This essay is a defence of the traditional notion of qualia – as properties of consciousness that are ineffable, intrinsic, private and immediately apprehensible – against the eliminative attempts of Daniel Dennett in the influential article “Quining Qualia.” It is suggested that a thorough exploration of the concept is an appropriate starting point for future explanations of qualia, and the es...

background and purpose: using valid and reliable instruments is an important way for collecting data in qualitative researches. this paper is a report of a study conducted to examine the extent of psychometric properties of the scales in research papers published in journal of advanced nursing. methods: in this study, the journal of advanced nursing was chosen for systematic review. all article...

background and purpose: childbirth is a normal physiological process and a family event. women in various societies with different cultural backgrounds have diverse reasons for childbearing. understanding the reasons behind childbearing might help overcome some issues associated with early/late reproduction, or lack of desire to give birth. this study was an attempt to develop, validate, and st...

objective: the purpose of this study is to provide evidence of validity of the relational and overt aggression questionnaire (roaq) among iranian elementary students. methods: three hundred and forty nine 4th and 5th grade students (ages 9 and 10) participated in this study. participants completed the roaq. the scale consisted of 33 items designed to measure self-report aggressive behaviors for...

The multidimensional model of empowering and disempowering coach climates has great relevance within the scope intervention in context Sport Psychology. This scoping review studies summarizes scientific production motivational climates. search comprised Web Science, Scopus, Psycinfo, Pubmed databases for English, Portuguese, Spanish articles published between 2013 2022. A total 44 were found, w...

Abstract The purpose of this study is to understand student perceptions towards plagiarism and identify some factors influencing their plagiarist behaviour be able develop successful strategies promote academic integrity prevent plagiarism. Although dishonesty have been investigated by many researchers, psychometric qualities these data collection instruments generally ignored, which has result...

Game-based assessment (GBA), a specific application of games for learning, has been recognized as an alternative form assessment. While there is substantive body literature that supports the educational benefits GBA, limited work investigates validity and generalizability such systems. In this paper, we describe applications learning analytics methods to provide evidence psychometric qualities ...

Affordances elude ontology. They have been recognized to play a role in categorization, especially of artifacts, but also of natural features. Yet, attempts to ontologize them face problems ranging from their presumed subjective nature to the fact that they involve potential actions, not objects or properties. We take a fresh look at the ontology of affordances, based on a simple insight: affor...

to distinguish and portray their several influences on the careers of men; then more critically, to appraise their worth, to observe the success which attends them, and, if fortune favor, to reach some insight into the play of personal forces that shape our fate individually, collectively, nationally." If the author does not quite cover all this ground, the reader must remember that 183 small p...