Decision Quality

Decision Quality
Author: Carl Spetzler
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 211
Release: 2016-02-24
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1119144698

Add value with every decision using a simple yet powerful framework Few things are as valuable in business, and in life, as the ability to make good decisions. Can you imagine how much more rewarding your life and your business would be if every decision you made were the best it could be? Decision Quality empowers you to make the best possible choice and get more of what you truly want from every decision. Dr. Carl Spetzler is a leader in the field of decision science and has worked with organizations across industries to improve their decision-making capabilities. He and his co-authors, all experienced consultants and educators in this field, show you how to frame a problem or opportunity, create a set of attractive alternatives, identify relevant uncertain information, clarify the values that are important in the decision, apply tools of analysis, and develop buy-in among stakeholders. Their straightforward approach is elegantly simple, yet practical and powerful. It can be applied to all types of decisions. Our business and our personal lives are marked by a stream of decisions. Some are small. Some are large. Some are life-altering or strategic. How well we make those decisions truly matters. This book gives you a framework and thinking tools that will help you to improve the odds of getting more of what you value from every choice. You will learn: The six requirements for decision quality, and how to apply them The difference between a good decision and a good outcome Why a decision can only be as good as the best of the available alternatives Methods for making both "significant" and strategic decisions The mental traps that undermine decision quality and how to avoid them How to deal with uncertainty—a factor in every important choice How to judge the quality of a decision at the time you're making it How organizations have benefited from building quality into their decisions. Many people are satisfied with 'good enough' when making important decisions. This book provides a method that will take you and your co-workers beyond 'good enough' to true Decision Quality.

Complete Guide to Human Resources and the Law, 2020 Edition

Complete Guide to Human Resources and the Law, 2020 Edition
Author: Shilling
Publisher: Wolters Kluwer
Total Pages: 1878
Release: 2019-08-23
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1543811140

The Complete Guide to Human Resources and the Law will help you navigate complex and potentially costly Human Resources issues. You'll know what to do (and what not to do) to avoid costly mistakes or oversights, confront HR problems - legally and effectively - and understand the rules. The Complete Guide to Human Resources and the Law offers fast, dependable, plain English legal guidance for HR-related situations from ADA accommodation, diversity training, and privacy issues to hiring and termination, employee benefit plans, compensation, and recordkeeping. It brings you the most up-to-date information as well as practical tips and checklists in a well-organized, easy-to-use resource. Previous Edition: Complete Guide to Human Resources and the Law, 2018 Edition ISBN 9781454899945

Understanding by Design

Understanding by Design
Author: Grant P. Wiggins
Publisher: ASCD
Total Pages: 383
Release: 2005
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1416600353

What is understanding and how does it differ from knowledge? How can we determine the big ideas worth understanding? Why is understanding an important teaching goal, and how do we know when students have attained it? How can we create a rigorous and engaging curriculum that focuses on understanding and leads to improved student performance in today's high-stakes, standards-based environment? Authors Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe answer these and many other questions in this second edition of Understanding by Design. Drawing on feedback from thousands of educators around the world who have used the UbD framework since its introduction in 1998, the authors have greatly revised and expanded their original work to guide educators across the K-16 spectrum in the design of curriculum, assessment, and instruction. With an improved UbD Template at its core, the book explains the rationale of backward design and explores in greater depth the meaning of such key ideas as essential questions and transfer tasks. Readers will learn why the familiar coverage- and activity-based approaches to curriculum design fall short, and how a focus on the six facets of understanding can enrich student learning. With an expanded array of practical strategies, tools, and examples from all subject areas, the book demonstrates how the research-based principles of Understanding by Design apply to district frameworks as well as to individual units of curriculum. Combining provocative ideas, thoughtful analysis, and tested approaches, this new edition of Understanding by Design offers teacher-designers a clear path to the creation of curriculum that ensures better learning and a more stimulating experience for students and teachers alike.

Ptaexam

Ptaexam
Author: Scott M. Giles
Publisher: Mainely Physical Therapy
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014-07
Genre: Physical therapy
ISBN: 9781890989354

Overview: Utilize our comprehensive academic review and then perfect your skills on five full-length sample exams- more questions than any other review product. Our clinically oriented questions prepare you for the rigor of the actual exam and offer an ideal method to determine your current strengths and weaknesses. An extensive academic review and powerful study tools provide candidates with an ideal opportunity to prepare for the breadth and depth of the current examination.

Designing Clinical Research

Designing Clinical Research
Author: Stephen B. Hulley
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Total Pages: 388
Release: 2011-11-30
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1451165854

Designing Clinical Research sets the standard for providing a practical guide to planning, tabulating, formulating, and implementing clinical research, with an easy-to-read, uncomplicated presentation. This edition incorporates current research methodology—including molecular and genetic clinical research—and offers an updated syllabus for conducting a clinical research workshop. Emphasis is on common sense as the main ingredient of good science. The book explains how to choose well-focused research questions and details the steps through all the elements of study design, data collection, quality assurance, and basic grant-writing. All chapters have been thoroughly revised, updated, and made more user-friendly.

A Comprehensive Guide to Graduate Enrollment Management

A Comprehensive Guide to Graduate Enrollment Management
Author: Joseph H. Paris
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 335
Release: 2024-03-20
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1003857760

This book elucidates the intricacies and obscurities of graduate enrollment management, allowing scholars and professionals to advance research and practice in the field. Masterfully drawing upon scholarly and applied literatures pertaining to graduate admissions, marketing, strategic planning, and more, chapters present original empirical research and practical case studies that offer readers plentiful strategies, models, and frameworks for approaching graduate enrollment management at their own institutions. This guidebook positions higher education leaders, scholars, and graduate enrollment professionals to effectively address challenges that inhibit the work of increasing equity in graduate education and improving graduate student outcomes.

Teaching in Nursing and Role of the Educator, Third Edition

Teaching in Nursing and Role of the Educator, Third Edition
Author: Marilyn H. Oermann, PhD, RN, ANEF, FAAN
Publisher: Springer Publishing Company
Total Pages: 514
Release: 2021-02-04
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 0826152635

All the information you need in one textbook! This all-inclusive text for Nurse Educators delivers comprehensive, evidence-based guidance on the essential components of teaching, including learning theories, teaching methods, new technologies for teaching, curriculum development, evaluation and testing, and accreditation. The text delivers the full scope of knowledge necessary for novice and experienced faculty to become competent teachers in nursing. This third edition features new content on the transition from clinician to educator. There is also a new chapter on nursing professional development and teaching in clinical settings and updated teaching strategies for active learning, clinical judgment, and online teaching. The text is designed to help educators prepare for the certification exams. The text also addresses varied learning styles and how to accommodate them, new developments in simulation, standardized patients, OSCEs, clinical teaching, interprofessional education, and evidence-based teaching. New to the Third Edition: Chapter on the transition from clinician to educator, plus expanded content throughout on becoming a nurse educator Addresses inclusivity and developing an inclusive learning environment for people with different learning styles Strategies to promote active learning, clinical judgment, and higher level learning, and teaching online Updated content on simulations, the use of standardized patients, OSCEs, clinical teaching, and clinical evaluation Chapter on accreditation of nursing programs and developing a systematic program evaluation plan Chapter on nursing professional development and teaching in a clinical setting Key Features: Written by experts who seamlessly integrate evidence-based research and practical strategies Serves as a thorough study guide for nurse educator certification exams Covers practical teaching strategies, simulation, online education, technology, interprofessional education, clinical teaching and evaluation, and test construction Includes case examples and other examples to support content and “how-to” tips Includes a high quality online course ready for an instructor’s use: sample syllabus, PowerPoints, and a complete 20-module online course