Main Approach Of Study Research Articles

An approach to understand social marketing unexplored potential

This paper clarifies the definitions of the five different terms used by the companies associated to Social Marketing, in international journals. It reviews terms usually linked to social marketing practice, and to discuss their different meanings for the sake of proper adoption by marketers and scholars. The discussion is based on an exploratory research and, as such, we adopted the literature review as the main approach of study. Two scientific databases were used to identify the most commonly used expressions, which were, later on, reviewed and discussed, exploring their similarities, differences and relevance to organizational environment. The conclusion is that internal marketing is directly related to employees and different stakeholders of the institution promoting or using this strategy or management philosophy, whereas Social Marketing is related to changing behavior of target markets.

ECOPSYCHOlOGY OF EDUCATIONAl ENVIRONMENT: DESIGN AND MONITORING APPROACHES

In the article actualized the problem of human ecology in modern conditions. The main study approaches of environmental psychology "man-environment" relationship have been generalized. Educational environment as a set of spatially-objective, social, information, psychological and pedagogical influences and conditions of personality formation serves as an object of the analysis. The risk factors that negatively affect the development and health of students have been generalized. Functions of educational environment: adaptive, formative, educational have been discovered. The approaches to education environment monitoring: expertise and diagnostics have been described. The results of empirical study of the ecology of the university educational environment, conducted via questionnaires have been presented. The study revealed the risks of the educational environment of the university, as well as its comfort degree. Ecopsychological models (segments) which conceptualizes the relationship of the subjects of education and educational environment: health-saving environment, tolerant environment, psychologically safe environment, safe information-virtual environment, constructive communicative (verbal) space, creative environment, ecological environment have been described. The eco-psychological designing of educational environment will allow to minimize social risk factors, negative psychophysical impact and provide students with adequate conditions for development, safety, identity, self-actualization.

Social and Educational Effects (Dominants) in Schoolchildren’ Ethno-cultural Education

The basis of state educational policy in the National Doctrine of Education of Russian Federation plays the priority of national spiritual values that defines certain tasks in order to harmonize national and ethno-cultural relations; to preserve and support ethnic and national cultural identity, languages and cultures of Russian people. Being the link between the past and the future, ethno-cultural education promotes man of culture formation and a tolerant personality capable for ethnical self-determination, and having qualities of a citizen. The purpose of this article is to identify and justify social and pedagogical effects of schoolchildren’s ethno-cultural education. The main study approaches are axiological, ethno-cultural and lingvo-culturological. The result of schoolchildren’s ethno-cultural education are social (experience gaining within the international cooperation on the basis of building harmonious relations in a multicultural environment; intensification of ethnic and cultural development and self-development) and pedagogical (sustained interest and the need for ethnic and cultural values development, ethnic and cultural knowledge enrichment, developed a sense of belonging to people’s history and culture; the integrity of ethnic and cultural values perception in the unity of all national art components) effects. This article may be useful for teachers developing ethno-cultural educational programs. DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2015.v6n2s3p77

The Development of Organizational and Managerial Skills of Future Technology and Entrepreneurship Teachers during Professional Training

The article aims to elaborate certain patterns of formation of organizational and managerial expertise of futureteachers of technology and entrepreneurship. The main study approaches were integrative, expertise and activityapproaches defining methodology, content and technology of forming organizational and managerial expertise offuture teachers.The presented pattern of organizational and managerial expertise of future technology andentrepreneurship teachers includes the following sections: regulatory and target, theoretical andmethodological, algorithmic, procedural and productive-evaluative sections. This article material can beuseful for high school professors who offer specific training for future technology and entrepreneurshipteachers, for teachers and school managers within specific training courses and when enhancing professionalskills of technology and entrepreneurship teachers.

Approaches to studying and students' use of a computer supported learning environment

Although studies of students’ study approaches in face to face learning environments are commonplace, studies investigating the role of students’ study approaches in online learning environments is currently a less explored area. This paper presents the findings of a survey aimed at investigating the relationship between students’ approaches to studying and their perceptions and use of a computer-supported learning environment in e-business and e-commerce. Participants in the study were a group of post-graduate students studying an E-Business and E-Commerce module. The ASSIST inventory is used to identify the main study approaches within the population. Descriptive statistics of the responses to the inventory confirm the validity and consistency of the results, while a factor analysis identified two main study approaches within the population, a ‘deep-strategic’ and a ‘surface-strategic’ study approach. Positive correlations were found (i) between WebCT and two aspects of a deep and one aspect of a strategic approach and (ii) between the E-Business and E-Commerce CSLE and two aspects of a strategic approach and one aspect of a surface approach. The paper concludes with suggestions for future research investigating study approaches in online learning environments.

The revised learning process questionnaire: A validation of a Western model of students' study approaches to the South Pacific context using confirmatory factor analysis

Research evidence seems to suggest that the social and cultural environments influence students' approaches to their study. This social and cultural contention has led to the rethinking and reconceptualization of theories (e.g. Biggs, 1987; Marton & Säljö, 1976) pertaining to student approaches to learning (SAL) in academic settings. The present research discusses two separate empirical studies on student learning approaches situated in the South Pacific region with two respective cohorts of secondary students. Study I involved the examination of secondary Pacific Islands students in their learning approaches using a modified version of Biggs' (1987) original Learning Process Questionnaire (LPQ). Study II involved the administration of a revised version of the LPQ (R-LPQ-2F; Kember, Biggs, & Leung, 2004) to another cohort of secondary Pacific Islands students. The first sample included 2,150 (1,285 girls, 865 boys) students and the second sample included 2,295 (1,363 girls, 932 boys) students. The factor structures of approaches to learning were examined by means of confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) using the LISREL program. Different a priori models were hypothesized and tested. Results of Study I indicated a two-factor structure solution to Biggs' LPQ, supporting Richardson's (1994) theoretical model of learning and emphasized the factors of Reproducing and Meaning. Study II indicated a hierarchical organization of two main study approaches - deep and surface - that are structured as higher-order factors and a defined by four first-order factors. The results from the two studies accentuate the important argument for the rethinking and reconceptualization of learning approaches, as well as for the redevelopment and modification of learning inventories such as the LPQ. They also suggest the importance of situating the theoretical paradigm of learning approaches in a social and cultural environment.

Strategies for outcome research in spinal disorders. An introduction.

The evaluation of the clinical utility of the clinical diagnostic tests and procedures, what works in spinal disorders, and for whom and how treatment affects a patient's symptoms and function are key questions of outcomes research. This paper describes the advantages and limitations of the main study approaches used. Examples from the spine literature on spinal stenosis are used for illustration.

Study of modified tgs crystals

Abstract Based on the relation between the structure and spontaneous polarization of TGS crystal, some modified TGS crystals have been grown by doping with aniline-family dipolar moleculars, inorganic acids and metal ions in the crystals. The effects of different dopants on growth habit and pyroelectric properties were investigated. The experimental results show that the pyroelectric figure of merit (p/e) of these new modified TGS-ATGSP and ATGSAs are one time higher than that of pure TGS crystal. The main approach of study on the modification of TGS crystal is also discussed in this paper.