AbstractBackground Few studies assessed reliability and inter-rater variability of EDSS functional parameters (FP) rating. Objective To evaluate errors in FP rating junior (JN) MS Neurologists (MSN). Method Patients with were examined by a JN MSN on the same day. Each assessor rated EDSS, then used smartphone app to get an automated calculation for each ("sma...

Background: The scoliometer was developed to analyze the axial rotation of the trunk in patients with idiopathic scoliosis. However, there is controversy regarding the reliability of the measures obtained with this device. Objective: To test the intra-rater and inter-rater reliability of the scoliometer in patients with scoliosis. Methods: 24 volunteers of both sex with idiopathic scoliosis dia...

Weaknesses in the nature of rater judgments are generally considered to compromise the utility of workplace-based assessment (WBA). In order to gain insight into the underpinnings of rater behaviours, we investigated how raters form impressions of and make judgments on trainee performance. Using theoretical frameworks of social cognition and person perception, we explored raters' implicit perfo...

There is accumulating evidence of condition-dependent mate choice in many species, that is, individual preferences varying in strength according to the condition of the chooser. In humans, for example, people with more attractive faces/bodies, and who are higher in sociosexuality, exhibit stronger preferences for attractive traits in opposite-sex faces/bodies. However, previous studies have ten...

We empirically study the impact of using automatically generated summaries in the context of electronic essay rating. Our results indicate that 40% and 60% discourse-based essay summaries improve the performance of the topical analysis module of e-rater. E-rater is a system that electronically scores GMAT essays. We envision using automatically generated essay summaries for instructional feedba...

Electronic Essay Rater (e-rater) is a prototype automated essay scoring system built at Educational Testing Service (ETS) that uses discourse marking, in addition to syntactic information and topical content vector analyses to automatically assign essay scores. This paper gives a general description ore-rater as a whole, but its emphasis is on the importance of discourse marking and argument pa...

STUDY HYPOTHESIS Substantial inter-rater agreement is present in the labeling by paramedics of ventricular fibrillation and asystolic rhythms. DESIGN Prospective, cross-sectional study. TYPE OF PARTICIPANTS One hundred five practicing paramedics from nonvolunteer agencies who are advanced cardiac life support certified. METHODS Five static cardiac arrest rhythm strips, classified by Cummi...

BACKGROUND Outcome measures are important when evaluating treatments and physiological progress in paediatric populations. Reliable, relevant measures of foot posture are important for such assessments to be accurate over time. The aim of the study was to assess the intra- and inter-rater reliability of common outcome measures for paediatric foot conditions. METHODS A repeated measures, same-...