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 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 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 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 Remote Sensing and GIS Accuracy Assessment written by Ross S. Lunetta and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2004-07-27 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based upon a special symposium sponsored by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Remote Sensing and GIS Accuracy Assessment evaluates the important scientific elements related to the performance of accuracy assessments for remotely sensed data, GIS data analysis, and integration products. Scientists from federal, state, and local governments, academia, and nongovernmental organizations present technical papers which examine sampling issues, reference data collection, edge and boundary effects, error matrix and fuzzy assessments, error budget analysis, and change detection accuracy assessment. This compilation contains 20 chapters that represent important symposium outcomes.
Download or read book Rational Approaches in Language Science written by Matthew W. Crocker and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2022-03-25 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Vetinformatics An insight for decoding livestock systems through in silico biology written by Jun-Mo Kim and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2023-11-15 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This guide for educators looks at major issues in language testing and provides knowledge, techniques, and strategies to design and implement assessments for use in classrooms that maximize fairness and validity for all students.
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 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 484 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 and completion. If you use GIS, remote sensing and other spatial mapping technologies for resource management, land use planning, engineering or environmental studies, this vital reference will save you time and money.
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 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 Healthy diet metrics a suitability assessment of indicators for global and national monitoring purposes written by Edward FRONGILLO and published by World Health Organization. This book was released on 2023-07-20 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report scientifically assesses the validity, usefulness, and fitness-for-purpose of existing healthy diet metrics for population assessment for global and national monitoring. Existing healthy diet metrics were identified and critically assessed through a set of criteria for their use as global and national monitoring indicators. After comparative evaluation, three healthy diet metrics were identified as the most suitable for global and national monitoring. The report highlights strengths and weaknesses for the existing healthy diet indicators. Some may be suitable for simple data collection tools and short data collection time while other indicators may require complex quantitative dietary information, lengthy data collection time, and might need to confirm the validity in various contexts. Some of them may only capture a limited number of the sub-constructs of the construct of healthy diets. The report underlines main knowledge gap regarding the population groups for which the metrics could be used – whether these indicators were developed for a particular demographic and/or socioeconomic groups and their ability to be used for other population groups. The report also identifies key priority areas to further explore how these indicators could be used for more population groups and settings.
