Effects of Performer Attractiveness, Stage Behavior, and Dress on Violin Performance Evaluation

1998 ◽  
Vol 46 (4) ◽  
pp. 510-521 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joel Wapnick ◽  
Jolan Kovacs Mazza ◽  
Alice-Ann Darrow
Keyword(s):  
Performance Evaluation ◽  
Graduate Students ◽  
Physical Attractiveness ◽  
Significant Interaction ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
Musical Performance ◽  
Performance Ratings ◽  
Performance Skills ◽  
Test Items ◽  
Music Faculty

The purpose of this study was to determine whether certain nonmusical attributes of violinists would affect judges' ratings of their performances. Twelve violinists (6 females and 6 males) were videotaped. They and their performances were rated by 72 graduate students and university music faculty members. Members of the visual group rated violinists by viewing a videotape with the sound turned off They rated them on appropriateness of dress, stage behavior, and physical attractiveness. Members of the audiovisual and audio groups rated musical performance on six test items and did not rate nonmusical attributes. Results from the audiovisual and audio groups revealed significant interactions on half the test items for treatment by dress and treatment by stage behavior: violinists who were high on stage behavior and on dress benefitted significantly from videotape evaluation, but violinists who were low on these attributes were not evaluated differently on audiotape versus videotape. For attractiveness, however, there was no significant interaction: more attractive violinists received higher musical performance ratings than less attractive violinists did under both the audiovisual and audio conditions. In light of earlier research, this suggests that more-attractive performers may progress to a higher level in their acquisition of performance skills than less-attractive performers.

Effects of Performer Attractiveness, Stage Behavior, and Dress on Evaluation of Children's Piano Performances

2000 ◽  
Vol 48 (4) ◽  
pp. 323-335 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joel Wapnick ◽  
Jolan Kovacs Mazza ◽  
Alice Ann Darrow
Keyword(s):  
Physical Attractiveness ◽  
Sixth Grade ◽  
Musical Performance ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Test Items ◽  
Visual Group ◽  
Grouping Students ◽  
Group Members

The purpose of this study was to determine whether selected nonmusical attributes of sixth-grade pianists would affect ratings of their performances. Twenty pianists (10 girl and 10 boys) were videotaped. They and their performances were rated by 123 musically trained evaluators. Members of the visual group viewed a videotape with the sound turned off. They rated pianists on appropriateness of dress, stage behavior, and physical attractiveness. These ratings were the basis for grouping students as being high or low on each of these three attributes. Audiovisual and audio group members rated musical performance on five test items. Results revealed support for the existence of a bias: although high pianists were rated higher than low pianists under the audio condition for all three attributes, the differences between them often were significantly greater under the audiovisual condition than under the audio-only condition. In addition, and unlike finding of earlier studies, videotaped performances were not rated higher than audiotaped performances. Also, female judges were more lenient than male judges. Finally, male and female pianists were affected differently by nonmusical attributes for about half of the test items.

Self-Efficacy in a Sample of Education Majors and Teachers

2002 ◽  
Vol 91 (3) ◽  
pp. 935-939 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marian J. Parker ◽  
A. J. Guarino ◽  
Roy Wade Smith
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Significant Interaction ◽  
Teaching Efficacy ◽  
Education Majors ◽  
Education Students ◽  
Personal Teaching Efficacy ◽  
Teaching Implications

The teachers' self-efficacy, both personal and general, has a profound effect on students' learning. This study investigated the influence on education students' perceptions of their experience as teaching interns of Personal Teaching Efficacy and General Teaching Efficacy. The participants were 196 undergraduates and graduate students who were preparing for or active as interns in teaching or were teachers. There was a significant effect between Personal Teaching Efficacy and General Teaching Efficacy scores, with all respondents scoring higher on the former scale. A significant interaction indicated that students who had not completed internships scored significantly higher on General Teaching Efficacy than either students who had just completed internships or those who were engaged in teaching. Implications are discussed.

A Winning Combination in Computer Education: Learning and Serving

1982 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 331-342
Author(s):  
Warren Rose ◽  
George C. Fowler
Keyword(s):  
Information System ◽  
Graduate Students ◽  
Computer Science ◽  
Reporting System ◽  
Science Instruction ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
Graduate Level ◽  
Funded Research ◽  
Administrative Unit ◽  
Computer Based

This article features an imaginative use of graduate students in developing a computer-based information system to assist an administrative unit of a university. The project involves the development of a dual, automated, fiscal reporting system to handle the budgetary problems associated with funded research contracts by the College of Medicine. The roles and contributions of graduate students, faculty members, and users are assessed as they relate to improving the learning and serving functions of a university. The case example also identifies the problems to be overcome as well as the benefits to be gained from incorporating this technique in computer science instruction and programs at the graduate level.

How Calibration Committees Can Mitigate Performance Evaluation Bias: An Analysis of Implicit Incentives

2020 ◽  
Vol 95 (6) ◽  
pp. 213-233 ◽  
Author(s):  
Isabella Grabner ◽  
Judith Künneke ◽  
Frank Moers
Keyword(s):  
Performance Evaluation ◽  
Panel Data ◽  
Professional Service ◽  
Performance Ratings ◽  
Performance Rating ◽  
Opportunistic Behavior ◽  
Service Firm ◽  
Evaluation Bias ◽  
Professional Service Firm

ABSTRACT While prior research on performance evaluation bias has mainly focused on the determinants and consequences of rating errors, we investigate how a firm can provide implicit incentives to supervisors to mitigate these errors via its calibration committee. We empirically examine the extent to which a calibration committee incorporates supervisors' evaluation behavior with respect to their subordinates in the performance evaluation outcomes, i.e., performance ratings and promotion decisions, for these supervisors. In our study, we distinguish between lack of skills and opportunism as two important facets of evaluation behavior, which we expect the calibration committee to address differently. Using panel data of a professional service firm, we show that supervisors' opportunistic behavior to strategically inflate subordinates' performance ratings is disciplined through a decrease in the supervisors' own performance rating, while the supervisors' skills to provide less compressed and, thus, more informative performance ratings is rewarded through a higher likelihood of promotion.

Understanding Information Seeking Behavior of Faculty and Students

2012 ◽  
pp. 1-21 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nancy Falciani-White
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Information Seeking ◽  
Resource Discovery ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
Significant Information ◽  
Technological Advances ◽  
Seeking Behavior ◽  
Similarities And Differences ◽  
Information Seeking Behaviors

This chapter reviews significant information seeking literature, focusing on general models that can provide a framework for those not familiar with the research in that area. It then explores models and characteristics that are unique to academic users, specifically undergraduate students, graduate students, and faculty members, highlighting similarities and differences among these groups of users. Changes to information seeking that have resulted from technological advances are also examined. The chapter concludes with a look at resource discovery tools in light of what is known about the information seeking behaviors of academic users, and recommendations are provided for those considering adoption of resource discovery tools.

Rising up the Ranks

2017 ◽  
pp. 345-367
Author(s):  
Zulkarnain Hanafi ◽  
Chee Kiong Tong
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Research Output ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Recruitment And Retention ◽  
Research And Teaching ◽  
Quality Faculty ◽  
Research Excellence ◽  
International Profile ◽  
The University

The paper will cover all aspects of the change journey: engaging with relevant stakeholders, the recruitment and retention of high quality faculty members, the review and revision of the curriculum, improving the quality and quantity of research output and publications, developing centers of research excellence, raising the level of funding for both research and teaching, expanding the number of graduate students, developing an eminent visiting professors' program, the internationalization of the university, strengthening governance and administration and raising the international profile of the university. It will set out, in detail, the strategies and processes that were developed to realize the vision, as well as the challenges and problems encountered, and steps taken to address these challenges and problems. Mistakes were made along the way and the lessons that can be learnt for any university that aims to be involved in the ranking exercises.

Attracting the Best and the Brightest to Teach Psychology

1986 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 107-110 ◽  
Author(s):  
David L. Cole
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Teaching Profession ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
Academic Careers ◽  
Teaching Careers

After noting that the best graduate students are eschewing academic careers, this article suggests ways that organizations within psychology could encourage the most promising undergraduate and graduate students to enter the teaching profession. Commonalities in the undergraduate behavior and attitudes of 10 successful faculty members are reviewed. The clarion call is for faculty members to encourage students who have these characteristics to seek teaching careers in psychology.

scholarly journals An Action Research Approach helps Develop GIS Programs in Humanities and Social Sciences

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 30-32
Author(s):  
Laura Costello
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Action Research ◽  
Graduate Students ◽  
Research University ◽  
Action Plan ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
Service Research ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Action Research Approach ◽  
Humanities And Social Sciences

A Review of: Kong, N., Fosmire, M., & Branch, B. D. (2017). Developing library GIS services for humanities and social science: An action research approach. College & Research Libraries, 78(4), 413-427.  http://dx.doi.org/10.5860/crl.78.4.413 Abstract Objective – To develop and improve on geographic information systems (GIS) services for humanities and social sciences using an action research model.   Design – Case study.   Setting – A public research university serving an annual enrollment of over 41,500 students in the Midwestern United States.   Subjects – Faculty members and students in the humanities and social sciences that expressed interest in GIS services.   Methods – An action research approach was used which included data collection, analysis, service design, and observation. Interviews with 8 individuals and groups were conducted including 4 faculty members, 3 graduate students, and one research group of faculty and graduate students. Data from interviews and other data including emails and notes from previous GIS meetings were analyzed and coded into thematic areas. This analysis was used to develop an action plan for the library, then the results of the activity were assessed. Main Results – The interviews revealed three thematic areas for library GIS service: research, learning, and outreach. The action plan developed by the authors resulted in increased engagement including active participation in an annual GIS day, attendance at workshops, course-integrated GIS sessions, around 40 consultations on GIS subjects over a two-year period, and increased hits on the Library’s GIS page. Surveys from pre- and post-tests in the workshops increased participants’ spatial awareness skills. Conclusion – Using an action research approach, the authors were able to identify needs and develop a successful model of GIS service for the humanities and social sciences.

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