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This paper compares website usability--specifically library users' understanding of library terms--for fifty-one original research studies between 2012-2021, with the findings of John Kupersmith's 2011 white paper "Library Terms That Users Understand." Studies reported approximately twice as many terms that users didn't understand than…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Users (Information), Web Sites, Usability
Download full textTaylor, Zachary W.; Manor, Laura – Journal of Student Financial Aid, 2021
Decades of research has suggested that completing the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) can be a complex, difficult process for postsecondary students and their support networks. However, no extant research has informed federal student aid practitioners and researchers as to what federal student aid jargon terms institutions of…
Descriptors: Student Financial Aid, College Applicants, Federal Aid, Jargon
Dang, Thi Ngoc Yen – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2020
This study investigated the potential of discipline-related television programs as sources for incidental learning of specialized vocabulary used in university lectures and seminars. First, a Medical Spoken Word List (MSWL) of 895 specialized word types was developed from a 556,074-word corpus of medical lectures and seminars based on a mixed…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Jargon, Medical Education, Incidental Learning
Palmberg, Klara – Learning Organization, 2009
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore the concept of complex adaptive systems (CAS) from the perspective of managing organizations, to describe and explore the management principles in a case study of an organization with unconventional ways of management and to present a tentative model for managing organizations as CAS--system…
Descriptors: Organizational Development, Administrative Organization, Knowledge Management, Figurative Language
Hutzler, Yeshayahu; Sherrill, Claudine – Adapted Physical Activity Quarterly, 2007
The purpose of this study was to describe international perspectives concerning terms, definitions, and meanings of adapted physical activity (APA) as (a) activities or service delivery, (b) a profession, and (c) an academic field of study. Gergen's social constructionism, our theory, guided analysis of multiple sources of data via qualitative…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Mail Surveys, Literature Reviews, Physical Activities
