NarrowiNg the gaps to Meet the goals

Narrowing the Gaps to Meet the Goals

Improving the World’s Health through the Post-2015 Development Agenda: Perspectives from Rwanda

The world has made a great deal of progress through the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to improve the health and well-being of people around the globe, but there remains a long way to go. Here we provide reflections on Rwanda’s experience in working to meet the health-related targets of the MDGs. This experience has informed our proposal of five guiding principles that may be useful for co...

بهره‌وری و جایگاه آن در ارزیابی عملیات سازمان

Organizations, in both public and private sectors, are designed to meet different goals and objectives. Undoubtedly, productivity is one of the most significant objectives toward which administrators should plan and set goals. Because an unproductive organization is unable to function properly and survive in the long term. Reviewing literature on productivity concept reveals that there are dif...

Unveiling constraints to cassava production in Cambodia: An analysis from farmers’ yield variations

Cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz) is currently the most important upland crop of Cambodia, but information on yield variations and causal factors which is important for efficiently targeting efforts to increase production is still lacking. The objectives of this study were to determine the yield variations and causal factors for cassava production in Kampong Cham province in Cambodia. Fort...

Educational Testing: Measuring and Remedying Achievement Gaps

Achievement gaps, as measured by standardized tests, are inextricably related to educational goals, standards, norms, and benchmarks for student learning outcomes. I revisit conventional approaches to educational testing to measure achievement gaps—norm-referenced, criterion-referenced, and potential-referenced tests. I explore and discuss a paradigm shift from “passive” tests to “responsive” t...