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Rankings: From similarity distances computation to interactive synchronization
Two problems related to rankings are investigated in this thesis. We first address the problem of computing distances between rankings that take into account similarities between candidates. The need for evaluating such distances is governed by applications as diverse as rank aggregation, …
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The Role of the Market and Competition in M.B.A. Degree Program Rankings: The Reliability and Validity of Rankings of M.B.A. Programs
In light of increasing popularity of rankings of M.B.A. programs among prospective students, employers, and the general public, this dissertation research seeks to explore five ranking systems of full-time M.B.A. programs in the United States: U.S. News & World Report, Bloomberg Businessweek, The …
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Distances on rankings: from social choice to flash memories
… social choice to statistics to coding theory, rankings are found to be a useful vehicle for storing and presenting information in modern data systems. Often, in order to process the information, an appropriately defined distance on rankings is required or at least helpful. For example, in …
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Evaluating Colleges and Universities: A New Model for Institutional Rankings
… created, nor developed. At best, university rankings (from sources such as <em>US News and World Report) </em>have been the main source of institutional performance for decades despite researchers’ attempts to address gaps within the higher education field. These sources remain limited within …
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The impact of higher education institutions rankings' functions on university reputation /
… a university. Higher education institutions rankings are analyzed through their functions as a phenomenon that plays a role of external information source in the relationships between university reputation and university stakeholders. The aim of the dissertation is to evaluate the impact of …
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How Variances in Business School Rankings Affect Enrollment Trends and Practices
… that variances in the U.S News and World Report rankings have on enrollment trends and practices in both top and not top-25 business schools. The purpose of this study was to determine whether mobility in the rankings was met with a statistically significant response to the research questions …
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A comparison of science teachers' and engineering students' rankings of science and technology related global problems
Using 262 acknowledged science educators from 41 countries, Bybee developed a scale for measuring the ranked priorities of scientists, and others, with respect to twelve major global problems related to science and technology in 1984. In 1993 this scale was re-administered to samples of 76 Cape …
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Interrelationships among interstaff rankings of elementary school teachers in respect to classroom management, social living effectiveness, and other selected factors
There is no abstract available for this dissertation.
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An investigation of the relationship between Michigan Department of Education school achievement rankings and school's percentage of economically disadvantaged students
<p>The primary purpose of this study was to compare the Michigan Department of Education’s (MDE) school ranking system, the Top to Bottom Ranking, to the school’s percentage of economically disadvantaged students as measured by the percentage of free and reduced-price lunch. In addition, finding …
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Changes in salaries, related benefits, and salary rankings of Tennessee K-12 instructional employees from 1977-1978 through 1980-1981
… salaries, salary-related benefits, and salary rankings of Tennessee K-12 instructional personnel, during the school year 1977-1978 through 1980-1981. An ancillary purpose was to determine what changes in those costs and rankings had occurred after the Education Professional Negotiations Act was …
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Quantifying Quality: The Effects of Score Transformation Method and School Demographics on School Rankings Under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act
… have on relative Minnesota school performance rankings over time?; (2) What effect do school demographics have on relative Minnesota school performance rankings over time?; and (3) What effect do the interactions of method of transforming student scores on Minnesota state exams and school …
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Rankings of science and technology related global problems : a comparison of gender differences among school pupils in the Northern and Western Cape Provinces
In 1984 Bybee used 262 science educators from 41 countries to develop an instrument for measuring their ranked priorities of science and technology related global problems. In 1995 the original Bybee scale was updated and clarified, and a new 15-item-version, the Le Grange Global Priorities …
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Comparison of Anthropometric Measures of Competitive Bodybuilders to Judges' Scores and a Comparison of Judges' Scores
… characteristics of bodybuilders to judges' rankings, and compared the judges' rankings across three levels of judges: Elite, Trained, and Untrained. Twenty-nine male and nine female bodybuilding athletes consented to anthropometric and circumference measurements. The independent variables in …
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A Comparative Study of Social Behavior of Children: Kindergarten Through Grade Three as Identified by Teacher Rankings, the California Test of Personality and the Hewett Teacher Rating Scale
… was to investigate the soundness of teacher rankings and ratings. This investigation was made by comparing teacher rankings, the Hewett Teacher Rating Scale and the California Test of Personality.</p><p>To this end the major purposes of this study were: <ol><li>1. to determine the …
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An Examination of the Quality Rankings of Three Unfamiliar Wind Band Compositions and Selected Musical Criteria Among Undergraduate Instrumental Music Education Students and Instructors at Five Big Ten Universities
… by examining the relationship of their rankings of three unfamiliar band compositions and selected musical criteria. One hundred twenty-nine subjects including 124 music education students and 5 music education instructors at five Big Ten universities participated. Subjects were mailed a …
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Active and passive assets, their returns and the role of market efficiency
… a direct relationship between relative return rankings and relative AUM is conducted and examined for bidirectionality. Following this, the postulated channel of market efficiency is tested for, directly and through the determinants of market efficiency (information and transactions costs), to …
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Ranking Aggregation Based on Belief Function Theory
… a new aggregate ranking given a set of rankings of a finite set of items. This problem is met in various applications, such as the combination of user preferences, the combination of lists of documents retrieved by search engines and the combination of ranked gene lists. In the …
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