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Karen Singer-Freeman, Christine Robinson and Linda Bastone
Our chapter addresses the balance assessment professionals must strike in supporting academic freedom, shared governance practices, and learning improvement efforts within…
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Our chapter addresses the balance assessment professionals must strike in supporting academic freedom, shared governance practices, and learning improvement efforts within colleges and universities in the United States. Specifically, we address how assessment professionals (faculty or staff whose primary job involves accreditation or the assessment of student learning) can encourage increased educational equity while supporting academic freedom. The authors offer a unique perspective. As former faculty members, current assessment practitioners, and a current academic administrator, we work to ensure that our institutions are using assessments of student learning to improve learning for all students. This work gives us insight into the ways in which assessment information shapes institutional efforts, balancing the rights of faculty to control the curriculum with the rights of historically underserved students (including students from underserved ethnic or racial groups, first generation college students, students from low-income households, and students with special needs or disabilities) to receive a quality education. We propose that one solution to this apparent conflict is to provide faculty with data that allow them to analyze the ways in which their assessment choices influence educational equity. To contextualize our work in this area we summarize institutional and faculty freedoms and discuss areas of conflict. We then describe ways to reduce areas of conflict by creating a culture of inquiry that centers around consideration of data and opportunities to modify assessments to increase educational equity.
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This paper sets out to evaluate the financial security consequences of the terrorists attack on the USA of 11 September 2001 with specific regard to money laundering.
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This paper sets out to evaluate the financial security consequences of the terrorists attack on the USA of 11 September 2001 with specific regard to money laundering.
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The study itemises in minute detail the litany of actual and potential financial legislation in the wake of 9/11 in both the USA and the UK.
Findings
Basically, the study finds the depriving criminals of the proceeds of their crimes is illusory and ineffectual, since they never have sufficient funds available for confiscation in the first place.
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The paper arguably represents the most comprehensive evaluation to date of the financial issues, both real and hypothetical, thrown up on both sides of the Atlantic by the events of 9/11.
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This paper reports preliminary results of a study aimed at ascertaining the size and composition of U.S. online database production organizations. All U.S. online database…
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This paper reports preliminary results of a study aimed at ascertaining the size and composition of U.S. online database production organizations. All U.S. online database producers were surveyed in order to determine the number of personnel employed in the intellectual production of their databases. The data gathered provided a basis for the generation of people employed in frequently recurring staff categories within the organizations. Implications for education based on needs suggested by staffing patterns are examined.
This paper reports results of a two‐phase study of the size and composition of US online database production organizations. All US online database producers were surveyed, in 1982…
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This paper reports results of a two‐phase study of the size and composition of US online database production organizations. All US online database producers were surveyed, in 1982 and 1984, in order to determine the number of personnel employed in the intellectual production of their databases. Comparison of the data for the two periods permitted the identification of employment trends which form the focus of discussion.
This study aims to examine knowledge sharing as an explanatory variable between entrepreneurial leadership and employee creativity. The authors further examined the moderating…
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Purpose
This study aims to examine knowledge sharing as an explanatory variable between entrepreneurial leadership and employee creativity. The authors further examined the moderating role of creative self-efficacy between knowledge sharing and employee creativity.
Design/methodology/approach
The authors collected data from 307 employees and their immediate supervisors working in IT-based organizations.
Findings
The authors noted that entrepreneurial leaders positively affect employees’ creativity and knowledge sharing positively explains this association. The authors further noted individuals high in creative self-efficacy strengthen the association between knowledge sharing and employee creativity.
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The authors used a cross-sectional design to collect data that may restrict causality. Still, the study suggests management learn, develop and implement entrepreneurial skills that foster knowledge sharing to enhance creativity. In addition, hiring individuals with creative self-efficacy would further encourage creativity.
Originality/value
Drawing upon social exchange theory, the authors are first to examine knowledge sharing as a mediating mechanism between entrepreneurial leadership and employee creativity. In addition, the authors examined creative self-efficacy as a conditional variable on the association between knowledge sharing and employee creativity.