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This study utilized an ex post facto design to examine the relationship between student persistence and receipt of financial aid in the non-traditional student population at a Southwestern Connecticut community-technical college. The sample population size was 739 and consisted of matriculated...
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Over the coming century, computer technology is likely to become capable of reproducing many of the skills now …
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computers for business and administrative work. The British government and civil service, paragons of meritocracy in a country … sector, in order to modernize their economy, maintain the competitiveness of British high-technology industries, and … methodologies from the history of technology, institutional history, and labor history, as well as gender analysis, this …
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computers, the needs of business, hospital, and non-profit organizations, the importance of communication, and change in …
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may be having an impact on wages over and above traditional human capital indicators such as education and work experience … Britain's workplaces. Computing skills especially stand out as expanding rapidly. Thus the diffusion of computing technology …, controlling fo all other indicators of skill, conventiona or otherwise. Moreover, advanced and complex usages of computers earn a …
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Agronomists rely increasingly on computers, and more than half of all producers have access to computers. Increasing …, little is known about how satisfied producers are with computers and the extent to which computers are actually used. We … significantly increased user satisfaction and number of software applications used. Greater education also increased user …
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Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 69-01, Section: A, page: 0194.
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An item model serves as an explicit representation of the variables in an assessment task. An item model includes the stem, options, and auxiliary information. The stem is the part of an item which formulates context, content, and/or the question the examinee is required to answer. The options...
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gender imbalance via intervention programs aimed at increasing female participation in computing education and ultimately the …
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For the past forty years, alternative methods and techniques have been researched and developed in light of reducing the burgeoning knowledge and memory requirements of individual workers. One such method is reliance on print-based job aids designed to reduce the amount of complex information...
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