Procedure-based assessments: an appropriate assessment tool?

Developing an Assessment Tool for Nursing Students` General Clinical Performance

Introduction: The necessity of valid and reliable assessment tools is one of the most emphasized issues in literature related to nursing students` clinical assessment. But it is believed that the present tools are mostly not valid and reliable, and can not measure students` performances properly. The aim of this study was to design a valid and reliable assessment tool for evaluation of nursing ...

An assessment of global agricultural assessments

How appropriate is the use of rehabilitation facilities? Assessment by an evaluation tool based on the AEP protocol.

BACKGROUND During the last few decades, an increasing attention has been drawn to public health expenditure and resource use. The increasing aging population has highlighted the need to deliver post-acute care and to assess its appropriateness. The "PRUO rehab" (Protocollo di Revisione dell'Utilizzo dell'Ospedale riabilitativo) protocol was realized and validated to assess the appropriateness o...

literature: an appropriate tool for teaching language to iranian learners

a foreign language teaching method is supposed to take into account the real communicative needs of the foreign language learner. using literary texts is a suitable way not only to teach a foreign language but to consider particular facts that relate to human and cultural needs of learners. using the humanistic-oriented literary texts as an authentic document in the foreign language course allo...

Estimation Based on an Appropriate Choice of Loss Function

Some examples of absurd uniformly minimum variance unbiased estimators are discussed. Two reasons, argued in the literature, for having such estimators are lack of enough information in the available data and property of unbiasedness. In this paper, accepting both of these views, we show that an appropriate choice of loss function using a general concept of unbiasedness leads to risk unb...