Rozprawy doktorskie: „Nominal Group technique”

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Alexandersson, Christer, i Anthony Kumlin. "Brainstorming VS Nominal group technique online : En jämförelse mellan idégenereringsmetoderna brainstorming och nominal group technique i en online miljö". Thesis, Mälardalens högskola, Akademin för innovation, design och teknik, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-49096.

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Denna studie har två syften, det första är att undersöka om idégenereringsmetoderna brainstorming och nominal group technique kan förväntas ge liknande resultat, beroende på om idégenereringsprocessen genomförs på en fysisk plats eller i en online miljö. Det andra syftet är att testa de båda idégenererings metoderna i en mer verklig situation, med en fråga som ställdes av studiens uppdragsgivare och samarbetspartner Coompanion. Detta genomfördes i form utav en workshop som hölls tillsammans med Coompanion. Med tanke på den rådande världssituationen våren 2020, så testades detta i form utav ett kvasiexperiment, där ingen kontrollgrupp kunde skapas. Anledningen till detta var den rådande pandemin som gör att personer inte gärna ska samlas i grupper, vilket ledde till att man i denna studie jämför med de resultat man fått med ett fysiskt experiment utav Miller (2009). Resultatet i studien pekar på att den skillnad i genererade idéer som normalt finns mellan brainstorming och nominal group technique fortfarande existerar. Däremot visar studien att det totala antalet idéer från online grupperna, genererade lite mer än hälften så många idéer som Millers (2009) grupper, vilket pekar på att idégenerering online fortfarande inte håller måttet mot en fysisk idégenerering. Man såg även att de idéer som genererades av nominal group technique gruppen, var mer kreativa än brainstorming gruppen, när det kom till frågan tillhörande Coompanion.
The aim of this study can be separated into two purposes. The first purpose is to explore if the idea generation methods known as brainstorming and nominal group technique would give similar results depending on if the idea generating process was conducted in a physical space, compared to an online space. The second purpose of this study was to test both of the idea generating methods with a less lab focused situation, by asking a question that focuses on a real problem that the Company Coompanion, our partner in this study wanted answered. These purposes were tried in a workshop held with our partner Coompanion. Given the prevailing world situation in the spring of 2020, the experiment had to take on the form of a quasi-experiment where no control group could be created. The reason for this was the global pandemic and the government recommendation of not gathering in groups if it is avoidable, which led this study to compare with results obtained by a physical experiment made by Miller (2009). The results of the study indicates that the difference in the amount of generated ideas that normally exists between brainstorming and nominal group technique still exists. Although in contrast, the study shows that the total number of ideas from the online groups generated just a little more than half of the ideas compared to Millers (2009) physical groups. This indicates that idea generating online still doesn't measure up to a physical idea generating process. It was also shown that the ideas generated by the online nominal group technique group were more creative then the brainstorming group when it came to the question that Coompanion asked.

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Robinson, Victoria Ann. "Development of a balanced scorecard for public health using the Modified Nominal Group Technique consensus method". Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2001. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp05/MQ63359.pdf.

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Lopes, Milton E. "Decision interaction processes and decision product quality: a comparative study of a group support system: CyberQuest™ and the nominal group technique". Diss., Virginia Tech, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/38273.

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This study's objective was to compare a Group Support System (GSS), i.e., CyberQuest, with the Nominal Group Technique (NGT). Its basic assumption was that discussion outcomes are enhanced by decision interaction processes, the quality of group facilitation, the intensity of group interaction, the effectiveness of the group meeting, and the level of group satisfaction. The GSS of choice in the study was CyberQuest, which was developed at Virginia Tech by Professor John Dickey. Like most GSS, its purpose is to increase the effectiveness of individual and multiple decision makers. Unlike most GSS which for the most part feature various computerized problem solving tools, CyberQuest adds hypermedia hardware/software systems to stimulative and innovative group facilitation procedures and methodologies. The unit of analysis was a group meeting. Eight groups of randomly selected Town officials and citizens were asked to develop policy recommendations that address the need to encourage the retention and growth of a mix of retail services in Blacksburg, Virginia. Four groups were exposed to CyberQuest. Four were not; instead they were exposed to a modified version of the NGT. Prior to the administration of the experiment, an expert panel was polled to determine the criteria by which the policy was to be judged. The results of the experiment were not entirely favorable to CyberQuest sessions. There was no statistically significant difference between CyberQuest and NGT in decision product quality, quality of facilitation, or meeting effectiveness. Only group interaction and group satisfaction gave evidence of any statistically significant difference. There was sufficient evidence to conclude that the former was of greater intensity in CyberQuest driven sessions. On the other hand, there was evidence to conclude that the latter was greater in NGT driven sessions.
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Lopes, Milton E. "Decision interaction processes and decision product quality : a comparative study of a group support system: CyberQuest (tm) and the nominal group technique /". This resource online, 1994. http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-06062008-164528/.

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Wheeler, Brian James, i n/a. "Criteria for the Design and Evaluation of Technology Education Facilities: A Study Involving the Development and Trial of Appropriate Design Criteria". Griffith University. Centre for Learning Research, 1997. http://www4.gu.edu.au:8080/adt-root/public/adt-QGU20050906.132938.

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As education systems, in particular Technology Education, adapt to new expectations for secondary students entering an uncertain workforce, the time is appropriate to investigate the need for school facilities to meet these present demands and those that continue to change curricula. This study has been conducted in order to determine the facility requirements for the delivery of the evolving technology/manual arts curriculum in Queensland. A set of validated design criteria for evaluating technology education and vocational education settings was developed and trialed to assist the designer of such facilities to meet the needs of this area on schools designed in different eras from the 1 960s to the present. A review of the published literature would indicate that little has been written on this aspect of facilities design. While related studies have been conducted in North America, they were not confined to the designing of the facilities and only had specific relevance in that country. An expert group consisting of prominent Queensland educators provided the impetus for developing the criteria which had been generated through a systematic search of the literature. The methodology utilised to involve the expert group was the Nominal Group Technique. After the criteria had been developed, they were validated by questionnaire through a 30% random sample of practicing heads of department across Queensland in both state and independent systems. A trial evaluation using current facilities was subsequently conducted to determine the effectiveness of the criteria in terms of teacher acceptability as well as establishing a pattern of needs for modification. Practitioners who use the facility for teaching technology education and/or vocational education could use the set of criteria to evaluate their facility in a similar manner to that of evaluating their students. Such evaluations could then become the basis for ffiture school planning and budgetary allocations as well as asset management of existing facilities. The study proved to be valuable as the validated criteria have the potential of being used as a tool by teachers to evaluate their facilities. At the systems level of operation, the criteria will provide assistance for designers, architects and teachers to prepare informal educational briefs. Such briefs would provide a consistent approach to the some times difficult task of clearly defining the function of a facility. The modem facility must meet the needs of current curriculum and be sufficiently flexible and adaptable to provide the educational requirements well into the twenty-first century. These developed criteria will greatly assist in this process.

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Wheeler, Brian James. "Criteria for the Design and Evaluation of Technology Education Facilities: A Study Involving the Development and Trial of Appropriate Design Criteria". Thesis, Griffith University, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/366559.

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As education systems, in particular Technology Education, adapt to new expectations for secondary students entering an uncertain workforce, the time is appropriate to investigate the need for school facilities to meet these present demands and those that continue to change curricula. This study has been conducted in order to determine the facility requirements for the delivery of the evolving technology/manual arts curriculum in Queensland. A set of validated design criteria for evaluating technology education and vocational education settings was developed and trialed to assist the designer of such facilities to meet the needs of this area on schools designed in different eras from the 1 960s to the present. A review of the published literature would indicate that little has been written on this aspect of facilities design. While related studies have been conducted in North America, they were not confined to the designing of the facilities and only had specific relevance in that country. An expert group consisting of prominent Queensland educators provided the impetus for developing the criteria which had been generated through a systematic search of the literature. The methodology utilised to involve the expert group was the Nominal Group Technique. After the criteria had been developed, they were validated by questionnaire through a 30% random sample of practicing heads of department across Queensland in both state and independent systems. A trial evaluation using current facilities was subsequently conducted to determine the effectiveness of the criteria in terms of teacher acceptability as well as establishing a pattern of needs for modification. Practitioners who use the facility for teaching technology education and/or vocational education could use the set of criteria to evaluate their facility in a similar manner to that of evaluating their students. Such evaluations could then become the basis for ffiture school planning and budgetary allocations as well as asset management of existing facilities. The study proved to be valuable as the validated criteria have the potential of being used as a tool by teachers to evaluate their facilities. At the systems level of operation, the criteria will provide assistance for designers, architects and teachers to prepare informal educational briefs. Such briefs would provide a consistent approach to the some times difficult task of clearly defining the function of a facility. The modem facility must meet the needs of current curriculum and be sufficiently flexible and adaptable to provide the educational requirements well into the twenty-first century. These developed criteria will greatly assist in this process.
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Clarke, Nerida, i n/a. "A study of the information needs and information-seeking behaviour of Australian accredited coaches in the sports of swimming and track and field". University of Canberra. Information, Language & Culture, 1995. http://erl.canberra.edu.au./public/adt-AUC20060628.150854.

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The purpose of the present study was to examine the information needs and information seeking behaviour of coaches in the sports of swimming and track and field who had completed level 2 accreditation of the Australian Coaching Council. The study aimed to identify information needs, the sources from which information is currently obtained and to gauge the level of satisfaction with current information provision in terms of the quantity, content and timeliness of information received. The study also aimed to examine the influence of the independent variables of sport, geographic location and education level on information needs and information seeking behaviour. In line with current theoretical thinking in the examination of information needs described in the literature, the researcher took a 'user-centred' approach in the identification of information needs utilising the structured group discussion process, Nominal Group Technique (NGT) as the first stage of the research. This process established the broad parameters of coaches' information needs and provided the basis for the design of a subsequent survey which was distributed to all swimming and track and field coaches who had completed level 2 accrediation. The survey resulted in a response rate of 69 percent from a total population of 568. The study revealed that coaches have a wide range of information needs many of which would not generally be associated with libraries, that there are few differences between coaches from different sports, those of differing education levels and between those of different geographic locations, although access to information is made more difficult through geographic isolation. The study revealed that coaches use multiple sources to obtain information and that libraries and formal sport information providers are not key sources for most types of information. Low levels of satisfaction were found to exist with the quantity and content of information with the highest level of dissatisfaction being expressed with the timeliness of information received. The study concludes by identifying issues, recommending possible actions in relation to these issues and identifies areas for future research.

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Hashim, Shiyanath. "Contact Between Children in Care and their Birth Families". Thesis, University of Canterbury. Health Sciences Centre, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/3286.

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This dissertation describes a study that investigated the perceptions of foster parents and kinship caregivers (grandparents caring for their grandchildren) around contact issues between children in their care and their birth parents in Canterbury, New Zealand. The study employed a qualitative approach for data collection and analysis. The qualitative method of data collection for the study comprised of three focus groups, two with foster parents and one with grandparents. The focus groups were conducted using a modified Nominal Group Technique (NGT) where two questions posed to the participants sought to understand their views about behaviours they noticed in children in their care before and after contact with birth parents. In addition, a further question was asked to gain an understanding around their feelings on contact with birth parents. Findings of the study indicated that foster parents largely described children’s behaviour before and after contact to be distressing and stressful for them, with few positive benefits. Furthermore, foster parents mainly stated strong, negative feelings around contact with biological parents. In the discussion, implications of these results are discussed for foster children, foster parents and social welfare practices.

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Hanson, Camilla Sara. "Improving Access and Outcomes in Living Kidney Donor Transplantation". Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/17370.

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Shortages in deceased organ donation have necessitated widespread acceptance of living donor kidney transplantation, which offers better outcomes in terms of graft survival, life expectancy and quality of life for many patients with end-stage kidney disease, compared with deceased donor kidney transplantation and dialysis. However, there are barriers and challenges that exist in the current practice of living kidney donor transplantation. Overall, the rates of living kidney donor transplantation have decreased or plateaued, with ethic and socio-economic disparities in access to living kidney donation reported in many countries that remain largely unexplained. Living donors must accept risks associated with undergoing nephrectomy, yet the evidence on the long-term risks of living kidney donation remains uncertain. In response, there have been efforts to identify and describe the barriers and disparities in living kidney donor transplantation, improve the pathway for living donors and to assess a range of outcomes for living donors. A comprehensive understanding of the values, beliefs, experiences, priorities and preferences of the key stakeholders, including donors and health professionals involved in their care is needed to ensure that research; clinical practice and policy in living kidney donation address their needs and priorities. This is a thesis by publication containing published and submitted work. The aims of the studies included in this thesis are: 1) To identify and describe the beliefs, attitudes and expectations of patients with CKD regarding living kidney donation. 2) To describe kidney donors’ experiences of the evaluation process, and the motivations and challenges to sustaining commitment prior to donation. 3) To describe nephrologists’ perspectives on barriers to living kidney donation and disparities in access to living kidney donor transplantation. 4) To identify living kidney donors’ priorities for outcomes and describe the reasons for their choices. 5) To determine the characteristics and heterogeneity of outcomes reported in randomised trials and observational studies in adult living kidney donors

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Aljamal, Mohammed Sulaiman I. "Developing quality indicators to evaluate medicines reconciliation on admission to hospital". Thesis, University of Manchester, 2012. https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/developing-quality-indicators-to-evaluate-medicines-reconciliation-on-admission-to-hospital(b0cc6745-224c-48ad-aec1-acad607fed23).html.

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Background, aim and objectives: Evaluating quality of care is essential when redesigning or improving practice. Medicines reconciliation (MR) on hospital admission is now policy in the UK. It is the process of obtaining an up-to-date and accurate medication list and documenting any discrepancies. The overall aim of this work was to develop quality indicators to evaluate MR on admission to hospital; the specific objectives include developing MR quality indicators, achieving consensus on their appropriateness and testing their feasibility by applying them in a hospital setting. Design: The study was designed in three parts, each consisting of three steps. In part I, ideas about potential indicators were obtained from two sources: a literature search and the nominal group technique. These ideas were converted to potential indicators using criteria for good indicators and then reviewed by nine reviewers. Part II was designed to achieve consensus on the appropriateness of the indicators to evaluate MR. It involved pre-piloting, piloting and conducting the main two-round online Delphi study. Several methods were used to approach predefined experts. Part III involved applying in hospital settings those MR indicators that had achieved consensus. It included developing operational definitions and directly observing the MR process as conducted by pharmacy staff in two hospitals. The indicators were further tested by collecting data about the MR process for all patients seen by pharmacy staff on one weekday in the two hospitals. Results: A systematic approach was followed to develop MR indicators. The idea generation step produced over 90 ideas about potential indicators, which were converted to 85 MR indicators. The assessment by the nine practicing hospital pharmacists discarded 29 of them and the remaining 56 MR indicators were carried forward to the Delphi study, during which 41 indicators achieved consensus as appropriate for evaluating MR on admission to hospital. In the feasibility study, 5 MR indicators were found not to be feasible and three not adequately assessed, while 33 indicators were considered feasible to be used in a hospital setting. Conclusions: This work provided a novel list of 33 indicators that achieved consensus and were found to be feasible to evaluate the MR process on admission to hospital. Further research should explore the use of these indicators, among others, to assess and improve the overall quality of care provided to patients on admission and throughout the hospitalization journey.

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McClafferty, Julie A. "An Assessment of the Biological and Socioeconomic Feasibility of Elk Restoration in Virginia". Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/31295.

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The biological and socioeconomic feasibility of restoring elk (Cervus elaphus) to Virginia was assessed. Biological feasibility was determined by evaluating habitat suitability for elk while considering potential impacts of elk on existing fauna and flora in Virginia. Suitability was assessed by creating a habitat suitability index (HSI) model that measured the availability and accessibility of open foraging areas and forested cover areas, the availability of permanent water sources, and the degree of fragmentation by roads. Eight areas were identified as potential elk habitat: 1 in Southwest Virginia, 4 in the Shenandoah Mountains (Shenandoah, Highland, Big Meadows, Peaks of Otter), and 3 in the Southern Piedmont (Danville, Brookneal, Rehobeth). The highest potentials for supporting an elk herd were found in the Highland and Big Meadows study areas, medium biological feasibilities were found in the Southwest, Shenandoah, and Brookneal study areas, and low biological feasibilities were found in the Peaks of Otter, Danville, and Rehobeth study areas. A restored elk herd could negatively affect indigenous fauna and flora by changing the structure and diversity of existing forested ecosystems, but impacts can be minimized by maintaining elk populations at or below cultural carrying capacity. The introduction of diseases during restoration and possible transmission of those diseases from elk to humans, livestock, and other wildlife also are concerns, but these issues can be addressed by following a risk minimization protocol.

Socioeconomic feasibility was assessed with a statewide mail survey of Virginia residents, 4 regional stakeholder workshops, an analysis of economic costs and benefits associated with elk restoration, and an assessment of the risks of elk-human conflicts in each of the 8 study areas. Overall, most (61%) respondents agreed that elk restoration would be good for Virginia. However, the low response rate (30%) and low confidence among respondents (49%) in their knowledge about elk indicated that most residents do not have the interest and/or necessary information to form a definitive opinion. Residents believe that the greatest benefits of restoration would be the value-based and indirect ecological benefits, such as returning an extirpated species to its native range, whereas the greatest perceived costs were the economic impacts to property, crop depredation, and public safety hazards. In contrast, local stakeholder representatives identified economic returns from increased tourism due to the presence of elk and the creation of new recreational opportunities as the most anticipated benefits; important concerns were the potential for property damage by elk, the potential impacts on local ecosystems, and the costs of implementing and administering an elk restoration program and subsequent elk management. Proposed resolutions for these issues varied by region. Representatives from the Southwest and northern Shenandoah Mountain (Shenandoah and Big Meadows study site) Regions preferred not to restore elk, whereas those from the southern Shenandoah Mountain (Highland and Peaks of Otter study site) and the Southern Piedmont Regions preferred to start out small with a carefully controlled and monitored â experimentalâ population.

Economic benefits of elk restoration, as determined through analysis of data from other eastern states currently managing elk populations, are associated with tourism and the revenues brought to the community during elk hunting seasons, whereas economic costs are associated with crop damage, elk-vehicle collisions, and the administrative costs of managing an elk herd. Although the initial costs of transporting, releasing, and monitoring a founder population likely will exceed immediate benefits, once an elk population is established, benefits likely will exceed costs. However, an equitable distribution of costs and benefits must be devised so that the individuals who bear the costs are afforded a comparable or greater set of benefits.

Risk of landowner elk-conflicts was examined by comparing human population densities and growth rates, percent private versus public land, and agricultural trends across the 8 study areas. Highest risk for elk-human conflicts was identified in the Southern Piedmont Region and in the Shenandoah study site, risk was moderate in the Southwest, Big Meadows, and Peaks of Otter study sites, and risk in the Highland study site was low.

Overall, the Highland study site had the highest feasibility for elk restoration of all study areas examined; the Big Meadows and Southwest study sites both demonstrated moderate feasibility. Restoration in these areas is possible so long as management objectives remain flexible, plans are made in advance to address potential concerns, and the public is involved in the decision-making processes both before and after elk are released.
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Ledo, Wietske, i n/a. "Information needs of external students: a survey of the information needs of external students enrolled at the South Australian College of Advanced Education and resident in Whyalla, South Australia". University of Canberra. Library and Information Management, 1993. http://erl.canberra.edu.au./public/adt-AUC20050629.113625.

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The main purpose of the study was to investigate the library needs and library usage of external students in remote areas. The study emphasised external students' perception of their own library needs. Four distinct areas of research evolved from the purpose of the study: to identify the library service needs of external students; to identify library use by external students; to identify external students' perceptions of library needs; and to identify student status in relation to library use. Information was collected by an interview with former external students, a questionnaire to the libraries involved in the study and by Nominal Group Technique (NGT) sessions with external students. The primary instrument was a questionnaire to the external students in the population under investigation requesting information of their library usage and needs. The population under investigation were external students enrolledin the South Australian College of Advanced Education (SACAE) and resident in Whyalla, South Australia. It was decided to survey the total population rather than a sample because of the small numbers involved. Thirty-five responses were received out of a population of 52, representing a response rate of 69 percent. The results of the survey were analysed using a Statview SE statistical package and a spreadsheet and graphics package, Excel. Frequency distributions were computed to determine the number of respondents who selected each option. The study found that the external students who used libraries tended to use a variety of libraries. Students used not only their own institution's library, but the a range of libraries accessible to them in Whyalla. The study concludes by identifying issues, recommending possible solutions, and identifying areas for further research.

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Al-Kuwari, Wasmiya Dalhem M. D. "Information management within the Nursing Department at Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC), Qatar". Thesis, Loughborough University, 2005. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/7811.

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Hamad Medical Corporation, the main healthcare provider in the state of Qatar, sponsored this study to investigate the use of electronic records management as the basis for a novel information management system in its Nursing Department. To assess the viability of an electronic records management system a questionnaire survey of a representative sample of the staff and interviews with key post holders were under taken. Results obtained indicated a wide spread dissatisfaction with the existing manual system. However, introduction of any computer-based technology requires great care. To assist with identifying any issues with this technological change, Soft System Methodology (SSM) was employed to discern what changes could be made to improve the current problematic situation found in the Nursing Department. In fact the change archetypes uncovered (procedural, attitudinal, structural and cultural) formed an innovative input into obtaining a roadmap for development of the electronic staff records system. This roadmap was facilitated by the use of Nominal Group Technique (NGT) and Interpretive Structural Modelling (ISM): In fact the roadmap was an ISM intent structure. The roadmap suggested that change could be affected by having written policy documents and the top goal to be achieved reflected an improvement in manpower placing and budgetary forecasts. The use of a multi-methods approach meant that as well as this study's main objectives being reached, the process encompassed some methodological innovations. This study is the first to use the output of SSM to facilitate the NGT and ISM interactions. Equally, it is the first study of its sort to be applied to the Nursing Department at HMC, Qatar, which is an example of a cross-cultural eastern philosophical tradition. The methods used here revealed some significant findings, and have helped in the development of an electronic records management system for use at HMC, Qatar.

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Clayton, Peter, i n/a. "User involvement in academic library strategic planning: congruence amongst students, academic staff and libary staff at the Canberra College of Advanced Education". University of Canberra. Library and Information Studies, 1988. http://erl.canberra.edu.au./public/adt-AUC20050627.142122.

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The present study attempted to answer two questions: do academic library users have a distinctive and useful input to make to library strategic planning? If they do, what mechanisms will permit them to participate effectively in this planning process? To address these questions research was carried out in two stages at a single institutional site, the Canberra College of Advanced Education. The first of these utilised a structured group discussion process, Nominal Group Technique (NGT). This was used both as an indicator of user planning priorities and as a pilot research technique contributing to the design of a subsequent survey. This survey obtained a response rate of over 90 percent from a sample of 379. The study attempted to establish that academic staff and students do have a worthwhile input to make to planning by testing for congruence between the rankings of library planning priorities of these user groups and the rankings of planning priorities of Library staff. No strong positive correlations were established between the priorities of student groups and Library staff, although in the survey the priorities of academic staff and Library staff were found to be related. These results suggest users do have a worthwhile input to make to library strategic planning. Other tests for congruence were also applied between and within respondent groups, because if a group was found to have different priorities there would be a prima facie case for consulting members of that group as part of the planning process. Both mechanisms used in the present study were considered successful. User surveys have been employed for planning in previous studies with a future-oriented component. However, it appears that this may have been the first formally reported application of NGT to library management. Experience in the present study suggests it is a highly suitable technique for situations such as strategic planning, where generation of ideas or comment on priorities is required. However, an attempt to establish congruence between the results obtained using NGT and those obtained from the survey yielded inconclusive results. It is believed that major changes in the institutional environment were principally responsible for this, although a methodological limitation may also have contributed. The study concludes with suggestions for further research.

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Ormrod, Janet. "La rédaction de l'article scientifique par des anglophones et par des francophones : le groupe nominal". Brest, 2000. http://www.theses.fr/2000BRES1008.

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Notre thèse examine les constituants et le fonctionnement du groupe nominal dans l'article de recherche scientifique, et compare les réalisations du groupe nominal dans deux corpus. L'analyse d'un corpus de textes rédigés par des anglophones devrait nous permettre de décrire un modèle possible pour des chercheurs francophones et de déceler des écarts entre ce modèle et les productions d'auteurs francophones, ce qui constitue le deuxième corpus. Notre approche es fondée sur la linguistique systémique fonctionnelle ; les textes sont donc analysés selon les trois métafonctions idéationnelle, interpersonnelle et textuelle.

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Hartz, Wayne Edward. "21st-Century U.S. Safety Professional Educational Standards: Establishing Minimum Baccalaureate Graduate Learning Outcomes for Emerging Occupational Health and Safety Professionals". Antioch University / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch1387378108.

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Wang, Shuei-Shan, i 王水杉. "Public Participation & NGT (Nominal Group Technique ) Research on Thai-Shan Development". Thesis, 2001. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/91757863429403255641.

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Cheng, Hui-Ping, i 鄭慧萍. "Developing An ISO 14000 Environmental Performance Evaluation System by Nominal Group Technique". Thesis, 2002. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/66557339803665764834.

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元智大學
工業工程與管理學系
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The environmental evaluation system is a tool to measure the performance of environmental management. To have the best practice of ISO 14001, building an effective performance evaluation system is crucial. However we found few scientific studies dealt with the way of developing such system. In this study, we use nominal group technique (NGT) to develop a systematic model. It is intended to integrate the phases of building a performance evaluation model, which includes indicator selection, indicator evaluation, and model building in a way of collective participation. To verify the effectiveness of this proposed model, we invited 28 experts to conduct an empirical study. The results indicate that there is significant difference between the model we proposed in this study and the model built by expert’s intuition. In particular, comparing to the intuitive model, we found the proposed model selected numbers of indicator average decreasing 39.29%. It’s obvious that the proposed model have the advantage of more parsimoniousness, at the same time, it still reserves the model characteristics such as completeness, prevention-focus, and responsiveness. Therefore, constructing the environmental performance evaluation system in terms of NGT can increase the system effectiveness. The implications of the research findings are further discussed in the following.

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Janes, Diane P. "Constructivism and instructional design : an exploration using an asynchronous online nominal group technique". Thesis, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/17144.

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The purpose of this study was to identify the principal tenets/presuppositions of constructivism as a theory of learning, and to suggest processes or instructional approaches that flow from this theory for the development of online learning. Using a consensus building methodology, the Nominal Group Technique (NGT) wholly online, the intention was to seek the consensus of experts/practitioners in the field in order to identify an agreed-upon theory of constructivism. Possible approaches to instruction and delineation of the role of the instructor that flow from the theory were explored. In all, two idea statements generated by the participant/experts garnered a 100% consensus within the study. An additional 33 idea statements were deemed to have reached a consensus of between 80-99%. The following description, emerging from the study, uses the language and concepts employed by the participant-experts in the study: Constructivism encourages and values the personal understanding/knowledge construction by the learner and the design of learning is student-centred. Understanding that there are multiple ways that knowledge is absorbed and constructed, there are a number of conditions that should be encouraged that were felt to be essential to constructivism. Learning is iterative and lifelong; it fosters active, higher-level thinking and reflection; it is social in nature. It builds upon shared negotiated meaning and upon the learner's interests. It is situated within realistic authentic tasks and complex problem solving, based on and found in the world outside of the 'classroom'. Instructors share the authority and assist students in adopting intellectual responsibility for their own learning. Instructors are flexible in their support of student expressions of varying levels of knowledge while critically merging the learner's knowledge with disciplinary insights and personal experiences. Assessment should include learner reflection on their goals and accomplishments and avoid overly narrow measurement of skills or knowledge without a complete context of interpretation. In addition, recommendations are included for further research and suggestions are made for the use of the NGT as a research methodology.
Education, Faculty of
Educational Studies (EDST), Department of
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Botha, Lorraine. "Development of an administrative neonatal database instrument for monitoring the status of neonatal intensive care practice in South Africa : a consensus research approach". Diss., 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/43287.

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Various local and international neonatal nursing organisations have identified the dire need for a comprehensive administrative database reflecting the true status of neonatal intensive care practice in South Africa. This would enable neonatal interest groups to give input into policy-making; implement, monitor, and evaluate policies; identify particular needs to be addressed by quality improvement initiatives or projects; and to promote international benchmarking. The overall aim of this study was to determine the content of an administrative neonatal database instrument to enhance delivery of the highest quality nursing care to ill and highrisk neonates nationwide. The specific research objectives of this study were to describe and refine the content of such an instrument. This was achieved by using two consensus research methods, the Nominal Group Technique (NGT) and the Delphi method. For the NGT session representatives of organisations such as NNASA, SANITSA, SANC and The National Department of Health as well as trained neonatal nurses from both public and private sector hospitals were invited. Five participants attended the NGT session. An electronic format of the Delphi method, the e-Delphi, was used and included the participants from the NGT as well as additional unit managers, paediatricians and neonatologists. By the end of the third round of the e-Delphi method, six participants had fully participated. Through both phases data collection and analysis took place simultaneously. Based on the analysis, a draft instrument for data collection was compiled. This instrument will in the near future be piloted on a larger scale.
Dissertation (MCur)--University of Pretoria, 2014.
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Nursing Science
MCur
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Heyns, Tanya. "A journey towards emancipatory practice development". Thesis, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/3046.

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Rapid changes in the healthcare environment increase the need for nurse practitioners to be motivated, knowledgeable and skilled in order to ensure quality patient care. Accident and emergency units are challenging environments and by ensuring that nurse practitioners work in an enabling environment, they should be motivated, skilled and knowledgeable and be able to think critically to enhance their own professional growth and emancipated practice. This in turn may increase the nurse practitioners’ job satisfaction, which in turn encourage job retention and may influence patient outcomes positively. A journey towards a shared vision namely “emancipatory practice development” was undertaken in an accident and emergency unit of a Level III public hospital. Following the diagnosis of an emergency situation, action research was applied to change the perceived toxic environment to an enabling environment. The study was conducted within the critical social theory paradigm and descriptive, explorative and contextual in nature. Both qualitative and quantitative approaches were utilised. Throughout the action research for practitioners project, collaboration enhanced the emancipation of the nurse leaders, as key drivers of the process, as well as the nurse practitioners. Short and long-term actions were planned, implemented and amended based on observations and reflection following each cycle of the project. During this process a toxic environment was changed to an enabling environment, in which nurse practitioners were retained and additional spin-offs followed. Guidelines for the application and implementation of the process as utilised in this study were compiled to guide others who experience similar challenges.
Health Sciences
D.Litt. et Phil. (Health Studies)

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(9776999), Said Al Tubi. "Teacher professional development practices appropriate for post-basic education school teachers in Oman". Thesis, 2020. https://figshare.com/articles/thesis/Teacher_professional_development_practices_appropriate_for_post-basic_education_school_teachers_in_Oman/16556688.

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This research explored teacher professional development (PD) practices appropriate for use by Omani Post-Basic Education school teachers. The researcher investigated the perspectives of different participants. For data collection, the nominal group technique (NGT) and focus groups (FG) were used. Recommendations have been developed for possible enhanced practices and changes.

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Ludeke, Anet. "Die benutting van psigodrama in maatskaplike groepwerk met adolessente in die hersaamgestelde gesin". Diss., 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/17255.

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Egskeidings en daaropvolgende hersaamgestelde gesinne neem toe. Die literatuur sowel as praktykervaring van die navorser het bewys dat die aanpassing in 'n hersaamgestelde gesin veral vir die adolessent traumaties is. Uit 'n literatuurstudie is bepaal watter probleme/behoeftes adolessente in hersaamgestelde gesinne ervaar. Die nominale groepstegniek is gebruik ten einde probleme/behoeftes te verfyn. Dit het uitgewys dat probleme in hersaamgestelde gesinne voortspruitend is uit kommunikasieprobleme. Die groepwerkproram met stiefadolessente is dus daarvolgen opgestel. Psigodrama word beskou as die mees ideale benadering in groepwerk met adolessente. Twee meetskale is gebruik, te wete 'n kommunikasievraelys en die Hudson-indeks wat gewysig is vanaf ouerlike verhoudings na stiefouerlike verhoudings. 'n Voorondersoek groep is met vyf stiefadolessente oor vyf byeenkomste en 'n eksperimentele groep met tien stiefadolessente oor tien byeenkomste aangebied. Voor- en nameting is gedoen. Op beide meetskale is groei in vaardighede gemeet en is die navorser se doelstelling bereik
Divorces and remarriages are increasing. The literature study and practical experience of the researcher, has shown that the adaption to remarriage is the most traumatic for adolescents. A literature study was done to determine the problems/needs of adolescents in remarried families. The nominal group technique was then used to refine the problems/needs. The results showed clearly that problems in remarried families are a result of communication problems. The group work programme with stepadolescents was therefore composed. Psychodrama is the most ideal method in working with adolescents. Two measuring instruments were used, namely the communication questionnaire and the Hudson-index which was modified from parentchild relationships to step-parental relationships. A pilot study group with five step-adolescents over five meetings and an experimental group was then held with ten step-adolescents over a period of ten meetings were held. Measurement was done before and after the group meetings. Both measuring instruments recorded growth in skills and the researcher's objective was reached
Social Work
M.A. (Sosiale Wetenskappe)

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McGough, Elizabeth M. "A comparison of appreciative inquiry and nominal group techniques in the evaluation of a college counseling center". 2006. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1192197541&sid=8&Fmt=2&clientId=39334&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--State University of New York at Buffalo, 2006.
Title from PDF title page (viewed on Mar. 03, 2007) Available through UMI ProQuest Digital Dissertations. Thesis adviser: Donnelly, James P., Chris, Stephen A. Includes bibliographical references.

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