Enabled by Internet-based technologies, users are increasingly participating and collaborating in idea generation in online innovation communities. Beyond increasing the quantity of ideas contributed by users, firms are looking to obtain innovation ideas of better quality. However, with the limited understanding of the phenomenon, few studies have focused on investigating what determines the qu...

Despite various studies on examining and predicting answer quality on generic social Q&A sites such as Yahoo! Answers, little is known about why answers on academic Q&A sites are voted on by scholars who follow the discussion threads to be high quality answers. Using 1021 answers obtained from the Q&A part of an academic social network site ResearchGate (RG), we firstly explored whether various...

INTRODUCTION Review of adverse outcomes is an essential element of healthcare governance. For each operational death, the post-mortem is attended by a member of Academic Department of Military Emergency Medicine and the case is assessed by a Mortality Peer Review Panel comprised of Defence Professors and other clinical and technical experts. METHODS A search was conducted of the Joint Theatre...

Peer and self-assessment open opportunities to scale assessments in online classrooms. This article reports our experiences of using AsPeer- peer assessment system, with two iterations a university class. We observed that grades highly correlated staff assigned grades. It was recorded that, the grade all student submissions within range instructor averaged 21.0% next 2 ranges 49.0%. performed t...

Peer review is essential for advancing scientific research, but there are long-standing concerns that authors' prestige or other characteristics can bias reviewers. Double-blind peer has been proposed as a way to reduce reviewer bias, the evidence its effectiveness limited and mixed. Here, we examine effects of double-blind by analyzing files 5,027 papers submitted top computer science conferen...

The social skills of 19 elementary school children with specific language impairment (SLI) and 19 chronological age-matched peers were examined. Children in both groups were selected from those children between the ages of 8 and 12 years. Each child with SLI was individually matched to a classmate of the same age. First, the Social Skills Rating System-Teacher Form (Gresham & Elliott, 1990) was...

Childhood loneliness is characterised by children’s perceived dissatisfaction with aspects of their social relationships. This 8-year prospective study investigates whether loneliness in childhood predicts depressive symptoms in adolescence, controlling for early childhood indicators of emotional problems and a sociometric measure of peer social preference. 296 children were tested in the infan...

Psychological treatments delivered by lay therapists, with little or no previous mental health training, have been shown to be effective in treating a range of mental health problems. In low resource settings, the dearth of available experts to assess therapy quality potentially leads to a bottleneck in scaling up lay therapist delivered psychological treatments. Peer-led supervision and the as...

abstractin the present study, attempt has been made to examine the effectiveness of peer and teacher scaffolding in reading comprehension of intermediate efl students in symmetrical and asymmetrical groups. to do so, sixty intermediate students were purposively selected out of 150 intermediate students in hamadan islamic azad university and kish language institute in hamadan. they were divided ...