Educational needs assessments (hereafter NAs) are inattentive to cost considerations and are frequently dominated by elite stakeholder groups. In this article I make a case for adopting a cost-utility approach, illustrating the argument with data generated in a NA of central library services in a Canadian school district. Using survey data from eight stakeholder groups, I found that (1) NAs bas...

The India Rankings 2020 was announced the 5th annual edition of ranking for higher educational institutions in based on National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF). impact NIRF among is progressive their output, outcomes, and outreach to society. government also concentrating several policy decisions education sector results Rankings. This paper focused study Research Performance (RP) param...

the purpose of this study was to evaluate the rate of using standards of designing electronic courses in educational contents of state-virtual universities in iran. the method of the study was a descriptive-survey one. the statistical population was the educational content of electronic courses in state-virtual universities such as university of science and technology, and shiraz university. da...

Some classes of Internet users have specific information needs and specialized information-seeking behaviors. For example, educators who are designing a course might create a syllabus, recommend books, create lecture slides, and use tools as lecture aid. All of these resources are available online, but are scattered across a large number of websites. Collecting, linking, and presenting the disp...

OBJECTIVES Differential attainment in school examinations is one of the barriers to increasing student diversity in medicine. However, studies on the predictive validity of prior academic achievement and educational performance at medical school are contradictory, possibly due to single-site studies or studies which focus only on early years' performance. To address these gaps, we examined the ...

The field of educational-leadership research has broadened over the last 50 years, with diverse knowledge-production traditions (e.g. functionalist and critical); audiences practitioners, researchers policymakers) preferred sites publication. In this article, we trace how objectives, methods, claims relative significance research, identities epistemological assumptions researchers, are changing...

One can use the Leiden Rankings for grouping research universities by considering universities which are not significantly different as a homogeneous set. Such groupings reduce the complexity of the rankings without losing information. We pursue this classification using both statistical significance and effect sizes of differences among 902 universities in 54 countries; we focus on the UK, Ger...

The exchangeability assumption as defined in this paper on ranking functions seems intuitively natural, and indeed, specific ranking functions previously proposed in the literature are all exchangeable. While pointwise ranking functions are vacuously exchangeable, we now discuss two specifically listwise ranking functions previously proposed by [22] and [26] in light of our representation theor...

This paper is a continuation of the study of surprise as a base for constructing qualitative calculi for representing and reasoning about uncertain knowledge. Here, we further elaborate on κ, a qualitative ranking function which we developed in (Ibrahim, Tawfik, and Ngom 2009b) and which constructs qualitative ranks for events by obtaining the order of magnitude abstraction of the degree of sur...