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Alawneh, Muhammad K. – Online Submission, 2008
This article investigates factors that motivate participants in learning and training activities to transfer skills, knowledge and attitude from the learning setting to the workplace. Based on training transfer theories hypothesized by Holton (1996), one of the major theories that affect an organization's learning is motivation to transfer theory.…
Descriptors: Transfer of Training, Motivation, Learning Theories, Influences
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Bradley, Jana – Library Quarterly, 1993
Discusses methodological issues concerning qualitative research and describes research practices that qualitative researchers use to address these methodological issues. Topics discussed include the researcher as interpreter, the emergent nature of qualitative research, understanding the experience of others, trustworthiness in qualitative…
Descriptors: Credibility, Data Analysis, Data Collection, Information Science
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Wathen, C. Nadine; Burkell, Jacquelyn – Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 2002
Reviews selected literature related to the credibility of information, including credibility in traditional media, credibility in electronic media, Internet health information, and credibility rating systems. Proposes a model for how users judge the credibility of online information. (Contains 52 references.) (Author/LRW)
Descriptors: Credibility, Information Literacy, Information Skills, Information Utilization
Morehouse, Ward – 1979
Relationships between mass-media coverage of international affairs and university-based expertise in international, language, and area studies are investigated. The report is presented in three major sections. Section I poses issues for debate: How important is media in informing the American public about world affairs? Does it really matter if…
Descriptors: Career Education, Continuation Education, Credibility, Cultural Interrelationships