A study of the significance of galvanic skin resistance in relationship to performance of girls in varsity basketball games

Thesis (Ed.M.)--Boston Universit

An exploration of influences on the careers of professional women planners : a 152.803 research report presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements of the Master of Business Studies at Massey University, Albany, New Zealand

The literature which explores key influences on women’s career pathways suggests women’s careers are a blend of the work and non-work facets of their lives. The kaleidoscope career model (Mainiero & Sullivan, 2005, 2006) portrays the attributes of authenticity, balance and challenge as constants in a woman’s life and drivers which move constantly to shape her career at any particular point in its trajectory. The model seeks to explain why women ‘opt-out’ or work in different ways throughout their career. There is little knowledge or research on professional women planners and the influences on their careers. The report explores key influences using thematic analysis to analyse interview data from six participants. The results show professional women planners are adept at crafting their careers and taking into account their own particular objectives, needs and life criteria. They are able to work in a range of ways throughout their careers, from the corporate and local government sectors through to running their own consultancy practices in the private sector. The report finds they are able to do this without ‘opting out’, and integrate the facets of the kaleidoscope career model to take into account their own particular circumstances

Inflation and personal saving: an update

Inflation (Finance) ; Saving and investment

The Tent

Fiction by Jean Campbel

Gentleman of Leisure

Fiction by Jean Campbel

A catalogue and assessment of drawings by Sir David Wilkie, 1785-1841

Drawing played a central role in the formation of David Wilkie's style. His painting style underwent a striking alteration at the very height of his popularity, and this has led to much discussion among critics, both at the time and at the present day. A study of the drawings provides some of the answers to these problems posed by the paintings, and shows Wilkie's development to have been both continuous and consistent. The catalogue lists several hundred of these drawings, and provides a rough chronological framework whereby Wilkie's development as an artist can be studied. The Thesis identifies three main periods during which Wilkie acquired new powers as a draughtsman. The first was the formative period during which he learned the grammar of his profession (1799 - 1811); the second began with his increasing awareness of the works of Rubens, and culminated in his studies in Europe between 1825 and 1828; finally the drawings made on Wilkie's last journey in the East show him attempting a style suitable for Biblical subjects

Contextual Influences on Phonetic Categorization in Developmental Populations

A major goal of research in the domain of speech perception has been to describe how listeners recover individual consonants and vowels from the speech stream. A major challenge to this task is explaining how this is possible given the extreme variability present in the speech signal. In healthy adults, findings have repeatedly demonstrated that the key to healthy perceptual processing system is dynamically adjusting phonetic boundaries to accommodate contextual influences in speech production. The current study seeks to determine if school-aged children demonstrate the same functional plasticity for systematic variation. Collectively, we found that older children (8-10 years of age) demonstrated boundary flexibility similar to adults. For younger children (5-7 years of age), the results were less definitive, which indicates that the paradigm may not be appropriate for young school-aged children. The results of the current work add to our knowledge of language processing in three ways. First, the results indicate that the modified paradigm successfully measured categorical processing in healthy adults and typically-developing older children. Second, the results provide evidence in support of modifications to the paradigm, such as discrimination paradigms and imaging paradigms, to further assess the effects of context on the perceptual systems of younger children. Finally, the results point to specific considerations for informing the locus of language impairment in children, particularly for the specific language impairment population

A CASE STUDY OF PRESERVICE TEACHERS\u27 PERCEPTIONS OF THEIR USE OF BACKDOOR PRAISE IN THE CLASSROOM

“Backdoor praise” (BDP) is defined as praise that is simultaneously delayed, indirect, and embedded in teacher comments. This case study investigated preservice teachers’ perceptions of their use of BDP as a strategy for getting and keeping students on task. Three participants, representing elementary, middle, and high school, were observed to collect baseline data on their natural use of BDP. The preservice teachers were then informed of what BDP is and how to use it with students, and they were observed twice more using BDP. Overall, 28 incidents of BDP use involving 21 students were recorded, and 16 of the students maintained long-term on-task behavior post-BDP. The preservice teachers all reported positive effects, including a greater focus on “finding the good” in their students and a decrease in their use of negative comments and reprimands. A tally sheet of BDP per student and individual and focus group interview transcripts are included in the appendices

Reading recovery: An orchestration of literacy for the at risk first grader

Reading Recovery is a relatively new program in California as it was only introduced in 1991-1992 school year. Its growth in the last four years has been gratifying, but still there are many who do not know what Reading Recovery is and how it is different from the other programs that have been used to help children who are at risk. By design, Reading Recovery fits into an educational system and is meant to be something that children get in addition to their classroom learning. Each player in the educational system can contribute a part in the success of this program. For this reason, this media project was created