Combining analytical tools to inform practice in school-based professional experience

Balance sheets: tools to inform changes in practice.

Balance Sheets—Tools for Translating Evidence into Practice Integrated care delivery systems have two inherent advantages over other health care organizations. First, we integrate the financing of care with care delivery. Second, our integrated care delivery systems position us to be able to collaboratively recommend and carry out changes in practice more effectively than other delivery systems...

A professional duty to inform.

school league tables to inform school choice

In England, so-called ‘league tables’ based upon examination results and test scores are published annually, ostensibly to inform parental choice of secondary schools. A crucial limitation of these tables is that the most recent published information is based on the current performance of a cohort of pupils who entered secondary schools several years earlier, whereas for choosing a school it is...

"Inform, Experience, Implement" - Teaching an intensive high school summer course

During the summer of 2011, twenty-four high school students participated in an intense, three-week computer science course at the University of Virginia. The course met for twentyone three-hour sessions, thus encompassing more contact time than a standard college-level course. The course was structured in an “Inform, Experience, Implement” active-learning format: students were exposed to the hi...

New analytical tools combining gel electrophoresis and mass spectrometry