Browsing by Subject "Assessment"
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Mental effort in the assessment of critical reflection: Implications for assessment quality and scoring
( Elsevier , 2022 , Other)Introduction: Critical reflection is a mainstay in the training of health professionals, yet assessment of reflection is commonly described as difficult, taxing, and resulting in inconsistent scoring across assessors. At ... -
Migration to Online Assessment: Opportunities and Challenges post-Covid-19
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Optimizing assessors’ mental workload in rater-based assessment: a critical narrative review
( Bohn Stafleu van Loghum , 2019 , Article Review)Introduction Rater-based assessment has resulted in high cognitive demands for assessors within the education of health professionals. Rating quality may be influenced by the mental workload required of assessors to ... -
Overcoming pitfalls: Results from a mandatory peer review process for written examinations
( Elsevier Inc. , 2018 , Article)Problem description: Written assessments are essential components of higher education practices. However, faculty members encounter common pitfalls when designing questions intended to evaluate student-learning outcomes. ... -
Parent and adolescent reports in assessing adolescent sleep problems: results from a large population study
( Wiley , 2016 , Article)To compare parent and adolescent reports in exploring adolescent sleep problems and to identify the factors associated with adolescent sleep problem disclosures. Parent (n = 5185) and adolescent reports (n = 5171, age=13.9 ... -
Pass-fail decisions for borderline performers after a summative objective structured clinical examination
( American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy , 2019 , Article)Objective. To determine what expert assessors value when making pass-fail decisions regarding pharmacy students based on summative data from objective structured clinical examinations (OSCE), and to determine the reliability ... -
Promoting Learning Outcomes Assessment in Higher Education : Factors of Success
( Penn State University Press , 2013 , Article)This article presents results of a study on factors that contribute to successful learning outcomes assessment practices. This qualitative study uses the case study method to analyze factors of success in higher education ... -
Reliability of narrative assessment data on communication skills in a summative OSCE
( Elsevier Ireland Ltd , 2019 , Article)Objective: To quantitatively estimate the reliability of narrative assessment data regarding student communication skills obtained from a summative OSCE and to compare reliability to that of communication scores obtained ... -
Safety and techno-economic analysis of ethylene technologies
( Elsevier Ltd , 2016 , Article)Recent growth in shale gas production has contributed to the interest in establishing numerous petrochemical plants for shale-gas monetization. The ethylene industry is one of the main beneficiaries of such growth because ... -
Structured Multi-Skill Assessment (SMSA) in pharmacy: A contextual adaptation for authentic assessment for colleges of pharmacy and beyond
( Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Journals , 2015 , Article)There is a need for a contextual adaptation model of the Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) procedures and assessment methods into diverse contexts with great cultural diversity that is both affordable and ... -
University faculty?s perceptions and practices of student centered learning in Qatar: Alignment or gap?
( Emerald Group Publishing Ltd. , 2018 , Article)Purpose: Although student-centered learning (SCL) has been encouraged for decades in higher education, to what level instructors are practicing SCL strategies remains in question. The purpose of this paper is to investigate ... -
Using Entrepreneurial Self-Efficacy as an Indirect Measure of Entrepreneurial Education
( Elsevier , 2020 , Article)Business schools are under increasing pressure to demonstrate their educational achievements. In particular, some have questioned the utility of entrepreneurship education. As a result, measuring the knowledge and skills ...