scholarly journals Proceedings of the 6th IASSIDD Europe Congress: Value Diversity

2021 ◽  
Vol 34 (5) ◽  
pp. 1181-1371
Keyword(s):  
Value Diversity

Basic Human Values of Russians and Other Europeans (The Results of 2008 Surveys)

2010 ◽  
pp. 107-130 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. Magun ◽  
M. Rudnev
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Policy ◽  
European Social Survey ◽  
The Other ◽  
Human Values ◽  
Social Survey ◽  
Russian Economy ◽  
Value Diversity ◽  
Cross Country ◽  
Value Changes ◽  
Fourth Round

The authors rely mainly on the data from the fourth round of the European Social Survey held in 2008 in their comparison between the Russian basic values and the values of the 31 other European countries as measured by Schwartz Portrait Values Questionnaire. The authors start from comparing country averages. Then they compare Russia with the other countries taking into account internal country value diversity. And finally they refine cross-country value comparisons taking the advantage of the multiple regression analysis. As revealed from the study there are important value barriers to the Russian economy and society progress and well targeted cultural policy is needed to promote necessary value changes.

Exploring the Effects of Value Diversity on Team Effectiveness

2012 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 107-121 ◽  
Author(s):  
David J. Woehr ◽  
Luis M. Arciniega ◽  
Taylor L. Poling
Keyword(s):  
Team Effectiveness ◽  
Value Diversity

The Politics of Competence

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arthur Lupia
Keyword(s):  
Contextual Factors ◽  
Necessary Condition ◽  
Educational Strategy ◽  
Educational Strategies ◽  
Political Roles ◽  
Value Diversity ◽  
Net Benefits ◽  
Personal Costs

To increase another person’s knowledge or competence, it is necessary to attract attention to the information and for attentive persons to find the information credible. What attributes of information induce an audience to respond in these ways? To answer this question, I offer a framework called the politics of competence. This framework offers a way to organize and use information about psychological and contextual factors that affect how prospective learners think about what information is worth learning. The politics of competence has four components: value diversity, issue complexity, political roles, and learning costs. Individually and collectively, these four components affect what educational strategies are feasible, unfeasible, successful, and unsuccessful. They have this power because they produce divergent views of what strategies, knowledge, and competence are beneficial. They lead people to reach different conclusions about educational strategy questions such as “What information should educators convey?” and “Who should know what?” Educators can benefit from understanding the politics of competence. To see how, consider that a necessary condition for an educational endeavor to increase knowledge or competence is that prospective learners choose to participate. Some educators also need people to support their educational endeavors with money or labor. To draw the needed participation, potential learners, partners, and supporters must perceive that the endeavor will produce sufficiently positive net benefits. That is, all who are asked to sacrifice something of value as a means of advancing an educational endeavor must see the newly created knowledge or competence as providing benefits that are large when compared to the personal costs of achieving these goals. If sufficiently few people perceive an educational venture in this way, they will not participate. When success depends on producing outcomes that offer substantial net benefits from the perspective of essential participants, educators can benefit from understanding how the politics of competence affects the kind of information that different people find valuable. Designing educational endeavors that can deliver such benefits can be difficult. People who have gone a lifetime without knowing much about a particular issue may wonder why they need to learn about it now.

Assessing Diversity Issues in Instructional Technology

2011 ◽  
pp. 153-165
Author(s):  
Virginia J. Anderson
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Instructional Technology ◽  
General Education ◽  
Student Learning ◽  
Student Learning Outcomes ◽  
Social Actions ◽  
Value Diversity ◽  
Diversity Issues ◽  
Effective Use ◽  
Enhance Student Learning

Assessment is a major focus is higher education; IT faculties and departments are being asked to document quantitatively what students have learned in relation to goal-oriented expectations. Although “students will value diversity in the academy and the workplace” is a common course, general education or institutional goal, we often know little about how well students achieve this goal because we do not assess it. This chapter describes how to construct Student Learning Outcomes consistent with valuing diversity, how to design tests/assignments to see if student have achieved those outcomes and how to use that information to inform and enhance student learning in our IT courses, departments or institutions. The chapter reviews key assessment principles and practices. Then, we examine four strategies to document how students’ cognitive perceptions, attitudes, values and social actions in regard to diversity issues may be impacted and assessed. Assessment action scenarios elucidate the effective use of rubrics, Primary Trait Analysis, portfolios and affective behavioral checklists.

scholarly journals Geomorphology and Altitude Effects on the Diversity and Structure of the Vanishing Montane Forest of Southern Ecuador

Diversity ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Omar Cabrera ◽  
Ángel Benítez ◽  
Nixon Cumbicus ◽  
Carlos Naranjo ◽  
Pablo Ramón ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climatic Factors ◽  
Basal Area ◽  
Alpha Diversity ◽  
Forest Types ◽  
Montane Forests ◽  
Southern Ecuador ◽  
Floristic Classification ◽  
Diverse World ◽  
Value Diversity ◽  
Fisher’S Alpha

(1) Background: Neotropical montane forests represent one of the most diverse world ecosystems; however, they are also among the most threatened ones mostly due to deforestation. Our main goal is to classify and clarify the forest types based on the changes in basal area (BA), tree density, and species composition of montane forests in Southern Ecuador, and to determine the influence of critical environmental and geomorphological factors. (2) Methods: One hundred thirty-two temporary plots of 400 m2 were installed in homogeneous and well-conserved forest stands. We identified and measured all trees >10 cm diameter breast height (DBH). We modeled species diversity (Fisher’s alpha) change in relation to climatic, altitudinal, and geomorphological gradients using GLM and Kruskall-Wallis analyses. The change in composition was determined using cluster analyses (BIOENV analysis followed by a LINKTREE procedure). Non-metric multidimensional scaling (NMDS) was used to analyze changes across climatic and geomorphological gradients. Finally, we used a SIMPER analysis to identify the species that contributed most to the floristic dissimilarity among the identified altitudinal forests types. (3) Results: The floristic groups were determined by altitude, temperature, and isothermality, but also some geomorphological variables and lithology were used. Plots located in low hills have higher alpha diversity compared to the high hills and dissected mountains. (4) Conclusions: Altitude is the most important factor responsible for the division of structural and floristic groups. In addition, those plots located on the whitish tuff have higher alpha value diversity compared with plots in andesitic tuffs. Precipitation on the wettest quarter (>839 mm) and isothermality (>90.5) are the most relevant climatic factors driving the floristic classification.

scholarly journals Communitarian education and mathematics learning: A way of value diversity

2016 ◽  
Vol 26 ◽  
pp. 01132
Author(s):  
Natividad Adamuz-Povedano ◽  
Veronica Albanese ◽  
Rafael Bracho-López
Keyword(s):  
Mathematics Learning ◽  
Value Diversity ◽  
And Mathematics

scholarly journals A diverse view of science to catalyse change

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (34) ◽  
pp. 9043-9047
Author(s):  
César A. Urbina-Blanco ◽  
Safia Z. Jilani ◽  
Isaiah R. Speight ◽  
Michael J. Bojdys ◽  
Tomislav Friščić ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Excellence ◽  
Value Diversity ◽  
The Right ◽  
Valuing Diversity

Valuing diversity leads to scientific excellence, the progress of science and, most importantly, it is simply the right thing to do. We must value diversity not only in words, but also in actions.

Social Economics

2017 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Charitable Giving ◽  
Social Preferences ◽  
Economic Behavior ◽  
Social Economics ◽  
Social Phenomena ◽  
Mainstream Economics ◽  
Research Areas ◽  
Social Motivations ◽  
Value Diversity ◽  
Active Research

The growing field of social economics explores how individual behavior is affected by group-level influences, extending the approach of mainstream economics to include broader social motivations and incentives. This book offers a rich and rigorous selection of current work in the field, focusing on some of the most active research areas. Topics covered include culture, gender, ethics, and philanthropic behavior. Social economics grows out of dissatisfaction with a purely individualistic model of human behavior. This book shows how mainstream economics is expanding its domain beyond market and price mechanisms to recognize a role for cultural and social factors. Some chapters, in the tradition of Gary Becker, attempt to extend the economics paradigm to explain other social phenomena; others, following George Akerlof’s approach, incorporate sociological and psychological assumptions to explain economic behavior. Loosely organized by theme—Social Preferences; Culture, Values, and Norms; and Networks and Social Interactions”—the chapters address a range of subjects, including gender differences in political decisions, “moral repugnance” as a constraint on markets, charitable giving by the super-rich, value diversity within a country, and the influence of children on their parents’ social networks. Contributors Mireia Borrell-Porta, Sjoerd Beugelsdijk, Joan Costa-Font, Elwyn Davies, Julio Jorge Elias, Marcel Fafchamps, Luigi Guiso, Odelia Heizler, Ayal Kimhi, Mariko J. Klasing, Martin Ljunge, Mario Macis, Mark Ottoni-Wilhelm, Abigail Payne, Kelly Ragan, Jana Sadeh, Azusa Sato, Kimberley Scharf, Sarah Smith, Mirco Tonin, Michael Vlassopoulos, Evguenia Winschel, Philipp Zahn

Fewer foreign students and fees will reduce US GDP

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Students ◽  
Limited Range ◽  
Economic Benefits ◽  
State Budget ◽  
Content Type ◽  
League Tables ◽  
The Us ◽  
Value Diversity ◽  
World Class ◽  
Second Tier

Significance The value of higher education as a services export, the economic benefits international students generate in every state and the US tech sector's need to source scarce world-class talent are strong countervailing forces. Impacts Universities value diversity of students but this will diminish if trends favour wealthy students drawn from a limited range of countries. Second-tier public institutions facing state budget cuts risk job cuts and department closures if the supply of foreign students stops. Universities in China and Singapore that are rising in world league tables will attract students who would have gone to US institutions. The administration will try again to deport foreign students at any university that persists with remote-only tuition next year.

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