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Showing 1 to 20 of 387 for “"assessment tools"”.
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Building Speech-Driven Assessment Tools for Afrikaans and isiXhosa Children
… interventions. However, current language assessment tools are not designed for local languages, require trained administrators and lack the scalability needed for widespread screening in resource-constrained settings. We address this challenge by developing automated, speech-driven …
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Life Cycle Assessment: tools and techniques for the automotive sector
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Secondary choral music educators’ use of technology-assisted assessment tools
Assessment of student learning is a crucial part of what all teachers do in all disciplines and at all levels. Music educators often find administering and documenting this important step of the educational experience difficult due to a myriad of curricular and logistical challenges, but the …
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Developing robust statistical scoring methods for use in child assessment tools
… group) from the 2007 Malawi Development Assessment Tool (MDAT) study, a review of classical methods including generalised linear models, simple sum, Z-score, Log Age Ratio and Item Response Theory scoring methods in this child development context using binary responses only was carried …
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The Role of Common Risk- Assessment Tools in Assessing Patient Safety Risks
… Many scholars believe a different or new risk assessment tool may improve patient safety. This dissertation examines the role of risk assessment tools in healthcare, exploring why these tools are not benefiting healthcare to the same extent as they benefit other safety critical industries. Four …
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Eco-hydraulic quantication of hydropeaking and thermopeaking: development of modeling and assessment tools
… thermal regime. The study provides two screening tools that can be exploited by environmental managers in the identification of critically altered river reaches. The second part is dedicated to the development of a two-dimensional numerical shallow-water model able to simulate surface water …
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Evaluating the Psychometric Properties of Neurodevelopmental Assessment Tools in a South African Context
Neurodevelopmental and behavioural tools, used to assess children's cognitive and psychological development, play important supportive roles in clinical decision-making processes. It is therefore important that inferences made based on the information generated by these tools are valid and …
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Development Of Robot-Based Cognitive And Motor Assessment Tools For Stroke And Hiv Neurorehabilitation
… bioengineering principles to design robot-based assessment tasks capable of measuring both cognitive and motor impairment. I use clinical assessment and robotic tools to first explore the impact of cognitive impairment on motor performance in the chronic stroke population. The results from this …
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A contextual analysis of cycling environment assessment tools in a Cape Town mobility corridor
… to evaluate a selection of cycling environment assessment tools from the USA, UK and Australia, and a pedestrian environment assessment tool from South Africa, in order to evaluate their contextual appropriateness for the local determinants of cycling. The study concludes with recommendations …
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Assessing students in English for Academic Purposes: The role of alternative assessment tools in writing instruction
This study aims to investigate the assessment of students in the English for Academic Purposes course at the University of Namibia Language Centre. There has been increasing criticism of standardised test and examinations and it has brought into question the value of other indirect approaches to …
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Exploring The Teaching Interventions And Assessment Tools For Communication Skills In Higher Education For Accounting Students
… is available on the teaching interventions and assessment tools that are effective in developing accounting students' communication skills. While several interventions and assessment tools have been researched, no consolidated framework is available which identifies and assesses the most …
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GIUSTIZIA PENALE E DECISIONI ALGORITMICHE PROSPETTIVE DEI RISK ASSESSMENT TOOLS NORDAMERICANI TRA PROGRESSO TECNOLOGICO, INTELLIGENZA ARTIFICIALE E GIUSTO PROCESSO
… the compatibility between the use of “predictive tools” in the criminal process and the protection of due process principles and values. In particular, the research primarily focuses on algorithmic risk assessment tools that assist judges in assessing the defendant’s dangerousness and likelihood …
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Evaluation of the clinical assessment tools used to assess four-year diploma nursing students at a selected nursing college in Tshwane
… a big influence on ensuring that the accurate assessment of students’ performance is implemented in clinical practice. In nursing education clinical assessment tools are used to assess the clinical competence of students. A non-reliable assessment tool can cause a student with inadequate …
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Fall risk assessment : A prospective investigation of nurses' clinical judgement and risk assessment tools in predicting patient falls in an acute care setting
… has been the development and/or use of risk assessment tools to identify patients who are at high risk of falling. Although many tools have been developed, few have been rigorously tested, and there is currently no evidence to support the clinical utility of fall risk assessment tools. There …
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Investigating the influence of Automated Programming Assessment Tools on self-reported understanding of threshold programming concepts in Key Stage 4 GCSE computer science students
… the influence of Automated Programming Assessment Tools (APATs) on Key Stage 4 students' self-reported understanding of threshold programming concepts within the GCSE Computer Science curriculum. The study mainly evaluates how factors such as motivation, exposure, and inherent student …
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An evaluation of online GIS-based landscape and visual impact assessment tools and their potential for enhancing public participation in wind farm planning in the UK
… such innovative techniques for improving impact assessment and information dissemination in wind farm planning. In addition to a review of the existing literature, the findings of the survey provide further rationale for conducting the second (Internet-based) survey study, designed to evaluate …
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The development and evaluation of assessment tools and a model of reading development for supporting pupils within the Scottish policy context of closing the attainment gap in reading
… usefulness of developmentally based screening tools for early reading I had developed, the degree to which they help identify children with poor skills, and the degree to which and conditions within which they support the development of these skills. By using a retrospective approach to …
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Evaluating educational bias in executive function assessments: A comparison of ReacStick and the NIH Toolbox in individuals with multiple sclerosis
… function performance across two cognitive assessment tools—ReacStick (RS) and the National Institute of Health Cognition Toolbox Cognition Battery (NIH Toolbox-CB)— in individuals with multiple sclerosis (MS). Participants with confirmed MS diagnoses completed both cognitive assessment …
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Concurrent Validity of the Transdisciplinary Play Based Assessment-2
<p>Standardized assessment tools have been criticized for use with young children; however, there is limited empirical research supporting developmentally appropriate, play-based assessments. Forty children, with and without developmental disabilities, ages 10-73 months referred from the community …
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