abstract background: there are several evaluation models that can be used to evaluate the effect of in‑service training; one of them is the kirkpatrick model. the aim of the present study is to assess the in-service training of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (cpr) for nurses based on the kirkpatrick’s model. materials and methods: this study is a cross‑sectional study based on the kirkpatrick’s ...

background and purpose: there are 3 specific reasons for education evaluation: to justify the existence and budget of the training department by showing how it contributes to the organization’s objectives and goals, to decide whether to continue or discontinue training programs, and to gain information on how to improve future training programs. we aimed to assess the effectiveness a media produ...

The Sherrington-Kirkpatrick (SK) model was introduced by David Sherrington and Scott Kirkpatrick in 1975 as a simple ‘solvable’ (in their words) model for spin-glasses. Spin-glasses are some type of magnetic alloys, and ‘solvable’ meant that the asymptotic free entropy density could be computed exactly. It turns out that the original SK solution was incorrect and in fact inconsistent (the autho...

In a young field like educational programevaluation, it is inevitable that conceptualframeworks such as Kirkpatrick model arerevised with time and with greater knowledge.The New World Kirkpatrick Model (NWKM)is the new version of Kirkpatrick model whichis more welcome to context and process, andhence probably much closer to the context–input–process–product (CIPP) model (1). The aimof this pape...

The state of art in spin glass field theory is reviewed. We start from an Edwards-Anderson-type model in finite dimensions, with finite but long range forces, construct the effective field theory that allows one to extract the long wavelength behaviour of the model, and set up an expansion scheme (the loop expansion) in the inverse range of the interaction. At the zeroth order we recover mean f...

In a region above the Almeida-Thouless line, where we are able to control the thermodynamic limit of the Sherrington-Kirkpatrick model and to prove replica symmetry, we show that the fluctuations of the overlaps and of the free energy are Gaussian, on the scale 1/ √ N , for N large. The method we employ is based on the idea, we recently developed, of introducing quadratic coupling between two r...