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Showing 1 to 20 of 52 for “"institutional policy"”.
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The institutional policy presence : from policy to practice
This inquiry explored the effect of policy on faculty practice and pedagogy in e-learning in higher education. This study was framed by descriptive policy analysis which would lead to a better understanding of the way policies work - or do not work. It sought to identify the effect of …
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Production upgrading and skills development in the Western Cape clothing sector: are industry requirements being met by institutional policy implications?
… skills development framework and industrial policy towards the clothing sector, notably the shift from mass production towards the adoption of Lean Production and the Quick Response retail model. As clothing firms based in the Western Cape evolved their production strategies and moved up the …
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Short-term Athletic Foreign Tours and Student Learning Outcomes: A Program Evaluation
… change recommendations, along with an institutional policy that will allow the AFT program to better facilitate the student learning outcomes related to intercultural competency and the development of student-athletes through global experience.</p>
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An exploratory study of new media adoption for participatory programming in southwest Nigeria’s radio stations
… organisational support and agenda, and perceived institutional policy control accounted for between 8-10% of the total variance in broadcast journalists’ intention and actual use of new digital technologies. Role conceptions also made significant contribution of between 12-13% of the total …
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The Allocation of Funds within HOPE VI: Applicants and Recipients
… program results. Within the context of an institutional policy analysis approach, this dissertation explores the consequences of using competitive grants as a policy tool for the HOPE VI program and postulates on its effects on program outcomes. An empirical analysis of the grant applicants …
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The spatial and institutional factors of knowledge production at MIT
… organizational structures, including institutional affiliation and spatial configuration, over a 10-year time span. There are four significant results: 1. diverging trends in the composition of collaborative teams over time (size, faculty versus non-faculty, etc.) between papers and …
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Innovating the city : challenges and opportunities in establishing incubators and districts in Paris and Boston
… cluster development. The results highlight key institutional, policy and social barriers that have influenced how innovation places form. These insights are meant to provide policy makers and organizations a better understanding of the challenges and opportunities that face entrepreneurs and …
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Does it have to be so complicated? : municipal renewable energy projects in Massachusetts
… building dedicated to program implementation; institutional policy barriers (requiring legislative fixes), and the complexity surrounding the joint action required to navigate the administrative processes involved. The thesis concludes with a series of policy recommendations.
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STRIPES AND STETHOSCOPES: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF NURSE CORPS PROMOTION RATES ACROSS ARMY, NAVY, AND AIR FORCE
… not explain service-wide disparities, suggesting institutional policy drives promotion timing more than workforce composition. Findings inform workforce planning and equity discussions in joint medical environments.
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The Factors Influencing the Role of Teachers in Imparting Leadership Skills in Jesuit Schools in Kerala, India
… leadership qualities in students, including institutional policies, teacher training programs, cultural expectations, and resource availability. By employing a qualitative methodology, this research draws on transformational leadership theory and social constructivism to provide a …
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Essays on Risk and Uncertainty in Greenhouse Gas Trading Markets
… of concepts related to carbon offset trading policy are currently being discussed such as baseline, leakage, permanence, monitoring, verification, enforcement, financial feasibility, and third party verification. Cutting across these concepts are a variety of risks and uncertainties. These …
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Benchmarks in American Higher Education: Selected Approaches for Distance Education Copyright and Intellectual Property Policies
… copyright and information sharing/antitrust policy concerns for Internet-based programs. An evaluation of the current status of distance education and Internet-based training in higher education was conducted through a pilot study that included a random sample of 223 accredited institutions. …
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Cross-disciplinary strategies for advancing equity, diversity, and inclusion in geoscience education and workplaces
… for fostering more equitable pedagogy, institutional policy, and professional culture. The findings of this thesis aim to provide an assessment of sociocultural factors influencing I-EDIAA, creating an opportunity for institutions and organizations to evaluate their shortcomings and …
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Undergraduate Student Sense of Belonging and EdTech Tool Engagement: A Mixed Methods Exploration of the Virtual Campus Experience
… the dynamic relationships among student traits, institutional policy, practice, systems, and people, and external systems.</p>
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Developing global perspectives: global citizenship and sustainable development within higher education.
… escalating to encompass the development of an institutional-wide model and the concept of the ‘Global University’ and then extending to address university leadership, to examine how this might secure a ‘Sustainable University’. The contribution to knowledge lies in: the examination of the …
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An investigation of the student experiences and institutional practices affecting spring-semester community college transfer students
… were studied through focus groups, and institutional practices were examined through personal interviews with administrators and staff of various departments on campus involved in the transfer process. The results indicated that the majority of the concerns of spring transfer students …
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How Important is Quality Teaching and Learning within the Community College System and What Supports are Available and Effective in Promoting Quality Teaching?
… system in Ontario and endeavours to explore how institutional policy and practices support or impede the promotion of quality teaching. A mixed methods sequential explanatory design was employed at a Toronto college in order to gauge the perspectives of participants in three sub-groups of the …
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Impact of Counseling Services and Campus Engagement on Academic Performance of Neurodivergent College Students
… students at Beacon College. This study uses institutional records to analyze the impact of counseling utilization and extracurricular engagement on grade point average (GPA). The research employs Spearman’s correlation, multiple regression analysis, and moderation analysis to assess the …
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Oil spills disaster in Ogoniland : social and cultural perspectives
… understand the social, cultural, environmental, institutional, policy, economic, and political contexts. How these contextual elements played out and shaped the susceptibility of the Ogoni people, how the Ogoni people were able to cope, and how the duration and the management of the disaster …
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Bloggers and the Blogosphere in Lebanon & Syria: meanings and activities
… that surround them, including government and institutional policy, censorship, impediments to Internet access, historical conditions under which blogging emerged, attitudes to the Internet, changing events and new entrants to blogging. By its comparative nature, the project reveals how the …
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