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Institutional Improvement (institutional + improvement)
Selected AbstractsThe Impact of Intelligence and Institutional Improvements on Economic GrowthKYKLOS INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF SOCIAL SCIENCES, Issue 3 2002Erich Weede Standard indicators of human capital endowment , like literacy, school enrollment ratios or years of schooling , suffer from a number of defects. They are crude. Mostly, they refer to input rather than output measures of human capital formation. Occasionally, they produce implausible effects. They are not robustly significant determinants of growth. Here, they are replaced by average intelligence. This variable consistently outperforms the other human capital indicators in spite of suffering from severe defects of its own. The immediate impact of institutional improvements, i.e., more government tolerance of private enterprise or economic freedom, on growth it is in the same order of magnitude as intelligence effects are. The senior author is responsible for picking a ,politically incorrect' topic, i.e., analyzing the impact of IQ or average intelligence. The junior author has done the data compilation and the computations. [source] Policymakers' reactions to performance reportingNEW DIRECTIONS FOR INSTITUTIONAL RESEARCH, Issue 116 2002Joseph C. Burke Survey results suggest that state policymakers fail to use the reports when making policy and that academic deans and department chairs lack familiarity with the report results. Surveys also indicate that the reports had the most effect on external accountability and state needs and the least institutional improvement and state funding. [source] Towards an inclusive school culture , but what happened to Elton's ,affective curriculum'?BRITISH JOURNAL OF SPECIAL EDUCATION, Issue 3 2003Gerda Hanko The inclusion debate is no longer concerned merely with the extent to which mainstream schools are able to accommodate all children regardless of need but increasingly focuses on institutional improvement in understanding the range of their needs. In spite of our better understanding of how children learn and of how their emotional and social realities can be used as a source of learning that is relevant to the needs of all, ,difficult' children continue to be seen by many as impeding their teachers' pedagogical effectiveness and as damaging the educational chances of others. In this article, Gerda Hanko, an education consultant and staff development tutor who has substantial experience in teaching and teacher training, offers an overview of the development of practical approaches to professional development which, by deepening teachers' insight into emotional and social factors in children's learning, have been shown to supersede the need to exclude the disaffected , as already suggested in the Elton Report. Gerda Hanko's own publications, initially developed under the auspices of a London Institute of Education associateship when she was Head of Education at a teacher training institution, promote collaborative problem-solving approaches among staff , ideas that she takes forward in this paper. [source] The Impact of Intelligence and Institutional Improvements on Economic GrowthKYKLOS INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF SOCIAL SCIENCES, Issue 3 2002Erich Weede Standard indicators of human capital endowment , like literacy, school enrollment ratios or years of schooling , suffer from a number of defects. They are crude. Mostly, they refer to input rather than output measures of human capital formation. Occasionally, they produce implausible effects. They are not robustly significant determinants of growth. Here, they are replaced by average intelligence. This variable consistently outperforms the other human capital indicators in spite of suffering from severe defects of its own. The immediate impact of institutional improvements, i.e., more government tolerance of private enterprise or economic freedom, on growth it is in the same order of magnitude as intelligence effects are. The senior author is responsible for picking a ,politically incorrect' topic, i.e., analyzing the impact of IQ or average intelligence. The junior author has done the data compilation and the computations. [source] Identifying what matters to students: Improving satisfaction and defining priorities at Santa Fe Community CollegeNEW DIRECTIONS FOR COMMUNITY COLLEGES, Issue 134 2006Anne M. Kress This chapter describes Santa Fe Community College's use of the Noel-Levitz Student Satisfaction Inventory to guide iterative development of institutional improvements associated with student satisfaction. [source] | ||||||||||