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“Aspects of 'Relevance' in the Alignment of Curriculum with Educational Standards”

Retrieval of useful digitized learning objects is a key objective for educational digital libraries, but imprecise definitions of alignment hinder the development of effective retrieval mechanisms. With over 63,000 U.S. K-12 science and mathematics education standards and a rapid proliferation of Web-enabled curriculum, retrieving curriculum that aligns with the standards to which teachers must teach is increasingly important. Previous studies of such alignment use single-dimensional and binary measures of relevance. Perhaps as a consequence they suffer from low inter-rater reliability (IRR), with experts agreeing about alignments only some 20-40% of the time. We present the results of an experiment in which the dependent variable ‘alignment’ is operationalized using the Saracevic model of relevance in which; i.e., alignment is defined and measured through ‘clues’ from the everyday practice of K-12 teaching. Results show higher inter-rater reliability on all clues with significantly higher IRR on several specific alignment dimensions. In addition, a (linear) model of ‘overall alignment’ is derived and estimated. Both the structure and explanatory power of the model differ significantly between searching vs. assessment. These results illustrate the usefulness of clue-based relevance measures for information retrieval and have important consequences for both the formulation of automated retrieval mechanisms and the construction of a gold standard set of standard-curriculum alignments.
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Rene Reitsma, Byron Marshall and Malinda Zarske "Aspects of 'Relevance' in the Alignment of Curriculum with Educational Standards" Information Processing & Management 362-376 pages 2010 View on: Google Scholar

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“BA302: Microsoft Dynamics NAV ERP Exercise/Walkthrough”

Whether you enter the workforce as a sales manager, financial accountant or office admin, chances are that you will be working with some type of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system. The purpose of this exercise/walkthrough is to familiarize you with a typical business process as it is commonly executed with the help of one of the leading ERP systems in the market today – Microsoft Dynamics NAV. This exercise will walk you through the six steps of a typical sales process: 1) Creating a customer order; 2) Backordering an out-of-stock item; 3) Receiving the backordered item; 4) Shipping the customer the ordered items and invoicing the customer; 5) Receiving payment from the customer; 6) Making a payment to the vendor from whom we backordered. As you make your way through this exercise, you should realize that in a real company this process would be executed by different people working in different departments. They all will interact with the ERP; i.e., they all retrieve information from the ERP and store new information in it, as the sales process progresses. In this exercise you take on the role of each of these people, giving you a sense of how the sales order is processed both by the company and by the ERP.
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Byron Marshall, Rene Reitsma and Kirk Wydner "BA302: Microsoft Dynamics NAV ERP Exercise/Walkthrough" ScholarsArchive@OSU 25 pages 2016 View on: Google Scholar

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“Building and Leveraging Information in Dynamic Markets: The Role of IT Infrastructure Flexibility as Enabler of Organizational Responsiveness and Competitive Advantage”

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G. Bhatt, A. Emdad, Nicholas Roberts and V. Grover "Building and Leveraging Information in Dynamic Markets: The Role of IT Infrastructure Flexibility as Enabler of Organizational Responsiveness and Competitive Advantage" Information & Management 341-349 pages 2010 View on: Google Scholar

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“Can Intermediary-based Science Standards Crosswalking Work? Some Evidence from Mining the Standard Alignment Tool (SAT)”

We explore the feasibility of intermediary-based crosswalking and alignment of K-12 science education standards. With increasing availability of K-12 science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) digital library content, alignment of that content with educational standards is a significant and continuous challenge. Whereas direct, one-to-one alignment of standards is preferable but currently unsustainable in its resource demands, less resource-intensive intermediary-based alignment offers an interesting alternative. But will it work? We present the results from an experiment in which the machine-based Standard Alignment Tool (SAT) —incorporated in the National Science Digital Library (NSDL)— was used to collect over half a million direct alignments between standards from different standard-authoring bodies. These were then used to compute intermediary-based alignments derived from the well-known AAAS Project 2061 Benchmarks and NSES standards. Results show strong variation among authoring bodies in their success to crosswalk with best results for those who modeled their standards on the intermediaries. Results furthermore show a strong inverse relationship between recall and precision when both intermediates where involved in the crosswalking.
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Rene Reitsma, Byron Marshall and Trevor Chart "Can Intermediary-based Science Standards Crosswalking Work? Some Evidence from Mining the Standard Alignment Tool (SAT)" Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology 1843-1858 pages 2012 View on: Google Scholar

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