Measuring the local economic impact of universities: an approach that considers uncertainty     

José Manuel Pastor  Francisco Pérez  Juan Fernández de Guevara 《Higher Education》2013,65(5):539-564

The contribution of universities to society is due to the effects generated both in the supply and in the demand side, the latter being associated with the injection of demand as a result of the activities these institutions carry out. This paper focuses on the impact of the demand side by designing a methodology based on Monte Carlo simulations so as to introduce stochastic elements in calculating the economic impact of universities. We apply this methodology to the case of Valencian public universities, introducing stochastic elements in all the elements which imply assumptions with uncertainty. The results highlight the importance of considering uncertainty by generating multipliers which can vary around the average value by 18 % in the case of output and employment, and 10 % in the case of income.  相似文献   

Peak-Load Pricing in Higher Education     

Manuel Avila 《Journal of Experimental Education》2013,81(3):6-11

Increasing enrollments and inflated costs have really created a financial struggle for colleges and universities. Since there is no foreseeable change it seems desirable to aim toward greater efficiency in the use of existing resources. It is shown that the educational plant, except for a short peak period, is largely under-utlizied. The enrollment response to a lowering of tuition is analyzed. It is shown that if the hours of operation were extended, and if a set of differential tuition rates were established, with a relatively higher rate for the peak hours as compared to those off-peak, a more intensive use of resources would be achieved. It is also shown that the proposal is financially feasible.  相似文献   

Educación formal y acciones de agrupación y memoria en adultos: Un estudio microgenético     

Manuel L. de la Mata  José A. Sánchez 《Infancia y Aprendizaje》2013,36(53):75-97

Resumen

Se estudió la influencia de la educación formal en el empleo de acciones de agrupación y memoria en sujetos adultos. El trabajo tenía una doble perspectiva, transversal y microgenética. Los sujetos pertenecían a tres niveles educativos y se les estudió a lo largo de cuatro días, en dos pruebas de memorización y recuerdo y una prueba de categorization dirigida intercalada entre las anteriores. Los resultados mostraron la influencia esperada de la escolarización en el empleo de acciones de agrupación y memoria así como cambios a lo largo de las sesiones en el grupo intermedio. La interpretación de los resultados se basó en las nociones de subordinación de acciones mentales y de descontextualización de los instrumentos de mediación.  相似文献   

Análisis de correspondencias y técnicas de clasificación: Su interés para la investigación en las ciencias sociales y del comportamiento     

Joan Manuel Batista  Joan Sureda 《Infancia y Aprendizaje》2013,36(39-40):171-186

Resumen

Este artículo introduce en la utilización de dos procedimientos de análisis de los datos (análisis de correspondencias, y técnicas de clasificación), que, aunque tienen sentido por sí mismos, pueden ser utilizados combinadamente en la investigación en ciencias sociales y del comportamiento. Se discuten los orígenes de estas técnicas, su lógica interna y su ámbito de aplicación, presentándose toda su argumentación alrededor de un ejemplo concreto.  相似文献   

The presence of the British education model in Spain: reception through the Institución Libre de Enseñanza     

Juan Manuel Fernández-Soria 《History of education》2013,42(1):50-71

Spain suffered a severe political and moral crisis in the final years of the nineteenth century and the first third of the twentieth. Pedagogues and politicians belonging to the Institución Libre de Enseñanza (ILE), or those close to it, did not consider it possible to regenerate the country without attending to education and Britain was the model to be followed. Many important figures of the ILE were declared anglophiles and therefore open to incorporating British education in Spain. This research reveals the roots of this preference for Britain on behalf of two of the key figures of the ILE: one of its most relevant founders, Francisco Giner, and his close collaborator, José Castillejo. The article then describes how the educational approach of the ILE found its answers in Britain. The paper ends with some reflections on the scope of the British reference.  相似文献   

Emigration and education. Galician emigration to America and its impact on the processes of literacy,schooling and civic education amongst the rural and seafaring popular classes     

Xosé Manuel Malheiro Gutiérrez 《History of education》2013,42(6):741-762

Over the course of the final 30 years of the nineteenth century, and well into the early decades of the twentieth century, hundreds of thousands of Galician people migrated to different areas of America. There they found a new world to contend and interact with – a world that was more advanced and developed socially and culturally. From the perspective of a new awareness and heightened by processes of collective organisation, mainly identity-based, many of them set out to help advance the cultural and social development of Galicia through self-organised political, social and educational processes. In this way, during the 1920s, a growing number of primary schools – roughly 300 – all over Galicia felt the influence of the Galician emigrants. This is a genuine phenomenon characteristic of Galician emigration that has not been observed in the collective actions carried out by any of the other European migrant communities.  相似文献   

A relevance model for a data warehouse contextualized with documents     

Juan Manuel Pérez  Rafael Berlanga  María José Aramburu 《Information processing & management》2009

This paper presents a relevance model to rank the facts of a data warehouse that are described in a set of documents retrieved with an information retrieval (IR) query. The model is based in language modeling and relevance modeling techniques. We estimate the relevance of the facts by the probability of finding their dimensions values and the query keywords in the documents that are relevant to the query. The model is the core of the so-called contextualized warehouse, which is a new kind of decision support system that combines structured data sources and document collections. The paper evaluates the relevance model with the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) TREC test subcollection and a self-constructed fact database.  相似文献   

Information retrieval with geographical references. Relevant documents filtering vs. query expansion     

Miguel . García-Cumbreras  Jos M. Perea-Ortega  Manuel García-Vega  L. Alfonso Urea-Lpez 《Information processing & management》2009,45(5):605-614

This is a thorough analysis of two techniques applied to Geographic Information Retrieval (GIR). Previous studies have researched the application of query expansion to improve the selection process of information retrieval systems. This paper emphasizes the effectiveness of the filtering of relevant documents applied to a GIR system, instead of query expansion. Based on the CLEF (Cross Language Evaluation Forum) framework available, several experiments have been run. Some based on query expansion, some on the filtering of relevant documents. The results show that filtering works better in a GIR environment, because relevant documents are not reordered in the final list.  相似文献   

A walk on the wild side: ‘Predatory’ journals and information asymmetries in scientific evaluations     

Manuel Bagues  Mauro Sylos-Labini  Natalia Zinovyeva 《Research Policy》2019,48(2):462-477

In recent years the academic world has witnessed the mushrooming of journals that falsely pretend to be legitimate academic outlets. We study this phenomenon using information from 46,000 researchers seeking promotion in Italian academia. About 5% of them have published in journals included in the blacklist of ‘potential, possible, or probable predatory journals’ elaborated by the scholarly librarian Jeffrey Beall. Data from a survey that we conducted among these researchers confirms that at least one third of these journals do not provide peer review or they engage in some other type of irregular editorial practice. We identify two factors that may have spurred publications in dubious journals. First, some of these journals have managed to be included in citation indexes such as Scopus that many institutions consider as a guarantee of quality. Second, we show that authors who publish in these journals are more likely to receive positive assessments when they are evaluated by (randomly selected) committee members who lack research expertise. Overall, our analysis suggests that the proliferation of ‘predatory’ journals reflects the existence of severe information asymmetries in scientific evaluations.  相似文献   

A Lost Decade? Laszlo Radvanyi and the Origins of Public Opinion Research in Mexico, 1941-1952     

Moreno  Alejandro; Sanchez-Castro  Manuel 《Int. Journal of Public Opinion Research》2009,21(1):3-24

This article documents public opinion research activities inMexico in the 1940s and the role played by Hungarian professorLászló Radványi, who immigrated to thatcountry at the height of World War II. Our research relies onseveral of Radványi's publications archived in differentcountries, as well as on interviews with family, acquaintances,and experts on the work of his wife, the German poet Anna Seghers.During his years in Mexico, Radványi founded the ScientificInstitute of Mexican Public Opinion, in 1941, and the InternationalJournal of Opinion and Attitude Research, in 1947—a forefatherof today's IJPOR. He was also a founding member of WAPOR. Hisearly "sample surveys" raised important methodological issuesand recorded opinion results that reflect the vibrant timesof war and policy making in a modernizing country. However,Radványi's contribution to the profession has been virtuallyforgotten. Until now, accounts about how public opinion researchbegan in Mexico either ignored Radványi's works or reducedhis ten years of survey research to a single footnote. Thisarticle is an attempt to fill this enormous omission and highlightsome of Radványi's contributions to these early stagesof survey research.  相似文献