Author : David T. Conley
Publisher : Assessment, Accountability, &
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 35,12 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781682531976
The book provides practical explanation and guidance to nontechnical readers who want to expand the range of assessments used in schools, beyond multiple choice tests to newer, more experimental measures that can provide a fuller portrait of students' interests, capacities, and learning.--
Author : Judith Bovensiepen
Publisher : ANU Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 15,73 MB
Release : 2018-12-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1760462535
For the people of Timor-Leste, independence promised a fundamental transformation from foreign occupation to self-rule, from brutality to respect for basic rights, and from poverty to prosperity. In the eyes of the country’s political leaders, revenue from the country’s oil and gas reserves is the means by which that transformation could be effected. Over the past decade, they have formulated ambitious plans for state-led development projects and rapid economic growth. Paradoxically, these modernist visions are simultaneously informed by and contradict ideas stemming from custom, religion, accountability and responsibility to future generations. This book explores how the promise of prosperity informs policy and how policy debates shape expectations about the future in one of the world’s newest and poorest nation-states.
Author : Joe Tye
Publisher :
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,31 MB
Release : 2014-02-07
Category : Corporate culture
ISBN : 9781887511353
Author : Steven R. Ratner
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 11,48 MB
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 0199546665
This book explores the promise and limitations of international criminal law as a means of enforcing international human rights and humanitarian law. It analyses the principal crimes, such as genocide and crimes against humanity, and appraises the mechanisms developed to bring individuals to justice.
Author : Carolyn Taylor
Publisher : Walking Your Talk Press
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 47,47 MB
Release : 2021-04-22
Category :
ISBN : 9781838329600
Putting accountability at the heart of any business can be transformational. This step-by-step guide shows you why and how to achieve lasting cultural change.
Author : Melvin J. Dubnick
Publisher : M.E. Sharpe
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 20,76 MB
Release : 2015-05-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0765627396
Public accountability is a hallmark of modern democratic governance and the foundation of the popular performance management movement. Democracy is just an empty exercise if those in power cannot be held accountable in public for their acts and omissions, for their decisions, their policies, and their expenditures. This book offers a finely detailed and richly informed consideration of accountability in both government and the contemporary world of governance. Twenty-five leading experts cover varying aspects of the accountability movement, including multiple and competing accountabilities, measuring accountability, accountability and democratic legitimacy, and accountability and information technology, and apply them to governments, quasi-governments, non-government organizations, governance organizations, and voluntary organizations. Together they provide the most comprehensive consideration of accountability currently available, with a blend of theoretical, empirical, and applied approaches.
Author : Julius Fondong
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 49,67 MB
Release : 2022-09-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1942876963
n this very riveting and well-researched essay, Julius Fondong ruminates on the continued relevance of the promises and principles that underpinned the creation of the post-colonial Cameroon nation-state, sixty years after unification in 1961. Renewing the Promise: A Treatise on the Refoundation of the Cameroon Nation chronicles Cameroon's experiment in statehood; an experiment, which according to the author, sprung out of a desire and a promise to forge a new nation through the fusion of two territories with contrasting historical experiences and colonial legacies. Writing from the vantage position of a policy analyst, a governance expert, and a conflict management practitioner, Fondong contends that a combination of policy inconsistencies, imperial arrogance, institution capture, leadership deficiencies and the brazen travesties of the nation's foundational principles and promises has led to violent internal dissent, decreased state capacity for public service delivery and a development gridlock. So, what can be done to re-align the nation to its founding promises and save it from possible disintegration? Fondong proposes an overarching, governance-based praxis for the re-engineering of the Cameroon nation from the bottom up. His proposed remedy is predicated on the principles of decentralized governance, the redistribution of power in a manner that addresses the right to self-determination of Anglophone Cameroonians, enhanced public service delivery and a strategic shift from a transactional to a transformational leadership paradigm. Renewing the Promise is a thought-provoking and captivating political essay, written with exhilarating passion and prototypical clarity. It can serve as a blueprint for a much-needed reform of Cameroon's governance architecture.
Author : Greg Bustin
Publisher : McGraw Hill Professional
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 10,60 MB
Release : 2014-02-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 007183138X
Best practices for using accountability, trust, and purpose to turn your long-term vision into reality Accountability explains why the “carrot-and-stick” approach doesn’t work—and describes how to build and sustain a culture based on shared beliefs, positive action, and internal leadership development. The author’s conclusions are based on data resulting from his work with more than 3,000 executives worldwide, plus exclusive interviews with Fortune's Most Admired Companies and Best Places to Work. Greg Bustin has written a monthly bulletin about leadership and accountability that goes to more than 4,000 managers/executives. He speaks about 50 times per year in the U.S., Canada, and the UK and is one of the top-rated Vistage speakers. He also gives workshops and webinars on planning, execution, and accountability to business owners and leaders in the U.S. and Canada.
Author : Brian Cantwell Smith
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 49,37 MB
Release : 2019-10-08
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0262355213
An argument that—despite dramatic advances in the field—artificial intelligence is nowhere near developing systems that are genuinely intelligent. In this provocative book, Brian Cantwell Smith argues that artificial intelligence is nowhere near developing systems that are genuinely intelligent. Second wave AI, machine learning, even visions of third-wave AI: none will lead to human-level intelligence and judgment, which have been honed over millennia. Recent advances in AI may be of epochal significance, but human intelligence is of a different order than even the most powerful calculative ability enabled by new computational capacities. Smith calls this AI ability “reckoning,” and argues that it does not lead to full human judgment—dispassionate, deliberative thought grounded in ethical commitment and responsible action. Taking judgment as the ultimate goal of intelligence, Smith examines the history of AI from its first-wave origins (“good old-fashioned AI,” or GOFAI) to such celebrated second-wave approaches as machine learning, paying particular attention to recent advances that have led to excitement, anxiety, and debate. He considers each AI technology's underlying assumptions, the conceptions of intelligence targeted at each stage, and the successes achieved so far. Smith unpacks the notion of intelligence itself—what sort humans have, and what sort AI aims at. Smith worries that, impressed by AI's reckoning prowess, we will shift our expectations of human intelligence. What we should do, he argues, is learn to use AI for the reckoning tasks at which it excels while we strengthen our commitment to judgment, ethics, and the world.
Author : John P. Bartkowski
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 41,87 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780813533360
"Remember the Promise Keepers?" queries a recent media story on the evangelical men's movement that captured America's imagination and generated intense controversy during much of the 1990s. John P. Bartkowski has written the first account scrutinizing the turbulent forces that contributed to the group's wild popularity, declining fortunes, and current efforts to reinvent itself.
