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A Case Study on Effect of Improvement of Pre-school Education

A Study about Effect of Improvement of Pre-school Education

Abstract: Methods:~ A case-control study was undertaken to evaluate an intervention. Eight Anganwadi centers were selected using simple random sampling out of sixteen Anganwadi centers in Talegaon PHC area where intervention was done. Ten children in age group of 4-6 years were selected randomly from each of the eight Anganwadi center in intervention arm. For each child from intervention arm, one agematched child was selected from the matched Anganwadi center. For each subject, Intelligence Quotient and Development Quotient were assessed.

Case Study on Pre-school Education

It is widely acknowledged that the young child is most vulnerable to malnutrition, morbidity, resultant disability and mortality. The early childhood years in particular represents the important span for intervention aiming at their balanced overall development and these years are the most crucial period of life, when the foundation for cognitive, social, emotional, language, physical, motor development and life long learning are laid. Early Childhood Care and Development (ECCD) is a comprehensive approach specially aimed at providing opportunities for the holistic development of children. Keep reading…

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A Study report in Key Characteristic of a European Style of Management

A Study report about Key Characteristic of a European Style of Management

This article investigates whether key characteristics of a European style of management can be discerned. To this end, a conceptual framework is developed for reconciling the observed tension and pinpointing a key common characteristic of a European style of management. No attempt is made here to show that national styles of management such as Swedish or British management (Barsoux and Lawrence, 1990) will disappear in the fiiture. On the contrary, we maintain that national styles of management are and will remain part of Europe’s diversity (Lessem and Neubauer, 1994). We aim to improve our understanding of how management relates to the European business environment as a contingency factor. In particular, we investigate ways of approaching the above-mentioned management problem in Europe.

Case Study on Key Characteristic

We begin with a short overview of the literature and draw attention to the tension between integration opportunities and constraining diversity for managers in Europe. We then introduce a managerial perspective in describing various relevant forms of an important contextual variable of Europe—namely, diversity. After developing a conceptual framework for reconciling this tension, we describe how this framework can focus attention on a key characteristic of a European style of management. We use a case study of Unilever Foods Europe to illustrate the proposed conceptual framework. In discussing our findings, we touch upon some implications for developing the distinctive managerial skills required by a European style of management and suggest directions for future research. Keep reading…

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A Study report on Low Self-Control As a Source of Crime

Study report about Low Self-Control As a Source of Crime

Abstract: Self-control theory is one of the best studied criminological paradigms. Since Gottfredson and Hirschi published their General Theory in 1990 the theory has been tested on more than a million subjects. This meta-study systematizes the evidence, reporting 717 results from 102 different publications that cover 966,364 original data points. The paper develops a methodology that makes it possible to standardize findings although the original papers have used widely varying statistical procedures, and have generated findings of very different precision. Overall, the theory is overwhelmingly supported, but the effect is relatively small, and is sensitive to adding a host of moderating variables.

Case Study on Low Self-Control

Few criminological theories have had such an impact as the “General Theory of Crime” by Gottfredson and Hirschi (Gottfredson and Hirschi 1990). The theory is not only pervasively cited, and has triggered a lively theoretical debate. It has also been tested empirically hundreds of times. This meta-study organizes the empirical evidence. While a predecessor study 10 years ago had covered 19 papers (Pratt and Cullen 2000), this paper covers 102 publications. It develops a new methodology to make the effect of low self-control on crime and deviant behavior comparable across studies, including the competing operationalizations of self-control. It uses the resulting dataset to test the effect of multiple explanatory variables on the sensitivity of deviance to a lack in self-control. Keep reading…

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A Case Study of Justification of methodology

Study about Justification of methodology

This MCDU case study attempted to illustrate principles by considering barriers in learning MFL and strategies to reduce them. It tried to describe how the MFL experience is approached in thissetting with these pupils. It attempted to explore the field ofstudy, as defined in the title, and gather information on it. In order to do this exploration, data was collected and assimilated from formal and informal observation, field notes, vignettes and reference to (researcher-written) profiles and  reports, and individualised educational programmes.

Case Study on Justification of methodology

Because of the small number in the MCDU (up to 12) and its self-sufficient location within the secondary school, it could be seen almost as a living and evolving tableau which has seen over the past three years the development of MFL courses specifically differentiated for this group. The case study therefore described this tableau at one point in time (Spring  2001) with one set of high-functioning communication-disordered pupils with their individual and group needs.  It could not therefore produce reliable data, which could be replicated by another researcher, as the variables would change with the mix of pupils. Keep reading…

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A Study report on Stereotyping

A Study report about Stereotyping

Students identify strategies for dealing with conflicts that are rooted in stereotyping and prejudice. Once students have acquired the vocabulary, they are ready to discuss how to handle prejudice-related conflicts. In this lesson, students examine effective and ineffective ways to handle prejudice-related conflicts, using skills they acquired earlier in this course of study. A theme to emphasize during this lesson is that positive and constructive action can be taken to deal with these conflicts.

Case Study on Stereotyping

Divide students into groups of three or four and give each group a copy of the Strategies for Interrupting Prejudice handout. Explain that each group will receive two different case studies that tell of how someone dealt with or “interrupted” prejudice in a conflict. Some of the people were effective, some were not. The group will have about five minutes to read the case, then discuss the questions on the handout and decide what they think. keep reading…

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A Case Study of Training the Trainer Resource Pack

A Study about Training the Trainer Resource Pack

It is not easy for trainers and educators in the archives and records management field to find formal ways of learning the necessary skills and expertise to teach. Educators, and more particularly trainers, are frequently only teaching as part of a practitioner’s heavy workload. Whilst they are often experts in their own field or specialism with much to pass on to other members of the profession and its supporting para-professional staff: this does not guarantee effective training for those wishing to learn from them. As the experts it is appropriate that they should teach the next generations of practitioners and although some are naturally gifted teachers, there is always something to learn to improve delivery of training. Moreover, in many parts of the world training is very expensive to deliver and cascaded learning, where a few people attend formal training and then feed it back to their colleagues and institutions, is an effective and a cheaper option.

Case Study on Trainer Resource Pack

This resource pack is intended for anyone who wants some guidance or direction in planning, organising and delivering effective training for both professionals and support staff whatever their working or learning environment. The bulk of the pack addresses the various techniques for delivering training but it also covers the practical administrative tasks that are essential for successful training courses and which underpin the training content. Keep Reading…

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A Case Study on Training the Trainer Resource Pack

A Study about Training the Trainer Resource Pack

Introduction: Case studies are descriptions of a real life experience, related to the field of study or training, which are used to make points, raise issues or otherwise enhance the participants’ understanding and learning experience. The account usually follows a realistic scenario, such as a management or technical problem, from start to finish. Because they provide practical examples of problems and solutions, challenges and strategies, they support more theoretical material and often make the “lesson” more memorable and believable for the class.

Case Study on Trainer Resource Pack

As Laura Millar notes in Writing Case Studies: A Manual (part of the Managing Public Sector Records Training Programme materials published in 1999 by the ICA and IRMT), case studies are particularly useful in the archives and records management field as there is so much variety in the full range of archives and records management programmes with many different types of organisations as well as local, national, and regional differences. Keep reading…

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A Case Study for Centrality in Social Networks Conceptual Clarification

Study about Centrality in Social Networks Conceptual Clarification

These reports provided the impetus for a great many more ~xpe~ments through the 1950s and 1960s. There were extensions, modifications and elaborations of the original M.I.T. design. As evidence accumulated, how- ever, the results turned out to be confusing and often contradictory. Summarizing the experimental literature in 1968, Burgess (1968) concluded that “the research has not produced consistent and cumulative results”. Never theless, the results do show that centrality is relevant to the way groups get rganized to solve at least some kinds of problems.

Case Study on Social Networks Conceptual Clarification

Applications of the concept of centrality, however, have not been confined to experimental studies of group problem-solving. Cohn and Marriott (1958) used the centrality idea in their attempt to understand political integration in the context of the diversity of Indian social life. In effect, they asked how a nation as large and heterogeneous as India could be administered at all. Their conclusion was that every aspect of Indian social life was knit together by network centers that “bound and intertwined” diverse strands into a coordinated structure. Pitts (1965) examined the consequences of centrality in communication paths for urban development. He reconstructed the twelfth century network of river transportation in central Russia in an attempt to explain the preeminence of the modern city of Moscow as it emerged from among the many hamlets in the area. Moscow, it turned out, was a major structural center in the medieval Russian transportation and communication network. keep reading…

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A Study on Power, Control and Organisational Learning

A Study about Power, Control and Organisational Learning

Abstract:~ A case study of a bank illustrates that organisational learning can be based on a structured social construction of cognitive homogeneity which generates an increase of control and enhances power of the management by reinforcing the legitimacy of decisions. However, this case study also shows that learning and non-learning are the two faces of the same process or, in other words, that organisational learning can produce unawareness and unintentional nonlearning by too much cultural uniformity.

Case Study on Organisational Learning

Introduction:~ The aim of this paper is to provide a critical examination of underlying processes involved in applications of organisational learning theory, i.e. some interventionists’ conception of the learning organisation. It presents a three-fold sociological analysis. In the first part, managerial organisation theory and consultants’ writings within the interpretative perspective of organisational learning processes will be reviewed and analysed. Then a theoretical framework based on concepts such as power, domination and control will be proposed. In a third part, empirical work will be reviewed, in order to illustrate the processes by which some unanticipated and unwelcome consequences of the very act of building a learning organisation can appear in the long run. Read more on Organisational Learning

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A Study on Hypothesis Testing and Statistical Power of a Test

A Study about Hypothesis Testing and Statistical Power of a Test

A hypothesis is a specific conjecture (statement) about a property of a population of interest. A hypothesis should be interesting to audience and deserve testing. A frivolous or dull example is “the water I purchased at Kroger is made up of hydrogen and oxygen.” A null hypothesis is a specific baseline statement to be tested and it usually takes such forms as “no effect” or “no difference.”

Case study on Hypothesis Testing

An alternative (research) hypothesis is denial of the null hypothesis. Researchers often, but not always, expect that evidence supports the alternative hypothesis. A hypothesis is either two-tailed 2 A twotailed test considers both extremes (left and right) of a probability distribution. Keep reading..

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