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Models for the evaluation of educational achievement

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Rekun I.

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2012

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tom 25

137-143

EN

This article addresses the issues involved in monitoring the teaching and learning of science in a changing world. It examines the development of cross-cultural studies of educational achievement, particularly in the field of science, including the theoretical basis of the studies and the models advanced and used in evaluation and more recently in the monitoring of change over time. In addition ten specific issues are identified for investigation into the critical problems facing learning and teaching of science across the world at the beginning of the twenty-first century with particular reference to the PISA studies being conducted by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development.

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W artykule omówiono zagadnienia związane z monitorowaniem procesu nauczania w zmieniającym się świecie. Autor podkreśla konieczność rozwoju międzykulturowych badań dotyczacych osiągnięć edukacyjnych, szczególnie w dziedzinie nauk ścisłych. Istotna wydaje się być również analiza podstaw teoretycznych tych badań oraz poszukiwanie najlepszych modeli do ich ewaluacji. W artykule zidentyfikowano 10 obszarów badawczych, obejmujących najbardziej krytyczne na chwilę obecną problemy dotyczące nauczania nauk ścisłych na świecie. Odwołano się w szczególności do badań w ramach projektu PISA prowadzonych przez Organizację Współpracy Gospodarczej i Rozwoju.

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Ewaluacja programu rozwijania zdolności twórczych dzieci przedszkolnych

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Poraj G. , Instytut Psychologii U. Ł.

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tom 06

EN

Learning under an adult’s supervision is one of the essential conditions for child development. For the benefit of a child’s innate liveliness and his spontaneous discovery of the world, and in order to promote individuality, there is a call for new teaching methods at schools and nursery schools. This, however, entails boards of competent teachers with the necessary knowlege and skills at enhancing their pupils’ creativity and inventivess. Polish Foundation of Children and Teenagers in Warsaw, given assistance by Bernard Van Leer Foundation, has already prepared and carried out an educational programme intended for ore-school teaching circles. The programme propagated new methods of teaching children aged from 3 to 6. The presented article shows the programme’s evaluation research conducted on children. The research tried to provide an answer to the following question: do heightened competence of pre-school teachers’ and implementation of the new programme for working with children affect children’s development. The subject of analysis heavily relied on the children-made works, such sa: a picture of a human being, a picture on a freely-chosen subject and a picture Urban-Jellen’s Creative Thinking Test. In the research procedure both model and inspection nursery schools were taken into account. In the model nursery schools the teachers participated in the educational programme, and, supposedly, implemented the new programme for working with children. In the inspected nursery schools the teachers worked under traditional guidelines for teaching. Research conducted in 1997 focused on 120 children from Lublin, Kielce and Ło´dz´: 60 from model institutions and 60 from the inspection ones (before teachers’ training). The research was subsequently continued in the consecutive years and finishhed up in 1999. Consequently, a very rich, empirical material was collected, comprising qualitative analyses of the assembled children’s works. In order to objectify the results, homogeneous (equal for all children) research conditions were closely followed, whereas the analyses (according to carefully worked out criteria) were all done by the author herself. Detailed analysis of the children-made works showed that there are differences between the children from model nursery schools and the inspection ones, in reference to constructing subject-based pictures. Similarly, the results of Creative Thinking Test significantly differed in the researched groups. In both cases the differences proved beneficial to the model schools children. Hence, the heightening of pre-school teachers’ level of competence and implementation of the new programme radically affect child development.

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Altmanův index, Index IN05 a jejich srovnání

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Marek V. , Pavel R.

Littera Scripta

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2010

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tom 1+2

26-36

EN

Contribution involves two methods of undertaking a comprehensive evaluation, respectively bankruptcy models. The first of these is Altman’s index that was constructed in the second half of the 60 years on the basis of statistical examination of the quantities and ratios of financial analysis and their relation to the possibility of bankruptcy. The second originated in their modifications since the nineties of the twentieth in the Czech Republic. Both indicators are similar. Many times, analyses are used side by side and sometimes offer an entirely different result. Article links to a description of financial ratios under various methods, describes their common denominator and vice versa points to significant differences in investigational methods. The practical part also briefly deals with a different or on the contrary as well as consistent results for specific businesses.

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Sensitivity-based stability evaluation of closed piping networks

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Fu Y. , Cai Y. , Wu K.

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2007

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tom Vol. 11, No 3

197-202

EN

Aiming at a closed-loop water system of HVAC engineering, the authors put forward an evaluation method of systems' stability based on sensitivity. It has three evaluating indexes: [alfa] - the summation of flow changes in other subcircuits influenced by resistance change in a certain subcircuit [Beta] - the summation of flow changes in a certain sub circuit influenced by resistance changes in other subcircuits; [gamma] - average [Beta] (or [alfa]) value of each subcircuit, reflecting the strength of regulating interference between subcircuits. The method is used to analyze the stability of a reverse return system (RRS) and a direct return system (DRS). The DRS subcircuit farthest from the heat source and the middle RRS are the least stable. Stability of the whole RRS is inferior to that of the DRS.

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Evaluace jako diskurz. Komunikace a/versus kontrola v novém modelu školní inspekce v Polsku

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Mazurkiewicz G. , Wlaczak B.

Studia paedagogica

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2011

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nr 2

109-129

EN

A new system of school evaluation was implemented in Poland in 2009. It consists of two elements: self-evaluation (conducted by teams of teachers) and external evaluation (conducted by inspectors trained in evaluation). This way of evaluation reflects not only autonomous and engaged evaluation but also dissociated and unbiased external evaluation. Its final product – a report written by a team of inspectors – is a mixture of voices and interests analysed through several standards imposed by the state. On the theoretical level we treat the school inspections system in a way similar to Harold Garfinkel’s famous analysis of hospital documentation as a consequence of negotiation between a patient and a hospital (2007). We had to understand above all the discursive level of the text to be able to highlight different layers of this re-interpreted auto-interpretation, in particular a differentiation of voices of diverse, and often conflicted groups (teachers, students and their parents and establishing entities). Then we paid attention to the future. For the future it is possible to consider three different scenarios (based on multidimensional analysis) that can be described through the metaphors of guard, guide and partner. We then tested these three models using data gathered in the external evaluation and post-evaluation.

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Aplikovaný výzkum a vývoj v rakouském sektoru Fachhochschulen

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Zdeněk C.

Littera Scripta

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2009

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tom 2

85-91

EN

The following contribution is devoted to the status of applied research and development sector in Austrian Fachhochschulen.The emphasis is put on its legislation from the evaluation activities. Next, it is shown the integration of applied research and development into the research and development activities system, and also organizing various study programmes providers. Applied research and development is presented as an area that may benefit from both, the providers of learning programmes, and regional businesses.

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An Improvement of Quality of Statistical Matching for Survey Data Using Dynamic Caliper

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Strawiński P.

Statistics in Transition new series

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2011

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tom 12

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nr 3

597-607

EN

Nowadays, matching is a widely used technique to estimate program net effects. The goal of the method is to establish a counterfactual state by choosing from the control pool a group that is similar to those in the treatment group. In this article we propose a modification of the matching with caliper procedure. The novelty in our approach is setting the caliper value as a fraction of estimated propensity score. The simulation results and examples are presented. Using Deheija and Wahba (1999) data benefits of the proposed approach are stressed. The obtained results indicate that proposed approach is more efficient than the one traditionally used.

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Ekonomiczne efekty projektów infrastrukturalnych realizowanych przez gminy w strefie podmiejskiej Krakowa

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Serafin P.

Biblioteka Regionalisty

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2013

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nr 13

211-246

EN

The implementation of infrastructural projects, funded from operational programs, is seen as an important factor in local development. The purpose of the article was to analyze the effects of ongoing changes in the municipalities adjacent to Krakow, influenced by the performance of their infrastructure projects. The funds have proven to be very important for investment decisions. Municipalities would not be able to achieve the expected benefits without the implementation of these infrastructure projects. However, there is not a strategic approach to the development of the entire suburban area of Krakow. Generated effects are rather the consequence of non-integrated treatment of municipalities of their development, rather than a deliberate and planned action.

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Przekaz polityczny oparty na wynikach ewaluacji. Analiza przykładu kampanii prezydenckiej w Polsce w 2015 roku

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Apolinarska-Pres D.

Political Preferences

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2017

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nr 15

23-41

EN

The main research problem of this article is whether the political message, that was addressed to voters in the presidential election from 2015, was based on the results of the evaluations or of the socio-economic researches were conducted by the research centers. The political views and slogans, which were presented by the candidates for the President of Poland during the campaign in 2015, were analyzed to answer the main research problem. The theoretical framework of the evaluation and the process of evaluation researches on the example of the managing authority of the operational program were described in the first part of this article. The European experience of utilization the evaluation results by the political class and the analysis of the presidential campaign from 2015 in reference of constructing political arguments with the results of the evaluation were presented in the second part. The author concludes that the results of the evaluation were marginally used during the campaign. The political arguments, that were used by candidates for the President of Poland, were mostly limited to recall simple figures, expert and public opinion, although in some cases the politics referenced to the results of the studies and reports. However, it is impossible to conclude if one of these studies was an evaluation research.

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FEATURES OF ENERGY SAVING POTENTIAL IN LITHUANIAN HOUSEHOLDS

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Simanaviciene Z. , Volochovic A. , Cibinskiene A.

Equilibrium. Quarterly Journal of Economics and Economic Policy

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2016

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tom 11

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nr 1

145-157

EN

Scientists from all over the world recognize that saving energy in households is currently a very relevant topic. Energy resources are a very important factor for each country's economic vitality. Not only the country's replenishment in energy resources is important, but also the reduction of energy consumption volume. The Objective of the study: to assess the energy savings in households potential, applying the measures aimed at the behavior change of the population through energy-saving direction. Methodology: yhe impact of behavior change of the population measures is assessed according to the criteria of efficiency and effectiveness. In order to assess the potential for energy savings in households, the following methods, such as an experiment, the control group formation scenario, household questionnaire, were used. The questionnaire was designed to supplement the experiment, in order to gain deeper knowledge of the household, to obtain more detailed information about the nature of the behavior, to identify barriers to behavior change, and to select a control group of households to carry out the experiment. Data, results and main contribution of the paper: research shows that people's behavior related to energy saving is influenced by a number of macro-level and micro-level factors. In the article, the assumptions of the changing behavior of population are analyzed and the specific measures aimed at the behavior changes of the population selection and implementation impact assessment.

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Beurteilung und Selbstbeurteilung im Studienbegleitenden Deutschunterricht

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AMELINA S.

Edukacja-Technika-Informatyka

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2013

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tom 4

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nr 2

294-298

EN

The article deals with questions of evaluation and self-evaluation of knowledge of foreign language of students in the learning process in higher education. Approaches to the evaluation of the „Framework Program in German language for professional communication for higher educational institutions of Ukraine” are presented.

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„Zdrowie największą wartością” – ewaluacja projektu z zakresu edukacji prozdrowotnej zrealizowanego w Zespole Szkół Samochodowo - Usługowych w Skarżysku Kamiennej

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Szumielewicz A. , Buchcic E.

Społeczeństwo. Edukacja. Język

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2014

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tom 2

201-209

EN

The purpose of the following report is presenting the findings of the evaluation conducted in the field of the project realised in the Complex of Car-Service Schools in Skarżysko Kamienna whose topic was pro health education. School education should consider the health topics in a number of ways implemented into the didactic-educational process by means of innovative teaching methods. Hence, it is worth striving to enrich the health knowledge and strengthen prophylactic actions amongst the youth since effective pro health education allows improving general well-being.

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Anthropometric, Physical, and Age Differences by the Player Position and the Performance Level in Volleyball

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Palao J. M. , Manzanares P. , Valadés D.

Journal of Human Kinetics

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2014

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tom 44

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nr 1

223-236

EN

The purpose of this paper was to study the ranges in height, weight, age, spike reach, and block reach of volleyball players in relation to the player position and the level of their respective teams in peak performance. The analysed sample included 1454 male and 1452 female players who participated in the volleyball competitions of the Olympic Games and World Championships in the 2000-2012 period. A descriptive, correlational, and longitudinal design was used. The variables studied were: the player position, body height, weight, body mass index, spike reach, block reach, age, and team level. The results show differences between body height, spike and block reaches, and the age of the players by their position. These differences are related to the needs of the different positions with regard to the actions they execute. Middle-blockers, outside-hitters, and opposites have the characteristics that are most suitable for blocking and spiking, and the setters and liberos appear to have characteristics conducive to setting and receiving as well as digging, respectively. The differences found in the studied variables with regard to the playing position are related to players' needs regarding the actions they perform. Player´s age was a variable that differentiated first teams at this level of competition for males, and physical capacities (body height, weight, spike reach, and block reach) were variables that differentiated first teams at this level of competition for females.

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Ewaluacja szkolnych systemów oceniania uczniów. Poszukiwanie znaczeń

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Szyling G.

Kwartalnik Pedagogiczny

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2015

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nr 4(238)

66-80

EN

In the text a critical reflection is undertaken on the evaluation of school assessment systems treated as a social category, “pulsating” due to its relation to its changeable context. Analyses have revealed an extensive realm of reduction of meanings and values carried out in the course of assessment systems creation and design, and throughout performance of their evaluation. One of the effects of those actions is dissonance between records in documents and their practical dimension. In turn, the picture of school reality, simplified and subjected to external evaluation procedures, does not so much block a change it does not make it possible to recognise its need should it not fall within the need to meet uniform requirements of the state regarding education. The same logic results in internal evaluation in the school assessment system being granted the status of undisputed yardstick for the educational reality, which, should such a need arise, must be changed for them to better match the procedures formulated in the document. The text concludes with a question on the need of assessment and values connected with it, the reading of which in the context of specified horizon of meanings may prevent assessment systems from their axiological dimension being reduced, or solidify the current form confined to a set of procedures, whose deeper sense is not reflected on by anyone at school. The latter option does not imply elimination of problems with assessment but those problems remaining unspoken of and their further increase.

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Evaluation versus The Efficiency of Public Policies

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Przygodzka R.

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tom 5(89)

EN

The article discusses the importance of evaluation in shaping effective public policies. Its purpose is to answer the question of whether and in what conditions evaluations can be a tool for improving the efficiency of public policies. The article has a theoretical nature and is based on studies of both domestic and foreign literature. The analysis presented in the paper shows that from a theoretical point of view the evaluation (along with its methodology and analytical tools) can be an effective instrument for improving the efficiency of public policies. In practice, however, this efficiency mainly depends on such factors as: the model of governance or the mentality of public administration representatives.

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Ścieżki aksjologicznych rozstrzygnięć Stefana Morawskiego (cz. II)

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Przybysz P. J.

Estetyka i Krytyka

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2009

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nr 15-16

132-142

EN

From the very beginning of his work in the field of aesthetics, Stefan Morawski, the outstanding Polish theorist, dedicated much attention to the issue of axiological judgments. The proper subject matter of aesthetics, he postulated, is determined by the field’s characteristic axiology, which, in turn, looks to art for its empirical basis and confirmation. The second half of the article aims to reconstruct key ideas scattered around Stefan Morawski’s many publications. Issues such as evaluation criteria and the hierarchy of the works of art are discussed. The article attempts to present a critical assessment of Morawski’s theoretical

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Dydaktyka szkoły wyższej – obowiązkowy przedmiot dla doktorantów

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Tuszyńska L. , Gawrońska B.

Edukacja Biologiczna i Środowiskowa

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2014

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nr 3

42-48

EN

The population decline affected academic teachers and the need to modernize the high school education, focusing more attention to the process of learning – studying instead of teaching. What is more, Polish universities have to meet obligatory UE regulations. The aim is that teaching in high school was not intuitive and every academic teacher had not only theoretical knowledge but also didactical competencies, and he or she was aware of the desirability of constant exploration of more effective forms of streamlining the process of pedagogical education. One aspect of the modernization of the education process is evaluation. Competency of academic staff must be enhanced with the ability to develop and put into practice the National Qualifications Framework. The purpose of this article is to show the need for discourse related to forming and evaluation of curricula of didactic in high school as a subject of university education of teachers aspiring to improve the quality of education.

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Test–retest reliability of the newly developed field-based tests focuses on short time efforts with maximal intensity for wheelchair basketball players

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Marszałek J. , Kosmol A. , Morgulec-Adamowicz N. , Mróz A. , Gryko K. , Molik B.

Advances in Rehabilitation

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2019

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tom 33

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nr 1

23-27

EN

Introduction There are some studies concern special field-based tests for wheelchair basketball players however, there were not a lot of studies confirmed reliability and/or validity of wheelchair basketball field-based tests. The aim of the present study was to assess test-retest reliability of the newly developed field-based tests focused on short time efforts with maximal intensity for wheelchair basketball players. Material and methods Nine elite male wheelchair basketball players (mean age 29.7 ± 5.9 years) performed two times 11 field-based tests focused on short time efforts with the maximal intensity: 3 m sprint, 5 m sprint, 10 m sprint, 20 m sprint, pass basketball ball by both hands from the chest, pass medicine ball (3 kg) by both hands from the chest, bilateral handgrip, 3-6-9 m drill test, 30-seconds sprint test, agility drill test, and 10x5 m sprint test. All sprint tests’ time were measured by Microgate® photocells (Bolzano, Italy). Differences between field-based tests repetitions were compared by the t-test for dependent samples, relationship between repetitions was calculated by the Pearson correlation coefficient, and the ICCs were calculated (test-retest reliability). Results The ICCs were ‘very good’, correlations were strong for each field-based test (r > 0.7). Only for the agility drill test the first repetition is statistically different compare to the second repetition (p = .015). Conclusions The main application of our research is a confirmation of reliability of 10 field-based tests related to short time efforts with maximum intensity: 3 m sprint, 5 m sprint, 10 m sprint, 20 m sprint, pass basketball ball by both hands from the chest, pass medicine ball (3 kg) by both hands from the chest, bilateral handgrip, 3-6-9 m drill test, 30-seconds sprint test, and 10x5 m sprint test.

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How Informative are the Vertical Buoyancy and the Prone Gliding Tests to Assess Young Swimmers' Hydrostatic and Hydrodynamic Profiles?

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Barbosa T. , Costa M. , Morais J. , Moreira M. , Silva A. , Marinho D.

Journal of Human Kinetics

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2012

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tom 32

21-32

EN

The aim of this research was to develop a path-flow analysis model to highlight the relationships between buoyancy and prone gliding tests and some selected anthropometrical and biomechanical variables. Thirty-eight young male swimmers (12.97 ± 1.05 years old) with several competitive levels were evaluated. It were assessed the body mass, height, fat mass, body surface area, vertical buoyancy, prone gliding after wall push-off, stroke length, stroke frequency and velocity after a maximal 25 [m] swim. The confirmatory model included the body mass, height, fat mass, prone gliding test, stroke length, stroke frequency and velocity. All theoretical paths were verified except for the vertical buoyancy test that did not present any relationship with anthropometrical and biomechanical variables nor with the prone gliding test. The good-of-fit from the confirmatory path-flow model, assessed with the standardized root mean square residuals (SRMR), is considered as being close to the cut-off value, but even so not suitable of the theory (SRMR = 0.11). As a conclusion, vertical buoyancy and prone gliding tests are not the best techniques to assess the swimmer's hydrostatic and hydrodynamic profile, respectively.

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Błędy w szacowaniu kosztu kapitału - analiza wybranych problemów

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Byrka-Kita K.

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2007

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tom Nr 50, t. 1

263-259

PL

W Polsce problem szacowania kosztu kapitału jest niezwykle swobodnie traktowany, co stanowi bardzo poważny mankament przeprowadzanych analiz oraz wycen. Niewątpliwie wynika to z faktu, że znaczenie kosztu kapitału jako kategorii jest bardziej uwypuklane przez teorię i badania naukowe niż dostrzegane przez menedżerów. Znajomość kosztu kapitału nie jest na co dzień potrzebna zarządzającym, gdy nie podejmują decyzji inwestycyjnych, czy też decyzji związanych z procesami fuzji i przejęć. Ponadto nie jest to wartość raportowana w systemach ewidencji księgowej. W związku z powyższym, celem niniejszego artykułu było wskazanie błędów popełnianych zarówno w trakcie szacowania jak i aplikacji kosztu kapitału.

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The issue of the cost of capital valuation is treated very freely in Poland, which causes many defects of the conducted analyses. Undoubtedly it is connected with the fact that the meaning of the cost of capital is much more emphasized by the theory and scientific research than by practitioners. The knowledge of the cost of capital is not necessary in everyday management, when managers do not have to make, for example, investment decisions. Furthermore, this value is not reported in financial statements. The purpose of this paper is to call attention to some errors frequently encountered in estimation and applications of the cost of capital.