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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Equity and Fairness"”.
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Making Sense of Special Education in the Preservice Teacher Preparation Program: A Qualitative Study
… of a preservice general education curriculum and instruction course in a large research-oriented public university. Using participant-observation, survey, and interview data, this study analyzes how the preservice general education teachers make sense of this experience. Teacher education …
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The Use & Consequences of Performance Management & Control Systems : A Study of a Professional Services Firm.
… long been recognized that Performance Management and Control Systems (PMCSs) impact positively on organizational efficiency and effectiveness by affecting the behaviour of organizational participants. However, PMCSs also create tensions between achieving shortterm and long-term objectives which …
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Distributional effects of net metering policies and residential solar plus behind-the-meter storage adoption
… U.S. are wealthier on average than non-adopters and due to the possibility that DER owners shift certain costs onto passive customers. By using a dataset containing close to 100,000 customers' half-hourly load data and income quintiles from Chicago, IL, we simulate the operation of residential …
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Best Practices of National Elementary and Secondary Act (ESEA) Distinguished Principals
… social justice leadership by identifying and initiating practices that engage students from diverse and under-served backgrounds. The purpose of this study was to identify the leadership practices of six former and current principals who have led National ESEA Distinguished Schools …
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Equal employment opportunity in a climate of managing diversity: an institutional study of personnel processes of the Pennsylvania State Police
… the effects of EEO on personnel processes and the idea of managing diversity. The research employs the case study methodology to examine personnel processes of the Pennsylvania State: Police (PSP) . This organization has operated under a federally monitored affirmative action decree since …
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Effectiveness and acceptability of congestion pricing
Urban congestion is a pervasive and growing problem in developed and developing countries. The lack of excludability for scarce urban space, specifically roads and parking spaces, creates a common resource problem yielding a congestion externality that generates many external costs. Marginal social …
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Constructing and maintaining disability: discourses of power, conflict and choice in special educational needs administration
… were further strengthened by document analysis and participant observation notes obtained from observing the work of one local education authority, and these were used within the discourse analysis phase. Findings from the grounded theory methodology showed how administrators succeed in …
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Best Practices in Stakeholder Engagement through a Collaborative Procurement System for Infrastructure Projects
… projects engage multiple stakeholders directly and indirectly during the pre-construction stages. Stakeholder engagement is an essential part of the management process, particularly for megaprojects. In large projects, stakeholders have varying information needs and interests, and projects that …
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Impact of Ignoring Nested Data Structures on Ability Estimation
… results in the inflation of the estimated standard error of fixed parameter estimates. This study is unique in that it examines the impact of multilevel data structures on subject ability which are random effect predictions known as empirical Bayes estimates in the one-parameter IRT / Rasch …
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Transition Pathways and Capabilities of Climate-Induced Migrants: The Case of Ready-Made Garment Workers in Bangladesh
… such as cyclones, flooding, salinity intrusion, and riverbank erosion. These severe environmental stressors have forced substantial numbers of individuals from both rural and urban areas to migrate towards urban centres in search of sustainable livelihoods. This migration pattern, known as …
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Equality in higher education partnerships: defining the concept in divergent contexts
… underlying higher education partnerships, and the concept of equality in higher education partnerships has not yet been defined. This thesis explores present practices and conceptualisations of equality, specifically in partnerships between higher education institutions of divergent …
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Machine Learning Approaches for Equitable Healthcare
With the proliferation of clinical data and algorithms to improve clinical care, researchers are increasingly concerned about the equity and fairness of the resulting machine learning models. Because the observational data we collect can be noisy, incomplete, and biased, seemingly straight-forward …
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Assessing the effectiveness of the Academic Workload Allocation Model at a South African Business School
Managing workload allocation to ensure fairness and equity amongst staff can be a challenge in any organisation and managing the workload allocation of autonomy seeking academic staff in a business school can be even more so. In this study, the researcher aimed to review a recently designed and …
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Taxation of Offshore Indirect Transfers (OIT) in developing countries
… capital, individuals, companies, individuals, and nations, often benefit from investment opportunities in which capital is free to flow across borders and jurisdictions with limited restrictions. Foreign direct investment in developing nations is certainly one of the perceived benefits of this …