The Productivity of Australian Academics in Education

1994 ◽  
Vol 38 (3) ◽  
pp. 201-218 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Hattie ◽  
Murray Print ◽  
Krzysztof Krakowski
Keyword(s):  
Quality Assurance ◽  
Community Service ◽  
Improve Quality ◽  
Unit Of Analysis ◽  
Teaching Community ◽  
Departments Of Education ◽  
Australian Education ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Quality Of Research

The recent push towards ‘quality assurance’ classifies universities into six bands based on quality of research, teaching, community service, and processes to improve quality. This paper argues that the individual, rather than university and department, is the appropriate unit of analysis to make statements about quality. This conjecture is illustrated by using one criterion, productivity of publications in Australia by academics in education, as an index. The productivity of 2048 academics in education across the 32 universities with departments of education were matched with the 45 000 entries in the Australian Education Index. The individual highly productive academic had the most critical impact on overall productivity and it is suggested that the correct unit of analysis for quality assurance is more appropriately the individual and not the department or university.

scholarly journals System models for resilience in gerontology: application to the COVID-19 pandemic

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Katarzyna Klasa ◽  
Stephanie Galaitsi ◽  
Andrew Wister ◽  
Igor Linkov
Keyword(s):  
The Elderly ◽  
System Level ◽  
Improve Quality ◽  
Care Needs ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Chronic Stressors ◽  
The World ◽  
Aging Adults ◽  
The Individual

AbstractThe care needs for aging adults are increasing burdens on health systems around the world. Efforts minimizing risk to improve quality of life and aging have proven moderately successful, but acute shocks and chronic stressors to an individual’s systemic physical and cognitive functions may accelerate their inevitable degradations. A framework for resilience to the challenges associated with aging is required to complement on-going risk reduction policies, programs and interventions. Studies measuring resilience among the elderly at the individual level have not produced a standard methodology. Moreover, resilience measurements need to incorporate external structural and system-level factors that determine the resources that adults can access while recovering from aging-related adversities. We use the National Academies of Science conceptualization of resilience for natural disasters to frame resilience for aging adults. This enables development of a generalized theory of resilience for different individual and structural contexts and populations, including a specific application to the COVID-19 pandemic.

scholarly journals Exploring the relationship of threshold concepts and Hodges’ model of care from the individual to populations and global health

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 1697
Author(s):  
Peter Jones
Keyword(s):  
Global Health ◽  
Threshold Concepts ◽  
Model Of Care ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Historical Practices ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Professional Disciplines ◽  
Quality Of Research

Through academia, professional disciplines seek – whenever possible – to base their actions on theory rather than fact and historical practices. This serves to improve certainty and place curricula, research, and practice on the best footing in terms of knowledge and quality. This emphasis extends to the workplaces in which professionalised disciplines are learned and practised. In healthcare, great importance is placed upon evidence-based findings to support clinical practice. Although subject to ongoing debate, the quality of research is assessed against a yardstick that culminates in a ‘gold-standard’ of clinical trials and systematic reviews. What healthcare professionals do, should, whenever possible, be based upon evidence, not ritualised practices and missives, such as “I was trained this way” and “This is how we do things here”.How to cite this article: Jones P. Exploring the relationship of threshold concepts and Hodges’ model of care from the individual to populations and global health. Rev Cuid. 2017; 8(3): 1697-720.  http://dx.doi.org/10.15649/cuidarte.v8i3.464

scholarly journals Impact of distractors in item analysis of multiple choice questions

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 1136
Author(s):  
Ismail Burud ◽  
Kavitha Nagandla ◽  
Puneet Agarwal
Keyword(s):  
Quality Assurance ◽  
Statistical Significance ◽  
Item Analysis ◽  
Validity And Reliability ◽  
Multiple Choice Questions ◽  
Test Items ◽  
Difficulty Index ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Discriminatory Index

Background: Item analysis is a quality assurance of examining the performance of the individual test items that measures the validity and reliability of exams. This study was performed to evaluate the quality of the test items with respect to their performance on difficulty index (DFI), Discriminatory index (DI) and assessment of functional and non-functional distractors (FD and NFD).Methods: This study was performed on the summative examination undertaken by 113 students. The analyses include 120 one best answers (OBAs) and 360 distractors.Results: Out of the 360 distractors, 85 distractors were chosen by less than 5% with the distractor efficiency of 23.6%. About 47 (13%) items had no NFDs while 51 (14%), 30 (8.3%), and 4 (1.1%) items contained 1, 2, and 3 NFDs respectively. Majority of the items showed excellent difficulty index (50.4%, n=42) and fair discrimination (37%, n=33). The questions with excellent difficulty index and discriminatory index showed statistical significance with 1NFD and 2 NFD (p=0.03).Conclusions: The post evaluation of item performance in any exam in one of the quality assurance method of identifying the best performing item for quality question bank. The distractor efficiency gives information on the overall quality of item.

scholarly journals Am Bestehenden weiterdenken

ARCHALP ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 2 NS (Issue 2 Ns, July 2019) ◽  
pp. 105-113
Author(s):  
Walter Angonese
Keyword(s):  
Quality Assurance ◽  
Architectural Design ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Existing Structures ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Awareness Raising ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Way

Isn’t the existent always the outcome of any creative confrontation? Is such a creative discussion really out of a contextual consideration? Isn’t every context – even a purely spiritual one – part of the heritage? In his contribution, Walter Angonese reflects on the potential of the pre-existent on the architectural project. He believes in “thinking ahead” and consequently in “building on”, and that is why the question of the relevance of existing structures to architectural design has been clarified. However, he also believes that the quality of the existent can only be improved thanks to an increased habit of awareness and not only following and blaming the prescribed laws for quality assurance. This awareness raising gives responsibility to the individual within a society, but also makes him responsible for his own actions. Building in an alpine context – like any building, by the way – is therefore a question of responsibility, towards oneself and towards one’s society. If the architectural idea is built by leading it from an intuition about a cultural reflection to what one can call a real “architectural idea” (and not merely any intuition), then that is an important first step for a high-quality “continuing construction” of the existing. Only the heritage and the existent can become a meaningful starting point of the project.

Quality Assurance in Evidence-Based Medicine

2010 ◽  
pp. 86-99
Author(s):  
Ioannis Apostolakis ◽  
Periklis Valsamos ◽  
Iraklis Varlamis
Keyword(s):  
Quality Assurance ◽  
Evidence Based Medicine ◽  
Medical Information ◽  
Building Blocks ◽  
Careful Examination ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Based Medicine ◽  
Critical Overview

Evidence-based medicine (EBM) refers to the careful examination of all the available evidence when making decisions about the care of the individual patient. It assumes that well known medical practices and solutions are combined with the patient’s preferences and necessities in order to provide the most appropriate solution per case. The abundance of medical information in the web, the expansion of Semantic Web and the evolution of search services allowed the easier retrieval of scientific articles. Although the available infrastructure exists and continuously improves in performance, EBM still remains a complicated and sensitive process of high importance and has a need for Quality Assurance (QA). The purpose of this chapter is twofold: first, to provide an introduction on the concepts of Evidence-based Medicine, and second, to stress the necessity for structured methodologies that will assure the quality of the EBM process and ameliorate the final recommendations therapy. Since evidences are the building blocks of EBM, we capitalize on their quality and provide a critical overview of the existing methodologies in Quality Assurance of evidences.

Pelatihan Menulis Artikel Ilmiah dan Mengirimkannya ke Jurnal Ilmiah

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 32-38
Author(s):  
Adaninggar Septi Subekti
Keyword(s):  
Community Service ◽  
Review Process ◽  
Relevant Literature ◽  
Online Training ◽  
Research Articles ◽  
Journal Editors ◽  
Service Activity ◽  
Analytical Expressions ◽  
Quality Of Research

The community service activity was conducted in the form of online training on Zoom and Youtube platforms. The participants were 80 lecturers, teachers, and university students from 28 different institutions. It aimed to facilitate the participants to be able to improve the quality of their scientific articles and to submit their articles to ‘carefully chosen’ journals. It lasted for 100 minutes. There were six important points regarding how the quality of research articles could be maintained and improved. Firstly, the participants should do a lot of reading before writing. Secondly, they should have strong rationales of conducting their studies. Thirdly, they needed to use combination of descriptive and analytical expressions. Fourth, they should write or review only relevant literature in meaty way. Next, they should ensure that all of the in-text citations correspond to the references. Last but not least, they should implement ethical principles in research. Furthermore, regarding how the participants could choose which journal was ‘best’ for their articles, four important points were discussed: choosing a journal which ‘matched’ the quality of the article, choosing a journal with regular publication, adhering to the chosen journal’s template, and asking the journal editors about the duration of the review process.  

scholarly journals Bluetooth embedded digital ammeter with android app data logging

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 1400 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chin Fhong Soon ◽  
Boon Huei Teng ◽  
Kian Sek Tee ◽  
Siat Ling Jong ◽  
Mohd Khairul Ahmad ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Assurance ◽  
Light Emitting Diode ◽  
Current Data ◽  
Data Consistency ◽  
Improve Quality ◽  
Data Logging ◽  
Quality Assurance Procedure ◽  
Light Emitting ◽  
Android App

Monitoring current supplies to light emitting diode (LED) luminaires is one of the reliability tests performed manually. Bluetooth (HC-05) embedded digital ammeter was proposed to acquire currents of a badge of LED products and hence, quality can be assured. Android App was designed to remotely record the current supplies to the different models of LED products and checking if the current measured is within the allowed range. The current data can be further analysed to control the quality of the LED luminaires produced. The pass and fail-current range can be set in the digital ammeter for alerting abnormal current measured by the operator. Therefore, IOT embedded digital ammeter will help in monitoring data consistency of LED products and improve quality assurance procedure.

scholarly journals REFORMULASI PARADIGMA KAJIAN KEISLAMAN DI PERGURUAN TINGGI AGAMA ISLAM (PTAI)

2012 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Saifullah Saifullah
Keyword(s):  
Quality Assurance ◽  
Religious Education ◽  
Community Service ◽  
Global Market ◽  
The Other ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
Teaching Community ◽  
The Face ◽  
General Studies

AbstractIn the midst of highly rapid social changes, currently the PTAIs /IAINs are facing various problems. On one hand, the PTAIs / IAINs are in crucial period of their development, while on the other hand, the PTAIs are also at the intersection between: 1) various scientific traditions, 2) state and civil society, and, 3) science and religious education and general studies. Therefore, in the face of these issues, PTAI must seek to respond to the existing challenges and the need to reformulate a new paradigm in accordance with the needs of society, which rest on three main pillars, namely independency in management or autonomy, accountability and quality assurance, and with reference to the Three Responsibilities of Higher Education: education / teaching, community service and research. This paper tries to describe how PTAI provides efforts in response to changes in the surrounding and any attempt to do by PTAI in accordance with the global market demands while characterizing the Islamic professionalism. AbstrakDi tengah perubahan sosial masyarakat yang begitu cepat, saat ini PTAI/IAIN dihadapkan pada berbagai persoalan. Satu sisi PTAI/IAIN berada pada periode sangat menentukan dalam perkembang­annya; sementara di lain pihak PTAI juga berada pada titik temu antara: 1) berbagai tradisi ilmiah, 2) negara dan masyarakat sipil, dan, 3) ilmu pengetahuan dan pendidikan agama serta ilmu pengeta­huan umum. Oleh karena itu, dalam menghadapi persoalan tersebut, PTAI mesti berupaya merespon tantangan yang ada dan perlunya mereformulasikan kembali paradigma baru sesuai kebutuhan ma­syarakat yang bertumpu pada tiga pilar utama, yaitu kemandirian dalam pengelolaan atau otonomi, akuntabilitas (accuntability) dan jaminan mutu (quality assurance), serta dengan mengacu kepada Tridharma Perguruan Tinggi yaitu: pendidikan/pengajaran, pengabdian masyarakat dan penelitian. Tulisan ini berusaha mendeskripsikan bagaimana upaya PTAI dalam merespon perubahan yang terjadi sekitarnya dan upaya apa saja yang harus dilakukan PTAI sesuai dengan tuntutan pasar global dan tetap mencirikan profesionalitas keislaman-nya.

scholarly journals RESEARCH OPTIONS FOR SPECIAL CHARACTERISTICS OF SOCIALIZATION OF STUDENTS INVOLVED IN HOCKEY

2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 (2) ◽  
pp. 42-47
Author(s):  
И. Сапегин ◽  
I. Sapegin
Keyword(s):  
Identity Development ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Social Experience ◽  
Development Model ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Self Learning ◽  
Quality Of Research

<p>The paper defines methods for studying of socialization of students involved in hockey; it represents determinations and study models. The structure of the study provides an analysis of portfolio of a student engaged in hockey, as well as the method of questioning that guarantees to improve the quality of research in the system search for the best opportunities in the socialization of the quality of verification of identity development model involving hockey. The use of questionnaires in the analysis of students’ portfolios enhances the quality of research, ensures its reliability and objectivity of the results obtained. The features of the questionnaire provide such functions and principles of scientific research as accessibility, age-conformity, flexibility, compliance with the objective results obtained, consistency of the results, objectivity, clarity, accuracy, compliance culture and law. Opportunities of the survey are defined in the system of reliable results; in their responses, 6-8 graders reflect their views on the problem of hockey classes and assessment of the achievements and opportunities in hockey. Reproducibility of social experience in the structure of hockey classes determines the formation of a model of socialization and self-learning. Constructive evaluation of the quality of socialization and self-realization is reflected in the level of the individual achievements and evaluation of these indicators and assessment by the social and educational space with its norms of culture, ethics, etc.</p>

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