Goals

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Classroom goal structure and student disruptive behaviour.

BACKGROUND: Achievement goal theory suggests that the emphasis on mastery and performance goals in the classroom (the classroom goal structure) is related to students patterns of learning and behaviour. This theory can offer a preventative holistic ...
Avi Kaplan, Margaret Gheen, Carol Midgley (Br J Educ Psychol, 200206)
classroom-goal-structure-student-disruptive-behaviour.asp

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A possible selves intervention to enhance school involvement.

We developed a 9-week after-school, small group, activities-based intervention focused on enhancing youths abilities to imagine themselves as successful adults and connecting these future imagines to current school involvement. We describe and evaluate ...
Daphna Oyserman, Kathy Terry, Deborah Bybee (J Adolesc, 200206)
possible-selves-intervention-enhance-school-involvement.asp

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Contemporary measures of approach and avoidance goal orientations: similarities and differences.

BACKGROUND: In response to a resurgence of interest in and demonstrated utility of the approach-avoidance goal distinction, a number of researchers (Elliot & Church, 1997; Midgley et al., 1998; Skaalvik, 1997) have developed instruments to assess ...
Michaela Smith, Joan Duda, Justine Allen, Howard Hall (Br J Educ Psychol, 200206)
contemporary-measures-approach-avoidance-goal-orientations.asp

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Understanding the members of your health care "gang:" seekers and cruisers.

Managers are challenged by diverse characteristics of persons belonging to certain groups. This paper outlines characteristics of "cruisers" and "seekers" and managerial strategies for responding to these characteristics for leadership ...
Ruth Davidhizar, Douglas Cathon (Health Care Manag (Frederick), 200206)
understanding-members-your-health-care-gang-seekers-cruisers.asp

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Reducing health disparities in the twenty-first century: opportunities for nursing research.

This article highlights selected components of the National Institute of Nursing Researchs (NINR) Strategic Plan on Reducing Health Disparities. Building on its long history of supporting research devoted to improving minority health, NINR has expanded ...
Janice Phillips, Patricia A Grady (Nurs Outlook, 200205-06)
reducing-health-disparities-twenty-first-century-opportunities.asp

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Factors in contraceptive method choice in Bangladesh: goals, competence, evaluation and access.

In this study, we have extended Bulataos conceptual framework for selecting the determinants of method choice. Attempts have been made to capture Bulataos dimensions directly rather than through proxies. The results of logistic regression analysis using ...
Haider Rashid Mannan (Contraception, 200205)
factors-contraceptive-method-choice-bangladesh-goals-competence.asp

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Approach-avoidance motivation in personality: approach and avoidance temperaments and goals.

The present research examined the role of approach and avoidance motivation in models of personality. Specifically, it examined the hypothesis that approach and avoidance temperaments represent the foundation of several basic dimensions espoused in the ...
Andrew J Elliot, Todd M Thrash (J Pers Soc Psychol, 200205)
approach-avoidance-motivation-personality-approach-avoidance.asp

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Adolescent subjective well-being and realized values.

AIMS OF THE STUDY: The purpose of this study was to describe adolescent subjective well-being and realized values, and to examine the relationships between socio-demographic variables, realized values and subjective well-being from the adolescent ...
Katja Rask, Päivi Astedt-Kurki, Pekka Laippala (J Adv Nurs, 200205)
adolescent-subjective-well-realized-values.asp

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Helping medical school faculty realize their dreams: an innovative, collaborative mentoring program.

Junior faculty wishing to achieve successful careers in academic medicine face many challenges. To facilitate faculty in their career development, the authors implemented and evaluated an innovative collaborative, or peer-group, mentoring program at ...
Linda H Pololi, Sharon M Knight, Kay Dennis, Richard M Frankel (Acad Med, 200205)
helping-medical-school-faculty-realize-dreams-innovative.asp

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Individualized outcome measures: a review of the literature.

The client-centred nature of occupational therapy acknowledges the individual as the central element of treatment. This philosophy, however, challenges the therapist to choose an outcome measure that is capable of reflecting this individualized ...
Catherine Donnelly, Anne Carswell (Can J Occup Ther, 200204)
individualized-outcome-measures-review-literature.asp