Студенты, поступающие в педагогическую магистратуру, находятся ситуации личностного кризиса и поиска новых смыслов перспектив профессионального развития. Исследования развития самоопределения на уровне педагогической магистратуры условиях цифровизации крайне дефицитарны. Высоко оценивая дидактический потенциал электронного портфолио как средства цифровизации, следует отметить отсутствие системн...

Nursing educators are challenged to discover new ways to prepare nurses for practice. Graduates must be able to accurately plan, monitor and evaluate their own beliefs, knowledge, skills and behaviors. This paper explores the role of nurse educators in student’s self-assessment. It concludes with discovery of a theory of teaching that embraces formative assessment as an important teaching metho...

Self-assessment is a powerful technique for improving achievement. In this article we outline a theory of teacher change that links self-assessment by teachers to their professional growth. This theory provides avenues for peers and change agents to influence teacher practice. We apply the theory to change in mathematics teaching and report an explanatory case study in which use of the self-ass...

Developing and testing intelligent agents is a complex task that is both time-consuming and costly. This creates the potential that problems in the agent’s behavior will be realized only after the agent has been put to use. In this paper we explore two implementations of a generic agent selfassessment framework applied to the Soar agent architecture. Our system extends previous work and can be ...

Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is a rare neuromuscular disease characterized by progressive muscle degeneration resulting in loss of independent ambulation, serious multisystem complications, and a mean life expectancy at birth of about 25 years. Several therapies are on the horizon for DMD and it has thus become urgent to better understand the health economic context of the disease to enabl...

Clinical practice audit is potentially useful for selfassessment and quality improvement in medicine. The audit process has been shown to help decrease cesarean section rates, improve seizure management, and improve physician prescribing of antibiotics for upper respiratory infections, to name just a few benefits. Much of what is called “audit” in the medical literature could more appropriately...

background & aim : nurses’ clinical competence is the most important topics of nursing professional influenced by intrinsic motivational factors in addition to external motivational factors. this study is designed to determine the relationship between clinical competence and motivational factors from mcclelland’s theory of needs that include: need for affiliation, need for achievement and need ...

Initially focused on preventing the unlicensed practice of medicine by “quacks” and “charlatans,” state medical boards evolved necessarily over time to promote higher standards for undergraduate medical education; require assessment of knowledge and skills to qualify for initial licensure; develop and enforce standards for professional discipline; and, beginning in 1971, promote continuing medi...

For students to become prepared for the workplace, the skill of students to assess themselves is of larger long-term significance than the specific professional competences they acquire. This paper discusses the role of providing support to the students in the form of information on the relevance of the assessment criteria on their self-assessment skills. It is hypothesized that students are mo...

Despite the fact that chiropractic has been accepted by more and more Canadians and Americans, it has yet to gain a foothold on a large American or Canadian university campus. In Canada, the primary chiropractic educational institution, the Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College (CMCC), has attempted to affiliate with many universities including the University of Victoria, Brock University, the...