This article describes the implementation and evaluation of a novel form of assessment of communication skills and knowledge for all branches of nursing students in a multi-campus UK Midlands university. The assessment took the form of a recorded scenario which was presented on DVD and a series of assessment questions inviting students to consider communicative and care delivery aspects of the ...

OBJECTIVE The Young Schema Questionnaire (YSQ) is a self-report measure of early maladaptive schemas and is currently in its third revision; it is available in both long (YSQ-L3) and short (YSQ-S3) forms. The goal of this study was to develop a Korean version of the YSQ-S3 and establish its psychometric properties in a Korean sample. METHODS A total of 542 graduate medical students completed ...

OBJECTIVE The 36-Item Short Form Health Survey (SF-36) is widely validated and popularly used in assessing the subjective quality of life (QOL) of patients and the general public. The aim of the study is to assess the psychometric properties of the 36-Item Short Form Health Survey (SF-36) in medical students in mainland of China. METHODS The reliability and validity of the 36-Item Short Form ...

Policy Implications of a Predictive Validity Study of the Specialized High School Admissions Test at Three Elite New York City High Schools By Jonathan Taylor Adviser: Dr. Herbert Saltzstein Although admission to New York City's elite public high schools has been controversial because of the disproportionate representation by ethnicity and gender of students admitted, there has been no research...

Nonverbal measures of cognitive ability are playing an increasingly important role in psychoeducational assessment, based in large part on the changing demographics of American schools. Racial/ethnic minority students currently comprise approximately 40% of all students in the schools; and between 1972 and 2000, racial/ethnic minority student enrollment in public schools increased by 17%, with ...

Background & Aims: The Quality of School Life (QSL) is an issue that in the recent decade has got special attention for its influential role in student's life and it is defined as the level of quality of different aspects related to the student's life in school. Since students are future managers of the society, and spend most of their life time at school, identifying the factors that can th...

We examined the psychometric properties of the Novaco Anger Scale-Provocation Inventory (NAS-PI, 1994 version) in Dutch violent forensic psychiatric patients and secondary vocational students. A confirmatory factor analysis of the subscale structure of the NAS was carried out, reliability was investigated, and relations were calculated between NAS-PI scores and other measures of personality tra...

Strategies in mufradat learning at the MTs level play an important role supporting success of learning. This study aims to determine process applying joyful based on ice breaking El-Jasmeen and student's responses. uses a qualitative approach that is descriptive. The primary data sources this research are results observations, interviews, documentation teachers students. In addition, will be su...

background:electronically -learning has created a new horizon in the world of education. the purpose of this is improving the quality of education and conserving (saving) time for teachers and students; this training can facilitate and strengthen the process of review. since mashhad university of medical sciences trains the applicants for family medicine as mph virtually, we decided to study th...