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Johansson, Louice, and Mikael Pedersen. "Elevers attityder till de naturorienterande ämnena : en jämförelse mellan år 4-6 och år 7-9." Thesis, Linköping University, Department of Thematic Studies, 2003. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-2315.

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Syftet med vårt arbete var att undersöka om elevers attityder till de naturorienterande ämnena ändrats mellan år 4-6 och år 7-9. Detta tyckte vi oss ha sett när vi varit på olikaskolor under vår utbildning, därför ville vi med vår forskning se om det stämde även på den skolan vi undersökte. För att undersöka hur attityden till NO var, började vi med en enkätundersökning för elever i år 4-9. Resultatet för denna visade att elever i år 7-9 hade en mer negativ attityd till NO än elever i år 4-6. Då flera elever svarade att de inte tyckte om att arbeta med läroböcker bestämde vi oss för att undersöka även detta. Det gjordes genom ett antal observationer där vi studerade hur lärare och elever arbetade med läroböckerna. För att mer ingående få förståelse för hur detta arbete upplevdes gjorde vi även intervjuer med lärare och elever. För att få en klarhet i vilka förutsättningar som läroböckerna skapar för skolarbetet, gjorde vi en utvärdering av dessa. Slutligen förde vi en diskussion där vi kopplade ihop de empiriska studierna med den tidigare forskningen för att skapa en helhet.


The purpose with our work was to inquire about students attitudes to science subjects and if they change between years 4-6 and years 7-9. This is something we believe we have noticed when we spent time in different schools throughout our education and therefor we wanted, with our research, to see if that was the case with the school we studied. To examine the attitude to science subjects, we started with a questionnaire among students in years 4-9. The result showed us that the students in years 7-9 had a more negative attitude to science subjects, than those in years 4-6. We decided to research this too, when a few students answered thet they didn´t like to work with textbooks. We did that by observing how teachers and students worked with textbooks. To get a more detailed understanding how they felt about this work we also interviewed teachers and students. To get an enlightenment to what conditions textbooks create for schoolwork, we did an evaluation of them. Finally we conducted a discussion in which we connected the epiric studies with the earlier research to create an entirety.

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Houweling, Patrick. "Empirical studies on credit markets = Empirisch onderzoek naar markten voor kredieten /." Rotterdam : Thela Thesis, 2003. http://aleph.unisg.ch/hsgscan/hm00084271.pdf.

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Julie, Victoria Ærø. "Å synge er ikke det samme som å øve : En studie om øvingsstrategier i sang." Thesis, Karlstads universitet, Institutionen för konstnärliga studier, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-44443.

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Denne studien handler om fenomenet øvingsstrategier i sang. Hensikten med studien er ut fra en empirisk psykologisk fenomenologi, å utforske hva noen lærere i sang retter sin bevissthet mot når det gjelder øvingsstrategier. Studiens forskningsspørsmål er: ”Hvilke strategier erfares som betydningsfulle for sangøving?” og ”Hvilken rolle anser sangpedagoger å ha i forhold til sine elevers øvingsstrategier?”. Tidligere forskning om øvingsstrategier viser at det finnes stor variasjon i hva øving kan innebære, og at det ikke finnes én strategi som fungerer, men en variasjon av flere gir best resultat. Oppgaven har sitt teoretiske utgangspunkt i Empirisk Fenomenologisk Psykologi, der forskeren er ute etter respondentenes subjektive opplevelser og erfaringer i forhold til studiens tema. Undersøkelsen har blitt gjennomført med halvstrukturerte kvalitative intervjuer av etablerte og nyutdannede sanglærere fra både Norge og Sverige. Resultatet er delt inn i meningsmønstre, og de tre store psykologiske temaene selvstendighet, struktur og bevissthet rammer inn respondentenes uttalelser. Respondentene mener ut fra subjektive erfaringer at gode øvingsstrategier bygger på sangerens selvstendighet (jeg velger å øve), struktur (hvordan øvingen ser ut) og bevissthet (jeg gjør det jeg har planlagt å gjøre). I diskusjonen viser det seg at respondentenes uttalelser bekrefter mye av resultatene i den tidligere forskningen som presenteres i bakgrunnskapittelet.
This study is about practice strategies in singing. The purpose of this study is, from a empiric phenomenologic psychology, to investigate what some singing teachers direct their awareness toward when it comes to practice strategies in singing. The studys research questions are: ”Witch strategies are experienced as meaningful in singing practicing?” and ”What role consider singing teachers they have in relation to their students practice strategies?”. Prior research in practice strategies shows a great variation in what practice involves, and there is not only one functioning strategy, but a variation of several strategies provides the best outcome. The study has its theoretical basis in empiric phenomenologic psychology, where the researcher search for the respondents subejctive experiences to the subject of the study. The survey has been conducted with semi structured qualitative interviews of established and newly educated singing teachers from Norway and Sweden. The result is divided into meaning patterns, and the three psychological topics independence, structure and awareness frames the respondents statements. The respondents thinks from subjective experiences that good practice strategies are built on the singers independence (i choose to practice), structure (how the practice situation looks like) and awareness (I do what I planned to do). In the discussion it appears that the respondents statements confirms much of the result from the prior research presented in the background chapter.
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Strand, Niklas. "Empirical studies of pricing." Doctoral thesis, Stockholm : Economic Research Institute, Stockholm School of Economics (Ekonomiska forskningsinstitutet vid Handelshögsk.) (EFI), 2001. http://www.hhs.se/efi/summary/570.htm.

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Zhou, Xu-Shen. "Empirical Studies in Finance." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2003. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1060878290.

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Vetter, Stefan. "Empirical studies of individual behavior." Diss., lmu, 2012. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:19-150054.

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Nosyk, Bohdan. "Empirical studies in opioid dependence." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/23718.

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Background: Opioid dependence is a chronic disease characterized by periods of relapse and remission. Methadone maintenance treatment (MMT) can be effective, though not all patients can be successfully maintained in treatment. Further, treatment entrants often use multiple illicit drugs, a fact whose motive and effect are under-studied. Rigorous evaluation at the aggregate- and patient-level is required to maximize the public health benefits of substance abuse treatment. Objectives: (1) identify the determinants of the time to discontinuation of MMT across multiple treatment episodes; (2) determine the effect of price on drug consumption among polydrug users; (3) identify trends in compliance to MMT dosing guidelines in British Columbia, Canada from 1996-2007; (4) provide a comparative analysis of the psychometric properties of eight measures of health status for opioid users; (5) evaluate differences in trajectories of health status among opioid users following treatment enrolment. Methods: We draw upon longitudinal data collected in administrative databases (study 1 and 3), experimental (study 4 and 5) and observational cohort studies (study 2) to shed light on the life course of treatment and relapse that opioid addicts experience, their decisions to consume addictive substances, and treatment evaluation at the aggregate- and patient-levels. Results: This collection of studies found (1) patients experiencing multiple treatment episodes tended to stay in treatment for progressively longer periods in later episodes; (2) While heroin and crack cocaine were price inelastic polydrug users treated crack cocaine as a substitute for heroin. In terms of treatment evaluation at the aggregate-level, compliance to minimally effective dose guidelines, along with 12-month retention figures have fallen in the past 5 years in British Columbia (study 3). At the patient-level each of the health status measures assessed in the North American Opiate Medication Initiative (NAOMI) trial showed limitations (study 4), however health status can be meaningfully improved through effective, patient-centered opioid substitution treatment (study 5). Conclusions: The results of these novel empirical studies suggest that while MMT can be an effective treatment option for opioid dependence, the individual and program-related factors that limit its effectiveness must be addressed to maximize the public health impact of this treatment.
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Johansson, Mats. "Empirical studies of income distribution /." Göteborg : Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögsk, 1999. http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&doc_number=008600328&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA.

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Söderström, Johan. "Empirical studies in market efficiency /." Stockholm : EFI, 2008. http://www.gbv.de/dms/zbw/568733436.pdf.

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Papageorgiou, Nicolas. "Empirical studies in credit risk." Thesis, University of Reading, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.408992.

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Gao, Qiang, and Qiang Gao. "Empirical Studies of Online Crowdfunding." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/620871.

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Online crowdfunding, an emerging business model, has been thriving for the last decade. It enables small firms and individuals to conduct financial transactions that would previously been impossible. Along with unprecedented opportunities, two fundamental issues still hinder crowdfunding ability to fulfill its potentials: the information asymmetry and the understanding of the impact of crowdfunding. Both are actually exacerbated by the "virtual" nature of these marketplaces. The success of this new market therefore critically depends on both improving existing mechanisms or designing new ones to mitigate the issue of unobservable fundraiser quality, which can lead to adverse selection and market collapse; and better understanding the impact of crowdfunding, and particularly its offline impact, which will allow the effective allocation of scarce resources. My dissertation includes three essays around these topics, using data from debt-, reward- and donation-based crowdfunding contexts, respectively. My first two essays focus on two popular but understudied components in crowdfunding campaigns, texts and videos, and aim at predicting fundraiser quality by quantifying texts and videos. In particular, the first essay focuses on developing scalable approaches to extracting linguistic features from texts provided by borrowers when they request funds; and on using those features to explain and predict the repayment probability of the problematic loans. The second essay focuses on videos in reward crowdfunding, and preliminary results show excellent predictive performance and strong associations between multi-dimensional video information and crowdfunding campaign success and quality. The last essay investigates the impact of educational crowdfunding on school performance, using data from a crowdfunding platform for educational purposes. The results show that educational crowdfunding plays a role far beyond simply a financial source. Overall, my dissertation identifies the non-financial impact of crowdfunding as well as potential opportunities for efficiency improvement in the crowdfunding market, which have thus far not been documented in the literature.
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Long, Hannah Jade. "Empirical studies of market microstructure." Thesis, University of Bristol, 2017. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.738537.

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Xiong, Nan. "Empirical Studies of Private Firms." Research Showcase @ CMU, 2016. http://repository.cmu.edu/dissertations/771.

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Levander, Pontus, and Magnus Tonell. "Varumärkesbyggande : - i teori och empiri." Thesis, Stockholm University, School of Business, 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-6538.

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Syftet med denna uppsats är att ge en bild av rådande teoribildning gällande varumärkesuppbyggnad ur märkesinnehavarperspektiv. Uppsatsen uppkom ur tesen att det i dagens globaliserade ekonomi räcker det inte alltid med varor och tjänster i sig själv som effektiva konkurrensmedel och att det därför har blivit av allt större vikt att företagen aktivt arbetar med varumärken. Teoribildningen redovisas med hjälp av två mera ingående teoripresentationer. Därefter testas teorin på deduktiv väg genom en kvalitativ studie av varumärket "Hästens". Den teoretiska delen av arbetet är därför av beskrivande natur, medan den empiriska delen tolkas in i flera modeller och är av kontrollerande art. Den empiriska studien fungerar även som en katalysator för ett kreativt reflekterande över aktuell forsning. För att beskriva det rådande teoriläget inom området har två forskares teorier noggrannare analyserats och redovisats i uppsatsen. Dessa forskare är Frans Melin och David Aaker. De har båda utvecklat modeller riktade till företag och organisationer för varumärkesuppbyggande arbete. Varumärkesmixen är det analysverktyg som Melin tagit fram i syfte att kunna utgöra grund till företags operativa varumärkesarbete. I Melins modell utgör produkten grunden i varumärkesbyggandet, även om det tydligt framgår att varumärket i sig utgör ett självständigt konkurrensmedel. Aaker har en modell som mera fokuserar på varumärkeskapitalet som noga struktureras upp och analyseras. Båda forskarna har många likheter i sina teorier men Melin har en tydligare koppling till den fysiska produkten Medan Aaker snarare fokuserar på varumärkets personlighet. I uppsatsen finns även en empirisk del där Hästens AB har analyserats gällande deras arbete med sitt varumärke. Denna analys bygger till största delen på intervjuer gjorda på Hästens AB. Hästens har ingen renodlad Brand Management tjänst utan det närmaste man kommer detta är Tommy Gullbo, marknadsansvarig. Men även Magnus Pettersson, försäljningsansvarig på Hästens, arbetar till viss del med varumärkesfrågor. I empiristudien framkom att Hästens arbetar mycket medvetet med varumärkesfrågor och vikten av att sköta om och vårda varumärket. Utifrån teori och empiriavsnitten har sedan jämförelser gjorts för att hitta likheter och olikheter. Analysen har gjorts med hjälp av ett antal faktorer och relationer som stödpunkter. De relationer och faktorer som analyseras är Produkt - Varumärke, Varumärke - Kärnvärde, Varumärke - Försäljning, Kommunikation, Utövande av kontroll över varumärkets olika aspekter, Varumärkets identitet - Företagets identitet och Pris. När empirin testades på teorin kunde inga avvikande faktorer identifieras. Några intressanta faktorer som framkommit är dock vikten av att hålla en stark kontroll över varumärket och att varumärkesarbetet är en ständigt pågående och levande process som företaget kontinuerligt måste arbeta med, internt såväl som externt. Vidare framkom det av studien att priskonkurrens inte bör användas som ingrediens i den varumärkesbyggande processen. Författarna vill framhålla den mycket goda överensstämmelsen mellan empiri och teori och att den deduktiva metoden här har varit ändamålsenlig trots den begränsade empirin. Vidare forskning inom detta område är dock önsvärd.

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Miettinen, Heini, and Anna Wikström. "Marknadssegmentering : Teori = Empiri?" Thesis, Linköping University, Department of Management and Economics, 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-5970.

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Bakgrund: En viktig del av företagsstrategin är marknadssegmentering. Genom den kan företag få bättre kunskap om sina kunder och deras behov och då kan kunderna nås effektivare. Marknadssegmentering är ett väl utforskat ämne och det har utvecklats hjälpmedel och modeller för att underlätta för företag att utarbeta en väl fungerande marknadssegmentering. Trots den akademiska världens försök att konkretisera teorier till praktiska riktlinjer, verkar de inte fungera i verkligheten. Företag vet inte hur de ska hantera den information som finns tillgänglig, vilket enligt oss återspeglar en brist i samspelet mellan den akademiska världen och företagsvärlden.

Syfte: Med den här uppsatsen vill vi undersöka om det finns ett gap mellan den marknadssegmentering som har utvecklats i den akademiska världen och den marknadssegmentering som används i den praktiska företagsvärlden. Vi vill öka förståelsen för hur detta eventuella gap inom marknadssegmentering kan se ut och varför det har uppstått. Vi vill skapa en bättre medvetenhet om de olika synsätten och tillvägagångssätten och därigenom bidra till en ökad kunskap om hur gapet kan komma att minskas.

Genomförande: Studien har genomförts genom en fallstudie på Sterisol. Det empiriska materialet har samlats in genom fem personliga intervjuer.

Slutsats: Det existerar ett gap, eftersom synsättet och tillvägagångssättet på marknadssegmentering mellan den akademiska världen och företagsvärlden skiljer sig åt. Gapet kan beskrivas med teoretiska aspekter, som exempelvis behov och önskemål samt kundinformation, och empiriska aspekter, som exempelvis marknadsförändringar, konkurrenter och återförsäljare.

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Johansson, Hillevi Lundquist Catherine. "Kontrollerad vokabulär eller naturligt språk? : en empirisk studie= [Controlled vocabulary or natural language?] : [an empirical study] /." Borås : Högsk. i Borås, Bibliotekshögskolan/Biblioteks- och informationsvetenskap, 2004. http://www.hb.se/bhs/slutversioner/2004/04-20.pdf.

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Xiao, Jun. "Empirical Studies on Embodied Conversational Agents." Diss., Georgia Institute of Technology, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/14080.

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A great deal of effort has been put into developing Embodied Conversational Agent (ECA) systems that provide a human-like assistant in the user interface. However, little is known whether improvements to ECA interfaces made by such efforts can ever be significant from the users point of view. I studied user experiences with ECA interfaces and evaluated the ECA style of interaction with respect to user expectation, perception, behavior and performance. I introduce a conceptual framework that offers a holistic view of the design space of ECA systems. I also have created a middleware toolkit that facilitates rapid development of application content across different speech and animation platforms. A series of user studies has been carried out to investigate the similarities and differences between human-computer interaction and human-ECA interaction and between human-ECA interaction and human-human interaction. Results from these studies provide strong evidence that people are consciously aware of the capabilities and limitations of ECAs. Traditional GUI design heuristics should be carefully followed when designing ECA interfaces. Furthermore, the results soundly suggest that designers of ECA interfaces take extra care to accommodate individual differences and preferences. Social norms that guide human-human interaction greatly affect individuals expectation and perception of ECA characteristics. The findings support the argument that drawing from both human-computer interaction and human-human interaction can be significantly advantageous to the design of both effective and affective human-ECA interaction.
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Hanks, Brian F. "Empirical studies of distributed pair programming /." Diss., Digital Dissertations Database. Restricted to UC campuses, 2005. http://uclibs.org/PID/11984.

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Bruér, Mattias. "Empirical studies in demography and macroeconomics /." Uppsala : Dept. of Economics [Nationalekonomiska institutionen], Univ, 2004. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-4200.

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Li, Gang. "Two essays on empirical options studies /." View abstract or full-text, 2007. http://library.ust.hk/cgi/db/thesis.pl?FINA%202007%20LI.

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Arnberg, Søren. "Empirical studies of agricultural land allocation /." København, 2002. http://www.gbv.de/dms/zbw/356590755.pdf.

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Sandberg, Anna. "Empirical studies on sources of inequality." Doctoral thesis, Handelshögskolan i Stockholm, Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hhs:diva-2320.

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This Ph.D. thesis in Economics consists of four self-contained chapters that empirically explore sources of economic inequality, using data from experiments, sports competitions, and Swedish registers. Competing biases: Effects of gender and nationality in sports judging explores in-group biases among judges in the equestrian sport dressage – the only Olympic sport with subjective performance evaluations in which male and female athletes compete as equals. International dressage competitions provide a rare opportunity to investigate gender bias and nationalistic bias in the same setting, using naturally occurring data on decisions of professional decision makers. Gender differences in initiation of negotiation: Does the gender of the negotiation counterpart matter? experimentally investigates how gender differences in the willingness to enter a wage negotiation are affected by whether the counterpart is a man or a woman. The importance of family background and neighborhood effects as determinants of crime uses Swedish register data to estimate sibling and neighborhood correlations in criminal convictions and incarceration. Omission effects in fairness behavior experimentally tests if individuals are more prone to act selfishly if they can passively allow for a self-serving outcome to be implemented rather than having to make an active choice.

Diss. Stockholm :  Stockholm School of Economics, 2014. Introduction together with 4 papers

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Tsen, Wong Hock. "Three empirical studies on international trade." Thesis, University of Essex, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.435554.

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Goolsbee, Austan Dean. "Empirical studies of taxes and capital." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/11868.

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Jones, Ann Carolyn. "Empirical studies of novices learning programming." Thesis, Open University, 1989. http://oro.open.ac.uk/56445/.

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This thesis is concerned with the problems that novices have in learning to program: in particular it is concerned with the difficulties experienced by novices learning at a distance, using instructional materials which have been designed especially for novices. One of the major problems for novices is how to link the new information which they encounter with their existing knowledge. Du Boulay, O'Shea and Monk (1981) suggest helping novices to bridge the gap between their existing knowledge and new information by teaching via a conceptual model, which serves to explain the new information in familiar terms. In this thesis the difficulties which novices have when learning to program with the help of a conceptual model were investigated. The curricula and conceptual models of four different programming languages are examined, all of which were designed to teach novices. Du Boulay, O'Shea and Monk (1981) have suggested criteria for analysing conceptual models. It is argued that these criteria, however, do not address the presentation of the conceptual model, and so are insufficient to evaluate them. An additional form of analysis was proposed and used, in addition to the criteria offered by Du Boulay et al. This is a way of describing the conceptual model which distinguishes three views of the conceptual model: state, procedure and function, and which highlights the different aspects which are important for the novice learner by identifying the different kinds of knowledge which are necessary to understand the conceptual model. This analysis of the conceptual models showed that the environments are not as exemplary as the du Boulay et al's criteria suggest, and indicated that three of the environments, SOLO, PT501 and DESMOND, lack a functional representation, and that the fourth, Open Logo, has other different problems. An empirical study was carried out to study the transfer effects of learning two of the languages, a high level and a low level language, sequentially. There was no evidence for such transfer effects. The difficulties novices have in learning the four different languages were also investigated. These studies show that even though the novices were studying environments designed for novices learning at a distance, they did not develop good levels of competence, and the problems they had fall into two main categories: programming and pedagogical. Although the different languages had different aims and curricula, novices had some problems which were common to all or most of the languages. These included understanding flow of control, developing and using programming plans, developing accurate mental models, and in the high level languages, understanding recursion. It is argued that some of these problems are related to the conceptual models. In particular, the difficulties novices had in developing and using plan knowledge, which is one of their main problems, can be explained by the lack of an appropriate functional description in the languages. The subjects' pedagogical problems arose from the relationship between the style and structure of the curriculum, its content, and the subjects themselves. In all the four texts the teaching material is very carefully structured and it is suggested that this may encourage the learner to adopt an over-dependent attitude towards the text, and in some cases, to work at an inappropriate syntactic level. The relationship between the distance learning situation and the novice programmer is discussed, and recommendations are made for improving the curricula used for teaching novices programming.
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Scherliess, Ludger. "Empirical Studies of Ionospheric Electric Fields." DigitalCommons@USU, 1997. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/6823.

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The first comprehensive study of equatorial- to mid-latitude ionospheric electric fields (plasma drifts) is presented, using extensive incoherent scatter radar measurements from Jicamarca, Arecibo, and Millstone Hill, and F-region ion drift meter data from the polar orbiting DE-2 satellite. Seasonal and solar cycle dependent empirical quiet-time electric field models from equatorial to mid latitudes are developed, which improve and extend existing climatological models. The signatures of electric field perturbations during geomagnetically disturbed periods, associated with changes in the high-latitude currents and the characteristics of storm-time dynamo electric fields driven by enhanced energy deposition into the high-latitude ionosphere, are studied. Analytical empirical models that describe these perturbation drifts are presented. The study provided conclusive evidence for the two basic components of ionospheric disturbance electric fields. It is shown that magnetospheric dynamo electric fields can penetrate with significant amplitudes into the equatorial- to mid-latitude ionosphere, but only for periods up to 1 hour, consistent with results from the Rice Convection Model. The storm-time wind-driven electric fields are proportional to the high-latitude energy input, vary with local time and latitude, and have largest magnitudes during nighttime. These perturbations affect differently the zonal and meridional electric field components. It is shown that equatorial zonal electric fields (vertical drifts) can be disturbed up to 30 hours after large enhancements in the high-latitude currents. These perturbation electric fields are associated with enhanced high-latitude energy deposition taking place predominantly between about 1-12 hours earlier and found to be in good agreement with the Blanc-Richmond disturbance dynamo model. A second class of perturbations occurs around midnight and in the dawn-noon sector with delays of about 18-30 hours between the equatorial- and the high-latitude disturbances , and maximizes during locally quiet geomagnetic times. The latitudinal variation of the meridional disturbance electric fields (zonal drifts) is also presented. It is shown that these perturbation electric fields are predominantly downward/equatorward at all latitudes and due to both prompt penetration and disturbance dynamo electric fields. These results are also generally consistent with predictions from global convection and disturbance dynamo models.
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Wang, Jingya. "Empirical studies on stock return predictability." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2016. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/empirical-studies-on-stock-return-predictability(682e59f0-6a33-4c0e-b0ca-a7f1128b1f7d).html.

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This thesis includes three essays on topics related to the predictability of market returns. I investigate i) the predictability of market returns from an adjusted version of cay ratio (cayadj), ii) the explanatory power of a conditional version of the consumption-CAPM which uses predictor variables to scale the pricing kernel, and iii) whether information about future market returns can be extracted from a large set of commodity data. The first essay studies the predictive ability of cayadj . In Campbell and Mankiw (1989), the consumption-wealth ratio is represented as a linear function of expected market returns and consumption growth. Lettau and Ludvigson (2001) build their study on Campbell and Mankiw (1989) and estimate the ratio cay as a proxy for the consumption-wealth ratio, assuming that the fluctuation in expected consumption growth is constant. I argue that the variation in expected consumption growth should be taken into consideration and propose adjusting the cay ratio by the estimates of expected consumption growth. After making the adjustment, I find that the predictabilities of market returns, particularly at annual, bi-annual, and tri-annual horizons, are greatly improved. The significant predictive ability of cayadj still holds in out-of-sample forecasts. The second essay examines the performance of a conditional version of the consumption-CAPM, where conditioning variables are used to scale the pricing kernel. I find that incorporating the conditioning information into the standard consumption-CAPM greatly improves the performance in asset pricing tests, particularly when using cayadj as the conditioning variable. Moreover, the performance of conditional consumption-CAPM is as good as the ultimate consumption risk model (Parker and Julliard, 2005) which measures the consumption risk over several quarters. Further tests show that the factors of conditional consumption-CAPM drive out the consumption risk measured over several quarters. The third essay evaluates the ability of lagged commodity returns to forecast market returns. In order to exploit the predictive information from a relatively large amount of commodity returns, I apply the partial-least-squares (PLS) method pioneered by Kelly and Pruitt (2013). I find that the commodity returns measured over previous twelve months show strong predictive power in monthly and three-month forecasts, in-sample and out-of-sample. The findings are robust to controlling for risk factors such as momentum, Fama-French three factors and industry returns previously identified to be significant predictors of market returns (Hong, Torous and Valkanov, 2007).
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Abramovsky, L. F. "Empirical studies on firm-level innovation." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2015. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1469463/.

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In this dissertation I exploit di erent sources of rich rm-level data to study how rms organise their innovation activities in a world characterised by increasing globalisation and rapid technological change. The empirical analysis presented in this thesis aims to contribute to a robust evidence base to inform public policy. Chapter 2 considers the impact that information and communication technology (ICT) has on observed rms choices over organisational form. It nds that rms that are more ICT-intensive tend to purchase a greater amount of services on the market and are more likely to purchase o shore. Chapter 3 investigates the relationship between the location of private sector R&D labs and university research departments in Great Britain across di erent industries. The strongest evidence for co-location is for foreign-owned pharmaceutical labs and frontier chemistry research departments consistent with multinationals sourcing technology internationally. Chapter 4 extends the analysis of the previous chapter by using continuous measures of spatial proximity for the analysis of co-location of R&D labs and universities and by considering rm-university interactions directly. Chapter 5 provides a set of novel facts about EU pharmaceutical patenting rms engaged in the use of foreign inventors for drug discovery activity. It explores dimensions of rm-level heterogeneity similar to the ones used to analyse trade patterns. These are also shown to be a key feature in the internationalisation of inventors. Chapter 6 provides evidence on how changes in the employment of high-skilled workers (inventors) in a foreign location a ect a rm's domestic employment of the same type of worker. It nds evidence consistent with the idea that foreign and domestic inventors are complementary in the production of knowledge.
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Kamel, Rachael. "Thinking Beyond Identity, Nationalism, and Empire." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2016. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/373744.

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This project explores how and why an Americanized form of Zionism became an effective movement in American Jewish life. In the quest for a just and lasting resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, most scholarly attention has been focused on the state (and people) of Israel and the people of Palestine, and their efforts to resolve the conflict that has held them in its grip over the past century. As a result, we have focused too little attention on the role of support for U.S. nationalism in the American Jewish community in sustaining the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. I argue likewise that a critical juncture in this process occurred in the early twentieth century, as the United States emerged as an international power. American Jewish support for Zionism overlaps in many ways with Progressivism. Many of the early leaders of Americanized Zionism, such as Horace M. Kallen and Justice Louis Brandeis, began their careers as Progressive reformers and brought their ideas about social and political action with them into the Zionist movement. Brandeis in particular played a critical role in making Zionism acceptable to American Jews, in no small part by asserting that the Zionism he advocated was required no commitment to emigration. As this Americanized version of Zionism has become normalized in American Jewish life, the principle of Jewish sovereignty has become widely understood among American Jews to be an essential guarantor of Jewish safety. To understand the roots and implications of this stance, I explore the genealogy of the idea of sovereignty, as well as the binary opposition of “Arabs” and “Jews” in Euro-American thought. Americanized Zionism, I conclude, is less a product of Jewish ethnicity or religion than enactment of a commitment to U.S. nationalism as a fundamental aspect of American Jewish identity.
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Reynolds, Shawn Patrick. "Empirical studies of noncompliance to behavioral therapy." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape15/PQDD_0021/NQ27235.pdf.

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Stel, Adriaan Johannes van. "Entrepreneurship and economic growth some empirical studies /." [Amsterdam] : Rotterdam : Thela Thesis ; Erasmus University [Host], 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1765/1914.

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Assen, Marcel Fulco van. "Empirical Studies in Discrete Parts Manufacturing Management." [Rotterdam]: Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), Erasmus University Rotterdam ; Rotterdam : Erasmus University Rotterdam [Host], 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1765/6767.

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Haug, Alfred A. (. "Ricardian equivalence or debt illusion : empirical studies /." Connect to resource, 1987. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view.cgi?acc%5Fnum=osu1267621324.

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Feldhütter, Peter. "Empirical studies of bond and credit markets /." København, 2007. http://www.gbv.de/dms/zbw/541698753.pdf.

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Large, Jeremy. "Theoretical and empirical studies of financial markets." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.425035.

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Latza, Torben. "Collected studies in empirical high-frequency finance." Thesis, University of Bristol, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.549441.

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Gilbert, Sam Joseph. "Computational and empirical studies of task switching." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.400571.

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Mikkola, Hennamari. "Empirical studies on Finnish hospital pricing methods /." Helsinki : Helsinki School of Economics, 2002. http://aleph.unisg.ch/hsgscan/hm00068878.pdf.

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Gonzaga, Júnior Iran Rodrigues. "Empirical studies on fine-grained feature dependencies." Universidade Federal de Alagoas, 2015. http://www.repositorio.ufal.br/handle/riufal/1724.

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Maintaining program families is not a trivial task. Developers commonly introduce bugs when they do not consider existing dependencies among features. When such implementations share program elements, such as variables and functions, inadvertently using these elements may result in bugs. In this context, previous work focuses only on the occurrence of intraprocedural dependencies, that is, when features share program elements within a function. But at the same time, we still lack studies investigating dependencies that transcend the boundaries of a function, since these cases might cause bugs as well. Indeed, in this work we bring evidence that variability bugs can also occur due to interprocedural dependencies and global variables. To assess to what extent these different types of feature dependencies exist in practice, we perform an empirical study covering 40 program families of different domains and sizes. Our results show that the intraprocedural and interprocedural feature dependencies are common in practice: 51:44% 17:77% of functions with preprocessor directives have intraprocedural dependencies, while 25:98% 19:99% of all functions have interprocedural dependencies. After studying the feature dependencies occurrence in practice, we perform another empirical study now focusing on finding actual bugs related to feature dependencies. Here we focus on undeclared variables, undeclared functions, unused variables, and unused functions. This study uses 15 systems to answer research questions related to how developers introduce these bugs and their frequency. We detect and confirm 32 variability bugs. The corpus of bugs we gather is a valuable source to ground research on this topic and to help tool developers, so they can provide means in their tools to avoid these problems.
Manter famílias de programas não é uma tarefa trivial. Desenvolvedores comumente introduzem erros quando não consideram dependências existentes entre features. Quando tais features compartilham elementos de programa, como variáveis e funções, utilizar estes elementos inadvertidamente pode resultar em erros de variabilidade. Neste contexto, trabalhos anteriores focaram apenas na ocorrência de dependências intraprocedurais, ou seja, quando features compartilham elementos de programa dentro de uma mesma função. Mas ao mesmo tempo, ainda não temos estudos investigando dependências que extrapolam os limites de uma função, já que esses casos também podem causar erros. De fato, neste trabalho nós trazemos evidências de que erros de variabilidade também podem ocorrer devido a dependências interprocedurais ou a variáveis globais. Para avaliar até que ponto esses diferentes tipos de dependências entre features existem na prática, nós realizamos um estudo empírico abrangendo 40 famílias de programas de diferentes domínios e tamanhos. Nossos resultados mostram que dependências intraprocedurais e interprocedurais são comuns na prática: 51; 44% 17; 77% das funções com diretivas de pré-processamento têm dependências intraprocedurais, enquanto 25; 98% 19; 99% de todas as funções possuem dependências interprocedurais. Após estudar a ocorrência de dependências entre features na prática, nós conduzimos outro estudo empírico, desta vez direcionado a encontrar erros de variabilidade relacionados a dependências entre features. Aqui nos concentramos em variáveis não declaradas, funções não declaradas, variáveis sem uso e funções sem uso. Este estudo utiliza 15 sistemas para responder a questões de pesquisa relacionadas a como os desenvolvedores introduzem esses erros e sua frequência. Nós detectamos e confirmamos a existência de 32 erros de variabilidade. O conjunto de erros que coletamos é uma fonte valiosa para fundamentar a pesquisa sobre esse tema e para auxiliar desenvolvedores de ferramentas, de forma que eles forneçam meios em suas ferramentas de evitar tais problemas.
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Haug, Alfred A. ""Ricardian equivalence or debt illusion : empirical studies"." The Ohio State University, 1987. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1267621324.

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Stilger, Przemyslaw. "Numerical and empirical studies of option pricing." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2014. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/numerical-and-empirical-studies-of-option-pricing(d8d5a42a-8f45-47c1-85d4-ecce290895cb).html.

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This thesis makes a number of contributions in the derivative pricing and risk management literature and to the growing literature that exploits information embedded in option prices. First, it develops an effective numerical scheme for importance sampling scheme of Fouque and Tullie (2002) based on a 2-dimensional lookup table of stock price and time to maturity that dramatically improves the speed of this importance sampling scheme. Second, the thesis presents an application of this importance sampling scheme in a Multi-Level Monte Carlo simulation. Such combination yields greater variance reduction compared to Multi-Level Monte Carlo or importance sampling alone. Third, it demonstrates how the Greeks can be computed using the Likelihood Ratio Method based on characteristic function, and how combining it with importance sampling leads to a significant variance reduction for the Greeks. Finally, it documents the positive relationship between the risk-neutral skewness (RNS) and future realized stock returns that is driven by the underperformance of highly negative RNS portfolio. The results provide strong evidence that the underperformance of stocks with the lowest RNS is driven by those stocks that are associated with a higher hedging demand, relative overvaluation and are also too costly or too risky to sell short. Moreover, by decomposing RNS into its systematic and idiosyncratic components, this thesis shows that the latter drives the positive relationship with future realized stock returns.
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Wu, Shi. "Empirical studies of credit spreads and ratings." Thesis, Imperial College London, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/6200.

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The credit markets experienced fundamental changes during the last two decades. Corporate debt volumes have expanded rapidly making such debt one of the largest asset classes in financial markets. Structured credit products revolutionized banking practices and transformed the framework of credit risk management. Credit risk modeling, valuation and rating have, in consequence, been extensively studied. Many issues remain controversial for both academics and industry practitioners, however, especially in the wake of the recent financial crisis. This thesis contributes to the existing literature in four ways. First, a new approach is introduced for jointly estimating rating-specific bond spread term structures. The approach achieves fitting accuracy comparable to the more standard extended Nelson-Siegel technique meanwhile yielding well-behaved and stable term structures which are appropriately ordered for different rating classes. Second, a ‘clinical’ study is presented of the evolution of Asset Backed Security (ABS) valuations conditional on ratings during two crisis periods, namely the 2007-2009 crisis and the earlier collapse of ABS secured against Manufactured Housing loans of 2002-2003. The study focusses on the market’s reactions to different pricing factors in crisis time including liquidity and risk premiums. Third, we examine predictable fluctuations in agency ratings behavior over the business cycle and propose simple, tractable ways of parameterizing time-varying rating transition matrices. Fourth, we examine the dependence of corporate bond market risk premiums on industrial sector. The analysis sheds light on the hypothesis that the cross-sectional pattern of risk premiums reflects the degree to which bond issuers operate in cyclically sensitive industries. By adjusting sectorspecific spreads for time-varying and sector specific expected losses and for liquidity, we show that spreads and, even more so, risk premiums are related to the cyclicality of the obligor’s industry.
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Brösamle, Martin [Verfasser], and Christoph [Akademischer Betreuer] Hölscher. "Sketches of wayfinding design : : empirical studies of architectural design processes = Skizzen eines orientierungsfreundlichen Entwurfs : empirische Studien zu architektonischen Entwurfsprozessen." Freiburg : Universität, 2014. http://d-nb.info/112347916X/34.

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Sierck, Michael. "Festtag und Politik : Studien zur Tagewahl karolingischer Herrscher /." Köln ; Weimar ; Wien : Böhlau, 1995. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb37100258c.

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Edeen, Erik, Magnus Kassle, and Pawel Wyszynski. "Private Equity : En empirisk studie." Thesis, Uppsala University, Department of Business Studies, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-8864.

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Efter att ha studerat och författat en teoretisk grund kring ”Private Equity – En portföljbolagsstudie” som första delen av två inom en 20-poängsuppsats skrivs denna magisteruppsats som en påbyggnad där en empirisk studie, analys och slutsats genomförs.

Private equity-investeringar blir en allt vanligare form för kapitalanskaffning hos entreprenörer och företag. Denna form av investeringar sker i onoterade företag där investeraren håller ett aktivt och tidsbegränsat ägarengagemang. Denna uppsats skrivs på uppdrag av Svenska Riskkapitalföreningen, och syftet är att studera riskkapitalinvesteringar med avseende på hur portföljbolagen utvecklas beträffande tillväxt i sysselsättning och omsättning, efter det att ett private equity-bolag blivit delägare. Undersökningen bygger på kvantitativt insamlande av data där analysen grundats på enkäter och bokslutsdata.

Två hypoteser har ställts upp och besvarats. Dessa antar att den årliga genomsnittliga mediantillväxten i sysselsättning respektive omsättning är högre i portföljbolagen, i alla faser, under ett riskkapitalbolags innehavsperiod jämfört med referensgrupperna efter det att en private equity-investering genomförts.

Resultatet för portföljbolagsstudien visar att tillväxten i både sysselsättning och omsättning är högre i bolag med någon form av riskkapital än för referensgrupperna. Därmed verifieras hypoteserna.

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Bah, Tally. "Finansiella värderingsmodeller : En empirisk studie." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Institutionen för ekonomi och företagande, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-15361.

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This study tests two financial valuation models empirically by valuing three stocks from three industries, with the purpose of studying how well valuation models work empirically and to make a forecast. The models which will be tested are residual income valuation and discounted cash flow. Nine stocks will be picked strategically from the Swedish stock market and additional analysis will follow in the analysis chapter. Based on analysis and valuation, the commodities industry has decent valuation as the healthcare industry is undervalued thanks to the high valuation of AZN. The energy industry has low value due to the capital intensive nature of the industry. When it comes to the models and their practical implementation, DCF has been the most problematic to apply empirically whereas RIV was better but it still shows extreme values, which teaches the student the clear difference between theory and empiri.
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Karlsson, David. "Implementation av 24-timmarsmyndigheten i Offentlig Verksamhet : -." Thesis, Umeå University, Informatics, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-1738.

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I den här artikeln undersöks implementationen av ett ärende och handläggningssystem kallat Platina vid Länsstyrelsen i Västerbotten. Problematik med implementationen identifieras genom intervjuer och observationer med anställda vid myndigheten. Undersökningarna leder till slutsatsen att myndigheten inte har fått ett färdigt system utan ett som kräver fortsatt utveckling innan det uppfyller de krav som ställs på det. Det finns även en risk att utvecklingen av systemet inom myndigheten läggs ner på grund av organisationsförändringar.


This article researches the implementation of a case and workflow system called Platina at the County Administrative Board in Västerbotten County. Problems with the implementation were identified through interviews and observations with employees. The empiric studies showed that the County Administrative Board did not get a fully functional system, but in fact a system that demands continued development to meet the expected demands. There is also a risk that the development of the system will be aborted due to organizational changes.

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Gustavsson, Kim. "“Jag hatar matematik ” - en empirisk studie om motivationshöjande insatser : en empirisk studie om motivationshöjande insatser." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Fakulteten för lärande och samhälle (LS), 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-45787.

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Abstract Målet med denna studie är att undersöka hur motivation, och motivationshöjande faktorer påverkar utfallet i en specifik interventionsmetod, inom ämnet matematik. Interventionsmetoden är utvecklad och modifierad på resursskolan som ingår i undersökningen. Personalen på skolan kan se tydlig progression i matematik hos eleverna, och det har funnits ett intresse att utvärdera interventionsmetod gentemot tidigare forskning och även via empirisk undersökning. Eleverna går i åk 6, och är efter i kunskapsnivån, samt har NPF. Finns det en vetenskaplig förankring för interventionsmetoden?Frågeställningarna i studien är följande: 1. Vilka av de motivationshöjande insatserna i matematik har fungerat, i den undersökta målgruppen? 2. Vilka motivationshöjande åtgärder finns som är applicerbara på merparten av målgruppen? 3. Vilka vetenskapliga belägg finns för att interventionsmetoden fungerar? (teoretiska/empiriska) Det empiriska materialet samlades in via en kvalitativ studie på skolan. Studien är baserad på grundad teori. Den tidigare forskningen har kommit fram till att motivation är ett viktigt begrepp i skolan, men också svårt att definiera som begrepp. Examensarbetet kommer fram till att det finns empiriska belägg och en del vetenskapliga belägg för att interventionsmetoden fungerar.
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Scherff, Bruno. "Studien zum Heer der Ottonen und der ersten Salier : 919-1056 /." [s.l.] : [s.n.], 1985. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb34961168v.

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Prätor, Sabine. "Der arabische Faktor in der jungtürkischen Politik : eine Studie zum osmanischen Parlament der II. Konstitution /." Berlin : K. Schwarz, 1993. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb356149520.

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