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The Rubric as a General Purpose Quality Tool
According to dictionary.com, one of the definitions for rubric is “any established mode of conduct; protocol.” But the context you’ve probably heard this word in is education – where a grading rubric or a scoring rubric is used to evaluate a complex artifact like a student essay. In my opinion, it’s time to move the…
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Should You Get Your Six Sigma Black Belt (SSBB) from ASQ?
A couple of weeks ago, I got this email: Comment: I am basker from NJ, and I have a PMP certification, I want to get a six sigma black belt certification — are there other certifications out there other than one from ASQ ? that you would suggest and what is the cheapest and quickest…
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SPIE Chairs: Here’s Help Processing Your Reviewer Ratings
The Problem: You are a Chair for a SPIE conference, your review team has provided numerical ratings for all your oral and poster submissions, and now you have to sort through all the numbers and prepare a draft program. The Solution: Use R! 1. Go into MySPIE into the “Review Presentations” section 2. Click on…
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My 2012 Resolution is Myopium
The dictionary defines myopia as narrow mindedness, the inability to see things that aren’t right in front of you. However, the positive spin on myopia is that you can choose to hold only those things in your vision that support what you want to achieve, and where you want to go in life. As a…
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Collins and Hansen’s Great By Choice: A Story of Quality Consciousness
Jim Collins, author of Built to Last (2004) and Good to Great (2001), released a new compendium of his research this fall entitled Great by Choice: Uncertainty, Chaos, and Luck – Why Some Thrive Despite Them All. I was pleasantly surprised to discover that these authors have also stumbled upon the importance of quality consciousness –…
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Quality Consciousness: Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out!
(Image Credit: Doug Buckley of http://hyperactive.to) In a previous article, I described the notion of quality consciousness that I’m currently preparing an article about. To achieve quality consciousness, we ask the very important question (cf. ISO 9000 para 3.1.5, formerly ISO 8402) “What are the totality of characteristics of YOU that bear upon YOUR ABILITY…
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How I Passed My ASQ Certified Six Sigma Black Belt (CSSBB) Exam
I very recently took my ASQ CSSBB exam and passed! Here’s what I think helped me: [And here’s my OTHER POST that has my notes attached! Enjoy!] – October 2012 [Note: On February 9, 2015 I added my Top 10 Statistics Topics for the CSSBB Exam to this blog] 1. I studied for about 4 weeks (2…
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