217 Copyright © 2003 by Academic Press. All rights of reproduction in any form reserved. Online Counseling: A Handbook for Mental Health Professionals Editors’ Note: In the following chapter, the authors describe the many ways in which online assessment tools revolutionize the field. The uses of online assessment for psychological testing, clinical diagnosis, and selfassessment are explored. Ad...

Maturity models are significant tools to ensure continuous improvement of systems and activities. They allow selfassessment and provide a means benchmark of these activities in relation to best practices. This article proposes the MMDePSI process for the development of new models of maturity in information systems. It begins by presenting the existing methods and approaches. Then he describes t...

Introduction In pediatric rheumatology, the lack of scales showing activities of illness in the patients groups, the absence of biomarkers for the severity of damage led the scientific world to develop a scale where the patient can make an selfassessment with quantitative results. So, a necessity has been occurred to develop a multidimensional scale which is understandable, applicable and compr...

Many researchers and educators have identified self-assessment as a vital aspect of professional self-regulation.1,2,3 This rationale has been the expressed motivation for a large number of studies of self-assessment ability in medical education, health professional education, and professions education generally. Unfortunately, the outcome of most studies would seem to cast doubt on the capacit...

One Master’s Program, Initiatives in Educational Transformation, has integrated a computer management system (WebCT) into a learner-centered (Weimer, 2002) community of K–12 practicing teachers. Online discussions were an extension of instructional practices that supported dialogue, reflection, and self-assessment for the purpose of continuous professional improvement and facilitating independe...

research and development dollars for decades now, and people are beginning to ask hard questions: What really works? What are the limits? What doesn’t work as advertised? What isn’t likely to work? What isn’t affordable? This article holds a mirror up to the community, both to provide feedback and stimulate more selfassessment. The significant accomplishments and strengths of the field are high...

1. Review the target audience, learning objectives and author disclosures. 2. Complete the pre-test online at www.jacionline.org (click on the Online CME heading). 3. Follow the online instructions to read the full version of the article, including the clinical vignette and review components. 4. Complete the post-test. At this time, you will have earned 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 CME Credit. 5. Ap...

Effective quality assurance actfvftfes that improve the delivery of health services to the publfc are of particular concern to the American College of Physicians. The College is committed to mafntafnfng hfgh standards of quality in the delivery of health services and believes that quality assurance mechanisms can be an effective means for achieving this goal. Some of the College's efforts to en...

Based on a small subset of ISO/IEC 15504:2006, a Process Assessment was performed in the capstone project of a Bachelor in Computer Science. Parallel to this assessment, students performed a continuous self-assessment using an ability model based on 15504 Base Practices and Work Products. This paper highlights how students' selfassessment and teacher's assessment are correlated. The capstone pr...

This study investigates the influence of online news and clickbait headlines on online users’ emotional arousal and behavior. An experiment was conducted to examine the level of arousal in three online news headline groups—news headlines, clickbait headlines, and control headlines. Arousal was measured by two different measurement approaches—pupillary response recorded by an eye-tracking device...