Confirmatory Factors Analysis Practice Level and Guidelines for Developing Teachers' Performance Standards and Conduct Standards

Guidelines: minimum standards, gold standards, or ideals for practice?

I have a spectrum of reactions to guidelines. Most impress me with the sheer volume of material that has been reviewed. Some show great thoughtfulness & practicality, such as the “Guidelines for Management of Valvular Heart Disease” [1]. Others contain recommendations without basis in trial data, such as the recent PCI guideline suggestion that post-PCI CK-MB elevations might require additional...

Developing Asian language corpora: standards and practice

This paper first discusses standards for developing Asian language corpora so as to facilitate international data exchange. Following this, we present two corpora of Asian languages developed at Lancaster University – the EMILLE Corpus, which contains 14 South Asian languages, and the Lancaster Corpus of Mandarin Chinese. Finally, we will demonstrate how to explore these corpora using Xara and ...

Standards of Conduct for Mediators

Guidelines International Network: toward international standards for clinical practice guidelines.

Guideline development processes vary substantially, and many guidelines do not meet basic quality criteria. Standards for guideline development can help organizations ensure that recommendations are evidence-based and can help users identify high-quality guidelines. Such organizations as the U.S. Institute of Medicine and the United Kingdom's National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellenc...

proficiency level and factors fostering reticence in efl learners

according to cheng (1999), in recent esl/efl literature, asian (especially east asian) learners of english as a foreign/second language have been arguably reported as reticent and passive learners. the most common allegations are that these students are reluctant to participate in classroom discourse; they are unwilling to give responses; they do not ask questions; and they are passive and over...