Getting supply chain strategies involved in “E-commerce & Environment” - a research potentioal for LCA case studies

Based on a previous content analysis work, there is nowadays a need for assessing a list of strategies related to the management of supply chains and logistics discipline, such as postponement, customisation, centralisation/decentralisation, etc. The need for environmental assessment of these strategies stems from the challenging necessity for bridging two fields: logistics/supply chain management field, and the environmental field. Equally important, a cumulating experience from performing such assessments would hopefully enhance the ability of assessing complex issues such as E-commerce within a framework of a recent, novel model of assessment – ‘the horizontal assessment’. The ultimate purpose of this paper is to discuss the windows of opportunities of environmental assessment of these strategies. One idea is: to acquire the experience of LCA case studies and Energy analysis studies as an input for this model. Research methods of literature survey, case survey and concept development are conducted to discuss and model the aspects and elements of this idea

En sedelärande historia: Om Änglapottans väg från idé till produkt

Rapporten utgar fran en speciell produkt, anglapottan, och analyserar dennas 10-ariga vag fran idé till tillganglig produkt.. Slutsatsen ar att det — utöver ett verkligt behov och en god lösning — behövs antingen en engagerad entreprenör, som agnar sig

Morotsminerarflugan

Morotsminerarflugan (Napomyza carotae) har observerats som skadegörare på morötter i vissa områden i södra Sverige, främst Skåne. Larverna orsakar ytliga, torra gångar på morotens övre del vilket medfor att kvalitetskraven ej alltid kan uppfyllas. Skadorna skall inte forväxlas med angrepp av morotsflugan (Psila rosae) som är djupare och oftast följda av bakterierötor, se Faktablad 77 T

Design side by side

The starting point for most of what is written here is people with disabilities. Situations of great difficulty need to be highly prioritized, for their own sake and also because that which first appears to be “special” sooner or later comes to benefit s

The use of scoring rubrics : Reliability, validity, and educational consequences

Several benefits of using scoring rubrics in performance assessments have been proposed, such as increased consistency of scoring, the possibility to facilitate valid judgment of complex competencies, and promotion of learning. This paper investigates whether evidence for these claims can be found in the research literature. Several databases were searched for empirical research on rubrics, resulting in a total of 75 studies relevant for this review. Conclusions are that: (1) the reliable scoring of performance assessments can be enhanced by the use of rubrics, especially if they are analytic, topic-specific, and complemented with exemplars and/or rater training; (2) rubrics do not facilitate valid judgment of performance assessments per se. However, valid assessment could be facilitated by using a more comprehensive framework of validity when validating the rubric; (3) rubrics seem to have the potential of promoting learning and/or improve instruction. The main reason for this potential lies in the fact that rubrics make expectations and criteria explicit, which also facilitates feedback and self-assessment

Underlag till ramverk för en provbank i grundskolan

I denna artikel jämförs och analyseras ett urval av provbanker i relation till de föreslagna syftena för en framtida provbank i grundskolan. Flera syften presenteras, men det formativa syftet, med dess potential att stötta skolor och lärare i deras arbete med att hjälpa eleverna nå de nationella målen, ses som det viktigaste. Provbanken kan uppnå detta syfte genom att förtydliga och konkretisera målen. En provbank kan dessutom hjälpa eleverna att nå de nationella målen genom att bistå med uppgifter av hög kvalitet samt stöd för att bedöma elevernas styrkor och svagheter. En provbank kan även bidra till ökad likvärdighet i bedömningen genom att visa hur de nationella målen kan bedömas. Denna effekt riskerar dock vara begränsad till de uppgifter som finns i provbanken. Om den föreslagna provbanken även inkluderar resurser för att vidareutveckla lärarnas bedömningskompetens, kan emellertid effekten eventuellt överskrida de uppgifter som tillhandahålls i provbanken, vilket visas genom analyser av internationella erfarenheter.This report compares and analyzes a selection of item banks with regard to theproposed purposes of a future item bank for Swedish compulsory school. Several purposes are presented, but the formative purpose, with its potential to support schools and teachers in their efforts to help the students reach the national goals, is seen as the most important. The item bank can realize this purpose by making the goals clearer and more specific. Furthermore, an item bank can aid the students in reaching the national goals by providing high-quality tasks; assessing students’ strengths and weaknesses. An item bank can also contribute to increased agreement between different assessors, with regard to student fulfilment of the national goals, by showing how the national goals can be assessed. This, however, might be restricted to the tasks provided by the item bank. On condition that the proposed item bank includes resources for developing teachers’ assessment competence in a more general way, both formative and summative purposes for classroom assessment can be favoured. That the item bank could indeed have this function is shown by the analysis of international experiences