Search results for "PERFORMANCE"

Stability in Parents' Causal Attributions for Their Children's Academic Performance: A Nine-Year Follow-up

2015

This study investigated the interindividual stability and mean-level changes in parents’ causal attributions for their children’s academic performance across a 9-year period from the first year in primary school (Grade 1, age 7) to the end of lower secondary school (Grade 9, age 16). In all, 212 children participated in the study. The results showed that, after we controlled for the children’s level of academic performance, the parents made fairly similar causal attributions when their children were in the ninth grade as they did in the first grade. Changes in the mean-level happened in only external attributions. Further, the differences between mothers and fathers in the stability of thei…

Competence Acquisition through Autonomy in the Self-regulated Learning Process

2012

La autorregulación académica se ha establecido como una de las competencias básicas en el sistema educativo bajo el nuevo paradigma del Espacio Europeo de Enseñanza Superior. La autorregulación del aprendizaje no es una capacidad mental, como la inteligencia, o una habilidad, como la lectura, sino un proceso autodirigido a través del cual los aprendices transforman sus capacidades mentales en habilidades académicas. En la investigación que aquí se presenta, se consideran específicamente las dimensiones motivacionales (orientación intrínseca y extrínseca, valor otorgado a las tareas, locus de control para el aprendizaje, autoeficacia para el aprendizaje y ansiedad ante las evaluaciones) diri…

Assessment of Researchers Through Bibliometric Indicators: The Area of Information and Library Science in Spain as a Case Study (2001–2015)

2018

Research activities are subject to constant processes of evaluation, which increasingly include the use of bibliometric indicators to support decision-making. This paper presents a model for the individual evaluation of different facets of researchers' work and discusses the interest in using “control” parameters to identify deviations suggesting inappropriate conduct. The proposed model is illustrated through an empirical example that analyzes the activity of Spanish researchers in the area of Library and Information Science. There are important differences among the most productive authors, and in many cases, there is no association between the degree of participation in high-impact journ…

BEING ACCOUNTABLE: THE MEASUREMENT OF ITALIAN HEALTH CARE SECTOR PERFORMANCE

2011

Building on the analysis of the numerous contributions on the subject, treated by an extensive literature review, we highlight the limitations of traditional measurement systems and underlines the need for a comprehensive approach. In fact, in addition to traditional measurements, there is the need to consider other indicators of a different nature, not only the capital resources but also the non-property resources. According to this literature it is sufficiently established the consideration of performance on two fundamental levels: • the economic and financial, in more traditional terms; • the ‚real‛ results in terms of health. Bearing in mind these two levels together, the overall object…

Economic Value Added (EVA), Agency Costs and Firm Performance : Theoretical Insights through the Value Based Management (VBM) Framework

2015

Faut-il acheter des actions des entreprises apparaissant sur les listes noires du Conseil des investisseurs institutionnels ?

2001

The Long Run Impact of Coordinated Activism Initiated by the Council of the Institutional Investors (CII) on Returns of the Targeted Firms Shares A pension funds money manager faces the following alternative when it holds under-performing shares : either it sells them, or it keeps them and seeks to influence the managers of the firms involved. Several reasons can explain why American pension funds followed the second way. Such a strategy contribute to the development of a practice called shareholder activism. This article focuses particularly on this phenomenon. For this purpose, author describes the various existing practices of activism (proxy targeting and performance targeting). Then, h…

L'impact de l'activisme des fonds de pension américains : l'exemple du Conseil des Investisseurs Institutionnels

2003

Les fonds de retraite américains ont participé au développement d’une pratique appelée activisme des actionnaires. L’activisme peut être vu comme l’expression du mécontentement d’un actionnaire auprès des dirigeants d’une firme. Nous essayons de voir si l’activisme institutionnel coordonné par le CII (Conseil des Investisseurs Institutionnels) influence l’évolution future des rentabilités des actions des entreprises concernées. La manifestation de l’activisme pratiqué par ce conseil est la publication, chaque année depuis 1991, d’une liste d’entreprises connaissant des déficits en termes de performance et / ou de corporate governance. Nous utilisons la méthodologie des études d’événement po…

Emotional and behavioral difficulties in adolescence: Relationship with emotional well-being, affect, and academic performance

2018

Abstract The main purpose of this study was to examine difficulties in behavioral and emotional adjustment and their relationship to subjective well-being, positive and negative affect, and academic performance in a representative sample of nonclinical adolescents. The sample consisted of a total of 1,664 participants (M = 16.12 years, SD = 1.36, range 14-19 years), selected through stratified cluster sampling. The instruments used were the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ), the Positive and Negative Affect Schedule for Children (PANAS-C), the Personal Wellbeing Index-School Children (PWI-SC), the ad hoc academic performance questionnaire, and the Oviedo Scale of Response Infre…

Reconciling pesticide reduction with economic and environmental sustainability in arable

2014

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Browsing the information highway while driving: three in-vehicle touch screen scrolling methods and driver distraction

2012

Distraction effects of three alternative touch screen scrolling methods for searching music tracks on a mobile device were studied in a driving simulation experiment with 24 participants. Page-bypage scrolling methods with Buttons or Swipe that better facilitate resumption of visual search following interruptions were expected to lead to more consistent in-vehicle glance durations and thus, on less severe distraction effects than Kinetic scrolling. As predicted, Kinetic scrolling induced decreased visual sampling efficiency and increased visual load compared to Swipe, increased experienced workload compared to both Buttons and Swipe, as well as decreased lane keeping accuracy compared to ba…