BACKGROUND The 15-item care transition measure (CTM-15) is a reliable and valid instrument assessing the quality of care transition from patients' perspectives. The aim of this study was to evaluate the psychometric properties of the CTM-15 and the CTM-3 (a 3-item short version of the CTM-15) in Mainland China. METHODOLOGY/FINDINGS This was a cross-sectional study with a convenience sample of...

BACKGROUND Good quality measures of Japanese adults' sedentary behaviors are needed to accurately assess correlates of specific sedentary behaviors. The present study assessed criterion validity of total sedentary behavior and test-retest reliability of six domain-specific sedentary behaviors. METHODS We administered a questionnaire, based on previous studies, that measured domain-specific se...

A flexilevel test is a test that applies fixed branching techniques to select the items to be administered during a given test. In the study reported here, 180 first year Computer Science undergraduates took a test as part of their summative assessment for a programming module. The test was administered in 2 stages: one flexilevel test and one conventional test. The order in which the stages we...

objectives: the purpose of this study was to evaluate the concurrent validity of the farsi version of functional gait assessment (fga), timed up & go (tug), and gait speed tests in persian communitydwelling older adults. methods: subjects were 100 males in falling or no falling history group (50 subjects in each group). subjects were community-dwelling adults aged 60-90 years who were living in...

It also incorporates student learning through a separate Student Impact Rating that determines the length and intensity of an educator’s evaluation plan, an element distinct from educators’ Summative Performance Rating.2 This aspect of the EEF stands in contrast to other states’ educator evaluation systems, which include specific formulas and base up to 50 percent of educators’ ratings on stude...

A ssessment is unquestionably one of the teacher’s most complex and important tasks. What teachers assess and how and why they assess it sends a clear message to students about what is worth learning, how it should be learned, and how well they are expected to learn it. As a result of increased influences from external high stakes tests, teachers are increasingly working to align their CAs with...