The Pediatric Volitional Questionnaire (PVQ) is a 15- item play-based assessment of a child's motivational strengths and weaknesses in various settings based on the Model of Human Occupation. A previous study examined the PVQ's ability to provide a valid measure of volition in ten non-disabled children. This study combined data from the previous study with data on eight children with disabiliti...

0361-3682/$ see front matter 2012 Elsevier Ltd http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.aos.2012.09.001 ⇑ Corresponding author. Tel.: +1 412 268 9861; fa E-mail address: [email protected] (R. G We provide a behavioral account of subjective performance evaluation inflation (i.e., leniency bias) and compression (i.e., centrality bias). When a manager observes noisy signals of employee performance and the...

OBJECTIVE We sought to determine if a novel competency-based daily encounter card (DEC) that was designed to minimize leniency bias and maximize independent competency assessments could address the limitations of existing feedback mechanisms when applied to an emergency medicine rotation. METHODS Learners in 2 tertiary academic emergency departments (EDs) presented a DEC to their teachers aft...

The purpose of this two-part paper is to introduce researchers to the many-facet Rasch measurement (MFRM) approach for detecting and measuring rater effects. The researcher will learn how to use the Facets (Linacre, 2001) computer program to study five effects: leniency/severity, central tendency, randomness, halo, and differential leniency/severity. Part 1 of the paper provides critical backgr...

Abstract In 2016, China introduced an ‘Admission of Guilt and Acceptance Punishment’ system (known as ‘plea leniency’) premised primarily on the ideal punishing crime efficiently while advancing protection human rights. this article, I challenge official rationale by critically examining legitimacy plea leniency a rights-based approach to crime. Drawing procedural justice theory, use extant res...

This article examines one-year of publicly available criminal judgments from one basic-level rural county court and one intermediate court in Henan Province in order to better understand trends in routine criminal adjudication in China. I present an account of ordinary criminal justice in China that is both familiar and striking: a system that treats serious crimes, in particular those affectin...

Abstract This special issue marks the 25th anniversary of introduction a leniency program for antitrust in EU and contains five original papers: Each paper examines effects design parameters programs on their performance. Before introducing each contribution separately, we put them perspective by readers to existing theoretical, empirical, experimental literature corporate antitrust.