-Sharing course were administered a form of the Semantic Diff rential Scale with targets of _"self as parent " and "ideal parent". A reduction in the diffeience between real and ideal ratings resulted from the pre-post tests. One hundred scho91 personnel will be.5(easured with a "

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The basic problem of this study Is whether or not the semantic differential attitude instrument may be used to measure attitude Intensity. The method of determining this is to use an instrument which is known to measure attitude Intensity in conjunction with the semantic differential and determine

University of Arkansas, and the author of numerous books and articles on com-munication and management. He was ABCA president in 1967. This article is re-printed, with permission, from the Academy of Management Journal, June, 1969. A modified semantic differential is a valuable instrument

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A study was conducted to determine the effectiveness of simulation for presenting critical teaching problems and the effect of exposure to simulated critical teaching problems on student teachers. The study had three major phases: (1) identification of critical teaching problems, (2) development of a simulated fifth grade situation, and (3) testing the effects of the simulation experience on student teaching. Phase 1 was accomplished using a self-report instrument with 163 of the 282 first-year graduates of State University College at Brockport, N.Y. A.chi square analysis of the 117 items yielded 32 significant problems. In phase 2, the 32 problems were developed into incidents which were presented through video tapes, role plays. and written materials; a schedule for!presenting incidents and a problem solving method were also developed. In phase 3, a pre-posttest control group design was used to measure the effects of simulation. 'Two samples of 40 participants were selected randomly from education students at State University College. It was found that simulation involves and motivates students, actual teaching problems will be less numerous for students receiving simulation training, and simulation is at least as

Rating scales are widely used by researchers to measure people's attitudes to a variety of stimuli, yet little time is spent examining respondents ' reactions to the form of the scales used for this purpose. Three forms of the semantic differential were tested to determine whether

Semantic differential profiles of words in English and Navaho were obtained for three groups of Navaho eighth grade pupils: English-speaking monolinguals who knew the Navaho words in translation, co-ordinate bilinguals, and compound bilinguals. Two hypotheses were formulated: (1) Semantic distances

Semantic integration is an active area of research in several disciplines, such as databases, information-integration, and ontologies. This paper provides a brief survey of the approaches to semantic integration developed by researchers in the ontology community. We focus on the approaches

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