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Research on Performance-based Salary Distribution System of Vocational College Teachers Based on Fair Incentives [PDF]

open access: yesProceedings of the 2019 3rd International Conference on Economic Development and Education Management (ICEDEM 2019), 2019
Ying Wei, Qiaoyue Zhao
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How Are Australian Local Governments Responding to the Homelessness Crisis? Findings From a National Study

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Australian local governments are facing intensifying pressures to respond to worsening visible homelessness. This paper presents one of the first national studies on how local governments are responding to these pressures, and the first since the onset of the post‐pandemic housing crisis.
Andrew Clarke   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Higher salaries, more teaching, better performance? The effects of the introduction of the minimum salary for teachers in Brazil

open access: yes, 2016
De acordo com a literatura empírica, há fortes evidências de que, após o controle de características socioeconômicas dos alunos, a qualidade dos professores é o fator mais importante para explicar o desempenho do aluno em testes padronizados. No entanto,
Silva Filho, Geraldo
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Australian Activists as Storytellers in Digital Spaces: Acquiring Skills, Producing Content and Getting the Message Out

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As modes of activism rapidly evolve, activists—both seasoned and emerging—must increasingly navigate a hybrid terrain of both digital and non‐digital engagement. This paper draws on the personal narratives of 16 nascent activists based in Australia to explore how they develop competencies related to digital storytelling, which is critical to ...
Garth Stahl   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

An examination of the effect of teacher salaries on student achievement in Florida public schools

open access: yes, 2010
Thesis (M.P.P.)--Georgetown University, 2010.; Includes bibliographical references.; Text (Electronic thesis) in PDF format. Among school-based factors, existing evidence strongly supports the idea of teacher quality being the most ...
Perkins, Casey Thomas.
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Supporting Aged Care Worker Wellbeing: A Qualitative Document Analysis of the Strengthened Aged Care Quality Standards

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Aged care work is physically and emotionally demanding. Workers can feel disempowered, vulnerable and at increased risk of experiencing work‐related stress. This in turn can result in sub‐optimal care and staff shortages. This study aimed to investigate what provisions exist within Australia's strengthened Aged Care Quality Standards to ...
Sharon Stoddart   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

Job satisfaction among female head teachers in Saudi Arabian secondary schools: a qualitative perspective

open access: yes, 2010
This research considers job satisfaction among female head teachers in Saudi Arabian secondary schools in the city of Abha using a qualitative methodology. The subjects of the study were female head teachers in five secondary schools in the city; all the
Alhazmi, Fatemah
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Five Issues of Artificial Intelligence in Science: Sailing the Ship of Theseus

open access: yesAnnals of Neurology, EarlyView.
Artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming part of the working infrastructure of academic medicine. Because grants convert scientific ideas into protected time, infrastructure, and institutional priority, they provide a revealing test case for AI's effects on biomedicine. Five issues are emerging: language, agency, review, doership, and identity.
S. Thomas Carmichael
wiley   +1 more source

State and local efforts to investigate the validity and reliability of scores from teacher evaluation systems

open access: yes, 2014
Context: In the past two years, states have implemented sweeping reforms to their teacher evaluation systems in response to Race to the Top legislation and, more recently, NCLB waivers.
Cynthia Pollard   +6 more
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