BACKGROUND High symptom burden is common in long-term care residents with dementia and results in distress and behavioral challenges if undetected. Physicians may have limited time to regularly examine all residents, particularly those unable to self-report, and may rely on reports from caregivers who are frequently in a good position to detect symptoms quickly. We aimed to identify proxy-compl...

Introduction Once treatment has been initiated with a child victim, the periodic assessment of the client’s psychological and social functioning — including a final assessment at the end of treatment — becomes an important aspect of ongoing clinical care. Whenever possible, such an assessment process should be formal (that is, psychometric) in nature, although less formal inquiries (for example...

Prediction of overall visual quality based on instrumental measurements is a challenging task. Despite the several proposed models and methods, there exists a gap between the instrumental measurements of print and human visual assessment of natural images. In this work, a computational model for representing and quantifying the overall visual quality of prints is proposed. The computed overall ...

The focus of the study is on the assessment of readability for prevailing America and Chinese English textbooks with the measurement software and systems. The result indicated college reading textbooks produced by Chinese publishers seemed to vary in level, with some texts above the reading ability of most college students. Then simplification strategies used to make Chinese EFL reading texts m...

Objective To analyze the psychometric indices of Anatomy question items in modular system assessment. Methods A quantitative study was done to determine the quality of MCQs and to analyze the performance of 1st year 100 MBBS students. Each module covers different subjects of MBBS curriculum but psychometric analysis was done on the subject of Anatomy only. The assessment results of 3 modules ...