the effect of test on teachers, students, and their classroom behaviors has ever been amenable to scholarly studies. to explore such an effect, 20 professors offering ma tefl preparation courses and 30 candidates received plsp and apals inventories. paired-sample t-tests revealed significant differences. however, the respective componential multivariate anova revealed non-significant and signif...

intraorganizational units play a critical role in km processes of acquiring, creating, exchanging, and utilizing knowledge assets. while much attention has been directed to effective knowledge strategies forsupporting organizational km processes, there is a lack of insightful research on knowledge strategy and its implementation at the work-unit level. this study examines two types of work unit...

AIM This study investigates which leadership styles can be identified among general practice lead physicians and how they are associated with and predicted by staff and context characteristics like profession, gender, age, work experience, and team size. METHOD/MATERIAL: In a cross-sectional study self-administered questionnaires were distributed to staff physicians (42% females) and support st...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to outline a conceptual framework for understanding driving style and, on this basis, review the state-of-the-art research on driving styles in relation to road safety. BACKGROUND Previous research has indicated a relationship between the driving styles adopted by drivers and their crash involvement. However, a comprehensive literature review of driving sty...

Parents interact with children following specific styles, known to influence child development. These styles represent variations in the dimensions of demandingness and responsiveness, resulting in authoritarian, authoritative, permissive or uninvolved parenting. Given the similarities in the parent to child and owner to dog relationships, we determined the extent to which parenting styles exis...

e-Learning has opened a multitude of possibilities for teaching and learning. As the market matures there is a demand for more effective and cost-efficient learning interventions that meet the learning needs of the diverse learner population. Currently, however, very few teaching attempts have been made to match the pedagogical styles underlying e-Learning interventions to students’ diverse lea...

Architectural styles represent composition patterns and constraints at the software architectural level and are targeted at families of systems with shared characteristics. They enable architectural reuse and hence can bring economy to the design of software architecture. Existing approaches support systematic description of style-based software architectures. Our approach, Alfa, focuses on the...

This paper intends to join the long-standing debate regarding thinking styles and personality traits— should thinking styles be measured in addition to the measurement of personality traits? The means to achieve this goal was to provide empirical evidence as well as to review other studies in the literature. The Thinking Styles Inventory and the NEO Five-Factor Inventory were administered to 26...

OBJECTIVE The provision of information appears to be an important feature of humor. The present studies examined whether humor serves as an interpersonal signal such that an individual's style of humor is associated with how the individual is perceived by others. METHOD We examined this issue across two studies. In Study 1, undergraduate participants (257 targets) were rated more positively b...