Assessing grade 7 students' English vocabulary in different immersion contexts

2019

Most on-policy imitation algorithms, such as DAgger, are designed for learning with a fixed supervisor. However, there are many settings in which the supervisor improves during policy learning, such as when the supervisor is a human performing a novel task or an improving algorithmic controller. We consider learning from an “improving supervisor” and derive a bound on the static-regret of online gradient descent when a converging supervisor policy is used. We present an on-policy imitation learning algorithm, Follow the Improving Teacher (FIT), which uses a deep model-based reinforcement learning (deep MBRL) algorithm to provide the sample complexity benefits of model-based methods but enable faster training and evaluation via distillation into a reactive controller. We evaluate FIT with experiments on the Reacher and Pusher MuJoCo domains using the deep MBRL algorithm, PETS, as the improving supervisor. To the best of our knowledge, this work is the first to formally consider the s...

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Sustainability, 2020

Based on social exchange theory, this study investigates the antecedents and consequences of a frontline employee's trust-in-supervisor and a frontline employee's trust-in-coworker in a single framework. A personally administered survey was conducted to collect data from 203 frontline employees of coffee shops in the Republic of Korea. Covariance-based structural equation modeling was applied using AMOS 21.0 to explore the proposed relationships. The results show that abusive supervision is negatively related to frontline employee's trust-in-supervisor, whereas supervisor support and communication quality have significant positive effects on frontline employee's trust-in-supervisor. Similarly, coworker ostracism has a significant negative effect on frontline employee's trust-in-coworker, whereas coworker harmony and communication quality have significant positive effect on frontline employee's trust-in-coworker. Finally, the results show that a frontline employee's trust-in-supervisor predicts a frontline employee's supervisor cooperation, and a frontline employee's trust-in-coworker leads to a frontline employee's coworker cooperation.

Advances in Health Care Management, 2013

Purpose -Hospitals of the United States consistently AU :2 have injury rates that are over twice the national employee injury rate. Hospital safety studies typically investigate care providers rather than support service employees. Compounding the lack of evidence for this understudied population is the scant evidence that is available to examine the relationship of support service employees' perceptions of safety and work-related injuries. To examine this phenomenon, the purpose of this study was to investigate support service employees' perceptions of safety leadership and social support as well as the relationship of safety perception to levels of reported injuries.

2019

Most on-policy imitation algorithms, such as DAgger, are designed for learning with a fixed supervisor. However, there are many settings in which the supervisor improves during policy learning, such as when the supervisor is a human performing a novel task or an improving algorithmic controller. We consider learning from an “improving supervisor” and derive a bound on the static-regret of online gradient descent when a converging supervisor policy is used. We present an on-policy imitation learning algorithm, Follow the Improving Teacher (FIT), which uses a deep model-based reinforcement learning (deep MBRL) algorithm to provide the sample complexity benefits of model-based methods but enable faster training and evaluation via distillation into a reactive controller. We evaluate FIT with experiments on the Reacher and Pusher MuJoCo domains using the deep MBRL algorithm, PETS, as the improving supervisor. To the best of our knowledge, this work is the first to formally consider the s...

2010

In this research was realized a secondary data analysis obtained from the research "Analysis of practical purposes of supervision", research that was developed under the theme "Analysis of Occupational Standard for the Supervisor Occupation"  . Analysis carried out after the successive inductions allows us to formulate conclusions as a series of professional skills necessary to perform the supervisor's duties accompanied by good practice principles in implementing the supervising process. The analyse of interviews and focus groups conducted within the research, and taking into account the professional requirements expressed in the literature and help us to formulate the good-practice principles in supervision of social services.

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2000

This publication is available on the BIS website (www.bis.org).

Cogent Business & Management, 2018

This study examines the mediating role of supervisory trust between the relationship of supervisory justice & perceived supervisor support and organizational citizenship behavior & commitment to supervisor. Drawing on social exchange theory and justice theory, we hypothesize that supervisory justice and perceived supervisor support will significantly affect trust in supervisor which in turn enhances subordinate organizational citizenship behavior and commitment to supervisor. Data was collected from 350 employees of telecommunication sector of Pakistan through a self-administered survey. Structural equation modeling (SEM) technique was applied via LISERL to test the hypothesized model. The results revealed that supervisory justice (interpersonal, and informational justice) and perceived supervisor support are positively and significantly related to organizational citizenship behavior and commitment to supervisor except for supervisory procedural justice. Moreover, trust in superviso...

British Journal of Psychotherapy, 2008

The art and science of assessment in supervision are considered in relation to all the dimensions of the supervisory matrix. Issues relating to assessing the patient and the supervisee are considered along with the interactive dynamics between patient and supervisee and supervisee and supervisor that influence this process. The paper considers criteria that the supervisee can utilize in relation to the assessment of the patient and the supervisee and includes issues relating to supervisee development. The complex process of assessment in supervision is also considered in relation to the many interactive layers and conscious and unconscious processes inherent within supervision.

International Journal of Research in Business and Social Science (2147-4478), 2018

This paper examined the role of supervisor gossip on subordinate job performance. The paper hypothesized that supervisor's negative and positive gossip influence employee job engagement which in subsequently affects employee job performance. Dyadic research design was used to collect data from a sample of 228 employees and supervisors from Kwa Zulu Natal Government Municipality, South Africa. The employees completed the questionnaire items on supervisor gossip and job engagement, while their supervisors completed the questionnaire items on employee job performance. Data collection was done in three waves. The study established that positive superior gossip positively and significantly influenced employee job engagement, which positively improved employee job performance; while negative superior gossip had a positive, but insignificant effect on employee job engagement. The study was limited by the multicultural nature of the municipality as well as the causality issues and common method biases associated with research design. Having managed to utilize Social Exchange Theory (SET) in disentangling the supervisor-subordinate reciprocal communication web, the study proposes that supervisors should inculcate effective strategies of utilizing both positive and negative gossip in the workplace so as to increase positive employee outcomes. Negative gossip will cause tension, stress and mistrust among employees, while positive gossip will lead to creation of workplace antagonism and competition. This study attempted to assess the implication of supervisor gossip on employee job engagement and performance in the public service sector, whose employees are characterized with high job security as compared to their peers in the private sector.