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Using an Equity/Performance Matrix to Address Salary Compression/Inversion and Performance Pay Issues
Author: Richardson, Peter
Date: 2013-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Salaries,Merit Pay,Salary Wage Differentials,Equal Opportunities (Jobs),Comparable Worth,Teacher Salaries,College Faculty,Compensation (Remuneration),Budgets

Pay compression and inversion are significant problems for many organizations and are often severe in schools of business in particular. At the same time, there is more insistence on showing accountability and paying employees based on performance. The authors explain and show a detailed example of how to use a Compensation Equity/ Performance Matrix (CEPM) approach to rationally and fairly address both of these issues simultaneously. The context is discussed along with the use and limitations of this approach. The CEPM approach can be used by any type of organization facing these problems.
Developing a New Graduate Program in Healthcare Management: Embracing the Transformation of Healthcare Management Education on a Pathway to Success
Author: Dominguez, Daniel G.
Date: 2013-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Administrator Education,Health Services,Program Development,Learner Controlled Instruction,Goal Orientation,Educational Philosophy,Advisory Committees,Models,Competence,Accreditation (Institutions),Values,Curriculum Development,Masters Degrees

Within a sea change in the structure and process of providing health services, the field of health administration education has moved decisively and concretely from a teaching-centered model of education based on the assumption that knowledge equals competency to a learning-centered model. The learning-centered, or student-centered, model is based on the assumption that competency is related to the ability to demonstrate mission- and market-relevant knowledge, skills, values, and attitudes. This article provides a comprehensive, non-prescriptive approach to the development of a new competency-based graduate program in health administration within an urban-based, private university located in the Southwest United States. The authors describe the structure and process used to align the program's competencies and curricula to the market needs by incorporating the healthcare community's input. The first part of the article addresses the components of the program development framework, including the determination of a program vision and philosophy and the establishment of a program development group and advisory board. The second part concludes with a discussion of the process used in the selection of a competency model and its application to the course curricula.
Are All Forms of Scholarship Considered Equal?
Author: Ward, Chris
Date: 2009-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Scholarship,Tenure,Faculty Promotion,Models,Writing for Publication,Faculty Publishing,Barriers,Outreach Programs,Service Learning,Teacher Participation,Higher Education

Boyer's four forms of scholarship were detailed in his 1990 book Scholarship Reconsidered: Priorities of the Professoriate. In the 18 years since publication of that book, universities struggle with changing the promotion and tenure criteria to include all four forms of scholarship. Faculty members often focus on publications as they prepare for promotion and tenure. They are not comfortable immersing themselves in other forms of scholarship, like engagement, for fear it may be viewed unfavorably by the university and/or the review committee. This paper focuses on the scholarship of engagement as it struggles to break through the institutional barrier and become an accepted form of scholarship.
Faculty Burnout
Author: Minter, Robert L.
Date: 2009-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: College Faculty,Teacher Burnout,Stress Variables,Stress Management,Teacher Effectiveness,Tenure,Faculty Promotion,Symptoms (Individual Disorders),Teacher Salaries,Fringe Benefits,Check Lists

Dysfunctional faculty performance behaviors related to stress are seldom openly discussed in professional circles, let alone with faculty members exhibiting these behaviors. If stress issues are discussed, they are often mentioned in a humorous vein with little, if any, solutions put forth to assist faculty who are experiencing aggravated stress that could easily lead to professional burnout.
Implications of Severe Economic Decline &amp; Demographic Pressures on Youth Literacy in Sub-Saharan Africa
Author: Okpala, Comfort O.
Date: 2009-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Economic Factors,Literacy,Statistical Analysis,Refugees,Youth,Illiteracy,Case Studies,Foreign Countries,Human Capital

Although literacy rates have improved somehow in recent years, there are still large numbers of people that are illiterates in developing countries. This paper examines the impact of severe economic decline and demographic pressures on youth literacy rate in Sub-Saharan Africa. In this study, a cross-sectional data of 39 Sub-Saharan African countries with adequate data information were analyzed. The results from the ANOVA tests indicate that economic decline is statistically significant in explaining youth literacy, while the results from demographic pressures and movement of refugees are inconclusive in explaining youth literacy.
Small Rural School District Consolidation in Texas: An Analysis of Its Impact on Cost and Student Achievement
Author: Cooley, Dwight A.
Date: 2013-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: School District Reorganization,School Districts,Rural Schools,Influences,Statistical Analysis,Expenditure per Student,Efficiency,Financial Problems,Academic Achievement,Comparative Analysis,Elementary School Students,Middle School Students,Grade 5,Grade 8,Educational Finance,Correlation,Statistical Significance

Historically, the number of public school districts in the United States has decreased despite a dramatic increase in the number of students enrolled. Although public school district consolidation has impacted districts of all sizes, since the late 1930's smaller rural districts facing dwindling community resources have merged or consolidated with each other, resulting in fewer school districts. When school districts consolidate, all aspects of the newly-formed district are affected. Each year, lawmakers and rural public school district officials face dwindling finances, and each year these decision makers question whether to consolidate to avoid fiscal perils. Proponents tout the benefits of fiscal efficiency, a broadened curriculum, and a projected increase in student achievement. Critics argue that the community suffers when the community school closes, students are burdened with new transportation issues, increased academic opportunities do not necessarily impute to greater student performance, and a host of tangible and non-tangible arguments are put forth. This ex post facto quantitative study examines the fiscal efficiency of small, rural, consolidated school districts by comparing per-pupil expenditures with matched non-consolidated school districts in the state of Texas. The study also examines student achievement levels by comparing passing rate percentages on all Texas state assessment tests for 3rd, 5th, and 8th grade students attending these schools. For before and after consolidation comparison purposes, rural community public schools were matched according to Texas state designated &quot;paired&quot; protocol. Districts meeting Texas Education Agency (TEA) Snapshot criterion for Absorbing districts were matched with Joining districts. Expenditure and student achievement data for Absorbing and Joining districts were collected for the ten-year period from 1999 to 2009. A paired samples t-test measured differences in the district's efficiency, and the Lawshe-Baker Normative t-test measured differences in student achievement. Four null hypotheses were examined with an a priori alpha level = 0.05. This study, when the data for the joining and absorbing districts was subjected to appropriate t-tests, supports other research that suggests per-pupil expenditures increased and student achievement decreased for the absorbing district.
Becoming Globally Literate: Teaching Cross-Cultural Awareness through the Use of Social Networking Sites
Author: Carano, Kenneth T.
Date: 2009-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Cultural Awareness,Social Networks,Online Courses,Teacher Education,Course Descriptions,Cultural Literacy,Stereotypes,Social Bias,Graduate Students,Educational Innovation,Electronic Publishing,Class Activities,Teaching Methods,Web Sites

The digital era has enabled educators the opportunity of breaking the confinement of the four walls of the traditional classroom and accessing information across cultures and nations. This session discusses the implementation of an innovative online graduate teacher education course focusing on global perspectives. Over the course of the semester, teachers learn how to use social networking sites as a means of gaining tools to cultivate a greater understanding of their own stereotypes and prejudices while learning how to enhance the global literacy of themselves and others. In addition, through the creative nature of blogging, this course provides strategies for teachers to draw on personal experiences as they develop their own network of classroom consultants, across the globe, to foster a greater level of cultural literacy in their students.
Addressing a Compensation Anomaly in an Academic Setting
Author: Budden, Michael C.
Date: 2009-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Teacher Salaries,College Faculty,Compensation (Remuneration),Merit Pay,Teacher Evaluation,Evaluation Methods,Computation,Rewards

Faculty compensation is a serious matter. Rewards for performance are an expectation. Managers recognize that rewards often drive performance and productivity. Faculty members who perform well expect to be rewarded well. Faculty members expend considerable time and effort developing evaluation instruments and procedures for assessing and rewarding peer performance. Depending on how the reward process is implemented faculty performance rewards may not result as expected. This paper contrasts faculty compensation models including one that produces a high performance, low compensation anomaly for higher paid faculty.
Creating Win-Win Partnerships and Adding Relevance to Educator Preparation
Author: Abrego, Michelle
Date: 2009-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Partnerships in Education,Relevance (Education),Graduate Students,Student Teachers,Alternative Teacher Certification,Teacher Interns,Teacher Workshops,Teacher Education Curriculum,Teacher Education Programs,Adult Learning,Active Learning,Faculty Development,Program Descriptions,Online Surveys,Learning Experience,Participant Satisfaction,Achievement Gains,Student Teacher Attitudes,Teaching Skills,Pedagogical Content Knowledge

The authors describe a partnership between two departments, in a school of education that involves educational leadership and curriculum and instruction graduate students sharing their expertise of teaching and learning with student teachers and alternatively certified teacher interns. This project provides graduate students with active participation in delivering workshops to adult learners. The beginning teachers are the participants. Beginning teachers benefit from gaining hands-on experience and research-based instructional strategies to use in their classrooms. Researchers found this activity increased the graduate students' sensitivity to the needs of beginning teachers. Over 1300 student teachers and alternative certification interns and approximately 530 graduate students have participated in the Teaching, Learning, and Service Conference. The conference is organized twice a year, on a Saturday in the fall and on a Saturday in the spring.
Faculty Presence Promotes Quality of Education in the Online Asynchronous Classroom
Author: O'Reilly, Kimberly
Date: 2009-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Online Courses,Teacher Student Relationship,Asynchronous Communication,Interaction,Literature Reviews,Computer Mediated Communication,Educational Technology,Feedback (Response),Electronic Mail,Teacher Role,Educational Quality

As online education continues to thrive, as indicated by increased acceptance and growing enrollment numbers, schools must strive to provide high quality educational opportunities to their students. Interaction within the classroom is one method of instruction that has been accepted in traditional settings and should be utilized within online classrooms as well. A review of the literature that addresses how interaction creates presence within the online environment will help to establish how interaction creates presence and will describe what tools faculty should utilize and the types of presence for which faculty should strive and why.
The Ethics of Setting Course Expectations to Manipulate Student Evaluations of Teaching Effectiveness in Higher Education: An Examination of the Ethical Dilemmas Created by the Use of SETEs and a Proposal for Further Study and Analysis
Author: Neal, Catherine S.
Date: 2009-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Student Evaluation of Teacher Performance,Ethics,Instructional Effectiveness,Higher Education,Course Objectives,Conflict,Attendance,Student Attitudes,Affective Objectives,Expectation,Classroom Techniques,Change Strategies,Educational Research

Because student evaluations of teaching effectiveness (SETEs) are an important and widely used tool used in the evaluation and reward systems for faculty members in higher education, a discussion and analysis of the ethical problems that may arise as a result of the conflict created by expectations of performance is provided. This discussion specifically focuses on ethical issues related to setting course expectations and attendance policies to manipulate students' perceptions of course rigor and the overall evaluation of the course and the instructor.
Interactive Technology in the Classroom: An Exploratory Look at Its Use and Effectiveness
Author: Eastman, Jacqueline K.
Date: 2009-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Educational Technology,Interaction,Teaching Methods,Technology Uses in Education,Consumer Science,Student Surveys,Student Attitudes,Teacher Student Relationship,Computer Mediated Communication,Student Interests,Learner Engagement,Attendance,College Students,Pretests Posttests,Questionnaires

This paper proposes that Interactive Technology can help professors enhance communication, attitudes, and interest in the classroom. This paper describes Interactive Technology, how professors can use it, and preliminary findings of its effectiveness. These findings suggest that the use of Interactive Technology can enhance students' attitudes. Additionally, students surveyed, who had used Interactive Technology in a Consumer Behavior course agreed that its use made the course more interesting and attention getting, and they were satisfied with the course. Preliminary findings, however, also suggest that Interactive Technology may not enhance attendance, course preparation, and retention.
The Higher the Quality of Teaching the Higher the Quality of Education
Author: Sultana, Naveed
Date: 2009-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Higher Education,Educational Quality,Instructional Effectiveness,Teacher Effectiveness,Police School Relationship,Faculty Development,College Faculty,Teacher Behavior,Pedagogical Content Knowledge,Teacher Competencies,Research,Student Surveys,Questionnaires,Student Evaluation of Teacher Performance,Teacher Evaluation

The higher education plays as leadership role in the system of education. Quality education can ensure security, welfare and prosperity of a nation. The key factors influencing the quality of higher education is the quality of faculty, curriculum standards, technological infrastructure available, research environment, accreditation regime, administrative policies, financing, evaluation and good governance. The main objectives of the study were (1) To evaluate the indicators of good teaching. (2) To examine the institutional policies for valuing the teaching. (3) To examine the contribution of teaching towards professional development of teachers. (4) To find out institutional efforts for enhancing the professional development of teachers. For study purposes five federal universities of Islamabad were taken and their faculties were included in the population. Twenty teachers of each university were taken as the sample of the study. This sample was selected with the help of the students from each department. As students are considered tougher evaluators of the teachers so the selection of the good teachers was completed on the basis of the five common competencies such as competencies related to subject and subject area teaching, competencies related to teaching and learning, competencies in research work and competencies related to professional behaviour .This survey type study was conducted through a questionnaire. The study concluded that good teaching does not pay any benefit to teachers except self-satisfaction and also finding that the requirements for quality teaching are not available in universities. The present study recommends the higher quality of teaching may be ranked and recognized at local, national and international level.
An Investigation into Nigerian Teachers' Knowledge of Primary Science Curriculum Content and Involvement in Practical Activities: Implications for the UBE Scheme
Author: Ogunleye, Ayodele O.
Date: 2009-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Foreign Countries,Investigations,Elementary School Curriculum,Elementary School Science,Science Activities,Pedagogical Content Knowledge,Knowledge Level,Familiarity,Elementary School Teachers,Teacher Participation,Educational Objectives,Difficulty Level,Teacher Qualifications,Gender Differences,Teaching Experience,Inservice Teacher Education,Questionnaires,Teacher Attitudes

The study was designed to find out the extent of Nigerian teachers' knowledge of primary science curriculum content and their involvement in the participation of their pupils in science activities. Furthermore, the study sought to find out teachers ranking of primary science objectives. The subjects were 60 primary school teachers randomly selected from both urban and rural primary schools in Lagos State. A questionnaire constructed by the researcher, whose coefficient of internal validity was 0.85, was used for data collection. The findings of the study show that a significant proportion of primary school teachers experience difficulty in teaching many of the topics of the primary science curriculum. Further findings of the study were discussed with regards to qualification, Sex and experiences of teachers. The implications of these findings for the Nigeria Universal Basic Education (UBE) scheme were also highlighted.
Maximizing Indigenous Student Learning in the Mainstream with Language and Culture
Author: Schwieter, John W.
Date: 2009-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Student Needs,Indigenous Populations,American Indian Students,Teacher Education,Learning Processes,Dropout Rate,American Indian Languages,Models,Teaching Methods,American Indian Culture,Outcomes of Education,Foreign Countries

In this paper, we explore the importance of being conscious of the needs of indigenous students within the education system in order to increase their learning process and decrease their dropout rates. Specifically, we discuss how Mayan language, culture, and ideologies affect the educational outcome of Mayan students in mainstream classes in Guatemalan schools. From this discussion, we highlight the impact that these factors have on both teacher training and the education of the indigenous student population. A simple &quot;teaching to learn--learning to teach&quot; model is explained which discusses the importance of multilingual and multicultural aspects of teacher training and real-life implications in the indigenous student learning process.
Treatment for Common Running/Walking Foot Injuries
Author: McDaniel, Larry W.
Date: 2009-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Injuries,Physical Education,Physical Activities,Safety Education,Exercise Physiology,Athletics,Prevention

Whether you are a weekend warrior or a serious athlete, most runners fear the possibility of being injured. For those who are physically active or stand on their feet all day, healthy feet are important Highly conditioned runners spend many hours performing foot maintenance to prevent unnecessary injuries. Some of the common foot injuries are: Plantar Fasciitis, Metatarsal Stress Fractures, blisters, Metatarsalgia, Morton's Syndrome, Turf Toe, and Sesamoiditis. Most runners realize that shoes wear from the inside out. Runners should frequently check the inside of the shoe. Attention should focus on the pads of the insole, stitching, toe, heel, and instep areas. Properly lacing the shoe strings may save wear and tear on the shoes and feet. RICE (rest-ice-compression-elevation) treatments are a very important part of healthy foot maintenance and treatment; treatments should be done sooner rather than later. Many running problems may be prevented by focusing attention on your feet. Frequently inspect ones feet before and after running or walking. Foot pain is not normal when running or walking; seek medical assistance as soon as possible. If your goal is to enjoy running for a lifetime, it is sometimes more important to use your head than your feet. If you want to run tomorrow, take care of your feet today!
The Impact of Symbolic Speech in Public Schools: A Selective Case Analysis from &quot;Tinker&quot; to &quot;Zamecnik&quot;
Author: Waggoner, Charles R.
Date: 2013-00-00
Type: Journal Articles
Subjects: Public Schools,Case Studies,Educational Environment,Court Litigation,Freedom of Speech,Student Rights,Speech Communication,Advocacy,Student Empowerment,Self Expression,Educational Administration,Educational Practices

The freedom to express the self and the right to a free public education sets the American public school experience apart from those of many other nations. The combination of the two often creates tensions and confrontations that become contentious leading to litigation. For the past fifty years the courts have attempted to balance the symbolic rights of students with the obligation of the school to protect students from bullying, while maintaining decorum that allows all students to pursue an education free from intimidation. Young people express themselves in many ways, often in a symbolic manner that involves the wearing of a t-shirt or other artifacts conveying their self-expression of ideas and idiosyncrasies. When the learning environment is jeopardized as a result of that speech, the courts have been called upon to determine whether or not the suppression of the speech by school officials is appropriate. Tinker v. Des Moines has served as the bedrock case for symbolic speech, and, since then, there are those who have contended that the courts have chipped away at student rights. The case of Zamecnik v. Indian Prairie School District 204 is illustrative of this contention.