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Rubrics and Their Use in Inclusive Science
(Intervention in School and Clinic, 1998-11-01)
General education teachers are increasingly finding themselves faced with the challenge of providing instruction for all students, including those with learning and behavior problems. Because of the emphasis on experiments ...
Neural Coding and Synaptic Transmission: Participation Exercises for Introductory Psychology
(Teaching of Psychology, 1994-04-01)
We present two simulations of neural transmission for use in an Introductory Psychology class. These simulations illustrate the complex coding properties of a single neuron, especially how excitatory and inhibitory ...
Pay-for-Performance Systems in State Government: Perceptions of State Agency Personnel Managers*
(Review of Public Personnel Administration, 1997-01-01)
Pay for performance has been a widely used method of compensation in the public sector since the early 1980s, but a growing body of research has indicated that numerous problems can be associated with the application of ...
Representative Bureaucracy: Examining the Linkage between Passive and Active Representation in the Farmers Home Administration
(The American Review of Public Administration, 1997-03-01)
Despite the extensive literature on representative bureaucracy, only a few studies have examined empirically whether bureaucracies with different levels of representativeness produce different policy outputs. This study ...
Dimensions and Constructs: A Response to Dess and Rasheed
(Journal of Management, 1991-12-01)
In their thoughtful critique, Professors Dess and Rasheed raise several important issues about the conceptualization and measurement of the organizational environment in general and our work in particular In this rejoinder, ...
A methodology for setting practice criteria in healthcare
(The Journal of the Royal Society for the Promotion of Health, 1999-06-01)
Practice criteria are an important part of health care and have taken a new prominence in the trend to address quality-of-care issues. Once an organisation makes a commitment to addressing its quality-of- care, it must ...
A Middle School's Approach to Developing an Effective School Work Culture
(NASSP Bulletin, 1996-01-01)
The ultimate goal for any school administrator must be to develop an educational culture that establishes norms, behaviors, attitudes, and expectations. Only with the development of an effective work culture can schools ...
Reproducibility of Oral Exam Grades and Correlation with Other Measures of Performance on Three Required Third-Year Clerkships
(Evaluation & the Health Professions, 1992-06-01)
The oral examination is one of the traditional measures of student performance during clinical clerkships. Other studies have compared oral exams, written exams, and clinicalperformance, finding an unequal correlation among ...
Managerial Emotionality in Chinese Factories
(Management Communication Quarterly, 1997-08-01)
Managerial emotion may be experienced and handled differently when reason and emotion are understood to be continuously (e.g., Eastern cultures) rather than dichotomously (e.g., Western cultures) related. Using a social ...
The MBA as Careerist: An Analysis of Early-Career Job Change
(Journal of Management, 1993-06-01)
This study examined the job changes of 680 early-career business school graduates. Although a number of anecdotal articles characterize MBAs as overly “careerist” and oriented toward job-hopping, little empirical research ...