For nearly 50 years, a fundamental issue of governance has been performance management, and government practitioners and public administration scholars have faced the task of developing and utilizing systems to improve the efficiency, effectiveness, and accountability of governm…
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School principals in Illinois face an ethical dilemma when evaluating tenured teachers. Giving an unsatisfactory rating and placing a tenured teacher under a remediation plan opens the door to a time-consuming process filled with legal and financial issues that will strain relat…
This dissertation examines a vital catalyst in the globalization of education: international assessments—that involve testing and rankings—of student achievement in academic subjects. Nearly all high-income countries participate in international assessments such as Trends in Int…
The Last Planner System (LPS) challenges the old practices of developing schedules and pushing them from top management down to front line people to execute. It advocates collaborative planning, performing collaborative constraint analysis, and learning from plan failures. The L…
The purpose of this study was to evaluate a new music education program in Cyprus. The program which was created by the author of this study, combined early childhood music education and children's literature. Nine lessons were created which included three original children stor…
NEtwork MObility (NEMO) supports the mobility of multiple Internet-connected devices. However, NEMO Basic Support Protocol suffers from unoptimized route leading to large latency in communication and header overhead. To optimize route, a plethora of schemes have been proposed. T…
Statistically downscaled CMIP5 precipitation data are available at higher spatial resolution compared to global climate models. The downscaled climate models have been used in many hydrological applications. However, limited numbers of studies focused on downscaled CMIP5 precipi…
In practice, various ad hoc approaches for designing reliability test programs have been observed. Many of these approaches rely on previously established rules of thumb for which the underlying rationale is indefensible. As a consequence, those who use such approaches are unlik…
In the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) education is widely understood to play a key role in promoting gender equality and economic empowerment. In the MENA region generally, and Egypt in particular, "early-marriage" is implicated as one of the main barriers to educational ac…
With the enactment of Bill C-3 (The DNA Identification Act) in December of 1998, Canadian law enforcement agencies will begin banking an annual estimate of 28,000 to 98,000 profiles (established using STR technology) obtained from individuals convicted of primary and secondary d…
Universitas Terbuka (UT), the Indonesia Open University and the 45th state university in the country, is the only one that uses distance learning as its sole mode of delivery and instruction. Although UT has operated for 28 years, unlike face-to-face classroom-based education, d…
Traditional methods for measuring the adhesion between fiber and polymers, using single fibers, have problems due to the unknown frictional effects, Poisson's shrinkages or expansions, and uncertainties about failure process. Also environmental studies using these techniques are…
Ce mémoire est divisé en deux parties principales. Dans la première partie, nous démontrons en détails le théoreme fondamental d'évaluation des produits dérivés dans un cas particulier: nous définissons un modèle de marché pour la théorie finie et obtenons des conditions essenti…
This study examines the impact of economic policy on economic growth in Nigeria between 1970 and the mid-1990s. It analyzes Nigerian policy to determine whether policy has, indeed, promoted growth during the period under review. In this study, policies that help create macroecon…
Finite time thermodynamic models which simulate the working of actual vapor compression refrigeration systems are developed. The characteristic performance curves of the refrigeration systems that include simple vapor compression system, mechanical subcooling and two-stage syste…
Development charges are imposed by local planning authorities on developers to pay for infrastructure necessitated by new development. This thesis evaluates development charges against efficiency and equity criteria, and concludes that despite their shortcomings, they are superi…
The transition from primary to secondary school is regarded as one of the most difficult in children’s educational careers and the negative academic, social and emotional effects of an unsuccessful transition have been widely documented, with many practitioners identifying the t…
Planning for teaching imposes a significant burden on teachers, as teachers need to prepare different lesson plans for different classes according to various constraints. Statistical evidence shows that lesson planning in the Malaysian context is done in isolation and lesson pla…
This study aimed to identify the influences on the development and sustainability of education for librarianship and information management. It analysed the factors that contribute to the development of education for librarianship and information management, drawing on theories …