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Elliott, Cynthia, Jason Dewland, Jennifer R. Martin, Sandra Kramer, and Sr John J. Jackson. "Collaborate and Innovate: The Impact of Academic Librarians on the Commercialization of University Technology." TAYLOR & FRANCIS, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/624672.
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The University of Arizona Library, in collaboration with the campus commercialization unit, created a partnership that contributes to the early development of inventions in the commercialization pipeline. The library-commercialization business intelligence workgroup was incorporated into the overall campus
commercialization business-development workflow in 2014 and is comprised of librarians and commercialization professionals working together to provide insight and decision support for development
of commercialization strategies for inventions emerging from university research that aligns with market drivers. These efforts are recognized by university leadership as critical to the strategic plan
of the university. This article discusses the impact of the workgroup and how the group of librarians contributed to the development of new companies, new licenses, and financial impact of economic development at a large land-grant university and larger community.
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TAKEUCHI, Hiroya, та 比呂也 竹内. "大学図書館における研究開発機能を強化する大学間連携の必要性". 名古屋大学附属図書館研究開発室, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2237/14593.
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Boumarafi, Behdja. "Development of university libraries in Algeria /." Tunis : Université de Tunis, 1986. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb350221007.
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De, Jongh Martha Susanna. "A national electronic database of special music collections in South Africa." Thesis, Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/2370.
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Thesis (MMus (Music))--University of Stellenbosch, 2009.<br>In the absence of a state-sponsored South African archive that focuses on collecting,
ordering, cataloguing and preserving special music collections for research, the
Documentation Centre for Music (DOMUS) was established in 2005 as a research
project at the University of Stellenbosch. Music research in South Africa is often
impeded by inaccessibility of materials, staff shortages at archives and libraries,
financial constraints and time-consuming ordering and cataloguing processes.
Additionally there is, locally, restricted knowledge of the existence, location and
status of relevant primary sources. Accessibility clearly depends on knowing of the
existence of materials, as well as the extent to which collections have been ordered
and catalogued.
An overview of repositories such as the Nasionale Afrikaanse Letterkundige Museum
and Navorsingsentrum (NALN), the now defunct National Documentation Centre for
Music and the International Library of African Music (ILAM) paints a troubling
picture of archival neglect and disintegration. Apart from ILAM, which has a very
specific collecting and research focus, this trend was one that ostensibly started in the
1980s and is still continuing. It could be ascribed to a lack of planning and forward
thinking under the previous political dispensation, aggravated by policies of
transformation and restructuring in the current one.
Existing sources supporting research on primary materials are dated and not
discipline-specific. Thus this study aims to address issues of inaccessibility of primary
music materials by creating a comprehensive and ongoing national electronic database
of special music collections in South Africa. It is hoped that this will help to alert
researchers to the existence and status of special music collections housed at various
levels of South African academic and civil society.
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KOGA, Takashi, та 崇. 古賀. "京都大学附属図書館研究開発室の活動について". 名古屋大学附属図書館研究開発室, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2237/14594.
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ITSUMURA, Hiroshi, та 裕. 逸村. "筑波大学附属図書館研究開発室". 名古屋大学附属図書館研究開発室, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2237/14595.
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Almotawah, Wafaa. "The role of Kuwait university libraries in supporting graduate students' research." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2016. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/15186/.
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Cawthorne, Jon Edward. "Viewing the Future of University Research Libraries through the Perspectives of Scenarios." Thesis, Simmons College, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3578093.
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<p> This research highlights the scenarios that might serve as a strategic vision to describe a future beyond the current library, one which both guides provosts and creates a map for the transformation of human resources and technology in the university research libraries. The scenarios offer managerial leaders an opportunity to envision new roles for librarians and staff which brings a much needed focus on the development of human resources as well as a thought-stream to understand decisions which effectively and systematically move the organization toward a strategic vision.</p><p> These scenarios outline possible future directions research libraries could take by focusing on perspectives from library directors, provosts, and administrators for human resources. The four case study scenarios introduce potential future roles for librarians and highlight the unsustainability of the current scholarly communications model as well as uncertain factors related to the political, social, technical, and demographic issues facing campuses. Given the changes institutions face, scenarios allow directors to include more uncertainty when developing and articulating a vision. These scenarios may start a discussion, before a strategic planning process, to sharpen the evaluations and measures necessary to monitor achievements that define the value of the library.</p><p> This dissertation highlights the importance of research library managerial leaders developing a strategic vision and introduces scenarios as way to communicate that vision with provosts, the senior leadership team, librarians, and staff. How the library directors approach the strategic vision scenario provides insight into the challenges and barriers identified within the existing organizational culture.</p>
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Engström, Martin. "Use and Development of Information Technology at two University Libraries in Costa Rica." Thesis, Uppsala University, Department of ALM, 2001. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-101545.
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Ssebulime, Joseph. "The role academic libraries could play in developing research data management services : a case of Makerere University Library." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/74961.
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Research data management (RDM) focuses on the organization and description of data, from
its entry to the research cycle through to the dissemination and archiving of valuable results.
RDM entails storage, security, preservation, compliance, quality, sharing and jurisdiction. In the
academic world, RDM can support the research process by searching for relevant data, storing
data, describing data and advising researchers on good RDM practice.
This study focused on developing RDM services. The aim of the study was to establish the role
Makerere University Library could play in developing RDM Services. A number of questions
were formulated to guide the researcher in finding answers to the research questions.
A literature review, based on the research sub-questions, was carried out. The review covered
the concept of RDM, academic libraries and their RDM practices, various RDM services in
academic libraries, RDM services that require sustainability and how current researchers, in
general, manage their data.
The research undertaken took a qualitative approach with a case study design. This was due to
the need to gather in-depth and comprehensive views and experiences regarding RDM at
Makerere University. A purposive sampling technique was used to identify researchers who are
actively involved in managing research data at Makerere University. Data were collected using
semi structured interviews, from eight participants; one from each college. The participants were
selected because of their knowledge about RDM and semi-structured interviews were preferred
due to their flexibility. An interview schedule was used as the data collection instrument. Data
was transcribed into Microsoft Word for easy analysis.
Findings that addressed the research question and sub-questions were presented and
interpreted in chapter four and conclusions as well as recommendations were discussed in
detail in chapter five of this research report. In summary it is possible to say that although
researchers, from across the entire university, generate big volumes of research data it appears
that researchers themselves manage, control and store their data making use of different
removable devices. This is risky. So there is a need to develop RDM skills for all stakeholders. It
does appear though that the researchers at Makerere University would be willing the support of
RDM services if these are developed by the library.<br>Mini Dissertation (MIT)--University of Pretoria, 2017.<br>Carnegie Corporation of New York<br>Information Science<br>MIT<br>Unrestricted
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Jones, David Edgar. "Relentless Accumulation : a Critical History of Collection Growth in American Research University Libraries, 1945-1979." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.521979.
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Sawetrattanasatian, Oranuch. "University library web designs : a case study of the relationship between usability and information literacy development /." full text via ADT, 2008. http://erl.canberra.edu.au/public/adt-AUC20090311.091629/index.html.
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Kuzminiene, Ramune. "E-books in Irish University Libraries : Changes and challenges in collection development and acquisitions." Thesis, Högskolan i Borås, Institutionen Biblioteks- och informationsvetenskap / Bibliotekshögskolan, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hb:diva-17830.
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This study examines the impact of the advent of e-books on collection development and acquisition in Irish university libraries. Semi-structured interviews with informants working as acquisition librarians, sub-librarians and collection management librarians were conducted to investigate their experiences and perceptions of e-book acquisition and collection management. This study provides a look at these issues from the perspective of diffusion of innovation and change management theories. The study found that librarians face challenges in setting new collection development policies, acquiring new skills and adjusting to new workflows and extra workloads. The study also revealed that the most fundamental problems librarians face in acquiring e-books are the low availability of e-textbooks, the heavy VAT on e-books as well as a lack of “one-stop-shop” opportunities. There were also worries expressed about the future of academic libraries in the e-book acquisition process. Despite the challenges, academic librarians were very positive towards the resulting changes and innovations.<br>Program: Masterprogram: Biblioteks- och informationsvetenskap, Digitala bibliotek och informationstjänster
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Bopape, Solomon Tsekere. "Management development needs of library managers in South African university libraries regarding human resources management tasks and activities." Pretoria : [s.n.], 2001. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-10242005-090817/.
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Biyela, Sibongile Eunice. "The historical development of the University Zululand library with particular reference to buildings, staff, collection, and computerization (1960-1987)." Thesis, University of Zululand, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/10530/1198.
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Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the B.A. Honours Degree in Information Studies, Department of Library & Information Studies, University of Zululand, South Africa, 1988.<br>This study is about the historical development of the University
of Zululand Library, with particular reference to i ts buildings ,
staff collection and computerization, from 1960 to 1987.
Also included in this study is t he branch library at Umlazi
Campus. The aim of the thi s study is to trace the history of the
University of Zululand Library from i ts inception i n 1960 to the
most recent structure completed in 1987, since this has not been
done before except the scattered information on the his t or y of
t his library •
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Myers, Joseph. "Creating Collaborative Spaces at the University of Arizona: Ways to Encourage Interdisciplinary Research and Ideas." The University of Arizona, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/552634.
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Sustainable Built Environments Senior Capstone<br>This case study examined the potential of creating collaborative co-working spaces at the University of Arizona. Through qualitative research on the effectiveness of co-working spaces already in place at three different universities across the nation, this study identified key features that could successfully be implemented at the University of Arizona. These features were a co-working space built around a student organization centered on collaboration and innovation. The latest in technological resources to aid in project execution and learning. Lastly, a partnership with a local makerspace providing students of all backgrounds and interests to collaboratively work on building physical items in a space they might not have had previous access to. While research was limited to university affiliated websites and articles on co-working spaces, scholarly articles on this specific subject where not found to further back conclusive findings and recommendations.
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Stewart, Lewis E. "Factors contributing to download activity for applied research projects completed at Texas State University in the Master of Public Administration program /." View online version, 2009. http://ecommons.txstate.edu/arp/306.
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Dison, Arona. "Research capacity development of individuals at three South African university research centres." Thesis, University of the Western Cape, 2007. http://etd.uwc.ac.za/index.php?module=etd&action=viewtitle&id=gen8Srv25Nme4_7177_1253849279.
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<p>In South Africa, there has been recognition of the need for increasing research capacity at South African universities and within the national science system. Furthermore there has been a need to address imbalances in the racial and gender profile of researchers. There has been a growth of application-oriented, multidisciplinary research centres at South African universities in response to changing national and international knowledge contexts. Many research centres have a research capacity development component and run postgraduate programmes in collaboration with academic departments. This it was relevant to investigate what types of contexts these centres provide for research capacity development and postgraduate education. In this study, individual research capacity development was examined as a process of identity formation and socialisation through social, organisational and epistemological lenses.</p>
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Shepheard-Walwyn, Emma Jane. "Usage and impact factor correlations in electronic journals submitted to the School of Information Management, Victoria University of Wellington in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Library and Information Studies /." ResearchArchive@Victoria e-Thesis, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10063/1265.
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Kleinveldt, Lynn. "Academics' experience of and perceptions of the role of the academic library in research at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology." Thesis, University of the Western Cape, 2009. http://etd.uwc.ac.za/index.php?module=etd&action=viewtitle&id=gen8Srv25Nme4_7861_1297770699.
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<p>The study investigates the role of CPUT libraries in supporting research and how academics perceive this role. CPUT is a new university of technology and aims at improving its research record. Research is crucial to South Africa to develop economically, socially and to compete globally. Research is fundamental to the existence of universities. Universities of technology libraries face the challenge of providing support for research. Previously the colleges / technikon libraries provided support for undergraduate and underdiplomates only. Today, they have to provide support for researchers at masters, doctoral, and post-doctoral levels.</p>
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Ling, Zhang, Cong Wang, and Austin McCarthy. "Knowing our users and responding to their needs-The impact of research on services in two university libraries." School of Communication & Information, Nanyang Technological University, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/106105.
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In an earlier paper the authors discussed reference services in two university libraries and suggested changes to the services based on a user survey. They also quoted research into staff and student use of information resources. Although libraries have no difficulty in compiling quantitative data, the use of such qualitative research to delve beyond the statistics, in order to better understand user needs, perceptions and behaviours, is a recent development at Harbin Engineering University Library, China. However, at the Library of the University of Northumbria in England there is a long history of using research to evaluate services. This paper gives a very brief introduction to the value of qualitative re-search in evaluating services and providing a sound basis for management decisions about staffing and service delivery. Some of the methods used at the two universities are outlined. Finally, two case studies of research projects, one from each university, will be described and the extent to which they have resulted in changes to policies or practices will be examined.
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Robinson, Elizabeth Ann. "Professional Development Among Brigham Young University Faculty." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2019. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/7400.
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This thesis is a qualitative research study examining views of faculty at Brigham Young University regarding professional development at the university level. Subjects who participated in the study were selected based on being full-time, part-time, adjunct, tenured, and non-tenured professors at Brigham Young University. Instructors who work solely with online students were not included. The contacts also did not include student teachers, support staff, non-teaching faculty or graduate students.The key findings from the qualitative research study report that faculty differentiate between two categories of professional development, one concerned with teaching and other aspects of working at a university, and the other is the development and continuing training in their original field or specialty. Additionally, the research shows that while time is the most commonly cited reason for not attending professional development, it is possible to potentially offer incentives to overcome that barrier to attendance. Professional development activities that are created in an informal manner and are more localized to smaller units within the university-a college, a department, even a subset of a department-seem to be more meaningful to faculty than traditional formally organized professional development by the university. The overall conclusion from this qualitative research study is that professional development activities should be more flexible and adaptive to the maturation of needs of the intended participants. The current initial professional development at Brigham Young University is viewed positively as being very helpful; however, the longer faculty stay at the university the more they seek out informal professional development focused on specific issues for which they are not finding assistance. The implication of this study is when universities focus on initial professional development for new faculty often professional development opportunities for mid-career faculty are not emphasized or arranged. Ways to address this gap may include specifically labeling activities like seminars as professional development and then increasing resources devoted to them or giving faculty an allowance per person per year and allowing them to choose how to invest that allowance-either in more training within the teaching profession or within their specific discipline.
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Bergvall, Evelin, and Pontus Palmqvist. "Product Development in University Driven Innovation : An action research thesis." Thesis, Högskolan i Halmstad, Akademin för företagande, innovation och hållbarhet, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-45385.
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This project has accepted the challenge of integrating competence from six different academies to create a versatile innovation; an autonomous amphibious vehicle for environmental monitoring. Water quality is routinely monitored by manually collecting samples from water bodies which are later on transported to a laboratory where they are analyzed, or by sampling data from stationary sensors placed at strategic sites in different water bodies. The transportation itself can pose a risk to the quality of the samples since chemical reactions can transform the sample (such as pH and turbidity) over time and thus give inconclusive data. Stationarysensors give correct momentary data, but are restricted solely to a few specific points, and often monitor only one parameter. The purpose of the current product development is to contribute to improved environmental monitoring and to a sustainable society, by creating a new efficient technical solution that monitors, analyzes and obtains data on multiple parameters of water quality of water bodies. The long-term goal is to provide responsible authorities, local municipalities, and environmental scientists with a versatile sampling method that produces high resolution, accurate and accessible data. The product development process resulted in a prototype of an autonomous amphibious vehicle that can monitor different parameters of water quality in freshwater. The parameters registered are; pH, turbidity, temperature, conductivity, dissolved oxygen, and total dissolved solids(TDS). This is conducted through an autonomous mobile vehicle powered by electricity, the vehicle is programmed to drive at the surface and stop at given geographical positions where a submersible subunit collects data from different depths before moving to the next location. The vehicle is designed to navigate also on moving water bodies such as freshwater streams. The prototype is expected to become useful in the context of water quality monitoring to increase awareness of water pollution and provide data for successful management action.
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Kahtani, Abdullah S. Mossa. "Plans for Establishing and Developing the Social Research Studies and Information Center Libraries in Saudi Arabia." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1990. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc330932/.
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Wema, Evans F. "Developing information literacy programmes for public university libraries in Tanzania : a case study of the University of Dar es Salaam." Thesis, Loughborough University, 2006. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/10918.
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The aim of the research was to develop a training course that inculcated infonnation literacy that could be implemented by staff at the University of Dar es Salaam library (Tanzania), in order to provide students with appropriate infonnation literacy skills to meet their educational goals. The course was developed from an integration of knowledge from infonnation behaviour research and educational theory with current perspectives of infonnation literacy from Infonnation and Library Science (ILS). The ultimate goal of the research was to create a framework that would be used by public university libraries in Tanzania to teach infonnation literacy courses. The study was carried out in two parts. In the first implementation "pilot" programme, the course was tested by involving librarians who took the entire course, in order to see whether the same course structure could be used to implement to the Masters of Education students. Following adaptations made on the first course, a second course programme was implemented to Masters of Education students by two librarians who attended the first implementation "pilot" programme. Therefore, the success of the course was partly judged on whether it effectively enabled knowledge transfer from the librarians to students. Data collection methods were predominantly qualitative, although quantitative methods in tenns of diagnostic tests were also used. The tests were used to evaluate trainees' knowledge ofinfonnation literacy before and after the course to provide an indication of changes in knowledge. Qualitative methods used included semistructured interviews with librarians and academic staff at the University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania in order to make sure that assumptions made about students' knowledge of infonnation literacy and the kind of problems experienced by students were correct. Other methods included quizzes, exercises, group reflection and presentations that related to each stage in the course. These methods served to indicate trainees' understanding of what was taught, reflections on the leaming process and provided feedback for improvements on the course. The major findings showed that there was a recognized need for infonnation literacy and that problems such as unfamiliarity with categories of infonnation sources, analysis, synthesis, evaluation and use, were experienced in Tanzania as was the case in other "Western" countries. In addition, librarians were able to transfer skills learned to students, who in turn used the same course materials to teach fellow students who did not participate in the course. Furthermore, the design of the course was facilitated by the integration of Information and library science (ILS) approaches to information literacy with the knowledge of information behaviour and pedagogic theory. The thesis provides recommendations for the library and information curricula to introduce information literacy, teaching information literacy in a holistic way and with librarians participating in teaching and research. In addition, the study recommended that librarians should facilitate the development of information literacy in primary and secondary schools.
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Kader, Abdullah Abdul. "Research and development in science and technology in GCC countries : role of information centres and libraries." Thesis, Loughborough University, 1997. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/7441.
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This research study identifies the role of library and information centres at the major science and technology related universities and research institutes in the six GeC countries i.e. Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates, in relation to the institutes/organisations research and development activities. It also had a comparative aspect in that it examined information resources and information services available in the institutes/organisations under study with users perceptions on the effectiveness and efficiency of library and information services. A survey research design utilizing questionnaires was chosen as the most appropriate and effective method for gathering the data needed with intensive interviews with academe, Deans/Directors of Library Information Centres and R&D personnel to answer the study's research questions. The different populations were queried including the Chief Executives of institutes/organisations, Deans/Directors of Library and Information Centres and selected R&D personnel associated with them. It was found that in spite of large library collections and a number of de-centralised library systems in all the universities, information services available to the R&D personnel were inadequate. The fmdings of this investigation provided the means for the development of the proposed regional and national library/information network systems for successful library and information services model presented in this study. As an alternative a GeC infonnation subsystem GCC-SIST has been recommended along with emphasis on an electronic information system.
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Hutchins, Karen Kelly. "Strengthening the development of community-university partnerships in sustainability science research." Thesis, The University of Maine, 2013. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3575452.
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<p>In light of the increasingly complex sustainability problems facing local and global communities, and the need to improve the scientific basis for decision making, sustainability science elevates the role of research collaborations and communication among scientists and stakeholders in developing solutions. Although many universities are heeding the calls for collaborative research and are making progress on bringing diverse groups together to address sustainability issues, disconnections between the production of knowledge and its actual use in society persist. These persistent divisions indicate that we still have a great deal to learn about how to develop university-stakeholder partnerships that facilitate collaboration between the various actors in society. </p><p> Building successful, enduring research partnerships is essential for improving links between knowledge and action. The overarching question addressed in this dissertation is: <i>"In the quest to develop sustainable solutions, what factors may strengthen or hinder the development of robust stakeholder-university research partnerships?"</i> In answering this question, I interrogate the role of communication in partnership development, the influence of communication practices on stakeholder and researcher interactions, and ways that we can use interdisciplinary forms of and approaches to research to improve communication with partners. The goal of this research is to improve university and community capacity for collaborative, problem-focused research to address pressing societal problems. </p><p> Using quantitative and qualitative survey data from the <i>Maine Municipal Official Survey</i> and the <i>Collaboration and Stakeholder Engagement Survey,</i> each chapter addresses the overarching research question in different ways. In the first and second chapters, I develop theoretically and empirically supported statistical models to identify a set of factors influencing officials' reported interest in developing a community-university research partnership and factors influencing officials' participation preferences in community-university research partnerships, respectively. The models strengthen the capacity for co-learning by providing data on interest and preference alignment between potential project partners, and they provide data on stakeholder preferences and experiences that may improve communication between partners and inform partnership interactions. The third chapter bridges interdisciplinary theories from social psychology and communication to deepen the conversation about justice in community-university research partnerships. The dissertation concludes with lessons learned about developing community-university research partnerships. </p>
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Mattox, Brent Scott. "Power and negotiation in safety program development in a research university." Diss., Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri-Columbia, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10355/5979.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2007.<br>The entire dissertation/thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file (which also appears in the research.pdf); a non-technical general description, or public abstract, appears in the public.pdf file. Title from title screen of research.pdf file (viewed on March 12, 2009) Includes bibliographical references.
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Lategan, Laetus O. K. "A conceptual analysis of a university of technology and its contribution to research and development." Interim : Interdisciplinary Journal, Vol 7, Issue 2: Central University of Technology Free State Bloemfontein, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/11462/389.
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Published Article<br>This paper provides a conceptual overview of one of the three types of university in the South African higher education band, namely the university of technology. The contention of the paper is that universities of technology should have the same core activities as the general or classical university, that is teaching, research and service. The differences between the types of university exist on a conceptual level and therefore also in their approach to science in general. The conceptual analysis illustrates how the university of technology contributes towards research and development. It is for this reason that this university type should be welcomed by the university sector. Its overall contribution to what a university is should be acknowledged.
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Dauster, Andrew J. "Development of University of Toledo Knee Simulator: First Generation." University of Toledo / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1302050679.
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Phillips, Kyle G. "Development of the West Virginia University Small Microgravity Research Facility (WVU SMiRF)." Thesis, West Virginia University, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1565521.
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<p> West Virginia University (WVU) has created the Small Microgravity Research Facility (SMiRF) drop tower through a WVU Research Corporation Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (PSCoR) grant on its campus to increase direct access to inexpensive and repeatable reduced gravity research. In short, a drop tower is a tall structure from which experimental payloads are dropped, in a controlled environment, and experience reduced gravity or microgravity (i.e. "weightlessness") during free fall. Currently, there are several methods for conducting scientific research in microgravity including drop towers, parabolic flights, sounding rockets, suborbital flights, NanoSats, CubeSats, full-sized satellites, manned orbital flight, and the International Space Station (ISS). However, none of the aforementioned techniques is more inexpensive or has the capability of frequent experimentation repeatability as drop tower research. These advantages are conducive to a wide variety of experiments that can be inexpensively validated, and potentially accredited, through repeated, reliable research that permits frequent experiment modification and re-testing. </p><p> Development of the WVU SMiRF, or any drop tower, must take a systems engineering approach that may include the detailed design of several main components, namely: the payload release system, the payload deceleration system, the payload lifting and transfer system, the drop tower structure, and the instrumentation and controls system, as well as a standardized drop tower payload frame for use by those researchers who cannot afford to spend money on a data acquisition system or frame. In addition to detailed technical development, a budgetary model by which development took place is also presented throughout, summarized, and detailed in an appendix. After design and construction of the WVU SMiRF was complete, initial calibration provided performance characteristics at various payload weights, and full-scale checkout via experimentation provided repeatability characteristics of the facility. Based on checkout instrumentation, Initial repeatability results indicated a drop time of 1.26 seconds at an average of 0.06g, with a standard deviation of 0.085g over the period of the drop, and a peak impact load of 28.72g, with a standard deviation of 10.73g, for a payload weight of 113.8 lbs. </p><p> In order to thoroughly check out the facility, a full-scale, fully operational experiment was developed to create an experience that provides a comprehensive perspective of the end-user experience to the developer, so as to incorporate the details that may have been overlooked to the designer and/or developer, in this case, Kyle Phillips. The experiment that was chosen was to determine the effects of die swell, or extrudate swell, in reduced gravity. Die swell is a viscoelastic phenomenon that occurs when a dilatant, or shear-thickening substance is forced through a sufficient constriction, or "die," such that the substance expands, or "swells," downstream of the constriction, even while forming and maintaining a free jet at ambient sea level conditions. A wide range of dilatants exhibit die swell when subjected to the correct conditions, ranging from simple substances such as ketchup, oobleck, and shampoo to complex specially-formulated substances to be used for next generation body armor and high performance braking systems. To date, very few, if any, have researched the stabilizing effect that gravity may have on the phenomenon of die swell. By studying a fluid phenomenon in a reduced gravity environment, both the effect of gravity can be studied and the predominant forces acting on the fluid can be concluded. Furthermore, a hypothesis describing the behavior of a viscoelastic fluid particle employing the viscous Navier-Stokes Equations was derived to attempt to push the fluid mechanics community toward further integrating more fluid behavior into a unified mathematical model of fluid mechanics. While inconclusive in this experiment, several suggestions for future research were made in order to further the science behind die swell, and a comprehensive checkout of the facility and its operations were characterized. As a result of this checkout experience, several details were modified or added to the facility in order for the drop tower to be properly operated and provide the optimal user experience, such that open operation of the WVU SMiRF may begin in the Fall of 2014.</p>
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Whitacre, David L. "Development of an Icing Research Wind Tunnel at The University of Toledo." University of Toledo / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1376594446.
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Griffin, Shauna A. "An Analysis of Research Guides at UNC-Chapel Hill." Thesis, School of Information and Library Science, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1901/211.
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This paper addresses inconsistencies in the research guides created by University Librarians at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Based on an analysis of descriptive data collected from a sample of guides, as well as search log data collected in the Fall 2004 academic term, it identifies elements that lack consistency, and gives an overview of guide content and format.
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Fargier, Nathalie. "Consortium de bibliothèques et acquisition de périodiques électroniques : l'exemple de la bibliothèque de l'Université de Yale et du North East Research Libraries Consortium /." Villeurbanne : ENSSIB, 2001. http://www.enssib.fr/bibliotheque/documents/dcb/fargier.pdf.
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Malenfant, Kara Josephine. "Understanding Faculty Perceptions of the Future: Action Research for Academic Librarians." Antioch University / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch1317308285.
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Henderson, Tracy May. "A systems approach to the evaluation of sugar research and development activities /." [St. Lucia, Qld.], 2005. http://www.library.uq.edu.au/pdfserve.php?image=thesisabs/absthe18659.pdf.
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Sotshangane, Nkosinathi Owen. "Working Towards Improved Facilitation of Research Capacity Development at Walter Sisulu University (WSU) Using Action Research (AR) Methodology." Thesis, Walter Sisulu University, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/11260/901.
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This study was originally undertaken to change and improve the way I do my practice at Walter Sisulu University as a Research Associate whose responsibility is to facilitate research capacity development and research excellence within the University, amongst academics and postgraduate students. The success of the Research Resource Centre that I manage depends on the way I promote research culture and research productivity amongst academics and postgraduate students. According to Leedy and Ormrod (2013, p. 2), research is a systematic process that is used to collect, analyse, and interpret data in order to increase my understanding of the phenomenon about interest and concern about a given/identified phenomenon. In this case my own practice changed and improved for the better. The main objective of this study, therefore, was to examine the reasons behind the decline in research productivity in terms of research output and how this could be reversed through action research study intervention in order to enhance research productivity at Walter Sisulu University (WSU). The Department of Higher Education and Training’s (DHET) allocation of research output units for WSU indicated that there was a decline in research output from 2005 to 2010. The extent to which my practice improvement could contribute towards changing or improving research productivity was a question which this study addressed through a quantitative, qualitative and self-reflective action research cyclic inquiry. I organized sample strategies of this study as follows: For quantitative data, I used 120 lecturers as my respondents through questionnaires (females = 47 and males = 73) who were randomly selected; For qualitative data, I used 24 lecturers as respondents who were randomly selected with whom I conducted interviews; and For self-reflective action research cyclic inquiry I used 7 Transformative Education/al Studies (TES) project group members as my focus group. My research findings concluded that the heavy teaching workload at WSU was problematic and lecturers/academics could not devote time to do research. My recommendation is that research should be made compulsory so that academics become aware that at least one or two published articles are required from them, for the benefit of annual university research productivity. Some research participants also recommended that the Research Resource Centre must include programs that focus directly on active participation in research in order to increase the capacity of individual researchers so as to build a critical mass of competent researchers, perhaps by even including incentives as a reward for doing research. According to Koshy (2010), action research is a specific method of conducting research by professionals and practitioners with the ultimate aim of improving practice. My new knowledge, therefore, in respect of how a concerned Research Associate, from a Historically Disadvantaged Institution (HDI), provided the impetus to create a collaborative practice in a higher education institution which was forced to merge with two former technikons (which lacked understanding of what a university means by research productivity and research output). I consequently developed the Nkosinathi Sotshangane’s cyclic practice improvement model through self-reflective action research, from which I believed other research practitioners could learn by doing something similar in their own context.
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Gummuluri, Sreedevi. "Drug Research and Development Incentives Under a Changing Exclusivity Environment: An Event Study approach." NCSU, 2007. http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/theses/available/etd-12152006-183255/.
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In this dissertation I explore the effect of marginal changes in the exclusivity environment, on returns of firms involved in the process of drug manufacturing and R&D. A model of copyright developed by Landes and Posner (2003) explaining the effect of varying levels of copyright protection on research incentives, is closely followed and adopted in a patent and regulatory context. Exclusivity here is taken to refer to the intellectual property environment and regulations of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) pertaining to marketing exclusivity for approved drugs. Both these aspects determine the period of time that drugs get marketed exclusively with limited competition and the amount that markets enable them to appropriate in return for their research activity. Intellectual property debates regarding the scope of patents and determination of patentable subject matter would affect research intensives of firms such as pharmaceutical and biotechnology firms. Besides obtaining patents, FDA approval for marketing of new drugs is also a long regulatory process and governed by the Federal Food Drug and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA). The Hatch-Waxman Act of 1984 brought about some crucial amendments to the drug regulatory process by enabling easy entry of generic drug manufacturers. Since the passage of the Hatch-Waxman Act, to the amendments introduced to the Hatch-Waxman Act through the Medicare Prescription Drug Act (2003), various court decisions have been instrumental in recognizing the weak links in the Hatch-Waxman amendments to the FFDCA (1938). These cases were precursors to some of the eventual statutory amendments to the Hatch-Waxman Act which were passed through the Medicare Prescription Drug Act of 2003. In the current study, the reaction of three sets of firms- pharmaceuticals, biotechnology and generics drug manufacturers, are analyzed following some precedent-setting cases that changed the exclusivity available to new drugs entering the market. The event study methodology is used in evaluating the change in firm returns following these decisions, and determining whether they are affected significantly negatively or positively. As an extension to the study, the research behavior of pharmaceutical and biotechnology firms are also analyzed taking into account the abnormal returns obtained from these event studies.
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Kunene, S. A. S. Z. "The impact of collection development policy on service rendering to undergraduates: a case study of the University of the Western Cape Library." Thesis, University of the Western Cape, 2006. http://etd.uwc.ac.za/index.php?module=etd&action=viewtitle&id=init_3448_1180442380.
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<p>Collection development in academic libraries is going through technology-driven changes relating to the new information technologies ,e.g. -Electronic databases, the Internet and CD-ROM's, joint published materials and audio-visual resources. Libraries are also facing declining budgets and spiralling costs. This research project looked closely at what collection development is and the impact it has on service rendering to undergraduates at the University of the Western Cape. It is also aimed at establishing if the librarians that formulate these policies understand what they (Collection Development Policies) are, and what they should entail.</p>
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Cook, Karen. "The role of the academic library in supporting postgraduate students and researchers within the Community and Health Sciences Faculty at the University of the Western Cape." University of the Western Cape, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/7287.
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Magister Bibliothecologiae - MBibl<br>Research, aimed at strengthening the economy and driving development, with the view to address South Africa’s numerous challenges and/or advance knowledge, generally, exists in abundance. It has highlighted the crucial role played by institutions of higher learning, such as universities, in this regard. In particular, the contribution of academic libraries in supporting the country’s agenda, with regard to its teaching and research goals, has come to the fore. Academic libraries have been portrayed, quite correctly, as the legitimate heart of the university, for majority of scholars rely heavily on their collections and services in their quest to develop new knowledge. However, the role played by these important facilities in supporting postgraduate students and researchers in South Africa is yet to be comprehensively examined. With a view to partly address this existent knowledge gap, this study examines the interaction between the University of the Western Cape’s (UWC’s) library and the institution’s Faculty of Community and Health Sciences’ postgraduate students and researchers. In accomplishing this task, I explore the skill set and competencies required of the subject librarian to best support the research needs of postgraduate students and researchers at UWC’s Faculty of Community and Health Sciences. I also investigate the perceptions and expectations of postgraduate students and researchers vis-à-vis the institution’s library. Additionally, this study explores the innovative measures adopted by UWC’s library in its quest to provide competent and satisfactory services to its postgraduate students and researchers. For its theoretical framework, this study employs the Diffusion of Innovation (DOI), also known as Roger’s model. This framework has been used to explore how innovative research services can be established and offered to support postgraduate students and researchers’ needs. This study employs a mixed methods approach and makes use of various data collection instruments, namely, survey questionnaires and interviews. The collected data has been analyzed through the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS). The transcribed interviews have been analyzed thematically. The findings indicated some gaps between postgraduate students’ and researchers’ expectations for library’s research support services, research workshops and skills and competencies of a subject librarian. The findings also revealed postgraduate students’ and researchers’ perception of the library’s research support services, research workshops and subject librarians’ skills and competencies to be fulfilled. Even though many of the identified needs are currently being addressed by UWC library, several potential areas for improvement were identified. One of the major challenges is the awareness of the library services and facilities the library offers to support research. Other challenges that postgraduates’ students and researchers are facing is that they are often not aware how to search for information, easy access to the library’s resources and the expertise of the subject librarians.
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Riter, Dan. "Development of a learning management system for UCAR-COMET." [Denver, Colo.] : Regis University, 2006. http://165.236.235.140/lib/DRiterPartI2006.pdf.
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Chin, Christina May May. "Development of a project management methodology for use in a university-industry collaborative research environment." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2012. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/12941/.
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This study examines the growth, need for and demands on university-industry collaborative (UIC) partnerships as a vehicle for the nation‟s development through technological innovation. In Malaysia, gaps and weaknesses exist when compared to best practices, these limit the establishment and overall effectiveness of UICs. In the Malaysian context, UICs are by no means a new phenomenon, however the approaches adopted, the success stories and related issues have not received significant academic attention. Thus, this study aims to provide an insight into collaborative endeavours in Malaysia. This study adopted an exploratory interpretative case study approach via semi-structured interviews and self-administered questionnaire survey to collect data from university researchers, industry players and research agencies. This data, along with the findings from an extensive literature review were used to benchmark best practices and define the requirements that are placed on a PMM designed specifically for use in the Malaysian UIC project environment. Based on this analysis, a novel and appropriate PMM was developed and subsequently evaluated by an expert panel and iteratively refined. The primary outcome of this study is a PMM guidebook for use in the initiation, planning, execution, monitoring and closing of UIC research projects. The PMM developed aims to make project management best practices accessible and appropriate for the needs of UIC researchers and also encourages academic researchers to embrace project management knowledge which in turn helps them to understand industrial needs and wants. The PMM developed is customisable for project size and nature. It consists of a set of processes, templates, tools and techniques to assist in the planning and management of the project throughout the entire life cycle. The components of the PMM are (1) project management processes such as initiating, planning, executing and monitoring project progress with (2) a selection of tools and techniques to communicate delivery to the satisfaction of all stakeholders; (3) consolidated and integrated set of appropriate best practices and values of project management and (4) a list of references of terminology as a common denominator and language for us in the project environment. NB Please note that the online version does not include volume 2 of the printed thesis:Project management methodology [PMM] guidebook.
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Rong, Xiujiang. "Development of a neutron depth profiling facility at the University of Missouri Research Reactor center /." free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 1996. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p9821337.
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Goff, Alexandra. "Information skills development for the college bound student /." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape17/PQDD_0014/MQ36126.pdf.
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Spaan, Mathew. "The Role and Structure of Mediating Entities in University-Community Partnerships: An Examination of Urban Routes." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2004. http://louisdl.louislibraries.org/u?/NOD,160.
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Thesis (M.P.A.)--University of New Orleans, 2004.<br>Title from electronic submission form. "A thesis ... in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Public Administration."--Thesis t.p. Vita. Includes bibliographical references.
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Onkol, Pinar Esma. "Perceptions Of Professional Development At Bilkent University Faculty Academic English Program." Phd thesis, METU, 2011. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12613162/index.pdf.
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Considering the current demands of our global world, there is a need for educating students equipped with diverse and complex qualities. In order to educate well-equipped students and sustain quality education, teachers and teacher educators have to be keeping themselves up-to-date and develop themselves professionally.
The primary aim of this study is to explore English instructors&rsquo<br>understanding of professional development through the use of phenomenological research methodology. The data sources were instructors and administrators working at Faculty Academic English Program at Bilkent University. The data collection method was semi-structured, face-to-face interviews. The findings of the study indicated that participants see professional development as a means of individual development, as a means of institutional development and as a source of developing community and environment. The study also revealed that the instructors preferred informal modes of professional development activities to formal ones. Participants of the study overall reflected their agreement on the positive contribution of course design on their professional development, autonomy and self-growth.
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Lendel, Iryna V. "The influence of research universities on technology-based regional economic development." Cleveland, Ohio : Cleveland State University, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1228334940.
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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Cleveland State University, 2008.<br>Abstract. Title from PDF t.p. (viewed on Mar. 2, 2009). Includes bibliographical references (p.146-160) and appendices. Available online via the OhioLINK ETD Center. Also available in print.
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Zuber-Skerritt, Ortrun Dorothea, and mikewood@deakin edu au. "Action research in higher education: The advancement of university learning and teaching." Deakin University. School of Education, 1987. http://tux.lib.deakin.edu.au./adt-VDU/public/adt-VDU20050902.102949.
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This thesis aims to contribute to the improvement and advancement of university learning, teaching, and staff development; to integrate educational theory and the practice of university teaching; and to contribute to the establishment of a new, emerging paradigm in higher education. The strategy towards achieving these aims comprises (1) an alternative research methodology in the interpretive, non-positivist paradigm; (2) an integrated framework drawing on a variety of previously unrelated theories to form an alternative model of university education; and (3) reference to the dialectical relationship between educational theory and teaching practice and their integration through action research in higher education.
The thesis is not so much a critique of the traditional paradigm and of existing functionalist-structuralist approaches to higher education, but more a development and clarification of an alternative, dialectical, human action approach to higher education. The original contribution of this thesis to the theory and practice of higher education lies in the development (1) of an alternative model of university education based on an integration of previously unrelated domains of theory; (2) of a theoretical model of professional development as action research (the CRASP Model: Critical attitude, Research into teaching, Accountability, Self-evaluation, Professionalism); and (3) of action research projects in higher education.
Action research is research by the university teachers themselves into their teaching practice, i.e. into problems of the curriculum and student learning. The case studies included in and appended to this thesis show that in one educational setting at least it was possible to improve and advance university learning and teaching through action research. The evidence for this advancement is provided in a number of previously published case studies compiled in the Appendix.
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Zapp, Andrew M. "Design and Development of an External Fast Neutron Beam Facility at the Ohio State University Research Reactor." The Ohio State University, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1545075104197272.
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Chiweshe, Malvern Tatenda. "The development of an arousal and anxiety control mental skills training programme for the Rhodes University archery club." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002082.
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Research on the development of Mental Skills Training (MST) programmes in sport psychology has largely increased as sport has become more competitive. MST programmes have been seen to improve the performance of athletes. This particular research study focuses on the development of an anxiety and arousal control MST programme designed specifically for, and tailored exclusively to, the needs of four archers from the Rhodes Archery Club in Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa. The development of the programme was guided by the Organisational Development Process model as the research methodology design. Data from two quantitative measures (CSAI-2 and Sport Grid-R), a focus group, and an individual interview were integrated with currently existing mental skills literature and theory to devise this particular MST programme. The results of the assessment phase showed that individual archers have different experiences in how anxiety and arousal affect their performances. The results also showed that archers have different zones in which they feel their performance is good. These zones depend on their subjective interpretations of anxiety and arousal. The results also showed that other factors that include personality differences, level of experience and level of expertise also influence how anxiety and arousal affect performance. The archers had previous exposure to MST programmes although they had not received systematic training in mental skills training. The programme was developed in the form of MST workshops that would run over a three week period. As part of the programme the archers would be given a mental skills manual to aid in the mental skills training. It is recommended in future that more research in MST programmes be done as a way of improving the performance of athletes in South Africa