JUDGES AS TEACHERS .

Students as Judges of Teachers' Verbal and Nonverbal Behavior

Residents as teachers.

Residents are entrusted with extensive teaching duties in medical schools across the country, and the educational experience of medical students during clinical training is greatly shaped by resident-teachers. We know this to be true in relation to our own learning as students and our observations in our current academic roles.We also know this to be true on the basis of the findings of the AAM...

Teachers as lifelong learners.PDF

This paper draws on insights gained from the evaluation of the Curriculum Innovation Projects (CIPs) conducted over 2003–2004 (Boyd et al., 2005). The four secondary schools and the school cluster in the CIPs were offered two years of additional Ministry of Education funding to assist them to implement local solutions which addressed some of the challenges of today’s educational environment. Fo...

Evaluating Judges

Much of the interest in empirical studies of judges lies in the comparison of actual to ideal behavior. When we ask what makes a good judge or whether a judge rightly decided a case, we implicitly compare the judge's decisions to a normative standard. In some instances, the content of the normative standard is uncontroversial and its application straightforward. Hence, a trial judge who sentenc...

Doctors as judges: the verdict on responsibility for health.

Smokers, drinkers, animal fat eaters, the inactive and the obese, they are all blamed for their potential ill health by doctors, society and their families, in western societies victim blaming is a widespread phenomenon. Doctors are encouraged or even put under pressure to judge behaviour as a tool to allocate and ration medical procedures, by governments or insurance companies that want to kee...