Dorothy Entwistle
Biographic Data
| ID | 2746475 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dorothy Entwistle |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dorothy |
| FAMILY NAME | Entwistle |
| SIGNATURE | ENTWISTLE D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Edinburgh |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Whit Walks of Hyde
In the north of England, during the nineteenth and early‐twentieth centuries, Whit walks represented a public celebration of religious witness by individual Sunday schools, holding colourful processions through industrial streets. Little academic work has previously been done on this phenomenon, although there is scattered evidence available at the local level. The existence of sets of interviews with elderly people, however, has enabled a system…
Hope, Colour, and Comradeship’
Sunday-school Book Prizes for Children
This paper considers the reward books given to children as Sunday-school prizes in the north-west of England between 1870 and 1914. From the titles presented and from the authors considered to be suitable, it was possible to select a number of books which were representative of these prizes. An examination of these stories showed that there were themes which were repeatedly stressed, and that those for boys and girls were noticeably different. In…
Embossed Gilt and Moral Tales
The Academic Performance of Students
S ummary . The development of scales of motivation, study methods and examination technique is reported, together with evidence of test/retest reliability. Validity is inferred from correlations with the Brown‐Holtzman scales and with a criterion of academic performance obtained for 898 university students, 562 college of education students and 190 students in polytechnics and colleges of technology. Multiple correlation coefficients indicate imp…
The Relationships Between Personality, Study Methods and Academic Performance
139 university students and 118 students at a college of education were given the Eysenck Personality Inventory and a questionnaire relating to academic motivation and study methods. A correlational analysis of these scores in relation to academic performance at the end of the first year showed the superiority of introverts and students with good study methods. Introverts also tended to have better study methods, but this only partially explained…
The Relationships Between Personality, Study Methods and Academic Performance
139 university students and 118 students at a college of education were given the Eysenck Personality Inventory and a questionnaire relating to academic motivation and study methods. A correlational analysis of these scores in relation to academic performance at the end of the first year showed the superiority of introverts and students with good study methods. Introverts also tended to have better study methods, but this only partially explained…
The Whit Walks of Hyde
In the north of England, during the nineteenth and early‐twentieth centuries, Whit walks represented a public celebration of religious witness by individual Sunday schools, holding colourful processions through industrial streets. Little academic work has previously been done on this phenomenon, although there is scattered evidence available at the local level. The existence of sets of interviews with elderly people, however, has enabled a system…
Hope, Colour, and Comradeship’
Embossed Gilt and Moral Tales
The Academic Performance of Students
S ummary . The development of scales of motivation, study methods and examination technique is reported, together with evidence of test/retest reliability. Validity is inferred from correlations with the Brown‐Holtzman scales and with a criterion of academic performance obtained for 898 university students, 562 college of education students and 190 students in polytechnics and colleges of technology. Multiple correlation coefficients indicate imp…
The Relationships Between Personality, Study Methods and Academic Performance
139 university students and 118 students at a college of education were given the Eysenck Personality Inventory and a questionnaire relating to academic motivation and study methods. A correlational analysis of these scores in relation to academic performance at the end of the first year showed the superiority of introverts and students with good study methods. Introverts also tended to have better study methods, but this only partially explained…
The Academic Performance of Students
S ummary . The development of scales of motivation, study methods and examination technique is reported, together with evidence of test/retest reliability. Validity is inferred from correlations with the Brown‐Holtzman scales and with a criterion of academic performance obtained for 898 university students, 562 college of education students and 190 students in polytechnics and colleges of technology. Multiple correlation coefficients indicate imp…
Sunday-school Book Prizes for Children
This paper considers the reward books given to children as Sunday-school prizes in the north-west of England between 1870 and 1914. From the titles presented and from the authors considered to be suitable, it was possible to select a number of books which were representative of these prizes. An examination of these stories showed that there were themes which were repeatedly stressed, and that those for boys and girls were noticeably different. In…
Embossed Gilt and Moral Tales
Hope, Colour, and Comradeship’
The Whit Walks of Hyde
In the north of England, during the nineteenth and early‐twentieth centuries, Whit walks represented a public celebration of religious witness by individual Sunday schools, holding colourful processions through industrial streets. Little academic work has previously been done on this phenomenon, although there is scattered evidence available at the local level. The existence of sets of interviews with elderly people, however, has enabled a system…
Psychology (5 works) · History (3 works) · History (3 works) · Media studies (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Citation (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Developmental psychology (2 works) · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes (2 works)