The purpose of this study was to determine whether College of Education graduates who sought and secured employment as teachers differed on the academic variables of grade point average, student teaching evaluation, and professional recommendations from those who were not successful at securing such employment. A comprehensive review of related literature was conducted, focusing on three aspects of the employment situation: (1) teacher supply and demand, (2) the selection process, and (3) the role played by academic criteria in the selection process. A study was conducted in which students who were successful in finding teaching positions were compared with those who were not successful, on the academic variables of grade point average, student teaching evaluation, and professional recommendations. Demographic data were also collected and analyzed. The subjects were sixty-three randomly selected students from the May 19 80 graduating class of the College of Education, North Texas State University, Denton, Texas. For purposes of statistical analysis, the students were divided into the following three groups: Group A (those who successfully sought employment as teachers), Group B (those who sought such employment but were not successful), and Group C (those who did not seek employment as teachers).

The study employed 206 entry-level, retail sales associates working for a large telecommunications company across 70 store sites. The purpose of the study was to discriminate successful performers from those with little sales potential via a valid, fair, and practical selection procedure. The experimental test set consisted of the General Ability Battery, Sales Attitude Checklist, Wonderlic Personnel Test, SRA Verbal Form, School and College Ability Test Verbal, SPA Arithmetic Index, and SRA Reading Index. Supervisory ratings and percent revenue data were used as measures of sales performance. Based on the multiple regression results, the SPA Reading Index and SRA Verbal Form were chosen to compose the final selection system for the retail sales position.

Magister Legum - LLM / The monitoring and supervision of local government is usually done by central governments. However in some countries like South Africa where there three spheres of government the provincial executive is charged with the supervision of the local sphere of government. In Zimbabwe the monitoring and supervision of local government is done by the central government through the relevant Minister. This study will look at the appointment of a caretaker to act as council in terms of section 80 of the UCA. Although a similar provision exists in section 158 of the RDCA, it is section 80 that has been vigorously applied by the Minister in recent times and which has caused an outcry from urban local authorities. / South Africa

Magister Philosophiae - MPhil / Instability in the administration of municipalities is a particularly serious problem in the Western Cape because of its large number of coalition councils. Coalitions have led to frequent changes in local governance and to constant changes in political and administrative leadership. Due to the fluidity in local government, the politics of the day have become synonymous with back-stabbing, secret agreements and arrangements between politicians and political parties wishing to align themselves in such a way as to gain control of the councils.1 A municipality is required by the Constitution2 to structure and manage its administration and budgets, budgeting and planning processes so as to give priority to the basic needs of the community and to promote the social and economic development of the community.3 Legislation further prescribes that “a municipality must within its administrative and financial capacity establish and organize its administration in a manner that would enable the municipality to establish clear relationships, facilitate coordination, cooperation and communication between (i) its political structures and political office bearers and its administration; (ii) its political structures, political office bearers and administration and the local community”.4 It may therefore be argued that a municipality subscribing to the abovementioned prescripts should be functioning effectively. However, in practice continuous administrative and political instability adversely impacts on a municipality‟s capacity to provide service delivery to the community. The 2006 local government elections resulted in only four out of 30 municipalities in the Western Cape having a single party with more than 50% of the seats (outright majority). The remaining 26 municipalities were governed by coalitions of two or more parties. In 2001, Parliament introduced floor-crossing legislation which allowed Members of Parliament, Members of Provincial Legislatures and local government councillors to change their political party (or form a new party) and retains their seats when they did so.5 As a result of the 2007 floor-crossing legislation, the number of municipalities with an outright majority increased to 7. Power changes continued to occur even after the 2007 floor-crossing as a result of by-election outcomes or new internal coalition arrangements. Coalition government in the Western Cape remains a reality following the 18 May 2011 local government elections: the Democratic Alliance won 12 municipalities outright, the African National Congress won 1, and in 12 municipalities there was no outright winner. Of the 12 last-mentioned municipalities, 7 municipalities produced hung municipalities, i.e. Bitou, Witzenberg, Laingsburg, Hessequa, Theewaterskloof, Matzikama and Prince Albert. / South Africa

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between TeacherInsight™ (TI) scores and student performance as measured by student academic change scores on the Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills (TAKS) test. School district administrators, particularly district personnel administrators, are continually faced with the task of screening and hiring potential teacher applicants who are expected to influence student achievement outcomes directly. Efforts to make the screening, selection, and hiring process more efficient and effective have led to the use of certain teacher prescreening selection instruments that provide a research-based assessment of teachers’ affective attributes, which purportedly predicts teacher effectiveness. This study addressed this concern using a teacher screening and selection tool, the TI, design by the Gallup Organization. According to the Gallup Organization, the TI is a predictor of teacher affective attributes or talents. The state of Texas uses a student evaluation process called the TAKS to measure student academic gains in certain subject areas. This study examined the relationship between the TI and teacher effectiveness as measured by student academic TAKS change scores in mathematics in fourth and fifth grade. I used data obtained from a single school district in north central Texas. The specific targeted population consisted of 874 students enrolled in mathematics and 44 fourth- and fifth-grade teachers hired over a 3-year period (20082011). I applied a quantitative causal-comparative research design. Descriptive statistics for all variables were presented and bivariate relationships between continuous variables were examined. A two-level linear regression model was used to predict student performance on state-mandated assessments using teachers’ TI scores while controlling for relevant covariates. The statistical significance level throughout the study was set at α = .05. A major finding of this study revealed that teachers’ TI scores were not significant predictors of student achievement in the final model (p = .351). Moreover, the final model did not have significant predictive power when compared to the null model. The findings suggest that other factors not recorded in this dataset may influence student academic performance. Only student gender was a significant predictor of TAKS scores. However, the effect size indicated that student gender accounted for less than 1% of the variance in student achievement (R2 = .003). The findings of this study indicate that the TI alone should not be used as the sole instrument in predicting the quality and potential influence a teacher candidate will have on student performance on state-mandated assessments, and the selected school district should consider re-evaluating its use of the screening instrument for selecting teachers. Recommendations based on the results of the study are discussed and areas for future research are provided.

This thesis is focused on function of insolvency administrator, both in terms of requirements imposed on the performance of insolvency administrator, and in the terms of the obligations that insolvency administrator has to execute in course of the insolvency proceedings. The objective of this thesis is analyzing function of insolvency administrator from the point of view of his position, powers and responsibility in insolvency proceedings. The objective of this thesis is also to test hypothesis, whether a new system of appointment of insolvency administrators based on rotational principle can be considered as effective and whether it truly led to higher transparency of appointment of insolvency administrators.

The human resources department of a financial institution implemented a multi-component intervention to replace a paper-based hiring system. Organization-wide impacts included changes in the background check operations. To support changes, training was conducted and procedure manuals distributed. Turn time for background checks decreased, but a combination of factors may be responsible. Other metrics are either inconclusive or suggest a confounding variable, yet quality of work did not suffer was maintained. Desired system use was achieved, accompanied by improvements in time-to-fill, voluntary turnover, and quality of applicants. Considerations for analysis and challenges faced are discussed, along with suggestions for further clarification and improvements.

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Objetivo: Determinar la asociación entre la cancelación de la cita odontológica y el método de confirmación utilizado en pacientes atendidos en un Centro Universitario de Salud de Lima, Perú. Materiales y métodos: Se evaluaron a 355 participantes que cumplieran los criterios de inclusión. La cancelación de la cita odontológica, los métodos de confirmación y recordatorios fueron evaluados mediante un cuestionario de autoreporte. Asimismo, para evaluar las variables “motivo por el cual el paciente cancela su cita” y “posición socioeconómica” se utilizó la Encuesta Nacional de hogares 2017. Para el análisis estadístico se utilizó la prueba de Chi-cuadrado y prueba exacta de Fisher. Resultados: Se observó un alto porcentaje de cancelación con 83.10%, siendo el motivo de inasistencia más frecuente la falta de tiempo con 32.39% y el método de confirmación más utilizado fue el envío de mensaje por teléfono con 46.48%. También, se encontraron diferencias estadísticas entre la cancelación de citas según la edad del paciente (p=0.008). Por otro lado, no se encontraron diferencias estadísticamente significativas entre la cancelación y los métodos de confirmación(p=0.383). Conclusiones: No existe asociación entre la cancelación de la cita odontológica con los métodos de confirmación utilizados en los pacientes atendidos en un Centro Universitario de Salud. Sin embargo, se encontraron diferencias estadísticas entre la cancelación de citas según edad e ingreso monetario. / Objective: Evaluate the association between cancellation of the dental appointment and the confirmation method used in patients treated at a university health center of Lima, Peru. Materials and methods: 355 participants who accomplish the inclusion criteria were evaluated. Cancellation of the dental appointment, confirmation methods and reminders were evaluated using a self-report questionnaire. Also, to evaluate the variables the reason for the patient canceling his appointment and socioeconomic position, the 2017 National Household Survey was used. For statistical analysis, the Chi-square test and Fisher's exact test were used. Results: A high percentage of cancellation was detected with 83.10%, the most frequent reason for non-attendance being the lack of time with 32.39% and the most used confirmation method was the sending of SMS with 46.48%. Also, statistical differences were found between the cancellation of appointments according to the age of the patient. On the other hand, the study did not find statistically found differences between the cancellation and the confirmation methods. Conclusions: There is no association between the cancellation of the dental appointment with the confirmation methods used in patients treated at a University Health Center. However, cancellation of the dental appointment could be associated with age and monetary income; it is observed that the youngest and female patients are the ones that cancel more frequently. / Tesis