Measure for Measure: Biomarker standards and transparency

Exploring Standards and Developing a Measure for Evaluating Iranian EFL Teachers’ Professional Competence in the Private Sector

The primary foundation of teacher evaluation is establishing standards for assessing the optimal characteristics of qualified teachers.  The present study aimed at exploring standards of professional competence of adult-level Iranian EFL teachers in the private sector and developing a questionnaire to assess their professional competence.  To this end, initially, the members of the professional...

Measure for Measure

Macro measurement is a long and arduous process that impinges upon the system of national accounts. The challenge it raises is driven by the demand of economic policy. In present time the need will arise with sustainable growth that mixes environmental concern and development policy. It calls for no less than a sea change in national accounting, from a system of income and expenditure accounts ...

A Russell Measure for Modeling Environmental Performance

Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) has been long employed as a popular methodology to evaluate the performance of various production activities with multiple inputs and outputs. However, an important issue is that the production process in the real world inevitably generates undesirable outputs (like wastes and pollutants) along with desirable outputs. Therefore, the undesirable outputs should be ...

Competency standards for critical care nurses: do they measure up?

OBJECTIVE To determine the construct validity of the Australian College of Critical Care Nurses (ACCCN) competency standards as a tool for assessing the clinical practice of specialist level critical care nurses in Australia. DESIGN A comparative descriptive design was used to examine the relationship between the domains, competencies and elements of the ACCCN competency standards. Participan...

Ranking of generalized fuzzy numbers using distance measure and similarity measure