This paper reports findings of a laboratory experiment, which explores how selfassessment regarding the own relative performance is perceived by others. In particular, I investigate whether overconfident subjects or underconfident subjects are considered as more likable by others, and who of the two is expected to achieve a higher performance in a real effort task. I observe that underconfidenc...

s the popularity of the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award continues to grow, the healthcare industry has become increasingly interested in its benefits. The Malcolm Baldrige Model for Performance Excellence has now been widely emulated at local, national and international levels as a result of its success in creating strategic and operational performance improvement over the past 16 years...

There is growing amount of scientific evidence that motor activity is the most consistent indicator of bipolar disorder. Motor activity includes several areas such as body movement, motor response time, level of psychomotor activity, and speech related motor activity. Studies of motor activity in bipolar disorder have typically used self-reported questionnaires with clinical observer-rated scal...

We present an innovative pedagogical approach that we call constructive evaluation, which shifts students from being consumers of knowledge to participants in a community of peers engaged in actively producing and sharing knowledge. Students are required to author a question that assesses one or more of the learning outcomes of a course. In addition to the question, students write a sample solu...

Supporting students’ self-regulated learning (SRL) is an important topic in the learning sciences. Two critical processes involved in SRL are selfassessment and study choice. Intelligent tutoring systems (ITSs) have been shown to be effective in supporting students’ domain-level learning through guided problem-solving practice, but it is an open question how they can support SRL processes effec...

Innovative teaching methods to address emerging practice needs are critical components of effective occupational therapy education. Experiential learning strategies can enhance skill development and translation of knowledge into OT clinical practice. In addition, skills such as coaching may provide important links to health promotion practices. Thirty-two occupational therapy students took part...

Personal e-healthcare service is growing significantly. A large number of personal e-health measuring and monitoring devices are now in the market. However, to achieve better health outcome, various devices or services need to work together. This coordination among services remains challenge, due to their variations and complexities. To address this issue, we have proposed an ontology-based fra...

Self-assessment of topic/task knowledge is a human metacognitive capacity that impacts information behavior, for example through selection of learning and search strategies. It is often used as a measure in experiments for evaluation of results and those measurements are taken to be generally reliable. We conducted a user study (n=40) to test this by constructing a concept-based topic knowledge...

Background: Effective leadership is essential to passing through obstacles facing the health field. The current health care system in Iran has major problems and gaps in the field of effective leadership. The aim of this study was to evaluate hospital managers’ leadership style through selfassessment and to determine the correlation between leadership styles with healthcare executives’ leadersh...

The arrival of new media technology has the potential to radically change education. It has become important for both academics and practitioners to understand the behavioural intentions of students towards media technology. Many scales have been developed to measure the attitudes of secondary students towards the usage of media technology. However, few scales have been developed to assess medi...