Kirton (1976) has (1) elaborated a typology which contrasts the originalities of adaptive and innovative solutionists, (2) argued that his typology reflects a basic and unidimensional trait of personality related to the sponsorship of competing kinds of institutional change, and (3) developed a test, Kirton's Adaption-Innovation Inventory, to distinguish the adaptive from the innovative-minded solutionists. However, Kirton's method of scoring for a general factor of adaptiveness-innovativeness lacks face validity. A new method of scoring the inventory, based on a three-factor solution, provides face validity for the test and, in contrast with Kirton's method, exhibits appropriate relations with performance measures of originality, and separates criterion group adaptors from innovators. Subjects were 303 high school students.
abstract:Several years of experience have led us to believe that the creative design and evaluation of management information systems requires a thorough understanding of the related computer technology. Concepts such as paging and priority interrupt systems can best be explained at the machine language level. Any machine used for exposition should fulfill several criteria; it should:Raise as few spurioxis issues as possible.
2)Allow, without undue effort, the solution of interesting problems.3)
also was unnecessary. The patient was discharged May 24. He was seen by me Oct. 1, 1901, and gave a history of health and activity. The etiology of this case is somewhat obscure. From the condition of the posterior wall of the abscess cavity one would incline to the opinion that there may have existed a latent ulcer of the stomach. The temperature record and the size and position of the tumor may be seen in the accompanying diagrams. Similar cases have been reported.
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