There are new demands on science education for students moving into uncertain futures, including engagement with scientific practices, and understanding of the nature scientists’ work. Furthermore, there is increasing recognition interest in construct identity as a powerful way looking at students’ studies futures. In Australia has been policy-level curriculum advocacy focused finding practical...

The current study extends research in the area of identity conflict or interference by focusing on a new identity combination, the woman and scientist identities. In addition, it examines the influence of identity centrality, or importance, as a predictor of interference and moderator of the relation between interference and well-being and science performance. Supporting hypotheses, greater ide...

trust services, accountability, identity, B2B, e-commerce To be successful, e-commerce solutions need to properly address accountability issues. Accountability is fundamental to business, and identity is fundamental to accountability. This paper analyses the role identity services play in supporting business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce. There are many good reasons for outsourcing identity mana...

OBJECTIVE This study aims to observe the factors that influence the development of national identity of North Korean refugees who have resettled in South Korea. METHODS The study population was comprised of 500 North Korean refugees who immigrated to South Korea in 2007. The variables measured national identity as South Korean, a scale for discrimination perceived during daily life, a social ...

Title of Dissertation: IT DESIGN FOR SUSTAINING VIRTUAL COMMUNITIES: AN IDENTITY-BASED APPROACH Meng Ma, Ph.D., 2005 Dissertation Directed By: Professor Ritu Agarwal and Professor Hank Lucas, Decision of Information Technologies Department A variety of information technology (IT) artifacts, such as those supporting reputation management and digital archives of past interactions, are commonly de...

A of information technology (IT) artifacts, such as those supporting reputation management and digital archives of past interactions, are commonly deployed to support online communities. Despite their ubiquity, theoretical and empirical research investigating the impact of such IT-based features on online community communication and interaction is limited. Drawing on the social psychology liter...

This study in an English context focused on the development of teachers identified as 'emergent' school leaders. It explored the aspirations and experiences of such leaders, applying a sociocultural view of identity development. Five participants from across school phases, backgrounds and ages were interviewed and generated participant learning logs over 13 years. This paper focuses on the visu...

This study examined the effects of different levels of identity revelation in relation to aspects most relevant to engaged online learning activities. An online learning system supporting question-generation and peer-assessment was adopted. Three 7 grade classes (N=101) were assigned to three identity revelation modes (real-name, nickname and anonymity) and observed for six weeks. A pretest-pos...

Federated identity management is a set of technologies and processes supporting dynamically distribute identity information. Its adoption in Public Administrations maintains organizations autonomy giving at the same time citizens support to access the services that are distributed across security domains. In this paper, we propose the Marche Region experience for what concern federate identity ...