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The effects of school-based management and standards-based accountability on student achievement: Evidence from pisa 2006
No full textThis paper provides new evidence on the simple and interaction effects of School-Based Management and Standards-Based Accountability on student achievement. The data used in the analysis comes from PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment) 2006 survey that assesses the performance in reading, mathematics and science of around 400,000 15 year-old students from 57 countries. We build a Structural Equation Model to investigate the relationship between student achievement and the other latent variables. Our findings indicate that the joint adoption of School-Based Management and Standards-Based Accountability has a significant positive effect on student achievement. © 2012 Università del Salento
The association in a two-way contingency table through log odds ratio analysis: the case of Sarno river pollution
No full textA comparing among the different approaches for DIF analysis
No full textOur study analyses the test for evaluating the satisfaction of university student, comparing the effects of different factors (degree course, departments, presence of integrative teaching activities, etc) and its interactions. For this purpose the rating scale model is applied, the conventional one-factor differential item functioning (DIF) analysis and factorial DIF analysis are compared
THE LEARNING STYLE OF TEENAGERS WITH CALLOUS-UNEMOTIONAL TRAITS
No full textStudents with callous-unemotional (CU) traits, characterised by callousness/meanness, uncaring and unemotional features, manifest both cognitive and behavioural dysfunctions that can increase the effect of the CU risk factor itself. As a matter of fact, such problems include learning difficulties, lower academic achievement and school dropout. The aim of this paper is to investigate the common pattern of learning styles exhibited by students with CU traits and to propose a discussion about the use of this preference. The study has been conducted on a sample of 689 high school students, 14 to 19 years old, using the Tandem clustering analysis. The investigation highlights a specific learning style pattern for students with CU traits: verbal visual, analytic and individual. The findings will have surely important pedagogical impacts, shifting the problem to how their school results could be improved by encouraging their inclusion
Analysis of Private Socially Responsible Investment: The Impact of Personal Concern with Corporate Social Responsibility
No full textAre many years that academics and professionals dealing with the so-called socially
responsible investment (SRI). Yet, still it persists today the need of a better knowledge of personal
reasons underlying the investment decision. This is evidenced by inconclusive and contradictory
findings of decades of empirical research. So, this paper aims at contributing to fill this gap, by
deepening whether the level of personal concerns with corporate social responsibility (CSR) and the
personal preferences towards the screening criteria adopted by socially responsible funds (SRFs)
affect the decision to choose a socially responsible investment. In order to connect the investment
choice with the personal concerns for CSR, this study refers to an experimental survey that proposes
different investment scenarios and several five point Likert statements referred to corporate social
responsibility. Findings confirm that the traditional risk/return trade-off is not sufficient to explain
the decision to invest socially responsibly, going beyond a purely financial return. In fact, the level
of personal concerns with CSR and the preference for investment screens related to the safeguard of
natural environment and human rights incentive individuals to invest in SRFs
The Rasch Model for Evaluating Italian Student Performance
Full text linkIn 1997 the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) launched the OECD Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) for collecting information about 15-year-old students in participating countries. Our study analyse the PISA 2006 cognitive test for evaluating the Italian student performance in mathematics, reading and science comparing the results of different local governments. For this purpose the most proper statistic methodology is Item Response Theory - IRT that collects several models, the simplest is Rasch Model – MR (1960). As the items used in the analysis are both dichotomous that polytomous, we apply Partial Credit Model (PCM)
A statistical model for evaluating the patient satisfaction
No full textThe paper aims to identify the drivers which affect the patient satisfaction. For this purpose the authors analyzed
the data collected by delivering a questionnaire to patients hospitalizing in an important hospital of Napoli city.
The effects of level of satisfaction about different services received in the hospital on the patient satisfaction
have been studied by comparing the results of four regression models. Findings provide empirical evidence that a
policy aimed at developing the competences and the abilities of the staff and at maintaining high standards of
hygiene and cleanliness is the most appropriate strategy to improve patient satisfaction
Insights into the Italian university system: analyzing standardized indicators.
No full textThe identity spline is a special spline function that allows controlled perturbations of a
variable, especially the response variables in a regression context. These perturbations
allow decision makers to explore different scenarios of varying complexity, such as the
development of poverty reduction strategies in a social context. Here, we propose a
functional-scalar LASSO regression in which the response variable is transformed into a
functional object using the identity spline, which allows scenario-based modifications by
perturbing its nodal coefficients
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