Deciding on how to evaluate each students programming skills is one of the largest challenges facing educators who teach object-oriented courses. Traditional assessment of programming education is with Grade. Quite often students get good grades in programming but still facing great challenges or have difficulties to take on real programming jobs. This research focus on how we addressed this ch...

Delphi as a consensus development technique enables anonymous, systematic refinement of expert opinion with the aim of arriving at a combined or consensual position. In this study, we determined the criteria and their weights for Iranian Medical Schools' ranking through a Delphi process. An expert committee devised 13 proposed criteria with 32 indicators with their weights, which were arranged ...

maintenance is one of the systems which can play an essential role in the success of manufacturing and services systems. one of the most maintenance innovative approaches is agile maintenance. based on this approach, organizations integrate maintenance concepts with agility features such as: flexibility, agile and fast move, etc and also are trying to provide one hundred percent preparing equip...

introduction: the goal of integration of digital libraries (dl) is to utilize various autonomous dls in concert to provide knowledge from such island-dls. integrated digital libraries (idls) appeared after the emergence of dls in 1990s, invention of integrated information systems from 2000 and consolidation of them during the recent decade. the ministry of health and medical education (mhme) of...

This article provides a condensed discussion and explanation of the Delphi method. This technique is used for problem solving and decision making. The Delphi Method was originally developed during the cold war by the U.S. Intelligence think tank, the RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, California in the 1950's and 1960's. It was designed for use on complex or ambiguous problems that exceed the capa...

Abstract According to the 12 indicators of social responsibility proposed by the , a fuzzy comprehensive evaluation model of social responsibility of State Grid Corporation of China is built on the basis of Delphi method, and an example is also put forward to demonstrate the feasibility of the model. This approach helps our government of...

Article history: Received 15 April 2014 Received in revised form 20 October 2014 Accepted 3 February 2015 Available online 18 February 2015 Green operations management has gained increasing interest among researchers and practitioners from the industry. It helps organisations to achieve competitive advantages. However, introducing green initiatives can bring various challenges to firms and supp...

It has been claimed that the foundational questions about the Delphi technique of longrange forecasting have all been answered. However, two unanswered foundational questions are considered in this paper. As a problem in the selection of experts, empirical evidence is adduced showing that institutionally sanctioned expertise (e.g. the "professional") in long-range value forecasting is not cost-...