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Productivity in Higher Education/ Kevin Stange, Kevin Strange, Caroline M. Hoxby.
No full textIn English.How do the benefits of higher education compare with its costs, and how does this comparison vary across individuals and institutions? These questions are fundamental to quantifying the productivity of the education sector. The studies in Productivity in Higher Education use rich and novel administrative data, modern econometric methods, and careful institutional analysis to explore productivity issues. The authors examine the returns to undergraduate education, differences in costs by major, the productivity of for-profit schools, the productivity of various types of faculty and of outcomes, the effects of online education on the higher education market, and the ways in which the productivity of different institutions responds to market forces. The analyses recognize five key challenges to assessing productivity in higher education: the potential for multiple student outcomes in terms of skills, earnings, invention, and employment; the fact that colleges and universities are "multiproduct" firms that conduct varied activities across many domains; the fact that students select which school to attend based in part on their aptitude; the difficulty of attributing outcomes to individual institutions when students attend more than one; and the possibility that some of the benefits of higher education may arise from the system as a whole rather than from a single institution. The findings and the approaches illustrated can facilitate decision-making processes in higher education.Hoxby, Caroline M. / Stange, Kevin -- Staiger, Douglas -- Hoxby, Caroline M. -- Minaya, Veronica / Scott-Clayton, Judith -- Riehl, Evan / Saavedra, Juan E. / Urquiola, Miguel -- Altonji, Joseph G. / Zimmerman, Seth D. -- Courant, Paul N. / Turner, Sarah -- Vlieger, Pieter De / Jacob, Brian / Stange, Kevin -- Deming, David J. / Lovenheim, Michael / Patterson, Richard -- Carrell, Scott E. / Kurlaender, Michal -- Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction / 1. What Health Care Teaches Us about Measuring Productivity in Higher Education / 2. The Productivity of US Postsecondary Institutions / 3. Labor Market Outcomes and Postsecondary Accountability: Are Imperfect Metrics Better Than None? / 4. Learning and Earning: An Approximation to College Value Added in Two Dimensions / 5. The Costs of and Net Returns to College Major / 6. Faculty Deployment in Research Universities / 7. Measuring Instructor Effectiveness in Higher Education / 8. The Competitive Effects of Online Education / 9. Estimating the Productivity of Community Colleges in Paving the Road to Four- Year College Success / Contributors -- Author Index -- Subject Index1 online resource (392 p.)
Music for classical guitar by South African composers : a historical survey, notes on selected works and a general catalogue
No full textIncludes abstract.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 296-309).This is the first comprehensive investigation of music for, or including, the classical guitar by South African composers. The focus of this research has been, firstly, to uncover as much of the repertoire as possible, and, secondly, to collate, study, catalogue and report on the information. A brief historical survey of the guitar in South Africa provides the context within which this study was conducted. The primary sources of quantitative data collection were through the archival catalogues of the South African Music Rights Organisation and through personal contact with guitarists, composers and guitar teachers. Other sources consulted were publishers, broadcasting corporations, recording companies, libraries and the internet. The body of the dissertation comprises biographical sketches, background notes, analyses and technical notes on 17 selected solo and chamber works dating from 1947 to 2007 by some of South Africa's most prominent composers and guitaristcomposers. The repertoire ranges in style from the traditional and ethnically inspired to the experimental and abstract. As this is an empirical survey, each selected entry includes details on instrumentation, duration, level of difficulty, number of pages, scordatura, commissions or requests, sources or publishers, premières and recordings. A biography of each composer is provided as well as background notes which offer an overview of the selected work. The notes discuss historical, cultural, musical and extra-musical influences, and frequently include references to interview material. The commentaries on the selected works, with musical examples, include an analytical component describing structure, form, stylistic and compositional elements, while the technical observations include performance suggestions and a grading for each work
Evaluating the New Zealand Individual Transferable Quota Market for Fisheries Management
No full textThe New Zealand ITQ system is a dynamic institution that has had many refinements since its inception more than 15 years ago. Nonetheless, the basic tenets of the system - setting a total allowable catch and leaving the market to determine the most profitable allocation of fishing effort - have remained intact. This paper assesses the New Zealand system to identify areas of success and/or possible improvement or expansion within it. The reasons for doing so are to highlight beneficial features and to identify features of the New Zealand ITQ system that are relevant to other potential tradable permit markets. Beneficial features include simple standardized rules for quota definition and trading across species and areas; very few restrictions on quota trading and holding; relative stability in the rules over time; and low levels of government involvement in the trading process. We find evidence that supports the assertion that fishers behave in a reasonably rational fashion and that the markets are relatively efficient. We do not find major changes in participation in these fisheries as a result of the system. We find evidence that suggests that the ITQ system is improving the profitability of fisheries in New Zealand. In general the evidence thus far suggests that the market is operating in a reasonably efficient manner and is providing significant economic gains. These factors suggest that New Zealand would want to have non-economic justifications for any significant changes to the system.
The legacy of monastic hospitality : 1 the rule of Benedict and rise of western monastic hospitality
No full textIn the first of two articles about the founding father of hospitality, Kevin O'Gorman looks at St Benedict's rule and its context of in the monastic orders. Contemporary hospitality operators will find themselves in a very familiar world
Evaluating the New Zealand Individual Transferable Quota Market for Fisheries Management
No full textThe New Zealand ITQ system is a dynamic institution that has had many refinements since its inception more than 15 years ago. Nonetheless, the basic tenets of the system - setting a total allowable catch and leaving the market to determine the most profitable allocation of fishing effort - have remained intact. This paper assesses the New Zealand system to identify areas of success and/or possible improvement or expansion within it. The reasons for doing so are to highlight beneficial features and to identify features of the New Zealand ITQ system that are relevant to other potential tradable permit markets. Beneficial features include simple standardized rules for quota definition and trading across species and areas; very few restrictions on quota trading and holding; relative stability in the rules over time; and low levels of government involvement in the trading process. We find evidence that supports the assertion that fishers behave in a reasonably rational fashion and that the markets are relatively efficient. We do not find major changes in participation in these fisheries as a result of the system. We find evidence that suggests that the ITQ system is improving the profitability of fisheries in New Zealand. In general the evidence thus far suggests that the market is operating in a reasonably efficient manner and is providing significant economic gains. These factors suggest that New Zealand would want to have non-economic justifications for any significant changes to the system.tradeable permits, quota, fisheries
Continuous metadata flows for distributed multimedia
No full textThe practical use of temporal multimedia has increased markedly in recent years as enabling technologies for the distribution and streaming of media have become available. As a part of this trend, hypermedia systems and models have adapted accordingly to incorporate such distributed multimedia for presentation. Structured interpretation of information has long been a fundamental feature of both open hypermedia systems and knowledge systems. Metadata, in its many forms, has become the cornerstone for providing this structured knowledge above and beyond basic data and information. This thesis presents the rationale and requirements for continuous metadata, which supports the metadata accompanying distributed multimedia throughout the lifecycle of streamed media, from generation, through distribution, to presentation. Throughout this process it is the temporal and continuous nature of the metadata which is paramount. A conceptual framework for continuous metadata is proposed to encapsulate these principles and ideas. Continuous metadata and the associated framework enable the development, in particular, of real-time, collaborative, semantically enriched distributed multimedia applications. Experience building one such system using continuous metadata is evaluated within the framework. An ontology is developed for the system to enable the collation, distribution, and presentation of structure aiding navigation of multimedia, and it is shown how continuous metadata utilising the ontology can be distributed using multicas
Caribbean museums and national identity / edited by Alissandra Cummins, Kevin Farmer, and Roslyn Russell.
No full textHaitian anthropologist Michel-Rolph Trouillot, in his discussion on how the current global Westernized hegemony treats specific historical events, events chosen for their relevance to the text of Western dominance, has addressed absences (or silences as 'inherent in the creation of sources, the first moment of historical production' (Trouillot, 1995, p. 51). People and places that are designated 'Third World' often find their history has (or has been)
'disappeared'. He references complex historiographical occurrences of this process of historical production, whereby black and poor societies were not just physically ostracized, but in a sense mentally too as they basically
'disappeared' from the historical text. He states: 'History reveals itself only through the production of specific narratives. What matters most are the process and conditions of such narratives .
... Only through that overlap can we
discover the differential exercise of power that makes some narratives possible and silences others.Common GroundTable of content–Acknowledgements ix–Foreword ix –List of Illustrations xiv–
Introduction 1 –Chapter 1: Natural History = National History: Early Origins and
Organizing Principles of Museums in the English-speaking
Caribbean , Alissandra Cummins 11 –
Chapter 2: Haiti, Museums and Public Collections: Their History and Development after 1804
, Marie-Lucie Vendryes 47 –
Chapter 3: The History and Evolution of Cuban Museums
José Linares 57 – Chapter 4: The Natural History Collections of the University of the West Indies (UWI), Mike G. Rutherford 69 – Chapter 5: The National Gallery of Jamaica: A Critical History ,Veerle Poupeye 83 –Chapter 6: The Creation of the National Museum of Bermuda,
1974-2011,Edward Cecil Harris 109 –,Chapter 7: Recapturing History: Suriname Museum in Fort Zeelandia.,Hilde Neus 123 – Chapter 8: Museography and Places of Remembrance of Slavery in Martinique or the Gaps in a Memory Difficult to Express , Christine Chivallon137
– Chapter 9: New Perspectives in Heritage Presentations in Suriname and Curaçao: From Dutch Colonial Museums to Diversifying Representations of Enslavement
, Valika Smeulders 153 – Chapter 10: New Museums on the Block Creation of Identity in the Post-Independence Caribbean, Kevin Farmer 160 – Chapter 11: Framing Identity, Encouraging Diversity: Recent Museum Developments in Barbados, Roslyn Russell –Chapter 12: The Memorial Museum of the Dominican Resistance:Its Composition and Role in Society,
Luisa De Peña Diaz 195 –Chapter 13: Children Get Your Culture: Museums, Individualism, and Nationalism in Jamaica,Rebecca Tortello 205. – Chapter 14: Outreach or Out of Reach? Seeking New Audiences: The Turks and Caicos National Museum Children's Club,Nigel Sadler 221 –Chapter 15: Museums and the Challenge for Heritage Organizations in Saint Lucia,Winston F. Phulgence 233 –Chapter 16: Destroying while Preserving Junkanoo: The Junkanoo Museum in the Bahamas,Krista Thompson 241 –Author Biographies 245 –
Index 255
A set of software tools to build an author assessment package on Moodle: Implementing the AEEA proposal
No full textA set of new types of assessment is required for
learning management systems (LMSs), and there is a need for
a way to assess lifelong adaptive competencies. Proposed
solutions to these problems need to preserve the
interoperability, reusability, efficiency and abstract modeling
already present in LMSs. This paper introduces a set of
software tools for an author assessment package on the LMS
Moodle being developed as part of adaptive e-learning engine
architecture (AEEA). The principal features of this set are: 1)
The set avoid editing items for a 360-degree feedback
evaluation, 2) Whole items and tests are linked to levels of
competencies acquisition, 3) The competency-based eassessment
data model are based on e-learning specification
and complemented with XML data on the appraised
competencies, 4) Items and tests are storage in repositories,
and 5) The tools are integrated within Moodle to facilitate the
design of an assessment plan.Florián G, Beatriz E-84371c44-6a8c-4bd9-b54b-50fc5d883944-600Baldiris, Silvia Margarita-d9551129-6f42-41aa-867f-ee5f4634b3f3-600Fabregat, Ramón-6248a392-bfb2-4771-90ec-4bf955386683-600De La Hoz Manotas, Alexis Kevin-8c2e7635-6db0-49a2-bb3b-b7131e3bad0f-60
Correction to: The possibilities and practicalities of professional learning in support of Indigenous student experiences in schooling: A systematic review
No full textCorrection to: The Australian Educational Researcher https://doi.org/10.1007/s13384-019-00313-7
In the original publication of the article, the author group was incorrectly published without the co-authors. The correct author group is “Greg Vass, Kevin Lowe, Cathie Burgess, Neil Harrison, Nikki Moodie”.No Full Tex
The legacy of monastic hospitality : 2 the lasting influence
No full textIn this the second of two articles Kevin O'Gorman continues his exploration of the influence of Western monasticism on hospitality. He shows how monastic hospitality evolved to became the foundation of modern hospitality in the secular states. Ewan MacPhee reports on receiving monastic hospitality almost 1,500 years after St Benedict. The article concludes with a set of modern principles of hospitality derived from St Benedict's Rule, which are relevant to today
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