http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/ A search of MERLOT materials Copyright 1997-2013 MERLOT. All rights reserved. Sun, 19 May 2013 06:17:51 PDT Sun, 19 May 2013 06:17:51 PDT http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/images/merlot.gif http://www.merlot.org:80/merlot/ 44 34 http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=524213 This pdf document can be used by undergraduates or high school students to examine questions they missed on an exam. The purpose is to determine why the student missed the question so that they can improve performance on the next exam. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=406406 This 9-part Nonprofit Organizational Assessment Tool can help guide a group discussion about an organization's operations. This group discussion ideally should include board members, staff, volunteers, and service recipients, but could be used as a self-assessment tool by anyone associated with a nonprofit organization. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=633442 This Stand-Alone Instructional Resource (StAIR) is an interactive assessment designed to provide users with information and background on web browsers, so an informed decision can be made on the selection of a new browser.General features of web browsers are presented, and their basic features. Evaluation factors are explored and the top four browsers (in terms of popularity and use) are individually analyzed and compared. Links to supporting information and helpful online utilities are also provided, and short quizzes assess the content that is learned. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=533926 For teams to be successful, the teamwork environment must be managed. The Team-Maker forms teams according to user-specified criteria. The Comprehensive Assessment for Team-Member Effectiveness (CATME) gathers peer evaluation data and self evaluations to assess how effectively each team member contributes to the team and gives feedback to team members and to the person administering the teams.Team-Maker and CATME were developed and are currently maintained with support from the National Science Foundation in the United States and are free for instructional use in educational settings. The functionality and language of these systems are customized for educational settings, and no commercial version of the system exists at this time. To make a proposal regarding the development of commercial access, contact Dr. Matthew Ohland, the project director. Adminisrators of Team-Maker and CATME surveys have the choice of how to release the survey results. If the confidentiality of student ratings could be revealed by releasing the data, administrators skip releasing the results to those taking the survey. The current research team has approval from Purdue's Institutional Review Board to use survey data from the system if administrators release it, but can only access that data after all personally identifiable information has been removed.Primary design and development of the Team-Maker and CATME instruments and their interfaces was accomplished by a multidisciplinary and multi-institution team: Matthew W. Ohland, Associate Professor, Engineering Education, Purdue University, and Project Director Lisa G. Bullard, Teaching Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, North Carolina State University Richard M. Felder, Hoechst Celanese Professor Emeritus of Chemical Engineering, North Carolina State University Cynthia J. Finelli, Associate Research Scientist of Engineering Education and Director, Center for Research on Learning and Teaching North, University of Michigan Richard A. Layton, Director, Center for the Practice and Scholarship of Education, Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Misty L. Loughry, Associate Professor of Management, Georgia Southern University Hal R. Pomeranz, Principal, Deer Run Associates Douglas G. Schmucker, Senior Project Engineer, Zahl-Ford, Inc.The Team-Maker / CATME website is housed on the Purdue University web space. For questions please e-mail Dr. Matthew Ohland. This website and the development of Team-Maker and CATME are based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant Nos. 0243254 and 0817403 http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=683198 'CalcMadeEasy is versatile app which makes it easy to do financial planning/decision making, scientific/mathematical calculations, unit conversions and notes. It’s like 4 apps in 1 at one low price, NO extra packages or templates to purchase later. Once start using this, you won’t go to other calculator. 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Like the other 4 Foundations modules, its objective is to ensure a baseline competency quickly and efficiently by filling in gaps in students' skill sets without having them waste time on skills they already have. http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=713839 'Developed by two professors from leading US business schools, uValue is a corporate valuation app. Originally created for the iPad, the fully functional version of uValue is now available for the iPhone. The app helps you value businesses using conceptually rigorous, yet practical and widely-used tools. You can value firms using the ‘weighted average cost of capital’ (WACC, or 'cost of capital') approach, the ‘adjusted present value’ (APV) approach, the ‘dividend growth model’ (DGM), or real option valuation (ROV) techniques. The app also includes a set of calculators to value bonds, annuities and perpetuities, as well as calculate cost of capital, forecast exchange rates, lever/unlever betas, and so forth. It was jointly created by Professor Aswath Damodaran at the Stern School of Business and Professor Anant Sundaram at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, two academics with extensive teaching, advising, consulting, and research experience on business valuation. The app is free. We want anyone who is keen to do a good valuation, anywhere, to have access to self-contained, fully-functional tools to do so. Time and again, we see that poor investment decisions start with poor valuations. Consequently, uValue is fundamentally educational in its intent — it comes with three important features: pop-up boxes that define and explain every input or concept, a uValue Companion that is a mini-textbook on valuation, and links to a data set that give you industry data benchmarks. uValue presumes basic familiarity with financial statements. With the WACC and the APV models, you can also choose between 'Detailed' or 'Simple' versions. You do have to agree to a disclaimer within the app before you can use it.'This is a free app