Commentary: Surgical skill assessment: Time to examine?

Crowdsourcing to Assess Surgical Skill.

What Is the Innovation? Surgical skills impactpatientoutcomes.1Ourprofessionneedsmethods that accurately and objectively evaluate surgical skills.2 These methodsmustprovidetimelyandmeaningful feedback,minimizereviewtimeburden,andscaleforwidespreaduse.Thisevaluationhurdle may be overcome by leveraging crowdsourcing to help triage outliers and focus improvement efforts. Crowdsourcing is the proce...

diagnostic and developmental potentials of dynamic assessment for writing skill

این پایان نامه بدنبال بررسی کاربرد ارزیابی مستمر در یک محیط یادگیری زبان دوم از طریق طرح چهار سوال تحقیق زیر بود: (1) درک توانایی های فراگیران زمانیکه که از طریق برآورد عملکرد مستقل آنها امکان پذیر نباشد اما در طول جلسات ارزیابی مستمر مشخص شوند; (2) امکان تقویت توانایی های فراگیران از طریق ارزیابی مستمر; (3) سودمندی ارزیابی مستمر در هدایت آموزش فردی به سمتی که به منطقه ی تقریبی رشد افراد حساس ا...

Manipulations to the Timing and Type of Instructions to Examine Motor Skill Performance Under Pressure

There is evidence that prescriptive versus discovery methods of learning can lead to breakdowns under pressure due to "reinvestment" of knowledge and a more conscious, controlled mode of control. There is some speculation that this breakdown is mediated by the attentional focus of the instructions. We expected these effects to also be moderated by when in practice these instructions are given. ...

Using E-Z Reader to examine the concurrent development of eye-movement control and reading skill.

Compared to skilled adult readers, children typically make more fixations that are longer in duration, shorter saccades, and more regressions, thus reading more slowly (Blythe & Joseph, 2011). Recent attempts to understand the reasons for these differences have discovered some similarities (e.g., children and adults target their saccades similarly; Joseph, Liversedge, Blythe, White, & Rayner, 2...

editorial commentary: prophylaxis for surgical site infections