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OBJECTIVE Interpersonal and communication skills have been identified as a core competency that must be demonstrated by physicians. We developed and tested a tool that can be used by patients to assess the interpersonal and communication skills of physicians-in-training and physicians-in-practice. METHODS We began by engaging in a systematic scale development process to obtain a psychometrica...

In India, there are various boards at the 10+2 level, including the CBSE, the ICSE and the state boards, each conducting a separate examination. The syllabus, marking scheme and difficulty level of these examinations may vary across the boards, and also within each board across years. Suppose we wish to compare the scores of students from different boards. In order to make this possible, we nee...

Title of thesis: COMMUNITY TOLERANCE OF COMMUNITYBASED REPARATIVE BOARDS IN VERMONT: A CLOSER LOOK AT COMMUNITY MEMBERS’ TOLLERANCE OF OFFENSE TYPES Noah Patrick Miller, Master of Arts, 2009 Thesis directed by: Dr. Charles Wellford Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice Many people support harsh punishments for convicted offenders. Similarly there are large amounts of political resistan...

Over the last decade governance of primary and secondary schools in Netherlands has by no means become simpler. This paper sketches recent policy developments their consequences for leadership Boards Multiple Schools (BMSs) school leaders. Thereof we describe challenges BMSs currently face to enhance educational quality. However, existence a wide variety board types lack research into prevent s...

Case in point: The nonsense known as Creationism. I admit that I teach physics, and I do not have much interest in biology or medicine. Nonetheless, I know the difference between biology and bull. I am amazed at how many science students enter our university without the slightest knowledge of what Darwinian evolution is or what it means. It would seem that the American Taliban who wish to repla...

1 ABSTRACT There was great interest in the use of interactive whiteboards when they first began appearing in schools in the early 2000’s. However, many schools that have access to the boards have not been able to successfully integrate them into the curriculum, resulting in an underutilization of the technology. In this paper, we describe the process and results of a year long study of teachers...