Past research in individual learning settings has shown that student dispositions such as self-efficacy are predictive of learning and other beneficial outcomes, but the relationship is less clear in a collaborative learning environment. This paper explores authoritativeness of stance within a conversation as a social factor influencing learning and related to self-efficacy in a computer-suppor...

The global marketplace over the past decade has called for innovative products and cost reduction. This perplexing duality has led companies to seek external collaborations to effectively deliver innovative products to market. External collaboration often leads to innovation at reduced research and development expenditure. This is especially true of companies which find the most authoritative e...

The study was carried out to find out the influence of parental authoritativeness on adolescents’ academic achievement. As expected, the result shows that both mothers and fathers’ authoritativeness positively relate to the academic achievement of the students. The implications of the result are discussed.

In this paper we address the challenge of assessing the quality of Wikipedia pages using scores derived from edit contribution and contributor authoritativeness measures. The hypothesis is that pages with significant contributions from authoritative contributors are likely to be high-quality pages. Contributions are quantified using edit longevity measures and contributor authoritativeness is s...

one of the discourses that is considered as indisputable among the scholars of jurisprudential principles (uṣūl al-fiqh) and has not been debated sufficiently is the discourse concerning the essential authoritativeness (ḥujjiyyat) of certitude (qaṭ‘). one of the few scholars who have meticulously and attentively criticized this theory is the late imam khomeini (ra). the present research seeks t...

This study examined the relations of parental permissiveness, authoritativeness, authoritarianism, and nurturance with two dimensions of self-esteem - self-liking and self-competence. In a sample of 207 two-parent families, university students and both their parents provided independent reports on all the above variables. Covariance structure analysis was used to eliminate reporter-specific bia...

This paper details the participation of the Australian eHealth Research Centre (AEHRC) in the ShARe/CLEF 2013 eHealth Evaluation Lab – Task 3. This task aims to evaluate the use of information retrieval (IR) systems to aid consumers (e.g. patients and their relatives) in seeking health advice on the Web. Our submissions to the ShARe/CLEF challenge are based on language models generated from the...

Using data from the Wollongong Youth Study, we assessed the extent to which perceptions of parental styles predict levels of Eysenckian psychoticism in adolescence. Participants were 660 high school students (males = 322; females = 332; 6 did not indicate gender) who were tracked for 12 months. The modal age of the respondents was 12 years at Time 1. In addition to the psychoticism scale (Corul...