constructive

(adjective)

Carefully considered and meant to be helpful.

Related Terms

Examples of constructive in the following topics:

  • Cost of Interest During Construction

    • The amount of interest cost incurred and/or paid during an asset's construction phase is part of an asset's cost on the balance sheet.
    • When an asset is constructed, a company typically borrows funds to finance the costs associated with the construction.
    • Interest cost capitalization does not apply to retail inventory constructed or held for sale purposes.
    • Most of the interest paid during construction is part of an asset's cost.
    • Interest paid during delays in construction is excluded from the asset's cost.

  • Student Learning Outcomes

  • Construction

    • Construction is an artistic process that uses found, manufactured, or altered objects to build sculptural forms.
    • Construction is quite different from modeling and carving, which both make use of a homogenous material to create the art work.
    • The possibilities, in terms of technique and material, are endless when it comes to creating constructed sculptural works.
    • Construction as a sculptural method is a hugely important development in the field of sculpture.
    • The precise origin of the term constructed sculpture dates to the cubist constructions of Pablo Picasso circa 1912-1914, as well as those of Marcel Duchamp.

  • Centrality of experience

    • People's assumptions are generally constructed by their interpretation of experience.
    • The instructor in the scenario used the questionnaires to check the learners' frame of mind (centrality of experience) that is constructed from their experiences.

  • Giving Effective Criticism: Be Positive, Specific, Objective, and Constructive

    • Effective criticism should be positively intended, specific, objective, and constructive in order to achieve results.
    • Ideally, effective criticism should be: positively intended, specific, objective, and constructive.
    • Constructive critics try to stand in the shoes of the person being criticized, and consider what things would look like from their perspective.
    • Keeping this in mind will help you to construct effective critiques.
    • Constructive, consciously avoiding personal attacks and blaming, insulting language and hostile language are avoided.

  • Optional Collaborative Exercise

    • As a class, construct a histogram displaying the data.

  • Steel-Frame Construction

    • Steel frame construction is a building technique in which vertical steel columns and horizontal I-beams form a 'skeleton frame'.
    • The development of this technique made the construction of the skyscraper possible.
    • The exterior 'skin' of the building is anchored to the frame using a variety of construction techniques and following a huge variety of architectural styles.
    • Thin sheets of galvanized steel can be formed into steel studs and used as building material for rough-framing in commercial or residential construction.
    • Construction with steel framing contributes to thermal bridges between the outside environment and interior conditioned space.

  • Social Constructionism

    • Berger and Thomas Luckmann with their 1966 book The Social Construction of Reality.
    • Socially constructed reality is seen as an on-going dynamic process; reality is re-produced by people acting on their interpretations of what they perceive to be the world external to them.
    • Berger and Luckmann argue that social construction describes both subjective and objective reality - that is that no reality exists outside what is produced and reproduced in social interactions.
    • Religion is seen as a socially constructed concept, the basis for which is rooted in either our psyche (Freud) or man's need to see some purpose in life or worship a higher presence.

  • Constructing Meaning

    • Value-related valences are associated with the construction of meaning.
    • Students should be given the opportunity to construct meaning in text as well as to build a rationale for the meaningfulness of literacy activities (Turner & Paris, 1995).

  • Constructing a normal probability plot (special topic)

    • We construct a normal probability plot for the heights of a sample of 100 men as follows:
    • Construction details for a normal probability plot of 100 men's heights.