Investigating fiction reader characteristics using personal construct theory

Exploring the Factors Iranian EFL Institute Teachers Consider in Grading Using Personal Construct Theory

Although grades are the most ubiquitous currency of educational measurement around the globe, their meaning, particularly in understudied settings as in Iran, is still shrouded in mystery. The purpose of this study was to investigate EFL teachers’ class grades by focusing on the less verbalized aspects of grading to see what a grade means. Five Iranian English language teachers working ...

Emotions in Personal Construct Theory: a Review

George Kelly claimed that there were no emotions in Personal Construct Theory (PCT). The present paper notes that Kelly did define four important emotions and reviews the work by McCoy in extending the range of emotions that can be explained by PCT. In addition, the theories of personality formulated by non-PCT psychologists (Paul McReynolds and Prescott Lecky), which are consistent with PCT an...

Investigating Recovery in Psychosis: A Personal Construct Repertory Grid Study

The Personal Publication Reader

This application demonstrates how to provide personalized, syndicated views on distributed web data using Semantic Web technologies. The application comprises four steps: The information gathering step, in which information from distributed, heterogenous sources is extracted and enriched with machine-readable semantics, the operation step for timely and up-to-date extractions, the reasoning ste...

Personal Construct Theory and the Transfer of Human Expertise

The bottleneck in the process of building exnert svstems is retrieving the appropriate problemsolving knowledge from tKe hum-in expert. -Methods of knowledge elicitation and analysis from psychotherapy based on enhancements to George Kelly’s Personal Construct Theory are applied to this process. The Expertise Transfer System is described which interviews a human expert and then constructs and a...