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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Quality Matters"”.
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Quality matters : electoral outcomes and democratic health in Africa
… and fairness," of elections {or electoral quality} and two indicators of democratic health: {1} popular perceptions of democratic supply and {2} popular demand for democracy. "Supply," is measured as popular satisfaction with the way democracy works plus the recognition of living in a …
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Are students experiencing the intended outcomes of Quality Matters standards?
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DOES QUALITY MATTER? A LOOK AT QUALITY MATTERS IMPACT ON ONLINE DOCTORAL STUDENTS OF QUALITY ASSURANCE
… to ascertain if student views aligned with the Quality Matters (QM) standards. The surveys and interviews that were conducted for this study were used to extrapolate and analyze the views from these online students of the implementation of the Quality Matters rubric to determine whether there …
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Course design for online art education: A case of the quality matters standards applied to a drawing class
This thesis evaluates the Quality Matters rubric standards for improving online drawing courses. Findings include general effectiveness, positive perceptions from faculty, and suggestions for improvement for the Quality Matters standards for designing studio art courses. This study contributes to …
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Essays On International Capitol Mobility
Unequal quality of fundamental institutions induces different patterns of international capital flows in terms of both direction and magnitude. This dissertation examines, theoretically and empirically, the link between the financial intermediation sector and capital flows by highlighting the role …
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Essays on the Economics of Education
… graduate. For those who want to stand out, the quality aspects of education become more salient. Moreover, as this expansion happens in the number of colleges and college students, it becomes less common for governments to generously fund the college education of a lucky few. In addition, the …
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Impact of Indoor Sources of Emission on Ambient Air Quality
… are crucial regarding public health and air quality concerns. Many indoor emissions stem from solvent evaporation of volatile chemical products (VCPs), a broad class of sources emerging as a significant contributor to urban air pollution as emissions from classic sources like traffic has …
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Does quality matter? An evaluation of the relationship between United Nations peacekeepers and civil war violence
… However, the relationship, if any, between the quality of UN peacekeepers and their ability to manage on-going violence remains critically understudied. To address this gap, this study begins by developing a novel definition of "peacekeeper quality" that consists of two key factors: professional …
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Learning to write in (networked) public: children and the delivery of writing online
… included conflicts over standards of writing quality, matters of profit, and the constancy of the demand to generate new interest and writing online. Children and their parents responded to these instabilities by welcoming and negotiating heterogeneous perspectives and partnerships. …
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Engineering faculty views of teaching quality, accreditation, and institutional climate and how they influence teaching practices
<p>There is wide agreement that teaching quality matters in higher education, but faculty have varied ideas about the definition of quality. This dissertation examined data from a survey administered in 1997, 1999, and 2002 at institutions of the Southeastern University and College Coalition for …
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Essays on Firm Heterogeneity and Export: Productivity, Quality and Access to Finance
… this thesis explores the roles of prices, quality and access to finance differences across firms as additional sources of heterogeneity, as well as their interaction. The thesis is composed of three self-standing but related empirical papers that exploit a unique panel data set that come …