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Hamlyn-Harris, James H.; Hurst, Barbara J.; von Baggo, Karola; Bayley, Anthony J. – Journal of Information Technology Education, 2006
The ability to work in teams is an attribute highly valued by employers of information technology (IT) graduates. For IT students to effectively engage in team work tasks, the process of working in teams should be satisfying for the students. This work explored whether university students who were involved in compulsory team work were satisfied…
Descriptors: Familiarity, Teamwork, Information Technology, Databases
MacLean, George Edward – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1917
This study represents an endeavor to point out facts and tendencies in higher education in Ireland and Wales by which American universities and colleges may profit. It complements similar studies in England and Scotland (see ED540852), and presupposes familiarity with the principal features and terminology of these studies. The compiler of this…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Higher Education, Familiarity, Technical Education
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Barth, Joan M.; Archibald, Andrea – Social Development, 2003
Examined relations between preschoolers' emotion production and classroom social behavior. Also examined influence of familiarity with a child on the perception of emotion expressions and on those relations between emotion expression and social behavior. Found that children who were more negative and dependent had angry production biases and were…
Descriptors: Childhood Attitudes, Emotional Development, Emotional Experience, Emotional Response
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Siegel, Janna; Shaughnessy, Michael F. – Adolescence, 1995
Examines the phenomenon of the"first time"--a teenager's first date, first job, first sexual experience. Since these experiences are imbued with an inordinate amount of emotional investment, they offer an alternative understanding to adolescents' emotional underpinnings and clarify why many adolescents experience stressful times during this stage…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Arousal Patterns, Behavior, Behavior Patterns
Chowdhary, Usha – Illinois Teacher of Home Economics, 1991
Fifty-four college students rated their foreign-born instructors on presentation, organization, interest, enthusiasm, and attitude. Paired t-test analyses showed that increased interaction with an instructor with a different background increased consonance between students and instructors irrespective of their nationality. (JOW)
Descriptors: College Students, Cultural Differences, Cultural Interrelationships, Familiarity
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Shimoda, Todd A. – Journal of Experimental Education, 1993
The impact of interestingness and "narrativity" on comprehension, attention, and reading speed and the role of topic familiarity were studied for 16 college students in psychology classes and 8 from engineering classes who read excerpts from psychology and engineering texts. Results support schema-based comprehension theory. (SLD)
Descriptors: Attention, College Students, Engineering, Familiarity
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Geva, Ronny; Gardner, Judith M.; Karmel, Bernard Z. – Developmental Psychology, 1999
Studied feeding-related arousal effects on a visual recognition paired-comparison task at newborn, 1, and 4 months of age. Found that newborns and 1-month olds shifted from a familiarity preference before feeding to a novelty preference after feeding. Control-group testing confirmed that shift was not due to increased stimulus exposure. By 4…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Arousal Patterns, Comparative Analysis, Dimensional Preference
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Batson, C. Daniel; And Others – Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 1996
Two studies tested the prediction that prior experience with a need increases empathy for those experiencing that need. In study 1, subjects (n=48) reported feelings of empathy after observing a same-sex peer endure mild electric shocks. In study 2, subjects (n=88) reported feelings of empathy after reading a transcript describing a same-sex…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Coping, Emotional Development, Empathy
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Saffran, Jenny R.; Loman, Michelle M.; Robertson, Rachel R. W. – Cognition, 2000
Two experiments examined memory of 7-month-olds after 2-week retention interval for passages of two Mozart movements heard daily for 2 weeks. Results suggested that the infants retained familiarized music in long-term memory and that their listening preferences were affected by the extent to which familiar passages were removed from the musical…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Familiarity, Infant Behavior, Infants
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Arndt, Katrina; Lieberman, Lauren J.; Pucci, Gina – TEACHING Exceptional Children Plus, 2004
Communication is a barrier to accessing physical activity and recreation for many people who are deafblind (Lieberman & MacVicar, 2003; Lieberman & Stuart, 2002). The purpose of this study was to observe effective communication strategies used during four physical activities for youth who are deafblind. Communication during physical activity was…
Descriptors: Communication Strategies, Physical Activities, Physical Activity Level, Interpersonal Communication
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Goh, Winston D. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2005
The author investigated voice context effects in recognition memory for words spoken by multiple talkers by comparing performance when studied words were repeated with same, different, or new voices at test. Hits and false alarms increased when words were tested with studied voices compared with unstudied voices. Discrimination increased only when…
Descriptors: Response Style (Tests), Familiarity, Recognition (Psychology), Long Term Memory
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Chasteen, Alison L. – International Journal of Aging and Human Development, 2005
Because of their relatively temporary group memberships, age groups represent an intriguing test of theories of intergroup relations. In spite of this unique feature, virtually no research has examined age group relations from an intergroup perspective. The present study investigated the role of two influential intergroup factors, degree of group…
Descriptors: Familiarity, Young Adults, Age Differences, Older Adults
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Dunphy, Elizabeth – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2004
Although increasingly seen as critically important for pedagogy, young children's perceptions of number and of learning about number have not received much attention from researchers. This study uses a phenomenographic approach in that it seeks to map the range of possible conceptions about number and numerically-related learning amongst a group…
Descriptors: Number Concepts, Numbers, Numeracy, Interviews
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English Teaching Forum, 2006
This lesson plan contains four activities based on the theme of newspapers and journalism. It includes a lesson to familiarize students with newspapers, journalistic writing, interviewing, and creating a class newspaper. The activities can be used as individual lessons or a larger project of creating a class newspaper.
Descriptors: Lesson Plans, Newspapers, Journalism, Second Language Learning
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Hayes-Harb, Rachel – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2006
English as a second language (ESL) teachers have long noted that native speakers of Arabic exhibit exceptional difficulty with English reading comprehension (e.g., Thompson-Panos & Thomas-Ruzic, 1983). Most existing work in this area has looked to higher level aspects of reading such as familiarity with discourse structure and cultural knowledge…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Reading Difficulties, Identification, Familiarity
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