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Dr. D. Dutta Roy Psychology Research Unit Indian Statistical Institute 203, B. T. Road Kolkata – 700 108 Respected Rotarian Professor R.J. Pande, Rotarian Mr. Partha Mukhopadhyay, Rotarian Mr. Das and other office bearers of Rotary club, the invited students, I wish you all first “ A very Happy New Year”. In this year, I am going to present one of the most complex issue of career guidance that I conceptualised recently. What do you want to be in future ? The most difficult question in today’s world of globalisation as labour market is expanding from local to domestic, domestic to international and from international to trans-national. Dual labour economy is reducing, a large increase in the relative size of immigrant workforce, growing prevalence of non standardized work arrangements and rapid job restructuring. Due to rapid job restructuring, most of the today’s job does not exist when we were young. No one can predict the future with certainty. But this globalisation should not be co...

Before the sun sets on this year, before the memories fede and before.. the network get jammed, wish you a HAPPY and Bright New Year - 2007 -Vaswati Happy New Year. May the spirit of this holiday season behappy and prosperous 4u & ur family. -Fouzia Like birds, lets leave behind what we dont need to carry, grudges, sadness, pain, fear, regret in 2006. Let's fly light. Life is beautiful. Happy New Year to u and ur family. - Ujjal I met peace, love, wealth, health last night. They needed a permanent place to stay. I gave them youraddress. Hope they arrived safely. Happy New Year. -Bardi

Before the sun sets on this year, before the memories fede and before.. the network get jammed, wish you a HAPPY and Bright New Year - 2007 -Vaswati Happy New Year. May the spirit of this holiday season behappy and prosperous 4u & ur family. -Fouzia Like birds, lets leave behind what we dont need to carry, grudges, sadness, pain, fear, regret in 2006. Let's fly light. Life is beautiful. Happy New Year to u and ur family. - Ujjal I met peace, love, wealth, health last night. They needed a permanent place to stay. I gave them youraddress. Hope they arrived safely. Happy New Year. -Bardi

Definition:Validity is the strength of our conclusions, inferences or propositions. More formally, Cook and Campbell (1979) define it as the "best available approximation to the truth or falsity of a given inference, proposition or conclusion." In short, were we right? Let's look at a simple example. Say we are studying the effect of strict attendance policies on class participation. In our case, we saw that class participation did increase after the policy was established. Each type of validity would highlight a different aspect of the relationship between our treatment (strict attendance policy) and our observed outcome (increased class participation). Types of Validity: There are four types of validity commonly examined in social research. 1. Conclusion validity asks is there a relationship between the program and the observed outcome? Or, in our example, is there a connection between the attendance policy and the increased participation we saw? 2. Internal Validity as...

BMDP 3D (t-test) /INPUT FILE = 'IEA.BMDP'. CODE=X. /VARIABLE USE = SEX, KNOWLEDGE TO MENTALPR. /TWOGROUP VAR = KNOWLEDGE TO MENTALPR. GROUPING = SEX. CORRELATION. /PRINT LEVEL=BRIEF. /END ======== 2-way ANOVA /PROBLEM TITLE = 'Two-way anova. 2V'. /INPUT FILE = 'iea.bmdp'. CODE IS X. /DESIGN DEPENDENT IS MENTALPR. GROUPING ARE SEX, LIKESC. INCLUDE ARE 1, 2, 12. /PRINT LEVEL=BRIEF. LINE = 80. /END ============ Regression /PROBLEM TITLE IS 'Regressioanalyysiä (1R)'. /INPUT FILE IS 'IEA.BMDP'. CODE IS X. /VAR USE = LIKESC TO MENTALPR. /REGRESS DEPENDENT = KNOWLEDGE. INDEPENDENT = LIKESC, APPLICAT, MENTALPR, COMPREHEN. /PRINT DATA. CORR. LEVEL=MIN. /PLOT RESIDUAL. NORMAL. VAR=COMPREHEN. /END ====================== Factor analysis /PROBLEM TITLE = '4M : FAKTORIANALYYSI, PÄÄAKSELIMENETELMÄ, VARIMAX-ROTAATIO'. /INPUT FILE = 'IEA.BMDP'. CODE = X. /VARIABLE USE= SEX TO MENTALPR. /FACTOR METHOD IS PFA. NUMBER = 3. /ROTATE METHOD IS VMAX. /PR...

On 24th September, Phoebus house in association with All India Seishinkai Shito-Ryu karate-do Federation (24pgs-N) gave me memento for invaluable guidance to them.