The survey questions focused on four areas: 1) participant demographics; 2) participant perception of design elements of STAR; 3) participant perception of gains in teaching skills, student engagement, and student performance; and 4) implementation of scientific teaching techniques.
This finding is similar to Bearman and colleagues, [ 20] who suggested that one's perception of gaining or losing weight may be of greater psychological relevance than one's physical dimensions.
It is clear that having either an expectation or perception of gaining benefit from using HDS was the most important factor influencing patients with CKD to start or continue using HDS in the present study.
Clinical students' appraisals of their experiences are notoriously critical, affected by various factors such as the emotionally-charged environment of the hospital, evaluation fatigue from multiple sampling throughout the medical degree and the perception of gaining no personal benefit from investing effort in improving learning and teaching for subsequent student cohorts.
The most challenging part of a cooperative game theoretic framework is the choice of characteristic function, since it interprets the agents' perceptions of gain and satisfaction.
The CSQ-8 has been extensively studied, and while it is not necessarily a measure of a client's perceptions of gain from treatment or outcome, it does elicit the client's perspective on the value of services received.
Recently magicians have been involved with serious breakthroughs in psychology, exploiting their robust knowledge of human perception to gain insights into the way the brain works.
Equally, any notion of community gain was eclipsed by a perception of private gain.
Perhaps the most dramatic results of Biological Inquiry are seen in the student perceptions of gains in skills.
In addition, the Student Assessment of Their Learning Gains Internet site alone has almost 7800 instructors creating surveys that query students' perceptions of gains in learning (www.salgsite.org).org
Hunter et al. (2007) interviewed faculty and students about their perceptions of gains after the UR experience, and more faculty responses included gains in "becoming a scientist" than did student responses.
