Workflow at NSF

This project focuses on improving workflow at the National Science Foundation. The process used to review submitted proposals currently has multiple opportunities for enhancement. Through the methods of interviewing and observation we identified tasks in the process that could be more easily done. We worked to automate these tasks through the use of Microsoft software, specifically Microsoft SharePoint and InfoPath 2007. These products allowed us to make improvements in the review process, specifically the part that deals with the set up of panels. We were able to automate certain tasks and centralize most essential data in one repository. At the end of this project we presented the National Science Foundation with a working system that made the management of panels easier

Guiding Transformation: How Medical Practices Can Become Patient-Centered Medical Homes

Describes in detail eight change concepts as a guide to transforming a practice into a patient-centered medical home, including engaged leadership, quality improvement strategy, continuous and team-based healing relationships, and enhanced access

Workflow Management at the National Science Foundation

The Engineering Education and Centers division of the National Science Foundation in Washington, D.C. is looking to improve the efficiency of their panel selection process. Our project team developed a semi-automated workflow management system using SharePoint 2010, along with training materials to assist staff in learning the system. Interviews and demonstrations with EEC employees helped us refine the system to fit the needs of the division. By adopting this system the EEC\u27s panel selection process should achieve greater efficiency

Spartan Daily, January 16, 1959

Volume 46, Issue 65https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/spartandaily/3844/thumbnail.jp

Highbury College, Portsmouth: report from the Inspectorate (FEFC inspection report; 1994-95 and 1997-98

Comprises two Further Education Funding Council (FEFC) inspection reports 1994-95 and 1997-98

Special Libraries, October 1960

Volume 51, Issue 8https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/sla_sl_1960/1007/thumbnail.jp

Special Libraries, October 1960

Volume 51, Issue 8https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/sla_sl_1960/1007/thumbnail.jp

Peer Effects in Higher Education

In this chapter, we describe the potential significance of student peer effects for the economic structure of and behavior in higher education. Their existence would motivate much of the restricted supply, student queuing, and selectivity and institutional competition via merit aid and honors colleges that we see in American higher education; their (appropriate) non-linearity could justify the resulting stratification of higher education as an efficient way to produce human capital. In addition, we use data from the College and Beyond entering class of 1989, combined with phonebook data identifying roommates, to implement a quasi-experimental empirical strategy aimed at measuring peer effects in academic outcomes. In particular, we use data on individual students' grades, SAT scores, and the SAT scores of their roommates at three schools to estimate the effect of roommates' academic characteristics on an individual's grades. The results suggest that, for two of the three schools used, students in the middle of the SAT distribution do somewhat worse in terms of grades if they share a room with a student who is in the bottom 15 percent of the SAT distribution. Students in the top of the SAT distribution appear often not to be affected by the SAT scores of their roommates. These results are similar to those reported in earlier research using data from Williams (Zimmerman) and Dartmouth (Sacerdote).

A study of closed-circuit educational television at Hagerstown, Maryland

Thesis (Ed.M.)--Boston Universit