Rushed decisions

New Teachers’ Experiences of Hiring: Late, Rushed, and Information-Poor

Teacher hiring decisions have far reaching consequences for a school and its students and faculty, and yet there has been very little research on how teachers are hired. This article examines how new teachers in four states are hired and explores whether the process leads to good matches between these individuals and their schools. It presents findings from a random sample survey of 486 first-y...

Decisions, decisions

Journals are exploring new approaches to peer review in order to reduce bias, increase transparency and respond to author preferences. Funders are also getting involved.

Decisions, decisions

Funding decisions

Funding decision is one of the financial strategic decisions of a corporation. There are also two other finan-cial strategic decisions that a corporation faces, the investment and the dividend decision. This paper de-scribes briefly the investment and the dividend decision, although its main focus is on funding decision. In de-scribing the funding decision the researchers will first explain the...

Rushed or Relaxed? – How the Situation on the Road Influences the Driver’s Preferences for Music Tracks

In context-aware recommender systems, the dependency of the user’s ratings on factors that describe important aspects of the recommendation context is used to provide more relevant recommendations. Individual users may be influenced differently by the same set of contextual factors. By understanding this kind of dependency between the user’s ratings (evaluations) and context, it is possible to ...