It consists of 28 seven-point Likert-type items and is divided into four subscales: Affect (feelings concerning statistics), Cognitive Competence (attitudes toward intellect and skills applied to statistics), Value (attitudes toward the usefulness and relevance of statistics) and Difficulty (attitudes toward the difficulty of the subject matter).
I thus suggest that future research on L2 pragmatics and L2 identity move beyond a focus on L2 pragmatic competence and toward a consideration of learners' indexical awareness and agency.
Julie Phelan and her colleagues at Rutgers have found that, when women are already in the hiring or promotion process — that is, when their credentials have already been screened and they are in the interview phase — the focus shifts away from their competence and toward their social skills.
The practical implications for venturing individuals are that it is vital to demonstrate their competence and motivation toward possible stakeholders.
Preceding I Heart Lung were a handful of New York groups committed to experimental actions, including Totally Dad (which strained toward competence) and Blast Off!!! (which mainly lacked restraint).
In addition, we did a study with 9th and 10th grade students and found that students who expressed gratitude to parents, teachers, or coaches felt closer and more connected to them, which then increased their desire to improve themselves, as well as their confidence and competence in working toward this self-improvement.
Based on casual conversations we've found that most people assume that top leaders would be more oriented toward Competence than Warmth.
Across schools, the target skills were the same level of competence and skewed toward short acting methods of contraception.
To examine nurse-midwives' general cultural competence and ethnic attitudes toward Jewish couples of varying degrees of religious identification during the birth process and the relationship between background data, ethnic attitudes, and cultural competence.
