Social validity is the extent to which procedures, goals, and outcomes are acceptable and important to end users and is not commonly addressed during assessment development. This article pilots a process of triangulating multiple methods to evaluate the social validity of a self-report assessment. These procedures were piloted using the Child Occupational SelfAssessment (COSA), a self-report of...

We present a non-analytic approach to selfassessment for Autonomic Computing. Our approach leverages utility functions, at the level of an autonomic application, or even a single task or feature being exercised within that application. This paper describes the fundamental steps of our approach: instrumentation of the application; collection of exhaustive samples of runtime data about relevant q...

Anesthesiologists are continually engaged in selfassessment, and our specialty has been defined by its commitment to minimizing errors and ensuring the safety of all patients. Anesthesiologists were pioneers in safety and continue to be seen as leaders in improving quality of care and outcomes. This is well illustrated by the Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation, which has led efforts in anesth...

Students, through all stages of education, grasp new knowledge in the context of knowledge memorized all through their previous education. To self-predict personal proficiency in education, selfassessment acts as an important learning feedback. The in-house developed Studio suit for educational self-assessment enables to model the educational domain as an ontology-based knowledge structure, con...

Individual teaching has been considered as the most successful educational form since ancient times. This form still continues its existence nowadays within intelligent systems intended to provide adapted tutoring for each student. Although, recent research has shown that emotions can affect student's learning, adaptation skills of tutoring systems are still imperfect due to weak emotional inte...

This article examines the impact of the introduction of roles and the added value of selfassessment on students‟ level of knowledge construction in online asynchronous discussions in a first year university course in instructional sciences. Students‟ postings in 20 discussion groups were used as the research data for this study. All messages, submitted during the 12 week discussion period, comp...

For self-regulated learning to be effective, students need to be able to accurately assess their own performance on a learning task, and to select an appropriate new learning task in response to that self-assessment. This study investigated the use of video-based modeling examples to teach selfassessment and task-selection skills. Students in both the experimental and control condition observed...

When a learning system learns from data that was previously assigned to categories, we say that the learning system learns in a supervised way. By “supervised”, we mean that a higher entity, for example a human, has arranged the data into categories. Fully categorizing the data is cost intensive and time consuming. Moreover, the categories (labels) provided by humans might be subject to uncerta...

Web-based parameterized quizzes provide teachers and students with several advantages as the technology for self-assessment. However, the effect of these advantages is strongly reduced, if a student does not receive enough support and cannot see her/his progress during the course. We have developed the system QuizGuide, which attempts to solve this problem by navigating students through the qui...

In recent years, ophthalmologists have paid great attention to keratoconus, as the disease is socially significant and affects young working-age population. According literature in clinical practice, it was found that patients with keratoconus similar character traits, which are manifested a greater or lesser extent each patient. number of authors, these less adaptability, passive aggression, p...