Whether foreign language writing is rated using analytic rating scales or holistically, the organization of ideas is invariably one of the aspects assessed. However, it is unclear what raters are sensitive to when rating writing for organization. Which do they value more highly, the physical aspects of organization, such as paragraphing and the existence of organization markers, or deeper textu...

investigating the effect of students ratings of faculty members on their performance in faculty members and heads of educational departments opinion in tabriz university of medical sciences     hasani m [1] ,farshdi sh [2]     received: 22 nov, 2012 accepted: 19 feb, 2013     abstract:   background & aims : this research is done to assess the opinions of faculty members about the efficiency of ...

Enterprise architecture, EA, is an established approach for the model-based and holistic management of IT. The scope of EA is however wide and the predominant EA frameworks suggest the creation of broad and detailed models. IT management cannot control all areas spanned by the present frameworks for EA models. In order to ensure well informed decisions, IT management has a series of questions t...

Cross-cultural research suggests that East Asians display a holistic attentional bias by paying attention to the entire field and to relationships between objects, whereas Westerners pay attention primarily to salient objects, displaying an analytic attentional bias. The assumption of a universal pan-Asian holistic attentional bias has recently been challenged in experimental research involving...

PURPOSE To evaluate the effect of preference assessment method on treatment recommended by an individualized decision-analytic model for early prostate cancer. METHODS Health state preferences were elicited by time tradeoff, rating scale, and a power transformation of the rating scale from 63 men ages 55 to 75. The authors used these values in a Markov model to determine whether radical prost...