Abstract Considering teachers’ roles in developing children’s scientific literacy preschools, a better understanding of pre-service conceptualizations about inquiry and scientists’ practices that have an impact on the science teaching offered to their future students is very much needed. Stereotypes were examined here as component or root for many explanations scientists. Aligned with interpret...

We describe a new knowledge acquisition tool that enabled us to develop a dialog system recommending software design patterns by asking critical questions. This assistance system is based on interviews with experts. For the interviews we adopted the repertory grid method and integrated formal concept analysis. The repertory grid method stimulates the generation of common and differentiating att...

AUDIO This preprint has been reproduced from the author's advance manuscript, without editing, corrections or consideration by the Review Board. The AES takes no responsibility for the contents. When assessing the spatial performance of a sound reproducing system, a knowledge of the dimensions forming the perceived spatial impression is important. In this search, methods from the behavioural sc...

Personal construct theory and repertory grid technique provides a suitable framework for exploring Registered Nursing students' perceptions of their psychiatric practicum. This descriptive research was designed to understand students' own ways of constructing knowledge during their mental health clinical experience. A constructivist conceptual perspective and George Kelly's personal construct p...

Motivated by the increasing popularity of computer-mediated communication (CMC) technologies in university students learning, this study investigated students’ motivations for using CMC technologies in their learning. Fifteen university students were interviewed using the Repertory Grid Technique (RGT) in order to elicit needs that they fulfill when choosing CMC for communication in their learn...

Over the last decade, we have witnessed payment innovations that fundamentally have changed the ways we pay. Payment innovations, such as mobile payments and on-line banking, include characteristics or features that are essential to understand if we want to know how and why payers choose among payment innovations. Using the Repertory Grid technique to explore 15 payers’ perception of six paymen...