This study investigated if different response formats (test methods) measure reading comprehension of expository text differently. The study was conducted with 48 semester 6 TESL students at a university in Selangor, Malaysia. These students received an expository passage having descriptive rhetorical structure followed by three response formats, namely, incomplete outline, graphic organizer, a...

Objective: Recovery housing is a direct service with multiple components that provides supervised, short-term housing to individuals with substance use disorders or co-occurring mental and substance use disorders. It commonly is used after inpatient or residential treatment. This article describes recovery housing and assesses the evidence base for the service. Methods: Three of the authors sea...

the difficulty of assessing the writing skill is well known. different testing facets seem to affect the result of assessing the writing skill. in addition to the writer’s ability, the topic of the writing task, and methods of rating may contribute to the writer’s score. in this study, 50 efl learners wrote four different types of writing tasks (convincing, describing, instructing, and explaini...

The development of bank card business has severely challenged the improvement of risk-controlling technology. While assessing risk is the foundation of risk-controlling in bank card business. Presently, domestic banks have set up their customer data base. By analyzing the status of risk assessing in risk-controlling, this article tries to applying Fisher Discrimination Approach to assessing cus...

conclusions in general, time indices including length of patient stay in the ed and space capacity, emphasizing the need to address these shortcomings. materials and methods this analytical cross-sectional study was conducted via the faculty members of the ed and residents of shahid beheshti university of medical sciences in tehran, iran. data were collected using a predefined questionnaire. de...

Dear editor Patients’ satisfaction has long been consideredas an important factor when gauging healthoutcome and quality of care in both developedand developing countries (1) and constitutes asubstantial indicator of the health care quality(2). Researches have shown that satisfiedpatients are more likely to develop a goodrelationship with the health system, leading toimproving compliance, conti...

BACKGROUND Assessing the health needs of a local population has been promoted as a key component in effective targeting of healthcare services and quality improvement. The understanding and experience of assessing health needs in general practice were investigated in three English districts. AIM To identify the issues surrounding the potential for assessing health needs in primary care. MET...