Evaluation by Rubrics: A Computerized System

Use of a computerized evaluation system in a psychiatry clerkship.

OBJECTIVE Paper-based evaluations of medical students on clerkships are inefficient and time consuming to compile and analyze. To improve the evaluation process, the authors developed a web-based program. METHODS A secure web-based system was designed to collect evaluations of students and their feedback about the clerkship. Acceptance, compliance, and impact of the web-based system on the cl...

Design and Evaluation of a Computerized Dynamic Mapping System Interface

Pork carcass evaluation with an automated and computerized ultrasonic system.

Carcass data were collected from market barrows and gilts (n = 325) slaughtered at a commercial slaughter facility in Canada to estimate carcass composition from longitudinal average fat depth and muscle depth measured automatically by a computerized real-time ultrasonic system. Similar and other ultrasonic measurements were also made manually from the same carcasses for comparison purposes. Re...

Implementation Brief: Evaluation of an Inpatient Computerized Medication Reconciliation System

We designed the Pre-Admission Medication List (PAML) Builder medication reconciliation application and implemented it at two academic hospitals. We asked 1,714 users to complete a survey of their satisfaction with the application and analyzed factors associated with user efficiency. The survey was completed by 626 (36.5%) users. Most (64%) responders agreed that medication reconciliation improv...

Computerized Evaluation of Essays

A " hot topic " in educational measurement is the area of computerized essay test evaluation. As essays have been incorporated into many of the standardized testing programs, and computerized testing is being implemented in more and more instances, there are many instances of where computers have evaluated the essay portion of standardized tests. In an environment where humans typically evaluat...