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High-quality measurement tools are critical to school improvement efforts. Education researchers frequently employ surveys in order to assess a host of variables associated with school improvement. This article asserts that Rasch modeling techniques enhance the quality of a measurement tool because they comprise elements of both qualitative and quantitative research approaches, and because Rasch modeling corrects the erroneous conclusions that result from the errors associated with ordinal response scale data. This article illustrates, with specific attention to the needs of education leaders and researchers, how the Rasch measurement model gauges the usefulness of survey instruments. This study illustrates the benefits of Rasch modeling using the scale that measures teacher external political efficacy (TEPE). Findings show that a set of four items captures this domain well.

Much of penal policy is "submerged," in the sense that Suzanne Mettler uses the term. There are networks of rules and regulations that link public funds, services, and institutions to various private interests with far reaching consequences. These networks are largely a stealth presence in the lives of citizens and their subterranean status, I argue, warps the wider politics of punishment. Resources are circulated along this network in such a way revenue is generated for some, costs cut for others, all in the shadow of public law. To the extent that this kind of redistribution lacks citizens' consent and approval, it also represents a potentially undemocratic development. Here, I show how the obscured visibility of these public–private connections distorts public attitudes about, and public support for, the US prison state. The final pages draw out the normative implications of that distortion.

Los crecientes desafíos a la educación superior están exigiendo de las instituciones esfuerzos para rever e innovar los currículos, expresar comunicaciones atractivas para sus públicos potenciales y articular las formas de gestión con el discurso de la mejora de la calidad. En la perspectiva epistemológica, es preciso abordar la temática conceptual que vincula enseñanza e investigación, ampliando la reflexión sobre la naturalización con que ese discurso viene sustentando la calidad de la educación superior. Desde el campo de los conocimientos pedagógicos se exige una base de investigación y reflexión, focalizando en el currículo, los procesos de enseñar y aprender y su dimensión de calidad. Esa perspectiva incide fuertemente en la concepción de docencia y en los saberes necesarios para su ejercicio. También debe ser objeto de preocupación política que podrá ser la más compleja, pues envuelve la revisión de culturas, visiones e intereses corporativos que se fueron consolidando Através de la tradición. Recurrir a la investigación-acción como herramienta para la producción de conocimientos acerca de las prácticas de enseñar y aprender en la universidad puede ser una significativa estrategia que altere la ecuación usual de investigar sobre los profesores para hacerlo con los profesores. Y esa condición se constituye en un desafío para concretar los esfuerzos de democratización de la educación superior, "calificando la calidad"[1]de la práctica pedagógica mediante la relación enseñanza e investigación.[1] N del T: en el original en portugués la expresión "qualificando a qualidade" conlleva un juego de palabras que tal vez se pierda en español. ABSTRACTResearch and teaching: scenarios and epistemological impasses for qualifying higher education.The growing challenges for higher education are requiring institutions efforts to revise and innovate curriculum, to express attractives to their potential audiences and articulate ways of managing the discourse of quality improvement. In epistemological perspective, it's needed to invest in the conceptual theme that combines teaching and research, expanding the reflection about naturalization that this discourse is sustaining the quality of higher education. From the field of pedagogical knowledge is required a base of research and reflection, focusing on curriculum, teaching and learning processes and their quality dimension. This perspective focuses heavily on the design of teaching and knowledge necessary to its exercise. Should also be a concern that the political dimension may be more complex because it involves the review of cultures, visions and corporate interests that were consolidated by tradition. Make use of action research as a tool for the production of knowledge about the practices of teaching and learning at university can be a significant strategy to change the usual equation of research on teachers to do it with teachers. And this condition constitutes a challenge to achieve the democratization efforts of higher education, "qualifying the quality" of pedagogic practice for the relationship teaching and research. ; The growing challenges for higher education are requiring institutions efforts to revise and innovate curriculum, to express attractives to their potential audiences and articulate ways of managing the discourse of quality improvement. In epistemological perspective, it's needed to invest in the conceptual theme that combines teaching and research, expanding the reflection about naturalization that this discourse is sustaining the quality of higher education. From the field of pedagogical knowledge is required a base of research and reflection, focusing on curriculum, teaching and learning processes and their quality dimension. This perspective focuses heavily on the design of teaching and knowledge necessary to its exercise. Should also be a concern that the political dimension may be more complex because it involves the review of cultures, visions and corporate interests that were consolidated by tradition. Make use of action research as a tool for the production of knowledge about the practices of teaching and learning at university can be a significant strategy to change the usual equation of research on teachers to do it with teachers. And this condition constitutes a challenge to achieve the democratization efforts of higher education, "qualifying the quality" of pedagogic practice for the relationship teaching and research.

Eradication of poverty and shifting the world onto a sustainable and resilient development pathway are part of the many agenda set at different times in history of the world by the United Nations. The realisation of these agenda is largely presumed to rest on literacy level of the world. Most health challenges in the nation have proven difficult to control or handle because the level of health literacy amongst Nigerians appears inadequate in the aspects that directly impact their health. The main purpose of this study was to establish the link between Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 3 and basic literacy, and determine, both quantitatively and qualitatively, how it affects the achievement of SDG 3 among young adults. A naturalistic inquiry was adopted to obtain data among the targeted population; questionnaire was formulated to answer the set research questions; 250 respondents within ages 18 to 35 were targeted, 125 each from selected LGA. Results of the study showed that basic/health literacy has significant influence on the health perception of the population. The study further shows that health performance is a function of health literacy and indirect function of level of education. This study recommended that government at all levels should embark on serious awareness campaign to intimate all Nigerians with SDGs and incorporate health programmes and awareness as a compulsory aspect of education at all levels.

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AbstractThis paper shows that the revolving door generates inequality of influence between financial firms and creates economic distortions. We first develop a theoretical model, introducing the notion of "bureaucratic capital" and stressing how the revolving door generates inequality in bureaucratic capital leading to inequality in profits. Then this prediction is tested, using a new database that tracks the revolving door process involving the 20 biggest US "diversified banks." We show that regulators who supply a large stock of bureaucratic capital are more likely to be hired by the top five banks. We also develop indices of the inequality of influence between banks. We show that banks in the top revenue quintile concentrate around 80% of revolving door movements. Goldman Sachs appears as the prime beneficiary of this process, capturing approximately 30% of the total stock of bureaucratic capital.