Journal articles: 'Evaluating stories'

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Westby, Carol. "Evaluating Life Stories." Word of Mouth 27, no. 5 (March 22, 2016): 8–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1048395016631539b.

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Poorman, Susan G., and Melissa L. Mastorovich. "Teacher Stories of Blame When Assigning a Failing Grade." International Journal of Nursing Education Scholarship 11, no. 1 (January 1, 2014): 91–100. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/ijnes-2013-0081.

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AbstractNurse educators are required to routinely evaluate students. While there is a plethora of information in the educational literature about how to write exams, develop rubrics, or evaluate clinical performance, there is a paucity of research related to teachers’ experiences of evaluation. Using a Heideggerian hermeneutical approach, this study sought to answer: (1) what are the experiences of nurse educators evaluating nursing students? and (2) what do these evaluative experiences mean to the nurse educator? Thirty nurse educators from 19 undergraduate programs were interviewed for this study. Implications for nurse educators are discussed.

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Wolman, Harold L., Coit Cook Ford, and Edward Hill. "Evaluating the Success of Urban Success Stories." Urban Studies 31, no. 6 (June 1994): 835–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00420989420080701.

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Tandoc Jr., Edson C. "Audiences, Journalists, and Forms of Capital in the Online Journalistic Field." Romanian Journal of Communication and Public Relations 16, no. 3 (April 24, 2016): 23. http://dx.doi.org/10.21018/rjcpr.2014.3.173.

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This study found divergence in how online journalists and student-audiences rated articles with varying popularity, as measured by audience metrics, and quality, as operationalized by winning a journalistic award. The findings revealed that while metrics and awards did not matter for young online news audiences, they were important for online journalists. But even among journalists, the importance of metrics and awards varied depending on whether the journalists were evaluating stories or their peers. For online journalists, popular stories were more newsworthy than those that were not. Awards did not influence their judgment of newsworthiness. But when evaluating the authors of the articles, online journalists rated authors of articles that won awards more favorably than authors of articles without awards. The popularity of stories did not matter in their evaluation of the authors.

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Dixon, Jane. "Community Stories and Indicators for Evaluating Community Development." Community Development Journal 30, no. 4 (1995): 327–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cdj/30.4.327.

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Thomas, Peter, and Elaine Martin. "Using a phenomenographic approach in evaluating hypermedia stories." Computers & Education 50, no. 2 (February 2008): 613–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.compedu.2007.09.014.

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Mohamed, Ahmed, and C. June Maker. "Creative Storytelling: Evaluating Problem Solving in Children's Invented Stories." Gifted Education International 27, no. 3 (January 2011): 327–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/026142941102700309.

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Schutz, Aaron, and Pamela A. Moss. "Reasonable Decisions in Portfolio Assessment: Evaluating Complex Evidence of Teaching." education policy analysis archives 12 (July 20, 2004): 33. http://dx.doi.org/10.14507/epaa.v12n33.2004.

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A central dilemma of portfolio assessment is that as the richness of the data available to readers increases, so do the challenges involved in ensuring acceptable reliability among readers. Drawing on empirical and theoretical work in discourse analysis, ethnomethodology, and other fields, we argue that this dilemma results, in part, from the fact that readers cannot avoid forming the data of a portfolio into a pattern—a coherent "story" or "stories"—in order to evaluate it. Our article presents case studies of readers independently evaluating the same portfolios. We show that even readers who hold a shared vision of effective teaching and who cite much the same evidence can, nonetheless, develop significantly different "stories." Our analysis illustrates that some portfolios are more ambiguous than others and are thus more likely to result in such divergent readings. We argue that more fine grained understandings of portfolio ambiguities and disagreements between readers over "stories" can help us respond to the challenges posed by the rich data of portfolio assessments.

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Trester, A. M. "Telling and retelling prankster stories: Evaluating cleverness to perform identity." Discourse Studies 15, no. 1 (February 1, 2013): 91–109. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1461445612466472.

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Pane, Heather M., Tina M. Sidener, Jason C. Vladescu, and Anjalee Nirgudkar. "Evaluating Function-Based Social Stories™ With Children With Autism." Behavior Modification 39, no. 6 (September 3, 2015): 912–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0145445515603708.

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Wright, Heather Harris, Gilson J. Capilouto, and Anthony Koutsoftas. "Evaluating measures of global coherence ability in stories in adults." International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders 48, no. 3 (January 25, 2013): 249–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1460-6984.12000.

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Hanrahan, R., E. Smith, H. Johnson, A. Constantin, and M. Brosnan. "A Pilot Randomised Control Trial of Digitally-Mediated Social Stories for Children on the Autism Spectrum." Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders 50, no. 12 (April 7, 2020): 4243–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10803-020-04490-8.

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AbstractSocial stories is a widely used intervention for children on the autism spectrum, particularly within an educational context. To date, systematic reviews and meta analyses of the research evaluating social stories has produced mixed results, often due to a lack of methodological rigour and variability in the development and delivery of the social stories. To address the gap in methodological rigour, a pilot Randomised Control Trial (RCT) was conducted, incorporating a social stories intervention group (n = 9 children on the autism spectrum) and an attentional control group who received a poem (n = 6 children on the autism spectrum) using a digital platform to address variability. Digitally-mediated social stories were found to be effective in producing beneficial changes in behaviour outcomes, which were sustained at a six-week follow up.

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Tse, Joana K. Y., Stephanie W. Y. Chan, and Samuel K. W. Chu. "Quality Assessment for Digital Stories by Young Authors." Data and Information Management 5, no. 1 (November 7, 2020): 174–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/dim-2020-0039.

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AbstractDigital storytelling, an innovative way of writing, has been introduced to young learners who are taught to construct stories with digital tools to convey their knowledge and ideas. In 2018 and 2019, 31 digital stories created by Hong Kong primary school students were published on a digital story writing platform and linked from an online gamified reading platform. Each book on average gained 4,000+ views from across the globe and received 3,000+ favorable comments in total. While the digital stories are popular in these platforms, their quality and education value are uncertain. A review of the literature shows there is a lack of robust tools for assessing digital stories by young authors. The research team for this paper thus constructed their own framework in evaluating digital stories. An assessment of the stories has been done by two capable assessors, who found that the stories overall were of good quality and suggested room for improvement. This paper made three contributions: (1) “invention” of a digital story assessment framework; (2) it shows that stories created by students (with support from educators) can be an enjoyable and useful educational resource for their peers; and (3) digital storytelling can help foster the development of young authors.

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Walters, Lynne Masel, and Sam von Gillern. "We Learn in the Form of Stories." International Journal of Digital Literacy and Digital Competence 9, no. 3 (July 2018): 12–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijdldc.2018070102.

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This article discusses the use of digital storytelling to enable pre-service teachers to develop critical digital literacy skills. Digital storytelling and new literacies share the same set of abilities: 1) finding, evaluating and consuming digital content; 2) exploring identity and cultural landscapes; 3) creating new digital materials drawing from multiple media; and 4) communicating what was found or created with an audience. The study is based on the essays of pre-service teachers enrolled in Cultural Foundations of Education, who produced two digital stories. Responses showed that they believed the assignments helped them become more reflective, culturally aware and media savvy, and led them to a critical and practical knowledge of multimodal content production. Digital storytelling, then, utilizes almost all of the critical digital skills and literacies pre-service teachers are expected to bring to diverse, globalized, and technology-infused 21st century classrooms.

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Koukoulis, Konstantinos, and Dimitrios Koukopoulos. "Developing and Evaluating Management Services for Collective Memory ‡." Heritage 2, no. 3 (July 28, 2019): 2206–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/heritage2030134.

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Collective memory is vital for people as it gives them the sense of belonging to a community. In particular, refugee population groups feel the need to maintain contact with their routes through collective memory, due to the abolishment of the physical connection to their homeland. However, people’s memories fade over time and stories are lost. In such a context a crucial question arises: Is it feasible to design and create a crowdsourcing collective memory management system for the benefit of such social groups preserving memory for next generations? In this work, we present a system that is able to collect and manage refugee stories disseminating them to the public. In order to stress the strength of the proposed system, we have created an evaluation methodology that assesses such a system in terms of system services and system stakeholders’ real impact. We chose to deal with the collective memory of refugee groups coming from Asia Minor to Greece at the end of the first quarter of the twentieth century. Evaluation results reveal that such a system positively affects personal and social impact factors. Furthermore, a preliminary results analysis suggests specific interactions among the examined personal and social impact factors. We believe that the proposed system facilitates the needs of collective memory management and the assessment scheme could be adapted in the creation and evaluation of collective memory management systems.

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Iandolo, Giuseppe, Gianluca Esposito, and Paola Venuti. "The Bears Family Projective Test: Evaluating Stories of Children with Emotional Difficulties." Perceptual and Motor Skills 114, no. 3 (June 2012): 883–902. http://dx.doi.org/10.2466/02.09.15.21.pms.114.3.883-902.

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Sumpter, Randall S., and Melissa A. Braddock. "Source Use In a “News Disaster” Account: A Content Analysis of Voter News Service Stories." Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly 79, no. 3 (September 2002): 539–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/107769900207900302.

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This quantitative content analysis examines source use for an eleven-week period in a “news disaster” story. The frequency of similar stories, which explain to readers, viewers, and listeners how the media do their work, has grown in the past forty years, and media observers are unsure what the change means. In this study, source affiliations and themes are evaluated in a census of stories about errors made by the media in reporting election night returns for the 2000 presidential race. News workers and other media-affiliated sources initially dominated the stories. They commonly explained how the reporting errors occurred or related factual information about the coverage. These sources and themes effectively blocked other affiliated and unaffiliated sources from evaluating the media's performance until later.

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Soukupova, Tereza, and Petr Goldmann. "Personal Problem Solving of Partners in Divorce Proceedings." Rorschachiana 36, no. 1 (April 2015): 82–103. http://dx.doi.org/10.1027/1192-5604/a000053.

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Abstract. The Thematic Apperception Test is one of the most frequently administered apperceptive techniques. Formal scoring systems are helpful in evaluating story responses. TAT stories, made by 20 males and 20 females in the situation of legal divorce proceedings, were coded for detection and comparison of their personal problem solving ability. The evaluating instrument utilized was the Personal Problem Solving System-Revised (PPSS-R) as developed by G. F. Ronan. The results indicate that in relation to card 1, men more often than women saw the cause of the problem as removable. With card 6GF, women were more motivated to resolve the given problem than were men, women had a higher personal control and their stories contained more optimism compared to men’s stories. In relation to card 6BM women, more often than men, used emotions generated from the problem to orient themselves within the problem. With card 13MF, the men’s level of stress was less compared to that of the women, and men were more able to plan within the context of problem-solving. Significant differences in the examined groups were found in those cards which depicted significant gender and parental potentials. The TAT can be used to help identify personality characteristics and gender differences.

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Raaphorst, Nadine, and Sandra Groeneveld. "Double Standards in Frontline Decision Making: A Theoretical and Empirical Exploration." Administration & Society 50, no. 8 (February 28, 2018): 1175–201. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0095399718760587.

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Drawing on status characteristics and double standards theory, this study explores how social categories may affect the standards tax officials use in evaluating citizen-clients’ trustworthiness, leading to differential evaluation. Whereas the street-level bureaucracy literature mainly focuses on the direct effect of social categories on officials’ judgments, this study shows how stereotyping in the public encounter could be much subtler and more pervasive than is hitherto studied. Based on semistructured interviews containing 40 stories of tax officials who inspect entrepreneurs’ tax returns, this study suggests that similar signals may indeed be interpreted differently for different social groups.

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Torrey, Deberniere. "Confucian Exemplars and Catholic Saints as Models for Women in Nineteenth-Century Korea." Religions 11, no. 3 (March 24, 2020): 151. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rel11030151.

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Women in Joseon Korea (1392–1910) were held to high standards of virtue, which were propagated through didactic texts such as the “Chaste and Obedient Biographies” volume of Lienü Zhuan, the Chinese classic featuring biographies of exemplary women. Joseon women who converted to Catholicism were also educated in standards of Catholic virtue, often through the biographies of saints, which shared with the Confucian exemplar stories an emphasis on faithfulness and self-sacrifice. Yet, the differences between Confucian and Catholic standards of virtue were great enough to elicit persecution of Catholics throughout the nineteenth century. Therefore conversion would have involved evaluating one set of standards against the other and determining that Catholicism was worth the price of social marginalization and persecution. Through a comparison of the Confucian exemplar stories and Catholic saints’ stories, this paper explores how Catholic standards of virtue might have motivated conversion of Joseon women to Catholicism. This comparison highlights aspects of the saints’ stories that offered lifestyle choices unavailable to women in traditional Joseon society and suggests that portrayals of the saints’ confidence in the face of human and natural oppressors could also have provided inspiration to ease the price of conversion.

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Gaudreau, G., L. Monetta, J. Macoir, S. Poulin, R. Jr Laforce, and C. Hudon. "Mental State Inferences Abilities Contribution to Verbal Irony Comprehension in Older Adults with Mild Cognitive Impairment." Behavioural Neurology 2015 (2015): 1–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/685613.

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Objective. The present study examined mentalizing capacities as well as the relative implication of mentalizing in the comprehension of ironic and sincere assertions among 30 older adults with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and 30 healthy control (HC) subjects.Method. Subjects were administered a task evaluating mentalizing by means of short stories. A verbal irony comprehension task, in which participants had to identify ironic or sincere statements within short stories, was also administered; the design of the task allowed uniform implication of mentalizing across the conditions.Results. Findings indicated that participants with MCI have second-order mentalizing difficulties compared to HC subjects. Moreover, MCI participants were impaired compared to the HC group in identifying ironic or sincere stories, both requiring mental inference capacities.Conclusion. This study suggests that, in individuals with MCI, difficulties in the comprehension of ironic and sincere assertions are closely related to second-order mentalizing deficits. These findings support previous data suggesting a strong relationship between irony comprehension and mentalizing.

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Flynn, Erin Elizabeth. "Ideas in dialogue: Leveraging the power of child-led storytelling in the multicultural preschool classroom." Language in Society 47, no. 4 (July 2, 2018): 601–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0047404518000593.

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AbstractAn investigation into the interactive features of small group, child-led storytelling in preschool classrooms serving lower socioeconomic status (SES), multilingual children shows both the affordances and constraints of positioning children to author their own experiences in the classroom. In story circles, children told stories that included canonical instantiations of story and culturally shaped features. Through their stories, the children advanced ideas, built connections, and evaluated ways of telling stories as they continued ideas like threads from story to story. Child-led storytelling did not disrupt the dynamics of power through which some ways of using language are privileged while others are marginalized. Instead, story circles simply shifted children’ relationship to the process of being and becoming literate such that children did the evaluating, valuing, and promoting of ways of using language, developing literate identities, but potentially forestalling some ways of participating even as shared interactional norms were developed. (Storytelling, multicultural, early childhood education)*

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Parkinson, Tom, Tarek Zoubir, Shaher Abdullateef, Musallam Abedtalas, Ghana Alyamani, Ziad Al Ibrahim, Majdi Al Husni, et al. "“We are still here”: the stories of Syrian academics in exile." International Journal of Comparative Education and Development 20, no. 3/4 (August 20, 2018): 132–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijced-06-2018-0013.

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is twofold: first, to generate insight into the experiences of Syrian academics in exile in Turkey; and second, to explore approaches to collaboration and community building among academics in exile and with counterparts in the international academic community. Design/methodology/approach The study employs a hybrid visual-autobiographical narrative methodology, embedded within a large group process (LGP) design. Findings Findings are presented in two phases: the first phase presents a thematic analysis of narrative data, revealing the common and divergent experiences of 12 exiled academics. The second phase presents a reflective evaluation of undertaking the LGP and its implications for community building and sustaining Syrian academia in exile. Research limitations/implications While this is a qualitative study with a small participant group, and therefore does not provide a basis for statistical generalisation, it offers rich insight into Syrian academics’ lived experiences of exile, and into strategies implemented to support the Syrian academic community in exile. Practical implications The study has practical implications for academic development in the contexts of conflict and exile; community building among dispersed academic communities; educational interventions by international NGOs and the international academic community; and group process design. Originality/value The study makes an original contribution to the limited literature on post-2011 Syrian higher education by giving voice to a community of exiled academics, and by critically evaluating a strategic initiative for supporting and sustaining Syrian academia. This represents significant, transferable insight for comparable contexts.

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Klevan, Trude, Bengt Karlsson, and Marit Borg. "Solidarity now? Other stories about researchers, otherness, and polyphony in research." Methodological Innovations 14, no. 1 (January 2021): 205979912110104. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/20597991211010414.

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We are three researchers within the field of mental health. For the past 3 years, we have collaborated with colleagues in Greece on evaluating the pilot project Refugee Outreach Mental Health Team. Part of our role has been to evaluate how refugees and asylum seekers experience the treatment and support offered by the team. The findings from the evaluation have been presented in a published research report and we have thereby “completed our task.” However, following the completion of the formal obligations, we have continued to dwell on the less outspoken dialogues and inner voices. Not only those of the participants, but also the ones of the researchers that are present before, during and after research interviews. Inspired by relational autoethnography, we share some “other stories” about how the research processes touched us deeply and how it has left traces in our minds and bodies long after the project completion. We reflect on how relational processes of polyphonic meaning-making can be used to develop deeper insights and knowledge as well as a call for action. We suggest that the sharing of other stories can provide new knowledge and new understandings of how knowledge can be developed. Our hope is also that it may serve troubling or evocative purposes, and encourage the development of dialogues by invoking inner and outer voices. Perhaps, it may even call for solidarity in others and ourselves.

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van Wessel, Margit. "Narrative Assessment: A new approach to evaluation of advocacy for development." Evaluation 24, no. 4 (October 2018): 400–418. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1356389018796021.

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This article proposes an approach to monitoring and evaluating advocacy that integrates theory of change and storytelling. This approach, called Narrative Assessment, addresses the feasibility of objectivity and evidence in the complex context of advocacy and proposes an evaluation methodology rooted in alternative conceptualizations of rigour and of evaluator roles. The approach centres on practical judgment and the construction and examination of stories through interaction between advocates and monitoring and evaluation specialists. The article discusses how Narrative Assessment can be useful in the evaluation of advocacy in terms of (1) monitoring and evaluation specialists’ orientation toward programmes; (2) the interpretation of outcomes; (3) the assessment of outcome relevance; (4) reflection and learning and (5) the communication of programme results. The approach builds on lessons drawn from evaluation of eight advocacy programmes in international development.

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Frandsen, Tove Faber, Kristian Møhler Sørensen, and Anne Merete Lyngroes Fladmose. "Library stories: a systematic review of narrative aspects within and around libraries." Journal of Documentation 77, no. 5 (March 22, 2021): 1128–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jd-10-2020-0182.

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PurposeLibraries are increasingly trying to communicate the library's contributions and telling the library stories. Stories can be a component of impact assessment and thus add nuance to an assessment. Evaluations of libraries can include collecting and presenting stories of change, which can serve as evidence in impact assessments. The narrative field allows for many different approaches to a narrative perspective in the study of libraries, but the existing literature provides little overview of these studies. The purpose of this study is to introduce the narrative field and present a systematic review of the existing studies of libraries that use narrative approaches.Design/methodology/approachThe methods in this study comprise of a systematic review of publications reporting narrative approaches to studying libraries. To retrieve the relevant studies, Library and Information Science Abstracts, Scopus, Web of Science and Proquest Dissertation were searched. Furthermore, the authors examined reference lists and performed citation searches. Study selection was performed by two reviewers independently. Using designed templates, data from the included studies were extracted by one author and confirmed by another.FindingsThe database searches retrieved 2,096 records across the four databases which were screened in two steps, resulting in 35 included studies. The authors identify studies that introduce narrative enquiries in library studies as well as studies using narrative approaches to the study of libraries.Originality/valueExploring narratives and stories for understanding and evaluating the library's worth is a promising field. More work is needed, though, to develop theoretical and methodological frameworks. Several of the included studies can serve as examples of the potential of a narrative perspective in the study of libraries.

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Wolman, Harold, Edward W. Hill, and Kimberly Furdell. "Evaluating the success of urban success stories: Is reputation a guide to best practice?" Housing Policy Debate 15, no. 4 (January 2004): 965–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10511482.2004.9521528.

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Carroll, Deidra, Bernadette Lange, Patricia Liehr, Sommer Raines, and Marianne T. Marcus. "Evaluating Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction: Analyzing Stories of Stress to Formulate Focus Group Questions." Archives of Psychiatric Nursing 22, no. 2 (April 2008): 107–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.apnu.2007.12.004.

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Juvancic, Matevz, and Spela Verovsek. "Narrating and explaining urban stories through inherited visual urban vocabulary." Visual Communication 17, no. 1 (September 26, 2017): 47–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1470357217727676.

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This article proposes and formulates the visual urban vocabulary for tacit, intuitive, experiential, but none-the-less fast, plausible, generative, informative, sketch-like composition and visualization of urban stories. Through visual and socially ‘inherited’ clues, the authors explain the complexities of urban spaces, their elements, interrelations and cause–effect phenomena to expert and non-expert public alike. The rules, syntax and overall advantages of such a vocabulary are grounded in the existing linguistic, cognitive, psychological theories, visual sociology and theories of urban design, combined and supported by the authors’ own research into visualizations and tools for evaluating, understanding and presenting urban spaces. With many illustrations, the article demonstrates the use for – and the use of – generic urban stories in discussions about urbanity, urban environments, livable places, etc. and positions them into educational, research and participatory planning and commercial contexts.

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Johnson, Jenny Marie. "Mapping Ethnicity: Color Use in Depicting Ethnic Distribution." Cartographic Perspectives, no. 40 (September 1, 2001): 12–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.14714/cp40.576.

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Maps are made for a specific purpose, or set of purposes. No individual cartographer or cartography-producing organization produces a map just for the sake of producing a map. People and organizations have agendas; maps tell stories. Map stories are told through symbols and colors. Colors have meaning. Perhaps color choice is intended to indicate an organization’s attitudes toward the phenomena being mapped. Color on maps of ethnic groups can be evaluated inter-textually by placing the maps into the context of their producers and the time of their production. The colors, and their meanings, that are used to represent particular groups will reflect the map producer’s attitudes toward the ethnic groups. If these attitudes are unknown, they could be hypothesized by evaluating color usage. Color choices may act as indicators of opinions otherwise unexpressed.

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Flaherty, Emalee G., Rise Jones, and Robert Sege. "Telling their stories: primary care practitioners’ experience evaluating and reporting injuries caused by child abuse." Child Abuse & Neglect 28, no. 9 (September 2004): 939–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chiabu.2004.03.013.

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Sari, Retno Purwani, Cece Sobarna, Eva Tuckyta Sari Sujatna, and Nani Darmayanti. "Repetition in Children Stories: A Dynamic Aspect of a Persuasive Strategy." International Journal of Linguistics 9, no. 6 (December 1, 2017): 28. http://dx.doi.org/10.5296/ijl.v9i6.12100.

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The patterning of repetitions, such a persuasive strategy, proposes the involvement of author’s emotion. Therefore, it potentially stimulates children’s emotion and imagination to explore their own thoughts and to learn to understand their world while reading. By investigating interpersonal relation involved, repetitions show participants’ attitudes. Thus, this study concentrates on how they work on children’s emotion and imagination, using pragma-stylistic approach. The focus itself is managed to answer the creation of meaning. In order to challenge the objective, this study was applied analytic descriptive qualitative method to 36 data of repetitions. By reviewing empirical indications, this study claims that repetitions reach emphatic prominence involving logical emphasis and emotional state. Both of them invest accumulation of ideas to promote emotion and expectation; leading to imagination in evaluating appropriateness to behave in the society. Consequently, repetitions are debatable as a rhetorical device to persuade children to adapt social values.

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Liu, Zihan, Christine Jubb, and Subhash Abhayawansa. "Analysing and evaluating integrated reporting." Journal of Intellectual Capital 20, no. 2 (April 9, 2019): 235–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jic-02-2018-0031.

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Purpose The integrated reports published by companies vary significantly in quality in spite of them claiming to be compliant with the integrated reporting (IR) Framework issued by the International Integrated Reporting Council (IIRC). The purpose of this paper is to develop and apply a normative benchmark against which compliance with the IR Framework, and the extent to which integrated reports make visible how organisations create value, can be evaluated. Design/methodology/approach The three pillars of the IR Framework – Capitals, Content Elements and the Guiding Principles – are operationalised by the way of a set of disclosure items that capture the extent to which they manifest within integrated reports. The created disclosure index is applied to analyse reports of five companies that are expected to be superior integrated reporters. Findings The normative benchmark that was created to operationalise the IR Framework identifies a vast amount of potentially communicable information and various degrees to which information may be disclosed. The integrated reports analysed differ significantly in the extent to which value-creation stories are made visible, despite some of the companies promoting to have actively engaged with IR as participants of the IIRC Pilot Program Business Network. All selected companies performed poorly in comparison to the normative benchmark. Originality/value This paper is the first to provide a comprehensive normative benchmark for analysing and evaluating compliance with the IR Framework and the extent to which integrated reports make visible how organisations create value.

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Fatima, Naureen, and Muhammad Akhtar. "MARITIME TOURISM: GLOBAL SUCCESS STORIES AND THE CASE OF PAKISTAN." Polaris – Journal of Maritime Research 2, no. 1 (December 20, 2020): 1–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.53963/pjmr.2020.004.2.

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The coastal / maritime tourism is an important segment in a multi-trillion dollars and multivariate global tourism industry. It offers one of the new avenues and fastest growing areas for significant role in global economies. Various countries such as Maldives, Indian State of Kerala, Singapore and Thailand etc. have focused on maritime tourism with good governance practices evolved over period of time to earn substantial revenues from it. Pakistan has also immense maritime tourism potential with diversified natural, religious, and cultural tourism resources. But Pakistan’s maritime tourism is considered very weak due to various issues. With qualitative research, this paper attempts to explore and suggest solutions for the development of maritime tourism sector of Pakistan by analysing the tourism governance of global success stories and evaluating the nationwide potential and challenges. Arguments are developed that the factors behind the success stories of Maldives & Kerala state in India can act as guidance for taking initiatives on the proposed potential sites in order to uplift the maritime tourism sector in Pakistan. It is anticipated that the effective implementation of this paper’s recommendations would be instrumental in gearing up Pakistan’s Maritime economy.

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Auger, Giselle A., Zeynep Tanes, and Charlie Gee. "Mostly Credible and Transparent: Audience Perceptions of News Stories Produced With Traditional and Multiplatform Newsgathering Technologies." Electronic News 13, no. 3 (September 2019): 152–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1931243119883652.

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This multistage project explored new territory by evaluating news stories produced by multiplatform journalism using different technologies and among viewers from different generations. Mixed results were found between the controlled laboratory setting and the nationwide deployment. Lack of significant differences in perception of transparency or credibility of news produced using traditional technologies and new technologies provides promising implications for those concerned with media economics and the benefits of multiplatform journalistic production.

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Koops van ‘t Jagt, Ruth, Shu Ling Tan, John Hoeks, Sophie Spoorenberg, Sijmen A. Reijneveld, Andrea F. de Winter, Sonia Lippke, and Carel Jansen. "Using Photo Stories to Support Doctor-Patient Communication: Evaluating a Communicative Health Literacy Intervention for Older Adults." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 16, no. 19 (October 3, 2019): 3726. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16193726.

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Older adults often have limited health literacy and experience difficulties in communicating about their health. In view of the need for efficacious interventions, we compared a narrative photo story booklet regarding doctor-patient communication with a non-narrative but otherwise highly similar brochure. The photo story booklet included seven short picture-based stories about themes related to doctor-patient communication. The non-narrative brochure had comparable pictures and layout and dealt with the same themes, but it did not include any stories. We conducted two Randomized Controlled Trials (RCTs) among older adults with varying levels of health literacy: one RCT in Germany (N = 66) and one RCT in the Netherlands (N = 54); the latter one was followed by an in-depth interview study among a subset of the participants (81.5%; n = 44). In the RCTs, we did not find significant differences between the photo story booklet and the non-narrative brochure. In the interview study, a majority of the participants expressed a preference for the photo story booklet, which was perceived as recognizable, relevant, entertaining and engaging. We conclude that photo story booklets are a promising format but that there is room for improving their effectiveness.

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Yahmi, Djamal, Taïeb Branci, Abdelhamid Bouchaïr, and Eric Fournely. "Evaluating the Behaviour Factor of Concentric X-Braced Steel Structures." Key Engineering Materials 763 (February 2018): 98–105. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/kem.763.98.

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The behaviour factor (q-factor) is a factor introduced in Eurocode-8 (EC8) to reduce the seismic elastic forces of structures obtained from an elastic analysis accounting for their ductility and overstrength. Seismic codes, especially the EC8, gives a constant value for q-factor, since change in structural characteristics of building change in behaviour of braced steel structures and that affects on q-factor. In this paper, the q-factor is evaluated for X-braced steel structures using pushover analysis. The effects of brace slenderness ratio and stories number are investigated. The results of this study indicate that the most important parameter that affects the q-factor is the brace slenderness ratio. Furthermore, the EC8 recommends a higher than actual value of q-factor, which is potentially unsafe.

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Claudio, Celeste H., Zoelle B. Dizon, and Tessie W. October. "Evaluating Palliative Care Resources Available to the Public Using the Internet and Social Media." American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine® 35, no. 9 (March 18, 2018): 1174–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1049909118763800.

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Background: Accessible information about palliative care available to the public on the Internet is growing. We do not know whether this information is consistent with the current accepted definition of palliative care. Aim: To identify resources on the Internet and social media regarding palliative care and evaluate the information conveyed. Design: A cross-sectional study of “palliative care” search results. Setting: Top 10 Google websites, top 10 most viewed YouTube videos, and social media platforms, Facebook and Twitter, were searched. Results: The most popular Google websites were mostly from national organizations promoting palliative care, whose definitions of palliative care consistently mention “quality of life” and “relief from symptoms and stress.” None of the websites mentioned children, and 77% cited palliative care as treatment for cancer with less focus on other diseases. No personal stories were included in Google websites, while 60% of YouTube videos included personal stories. Five main themes were generated from 266 YouTube video comments analyzed. The most common theme was emotionality, of which 91% were positive statements. Facebook and Twitter were mostly used by health-care professionals and not the public. Conclusions: Palliative care resources are mostly positive and consistent with the current definition of palliative care. Major Internet search engines such as Google and YouTube provide valuable insight into information the public receives about palliative care. Future development of Internet resources on palliative care should consider including children and emphasizing palliative care for all life-limiting illnesses.

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Sover, Arie, and Giohgah Nur El Din. "The relation between teaching the Arabic language using humour and reading comprehension at Elementary School in the Arab Sector in Israel." European Journal of Humour Research 6, no. 3 (November 13, 2018): 94. http://dx.doi.org/10.7592/ejhr2018.6.3.sover.

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This research examines the extent to which the integration of humorous literary texts in teaching the Arabic language affects achievement in reading comprehension among Grade 4 pupils in the Arab sector in Israel. This research is the first one in the field. Research on the integration of humour in the study of Arabic language as first language does not exist so far. There are very few studies dealing with the integration of humour in the learning process of Arabic as a second language (only three were found). Hence, there are no studies dealing with the integration of humour in the educational field in the Israeli Arab sector. The research took place in one school in the Bedouin sector in the South of Israel. It was based on one experimental class and one control class The study examined the level of the pupils’ knowledge in all components of comprehension: explicit and implicit content, interpretation and integration, evaluating texts and drawing conclusions. The experimental classes studied six humorous stories whereas the control classes studied six stories without humour. The results of the experiment show that the achievements of pupils who learned comprehension using humorous stories was much higher than those in the control classes. In addition, a more positive learning environment was reported in the experimental classes.

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Vaz, Stéphanie, Maria Lobo, and Marisa Lousada. "Avaliação de Narrativas Orais em Crianças Falantes de Português Europeu (PE): Um Teste Piloto." Revista da Associação Portuguesa de Linguística, no. 7 (November 30, 2020): 368–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.26334/2183-9077/rapln7ano2020a22.

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Although there are several referenced and validated international instruments for evaluating oral narratives,which can be used in populations with language disorders to help the diagnosis and to plan intervention, there is yet no such instrument for EP. In this work, we present a first version of an instrument for evaluating oral narrative productions for EP-speaking children, including the methodology used in the construction of the instrument, its structure, criteria for the analysis of productions, and procedures used in the validation of the instrument. In a second moment, we report the first results from a pilot study that indicate that there may be differences between tasks (telling or retelling), between types of stories and between age groups in what concerns the analysis of macrostructural parameters.

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Jantori, Parinda, Saowaluck Tepsuriwong, and Pornapit Darasawang. "Is Scoring Helpful Feedback for Writing Tasks? An Examination of Teachers’ Beliefs." Journal of Language Teaching and Research 9, no. 6 (November 1, 2018): 1250. http://dx.doi.org/10.17507/jltr.0906.14.

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Understanding teachers’ beliefs about scoring procedures can be beneficial for educators in order to understand factors including challenges the teachers face when dealing with writing evaluation. This study investigated teachers’ beliefs about scoring procedures through the narrative approach. Their stories were revealed through repertory grid interviews based on the Personal Construct Theory. The method encouraged teachers to think more critically when expressing their beliefs, so their genuine voices and experiences could be revealed. Two native and two non-native English-speaking teachers at the university level were interviewed about their methods of assigning scores when evaluating an essay. The interviews revealed that several factors, such as learning, practicality, experience, objectivity, and confidence could influence teachers’ beliefs when deciding which scoring procedures to use. The challenges that educators might face when giving feedback were also discussed.

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Angell, Rob, Matthew Gorton, Paul Bottomley, Ben Marder, Shikhar Bhaskar, and John White. "News you can use! Evaluating the effectiveness of newsjacking based content on social media." Information Technology & People 33, no. 2 (October 28, 2019): 755–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/itp-04-2019-0177.

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Purpose Newsjacking (real-time deployment of news stories in communications) is now ubiquitous for brands using social media. Despite its pervasiveness, little analysis of its effectiveness exists. The purpose of this paper is to test if newsjacking positively influences various consumer responses (attitude toward content, brand attitude and purchase intent). Taking an audience perspective supported by the elaboration likelihood model, the research also establishes if a higher level of news involvement, as well as an ability to recognize the story behind the content, enhances the effectiveness of newsjacking content. Design/methodology/approach An experimental design using taglines (newsjacking vs non-topical content) from a real BMW campaign was tested on a sample of 252 consumers. Three research questions pertaining to the effectiveness of newsjacking were specified and analyzed within a structural equation modeling framework. Findings The findings support the conclusion that newsjacking is an effective communication tool. More favorable consumer responses were elicited in the newsjacking condition, as compared to content deploying a non-topical tagline. In addition, recipients reporting a higher level of news involvement rated the content more favorably in the newsjacking (vs the non-topical) condition. Deploying news stories that are more recognizable increases the chances of successful newsjacking. Messages received by those with higher product involvement (category level: cars) were more effective regardless of the type of the appeal. Originality/value The authors contribute to the communications and social media literatures by investigating the effectiveness of an emerging but popular tactic leveraged by content creators. The work builds upon the limited research that has tested consumer responses to newsjacking. From a practical perspective, the research provides insight into the type of audience and situations most likely to yield a favorable outcome from newsjacking.

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NDiaye, Iwona Anna. "Kobieta demoniczna Teffi (1872–1952) w przekładzie Juliana Tuwima." Acta Polono-Ruthenica 2, no. XXII (October 7, 2018): 125–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.31648/apr.1330.

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This article deals with the specifics of the language and the translational difficulties of Teffi (Nadezhda Lochwicka), one of the most recognized figures of pre-revolutionary Russia, poet, columnist and author of humorous stories. The author verifies the thesis essence on the material the novel’s title from the collection Demonic woman and her Polish variant in the translation of Julian Tuwim. Evaluating the choice validity of translator equivalents from the standpoint of the author’s individual style, the ideologicaltheatrical and the stylistic aspects were taken into account.

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Brace, Andrea, Bobbi N. Finkelstein, and Diadrey-Anne Sealy. "Evaluating the Effectiveness of Creating Digital Stories in a College Classroom to Promote a Healthy Food System." Food Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal 6, no. 1 (2015): 15–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.18848/2160-1933/cgp/v06i01/40520.

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Schlachter, Jason, Alicia Ruvinsky, Luis Asencios Reynoso, Sathappan Muthiah, and Naren Ramakrishnan. "Leveraging Topic Models to Develop Metrics for Evaluating the Quality of Narrative Threads Extracted from News Stories." Procedia Manufacturing 3 (2015): 4028–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.promfg.2015.07.972.

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Treffry-Goatley, Astrid, Richard John Lessells, Relebohile Moletsane, Tulio de Oliveira, and Bernhard Gaede. "Community engagement with HIV drug adherence in rural South Africa: a transdisciplinary approach." Medical Humanities 44, no. 4 (November 27, 2018): 239–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/medhum-2018-011474.

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Digital storytelling (DST) is an emerging participatory visual method which combines storytelling traditions with computer and video production technology. In this project, at the heart of the HIV epidemic in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, we used DST to create a culturally grounded community engagement intervention. Our aim was to use narratives of people living with HIV on antiretroviral therapy (ART) to stimulate dialogue among the wider community and to encourage reflection on the contextual factors that influence ART adherence in this setting. We also wanted to explore whether exposure to the personal narratives might influence health literacy around HIV and ART. We ran two DST workshops, where 20 community participants were supported to create short digital stories about personal experiences of adherence. We then hosted 151 screenings of the digital stories at seven local health facilities and evaluated the impact of the intervention using a three-tiered mixed methods approach. We conducted two independent quantitative surveys of healthcare users (852 respondents during the preintervention round and 860 people during the postintervention round), five focus group discussions and observation of practice. Exposure to the digital stories did stimulate rich dialogue among community members, which broadened from the focus on ART adherence to other aspects around the impact of HIV and its treatment on individuals and the community. In the independently conducted surveys, we found no clear difference in knowledge or understanding of HIV and ART between the people exposed to the digital stories and those who were not exposed. Our findings provide support for the use of DST as an engagement intervention, but highlight some of the challenges in delivering this type of intervention and in evaluating the impact of this approach.

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Sitanggang, Natal P. "ASOSIASI WACANA “ALUN-ALUN SERIBU PATUNG” DENGAN SITUASI POLITIK KEBANGSAAN DI INDONESIA PADA MASA DAN PASCAREFORMASI." Aksara 30, no. 1 (July 6, 2018): 107. http://dx.doi.org/10.29255/aksara.v30i1.236.107-120.

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From a linguistic point of view, short stories are classified into the type of discourse. Therefore, the tracing of everything on the authors’ intentions can be done through linguistic approaches, among them through discourse and pragmatic analysis approaches. Furthermore, since short stories also classified as works of art (literature), so a semiotic approach can be relevant to support the approaches of discourse and pragmatics analysis. The data in this study comes from the text of a short story titled “Alun-Alun Seribu Patung” by Danarto. The data was obtained by using observation method through recording technique as a basic technique and note-taking technique as an advanced technique. Through text deconstruction, at least there are 16 derivative text constructions selected as the data which reflect the association of the short story with the political reality at the reformation and post-reformation periods (1998—2006). The description of data becomes the clues that actually the author pragmatically did a number of actions, namely reflecting, associating, predicting, evaluating, and criticizing something related to the political and natural events during the reformation and post-reformation periods.

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Multahada, Asyruni Runi. "Keterampilan Menggunakan Metode Cerita dalam Pembelajaran Pendidikan Agama Islam di TPQ." Intizar 24, no. 2 (December 30, 2018): 17–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.19109/intizar.v24i2.2586.

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The story has a tremendous impact on the formation of a child's character, especially if the story delivered can impress on the child. However, to convey interesting and memorable stories to children is not arbitrary. Skills using the story method are important to be mastered by the teacher to teach Islamic Education that is fun and memorable in the soul of the santri (students in Islamic school). There are several things that need to be considered in using story methods, including preparation, storytelling techniques and storytelling skills. Preparations that must be made before delivering the story include choosing the theme of the story, preparing teaching properties, and mastering the contents of the story. Then, the techniques that must be mastered by the teacher in conveying the story consist of opening story techniques, storytelling techniques with properties, techniques for dealing with disturbances in storytelling, and techniques for closing and evaluating stories. Storytelling skills that need to be mastered by teachers include movement, vocal and facial expressions as well as language and communication.

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Ahamd, Waqar, Sajjad Ali, and Zahid Yaseen. "CPEC THROUGH THE LENS OF PRINT MEDIA: COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF ENGLISH NEWSPAPERS OF PAKISTAN AND CHINA." December 2020 36, no. 02 (December 28, 2020): 74–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.51380/gujr-36-02-07.

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This study aimed at evaluating print media’s agenda regarding China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), flagship Belt and Road initiative, and a huge development plan between China and Pakistan. For this purpose, researchers collected data from a Pakistani newspaper The News International and a Chinese newspaper Daily China to compare the portrayal of CPEC. Quantitative analysis was used for collection of data, which was collected through purposive sampling. The timeframe of the study is from January 1, 2018, to June 30, 2018. The results supported the study’s objectives and hypotheses. It is concluded that both the newspapers covered CPEC; however, The News International published more CPEC-related project stories than China Daily. The former paper published 57 news stories, while the latter published 33. The variables of the study were revenue and economy, services and employment, transport & infrastructure, energy & power, investment and security, debt and economic aid, environmental destruction, cheap labor, ethnic conflict and international, and sovereignty. Study revealed that both newspapers framed the project positively, although some frames were negative.

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Poorman, Susan G., and Melissa L. Mastorovich. "Promoting Faculty Competence, Satisfaction and Retention: Faculty Stories Supporting the Crucial Need for Mentoring When Evaluating Nursing Students." Teaching and Learning in Nursing 12, no. 3 (July 2017): 183–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.teln.2017.01.006.

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