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Maulana Abul Kalam Azad: The Social Reformer
No full textThis paper discusses the contribution of Maulana Abul Kalam Azad towards development of education in the country. The author remarked that, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad emphasized on the speedy progress of adult education and observed that without education, electorate democracy could not perform the functions expected of it
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No full textFalsafah Pemikiran Hatta Azad Khan dalam Kumpulan Drama Dunia Belum Kiamat: Philosophical Thought by Hatta Azad Khan in Kumpulan Drama Dunia Belum Kiamat
No full textMakalah ini adalah untuk melihat falsafah pemikiran Hatta Azad Khan dalam Kumpulan Drama Dunia Belum Kiamat (2013). Fokus kajian ini ialah untuk mengenal pasti dan membincangkan falsafah dan pemikiran yang ingin diketengahkan oleh pengarang dalam kumpulan drama tersebut. Kumpulan Drama Dunia Belum Kiamat (2013) beraliran realisme dan mengandungi lima buah drama iaitu drama Awang, Anak Korporat, Dunia Belum Kiamat, Cermin Tipu Daya dan Puteri Gunung Ledang. Kaedah kajian yang digunakan ialah kaedah kepustakaan dan analisis kandungan. Kajian ini menggunapakai teori Sosiologi oleh J. Duvidnaud (1972) untuk mencapai dua objektif kajian. Pertama, untuk mengenal pasti falsafah dan pemikiran dalam Kumpulan Drama Dunia Belum Kiamat (2013) karya Hatta Azad Khan. Kedua, membincangkan falsafah dan pemikiran dalam Kumpulan Drama Dunia Belum Kiamat (2013) dari aspek sosial, politik dan ekonomi. Kajian ini menghasilkan dapatan kajian iaitu Kumpulan Drama Dunia Belum Kiamat (2013) karya Hatta Azad Khan merupakan sebuah kumpulan drama yang sarat dengan falsafah dan pemikiran. Falsafah dan pemikiran tersebut terdiri daripada pemikiran sosial, ekonomi dan politik.
This research is intended to view the philosophical thoughts of Hatta Azad Khan in Kumpulan Drama Dunia Belum Kiamat (2013). This research is focusing on identifying and discussing the philosophy and the thoughts which had been highlighted by the author of the above mentioned drama’s group. The drama’s group is based on realism and it is comprised of five dramas which are Awang, Anak Korporat, Dunia Belum Kiamat, Cermin Tipu Daya dan Puteri Gunung Ledang.. The method used in this research was literature analysis and content analysis method. This study applied the Sociological Theory by J. Duvidnaud (1972) to achieve two objectives which were to identify and to discuss the philosophy and the perspectives in Kumpulan Drama Dunia Belum Kiamat (2013) by Hatta Azad Khan specifically in terms of social, economic and political aspect. Hence, the research findings showed that this group of drama was loaded philosophy perspectives that consist of social, economic and political thinking
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No full textThe authors would like to note that the investigator affiliations have been corrected to reflect the actual affiliations of each author. The authors would also like to note an amendment to the first name of the second author. Nilo Azad was changed to reflect the full name of the author, which is Nilofer S. Azad as shown above. The original article has been corrected
Corresponding Author The relationship between work ethic and justice perception in Islamic Azad University
No full textABSTRACT This study aims at investigating the relationship between work ethic and justice perception in the professors and employees of Islamic Azad Universities. The research methodology was descriptive-correlational and the data was collected via field procedure. The population of the study consisted of all the professors and employees of Islamic Azad Universities (N=60000). The participants of the study were 800 professors and employees who were selected from among the population based on cluster random sampling. The sample size was determined using Morgan table. 569 posted questionnaires were completed and returned by the participants. To assess work ethic and the ratio of justice perception, a summarized version of Ali's questionnaire (1998) and Starvan's employees' justice perception questionnaire (1996) were used, respectively. In order to assure the validity of the questionnaires, they were submitted to some professors in the department of Theology and Islamic Thoughts as well as some other experts. Subsequently, the experts' opinions regarding all the questionnaire items were applied in moderating the scales. The reliability of the scales in a sample group using Cronbach's alpha coefficient was calculated to be 0.83 and using test-retest method to be 0.76. Both descriptive and inferential statistics were used to analyze the data. Qualitative data was described using percentage and frequency counts and quantitative data was illustrated using measures of central tendency and variability. Besides, based on the objectives of the study and data type, t test and Pearson's correlation coefficient were used as inferential statistics. The results showed that, out of the maximum mean score of 5 for work ethic, the participants' mean score was 4.09 with the standard deviation of 0.48. The participants' mean score of justice perception was 2.80 with the standard deviation of 0.70, out of maximum mean score of 5. The results of hypothesis tests revealed a weak positive correlation (r=0.280) between work ethic and justice perception in the professors and employees of (all participants) Islamic Azad University
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No full text© 2019, The Author(s). The original version of this Article contained an error in the spelling of the author Azad Saei, which was incorrectly given as Azad Saie. This has now been corrected in both the PDF and HTML versions of the Article
Social power and information technology implementation: a contentious framing lens
No full textResearch on the organizational implementation of information technology (IT) and social power has favoured explanations based on issues of resource power and process power at the expense of matters of meaning power. As a result, although the existence and importance of meaning power is acknowledged, its distinctive practices and enacted outcomes remain relatively under-theorized and under-explored by IT researchers. This paper focused on unpacking the practices and outcomes associated with the exercise of meaning power within the IT implementation process. Our aim was to analyze the practices employed to construct meaning and enact a collective 'definition of the situation'. We focused on framing and utilizing the signature matrix technique to represent and analyze the exercise of meaning power in practice. The paper developed and illustrated this conceptual framework using a case study of a conflictual IT implementation in a challenging public sector environment. We concluded by pointing out the situated nature of meaning power practices and the enacted outcomes. Our research extends the literature on IT and social power by offering an analytical framework distinctly suited to the analysis and deeper understanding of the meaning power properties. © 2010 Blackwell Publishing Ltd.Avgerou C, 2007, MIS QUART, V31, P295; Azad B, 2009, GOV INFORM Q, V26, P5, DOI 10.1016-j.giq.2008.08.005; Barrett M., 2006, J APPL BEHAV SCI, V42, P6, DOI 10.1177-0021886305285299; Bateson G., 1972, STEPS ECOLOGY MIND; Berger P. L., 1966, SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION; Bijker W. E., 1997, BICYCLES BAKELITES B; Boudreau MC, 2005, ORGAN SCI, V16, P3, DOI 10.1287-orsc.1040.0103; Bourdieu P., 1970, REPROD ED SOC CULTUR; Bradshaw-Camball P, 1991, ORGAN SCI, V2, P379, DOI 10.1287-orsc.2.4.379; Creed D, 2002, ORGAN SCI, V13, P475; Creed D. W. E., 2002, ORGAN RES METHODS, V5, P34; Davidson E., 2006, J APPL BEHAV SCI, V42, P23, DOI DOI 10.1177-0021886305285126; Davidson EJ, 2002, MIS QUART, V26, P329, DOI 10.2307-4132312; Dougherty D, 1996, ACAD MANAGE J, V39, P1120, DOI 10.2307-256994; Dowell G, 2002, ADV STRAT M, V19, P97; EISENHARDT KM, 1989, ACAD MANAGE REV, V14, P532, DOI 10.2307-258557; ENTMAN RM, 1993, J COMMUN, V43, P51, DOI 10.1111-j.1460-2466.1993.tb01304.x; Evered R., 1981, ACAD MANAGE REV, V6, P385, DOI DOI 10.2307-257374; Faraj S, 2004, INFORM TECHNOLOGY PE, V17, P186, DOI 10.1108-09593840410542501; Gamson W., 1983, EVALUATING WELFARE S, P397; GAMSON WA, 1989, AM J SOCIOL, V95, P1, DOI 10.1086-229213; Gitlin Todd, 1980, WHOLE WORLD IS WATCH; Goffman E., 1974, FRAME ANAL ESSAY ORG; HARDY C, 1985, J MANAGE STUD, V22, P384, DOI 10.1111-j.1467-6486.1985.tb00004.x; Hardy C., 1996, BRIT J MANAGE, V7, P3; Hargrave TJ, 2006, ACAD MANAGE REV, V31, P864; Howcroft D, 2006, INFORM SYST J, V16, P215, DOI 10.1111-j.1365-2575.2006.00216.x; Jasperson J, 2002, MIS QUART, V26, P397, DOI 10.2307-4132315; Lin A, 2005, EUR J INFORM SYST, V14, P49, DOI 10.1057-palgrave.ejis.3000521; MARKUS ML, 1987, COMMUN ACM, V30, P498, DOI 10.1145-214762.214764; MARKUS ML, 1983, COMMUN ACM, V26, P430, DOI 10.1145-358141.358148; Markuss M. L., 2004, J INF TECHNOL, V19, P3; Nidumolu SR, 1996, MIS QUART, V20, P197, DOI 10.2307-249478; ORLIKOWSKI WJ, 1994, ACM T INFORM SYST, V12, P174, DOI 10.1145-196734.196745; Pettigrew A.M., 1973, POLITICS ORG DECISIO; Pfeffer J., 1981, POWER ORG; Sillince JAA, 1997, INFORM SYST RES, V8, P368, DOI 10.1287-isre.8.4.368; Silva L., 2003, J ASSOC INF SYST, V4, P294; Benford RD, 2000, ANNU REV SOCIOL, V26, P611, DOI 10.1146-annurev.soc.26.1.611; Swan J, 2005, HUM RELAT, V58, P913, DOI 10.1177-0018726705057811; Thomas W. I., 1928, SOCIAL PSYCHOL SYMBO, P154; *UN DEV PROGR, 2005, RBAS MIC BEST PRACT; WILLCOCKS L, 2003, SOCIAL THEORY PHILOS, P238; *WORLD BANK, 1994, MEM PRES REV ENH TEC; *WORLD BANK, 2003, MEM REC PRES SUPPL L; Yin R. K., 2003, CASE STUDY RES DESIG86
Lessons learnt developing and deploying grading mechanisms for EiPE code-reading questions in CS1 classes
No full textPrevious research has identified that the ability to understand the high-level purpose of a piece of code is an important developmental skill that is harder to master than executing the same piece of code in one’s head for a given input (“code tracing”), but easier to master than writing the code. One way to help students to practice this skill in the middle ground is by asking them Explain in Plain English (EiPE) questions, where they are asked to explain the purpose of a piece of code at a high level. Prior works involving EiPE questions have used scoring rubrics that do not adequately handle the three dimensions of answer quality: correctness, level of abstraction, and ambiguity. Also, these studies have been carried out in limited experimental settings with manual grading, which did not shed light on how EiPE questions can be deployed in real world classrooms without overwhelming grading workload.
In this work, we cover both unaddressed issues. First, we describe our efforts in validating a 7-point rubric that the research group has developed for scoring student responses to EiPE questions. Second, we describe the deployment of an imperfect NLP-based automatic grading system for these EiPE responses on an exam in CS105, a large-enrollment CS1 course at the University of Illinois, finding that the auto-grader has an accuracy similar to that of TA’s who teach the course. We study allowing students to attempt an EiPE question multiple times (without penalty based on the number of attempts used) in exam settings as a strategy to mitigate potential student dissatisfaction due to the imperfect grading system mistakenly rejecting a correct answer. We also characterize common student errors, auto-grader failure, and discuss the lessons learnt in this process.Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2022-05-01The student, Sushmita Azad, accepted the attached license on 2020-05-13 at 11:51.The student, Sushmita Azad, submitted this Thesis for approval on 2020-05-13 at 12:01.This Thesis was approved for publication on 2020-05-14 at 16:37.DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #15379 on 2020-08-25 at 17:31:24Made available in DSpace on 2020-08-26T23:58:50Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2
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Evaluation of the Open2Change Behaviour Change programme
No full textAn evaluation report following research undertaken by: Dr Beverley Gilbert, Amy Johnson and Dr Mikahil Azad from Criminology at the University of Worcester.
This report presents the voice of those delivering the programme and experiencing the programme as men who have abused intimate partners. It evaluates the aims of the programme, the safety and effectiveness of the programme and concludes with recommendations regarding consolidation, future improvement and data collection/evaluation. It also details the skills and work undertaken by team members, including the programme author Louisa Wrighton.
This report is the property of Society Without Abuse in Swindon
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