Abstract Background Peer workers or “peers” (workers with past present drug use experience) are at the forefront of overdose response initiatives, and their role is essential in creating safe spaces for people who drugs (PWUD). Working settings has benefits peer but also stressful, lasting emotional mental health effects. Yet, little known about stressors face what interventions can be implemen...

in the area of youth health, peers education is an approach to health promotion. assess the training needs of peers educators clarifies the components, values, and quality of training protocols. aim to that we conducted a participatory educational needs assessment of youth peer educators.involving youth and key informants in direct collaboration with research team, a qualitative approach was pl...

This study investigated the effect of self-assessment and peer-assessment on the quality of students’ transla- tion. Participants of the study were 60 male and female students. They were selected from the senior stu- dents studying English Translation and divided into two groups: self-assessment and peer-assessment. The study adopted a pretest-posttest design, and students’ translation quality ...

In this paper, we propose a new approach for data fusion in the context of schema-based Peer-To-Peer (P2P) systems. Schema-based systems manage and provide query capabilities for (semi-)structured information: queries have to be formulated in terms of schema. The dominating schema-based systems are relational databases or XML documents. Schema-based P2P are called Peer Data Management system (P...

BACKGROUND Training bodies see teaching by junior doctors and vocational trainees in general practice (family medicine) as integral to a doctor's role. While there is a body of literature on teacher training programs, and on peer and near-peer teaching in hospitals and universities, there has been little examination of near-peer teaching in general practice. Near-peer teaching is teaching to th...

results providing and receiving peer feedback was easy to do, without interruption in daily workflow. the system can be used among the three hospital locations of the healthcare group. it was easy to retrieve and demonstrate cases for group discussion and analysis. a side effect was that the feedback project helped to demonstrate to external stakeholder that the radiologists are eager to work o...

the objective of the present paper is to shed some light on peer feedback in efl writing courses. in recent years, with regard to teaching writing, there has been a total shift of approach, from product-orientation to process-orientation. a key component of the latter is peer assessment in which learners read each other's compositions and provide feedback to the writer, based on the teache...