Using Quality Systems to Improve Performance     

Frank Caplan 《Performance Improvement Quarterly》1993,6(3):7-20

Many organizations have adopted a wide variety of approaches in introducing selected practices for achieving control of the quality of their products and services. Some of these piecemeal applications of the Quality Sciences have been successful–to varying degrees and for a time. However, the only approach that achieves long-term success is that requiring a complete cultural change in most organizations– involving a refocusing of all activities performed by everyone toward mutually intersupportive efforts to reach a common objective. In a word, a Quality System is required. In this paper, I have attempted to portray the basic considerations involved in developing and installing such a system. This is accomplished by describing some of the background of the system concept, certain of the internal and external features of a Quality System, and, to complete the picture, a semi-fictitious recital of the experiences of a company that has decided to embark on the Quality System journey.  相似文献   

The potential impact of brain research on instructional technology. New technologies and instruction     

Richard Scudder  Frank Clement 《Performance Improvement》1982,21(3):30-33

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Guest editorial     

Frank Clement 《Performance Improvement》1981,20(9):3-4

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Keep calm and carry on: moral panic,predatory publishers,peer review,and the emperor's new clothes     

Frank Houghton 《Journal of the Medical Library Association》2022,110(2):233

The moral panic over the impact of so-called predatory publishers continues unabated. It is important, however, to resist the urge to simply join in this crusade without pausing to examine the assumptions upon which such concerns are based. It is often assumed that established journals are almost sacrosanct, and that their quality, secured by peer review, is established. It is also routinely presumed that such journals are immune to the lure of easy money in return for publication. Rather than looking at the deficits that may be apparent in the practices and products of predatory publishers, this commentary invites you to explore the weaknesses that have been exposed in traditional academic journals but are seldom discussed in the context of predatory publishing. The inherent message for health and medical services staff, researchers, academics, and students is, as always, to critically evaluate all sources of information, whatever their provenance.  相似文献   

Effects of a motivational climate inntervention for coaches on young athletes' sport performance anxiety     

Smith RE  Smoll FL  Cumming SP 《运动与训练心理学杂志》2007,29(1):39-59

The mastery approach to coaching is a cognitive-behavioral intervention designed to promote a mastery-involving motivational climate, shown in previous research to be related to lower anxiety in athletes. We tested the effects of this intervention on motivational climate and on changes in male and female athletes'cognitive and somatic performance anxiety over the course of a basketball season. Hierarchical linear modeling analyses revealed that the athletes in the intervention condition perceived their coaches as being more mastery-involving on the Motivational Climate Scale for Youth Sports when compared to athletes in an untreated control condition. Relative to athletes who played for untrained coaches, those who played for the trained coaches exhibited decreases on all subscales of the Sport Anxiety Scale-2 and on total anxiety score from preseason to late season. Control group athletes reported increases in anxiety over the season. The intervention had equally positive effects on boys and girls teams.  相似文献   

Helsen, Gilis and Weston (2006) err in testing the optical error hypothesis     

Oudejans RR  Bakker FC  Beek PJ 《Journal of sports sciences》2007,25(9):987-990

In this commentary, we react to the recent study by Helsen, Gilis and Weston (2006) on judging offside in football. Helsen et al. claim that their data falsify the optical error hypothesis presented by Oudejans et al. (2000). However, as we will elucidate here, they misinterpret this hypothesis and present a data set that is seriously flawed, and hence not suited to test it. Therefore, their conclusions regarding the optical error hypothesis are in error.  相似文献   

The influence of anxiety on visual attention in climbing   总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2  

Nieuwenhuys A  Pijpers JR  Oudejans RR  Bakker FC 《运动与训练心理学杂志》2008,30(2):171-185

The object of the current study was to investigate anxiety-induced changes in movement and gaze behavior in novices on a climbing wall. Identical traverses were situated at high and low levels on a climbing wall to manipulate anxiety. In line with earlier studies, climbing times and movement times increased under anxiety. These changes were accompanied by similar changes in total and average fixation duration and the number of fixations, which were primarily aimed at the holds used for climbing. In combination with these findings, a decrease in search rate provided evidence for a decrease in processing efficiency as anxiety increased.  相似文献   

Before Jackie Robinson: The Transcendent Role of Black Sporting Pioneers Gerald R. Gems,Editor. University of Nebraska Press, 2017.          下载免费PDF全文

Frank E. Dobson Jr. 《Journal of American culture (Malden, Mass. : 2003)》2018,41(2):220-220

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In Pursuit of Chinese Music     

Frank Kouwenhoven 《中外文化交流(英文版)》2012,(12):24-27

<正>They already spent half a lifetime researching and promoting Chinese traditional music, and continue to do so today: Frank Kouwenhoven, a Dutch journalist, m...  相似文献   

Learner controlled instruction     

Frank T. Wydra 《Performance Improvement》1978,17(10):4-10

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