'Falling Behind': A Case Study in Uncritical Assessment

Pratt, J

'Falling Behind': A Case Study in Uncritical Assessment

Pratt, J

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Publisher:: IGI Global
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Citation:: Risk Assessment and Management in Pervasive Computing: Operational, Legal, Ethical, and Financial Perspectives, 2009, 1, pp. 102 - 134
Issue Date:: 2009-01

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dc.contributor.author	Pratt, J	en_US
dc.contributor.editor	Varuna Godara	en_US
dc.date.issued	2009-01	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Risk Assessment and Management in Pervasive Computing: Operational, Legal, Ethical, and Financial Perspectives, 2009, 1, pp. 102 - 134	en_US
dc.identifier.isbn	978-1-60566-220-6	en_US
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dc.description.abstract	This chapter presents the major findings of case study research investigating uncritical assessment of an institution-wide learning management system in an Australian university. Suburban University illustrates the ways in which a range of social and institutional influences, operating internally and externally to an organisation, can affect managerial decision making. Many of the parties involved were unaware of the influence of some of these factors upon them at the time of assessment. When these parties also lacked a background in the areas they sought to manage (i.e. the educational enterprise of the university), critical assessment was made even more difficult. Therefore, universities that teach skills in critical assessment to their students can sometimes be uncritical in their own decision making, particularly when the Vice Chancellor fears âfalling behindâ other adopting universities and key organisational decision makers lack relevant theoretical frameworks to inform decision making in the areas they manage.	en_US
dc.publisher	IGI Global	en_US
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dc.title	'Falling Behind': A Case Study in Uncritical Assessment	en_US
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Abstract:

This chapter presents the major findings of case study research investigating uncritical assessment of an institution-wide learning management system in an Australian university. Suburban University illustrates the ways in which a range of social and institutional influences, operating internally and externally to an organisation, can affect managerial decision making. Many of the parties involved were unaware of the influence of some of these factors upon them at the time of assessment. When these parties also lacked a background in the areas they sought to manage (i.e. the educational enterprise of the university), critical assessment was made even more difficult. Therefore, universities that teach skills in critical assessment to their students can sometimes be uncritical in their own decision making, particularly when the Vice Chancellor fears âfalling behindâ other adopting universities and key organisational decision makers lack relevant theoretical frameworks to inform decision making in the areas they manage.

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