Allocation scheduling for daily surgical cases is a decision-making process tasked to anesthesiologists and nurse managers in the operating room (OR). This manuscript focuses on three major areas: the classification and principles of allocation scheduling on workdays in China, flexible strategies of operational decision-making given differences in planned versus actual OR allocations, and perio...

In response to persistent racial disparities in academic and behavioral outcomes between Black and White students, equitable school climate has drawn attention as a potential target for school reform. This study examined differences in Black and White students' experiences of school climate and explored whether indicators of school organizational health and staff burnout moderated differences i...

A key issue to address in the design and implementation of any assessment system is ensuring its reliability and validity. University assessment policies often require staff to prepare parallel examinations for students who are unable to sit the initial examination. There is little published literature to give confidence to staff or students that these examinations are indeed reliable or equiva...

in this study, the satisfaction index of new product attribute in terms of development strategy, which includes a number of options for development using kano questionnaire, in the automotive industry was calculated, and according to the relationship between satisfaction and loyalty, instead of loyalty index, we was used satisfaction kano index . then using customer purchase records data within...

Students express widespread dissatisfaction with academic feedback. Teaching staff perceive a frequent lack of student engagement with written feedback, much of which goes uncollected or unread. Published evidence shows that audio feedback is highly acceptable to students but is underused. This paper explores methods to produce and deliver audio feedback to a range of students engaged in a vari...

This paper summarises some of the important features of online discussion boards, and some reflections from my experience in their use as both a graduate student and a staff developer. As a student of the UNITEC Master of Computing programme for the past three years I have experienced the use of discussion boards by a variety of tutors, and have used these experiences to inform my practice as a...