Bridge-It is an expert system that asks project directors 36 questions to assess readiness and estimate likelihood of implementation success for newly adopted school-centered health and education technologies. Because it is brief, content valid, and internally consistent, Bridge-It promises to be a useful tool. But in two recent evaluation studies—one tracking progress of tobacco prevention and...

The paper presents the performance of a novel distributed bus differential protection scheme, which utilizes independent multi-principle advanced protection algorithms, including differential percent slope, delta phase directional comparison, rate of change of differential (ROCOD) currents, delta phase directional comparison on neutral current differential, and a check zone to secure the electr...

Our preliminary research identi ed multiple approaches to automatic process clustering. Prototypical tools implementing these approaches were developed. The resulting cluster hierarchies have been evaluated by comparing them to the author's understanding of the application design. This paper discusses two quantitative measures for process cluster evaluation, taken from the literature and adopte...

Methods to avoid overrtting fall into two broad categories: data-oriented (using separate data for validation) and representation-oriented (penalizing complexity in the model). Both have limitations that are hard to overcome. We argue that fully adequate model evaluation is only possible if the search process by which models are obtained is also taken into account. To this end, we recently prop...

A new bisimulation based semantics, called performance equivalence, is proposed for a finite process algebra. It equates systems whenever they perform the same actions in the same amount of time, thus introducing a simple form of performance evaluation in process algebras. A comparison with other equivalences is provided; in particular, we show that performance equivalence is strictly finer tha...

The time immediately following an accreditation visit is ideal to reevaluate and update the plan for ongoing systematic program evaluation. This article demonstrates how use of an evaluation framework, existing nursing program resources, data, and a timeline can be integral to an ongoing program evaluation plan. Guidelines provided by the accrediting body can be the template for the evaluation ...

internal evaluation has started in 1995 in various educational groups of different medical universites, currently, more than 120 groups are involved in this project. the faculty members have a key role in the process as the main elements of internal evaluation. internal evaluation was not only helpful in identifying different practical aspects of education, but also had a prominent role in rais...

dear editor, shahsavari et al. have presented an excellent account of the development and psychometric testing of a clinical nurse instructor evaluation tool.[1] certainly, the evaluation tool has been put through a rigorous process that is made up of the steps typically necessary in the evaluation of tool development. however, a caveat may be that the tool might not have received input from al...