This article substantiates the structure of the crop insurance system and describes the participants of the insurance system and their activities. The positive impact of crop insurance development on ...all participants of the system has also been clarified. The aim of the article is to present a methodology for assessing substantiated directs of activity for public authorities in order to make more active crop insurance system performance. The application of the proposed methodology can help to activate crop insurance processes and to expand farmers’ activities and achieve better commercial results of insurance companies. It has been proven that it is beneficial for the public authorities to reinsure farmers’ crops and to refuse to pay direct payments to farmers for the losses incurred. The criteria selected for the assessment of the development directions are relevant to all participants of the insurance system. The research was carried out in a region of Lithuania in which the composition of agricultural business entities corresponds to the situation in the whole agricultural sector of the country. The identification of the insurance system participants and their functions, as well as the use of an expert assessment method with the application of quantitative data processing, showed directions for the activation of crop insurance activities.
This paper presents the dependence between criteria that can be used for risk assessment of technical innovation. The practical part demonstrates the effect of defined criteria on the assessment of ...innovation risks. The dependence between criteria is significant for assessing the weight according to the method used to determine the weight of criteria. This paper analyses the relationship between criteria and the use of the regression function. To achieve this goal, we used the method of pair comparison and assigned a relative weight to each criterion. The results presented in the paper may have a significant value for companies implementing technical innovations.
The author’s project is presented - distance learning course on the Moodle platform on German as a foreign language in higher educational institution (University Duisburg-Essen, Germany), the aspect ...of “written communication.” The research urgency is caused by the fact that the growth of academic mobility in higher education causes the need to intensify the teaching of foreign languages, at the same time, the development of modern communications technology expands the possibilities of knowledge transfer and competence forming. The experience of the e-learning course is described, approaches to learning and their refraction in the structure of the course are presented: competence, communicative activity, intercultural. A thematic plan of the course, including the types of written texts, provided by “the common European framework of reference for languages” is provided. Special attention is paid to the organization of the thematic units of the course in accordance with the concept of “backward planning.” Criteria for intermediate and final assessment are identified. Practical significance is determined by the fact that standards of provision of learning material can be used to create distance and blended courses on other aspects of teaching foreign languages in higher professional education of the Russian Federation.
This paper reports on our study to determine the expectations of employers in respect of graduating students’ written communication. Our study is guided by two research questions: (i) what criteria ...do employers adopt in evaluating written assignments and (ii) what is the minimum level expected for acceptance of completed tasks in the workplace? Interviews were conducted and samples of graduating students’ written works were shown to informants (human resource personnel) from various fields, among others, the automotive, oil & gas, media, medical and higher education, to elicit their responses to performances of these students. The students had earlier on been given a task to analyse information presented in non-linear texts and to write their analyses in not more than 250 words. The informants were expected to give their responses on whether the quality of written analyses is acceptable or not, their criteria adopted in determining the acceptability of the written analyses, their views of good and poor writing and their expected minimum level of written work quality. Additional preliminary information had also been gathered on type, length, evaluation of the quality of written output and criteria used to assess the quality of written output through a questionnaire survey as a basis for the design of the set task. Results revealed that employers place importance on accuracy of reporting, conciseness, correct use of expressions and terminologies and maturity of thought, among others. From these informed responses, a draft rating scale of the expected writing ability of graduating students deemed relevant for the workplace was developed. Further refinement of the rating scale would follow with validation from the potential employers.
The challenge of teaching staff being overworked and not having enough time to provide individualized feedback and guidance to students is a significant problem. Open-ended assignments foster ...creative thinking but add to the workload. The abundance of solutions makes individualized assessment necessary. Peer assessment, where students evaluate their peers' assignments based on their motivation, knowledge, and resourcefulness, has proven effective in higher education courses.This paper provides an overview of existing metrics used in peer assessment, defines what constitutes correct and consistent evaluation, and suggests ways to choose appropriate metrics for learning objectives. The paper also highlights limitations of measures presented in the published papers, shows the advantages and disadvantages of different ways of calculating the selected measures through examples.
The fuzzy analytic hierarchy process uses the membership degree of the evaluation set to represent the comprehensive evaluation results, realizes the quantitative calculation of the problems with ...unclear boundary to determine the nature, and realizes the objective overall evaluation of the evaluation objects restricted by many factors. By analyzing the problems of the existing student evaluation system of comprehensive practical courses, this paper determines the evaluation indexes in the student evaluation system. Using the fuzzy analytic hierarchy process, firstly, the membership matrix is established, then the weight matrix is obtained by normalizing the weight coefficient of experts, and the fuzzy evaluation matrix is synthesized. Finally, the evaluation result is obtained by multiplying the weight matrix and the fuzzy evaluation matrix. This paper selects the single chip microcomputer comprehensive practice course as the starting point to verify the feasibility of the evaluation system, and continuously improve the connotation of the system through practice. The course experimented shows that the student evaluation system of the comprehensive practice course has a good effect in the whole of week training single chip microcomputer technology.
The scope of this article is the relationship of efficiency of medical rehabilitation, in particular its in-hospital period with quality of medical care rendered to the patient. Quality of medical ...care matching to approved criteria was assessed using an automated computer system integrated into the accounting program activities of medical institutions. It is established that in most cases rehabilitation of patients with myocardial infarction has a positive effect on the functional state of the heart. However, if the quality of medical care provided to the patient, did not meet the criteria of correct drug therapy, the efficacy of rehabilitation was reduced. The value of the automated system for the early detection of such inconsistencies, defects analysis and management decisions was demonstrated.
The author’s project is presented — distance learning course on the Moodle platform
on German as a foreign language in higher educational institution (University Duisburg-
Essen, Germany), the aspect ...of “written communication.” The research urgency is caused
by the fact that the growth of academic mobility in higher education causes the need
to intensify the teaching of foreign languages, at the same time, the development of modern
communications technology expands the possibilities of knowledge transfer and
competence forming. The experience of the e-learning course is described, approaches
to learning and their refraction in the structure of the course are presented: competence,
communicative activity, intercultural. A thematic plan of the course, including the types
of written texts, provided by “the common European framework of reference for languages”
is provided. Special attention is paid to the organization of the thematic units of the
course in accordance with the concept of “backward planning.” Criteria for intermediate
and final assessment are identified. Practical significance is determined by the fact that
standards of provision of learning material can be used to create distance and blended
courses on other aspects of teaching foreign languages in higher professional education
of the Russian Federation.
Представлена авторская разработка: курс дистанционного обучения на платформе Moodle по немецкому языку как иностранному в высшем учебном заведении (Университет Дуйсбург-Эссен, ФРГ), аспект «письменная коммуникация». Актуальность исследования обусловлена тем, что рост академической мобильности в высшем образовании вызывает необходимость интенсифицировать обучение иностранным языкам, в то же время развитие современных коммуникационных технологий расширяет возможности передачи знаний и формирования компетенций. Описывается опыт организации дистанционного курса, определяются подходы к обучению и их преломление в структуре курса: компетентностный, коммуникативно-деятельностный, межкультурный. Приводится тематический план курса, включающий типы письменных текстов, предусмотренных «Общеевропейскими компетенциями владения иностранными языками». Особое внимание уделяется организации тематических блоков курса в соответствии с концепцией «обратного планирования». Определяются критерии промежуточного и итогового оценивания. Практическая значимость определяется тем, что разработанные стандарты предоставления учебного материала могут быть использованы при создании дистанционных и смешанных курсов по другим аспектам преподавания иностранных языков в системе высшего профессионального образования Российской Федерации.
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