Abstract More and more teachers create video explanations for their instruction. Whether or not they are effective learning depends on the videos’ instructional quality. Reliable measures to assess quality of explanations, however, still rare, especially videos created by (preservice) teachers. We developed such a measure in two-step process: First, categories were theoretically derived. Second...

This study developed and evaluated a brief training program for grant reviewers that aimed to increase inter-rater reliability, rating scale knowledge, and effort to read the grant review criteria. Enhancing reviewer training may improve the reliability and accuracy of research grant proposal scoring and funding recommendations. Seventy-five Public Health professors from U.S. research universit...

OBJECTIVE This study evaluates whether video-based coaching can enhance laparoscopic surgical skills performance. BACKGROUND Many professions utilize coaching to improve performance. The sports industry employs video analysis to maximize improvement from every performance. METHODS Laparoscopic novices were baseline tested and then trained on a validated virtual reality (VR) laparoscopic cho...

ITU-T Rec. P.913 is a new subjective video quality testing standard that was approved in January 2014. This Recommendation focuses on the evaluation of flat screens, laptops, and mobile devices. P.913 emphasizes flexibility of environment, rating scale, display technology, and stimulus modality (video, audio, or audiovisual). To balance this flexibility, P.913 includes mandatory reporting requi...