6,372 research outputs found
2016 Jupyter Education Survey
No full textThis dataset is the responses for the Jupyter education survey conducted in May 2016. This includes the following files:
questions.pdf A PDF containing the questions that were asked.
responses.csv A CSV file containing the survey responses.
This survey was designed by Jessica Hamrick (@jhamrick) and was sourced primarily from the Jupyter, Jupyter Education, and Software Carpentry email lists between 04/22/2016 and 05/07/2016.
Available at: https://github.com/jupyter/datasets/tree/master/surveys/2016-05-education-surve
Jupyter Notebooks—a publishing format for reproducible computational workflows
No full textIt is increasingly necessary for researchers in all fields to write computer code, and in order to reproduce research results, it is important that this code is published. We present Jupyter notebooks, a document format for publishing code, results and explanations in a form that is both readable and executable. We discuss various tools and use cases for notebook documents
Team perfectionism and team performance: A prospective study
No full textPerfectionism is a personality characteristic that has been found to predict sports performance in athletes. To date, however, research has exclusively examined this relationship at an individual level (i.e., athletes’ perfectionism predicting their personal performance). The current study extends this research to team sports by examining whether, when manifested at team level, perfectionism predicts team performance. A sample of 231 competitive rowers from 36 boats completed measures of self-oriented, team-oriented, and team-prescribed perfectionism prior to competing against one another in a 4-day rowing competition. Strong within-boat similarities in the levels of team members’ team-oriented perfectionism supported the existence of collective team-oriented perfectionism at the boat level. Two-level latent growth curve modeling of day-by-day boat performance showed that team-oriented perfectionism positively predicted the position of the boat in mid-competition and the linear improvement in position. The findings suggest that imposing perfectionistic standards on team members may drive teams to greater levels of performance
Team Performance in Large-Scale Agile Software Development
No full textAgile ways of working are nowadays used in many software development departments in larger organizations. When scaling up agile ways of working, new practices for coordinating teams become necessary, and many organizations are implementing the Scaled Agile Framework. The added practices for coordinating teams could have an impact on team performance, but they have not been much studied. In this study, data were obtained by means of a survey questionnaire that was answered by 201 employees from three organizations: one from the automotive industry, one government agency, and a business bank. The study suggests that efficient inter-team coordination does not have a positive relationship to team performance, which is contrary to previous studies. However, results suggests that a high level of psychological safety has a significant positive correlation to team performance. © 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.</p
Satisfaction of interdisciplinary team members in a hospital based environment
No full textPlan BThe purpose of this study is to determine employee satisfaction levels of members of an Interdisciplinary Team in a hospital based environment and to gain insight into how certain variables can affect employee satisfaction. “Interdisciplinary teams as those where members continue to work from particular disciplinary orientations but undertake some joint collaborative work” (Opie 1997, p. 263). This study will also unveil current views and attitudes regarding job satisfaction that could translate to numerous settings.
Several factors relating to employee satisfaction and their impacts in both hospital and interdisciplinary-based environments were found in a literature review. Individuals currently working on a interdisciplinary teams, health managers and administrators managing an interdisciplinary team, or those wishing to embark on a career in the health related industry will find this study useful.
The data required for this study will be obtained through a survey (21 questions)
distributed to the members of the Interdisciplinary Team in the Neurological Department and the Luther Hospital in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. The survey questions will address employee perceptions of the physical environment, growth opportunities, workloads and responsibilities, trust and mutual respect, empowerment, and training and development
Rialto Community Drug Team: policy discussion paper.
No full textThis review examined the development of the Rialto Community Drug Team (RCDT) in Dublin, a partnership between the Rialto Youth Project and the Eastern Health Board. The RCDT began operating in September 1992. The author was commissioned to look at its development in the broader policy context, to identify key issues in relation to community drug teams in terms of drug treatment and support policies, and to make appropriate recommendations. The author gathered data using semi-structured interviews, which he conducted with members of staff, the management board, policy makers, and local drugs activists. The author also studied internal RCDT documents, policy reports and relevant academic literature.
The report presents an overview of the context within which the RCDT operated, the UK experience of community drug teams, a discussion of Irish public policy in the area, and a description of the RCDT. The author concluded that the RCDT provided a clear focus for health promotion, and helped to facilitate inclusive policy-making. He stated that the RCDT provided an excellent locus for including local communities in the management of, and policy formulation for, local drug services, and he suggested that this could also be extended to treatment and rehabilitation
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[[alternative]]Creative Teaching Development in Teacher Team of Elementary School
No full text[[abstract]]This research aims to understand the development of creative teaching in teacher team of elementary school, to examine the development process and operational patterns of the spontaneous teacher team and teams formed by administrative arrangements in developing creative teaching, to probe into the differences between these two types of team and to analyze the relevant conditions that affect the development of creative teaching for teacher team.
Action research methodology was employed to gain an insight into the theory and practice of the development of creative teaching in teacher team of elementary school and to form the operational patterns. Two types of teams are identified: one is the spontaneous teams formed by teachers voluntarily in order to develop comprehensive activities for creative teaching curriculum and another is the teacher teams formed by administrative arrangements in order to develop cross-disciplinary creative teaching curriculum.
Based on the purpose of this research, the following major findings as follows:
1. Development & impacts of creative teaching development from spontaneous teacher teams.
（1）Form self-oriented teacher teams.
（2）The collective efforts to construct a team knowledge system, purpose system and psychological support system.
（3）The development process of the teacher teams comes in the stages of formation, establishment, collisions and effects. Throughout the course of development, the frictions during the initial formation and the conflicts toward the end of the process pose great challenges. Among them, the biggest challenges are “time” and the “incentives system” of the teacher teams.
（4）The best model for the Flying Geese Teams is that the sum is bigger than the aggregation of the individuals.
（5）It creates a campus culture where experience sharing is appreciated. Meanwhile, it generates positive impacts to the school by instilling creativity. However, negative impacts to the subculture groups are likely at the initial stage.
2. Development & impacts of creative teaching development from teacher teams organized by administrative arrangements
(1) Design team.
(2) The attitude of the team members decides the effectiveness of the team. The different types of member attitudes are “independent leaders”, “power promoters”, “active participators”, “passive attempters,” “indifferent onlookers” and “outsiders”. In the end, the active participators finished the creative curriculum and were recognized for their achievements.
(3) The strategy to integrate human resources and to develop creative curriculum and campus affairs for the whole school:
a. To organize a curriculum development committee to map out the blueprint of curriculum for various subjects, to assist the team in designing the subjects and setting the directions of the creative teaching course and to provide systematic support to the team purpose.
b. To set up the team goals with administrative arrangements, to allow each team to develop their own curriculum and to provide the autonomy with members to exercise discretions and make decisions.
c. To organize the opportunities and schedules for professional developments, to provide systematic support to the teachers’ knowledge and to enhance the competences in creative teaching.
d. To consolidate the timeslots for collective teaching reviews to allow the members to fully discuss and reflect the issues, in order to avoid an inefficient use of timeslots scattered around.
e. To assist teachers to participate in seminars and trainings and to develop course development channels and emotional support.
f. To arrange the study of information technology and digital media applications, to assist the teachers to record the process and retrieve data where necessary, and to help them ponder on the meanings of this curriculum.
g. To provide relevant resources and human resources from the school, community and society to support teaching.
h. To implement flexible class schedule and collaborate teaching support in order to facilitate the teaching course.
(4) During the process of formation, establishment, development and effectiveness, conflicts always remain. The cooperation mechanism of the conflict-based teams includes the conflicts from the teachers toward the administrative leaders and the conflicts between team members.
(5) Development of a collaborative, co-dependent campus culture
3. In terms of the above mention differences for the two types of teams, they also differ in participation motivations. It is mainly internal motivations for the spontaneous teams and the external motivations for the administratively arranged teams. In terms of member selections, the former members participate on a willing basis whereas the latter members are forced into the team. In terms of workshop functions, the former members offer direct support whereas the latter members offer indirect support. In terms of the leadership style, the former exhibit a flexible, flat structure whereas the latter is a hierarchical semi-democratic leadership. In terms of team effectiveness, the former is an integrated effort while the latter is a mismatched teamwork.
4. Conditions that impact the teacher teams to develop creative teaching：Campus environments and networks, member characteristics, team leadership, knowledge system, purpose system, psychological support system, team output.
The conditions of the team development for the seven teachers’ teams impact and assist each other during the process. Meanwhile, this process triggers the team motivations and in turn, creates the team actions and completes the team missions.
Based on the research findings, this paper proposes suggestions for onsite teachers, city and county education authorities, the school administrations, teachers’ training units and academic research organizations. Reflections upon the research findings and the suggestions for follow-up research work are made.
Modeling Team Dynamics for the Characterization and Prediction of Delays in User Stories
No full textIn agile software development, proper team structures and effort estimates are crucial to ensure the on-time delivery of software projects. Delivery performance can vary due to the influence of changes in teams, resulting in team dynamics that remain largely unexplored. In this paper, we explore the effects of various aspects of teamwork on delays in software deliveries. We conducted a case study at ING and analyzed historical log data from 765,200 user stories and 571 teams to identify team factors characterizing delayed user stories. Based on these factors, we built models to predict the likelihood and duration of delays in user stories. The evaluation results show that the use of team-related features leads to a significant improvement in the predictions of delay, achieving on average 74%-82% precision, 78%-86% recall and 76%-84% F-measure. Moreover, our results show that team-related features can help improve the prediction of delay likelihood, while delay duration can be explained exclusively using them. Finally, training on recent user stories using a sliding window setting improves the predictive performance; our predictive models perform significantly better for teams that have been stable. Overall, our results indicate that planning in agile development settings can be significantly improved by incorporating team-related information and incremental learning methods into analysis/predictive models.Accepted Author ManuscriptSoftware EngineeringSoftware Technolog
Top Management Team Diversity: A systematic Review
No full textEmpirical research investigating the impact of top management team (TMT)
diversity on executives’ decision making has produced inconclusive results.
To synthesize and aggregate the results on the diversity-performance
link, a meta-regression analysis (MRA) is conducted. It integrates more
than 200 estimates from 53 empirical studies investigating TMT diversity
and its impact on the quality of executives’ decision making as reflected
in corporate performance. The analysis contributes to the literature by
theoretically discussing and empirically examining the effects of TMT diversity
on corporate performance. Our results do not show a link between TMT
diversity and performance but provide evidence for publication bias. Thus,
the findings raise doubts on the impact of TMT diversity on performance
A Time-Efficient Competitive Pokemon Team-Building Algorithm
No full textThe Pokemon video game franchise is based on players, also known as trainers, capturing and battling with fictitious creatures called Pokemon. Competitive Pokemon battling is a complicated business. Before even stepping into the arena, a trainer must design a competitively viable team of six Pokemon to battle with. This task is a difficult one because there are currently 721 species of Pokemon to construct a team from, and new Pokemon are revealed every year. The author therefore developed the Score-Based Pokemon Analysis algorithm, also known as SBPA, to aid users in easily and quickly designing new Pokemon teams. The SBPA algorithm relies heavily on user interaction, and therefore requires the user to have already chosen at least one Pokemon to build his/her team around. The algorithm then analyzes the Pokemon the user has already chosen and returns a selection of Pokemon that would best further the development of the team. The user then chooses another team member, and the process is repeated until the user has developed his/her team. The SBPA algorithm analyzes the inputted team using three factors: Base Statistics, Typing, and the Popularity Factor. These three factors are then combined to determine the best potential team members per iteration. The algorithm focuses not only on user interactivity, but also on time efficiency in order to provide valuable information to the user in a time frame that would be impossible to a technologically unaided trainer. As a cost for its speed and user-friendliness, SBPA is less accurate in determining the absolutely optimal team than certain other algorithms. However, when considering the target market of the algorithm, the author found these compromises worthwhile.Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer ScienceDelft Institute of Applied Mathematic
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