Please read the abstract in the section 00front of this document / Thesis (DCom (Human Resources Management))--University of Pretoria, 2006. / Human Resource Management / unrestricted

This study examined the nature and strength of relationship between specific related high school academic grades and the cumulative graduating average of students in five allied health programs at the British Columbia Institute of Technology. Lack of scientific studies on selection criteria for determining the cumulative graduating average of allied health professionals at the British Columbia Institute of Technology (B.C.I.T.) was evident. Educators argue that in order to enhance educational opportunities for institute students, there is a professional obligation upon the policy-makers to gather appropriate data to determine which factors contribute to the success of the allied health student. With the high cost of technical education, admission officers and admissions committees are accountable for their selection processes to the institute's administration, decision makers, provincial and federal funding sources, and society. The results of this study may assist admissions officers in selecting academic variables that indicate the cumulative graduating average so that a better match can be made between the students and their performance in allied health programs. The accessible population of 629 graduates from the allied health technologies in this study were biomedical electronics, medical laboratory, medical radiography, nuclear medicine, and prosthetics and orthotics. The dependent variable measurement of academic achievement for these students was their cumulative graduating average. Single variables consisted of the grade point average of the following: pretechnology academic requirements, high school English, high school algebra, high school biology, high school chemistry, and high school physics. Descriptive statistics, zero-order correlations, and stepwise multiple regression analysis were the statistical methods employed to determine which specific academic variable or multiple of variables exhibited a strong relationship between the cumulative graduating average and academic variables. The analysis identified certain variables that strongly related to the cumulative graduating average, both singly and in combination with others. Each of the program significant combination of variables are provided here in order of descending influence: Biomedical Electronics Technology- high school algebra; Medical Laboratory Technology- the pretechnology grade point average, high school chemistry, biology, and algebra; Medical Radiography Technology- high school biology and chemistry; Nuclear Medicine- the pretechnology grade point average, high school chemistry, and high school biology; Prosthetics and Orthotics Technology- the pretechnology grade point average and high school chemistry. Academic variables did not account for more than 34% of the total variables in any of the programs. The level of significance for individual variables was the convention, 0.05. Clearly, each program had its own character; however, the performance of students in the natural sciences were significant in four of the five programs. An attempt was made to investigate which specific high school subjects correlated highly with the cumulative graduating average of students at the B.C.I.T. through a inspection of five programs for five graduating classes. Relevant variables were identified that were indicative of academic achievement in each specific program of study. Investigating the nature and strength of relationship between preprofessional grades and the cumulative graduating average of allied health students at B.C.I.T. could benefit both students and admissions officers by supplying a piece to an educational puzzle that would demystify the selection process. The information presented may assist admissions officers and prospective allied health students make more suitable educational choices. / Education, Faculty of / Educational and Counselling Psychology, and Special Education (ECPS), Department of / Graduate

M.Ed. (Psychology of Education) / It appears that not much research has been done in the field regarding separation anxiety suffered by school beginners. The current political developments towards a fair multicultural education will cause a far greater (increased) emergence of this phenomenon as schools are now confronted with a mixture of different cultures and creeds with (overly concerned parents).while separation anxiety is manifested in the young school beginners. Due to this increased exposure and subsequent increased child anxiety. this study is designed to identify the root causes of this anxiety. and provide guidelines for an education programme for parents and teachers to identify and counteract this problem. The investigation into the causes and characteristics of separation anxiety was undertaken by means of studying literature. existing case studies and material related to the subject matter. Insight derived from practical teaching experience and the literature available was so adapted and refined to set guidelines and identify characteristics for a programme that would assist the parents and teachers to identify and through corrective action overcome and / or eliminate this problem...

Orientador: Matilde Virginia Ricardi Scaramucci / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-08T02:44:45Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Retorta_MiriamSester_D.pdf: 14612163 bytes, checksum: f7fefea3ecb78986aa1456e541123b87 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007 / Resumo: Este trabalho visa investigar se a prova de língua inglesa do vestibular da Universidade Federal do Paraná causa efeitos retroativos no ensino dessa língua, em escolas públicas e privadas de nível médio e cursos pré-vestibulares, e, em caso positivo, determinar quais são esses efeitos. Para atingir tais objetivos, foi desenvolvida uma pesquisa qualitativa interpretativista de cunho etnográfico, na qual puderam ser ouvidas diversas vozes da comunidade escolar: escolas públicas (urbanas e rurais) e particulares, bem como cursos pré-vestibulares (particulares e gratuitos). Na busca de multiperspectivas sobre o fenômeno, procurou-se escolher os cenários que levassem em conta a grande desigualdade social do país, e incluíssem, como participantes, a maioria dos stakeholders (pessoas ligadas ao fenômeno direta ou indiretamente) para, ao final, triangularem-se os dados coletados. Além de entrevistas dos participantes, aulas de professores também foram observadas. Os resultados deste estudo mostram que o efeito retroativo da prova de inglês do vestibular da UFPR não ocorre nas escolas públicas. O que direciona o ensino desses cenários são os livros didáticos que cada escola adota. No entanto, pudemos perceber a existência do efeito retroativo nos outros cenários ¿ escolas particulares e cursos pré-vestibulares ¿, ora exercendo efeitos positivos (motivação dos diretores e professores para buscar informações sobre o exame; motivação dos alunos para estudar mais a disciplina e passar no exame; direcionamento de ementas e construção de objetivos claros; incentivo ao ensino da leitura), ora negativos (estreitamento do currículo; ansiedade dos sujeitos dos cenários). Verificou-se também que o efeito retroativo ocorreu aí em intensidades diferentes, pois interferiram no fenômeno fatores como: informações que os professores tinham sobre o exame; concepções de língua, leitura e avaliação desses professores; nível de conhecimento de língua inglesa desses profissionais; cobrança dos diretores e do grupo social (os pais e alunos); chances de aprovação, dentre outros. O que direcionou o ensino desses cenários foi o programa oficial do exame de vestibular da UFPR. Este estudo oferece contribuições teóricas ao proporcionar melhor entendimento do conceito efeito retroativo; contribuições metodológicas, por seu desenho investigativo inovador e abrangente; e, finalmente, contribuições práticas, enquanto um conjunto de subsídios para o ensino e avaliação de língua inglesa no ensino médio / Abstract: The objective of this thesis is to investigate if the English test of the University Entrance Examination of UFPR sets off the washback effect in the teaching/learning of the language in public and private high schools as well as cramming courses and, if so, what effects were they. In order to meet these objectives a qualitative interpretativist investigation was conducted in which various voices of the school community were heard such as the participants of public schools (urban and rural), the private schools and the cramming courses (private and free ones). Since there was an intention of having a multiperspective of the phenomenon, the scenarios were chosen because of the great social inequalities of this country and, therefore, many stakeholders (participants who were directly or indirectly involved in the phenomenon) were selected to be interviewed. The data was triangulated, analyzed and discussed. Besides the interview, class observations were included. The results of this study show that there was no washback effect of the English test of the University Entrance Examination of UFPR in public schools. What helped set the teaching goals of the discipline were the contents suggested in the didactic books adopted in each school. In the other scenarios, the washback effect was observed. The positive effects were the motivation of the directors and teachers to search for information about the test; motivation of the students to study harder to pass the test; the test was used to set clear teaching objectives and reading began to be taught. The negative effects were: anxiety of the participants of some scenarios and curriculum narrowing. Different intensities of the washback effect were observed because there were other factors which interfered in the phenomenon such as information teachers had about the test, their concept of language, reading and evaluation, their knowledge of the English language, the directors demanding for the teachers¿ best, the social group (parents and students) demanding for the teachers¿ best and the chances the students had in being approved, among others. The official program of the test was used to guide the teaching/learning of these scenarios. This study offers a theoretical contribution when it helps us understand a bit more about the washback effect; methodological contribution due to the research design which is innovative and broad and, finally, a practical contribution because it intends to offer a set of information which can give support to the teaching and evaluation of the English discipline in high schools / Doutorado / Lingua Estrangeira / Doutor em Linguística Aplicada

Orientador: Maria Bernadete Marques Abaurre / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem / Made available in DSpace on 2018-07-23T22:46:55Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Duarte_Cristiane_M.pdf: 25844891 bytes, checksum: 4db661434ad51b609c996c28c872bdc9 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1998 / Resumo: A leitura é um processo discursivo de produção de sentido que envolve, a partir do texto, questões de ordem cognitiva (conhecimentos de mundo e enciclopédico), bem como fatores resultantes da interação social dos interlocutores em questão (autor e leitor), e sua constituição como sujeitos de linguagem, inseridos num contexto sócio-cultural e político. Assim, o texto é o resultado da interação social entre os interlocutores, na medida em que é constituído dialogicamente. Considerando as condições de produção inerentes à realização da prova de redação do Vestibular UNICAMP, em que a leitura de uma coletânea de textos faz parte da proposta de produção das redações, essas redações constituem um material interessante para análise de procedimentos de leitura, pois trazem marcas de intertextualidade reveladoras de diferentes procedimentos de leitura. A partir dos pressupostos teórico-metodológicos referentes a um paradigma de análise desenvolvido no âmbito das ciências humanas que permite análises de tipo qualitativo (o chamado Paradigma lndiciário), foram efetuadas hipóteses sobre a "caminhada interpretativa" realizada pelos candidatos do momento em que lêem a coletânea da proposta de redação até a produção de seus textos. A partir de pistas (ou indícios) deixadas nas redações, puderam-se depreender os procedimentos de leitura desses candidatos. Os resultados da análise revelam, pelo menos, quatro tipos d~ procedimentos de leitura: há candidatos que se prendem demasiadamente aos textos da coletânea; há outros que, a partir da leitura, articulam criativamente as informações lidas; há aqueles que acabam por se desviar do tema, em função de uma preocupação em escrever sobre os fatos da realidade política da época; por último, há candidatos que realizam uma leitura orientada ideologicamente, o que acaba produzindo efeitos de sentido aparentemente "estranhos". Tendo em vista os resultados das análises, pôde-se concluir que os diferentes tipos de procedimentos de leitura são conseqüência da própria história de constituição desses candidatos como sujeitos de linguagem e de seus projetos de dizer. Foi possível concluir, por hipótese, qual tenha sido a formação escolar desses sujeitos, mais especificamente, que tipo de "dicas" eles tenham recebido nas aulas de redação e/ou língua portuguesa. A imagem do que venha a ser uma redação para o Vestibular, reproduzida por esses quatro tipos de texto, é, na verdade, indício de todo um processo de constituição histórico-social e até político-cultural caracterizador dos sujeitos autores das redações analisadas. A utilização do Paradigma Indiciário, nesse sentido, foi extremamente pertinente pelo fato de permitir a formulação de hipóteses explicativas mais amplas que também parecem estar relacionadas às questões de linguagem / Abstract: Reading is a discursive process of meaning production which involves issues originated in the text such as cognition (world as well as encyclopaedia knowledge); resulting from social interaction between the interlocutors considered (author and reader), and their constitution as subjects of language, within a socio-cultural and political context. Therefore, the text is the result of the social interaction between the interlocutors, inasmuch as it is dialogically constituted. Regarding the conditions of production inherent to the Unicamp Entrance Exam, in which the reading of a set of texts is part of the proposal for the production of texts, these téxts make up interesting materials to be analyzed, since they bring clues of intertextuality that reveal different reading procedures. By starting with the theoretical and methodological assumptions of an analytical paradigm developed within the human sciences that allows of qualitative analysis (commonly known as Clue Paradigm), hypotheses had been made on the interpretative path followed by the students from the moment they read the collection of texts in the proposal of the exam to the production of their texts. From the clues left in the writers'texts, it was possible to understand their reading procedures. The results of the analysis reveal at least four types of reading procedures: there are students who stick to a much to the collection of texts; others. From their reading of the collection of texts, creatively articulate the information read; there are others still who, concerned with writing about current political issues get to a far away from the topic proposed; finally, there are students who perform an ideologically oriented reading, producing meaning effects which are apparently strange. From the results of analyses, it was possible to conclude that these different types of reading procedures are a consequence of the history constitution of each writer as a subject of language and of their speech projects. We may conclude, by means of a hypothesis, what the educational background of these subjects had been, and still, more specifically, what kind of guidelines they had received in their Portuguese and/or text production classes. The image of the typical text for an entrance exam to the students, reproduced in the four types of procedure mentioned previously, actually give clues as to all the socio-historical and political-cultural constitution processes that characterizes these subjects. The use of Clue Paradigm, in this sense, was extreme1y pertinent inasmuch as it allowed the formulation of more comprehensive explanatory hypotheses which also seem to be related to the linguistic issues / Mestrado / Mestre em Linguística

This experimental study is designed to obtain objective data which may be useful in facilitating improved academic counseling of high school seniors. It is concerned with the average of some standard objective test scores obtained by testing a selected sample of high school seniors who were tested in a regular classroom situation; and with the average academic grades earned by the same sample of students during their first semester and their first year in college. The experiment will seek to establish or refuse statistical significance between the average scores obtained by the objective tests and the prade-point averages earned during the two time-periods established. The purpose of the study is: (1) analyse and evaluate selected objective tests as a predictor of the success or failure of college students: (2) interpret the use that the tests might serve to facilitate academic counseling.

The purpose of this study is to predict the GPA for the students from their SCAT scores. The specific objectives of this study are as follows: (1) to show what degree the GPA can be predicted from the SCAT scores and to what extent they will fall between the standard error of estimate of the regression equations and, (2) to predict the GPA of students in the area of their respective major.

This research aims to construct a strategy for the support and care of students coping with entrance examination and academic stress within the South Korean Youth Ministry, through a relationship-oriented care ministry. For the purpose of this research, the researcher has adopted Osmer's practical theological methodology, and has used focus group interviews, in the context of qualitative research. The structure of this research is as follows: Chapter 1 defines essential concepts: it begins with a statement of the problem; it follows with the formulation of the problem and its purpose, the hypothesis of this dissertation, an outline of its structure, a description of various pertinent concepts and the various research tasks. Chapter 2 looks at university entrance examinations and their role in the education system in South Korean society, and the entrance examination stress that high school students are experiencing as a result of the pressure placed on them by the pressure to excel in the entrance examination. The chapter describes both young people in the local churches, and the life they are facing as a result of the pressure placed on them by entrance examinations in the context of Korean society. Chapter 3 describes the concept and characteristics of young people, and also provides a general theological foundation for an understanding of the youth ministry in the local church. The chapter also deals with the relationship between caring for and supporting young people, and the youth ministry, as part of the body of Christ, as it occurs in in the local church. Chapter 4 strives to heed the voices of the young people in South Korean churches who are experiencing some sort of anxiety related to Entrance Examination Stress Syndrome, in order to ascertain precisely what is taking place. The focus group interview results indicate that young people's identities include a belief in being called by God to take the university entrance examination. This interpretation is from a reformed worldview perspective, and was identified by means of dialogue with the social support theory. As a new theological concept, the researcher also establishes the important role of the congregation that cultivates friendship and open channels of communication within its youth ministry, to establish the youths' identity as being called by God to the entrance examination. Chapter 5 is a discussion of the pragmatic task, which is the last of the four tasks of practical theology presented by Osmer (2008): the process of strategic action. Here, the researcher has attempted to create strategies, based on the relationship-oriented care ministry, to support students facing entrance examinations. These strategies are based on the concept of youths' identity as involving being called by God, and the inclusive congregational approach presented by Nel (2000:77-98). / Thesis (PhD)--University of Pretoria, 2016. / Practical Theology / PhD / Unrestricted

Den rumsliga gestaltningen på en plats påverkar människor upplevelse av miljön, mer eller mindre. Kortfattat sker detta genom tolkningsprocesser av information i hjärnan som samlats in genom människans sinnen, vilket innefattar den visuella perceptionen. Sjukhusentréer spelar en viktig roll som besökarens första fysiska möte med verksamheten. Det är viktigt att upplevelsen känns välkomnande och trygg eftersom det påverkar upplevelsen av sjukhusets vårdkvalitén på. Mälarsjukhuset har mottagit indikationer om att deras huvudentré upplevs brista i trygghet och välkomnande. Ett problem som genererade ett delprojekt och samarbetsmöjlighet med Mälarsjukhuset. Studien har därför undersökt Mälarsjukhusets huvudentré för att förstå varför miljön orsakar den upplevelsen hos besökare och hitta gestaltningens problemområden. Genom en HCD process har det sedan gjorts ett sökande efter gestaltningsfaktorer som kan bidraga till en tryggare och mer välkomnande upplevelse. Metoder som användes till att hitta lösningar var omvärldsanalys, frågeformulär och workshop som innehöll moodboards. Sammanställningen av studiens teori och empiri resulterade i en samling generella gestaltningsfaktorer och ett specifikt gestaltningsförslag för Mälarsjukhusets huvudentré. / Spatial design affects people’s experience of an environment, to lesser or greater degree. In short this is done through processes in the brain that interpret data gathered via the senses, including the visual senses. Hospital entrances play an important role as the visitor’s first physical encounter with the facility. It is important that the experience feels welcoming and safe as this can affect theoverall experience of the hospital’s quality of care. Mälarsjukhuset (Eskilstuna’s regionalhospital) has received indications that their main entrance is perceived to be lacking this safe and welcoming feeling. A problem that created a subproject and collaboration opportunity with Mälarsjukhuset. This study has therefore investigated the main entrance area to the Mälarsjukhuset to understand what in this environment causes a negative experience for visitors, and to identify problem areas in the spatial design. An investigation has been made, through an HCD process, to find spatial design factors that could contribute to a safer and more welcoming experience. The methods used to find solutions include example analysis, questionnaires and a workshop involving moodboards. The study's theory review and collected data resulted in a selection of generally applicable design factors and also a specific design proposal for the main entrance to the Mälarsjukhuset.

Eudaimonic well-being, which leads to personal functioning, finds increasing attention in entrepreneurshipresearch. Its positive effects suggest that eudaimonia helps individuals to overcome difficulties andchallenges which the entrepreneurial process brings. Based on the self-determination theory, individualswith higher eudaimonic well-being can also be expected to be more likely to enter self-employment asoccupational choice proactively. Thus, this thesis builds a construct which shows the influence ofeudaimonic well-being on the process of entering and sustaining in self-employment. The methodologicalapproach to measure eudaimonic well-being is built on existing research. Using eudaimonia to predictentrepreneurial entry and persistence is novel and tested on a large panel dataset from Australia.The findings show, contrary to the literature, no difference in eudaimonic well-being of those who changefrom paid employment to self-employment compared to those who stay in paid employment. The resultsalthough fail to reject the hypothesis that eudaimonic well-being influences the likelihood of entrepreneurialpersistence. Higher eudaimonic well-being shows, statistically not significant, positive impact on thechances to sustain in self-employment. This adds evidence to existing literature on entrepreneurialpersistence and eudaimonic well-being. Activities that increase eudaimonia can therefore be seen asbeneficial to create long-term persistent entrepreneurs and businesses.