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Qualitative Indicators for the evaluation of universities performance
No full textAbstractSince the world universities come in to new anxiety in the new generation and higher education in not of its last stability (Clark, 1998), to recognize all issues concerned and also to evaluate the university performance based on the studied and precise conceptual frameworks are of significance. The main purpose of this study is to find the key performance indicators (KPIs) and also to present a conceptual framework for the evaluation of the performance of the universities according to the key performance indicators (KPIs). This study was pilot based on a combination of the research methods (descriptive and deductive) and also survey. Factor analysis and (Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin Measure of Sampling) KMO were used to analyze the data. The inner validity was also measured using SPSS and Alpha Koronbach. In the end, based on the findings, the researcher portraits 151 indicators and 3 conceptual frameworks. 10 factors including accommodation, research and scientific journals, processes, ICT, social and cultural services, faculty members, students, university staff excluding faculty members, and financial affairs. Regarding the universities, 9 and 10 factors were introduced respectively. The Second Framework with 9 Factors Including “Area and ICT, Communications, graduates, Social and cultural services, periodicals and journals, employees, student Affairs financial affairs and processes, faculty members was designe
The Quality Indicators of Information Technology in Higher Education
No full textAbstractThe development theories accentuate that development requires firstly science and technology, so no country can succeed without being listed as pioneers in using the technology. The purpose of this study is to identify the quality indicators of information technology in higher education. The method is descriptive and survey and the test “KMO” and factor analysis are used. Having studied the related literature, the researcher accumulated the quality indicators in IT perspective for the universities. The subjects are the managers and the faculty members of the universities that are selected randomly. A researcher-made questionnaire is used to gather the data whose internal reliability is calculated using Cronbach alpha. The findings showed some 10 quality indicators in IT perspective were identified for the universities including high speed internet, novel technologies in research and so on
Relationship between the brand identity with brand loyalty due to the mediating role of perceived value
No full textThe aim of present study was to investigate the relationship between brand identity with brand loyalty regard to the mediating role of perceived value of the brand, brand trust, and customer satisfaction of brand. The research method was descriptive/monitoring -correlation type. The population was all customers of Sabah Dairy Company in Golestan province, Iran that 384 individuals were determined as the sample size and sampling was clustering method. The research tools were following questionnaires standard brand identity by "Bhattacharya and Sen", brand loyalty, brand trust and brand customer satisfaction by He et al., brand equity by Nam et al., standardized questionnaire of brand perceived value by Lasar et al. The reliability of the questionnaire using Cronbach's alpha coefficient were calculated 0.844, 0.815, 0.661, 0.859, 0.724 and 0.885 for brand identity, perceived value of the brand, brand customer satisfaction, brand trust, brand loyalty and brand equity, respectively and the validity of questionnaires was approved with convergent validity method. The results showed that there was significant relationship between the brand identity with brand loyalty due to the mediating role of perceived value, trust and satisfaction
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Business intelligence as a key strategy for development organizations
No full textAbstractThe organization can business and requirements needed by its use of Business intelligence justification.Today the organizations by the use of Business intelligence all it can be used to be so that they can with all the necessary skills in organization with alterability, the speed in action and reaction and flexibility in the organization has created and to the mission and their mission. During the past ten years, the approach to management business in the whole world has changed profoundly and organizations have been able through knowledge and data conversion, and shaping the correct information and knowledge, Business intelligence joins as a key strategy for any organization for any organization to achieve a competitive advantage
Identify Knowledge management And Organizational Learning Indicators and its Relation With Creativity
No full textAbstractThe present study seeks to Identify Knowledge management And Organizational learning Indicators and its relation With Creativity the Educational departments. this research is a descriptive,survey and Correlation .After studying, the related literature,indicators affecting Knowledge management And Organizational learning in Educational departments were extracted; then standard questionnaires were used to collect the required data the statistical society of present study were all managers,experts,and employees of Educational departments. Six indicators of knowledge management, organizational learning in departments of education were identified these indices are: 1- knowledge creation 2- Knowledge sharing 3- Refining knowledge 4- common vision 5- systematic thinking 6- Group Learning That these indicators had a significant relationship with creativity
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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