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A conceptual guide to natural history museum visitors' understanding of evolution
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2010-03)
Museum visitors are an ideal population for assessing the persistence of the conceptual barriers that make it difficult to grasp Darwinian evolutionary theory. In comparison with other members of the public, they are more ...
Economics, Psychology, and Social Dynamics of Consumer Bidding in Auctions
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science + Business Media, Inc., 2005-12)
With increasing numbers of consumers in auction marketplaces, we highlight some recent approaches that bring additional economic, social, and psychological factors to bear on existing economic theory to better understand ...
Real-World Applications and Instructional Representations Among Prospective Elementary Science Teachers
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science + Business Media, Inc., 2005-12)
This paper explores new elementary teachers' instructional representations and how these are related to their science subject matter knowledge. One pair of prospective elementary teachers studied here exhibited a ...
Discrete and Continuous Representations of Unobserved Heterogeneity in Choice Modeling
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 1999-08)
We attempt to provide insights into how heterogeneity has been and can be addressed in choice modeling. In doing so, we deal with three topics: Models of heterogeneity, Methods of estimation and Substantive issues. In ...
The relationship between the marketing mix and share of category requirements
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 1996-01)
A criticism of purchase-based brand loyalty measures is that they are confounded by the marketing mix variables that affect brand choice. This paper investigates the magnitude and direction of the associations for share ...
Development and Evaluation of an Inquiry-Based Elementary Science Teacher Education Program Reflecting Current Reform Movements
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science + Business Media, Inc., 2005-08)
The National Science Education Standards (National Research Council 1996, National science education standards . Washington, DC: National Academy Press) and various other national and state documents call for teachers who ...
Nigerian Business Practices and Their Interface with Virtue Ethics
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 2000-07)
The potential impact of improvements in contraception on fertility and abortion in western countries
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Elsevier Science Publishers B.V. ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1987-11)
Survey information on fertility intentions, patterns of contraceptive use, contraceptive failures and abortions is used to develop estimates of unwanted births and of unplanned pregnancies for seven countries, by method ...