Innovationen in Qualität bei variierender Fachkraftquote

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Albert Brühl
Keyword(s):  
Quality Assurance ◽  
Minimum Level ◽  
Staff Time ◽  
Staffing Ratios ◽  
Need Of Care ◽  
Current Systems ◽  
Different Levels ◽  
Do So

Different levels of differentiation between residents in need of care are reflected in the number of differentiations made systematically across all residents. Some caregivers only roughly divide residents into two groups, e.g. extremely dependent and independent residents. Other caregivers are able to differentiate much more finely and do so systematically. Whether systems can be found in this respect, how complex they are and what kind of testing such systems can withstand can be analysed statistically. The currently regulated specialist staffing ratios do not ensure a minimum level of specialist staffing, since they are based on degrees of care and only account for ten per cent of specialist staff time. The current systems for staffing and quality assurance must be overcome if care is to be developed and not just capped.

Accessing offshoring advantages: what and how to offshore

2015 ◽  
Vol 8 (2/3) ◽  
pp. 262-283 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alona Mykhaylenko ◽  
Ágnes Motika ◽  
Brian Vejrum Waehrens ◽  
Dmitrij Slepniov
Keyword(s):  
Performance Outcomes ◽  
Offshore Outsourcing ◽  
Strategic Decisions ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Captive Offshoring ◽  
Performance Results ◽  
Governance Modes ◽  
Different Levels ◽  
Do So

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to advance the understanding of factors that affect offshoring performance results. To do so, this paper focuses on the access to location-specific advantages, rather than solely on the properties of the offshoring company, its strategy or environment. Assuming that different levels of synergy may exist between particular offshoring strategic decisions (choosing offshore outsourcing or captive offshoring and the type of function) and different offshoring advantages, this work advocates that the actual fact of realization of certain offshoring advantages (getting or not getting access to them) is a more reliable predictor of offshoring success. Design/methodology/approach – A set of hypotheses derived from the extant literature is tested on the data from a quantitative survey of 1,143 Scandinavian firms. Findings – The paper demonstrates that different governance modes and types of offshored function indeed provide different levels of access to different types of location-specific offshoring advantages. This difference may help to explain the ambiguity of offshoring initiatives performance results. Research limitations/implications – Limitations of the work include using only the offshoring strategy elements and only their limited variety as factors potentially influencing access to offshoring advantages. Also, the findings are limited to Scandinavian companies. Originality/value – The paper introduces a new concept of access, which can help to more reliably predict performance outcomes of offshoring initiatives. Recommendations are also provided to practitioners dealing with offshoring initiatives.

scholarly journals Ideological Shift in Indian Higher Education Internationalization

2014 ◽  
pp. 12-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mona Kahre
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Quality Assurance ◽  
Private Education ◽  
New Strategy ◽  
Education Hub ◽  
Indian Higher Education ◽  
Higher Education Internationalization ◽  
Opening Up ◽  
Different Levels ◽  
Regional Education Hub

A new strategy sees India seeking to become a regional education hub by developing new forms of international collaboration based on co-creation, opening up to private education provision for dual and joint degrees, and entering international associations for knowledge sharing. But, it will need to ensure that appropriate strategies and quality assurance systems are in place at the different levels to ensure successful outcomes.

Following Gesture Following: Grounding the Documentation of a Multi-Agent Music Creation Process

2012 ◽  
Vol 36 (4) ◽  
pp. 59-80 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guillaume Boutard ◽  
Catherine Guastavino
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Creative Process ◽  
Relevant Information ◽  
Musical Work ◽  
Levels Of Abstraction ◽  
Musical Works ◽  
Multi Agent ◽  
Ethnographic Data ◽  
Different Levels ◽  
Do So

The documentation of electroacoustic and mixed musical works typically relies on a posteriori data collection. In this article, we argue that the preservation of musical works having technological components should be grounded in a thorough documentation of the creative process that accounts for both human and nonhuman agents of creation. The present research aims at providing a ground for documentation policies that account for the creative process and provide relevant information for performance, migration, and analysis. To do so, we analyzed secondary ethnographic data from a two-year creation and production process of a musical work having a focus on gesture following. Using grounded theory, we developed a conceptual framework with different levels of abstraction and consequent levels of transferability to other creative contexts. Finally, we propose several paths for grounding a subsequent documentation framework in this conceptual framework.

On Islands and Deserts

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 215-236
Author(s):  
Tristan Leperlier
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
World Literature ◽  
Postcolonial Studies ◽  
Literary Field ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
Local Practices ◽  
Rachid Boudjedra ◽  
Different Levels ◽  
Do So

Abstract This article argues for the necessity for world literature and postcolonial studies to examine both global hierarchies of literary legitimacy and those local practices which might challenge them, and give perspectives for other significant geographies. To do so, it focuses on the bilingual and transnational Algerian literary field; this requires different levels of interconnected analysis, namely of the two linguistic subfields, the intermediary level of national literary field and the two Francophone and Arabophone transnational literary fields. Trajectories and literary works of three very different yet linked writers, Rachid Boudjedra, Tahar Djaout and Tahar Ouettar, are examined in turn. The article traces both the global and linguistic inequalities to which they were subjected as well as their practices in order to argue that they reveal unexpected vectors of circulation between spaces and languages. Finally, this piece explores how and why each writer reinvents a world within their desert novels, that is, by narrating wanderings in the desert that are also explorations of national identity.

Program-Based Quality Assurance: A Reconciliation of Quality Assurance and Program Evaluation

1989 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 32-35 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heather Rennebohm ◽  
Nancy O'Brien
Keyword(s):  
Quality Assurance ◽  
Program Evaluation ◽  
Conceptual Model ◽  
Current Systems

This paper addresses the need for action by examining the underlying shortcomings in current quality assurance (QA) principles and programs. An attempt is made to find some solutions through examining theories of program evaluation (PE). Developed through the use of QA and PE principles, a conceptual model for program-based QA is presented, and examples of program-based QA are given. Conclusions are drawn regarding the utility of a properly designed QA program to address the criticisms levied against many current systems.

USING RESTRICTED RANDOM WALKS FOR LIBRARY RECOMMENDATIONS AND KNOWLEDGE SPACE EXPLORATION

2007 ◽  
Vol 21 (02) ◽  
pp. 355-373 ◽  
Author(s):  
MARKUS FRANKE ◽  
ANDREAS GEYER-SCHULZ
Keyword(s):  
User Interface ◽  
Random Walks ◽  
Recommender Systems ◽  
Space Exploration ◽  
Knowledge Space ◽  
Online Catalog ◽  
Different Levels ◽  
Cluster Level ◽  
Do So

Implicit recommender systems provide a valuable aid to customers browsing through library corpora. We present a method to realize such a recommender especially for, but not limited to, libraries. The method is cluster-based, scales well for large collections, and produces recommendations of good quality. The approach is based on using session histories of visitors of the library's online catalog in order to generate a hierarchy of nondisjunctive clusters. Depending on the user's needs, the clusters at different levels of the hierarchy can be employed as recommendations. Using the prototype of a user interface we show that, if, for instance, the user is willing to sacrifice some precision in order to gain a higher number of documents during a specific session, he or she can do so easily by adjusting the cluster level via a slider.

Feedback Mechanism Development: MIOE Experience

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 46-50
Author(s):  
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Tatyana Rastashanskaya ◽  
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Kseniya Tabarovskaya
Keyword(s):  
Quality Assurance ◽  
Feedback Mechanism ◽  
Federal Law ◽  
Professional Programs ◽  
Survey Instruments ◽  
Do So ◽  
The Way

The article deals with the learners� satisfaction monitoring practiced in MIOE. All educational bodies providing Additional Professional Programs (APP) are obliged by the Federal Law to do so, but are free to choose the method of monitoring. The article concerns MIOE approach to quality assurance in APP implementation, shows the way from ascertaining experiment to the forming one, and reveals the methods applied. Principles that underpin communication between MIOE departments are explained. The procedure of survey is detailed with particular attention to transformation of survey instruments.

scholarly journals Coeducation as a perspective for History teaching in Secondary Compulsory Education

2019 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Isidora Sáez-Rosenkranz ◽  
Elvira Barriga-Ubed ◽  
Ilaria Bellatti
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Compulsory Education ◽  
Educational Practice ◽  
Teaching Innovation ◽  
History Teaching ◽  
Field Notes ◽  
Different Levels ◽  
Do So

El presente artículo tiene como objetivo analizar la perspectiva coeducativa de tres unidades didácticas de innovación docente dirigidas a diferentes niveles de la Educación Secundaria en el ámbito de la enseñanza de las ciencias sociales (Atenas; Amores y Revolución). Para ello hemos realizado dos procedimientos de análisis, uno asociado a los materiales en sí y el otro, a su puesta en práctica. El análisis de los materiales se ha realizado mediante el análisis del contenido, mientras la aplicación ha sido realizada a partir del análisis de notas de campo extraídas a través de observación no participante. De estos análisis es posible establecer que tanto las unidades, como su aplicación, abordan la perspectiva coeducativa, aunque su explotación en la práctica educativa queda condicionada por la acción docente. En este sentido, sería necesario profundizar en la formación inicial y continua del profesorado. The objective of this article is to analyze the coeducational perspective of three teaching innovation proposals: Athens, the origin of democracy, The loves of my life and Women and Industrial Revolution. The three proposals are oriented to different levels of Secondary Compulsory Education in the field of social sciences teaching. To do so, we have carried out two analysis procedures, one associated with the materials themselves and the other, with their implementation. The analysis of the materials has been done through content analysis, while the application has been made from the analysis of field notes extracted through non-participant observation. From this analysis, it is possible to state that both, the units and their implementation, put into practice several dimensions of coeducational perspective, although its exploitation in educational practice is conditioned by teaching action. In this sense, it would be necessary to the didactic designs as well as in initial and continuous teacher’s training programs.

Analyzing the active audience: Reluctant, reactive, fearful, or lazy? Forms and motives of participation in mainstream journalism

Journalism ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 20 (6) ◽  
pp. 827-847 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lia-Paschalia Spyridou
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Journalism Studies ◽  
Active Involvement ◽  
Active Audience ◽  
Participatory Journalism ◽  
Technological Affordances ◽  
Different Levels ◽  
Creative Effort ◽  
Do So

Participation has become a key issue in contemporary journalism studies, yet research on how the participatory space is being appropriated by users is rather limited. This article attempts a methodological contribution by offering a way to analyze participatory journalism in reference to variant participatory affordances enabling different levels of creative effort, control, and editorial permeability. To do so, it understands participation as the active involvement of users, and makes an analytical connection among technological affordances, motivations, and contextual factors. The article offers empirical evidence challenging both cyber-optimist and cyber-pessimist assumptions about participation. Drawing on insights from a web-based survey, it is argued that the ‘reluctant audience’ paradigm may be interpreted in terms of the ‘lazy audience’ and the ‘fearful audience’, which seem to coexist along with the ‘reactive audience’.

scholarly journals An experimental test of a Bayesian method for inferring extinction with varying search efforts

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Clements ◽  
Tamsin Lee ◽  
Micheal A McCarthy
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Test ◽  
Bayesian Method ◽  
Simulated Data ◽  
Experimental System ◽  
Biodiversity Loss ◽  
Search Effort ◽  
Prior Expectation ◽  
Effective Conservation ◽  
Different Levels ◽  
Do So

Determining whether a species is extinct or extant is notoriously difficult, but is fundamental to both our understanding of biodiversity loss, and our ability to implement effective conservation measures. Many methods have been proposed in an attempt to infer quantitatively whether a species has gone extinct, with many seeking to do so by using sets of historic sighting events. Until recently, however, no methods have been proposed that explicitly take into account search effort (the proportion of a habitat searched when looking for a species), a key determinant of if/when historic sighting events have occurred. Here we present the first test of a recently proposed Bayesian approach for inferring the extinction status of a species from a set of historic sighting events where the search effort that has produced the sightings can be explicitly included in the calculation. We utilize data from a highly tractable experimental system, as well as simulated data, to test whether the method is robust to changing search efforts, and different levels of detectability of a species. We find that, whilst in general the method performs well, it is susceptible to both changes in search effort through time, as well as how detectable a species is. In addition, we show that the value of the prior expectation that the species is extant has a large impact on the accuracy of the methods, and that selecting correct priors is critical for accurate inference of extinction status.

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