Dimensions of Individual Difference in the Spoken Syntax of School Children

1974 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 455-469 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wilbur A. Hass ◽  
Joseph M. Wepman
Keyword(s):  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Individual Difference ◽  
Noun Phrase ◽  
School Children ◽  
Phrase Structure ◽  
The Other ◽  
Five Dimensions ◽  
Part Of Speech ◽  
Developmental Progression ◽  
Different Types

Language produced by 180 children (aged five through 13 years) on a story-telling task was analyzed in terms of 57 variables (part-of-speech frequencies and proportions, syntactic elaboration indexes, and constructional variety measures). A factor analysis revealed five dimensions of syntactic usage: general fluency, embeddedness, finite verb structure, noun phrase structure, and qualified speech. The embeddedness dimension was the only one with a sizable relation to age and is interpretable in terms of a developmental progression in the inclusion of transformationally processed content in the sentence. Among the other stylistic dimensions, fluency, and verbal vs nominal emphases in language appear to be in evidence at various age levels and on different types of variables.

scholarly journals Adult’s Participation in Work-related Training: The Balance between Improving Job and a Desire for Learning

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Ana Inés Renta Davids ◽  
Manel Fandos-Garrido ◽  
José Miguel Jiménez-González ◽  
Ángel Pío González-Soto
Keyword(s):  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Quantitative Analysis ◽  
Continuing Education ◽  
Professional Training ◽  
Demographic Variables ◽  
The Other ◽  
One Dimension ◽  
Work Related ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Motivation To Participate

<p>The study draws on findings from a survey of adults in non-formal continuing education under the professional training for employment framework in Spain. Quantitative analysis was carried out to a sample of 425 respondents from three different educational providers. Firstly, a factor analysis was conducted to fourteen motives for participation items. A two-dimension model of motivation to participate was identified: one dimension oriented towards job-improvement and the other dimension oriented towards learning. Secondly, a variance analysis was conducted according to demographics variables. Results showed significant statistical differences in the first dimension according to demographic variables. This might indicates an instrumental motivation in participation in work-related training among different groups who try to cope with different types of drawbacks.</p>

Types of organizational innovativeness and success in Austrian hotels

2015 ◽  
Vol 27 (7) ◽  
pp. 1707-1727 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander Kessler ◽  
Christoph Pachucki ◽  
Katharina Stummer ◽  
Michael Mair ◽  
Petra Binder
Keyword(s):  
Cluster Analysis ◽  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Service Sector ◽  
Hotel Industry ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Self Assessment ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Five Dimensions ◽  
Organizational Innovativeness ◽  
Different Types

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to identify different types of organizational innovativeness in Austrian hotels and analyze their connection to (innovation) success. In the face of growing international competition, innovation is becoming increasingly important for Austria’s hotel industry. A prerequisite for innovation is organizational innovativeness. Design/methodology/approach – This paper is based on a quantitative survey of 255 Austrian hotel businesses with a minimum of five employees. Innovativeness was measured by three dimensions (willingness, ability and possibility to innovate) and success by five dimensions (overall performance: financial, market and employee-related success; innovation success: product and process innovations). Findings were obtained by combining an exploratory factor analysis with a cluster analysis. Findings – Factor analysis reveals five factors determining organizational innovativeness: “cooperation as trigger for change”; “acceptance of change”; “resource based scope for change”; “pluralism as trigger for change”; and “loose coupling and error-tolerance”. The cluster analysis identifies four types of hotels regarding organizational innovativeness indicating differences regarding the success dimensions: “potential innovators hindered by scarce resources and unsupportive structures”, “well-resourced conservatives”, “potential innovators hindered by a haphazard approach” and “cautious idea hunters”. On the whole, results show that a balanced configuration of organizational innovativeness combined with a cautious approach is connected with greater (innovation) success. Research limitations/implications – Key-informant and survivor biases have to be considered as all items in the questionnaire were evaluated by self-assessment of the hotel management and only successful hotels (in the sense of survival) were analyzed. One important implication is that (innovation) success depends on the system that enables it; therefore, organizational innovativeness is a precondition of successful innovations. Nevertheless, there is little research on organizational innovativeness in the service sector so far. Practical implications – This paper supports tourism businesses in understanding the concept of organizational innovativeness and its relation to (innovation) success. SMEs, which dominate the Austrian hotel industry, tend to focus on the financial aspect of innovativeness and, in general, do not consider the range of factors that constitute an organization’s innovativeness (willingness, ability and possibility to innovate) and the various outcomes. Originality/value – By combining organizational innovativeness and (innovation) success, the paper applies an important element of innovation theory to the Austrian hotel industry. The characterization of different types of hotels regarding organizational innovativeness and success enables a (self-) assessment for hotel businesses and the deduction of customized implications.

scholarly journals Evaluation of texture in jelly gums incorporating berries and aromatic plants

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 450-461
Author(s):  
Raquel P. F. Guiné ◽  
Paula M. R. Correia ◽  
Cátia Reis ◽  
Sofia G. Florença
Keyword(s):  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Textural Properties ◽  
The Other ◽  
Strong Correlations ◽  
Aromatic Plants ◽  
Compression Properties ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Berry Fruits

AbstractIn the confectionery market, jelly gums are one of the most relevant sectors, being frequently consumed by many people, from children to adults. The present work intended to evaluate the textural properties in newly developed jelly gums made with berry fruits and herbs, given the critical role of texture in products with a gel-like structure. Four types of gums were developed (Strawberry & Anise, Strawberry & Mint, Raspberry & Mint, Blueberry & Mint) and their texture was evaluated through two types of tests (compression with a 75 mm probe and puncture with a 2 mm probe) allowing to calculate several textural properties. The results showed some differences between the two faces of the jelly gums analysed, i.e. on the top and on the bottom. As for the compression test, the Strawberry & Anise gums were among the softer (25.6 N) and with lower resilience (36.3%) and chewiness (16.9 N), despite being more adhesive (−0.5 N s). As for the puncture test, the sample Strawberry & Mint had the highest adhesiveness (−2.0 N s) but the lowest stickiness (−0.38 N). Additionally, very strong correlations were encountered between some of the properties studied (r = 0.861 or r = 0.822), and the factor analysis allowed defining three factors, the first clearly associated with the puncture properties while the other two were related to the compression properties. This work allowed concluding that the jelly gums presented different textural properties, particularly when assessed through different types of measurements. Hence, the use of different types of tests for texture analysis is recommended, since the results are complementary. This is relevant when developing food products intended for industrial production and commercialization.

scholarly journals Konstruksi Alat Ukur Kepemimpinan Spiritual dalam Keluarga

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-46
Author(s):  
Hasna Esa Nisrina ◽  
Muhammad Irsyad Faruq ◽  
Rina Masruroh ◽  
Siti Sa'adah Nurlatifah ◽  
Siti Khairun Nisa
Keyword(s):  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Spiritual Leadership ◽  
The Other ◽  
Measuring Instruments ◽  
Content Validation ◽  
Five Dimensions ◽  
Four Dimensions ◽  
Attitudes And Behaviors ◽  
Confirmatory Factor ◽  
The Family

This study aims to examine spiritual leadership in the context of the head of the family. The spiritual leadership concept is lifted from Fry (2003) which is defined as a matter that consists of values, attitudes, and behaviors needed to intrinsically motivate oneself or others so that they have a sense of survival through spiritual vocation and membership.  The construct approach used is the modification approach.  The number of samples in this study amounted to 405 subjects with purposive sampling.  The content validation used is in the form of CFA. Of the five dimensions measured, there is one falling dimension in testing, namely the meaning dimension. The other four dimensions, namely vision, altruistic love, hope/faith, and membership, can be measured by 26 valid and reliable items based on the confirmatory factor analysis and Cronbach alpha test. Measuring instruments developed can be used again for further research.

Sciences Activities in Preschool Age: The case of elementary magnetic properties

2014 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Dimitri Nertivich
Keyword(s):  
Magnetic Properties ◽  
Small Groups ◽  
School Children ◽  
Preschool Age ◽  
The Other ◽  
Attractive Force ◽  
Metallic Materials ◽  
Different Types ◽  
The One

This article present the results of a research relating to the construction of elementary magnetic properties in pre-school children. Five to six year old children, in small groups, had at their disposal different types of magnets as well as diverse objects which could be attracted by them. The proposed hypothesis is that by performing various activities (playing) with them, the children on the one hand would discover the attractive force exerted on certain metallic materials and on the other would distinguish the objects which were not thus attracted. We also formed the hypothesis that the children would discover the mutual forces of interaction by using the magnets. The teachers observed the activities, encouraged and questioned each child and intervened in order to help the children to co-ordinate their activities which were becoming more and more complex. The analysis of the protocols gave us results which seem to confirm the hypotheses.

scholarly journals Pædagogisk scenografi. Om brug og indretning af museernes undervisningslokaler

1970 ◽  
pp. 72
Author(s):  
Mette Boritz
Keyword(s):  
School Children ◽  
Physical Space ◽  
The Other ◽  
Limited Extent ◽  
Ideal Types ◽  
Teaching Situation ◽  
Different Types ◽  
The One

This article focuses on how museums use educational rooms for the teaching of school children. This subject has only to a limited extent been addressed in professional museum literature. The purpose of this article is to get behind the large empirical diversity observed in educational rooms at different museums, identifying different ideal types with the aim of investigating whether there are links between, on the one hand, the pedagogical intentions and on the other, the management of the physical space in the museums. The article analyzes how different types of educational rooms, in this article categorized as “focus rooms”, “wonder rooms” and “laboratories” promote or hinder the teaching situation. The article is based on the assumption that educational rooms act as a “silent curriculum” in education, which can either support or contradict the museums’ educational intentions.

Syntactic, semantic and information structures of floating quantifiers

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ryo Otoguro ◽  
Liselotte Snijders
Keyword(s):  
Noun Phrase ◽  
Information Structure ◽  
Phrase Structure ◽  
Noun Phrases ◽  
The Other ◽  
Information Structures ◽  
Recent Proposal ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Floating Quantifiers ◽  
The One

Quantifiers canonically attach to nouns or noun phrases as modifiers to specify the amount or number of the entity expressed by the noun. However, it has been observed that quantifiers can be positioned outside of the noun phrase. These so-called floating quantifiers (FQs) exhibit intriguing syntactic and semantic characteristics. On the one hand, they appear to have a closerelationship with a noun; semantically they quantify a noun in the same way as non-floating quantifiers, and quite often they exhibit agreement with the noun. On the other hand, their phrase structure distribution is very similar to that of VP-adverbs. In this paper, we argue that the distribution of FQs is constrained not purely by syntax, but also by information structure. We show that FQs play a focus role whereas modified nouns are reference-oriented topic expressions. Building upon Dalrymple and Nikolaeva’s (2011) recent proposal, we formulate the interaction between syntactic, semantic and information structure features of FQs within LFG’s projection architecture.

scholarly journals IDENTIFICATION PART OF SPEECH OF ENGLISH WORD BEFORE

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 59-67
Author(s):  
Tiara Arista
Keyword(s):  
Noun Phrase ◽  
American English ◽  
English Word ◽  
Research Data ◽  
The Other ◽  
English Sentence ◽  
Word Category ◽  
Part Of Speech ◽  
The Subject

The study analyzes the fact that before lead to different categories based on their distribution in English sentence; the study focuses on examining the occurrence of before as a particular word category in sentence. Thus, this study aims to discuss the categories of before and to identify what constituent that determines the categories of before and According to those aim, this study takes a title, ‘Identification Part of Speech of English Words Before.’ For this study, the data were collected from COCA (Corpus of Contemporary American English) as the main source of research data. The data were identified by observing the sentence that contained word before, and then were classified into their specific categories. Lastly, the data were analyzed using Radford’s theory (2004). The results of the study show that there are three categories of words before; those are, prepositions, adverbial, and conjunctions. After analyzing comprehensively, the results are: (1) the word before as adverb is following the other adverb or verb (2) the word before as the conjunction are followed by clause that is constituted by subject and verb, (3) the word before as the preposition is followed by the noun phrase. However in this article the word before as conjunction can be preposition when the subject and the verb of the clause are reduced.

Les représentations des enfants de 5-6 ans sur la fusion et la solidification du sel, comme support pour le déploiement des activités didactiques

2015 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 943-947 ◽  
Author(s):  
Konstantinos Ravanis
Keyword(s):  
Young Children ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
School Children ◽  
Physical World ◽  
Scientific Model ◽  
Open Type ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Individual Conversations ◽  
Melting And Solidification

The representation of the properties and phenomena of the physical world exists from the beginning of life, as a first datum of reality. In several studies focused on children's representations we find that these representations these representations are critical to education and are often incompatible with the scientific model. This article presents the results of an empirical research on the representations of young children for melting and solidification of salt. The research sample consisted of 79 pre-school children (five to six years old) from one state kindergarten in Greece. Data were collected through expanded, open type, semi-structured individual conversations between a child of the sample and one researcher. The results of the interviews show that these children use different types of representations, the majority dominated by the nature of the substance under study.

scholarly journals Is Emotional Intelligence Correlated With Values Among Primary Schoolers?

SAGE Open ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 215824402110207
Author(s):  
Kerem Coskun ◽  
Ozlem Ulu Kalin ◽  
Arcan Aydemir
Keyword(s):  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Emotional Intelligence ◽  
Regression Analysis ◽  
Primary School ◽  
School Children ◽  
Pearson Correlation ◽  
Relevant Literature ◽  
Primary School Children ◽  
Intelligence Scale ◽  
Confirmatory Factor

The present study sought to develop a scale to measure the values adoption of primary school children and explore whether emotional intelligence of primary school children is associated with values which are taught through curricular activities. First, the Value Adoption Scale (VAS) was developed in Study 1 by conducting exploratory factor analysis (EFA) and confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) and correlation was examined in Study 2. Data were collected using the Ten Years Emotional Intelligence Scale (TYEIS) and the Value Scale consisting of eight items. Data were analyzed with Pearson correlation coefficient and regression analysis. Results of data analysis indicated that there was a moderate correlation between emotional intelligence and values, but regression analysis revealed that emotional intelligence had weak predictive power for values adoption. It was concluded that teaching values through curricular activities is not useful to foster emotional intelligence among primary school children. Results of the research are discussed and addressed along with the relevant literature.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document