Download or read book Assessing the Validity of Diversity Indices written by Salomón Alcocer Guajardo and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2024-01-22 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book systematically analyzes the measurement validity and reliability of the standardized diversity scores used to quantify age, ethnic, and gender heterogeneity in organizations. It offers human resources practitioners and researchers in the nonprofit, private, and public sectors a hands-on guide on how to assess the measurement reliability and the construct and measurement validity of standardized diversity scores. Examples of measurement validity and reliability assessments are provided throughout the book; more specifically, this book illustrates the use of correlation and factor analyses to assess the validity and reliability of standardized diversity scores.
Download or read book Assessing Organizational Diversity with the Index of Qualitative Variation written by Salomón Alcocer Guajardo and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2024-01-19 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a comprehensive and systematic assessment of the application of the Index of Qualitative Variation (IQV) to the workplace. Like its preceding companion books, this book offers human resources practitioners and researchers in the nonprofit, private, and public sectors a hands-on guide on how to measure demographic and organizational diversity. Examples of how the IQV is applied to employment data are provided throughout the book. Consistent with its preceding companion books, this book illustrates the use of ordinary least squares, quantile, ridge, robust, and Tobit regression methods to assess how organizational and workplace factors influence age, ethnic, gender, and organizational diversity.
Download or read book Vocabulary Knowledge written by Scott Jarvis and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2013-08-14 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Language researchers and practitioners often adopt tools and techniques without testing whether they really work as they should. This is understandable because most scholars do not have the time or expertise to properly evaluate the usefulness of all instruments, measures, and methods they need. It is therefore critical to have problem solvers in the field who gain the necessary expertise and take the time to scrutinize existing methods, identify problems, and offer new solutions. This volume represents the work of scholars who have done this; it is a collection of the latest advances, developments, and innovations regarding the modeling and measurement of learners’ vocabulary growth curves, current levels of vocabulary knowledge and lexical proficiency, and the patterns of lexical diversity found in their language production. Several of the contributors also address the complex but important relationship between automated indices and human judgments of learners’ lexical patterns and abilities.
Download or read book Assessing Organizational Diversity with Structural Equation Modeling written by Salomón Alcocer Guajardo and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2024-10-20 with total page 665 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Assessing Organizational Diversity with Structural Equation Modeling applies partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) to standardized and rank ordered latent composites of workforce diversity to endogenous composites of organizational performance of diversity. In so doing, this book offers human resources practitioners and researchers in the nonprofit, private, and public sectors a hands-on guide on how to apply PLS-SEM in an organizational setting to assess the direct and indirect statistical relationships amongst exogenous and mediating composites and endogenous composites of organizational performance. Examples of standardized and rank-ordered PLS-SEM analyses are provided throughout the book. This book illustrates how to analyze and assess the direct and indirect statistical relationships of exogenous and mediating latent composites on different types of organizational performance such as human capital return on investment and net profit margin.
Download or read book Assessing Organizational Diversity with the Heip Index written by Salomón Alcocer Guajardo and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2023-04-17 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a comprehensive and systematic assessment of the application of Shannon-based diversity indices to the workplace. It offers human resources practitioners and researchers in the nonprofit, private, and public sectors a hands-on guide on how to measure demographic and organizational diversity with the Hill, Heip, Hurlbert, and Sheldon evenness indices. Examples of the application of the indices to employment data are provided throughout the book, while the text also illustrates the use of ordinary least squares, robust, Tobit, and ridge regression methods to assess how organizational and workplace factors influence age, ethnic, gender, and organizational diversity.
Download or read book Assessing Organizational Diversity with the Smith and Wilson Indices written by Salomón Alcocer Guajardo and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2023-08-30 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Assessing Organizational Diversity with the Smith and Wilson Indices provides a comprehensive and systematic assessment of the application of Simpson-based diversity indices to the workplace. It offers human resources practitioners and researchers in the nonprofit, private, and public sectors a hands-on guide on how to measure demographic and organizational diversity with the Hussein and Khan, Ray and Singer, Smith and Wilson, and Wilcox evenness indices. Examples of the application of the indices to employment data are provided throughout the book, while the text also illustrates the use of ordinary least squares, quantile, ridge, robust, and Tobit, regression methods to assess how organizational and workplace factors influence age, ethnicity, gender, and organizational diversity.
Download or read book Assessing Organizational Diversity with Quantile Regression written by Salomón Alcocer Guajardo and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2024-03-25 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book applies quantile regression to standardized indices of diversity at the 25th, 50th, 75th, and 90th percentiles. In so doing, the book offers human resources practitioners and researchers in the nonprofit, private, and public sectors a hands-on guide to applying quantile regression in an organizational setting. Examples of quantile regression analyses are provided throughout the book. Specifically, this book illustrates how to analyze the index of qualitative variation (IQV), and the McIntosh, Shannon, Simpson, and Smith and Wilson indices with quantile regression.
Download or read book Blended Learning Lessons Learned and Ways Forward written by Chen Li and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-07-08 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Blended Learning, ICBL 2023, held in Hong Kong, China, on July 17-20, 2023. The 24 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 57 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections named: smart classroom and digital literacy; online and distant learning; content and pedagogy development for blended learning; gamification and lnteractive learning snvironment; learning analytics and big data in education.
Download or read book Cultural Validity in Assessment written by María del Rosario Basterra and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2011-04-12 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is assessment and how is it a cultural practice? How does failure to account for linguistic and cultural variation among students jeopardize assessment validity? What is required to achieve cultural validity in assessment? This resource for practicing and prospective teachers – as well as others concerned with fair and valid assessment – provides a thorough grounding in relevant theory, research, and practice. The book lays out criteria for culturally valid assessment and recommends specific strategies that teachers can use to design and implement culturally valid classroom assessments. Assessment plays a powerful role in the process of education in the US and has a disproportionately negative impact on students who do not come from mainstream, middle-class backgrounds. Given the significance of testing in education today, cultural validity in assessment is an urgent issue facing educators. This book is essential reading for addressing this important, relevant topic.
Download or read book Measuring Biological Diversity written by Anne E. Magurran and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-04-18 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This accessible and timely book provides a comprehensive overview of how to measure biodiversity. The book highlights new developments, including innovative approaches to measuring taxonomic distinctness and estimating species richness, and evaluates these alongside traditional methods such as species abundance distributions, and diversity and evenness statistics. Helps the reader quantify and interpret patterns of ecological diversity, focusing on the measurement and estimation of species richness and abundance. Explores the concept of ecological diversity, bringing new perspectives to a field beset by contradictory views and advice. Discussion spans issues such as the meaning of community in the context of ecological diversity, scales of diversity and distribution of diversity among taxa Highlights advances in measurement paying particular attention to new techniques such as species richness estimation, application of measures of diversity to conservation and environmental management and addressing sampling issues Includes worked examples of key methods in helping people to understand the techniques and use available computer packages more effectively
Download or read book Assessing Carbon Stocks and Modelling Win win Scenarios of Carbon Sequestration Through Land use Changes written by Raul Ponce-Hernandez and published by Food & Agriculture Org.. This book was released on 2004 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication contains a methodology and software tools for assessing carbon stocks and modelling scenarios of carbon sequestration developed and tested in pilot field studies in Mexico and Cuba. The models and tools enable the analysis of land use change scenarios in order to identify in a given area (watershed or district) land use alternatives and land management practices that can both maximise food production, soil carbon sequestration and biodiversity and minimize land degradation. The aims is to develop and implement "win-win" options that satisfy the multiple goals of farmers, land users and other stakeholders in relation to food security, carbon sequestration, biodiversity and land conservation. The publication also contains a CD-ROM including three case studies and a Soil-C program demo, program and user manual.
Download or read book Spatial Accuracy Assessment written by Kim Lowell and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2000-03-01 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spatial technologies such as GIS and remote sensing are widely used for environmental and natural resource studies. Spatial Accuracy Assessment provides state-of-the-science methods, techniques and real-world solutions designed to validate spatial data, to meet quality assurance objectives, and to ensure cost-effective project implementation.
Download or read book Methods to Assess the Effects of Chemicals on Ecosystems written by Rick A. Linthurst and published by . This book was released on 1995-10-12 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Assesses the risks and estimates the injurious effects of both man-made and naturally-occurring chemicals on the ecological species that make up large complex ecosystems. Evaluates current knowledge of ecotoxicology and related testing methods, taking into account the potentials and limitations of current models and approaches. Other topics include methods of assessing the effects of chemicals on fresh waters, soils and forests; estuarine and near-coastal water organisms; arid and semi-arid ecosystems; aquatic and terrestrial wildlife and more.
Download or read book Biological Diversity written by Anne E. Magurran and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an up to date review of the methods of measuring and assessing biological diversity, together with their application.
Download or read book Validation and Predictability of Laboratory Methods for Assessing the Fate and Effects of Contaminants in Aquatic Ecosystems written by Terence P. Boyle and published by ASTM International. This book was released on 1985 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Social Work Research Methods written by Teresa Morris and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2006-01-13 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book to expand social work research methods to include alternative models, and integrate these methodologies into general social work practice. Morris also describes research methods for post positivism, critical theory, and constructivism in a straightforward and accessible style.
Download or read book Assessment of Biodiversity for Improved Forest Planning written by Peter Bachmann and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-04-17 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The `Global Biodiversity Strategy' signed in 1992 in Rio de Janeiro, and the resolutions at the Ministerial Conferences on the Protection of Forests in Europe in Strasbourg, 1990, and Helsinki, 1993, commit the signatory states to monitor nationally the state of biodiversity and to sustain the characteristic natural variation in the country. Sustainability and long-term planning are the two terms best describing the philosophy of traditional forest management practices. However, the traditional planning techniques are not primarily developed to maintain sustainability of biodiversity. The gap between the international commitments and the practices in forest assessment and management is obvious. This publication presents experience in methodology for assessing and monitoring the variation of ecosystems and habitats in relation to biodiversity conservation and for integrating biodiversity in regional planning of forest management and land use. The state of the art in the field of natural resource assessments with special reference to forest biodiversity is reviewed, progress in integrating data on biodiversity in forest management planning is presented and the information needs regarding biodiversity conservation and the question to what degree assessment methods for forest biodiversity can be simplified for practical applications are discussed. The book is intended for researchers and practitioners in the field of forest and environmental planning and environmental policies.
