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The use of performance indicators in the diagnosis and evaluation of institutions of higher education (HE) is becoming ever more common. This article is devoted to problems in using such indicators to assess the work of the university. This issue is firmly rooted in the ongoing contemporary debate on the effectiveness and efficiency of the academic sector. I look at both the potential for the use of performance indicators and their weaknesses, and further propose to discuss two problems related to the use of the performance indicators in higher education. In the paper the types and methods of constructing the indicators used to evaluate HE institutions are characterised. Key criteria for evaluating these metrics are then presented. Reflections on the selection of indicators and construction criteria are illustrated by the example of selected, frequently misinterpreted indicators.
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(Polish title: Efektywne wdrazanie polityki spojnosci - doswiadczenia dotychczasowych okresow programowania w wojewodztwie opolskim a nowa wizja Polityki Spojnosci po 2013 roku). The article raises that in discussing the future of the Cohesion Policy, an important argument is the effective use of EU funds by Poland from the previous programming periods, i.e., 2004-2006 and 2007-2013. The financial and material results obtained in the Opolskie voievodeship within the Integrated Regional Operational Programme for 2007-2013, and the Regional Operational Programme for the Opolskie voivodeship 2007-2013 have been analysed. It has been proven that, under both programmes, the region achieved significant successes, such as: within the RPO WO 2007-2013 in the competition for additional funds from the National Performance Reserve took the first place. This demonstrates the effectiveness of regional absorption. Effectiveness of this type should be recognized in the implementation system based on efficiency. The article attempts to prove that it is a sufficient argument, for the next programming period, to maintain, among others, the Cohesion Policy and the instrument of National Implementation Provisions.
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The theme of the paper is to reveal how well-prepared pre-service teachers think they are. It aims at reviewing the 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 cohorts studying for a BA in TEFL at a university by examining the impact and the effectiveness of four-year pre-service English education in a Chinese university context, and what needs to be improved and maintained from the perspective of trainees. Questionnaires were used, followed by semi-structured interviews. The questionnaires were completed by 300 participants, 200 of whom were then randomly chosen as interviewees. Despite finding some inconsistency in the four-year BA TEFL program, the result obtained from investigation of the cohort of student teachers is still satisfying.
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Regional Research and Innovation Policy in Action - the Efficient Tools for Regional Catching-up in New Member States (Regions of Knowledge - FP6). The regional practices of innovation policy in eight EU member states are presented in case studies, elaborated for one region in each country with South Moravia representing the Czech Republic. South Moravian innovation policy is analyzed in three fundamental dimensions: strategy formation, policy deployment, and practices at the programme level. These are the constituent elements of the process that was defined by the ProAct consortium as so called 'ProAct policy learning cycle'. The benchmark methodology (The ProAct Benchmarking Framework) was applied in the case studies to explore good practices in regional innovation and research policy. In the study, the role of South Moravian Innovation Centre (JIC - Jihomoravske inovacni centrum) is highlighted.
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An increase in femoral and tibio/fibular bone mass following periosteal membrane stimulation by Moloney sarcoma virus inoculation into thigh muscles of mice was measured in situ on formalin fixed excised hind limbs using a Hologic 4500A Fan Beam X-ray bone densitometer adapted for small bone samples. These results were verified by measurements of constant dry bone mass of the same bones liberated from soft limb tissues by NaOH hydrolysis. There was no consistent data correlation found between the DEXA scan and dry bone mass evaluations. It is concluded that the sensitivity of the DEXA measurement is unsuitable when assessing very small bone samples, weighing merely 20-30 mg.
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Until recently, in ministries there were over 160 regulations of various types related to auditing, while some of other offices did not have any regulations whatever in the field. It was therefore necessary to introduce urgently some systemic changes that would strengthen the audit function in the government administration. The Act on auditing in the government administration, in force since 1 January 2012, does not repeal all detailed procedures binding so far, still it introduces unified standards for audit proceedings. The new Act clearly states their criteria and stages, the rights of the parties, a list of evidence and manners of audit documenting. Moreover, one document has been introduced to replace the audit protocol and the post-audit statement. This marks the beginning of a new stage in the functioning of institutional auditing in the government administration. On the basis of the Act, audit standards have been also developed, which comprise fundamental requirements as for managing, performing and ensuring audit quality. They are also meant to provide the basis for evaluating the quality of audit units in the government administration. At the same time, works on developing and implementing a system for specialist training have been started in the area of human resources management, to satisfy the needs of the audit staff. They are aimed at increasing the quality of the staff, so that to make the results of their work reliable and, consequently, to provide the basis for the heads of ministries and offices to take up managerial decisions and to improve the functioning of the government administration. The authors describe the provisions of the Act, and the activities of the Office of the Prime Minister that led to the development and adoption of the Act, and those related to its implementation.
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Organisations have to demonstrate that their products meet specified requirements. What is more, to be able to make decisions on improvement, changes in technology, or investing, they need to evaluate the quality of their processes. To do so, an organisation must have in place appropriate measurement techniques that enable assessment of the current state of their processes and prove that their product meets requirements. It is of crucial importance that the reliability of measurements be assessed, especially where decisions are to be made on the basis of the results. GR&R is one method for carrying out such assessments. It provides information about the repeatability and reproducibility of measurements taken in a production system. The article presents the GR&R method, the procedure for evaluating a measurement system and the results of a study that used this assessment method along with statistical software (Minitab).
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The analysis of effects and the range of opinion derived from different efficiency areas while considering, at the same time, the environment's quality improvement. The range of defining the effects is introduced in the first part. The second part discusses the areas of occurrence of opinion of efficiency (technical efficiency, energy, financial, economic). The third part concerns the problem of qualifying ecological efficiency.
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The purpose of this study was to evaluate the potential loss of accuracy in direct and maternal predicted breeding values (PBV) for calving difficulty (CD) with different levels of missing records of CD and/or birth weight (BW), using a bivariate threshold-linear animal model. Data obtained from the American Gelbvieh Association included 84,420 first-parity records with both CD and BW available. The final pedigree file included 178,858 animals. The model included fixed calf-sex?dam-age, random herd-year-season, and animal direct and maternal effects. Different levels of missing observations for CD and BW were obtained by randomly deleting 0, 25, 50, 75, and 100% of records for both traits in various combinations. Correlation estimates between PBV for CD obtained with complete and incomplete data were used to measure the changes in PBV for different levels of missing records. Reported correlations are means of three replicates. The results suggest that the information on direct and maternal PBV provided by CD records is more reliable than the information provided by BW records. The difference was especially large when a high proportion of CD records were missing. Correlations above 0.96 and 0.95 for direct and maternal PBV, respectively, when missing 25% or 0% of the CD or BW records suggest that small changes would be predicted with a low proportion incomplete data. For genetic prediction of popular sires (with > 100 progeny), a higher proportion of missing records could be tolerated. The results suggest that the bivariate threshold-linear animal model is useful for routine genetic evaluation of CD with incomplete field data.
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This paper looks at the issue of the evaluation of development policy efficiency in the scope of economic activation. The main goal of the paper is to evaluate the efficiency of development policy connected with economic activation in the Opolskie region. It consists of two parts. The first relates to the issues concerned with economic activation and its importance in efficient creation of development policy, together with its evaluation. The second part includes an attempt at quantitative evaluation of the effectiveness of development policies in economic activation, particularly in the area of SME sector development. The main tools of statistical analysis used to determine the level of development of the SME sector is a multidimensional method of comparative analysis.
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E-government becomes an important element of the emerging e societies. There is a great diversity of strategies, policies and results related to its introduction. Educational and cultural conditions and possibilities are vital because they generate - or not - interests in ICTs and their various applications. So capacity building for e-government is a complex process, not limited to introduction of technological and organizational actions. Moreover e-government is costly and will require soon not only social but also economic evaluation. These issues are explored in an illustrative case study of e-services in Poland.
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The aim of the article is a proposed methodology of external costs evaluation with the use of a methodology based mainly on European Union research studies. The basis is the method of the impact pathway approach on advantages of incumbent environmental services introduced in the first part of article. The procedure of external costs evaluation of energy systems of communes and administrative districts is discussed in the second part, with particular regard to recommended solutions at individual stages of procedure.
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The process of improvement of an organisation can employ various tools (e.g. benchmarking, the con¬cept of kaizen, the EFQM model). Evaluation is one of these tools. The purpose of this article is to identify the role of evaluation, and the need for it, in the process of im¬provement of an organisation. The author also presents her own model of organisation improvement with the use of evaluation (evaluation hybrid model). This model assumes that the evaluation process should be carried out in three dimensions: activities, results and competences. In the evaluation hybrid model there are four phases: conceptualisation, generating results, the assessment of the criterion, the use and dissemination of research results, on the basis of which it is possible to formulate normative (assessment of the actions that have been evaluated) and prospective (recommendations follow-up) judgments.
Filozofia (Philosophy)
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2013
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tom 68
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nr 10
849 – 858
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According to relativism about truth, there are certain kinds of sentences such that the propositions expressed by their utterances cannot be correctly determined as true or false relative to possible worlds only. In particular, the truth values of propositions about taste (i.e., those expressed by the utterances of sentences about taste) are supposed to be determined relative to possible world and perspective couples. What is important is that the proposition expressed involves no reference to perspective; as a result, the perspective that is to be used in the truth value assignment is not identified by the proposition expressed. Notwithstanding its considerable appeal in various respects, relativism about truth faces certain fundamental problems raised in this paper. It is claimed, firstly, that relativism about truth can hardly comply with our understanding of the predicates of taste in a satisfactory manner. Secondly, relativism about truth does not explain how it is possible that the propositions expressed, despite involving no reference to perspective whatsoever, are to be evaluated as true or false relative to some perspective or other. Thirdly, it is left unexplained how the right kind of perspective is to be selected provided there is no reference to perspective in the proposition expressed.
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Author of this paper describes results of usability test's evaluation of Nicolaus Copernicus University library's web site. Those research was conducted by members of The Usability Laboratory Project between March and June of 2007.
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The article describes the international evaluation methodology of travel and tourism competitiveness of the World Economic Forum. The dynamics of changes of quantitative content of the Travel and Tourism Competitiveness Index (TTCI) and the dynamics of the top 10 countries by TTCI in 2007–2015 were analyzed. Leaders and outsiders were also designated. The analysis of Ukrainian evaluation methodologies of tourism potential and attraction was held considering its main factors, type of content and its dominants. The innovative approach to the tourism competitiveness evaluation that is based on the use of statistical indicators of the environmental, cultural, historical, economic, social and infrastructural factors was suggested with regards to Ukrainian and international experience.
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The paper studies the problem of improving the approach to assessing the value of the company, which would take into account more factors of influence and give more adequate information on the cost of business, taking into account possible changes in the future. Most approaches to the assessment of the companies are based on static indicators that do not provide comprehensive information about the pace of development of the enterprise, and cannot determine its real market potential, which will determine the flow of profits from future operations or sales. In order to establish an adequate cost entrepreneurial businesses proposed to use the integrated index of the company value, the calculation of which is based on the use of the principles of both the income and cost approaches that would allow for a wider range of information.
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Striving for quality is an inherent part of professional adult education. An increasingly pluralistic market of competing educational institutions defines quality as a salient goal - in view of potential students/applicants interested in the specific profile offered by a particular institution of continuing education; - in view of the personnel in the area of continuing education who might want to investigate and study the personal, organizational, and structural issues of quality management; - in view of potential sponsors in a tough and competitive market in the field of continuing education; - in view of competitors, i.e. to secure an adequate stature and rank, i.e. a competitive edge in this market. Developing and determining quality presupposes theoretical and practical guidance and support. Counseling should be incorporated into this process - by creating spaces and new options for individuals as well as for institutions. Evaluation could offer a valuable contribution in assessing quality and deciding on counseling needs. Evaluation can draw on a multiple methodology, and it has qualitative and quantitative potential, e.g. in terms of correlating self-evaluation and evaluation through others. A well argued practical interplay between quality, evaluation, and counseling in continuing education is a visible sign of professional practice.
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The author summarizes the development of the system for evaluating science and research in the Czech Republic in recent years, and considers the way this system is applied in the historical research community. It is a specific system of point evaluation of published results closely connected with the amount of financial resources from the state budget granted for the development of the research organization. This model of financing was gradually introduced in the Czech Republic in 2010-2012. In 2013 the evaluation system was significantly adjusted and strengthened according to the “peer review” principle, which gives substantial weight to qualitative criteria. The results of science and research published in the Czech Republic in all fields of science in the years 2013-2015 were evaluated according to this evaluation system called “Metodika13+”, the principles of which have been described in detail by the author. The evaluation was done in the years 2014-2016 with the assumption of moderate extension into the beginning of 2017. No “professional evaluator”, who has not produced any significant scientific results himself, can express his view on the quality of scientific results. All substantial data are publicly accessible, including the actual results, their evaluation in terms of points and the names of the members of the evaluation panel, so that the quality of the work of the evaluation panel can be retrospectively judged by the expert community. In the conclusion of the study, the author gives a brief review of the qualitative division of the published results from the field of “history” in the Czech Republic. He cites specific book titles, which were evaluated by this method as the most important scientific achievements of Czech historiography in the evaluated years.
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The paper assessed the economic potential of industrial enterprises during the reengineering of business-processes. The author has established a system of indicators that reflect the stage of formation, adaptation and development of the economic potential during the reengineering of business - processes in the enterprise. The dynamics of economic indicators cycle components of the economic potential of industrial enterprise Public Joint Stock Company «Sumy Frunze Machine-Building Science and Production Association» during the re-engineering of business processes and held their normalization. Calculated integral indicator of the economic potential of industrial enterprises in the stages of its formation, adaptation and development. The author of a certain synergistic effect on the functioning of the economic potential of reengineering activities during system implementation class ERP–II (Enterprise Resource Planning) at the enterprise Public Joint Stock Company «Sumy Frunze Machine-Building Science and Production Association». Investigated the synergistic effect on the components of the economic potential of industrial enterprise Public Joint Stock Company «Sumy Frunze Machine-Building Science and Production Association» during the reengineering of business-processes.
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