Abstract This paper examines each of the four criteria required for state school teachers in the Australian state of Queensland. The first criterion deals with proper knowledge and preparation of classes. The second issue deals with effective implementation of the teaching practices. The third requirement is for adequate interpersonal and communication skills and the final criteria calls for the ability to work closely with school staff and the school community. In each of these, the paper presents an example of a teacher's application and how the applications committee viewed the result.
From the Paper "I understand the importance of planning at yearly, term, unit, and lesson levels. Effective planning facilitates effective lessons and students are more likely to reach curriculum goals if their teacher has planned properly. When I am planning, I consider: ? Relevant syllabi and work programs of the school when undertaking short and long term planning ? Developing flexible lessons that are student-centred, inclusive and unbiased by catering for a range of social and cultural diversities."
The paper examines how the Australian National University and the University of Colorado at Boulder's strategic IT plans measure against the Baldrige criteria for assessing strategic planning.
Abstract The paper discusses the strategic IT plans of the Australian National University and the University of Colorado at Boulder. The paper examines the Baldbridge criteria for performance excellence and whether these universities will attain this level of quality. The paper concludes that despite impressive strategic IT plans, each university has much work to do in order to to reach and stay at the level of quality performance as defined by the Baldrige standard.
Outline:
Executive Summary
Baldbridge Criteria for Performance Excellence
The Essence of any Strategic Plan: Goal Alignment and Agility
Goal-based diagnosis
Making Change Last
Summary
From the Paper "In comparing the strategic IT plans of the Australian National University and the University of Colorado at Boulder, similarities and differences become quickly evident. When the Criteria for Performance Excellence (2007) are taken into account in conjunction with comparing each strategic plan, the variation in depth of commitment to customers (end users of the systems) needs both today and into the future, and the role of Web Services and XML to streamline availability of data to the many applications that students rely on was much more evident on the University of Colorado at Boulder plan. Further, the assumptions of how educational technology, web-based student services, the role of the middleware layer in ensuring enterprise application integration (EAI) between systems, and the role of systems and IT governance were also more prevalent in the University of Colorado at Boulder plan. The Australian plan however did focus on how to streamline help desk and support processes to better serve users who were in need of assistance."
Abstract This essay argues that merit and performance should be the only admissions criteria for acceptance into California's public colleges.
From the Paper "There are some major trends in California Higher Education that mandate the development of new criteria for college admissions. These trends include higher accountability for performance for educators' budget deficits that have resulted in major educational funding cuts, low college graduation rates and increasing admissions and strong nativist sentiments opposed to giving preference to minorities in admissions processes. As such, new college admission criteria need to be based on performance and merit. The only fair way of developing admissions criteria is to devise criteria that rewards merit..."
Abstract This paper argues that only merit and performance should be used as the criteria for college admissions into California public higher education.
Abstract The paper relates the origin of the Malcolm Baldrige Quality Award (MBQA) award and the reason why it was instituted. It explains that the award is named after the quality-conscious man who served as US Secretary of Commerce 1981-1987 , and was established to recognize companies that demonstrate the highest possible level of excellence in their overall performance. The paper discusses the criteria necessary to qualify for the award and notes that the goal is to identify opportunities for continuous improvement, in order to yield positive business results.
From the Paper "The specific goals of the award's creation were to (1) promote an awareness of the importance of quality to competitiveness, (2) increase understanding about the level of quality required to achieve world-class recognition, and (3) foster the sharing of information about quality by world-class organizations. These goals are further advanced by requiring the award winners to communicate their quality strategies. The MBNQA examination criteria comprise seven functionally related major categories and 32 subcategories. A point allocation scheme emphasizes various categories and subcategories according to their relative contribution to the overall quality level of an organization. Examiners assess an organization's current quality practices and award points that reflect the organization's quality strengths and weaknesses in each of the seven categories."
Tags: Baldrige, health, care, performance, excellence
Abstract This paper stresses that businesses want the most cost efficient database that can still do a very good job; therefore, Microsoft Access is almost out of the question for large database needs because it slows down when it holds too much data and is best suited and made for small data needs. The author states that the most important criteria is budgetary constrains: Microsoft Access costs roughly $200 while Oracle Enterprise costs $40,000, Microsoft SQL Server enterprise costs $20,000 and DB2 is about $25,000. The paper relates that any database security plan should start with the server and network and provide prevention, detection, response, authentication, authorization, table access and auditing.
Table of Contents
Databases
Overview
List of Important Criteria When Choosing the Right Database
Reasons for These Criteria Budget Criteria Data Needs Criteria Functionality Criteria Security Criteria Operating System Support Criteria Business Model Criteria Administration and Ease of Use Criteria Federal Compliance Criteria Upgrades/Modifications Criteria Collaboration Criteria Review
From the Paper "The data needs of the business are important when choosing the right DB. For instance, MS Access, although cheap, would be best suited for very small businesses or low data needs. On the other hand, large organizations with large data needs should use the industrial strength DBs like DB2 and Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server. DB2 and Oracle are better suited for the really large data needs. For example: MS Access can hold 2GB of data; SQL Server can hold 1,048,516 TB of data."
Tags: cost-efficient, small-business, security-plan, speed, function
Abstract In this paper, three vendors in competition for the installation of a call center are evaluated. The selection criteria is listed first and includes the rationale for the criteria. Then each vendor (Avaya, Siebel, Lucent Technologies) is evaluated using the criteria. A summary table of the evaluations summarizes the findings. Finally, the recommendation for the vendor that would be most appropriate for installing the call center is presented.
Introduction
Selection Criteria:
Vender Aspects - History
Pricing
Architecture of Switching System
Technical Features of the Automatic Call Distributor
Functional Aspects of the Telephones and the Agents
Software Development
Systems Management
Disaster Recovery
Avaya Inc
Lucent Technologies
Siebel Systems, Inc.
Comparison of Vendors
From the Paper "ADKAR is a model and a technique used by employees to help them understand where the organization is in the change management process. Managers to help identify gaps in the change management process can also use it. By using the technique, they can aid their employees through the process."
This paper outlines the different methods of land use planning and land use management, especially the multi-criteria analysis model and how it affects the future of land management.
Abstract This paper explains that the current and future land requirement of the population at large has increased manifold due to an increase in the population size as well as the nature of the utility of the land. The paper points out that one of the most recent methods for land planning is multi-criteria analysis, which allows the decision maker to choose from among useful and probable alternatives thus making faster decisions. The author believes that the basic model of multi-criteria decision is to increase efficiency of landforms and manage it for the future with the view to better the community living standards.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Multi-criteria Analysis Method
Literature Review
Local Level Initiatives
Technological Tools
Sustainable Development
Conclusion
From the Paper "The problem of land use planning stems from a multitude of issues and contingencies. Besides the population and environmental demands, social entities like business organizations and officials have to consider how land can be accessed. Transportation and labor are two aspects. Land on its own has little utility unless it is worked on through labor and technology. However the development of land is not so easily achieved unless the authority plans before hand how the problem of land use is going to be resolved. Transportation network for instance has to be constructed before the land is even distributed for usage. Labor and machineries has to be transported to the desired location of production and the facilities have to be set up to create a congenial working environment for the worker. The authority also has to consider whether the land is commercial or residential, for production or agricultural purpose or for conservation purposes. The categorization of land forms offers different alternatives for the decision maker and hence generates different decision framework alternatives. Planning cannot be done unless these criteria are set before hand."
Tags: transportation, community, standards, conservation, population
Abstract This paper explains that given the magnitude of the issue, it is essential that clinics, schools, juvenile detention centers and medical clinics have screening instruments at hand that quickly and accurately evaluate potential or present abuse or dependency conditions in the populations they serve. The paper defines the criteria that make a screening instrument for AAOD use valuable. The author lists the most up-to-date instruments available, gives a brief description of the applicability of each and reviews the critical literature that evaluates their respective reliability and validity.
Table of Contents
Introduction
The Adolescent Alcohol and Other Drug (AAOD) Problem: An Overview The History of AAOD
Consequences of AAOD
Constellation of Symptoms Making Up AAOD
Co-Occurring Psychiatric Illnesses
AAOD Etiology
AAOD Epidemiological Research
Screening for AAOD Use: Its Relevance to the Problem
Other Risk Factors in AAOD Use
Use of DSM Criteria in Identification of AAOD Use
Factors to be Considered in Self-Reported Data
Critical Review of Selected Instruments
Summary/Discussion
Appendix One: Chart
From the Paper "The majority of AAOD screening instruments rely on the subject to self-report the history and extent of his or her substance use, primarily for lack of any other method of attaining the information. Some instruments, particularly those that are designed primarily for younger children, also require the input of a parent or guardian; however, the degree of validity of the adult's perceptions has been widely regarded by clinicians as somewhat low. A study which tracked a cohort of young children for twenty-five years through to adulthood, measuring the relationship of alcohol use to school dropout incidence, found that the child's first-grade teacher typically had a clearer view of potential behavioral problems than did the parent."
Abstract Using the format presented in "Criteria for Assessing the Quality of Health Information on the Internet", a policy paper presented by Mitretek Systems, this paper examines the overall validity and usefulness of the Ortho Tri-Cyclen website. It examines the site based on the seven criteria described within the article.
Abstract This paper describes a study of college students and the types of assessments that they receive, how they perceive these assessments and how valuable they see them when it comes to determining what types of assessments are best for deciding exactly how much a student has learned any particular course. The author points out that, even if the assessment is somewhat strange or rather difficult, a student who has full and thorough knowledge of the subject will be less uncomfortable with any type of assessment criteria than a student who has not learned the curriculum well and is therefore struggling to perform well on any type of assessment criteria. The paper relates that the research methodology is a focus group of between 7 and 10 students who will be asked specific questions some of which will be close-ended using yes/no or scales.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Statement of the Problem
Overview of the Study
Significance of the Study
Rationale of the Study
Scope of the Study
Review of the Literature
Methodology
Research Design and Approach
Procedures Used and Data Analysis
Research Considerations and Limitations
Validity and Uniqueness of Data
Summary
From the Paper "Students often have very different perceptions about assessments than instructors do and rather than overlooking these perceptions as the naivete of youth it is more important to look at these perceptions as something worthwhile for instructors to consider when they create assessments for those students and the students that they will have in the future. By doing this many more students will be helped to learn everything that they need to know and students who are struggling to learn the material can be singled out much more easily based on the type of assessment given. When this is done students who are having difficulty with the material can receive extra help and reap the benefits of the instructor's knowledge of their difficulties."
Abstract In this article, the writer discusses criteria for qualitative research. The writer applies these criteria to a research article on nursing. In this paper the writer discusses methods used in qualitative research. The writer explains that these methods are ethnography, phenomenology, and grounded theory.
From the Paper "Qualitative research is based on the idea that reality is not predetermined but is created by the participants as the research progresses i.e. the participants make their own reality. It explores phenomena by looking at how the individuals experience them and assumes that it is possible to get the best understanding of phenomena by having a small interpersonal distance between the researcher and the subjects. Qualitative research does not involve carrying out experiments and has no dependent or independent variables. The basis of qualitative research ... "
Tags: qualitative research, nursing, ethnography, phenomenology, grounded theory
Abstract The paper examines how MacLean's university rankings compare different Canadian universities and argues that the criteria they use are questionable and subjective to the point of being positively misleading. The paper shows how for many students, the criteria utilized by the MacLean's university rankings are largely irrelevant. The paper maintains that to conduct research with relevant stakeholders, such as the students themselves, would be more useful.
From the Paper "Not surprisingly, in recent years the MacLean's University Rankings have been subject to increasing criticism by many. Levy (November 6, 2006) points out that the rankings produced by MacLean's, and by The Globe and Mail, come out with very different results. Indeed, Levy (November 6, 2006) goes so far as to say that the two "publications provide starkly different views of the University" (on web page cited). This immediately signals that perhaps the rankings are not entirely objective. Indeed, this becomes more obvious when we note that these two rating systems utilize different clustering of institutions, and different methodology (Levy, November 6, 2006)."
Abstract This paper examines the criteria used to determine who may receive a liver transplant and, in particular, whether alcoholics should be allotted livers for transplant. Alcoholics tend to be given low priority status on liver transplant waiting lists or are even taken off such lists because they are considered responsible for their organ's diseased condition. The paper questions whether the denial of transplants based on this moral criteria is justified. It concludes by arguing that alcoholics should be given the same priority level as non-alcoholics on the same transplant waiting lists.
From the Paper "Deciding who should receive organs is not based solely on medical need, but also on moral criteria. Initially, patients must display a genuine medical need for a new organ, meaning that they will indeed die unless they receive a transplant. Then they are eligible to be placed on a waiting list. Patients on the list are then chosen one-by-one as organs become available (Kilner 5). However, it is most certainly always the case that the available organ could potentially be given to more than one person on the list. In this situation, a single recipient must be chosen. A team of physicians and a psychologist determine which patient will be given a new chance at life through the transplantation of a new organ ... but how exactly do they decide?"
Abstract This paper shows how Hughes and Cullen follow Du Bois? prescription in their creations of black art. The author focuses on Hughes? poem "Ballad of the Landlord" and Cullen's poem ?From the Dark Tower,? and derives his definition of Du Bois? artistic prescription from his essay ?Criteria of Negro Art.?
From the paper:
"Amidst the prevailing racial injustice during the Harlem Renaissance, W.E.B. Du Bois charges black artists to use their art to send a message to society: a message of unity to the blacks, and a message rejecting their so-called inferiority to the whites. Black art, Du Bois insisted, should be used as a weapon against racism, demonstrating blacks? worthiness of American status and their ability to conceive Beauty in their art. Countee Cullen and Langston Hughes, whether intentionally or not, followed the artistic specifications set forth by W.E.B. Du Bois in their respective creations "From the Dark Tower" and ?Ballad of the Landlord.?
