Strategic insights into the critical success factors online for-profit educational providers: case study

Smith, Amber A.; Smith, Alan D.; Rupp, William T.

doi:10.1504/ijbis.2014.064113

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“…However, online subjective assessment approach remained useful to the senior managers that are involved into policy formation and written correspondence. The study perceives that as the managers rise from middle management cadre to strategic management level, their job becomes more operational and strategic to the point that require more subjective expression [9], which supports the findings of [8].…”

Section: Lasu Journal Of Research and Review In Sciencesupporting

confidence: 72%

“…They discovered that the skills of the student in using computer is crucial in the successful running of online business education. [8] discovered that assessing the managers up to middle level management staff remained smooth through online objective type questions, as these managers are mostly concerned about tactical and operational details only.…”

Section: Lasu Journal Of Research and Review In Sciencementioning

confidence: 99%

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API Assisted Semantic Matching for Subjective Online Examination System

Enikuomehin

Dosumu

2017

JRRS

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Online examination systems exist as an attempt to expand the frontiers of learning and testing. The system is aimed at taking the advantages of web resources to reduce time, cost and other constraints associated with location defined examination. The development has been limited by the strictness of the examination format vis-à-vis keyword match which are boundary-defined. This constraint led to poor adoption of online testing systems which are essential in handling the problem associated with large enrollment. Existing systems do not allow examiners to test for knowledge in ways that they seem due; similar to the conventional classroom testing system. We leveraged on the advances in Natural Language Processing and the success emerging from same and therefore remodeled the examination system against some known concepts in text summarization, term dependencies, semantic tagging and corporal build-up using a standalone global API for semantic interpretation of answers. We improve the Levenshtein distance between two strings a, b using the triangular inequality to identify the relationship of two terms as applicable between questions and answers. The Levenshtein distance was denoted in php with the int levenshtein ( string $str1 , string $str2 ). The output of the research is the development of a subjective examination system that allows the self-grading of essay type question using a web based semantic API. The complexity of the algorithm is O(m*n), where n and m are the length of str1 and str2 The interface was coded in php with a MySQL supporting backend.

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Section: Lasu Journal Of Research and Review In Sciencesupporting

confidence: 72%

Section: Lasu Journal Of Research and Review In Sciencementioning

confidence: 99%

API Assisted Semantic Matching for Subjective Online Examination System

Enikuomehin

Dosumu

2017

JRRS

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“…A number of modifications were made to deal with fan-related variables associated with Olympic sporting events, in particular men's and women's basketball. As previously reported, a number of previously published research has been completed that have significantly impact the current understanding of the mediating and direct factors that impact the relationships between fans' gender with the degree of psychological involvement, loyalty-related attitudes, and teamsport purchase behaviors (Kerr and Gladden, 2008;Klomsten et al, 2005;Smith and Smith, 2008;Smith et al, 2012Smith et al, , 2014Smith-Ditizio et al, 2015).…”

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Olympic Games, media coverage and brand image/performance from fan and gender perspectives

Smith-Ditizio

Smith

2022

BIJ

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PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to explore and test certain assumptions concerning the role of the media in its coverage of the Olympic Games, US men's and women's basketball in particular, and its perceived impact on brand image of the athletes' performance from a fan's motivational and financial perspective.Design/methodology/approachUses and gratifications theory and sport fan motivation scales were used to identify potential impacts of media coverage and branding on athletic performance. Based on a study of 143 working professionals that identified themselves as Olympic sport fans in the Pittsburgh, PA metropolitan area, several hypotheses were tested.FindingsThe most to least important factor-based constructs found from a PCA (Principal Components Analysis)/factor analysis included competitiveness, fan commitment, media connections, media impacts, demographics and financial impacts. When using the construct athletic performance at the Olympic level as the dependent variable, results suggested that competitiveness, media connections and fan commitment were significant for males only, while only media connections for significant for females. Males were found to be more player-centric than females, willing to be more focused on the competitive nature of the Olympic Games and to dedicate more money for such activities.Originality/valueFocusing on Olympic Games and associated athletes' competitive nature opens a unique perspective from fan's gender perspective.

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