This paper describes a method for measuring the effects of academic and living conditions on the academic performance of female cadets in engineering at the Royal Military College of Canada (RMC). For the purposes of this paper systemic harassment is defined as policies, practices, procedures, actions or inactions, that appear neutral but have an adverse impact on an identifiable group. Two different measures of academic performance are used in this paper, the average grade of cadets, and the retention rate of cadets in engineering programmes. Both measures indicate that female cadets, particularly those studying engineering at the college, are adversely affected by the systemic discrimination that exists there. The paper also describes the educational system as it existed at RMC during the period of the study, discusses the perceptions of the affected group as reported elsewhere, and provides a model for analyzing the results.
A framework for the object-oriented (00) design and simulation of information system (IS) dynamics is proposed, supported by an object-oriented simulation (OOS) mapping tool and a prototype object-oriented integrated development environment (OOIDE). The objective is to make the design and simulation of IS design dynamics a common and integral part of the 00 systems development process by implementing the framework within an integrated and computer-aided systems development environment. The framework proposes a series of steps to follow for the developer who has decided to look at the dynamics of an information system's (IS) logical design and is using an 00 methodology for the development of the new system. The use of the framework, the OOS mapping tool and the prototype OOIDE are validated using an existing IS.
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