ABSTRACT Student learning is influenced by many factors which educational research is tasked to determine and feed into the teaching-learning process to enhance its effectiveness. Several studies with different populations have determined that that to which a learner attributes his or her performance significantly influences such performance. To determine some of the factors that significantly impact upon students’ causal attribution of their performance on mathematics‚ this study ana1ysed‚ using
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Both athletes and fans believe that audience support (e.g.‚ cheering) is one of the top influences on a team’s success‚ particularly at home when the crowd is predominantly supportive‚ possibly contributing to reported home-field advantage (Courneya & Carron‚ 1992). Yet there are few experimental investigations of whether distinctive types of audience feedback have differential effects on athletes’ performance of particular sports skills. In this study‚ college athletes performed a familiar task
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Factors Affecting Business Performance Internal Innovation in the technology and the response of employees is considered of the most important factor affecting the business environment. In the case of this firm‚ which is in a way part of the growing IT industry it is necessary to give response to every change in the technology. The employees or the software engineers are not that much trained as the new technology comes and their expertise becomes outdated. External The political environment and
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observed dogmatism as a cognitive function‚ not connected to personality. Bigelow and La Gaipa (1975) highlighted friendship and the interaction with others to be an important influence on behaviour. Biology; the relationship between the brain and the cognitive process ‘language’ is another aspect of influence on behaviour and performance. Adorno et al (1950) carried out a study on the authoritarian personality; a type of personality characterised by deference to authority‚ Hostile to individuals of inferior
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“A STUDY ON PERFORMANCE APPRAISAL OF EMPLOYEES AT TRUE SAI WORKS NETHIMEDU‚ SALEM Project report submitted to government arts college (Autonomous) salem-7 in partial fulfillment of the requirement for the award of the degree of BACHELOR OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION Submitted by DINESHBABU.M (Reg. No. 09 UBN58007 ) Under the guidance of Mr. ELAVARASAN‚ M.B.A.‚ Assistant Professor
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Create five performance indicators that could apply for sales manager Lead Response Time When it comes to lead response‚ speed is essential to increasing sales reps’ odds of success. The data seems to confirm what our instincts tell us -- that prospects equate a responsive company with a good company. Since Harvard’s study on response outcomes showed that sales reps that contacted leads within 1 hour were seven times more likely to have a meaningful conversation with a decision maker‚ other
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Problem The study aimed to find out the influences of computer games to the academic performance of second year college students at Bataan Peninsula State University Dinalupihan Campus during the Academic Year 2012- 2013. Specifically‚ it sought to answer the following questions: 1. How may the profile of the students be described in terms of their: 2.1 age and 2.2 gender 2.3 economic status 2. What are the factors that encourage the respondents to play computer
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belonging to a group‚ it creates a feeling of general well-being in individual. Students cluster together inside the campus this informal group is regarded as “peer groups”. Peer influence on behavior gradually becomes more dominant. Harris (1998‚ 2002) and Rowe (1994) maintained that peer groups have an even stronger influence than that of parents‚ although that extreme position has been refuted by other researchers (Berk‚ 2005). According to Castrogiovanni (2002)‚ a peer group is defined as a small
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employees or managers and leaders they are need to be well-motivated in a successful company. The purpose of writing this essay is to explore how motivation theories has developed overtime and then we will discuss how motivation theories can influence business performance by give an example. The most common classification was proposed by Thierry and Koopman-Iwema (1984) has classified theories as two main theories: content theories and process theories. If make this classification more wide other two
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LITERATURE REVIEW OF INVESTMENT APPRAISAL METHODS What is meant by investment appraisal practices? The investment appraisal process includes the generation of ideas‚ assessment and authorization‚ implementation and control of the project (Dennis R. Young‚ 2007). Decision-making is increasingly more complex today because of uncertainty. Additionally‚ most capital projects involve numerous variables and possible outcomes. For instance‚ estimating cash flows associated with a project involves working
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