instrumentality

Examples

• All

• Both the Patterson test and the instrumentality test serve the same policy objectives.

  Academic text (2016)

• Are students' perceived instrumentality scores related to their intrinsic and extrinsic valuing of academic tasks?

  Academic text (1999)

• Also consistent with theory, performance goals were found to have no reliable relationship to perceived instrumentality.

  Academic text (1999)

• Granting the subjects three of their five preferences was intended to provide them with a sense of instrumentality.

  Academic text (1996)

• The second argument, posed against two wills, is based on the notion of instrumentality.

  Academic text (1991)

• "Everything that touches the immigrant's life is an instrumentality for his Americanization or the reverse." 28

  Academic text (1991)

• Our belief that the intrinsic value of a task is at least in part dependent on perceptions of instrumentality stems from two sources.

  Academic text (1999)

• As expected, learning goal and instrumentality scores were positively correlated with scores on intrinsic and extrinsic valuing, and with each other.

  Academic text (1999)

• The new software became an important instrumentality for improving productivity in the office.

• Effective communication is an instrumentality that helps teams collaborate and achieve their goals.

Synonyms

M

means

vsinstrumentality

842 2.7

A method or tool used to achieve something

is the general term but emphasizes purpose or result

T

tool

vsinstrumentality

• Offensive

587 4.0

A method or thing used by someone to achieve a goal, for example education

is neutral and literal, lacking the negative or figurative implication

I

instrument

vsinstrumentality

77 5.5

A person or thing used by someone to carry out their plans

is broader and covers methods, not only people or objects used

How Effective

solution

∞ 2.1

strategy

∞ 3.7

method

∞ 2.2

instrumentality

• Formal

1 8.0

tool

∞ 1.1

device

∞ 2.1

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology