Search for dissertations about: "evaluative"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 74 swedish dissertations containing the word evaluative.

  2. 6. Possibilities offered by interventional sports programmes to children and adolescents with physical disabilities : an explorative and evaluative study

    Author : Lars Kristén; Högskolan i Halmstad; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Health; Physical disability; Socialisation; Sports programme; Sports research; Idrottsforskning; Pedagogik;

    Abstract : Today, sport is a topic that interests and engages many people. However, pursuing sporting activities and being a member of a sports club is not a matter of course for children and adolescents with physical disabilities. READ MORE

  4. 7. Identification of subgroups in experimental and chronic pain : Sensory, emotional and evaluative aspects

    Author : Ragnhild Raak; Bengt H. Sjölund; Linköpings universitet; []
    Keywords : MEDICINE; MEDICIN;

    Abstract : One hundred and two healthy subjects, 32 fibromyalgia patients and 12 chronic low back pain patients were included in the study. Quantitative sensory tests were performed to identify thermal hyperalgesia in the fibromyalgia group and to compare the results with those in healthy pain-free subjects. READ MORE

  5. 8. Project Evaluation in Development Cooperation : A Meta-Evaluative Case Study in Tanzania

    Author : Mikiko Cars; Jan-Ingvar Löfstedt; Roy Carr-Hill; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; meta-evaluation; social programme evaluation theories and methodology; international development cooperation; development evaluation; community based approach; actor oriented approach; participatory monitoring and evaluation; responsive-constructivist evaluation; Tanzania; International education; Internationell pedagogik;

    Abstract : The research reported here is a meta-evaluative case study of project evaluation in the context of Official Development Cooperation (ODC) in the education sector in Tanzania, where the particular focus is on capturing the relative values attached to evaluation by various stakeholder groups.Perspectives from the constructivist paradigm are adopted, implying relativist ontology, subjectivist epistemology, and naturalistic interpretive methodology. READ MORE

  6. 9. On Board the Global Workplace : Coordination and Uncertainty on Merchant Ships

    Author : Carl Sandberg; Patrik Aspers; Arni Sverrison; Boris Holzer; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Coordination; merchant ships; global workplace; mixed crews; formal organization; state of dissonance; evaluative principles; social networks; hierarchy of worth; Sociology; sociologi;

    Abstract : The purpose of this thesis is to analyze how work and social life are coordinated on board merchant ships. The merchant ship is a global workplace where people from different nationalities come together to work and live for an extended period of time.The study is based on ethnographic field work on board merchant ships. READ MORE

  7. 10. "Honourable" or "Highly-sexed" : Adjectival Descriptions of Male and Female Characters in Victorian and Contemporary Children's Fiction

    Author : Hanna Andersdotter Sveen; Merja Kytö; Claudia Claridge; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; English language; 19th-century English; adjectives; attributive; British National Corpus; characters; children s fiction; contemporary; corpus linguistics; description; evaluative meaning; female; gender; male; part description; predicative; semantic domains; syntactic function; Victorian; Engelska; English language; Engelska språket; English; Engelska;

    Abstract : This corpus-based study examines adjectives and adjectival expressions used to describe characters in British children’s fiction. The focus is on diachronic variation, by comparing Victorian (19th-century) and contemporary (late 20th-century) children’s fiction, and on gender variation, by comparing the descriptions of female and male characters. READ MORE