CONTENT COMPONENTS OF STUDENTS’ VALUE ORIENTATIONS

Age stratification and value orientations.

Study orientations of graduate entry medical students.

BACKGROUND In order to meet the changing needs of health care, the University of Turku has introduced a graduate entry programme aimed at students with previous education and experience in health care professions. AIMS In this study, we look at the study performance of students with different educational backgrounds with special emphasis on graduate entry students. METHODS We surveyed the s...

Forest value orientations in Australia: an application of computer content analysis.

This article explores the expression of three forest value orientations that emerged from an analysis of Australian news media discourse about the management of Australian native forests from August 1, 1997 through December 31, 2004. Computer-coded content analysis was used to measure and track the relative importance of commodity, ecological and moral/spiritual/aesthetic forest value orientati...

The Components of Content[*]

(1) Is content in the head? Oscar believes that water is wet. His twin on Twin Earth, which is just like Earth except that H2O is replaced by the superficially identical XYZ, does not. His thoughts concern not water but twin water: Oscar believe that water is wet, but Twin Oscar believes that twin water is wet. This suggests that what a subject believes is not wholly determined by the internal ...

Moral Reasoning Among Croatian Students of Different Academic Orientations

Previous studies demonstrated that different academic contexts could have different effects on moral development, i.e. in most cases formal education enhances moral reasoning, but sometime erodes it (for example for medical students). The aim of this study was to examine differences in moral reasoning among students of different academic disciplines (health care, law, social sciences and humani...