Fundamental Approach to Valuation of Securities -A Study with reference to Information Technology(IT) Sector Shares in Indian Stock Market

Department of Applied Economics,Cochin University of Science and Technology

Economic Valuation of Coastal Wetlands: A Study of Cochin Back waters in Kerala

The major objective of this chapter was to estimate the indirect benefits provided by the Cochin wetlands to direct, indirect and non-user populations.This chapter gives the details of the Contingent valuation survey that was executed in the study area. Section one described the actual survey and its execution. Section two undertook a detailed discussion of the methodological issues involved in the survey. Section three contained some discussion on the study.This analysis has demonstrated the feasibility of extending the use of contingent valuation methods to local populations in developing countries like India. Certain issues emerge from these applications. Income is strongly related to willingness to pay in these surveys, yet income levels are often low.Secondly, education is not a factor that influences willingness to pay in the coastal belt very much. Rather, relation of individual occupation to any wetland based activity very much influenced their willingness to pay. The study revealed that people very much valued the indirect function performed by wetlands, in fact as much as they valued the direct benefits provided by the system. There still exist differences of opinions among experts when undertaking such valuation studies. However, in the absence of a better technique for valuing environmental services that have no markets, this is definitely a first step

Pachler N (2008) SCOPING A VISION FOR FORMATIVE E-ASSESSMENT - FEEDBACK Findings from the literature review

Pachler N (2008) SCOPING A VISION FOR FORMATIVE E-ASSESSMENT - FEEDBACK Findings from the literature review

Workshop3 p5 Summative or formative scales

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Formative exercise on projecting 3D objects for FEEG1001 students.

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Formative exercise on 2D/3D visualisation and interpreting engineering drawings for FEEG1001 students.

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Formative exercise on 3rd Angle Projection convention for FEEG1001 students.

Emotional characteristics of psychology students: a study based on the formative research perspective

In the formative research scheme, the author built a psychological scale, with the purpose of analyzing psychological characteristics of the School of Psychology students. The instrument showed a high reliability coefficient (α=0,86), the exploratory factorial analysis found five variables which allowed to predict some aspects of sex and career level through a logistic regression; the ALSCAL showed two emotional dimensions. The author recommends to improve the instrument and to continue its application in the School. It is also necessary to develop qualitative research to acquire new data about the topic of the research.

Formative Research. An Integral Vision for Health Professionals

These writing conceive formation in formative research as a complex process that demands simultaneous and congruent actions in the objective, subjective and intersubjective fields, adjusted to a careful and progressive planification in order to form teachers, students and management staff as university actors of research processes. Integral formation in formative research into health area demands a comprehensive and broad perspective encompassing science, moral and art, or objective truth, subjective veracity and intersubjective equity. All means must meet towards a strong and developmental formative research culture capable of nourishing subjects engaged in systematic self-questioning, interaction and argumentated debate at the interior of communities of pairs. In the same way, they must have rigorous methodological formation in order to approach the study objects.

Corporate valuation and governance: evidence from Colombia

We examine for the first time the association of different measures of ownership and control, and separation ratios with firm’s value and performance for 108 non-financial firms that traded their stock during the period 1998 to 2002. We found that large blockholders exert a positive influence upon firm’s valuation and performance, which validates the positive monitoring approach of large shareholders, but also found that this relation is not monotone implying that when separation of control and ownership tends to increase, a negative effect is exerted on firm’s valuation. Furthermore, we report first estimates of a survey of corporate governance practices conducted in 2004 for 43 Colombian non-financial companies. The index’s scores suggest that implementation of good governance in Colombian firms has been slow and poor as measured by the average of the Index that is below half the maximum attainable value. Regrettably, we did not find any support to recent theories that predict a positive association between good governance practices, measured by the CGI, and performance. At most there exists a positive relationship for sub-index but the results were not statistically significant in general.

De nouveaux descripteurs pour l'évaluation des interactions orales en langue étrangère. 'De nuevos descriptores para la evaluación de las interacciones orales en lengua extranjera'.

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Science formative assessment : 75 practical strategies for linking assessment, instruction and learning.

El autor nos presenta una serie de métodos que incorporan la evaluación al proceso de enseñanza y aprendizaje, con técnicas que ayudarán a los profesores, desde educación infantil hasta secundaria, a hacer más efectiva la enseñaza de las asignaturas de ciencias. Esta evaluación del proceso de formación permitirá a los educadores descubrir los conceptos previos de los alumnos, determinar el nivel de compresión de las ideas clave, y diseñar oportunidades de aprendizaje que profundizarán su dominio de los contenidos.

One or the other? Do we have to choose? : summative and-or formative evaluation. '¿Una u otra? ¿Tenemos que elegir? : evaluación formativa y-o sumativa'.

Se definen los conceptos de evaluación sumativa y evaluación formativa con el ánimo de ver si son tan diferentes y excluyentes. Se proponen caminos para combinar ambas y para incluir a los estudiantes en el proceso de evaluación.

Artistic education an alternative formative pedagogical and didactic tool: folder, blog

The pedagogical and didactic dynamic system is focused on individual learning process and aims at the development of artistic knowledge, helping and guiding learners through different strategies or individual support, thus reinforcing the process. In consequence, this presentation looks for an alternative to the intercommunication student-teacher supported on the educational paradigm, through textual analyses of the daily diaries, developped by teacher and students, so as to discover successes or difficulties