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Historically Black Colleges and Universities: Improving Operations through an Enterprise Resource Planning System
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Hardee, Teresa – ProQuest LLC, 2012
There are a variety of challenges facing colleges and universities today. With shrinking public funding, many colleges and universities must rethink their operations to ensure that they are operating efficiently. Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) have an even more daunting task in a downturned economy because they are often…
Descriptors: Black Colleges, Institutional Characteristics, Educational Finance, Resource Allocation
Investigating the Justifiability of an Additional Test Use: An Application of Assessment Use Argument to an English as a Foreign Language Test
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Wang, Huan – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Multiple uses of the same assessment may present challenges for both the design and use of an assessment. Little advice, however, has been given to assessment developers as to how to understand the phenomena of multiple assessment use and meet the challenges these present. Particularly problematic is the case in which an assessment is used for…
Descriptors: Test Use, Testing Programs, Program Effectiveness, Test Construction
Toward Establishing the Validity of the Transformative Optimism Construct Measurement for Tsunami Preparedness: A Structural Equation Model for Visitors of the Pacific Northwest Coast
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Rios-Uribe, Carlos Andres – ProQuest LLC, 2009
Measurements of social constructs that evaluate natural hazard preparedness are important to decrease natural hazard vulnerability. Preparedness reduces natural hazard impacts and human vulnerability. Investment in education and education research contribute to human sustainable development and natural hazard preparedness. Faced with other needs,…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Structural Equation Models, Validity, Physical Geography