This study addresses the high stakes nature of teacher performance assessments and consequential outcomes of passing versus failing based on decisions of those who subjectively score them. Specifically, this study examines the inter-rater reliability of an emerging national model, the Performance Assessment for California Teachers (PACT). Current reports on the inter-rater reliability of PACT u...

this paper presents an application of benders decomposition to deal with the complexities in the simultaneous generation expansion planning (gep) and transmission expansion planning (tep). unlike the power system operation fields of study, the power system planning methods are not expected to be fast. however, it is always preferable to speed up computations to provide more analysis options for...

This paper puts forward a reliability estimation method by the Degradation Amount Distribution (DAD) of products, using a composite time series modeling procedure and grey theory based on a random failure threshold. Product DAD data are treated as a composite time series and described using a composite time series model to predict a long-term trend of degradation. The degradation test is proces...

Internet software is an emerging software paradigm. Traditional evaluation methods for software reliability are no longer applicable because of the open and dynamic characteristics of the Internet software. In order to evaluate its reliability accurately, there must be a dynamic and open reliability evaluation approach. This paper presents the collection approach of the reliability-related data...

Deregulation policy has caused some changes in the concepts of power system reliability assessment. This paper deals with generation reliability evaluation in perfect competition power market using market economic concepts and its dynamic. Also, because of power markets and generators’ forced outages stochastic behavior, Monte Carlo Simulation (MCS) is used in this research. Generation reliabil...

Objective: To improve the reliability of complex urban public transportation network. Methods: Establishing the reliability evaluation system of urban public transportation network. Process: The paper introduces the development of urban traffic construction, describes the characteristic parameters of complex networks, and establishes the model of the reliability evaluation index system of compl...