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Effects Of Process Vs. Outcome Accountability, Responsibility, And Indentifiability On Solution Quality, Megan Potter
Effects Of Process Vs. Outcome Accountability, Responsibility, And Indentifiability On Solution Quality, Megan Potter
Student Work
This study investigated the effect of accountability, responsibility, and identifiability on the quality of solutions generated to an ill-defined problem. Accountable participants provided written justification for their output, either the solution generation process (process accountability) or the solution generation outcome (outcome accountability). Participants perceived themselves as either sharing responsibility for solution generation with others (shared responsibility) or solely responsible for solution generation (sole responsibility). Lastly, participants were either identifiable, such that their responses could be traced to them personally, or anonymous. Solution quality was measured by resolving power, or the degree to which a solution resolves conflicting aspects of the …
How Standards And Accountability Lead To Safety And Security Violations At Nuclear Weapons Plants, Ibpp Editor
How Standards And Accountability Lead To Safety And Security Violations At Nuclear Weapons Plants, Ibpp Editor
International Bulletin of Political Psychology
This article describes some counterintuitive consequences of instituting safety standards and accountability practices at nuclear weapons plants.
The Role Of The Site Facilitator In The New Directions In Distance Learning Project, Isabel Ries Edd
The Role Of The Site Facilitator In The New Directions In Distance Learning Project, Isabel Ries Edd
Dissertations
The purpose of this study was to understand the roles and responsibilities of site facilitators in successful New Directions in Distance Learning (NDDL) project school sites, to learn with whom site facilitators communicate within and outside their working environments, and to discover with whom they build working relationships. E-mail questionnaires and two sets of telephone interviews generated the research data from six site facilitators and three teacher-mentors who worked at eight New Directions in Distance Learning (NDDL) school sites located throughout British Columbia. Indicators of success for an NDDL site included participation in the NDDL project with minimal technical difficulties …