Acknowledgements The authors gratefully acknowledge the advice given by Nick Boreham and Richard Edwards during the drafting of this paper. We are, of course, indebted to the staff at Discovery School for their willing participation in the research project. Formative assessment for all: a whole school approach to pedagogic change Scotland's Assessment is for Learning initiative (AifL) seeks to ...

A Comprehensive Health Technology Assessment Framework is presented as a conceptual tool for decision-making about health technologies, including information technologies. The aim of the model is to provide an empirical, evidence-based foundation for health technology decisions. The major framework dimensions are (1) population at risk, (2) population impact, (3) economic concerns, (4) social c...

This study addressed the psychometric properties of the Children’s Social Skills Test (THAS-C). Results were divided into two parts. Initial studies investigated 257 children attending Grades 2 to 4 in public schools of two cities in the countryside of the state of São Paulo. Study 2 assessed 1381 children and adolescents aged 7 to 15 years from public and private schools in cities located in t...

INTRODUCTION Outcome measures of breast reconstruction have used panel assessment of photographs. This provides limited information to the assessor as these images are static.. The aim of this study was to assess whether the use of digital video was a valid assessment tool and to compare its use against photography. METHODS 35 patients post-reconstruction underwent photography, digital video ...

OBJECTIVE To examine the performances of an alternative strategy to decide initiating BP-lowering drugs called Proportional Benefit (PB). It selects candidates addressing the inequity induced by the high-risk approach since it distributes the gains proportionally to the burden of disease by genders and ages. STUDY DESIGN AND SETTING Mild hypertensives from a Realistic Virtual Population by ge...

PURPOSE The purpose of the study was to diagnose the quality of life (QoL) of children brought up in children's homes, to compare findings with results for peers living in complete families. MATERIAL AND METHODS In the Stage I was to determine the usefulness of tools for QoL evaluation in a group of 120 children from children's homes in the Podlaskie Province and in a group of 120 children be...

PURPOSE The purpose of the study was to diagnose the health-related behaviour of children brought up in children's homes, to compare the obtained results with those obtained from a group of peers brought up in their own families. MATERIAL AND METHODS The study group included 180 children living in children's homes in the Podlaskie Province and in a control group composed of children brought u...