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Finkel, Ed – District Administration, 2012
Like seemingly everyone else connected to K12 education, vendors that offer student information systems are being called upon to do more with less. Where past generations of these systems focused on nuts and bolts such as time, attendance and behavioral issues, the latest generation has created--and drawn inspiration from--districts' desires for…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Information Systems, Human Factors Engineering, Performance Technology
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Rose, Raymond; Waks, Leonard – E-Learning and Digital Media, 2012
The members of the working group on National Educational Technology Policy continue to base their formulations around entrenched conceptions of education, retaining the language of teachers, students, curriculum standards, specified objectives and the like. Several of those participating in the panel examining the policy report in an earlier issue…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Technology Planning, Educational Practices, Educational Technology
Welker, Josh – Computers in Libraries, 2012
Any librarian who has managed electronic resources has experienced the--for want of words--"joy" of gathering and analyzing usage statistics. Such statistics are important for evaluating the effectiveness of resources and for making important budgeting decisions. Unfortunately, the data are usually tedious to collect, inconsistently organized, of…
Descriptors: Library Services, Databases, Academic Libraries, Electronic Libraries
Greer, Kristine – Exchange: The Early Childhood Leaders' Magazine Since 1978, 2011
The field of early care and education as a whole is recognized as an optimistic profession, but it is stuck in a system that some feel is hopelessly malfunctioning. In a report by the Center for the Study of Child Care Employment (2009), the total replacement needs for child care workers were 29.5% in 2006. Hiring and training new staff every year…
Descriptors: Child Caregivers, Child Care, Change Strategies, Educational Change
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Rice, Stephen; McCarley, Jason S. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 2011
Automated diagnostic aids prone to false alarms often produce poorer human performance in signal detection tasks than equally reliable miss-prone aids. However, it is not yet clear whether this is attributable to differences in the perceptual salience of the automated aids' misses and false alarms or is the result of inherent differences in…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Response Style (Tests), Young Adults, Performance Technology
Ellern, Jill – Computers in Libraries, 2011
With information technologies' pervasive use within all departments and by all staff, libraries and library staff get their fair share of mandated projects. Knowing how to successfully operate in this kind of environment is important to the overall success of the library as a whole. What is meant by mandated project? A mandated project is a…
Descriptors: Library Personnel, Information Technology, Program Administration, Program Implementation
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Collins, Joshua C. – Human Resource Development Review, 2011
Female victims of domestic violence--also referred to as "battered women"--face serious career development challenges that necessitate the intervention and aid of human resource development (HRD) practice.The purpose of this article is to identify critical factors having an impact on the career development (CD) of battered women and to offer…
Descriptors: Family Violence, Females, Human Resources, Career Development
Brandt, Julie – School Business Affairs, 2011
Attracting, developing, and retaining employees, ensuring a pipeline of qualified people, and building a culture of engagement and productivity are important to the success of any organization. It is called "talent management." With the right technology support, talent management's real value is that it allows organizations to identify high…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Job Performance, Performance Technology, Change Strategies
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Lonergan, David – Community & Junior College Libraries, 2011
Frederick Winslow Taylor (1856-1915) was an efficiency expert whose concerns were less about avoiding worker fatigue and more about increasing profit margins by any means necessary. Taylor was devoted to finding the One Best Way to carry out a task and then training workers to do that task unvaryingly; attempts by employees to improve their own…
Descriptors: Job Training, Workplace Literacy, Library Administration, Library Services
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Naydenova, Iva; White, Bruce – Information Systems Education Journal, 2013
Healthcare has become a rapidly changing field. With the introduction of value-based purchasing to determine reimbursement of Medicare providers based on the quality of care in addition to outcomes in treatment, the environment is becoming ever more competitive. Saint Philip's Hospital is among the largest non-profit hospitals in the nation…
Descriptors: Hospitals, Health Services, Automation, Information Technology
Powell, Christopher R. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
There is a disconnect between information technology (IT) and information systems (IS) that lies at the foundation of frequent failure in cost, schedule, and/or performance of IT/IS. This disconnect can perhaps be reconciled through a focus on the socially constructed and emergent nature of IT as it enters and is used by an organization. The…
Descriptors: Information Technology, Information Systems, Epistemology, Failure
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Larbi-Apau, Josephine A.; Moseley, James L. – Performance Improvement, 2010
Basic measurements and applications of six selected general but critical operational performance-based indicators--effectiveness, efficiency, productivity, profitability, return on investment, and benefit-cost ratio--are presented. With each measurement, goals and potential impact are explored. Errors, risks, limitations to measurements, and a…
Descriptors: Performance Based Assessment, Measurement, Performance Technology, Outcomes of Education
Weinstein, Margery – Training, 2010
Creating a balanced learning space for employees is about more than trying different types of seating. It is a challenge that an affect how well employees absorb the lessons and whether they will be able to product better results for the company. The possible solutions are as diverse as the learners. This article describes how three companies…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Space Utilization, Industrial Training, Training Objectives
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Evirgen, Hayrettin; Cengel, Metin – Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET, 2012
Nowadays, distance learning education has started to become familiar in behalf of classical face to face education (F2F) model. Web based learning is a major part of distance education systems. Web based distance learning can be defined shortly as an education type which doesn't force students and educators being into the same mediums. This…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Distance Education, Performance Factors, Case Studies
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Rashid, Nadia; Rashid, Muhammad – Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 2011
Distance education and its relationship to emerging computer technologies have together offered many promises to the field of education. In practice however, the combination often false short of what it attempts to accomplish some of the short comings are due to problems with the technology; others have more to do with administration,…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Educational Technology, Barriers, Performance Factors
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