, Rachel L.; Cronin, Pegeen; Koenig, Kathleen; Posey, David J.; Martin, Andres; Hollway, Jill; Lee, Lisa S.; Kau, Alice S. M. – American Journal on Mental Retardation, 2006
The factor structure, internal consistency, and convergent validity of the Autism Diagnostic Interview-Revised (ADI-R) algorithm items were examined in a sample of 226 youngsters with pervasive developmental disabilities. Exploratory factor analyses indicated a three-factor solution closely resembling the original algorithm and explaining 38% of…
Descriptors: Test Validity, Measures (Individuals), Measurement Techniques, Autism
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Bernheimer, Lucinda P.; Keogh, Barbara K.; Guthrie, Donald – American Journal on Mental Retardation, 2006
We report on a 20-year follow-up of 30 children with developmental delays identified at age 3. Our purpose was to assess the relationship of early indicators of delay to cognitive and personal-social status in young adulthood. Predictors were Developmental and Personal-Social factors derived from standardized tests and parent questionnaires…
Descriptors: Young Children, Developmental Delays, Young Adults, Predictor Variables
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