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Rethinking MBA accounting module teaching, assessment and curriculum design
Tse, Chin-Bun - In: International Journal of Accounting and Information … 18 (2010) February, pp. 58-65
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate Master of Business Administration (MBA) students' performance in handling alternative types of accounting questions in order to generate some insights for future MBA accounting module teaching and assessment design....
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The impact of experience-based MBA educational programs on international career mobility
Ryan, Jason; Silvanto, Sari; Brown, Haakon T. - In: Journal of Global Mobility 1 (2013), pp. 28-28
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine empirically whether teaching methodologies that emphasize international experiential learning have a significant role in fostering or encouraging greater international mobility. To that end, it assesses whether MBA programs that emphasize...
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The when and how of leaving school: The policy implications of new evidence on secondary schooling in South Africa
Gustafsson, Martin - Department of Economics, Fakulteit Ekonomiese en … - 2011
South African and international household and education datasets are analysed to characterise patterns of dropping out, grade repetition, academic under-performance and under-preparedness for post-school life in South African secondary schools. A number of measurement error problems are moreover...
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Masvingo Province Secondary School Pupils and Teachers Views on the Educational Value of Zimbabwe Junior Certificate Examinations
Gonye, Jairos; Mareva, Rugare; Gamira, Daniel; Chiome, … - In: International Journal of Asian Social Science 2 (2012) 8, pp. 1331-1338
(ZJC) examinations in light of the proposed re-introduction of the ZJC examinations that were discontinued in 1999. The … majority of secondary school  pupils and teachers  see the ZJC examinations as useful if the results were to be released … prepare pupils for ‘O’ Level examinations, among other reasons. Some pupils and teachers, however, view the examinations as a …
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Examinations in Universities of the Russian Empire in the First Half of the 19th Century
Zharova, Ekaterina - In: Educational Studies (2014) 4, pp. 246-259
of Nicholas I. Particularly, rules of organizing entrance, transfer and final examinations were developed. The Decree of …, which was later affirmed by the Decree of 1835.) While examinations had been a mere formality prior to this consolidation …
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Resits in Higher Education: Merely a Bar to Jump Over, or Do They Give a Pedagogical `Leg Up’?
Proud, Steven - School of Economics, Finance and Management, University … - 2014
statistics with econometrics examinations on future outcomes. Whilst resits alone appear to make zero significant effect on … microeconomics than similar students who do not receive resit examinations. These effects, if replicated more widely, could be worth …
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Collective Punishments: Incentives and Examinations in Organisations
Banerjee, Priyodorshi - In: Contributions to Theoretical Economics 7 (2007) 1, pp. 1388-1388
The paper investigates the impact of examinations on incentives and decision-making in bureaucracies and similar …
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Educational(work)performance in african countries: problems, policies and prospects
Nwaobi, Godwin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
Without education, development will not occur, only an educated people can command the skills necessary for sustainable economic growth and for a better quality of life. Recognizing this fact, African governments have placed heavy emphasis on expanding educational opportunities from primary...
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The bees algorithm for workload balancing in examination job assignment
Baykasoglu, Adil; Ozbakir, Lale; Tapkan, Pinar - In: European Journal of Industrial Engineering 3 (2009) 4, pp. 424-435
In this paper, an integer quadratic programming model is proposed for workload balancing in the examination job assignment problem. The proposed model can be classified as part of the 'Generalised Assignment Problem' or GAP, which is known as an NP-hard problem. To solve the proposed model, a...
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Efficient Tuition & Fees, Examinations and Subsidies
Gary-Bobo, Robert J.; Trannoy, Alain - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005
A student's future log-wage is given by the sum of a skill premium and a random personal ‘ability’ term. Students observe only a private, noisy signal of their ability, and universities can condition admission decisions on the results of noisy tests. We assume first that universities are...
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