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Health assessment validation: Challenging tradition
Nursing Forum, 2020Undergraduate health assessment courses aim to prepare nursing students to conduct systematic physical assessment of patients. Competency in the undergraduate health assessment course is traditionally validated by student demonstration of a memorized, comprehensive physical examination.Often, this validation requires performance of an exhaustive list ...
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An assessment of traditional and novel therapies for cellulite
Journal of Cosmetic and Laser Therapy, 2005There are numerous treatments for cellulite including topical, surgical, laser and other therapies. Many of these treatments are expensive. Part of the difficulty in treating cellulite arises from our incomplete understanding of this phenomenon. As noted previously in this journal, there is no consensus as to the etiology of cellulite.
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Ultrasonographic assessment of fractures: a break in tradition?
British Journal of Sports Medicine, 2014Portable ultrasound (US) devices continue to improve in technical capabilities while cost decreases allow widespread use beyond traditional sports medicine settings.1 Using US at the field of play is an exciting advance in acute injury assessment. Images submitted as part of Hoffman et al 2 review reflect state-of-the-art quality and great promise.
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TRADITIONAL ASSESSMENT OF LEARNING VERSUS ONLINE ASSESSMENT
eLearning and Software for Education, 2014Assessment not only measures progress but also help e-instructors to identify effective assessment strategies. Online courses make possible new forms of working and learning together that would be difficult to use in the classroom-based course. Also, high quality formative assessment has a positive effect on student learning. The present study aims to
Anamaria Cazan, Elenasimona Indreica
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Traditional and Modern Technology Assessment: Toward a Toolkit
Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 1998Abstract Technology assessment (TA) as a discipline includes rather different approaches and methods. Traditionally, the discipline has focused on forecasting, impact assessment, and policy studies. Later more process-oriented approaches, such as constructive technology assessment (CTA), were developed that were aimed explicitly at influencing the ...
van den Ende, Jan +4 more
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Retrofit and the assessment of traditional buildings
Journal of Building Survey, Appraisal & Valuation, 2022Retrofitting buildings will be an integral part of meeting government targets around reducing energy usage in coming years. If carried out using the correct methods and materials, with good design and installation, retrofit can be successful in improving the energy efficiency of buildings.
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A traditional or an innovative approach to assessment: The Assessment PROFILE
Medical TeacherThe widely used SPICES framework focused on curriculum development. The Assessment PROFILE serves a similar purpose for current trends in assessment. A school has to decide where it wishes to lie on each of the continua: a programme-focused approach with decisions based on evidence collected from a number of sources; authentic assessment based on ...
Ronald M. Harden, Pat Lilley
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Augmenting Traditional Assessment and Information
Topics in Early Childhood Special Education, 1996Traditional quantitative approaches to assessment convey limited descriptions of children. Although norms and numbers do provide valuable information about children, they are static representations and cannot present the whole picture. In contrast, video assessment is a powerful approach that captures the dynamics of movement, bodily expression, and ...
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Assessment Centres: Breaking with Tradition
Journal of Management Development, 1987The current business world is very different to that in which the original assessment centres were designed 50 years ago. The traditional centre still serves well for selection at lower organisational levels, but nowadays the need is for accurate diagnosis of development needs that include the delegate in the assessing process.
Peter Griffiths, Barry Allen
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Assessing medical students for non-traditional competencies
Medical Teacher, 2007Assessing medical student competence in non-traditional domains can be challenging. Conventional methods of assessment are generally unsatisfactory. The authors discuss the approach taken at the Brown Medical School, USA to assess students at the beginner, intermediate, and advanced levels in the social and community contexts of health care - one of ...
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