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Understanding The Pxs Aspect Of Within-Person Variation: A Variance Partitioning Approach, Brian Lakey Dec 2015

Understanding The Pxs Aspect Of Within-Person Variation: A Variance Partitioning Approach, Brian Lakey

Funded Articles

This article reviews a variance partitioning approach to within-person variation based on Generalizability (G) Theory and the Social Relations Model (SRM). The approach conceptualizes an important part of within-person variation as Person x Situation (PxS) interactions: differences among persons in their profiles of responses across the same situations. The approach provided the first quantitative method for capturing within-person variation and demonstrated very large PxS effects for a wide range of constructs. These include anxiety, five-factor personality traits, perceived social support, leadership, and task performance. Although PxS effects are commonly very large, conceptual and analytic obstacles have thwarted consistent progress. For …


The Art And Heart Of The Socratic Method: Connecting Through Questioning, Listening, And Silence, Lawrence Burns Jul 2015

The Art And Heart Of The Socratic Method: Connecting Through Questioning, Listening, And Silence, Lawrence Burns

Conference Materials

Questions can be transformative. Civilization changed when we changed our question from, “how can we get to the water” to, “how can we get the water to us?” Striving for no less in the classroom in terms of prompting insight-based change, lies at the center of this discussion. The purpose and premise of the Socratic method can be used to inform our teaching processes, and in the end, this method can be construed as one way of meaningfully engaging in Biesta’s “the beautiful risk of education.” By asking different types of questions, learning to listen, and valuing silence, the art …


Factors Influencing The Unethical Behavior Of Business People, Adam Boes Jan 2015

Factors Influencing The Unethical Behavior Of Business People, Adam Boes

Honors Projects

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