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The Simpson paradox of school grading in Italy
2009
Abstract Data from the 2003 OECD-PISA Survey for Italy reveal a striking difference in the relationship between students’ competence (as measured by PISA score in Mathematics) and school grades across regions: a competence level granting bare sufficiency in the North yields excellence grades in the South. This has spurred a lively debate on education policy in the country, based on the inference drawn from this evidence that grading practices are excessively different in the two areas. We show in this note that this inference overlooks a Simpson paradox hidden in the data. After a more careful analysis, the above inference is seen to be wrong. The crucial omitted variable is the school-leve…
Business strategy in new high‐tech ventures: an empirical analysis
1999
The aim of this study is to determine the existence of specific and unique features characterising markets, activities and customers in at least two of the most representative high technology sectors nowadays, the microelectronics/software industry and the biotechnology/biomedical industry. Cross‐Tabs statistical method has been used to analyze the data collected from the sample made up by 18 high‐tech American firms. One of the major findings of this study is that the business strategy will hold better prospects in those high‐tech firms benefiting from a higher technological excellence, having spent longer time in developing and launching their products, being able to keep longer the novel…
Premio mundial de las artes 2001
2001
Se trata de la transcripción del borrador del discurso de José Vidal-Beneyto en la entrega del Premio Mundial de las Artes a Peter Brook (Encuentro Mundial de las Artes, 2001).
Parametric Hull Design with Rational Bézier Curves and Estimation of Performances
2021
In this paper, a tool able to support the sailing yacht designer during the early stage of the design process has been developed. Cubic Rational Bézier curves have been selected to describe the main curves defining the hull of a sailing yacht. The adopted approach is based upon the definition of a set of parameters, say the length of waterline, the beam of the waterline, canoe body draft and some dimensionless coefficients according to the traditional way of the yacht designer. Some geometrical constraints imposed on the curves (e.g., continuity, endpoint angles, curvature) have been conceived aimed to avoid unreasonable shapes. These curves can be imported into any commercial Computer Aide…
Energy certification of buildings: A comparative analysis of progress towards implementation in European countries
2010
Abstract The Energy Performance Building Directive (Directive 2002/91/EC) introduced the compulsory energy certification of buildings in the EU from 2006 and it has played a key role in the common policy to monitor and reduce energy consumption. In order to assess the experience gained in this field in Europe overall, and in particular against the highly diverse settings of the different European nations, this paper examines the extent to which the Directive has been implemented by the 27 EU Member States. This is done via a comparative analysis assisted by two different indicators: of uniformity and of excellence. The measure of uniformity makes it possible to assess the degree of harmony …
La representación de la excelencia de las empresas
2012
International audience; En la actualidad la representación de la excelencia de las empresas2 emerge como un asunto de la mayor importancia por tres razones fundamentales: las limitaciones de una representación sustentada exclusivamente en la contabilidad financiera, la exigencia de tomar en cuenta la necesidad de un desarrollo sustentable, y la mayor exigencia de responsabilidad de los dirigentes no solamente ante sus accionistas sino también ante la sociedad y el conjunto de los grupos de interés o partes involucradas. Este artículo problematiza la noción de excelencia, como expresión del desempeño de las empresas, para demostrar que existe una necesidad de disponer de métodos de represent…
Excellence in Teaching Prize: Winner of Excellence in Teaching Prize 2007
2008
Winner of Excellence in Teaching Prize 2007 Faculty of Urban and regional planning, IUAV University of Venice A participative process of Urban Regeneration. Building an integrated programme aimed at improving the quality of urban and social life in a consolidated periphery of Venice Contact person: Liliana Padovani The course has been appointed as winner because it fulfils the overall prize criteria to make a critical and constructive contribution of teaching. It will inspire and foster curiosity, rigour, creativity, critical thinking, and the building of lifelong learning. The course examines the social dimension of sustainable development in the way that students investigate a group of se…
The Road to Academic Excellence: The Making of World-Class Research Universities edited by Philip G. Altbach and Jamil Salmi
2012
Human, Technologies and Quality of Education: Proceedings of Scientific Papers, 2019
2019
Les parcours de double réussite (sportive et scolaire) de normaliennes : entre "déclassement" et retour sur probabilité
2014
En ligne sur http://www.cereq.fr/index.php/content/download/11326/93292/file/Relief48.pdf; National audience; Dans cette contribution, nous nous intéressons aux parcours des normaliennes du département Sciences du Sport et Éducation Physique (du lycée jusqu'à l'entrée dans la vie active. Par leur double parcours d'excellence (sportive et scolaire), les normaliennes illustrent un projet doublement assigné au masculin : un projet d'excellence scolaire voire professionnel d'une part et dans un domaine (le sport / les STAPS) structurellement masculin, d'autre part. A partir d'une enquête par questionnaires réalisée auprès des normalien-ne-s ayant intégré le département EPS (puis 2SEP) de l'Écol…