A distinction is often made in the literature about ‘‘assessment of learning’’ and ‘‘assessment for learning’’ attributing a formative function to the latter while the former takes a summative function. While there may be disagreements among researchers and educators about such categorical distinctions there is consensus that both types of assessment are often used concurrently in higher educat...

BACKGROUND With the development of prosthetic mesh and tension free techniques, the recurrence rate following inguinal hernia repair has been reduced, and hernia outcomes research should focus on post-operative quality of life and potential complications. STUDY DESIGN A novel hernia quality of life assessment instrument, HERQL, was developed. The HERQL questionnaire comprises a 4-item summati...

CONTEXT The move towards competence-based medical education has created a need for instruments that support and assess competence development. Portfolios seem suitable but mixed reports of their success are emerging. METHODS To examine the effectiveness of portfolios, we searched PubMed and EMBASE using the keyword 'portfol*', PsychInfo and ERIC using the keywords 'portfol*' and 'medical educ...

0360-1315/$ see front matter 2009 Elsevier Ltd. A doi:10.1016/j.compedu.2009.11.001 E-mail address: [email protected] This research combines the idea of cake format dynamic assessment defined by Sternberg and Grigorenko (2001) and the ‘graduated prompt approach’ proposed by Campione and Brown (1985, 1987) to develop a multiple-choice Web-based dynamic assessment system. This research adopts ...

605 Research papers this month Editorials 607 Your new-look Journal Alastair F Wright 608 Summative assessment of vocational training: to be required by law Denis Pereira Gray 610 Refining the MRCGP David Haslam Original papers 613 Counsellors in primary care in Southampton: a questionnaire survey of their qualifications, working arrangements, and casemix Andrew Clark, John Hook and Kenneth Ste...

Every society has its own culture, values, and ideology. Translations convey the meaning as well as cultural and ideological values, beliefs, ideas and norms from source culture to target culture. One type of translation which nowadays is popular among people, and can attract so many audiences in different ages is Audiovisual Translation (AVT), particularly dubbing. If there is difference betwe...