BACKGROUND Trust is essential in the workplace, yet no systematic studies of trust among pediatric critical care professionals have been done. OBJECTIVE To determine the feasibility of measuring trust in a pediatric intensive care unit by using established scales from the corporate world and to determine what behaviors build, break, and rebuild trust. METHODS The Reina Trust and Betrayal Mo...

The work aims to improve the assessment of creative problem-solving in science education by employing language technologies and computational–statistical machine learning methods to grade students’ natural language responses automatically. To evaluate constructs like creative problem-solving with validity, open-ended questions that elicit students’ constructed responses are beneficial. But the ...

The Influence of Person Familiarity on Children’s Social Information Processing by Andrew J. Cummings Dr. Jennifer Rennels, Examination Committee Chair Associate Professor of Psychology University of Nevada, Las Vegas This study examined the influence person familiarity has on children’s social information processing (SIP) choices and emotion recognition. Children in grades 2 through 5 watch a ...

This study aimed to explore the incidence, reporting and management of occupational exposure among nurses working in high-risk areas in two major hospitals in the western suburbs of Sydney, Australia. A structured questionnaire with a mixture of open and closed ended questions was developed to survey the nurses. The responses to each question was analysed using either a quantitative approach fo...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study is to describe the development and implementation of a nine-step strategy for devising closed-ended survey questions that assess religion in late life. The intent was to illustrate one way in which qualitative and quantitative methods could be combined in the same study. METHODS The following methods and procedures were developed to create closed-ended ques...

This paper presents a novel approach for automatically grading students’ answers to open-ended questions. It is inspired by the OeLE method, which uses ontologies and Semantic Web technologies to represent course material. The main difference in our approach is that we add a new category of concepts, named functional concepts, which allow specifying an ordering relation between concepts. This m...