STUDY FINDINGS Before comparing the group means‚ assumptions for the paired sample t-test were evaluated and no violations were noted. Results from the paired sample t-test revealed statistically significant differences (p <= .05) in student competency self-assessment between the pretest and the posttest‚ and the posttest and the retrospective test on all 19 competencies (Table 2). Cohen’s effect size values ranging from 0.51 to 2.30 suggested moderate or high practical significance. These findings
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Structuration Theory Matthew Anderson SP2750 3/3/2015 Structuration Theory Written by: Beverley J. Gibbs 1 Last Updated 10-24-2013 Structuration theory‚ concept in sociology that offers perspectives on human behavior based on a synthesis of structure and agency effects known as the “duality of structure.” Instead of describing the capacity of human action as being constrained by powerful stable societal structures such as educational‚ religious‚ or political institutions or as a function
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Armstrong have argued that human resource management is simply a new title for the orthodox personnel management. Guest has argued that human resource management was designed to give personnel specialists more status‚ (1987:506 cited by Sisson‚ 1989:31). For example a large-scale survey was carried out on corporate managers and found that 80% of personnel chiefs admitted they had an overall human resource policy but when asked could not describe it‚ (Marginson‚ 1988 cited in Blyton and Turnbull
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always related to each other nowadays. Both of them are important factors of the modern mass media‚ which aim to influence public opinions since the early twentieth century (Coombs and Holladay‚ 2010). In order to sharp citizen’s opinions‚ Charron(1989) mentions that the PR practitioners and journalists often prefer to work together and share information as cooperation. The dependent relationship‚ as Coombs (2010) explains‚ the PR practitioners scheme to cover through media‚ while the journalists
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SMOKING AND THE EFFECTS IT HAS ON TEENAGERS As a society‚ we have a long way to go to win the fight against tobacco smoking. If the parents are informed about the hazards of smoking‚ and recognize when their teen is being pressured or is actually smoking‚ then they will enact a plan of successful preventive measures that will enhance the life and health of their teenager and family. Just being aware of the circumstances and pressures that lure teens to start smoking will help parents recognize
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Hans Zimmer Hans Zimmer was born in Frankfurt‚ Germany in September 12‚ 1957. As a child‚ he began playing piano since he was three years old. Although he was receiving piano lessons‚ he quickly became uninterested after only two weeks of piano lessons. Even more astounding he decided to become a composer at age six. His father died when he was six and that is when he decided to become serious about music‚ because it was his refuge as he quotes‚ “It was my way of calming the demons in me or at
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The Branagh adaptation was also filmed in a war time epoch‚ after the Falkland’s war. Arguably the scene was also inappropriate for a post-Falklands war film to feature. However the 1989 adaptation does not omit the final scene of Shakespeare’s play where the chorus explains the loss of the French throne and therefore maintains the authenticity that Olivier’s adaptation does not. The scene was likely left in because unlike the Olivier
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“aggression in children is influenced by the reinforcement of family members‚ the media‚ and the environment” (Bandura‚ 1975‚ pp. 206-208). Evans (1989) suggested that the basis for Bandura’s theories came from work completed by researchers Miller and Dollard (1941) who suggested that human development is actively influenced by “response consequences” (Evans‚ 1989‚ p. 4)‚ but regardless of the impetus for Bandura’s work‚ he is most known for his work regarding aggression in children. This paper will focus
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contemporary British fiction‚ I will be using the example of ‘Sexing The Cherry’ written by Jeanette Winterson. The works that can be closely linked with this novel first published in 1989 are those of theorist and historian Michel Foucault. His ideas on sexuality mirror the ideas of sexuality used in Sexing The Cherry (Winterson. J 1989‚ 47-60). Postmodernism affects the way that we read a text‚ but why is that more important than reading a text for its own individual merit. Postmodernism as a movement is
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