Introduction: Direct Observation of Procedural Skills (DOPS)is a way of evaluating procedural skills through observation inthe workplace. The purpose of this study was to assess the role ofDOPS in teaching and assessment of postgraduate students and toknow the effect of repeated DOPS on improvement of the skillsand confidence of the students.Methods: This prospective study was conducted in the ...

A b s t r a c t In this paper, we briefly discuss the dynamic and functional approach to computer symbolic tensor analysis. The ccgrg package for Wolfram Language/Mathematica is used to illustrate this approach. Some examples of applications are attached.

In this article, we propose a fuzzy class relation assigning to each pair of finite fuzzy sets a degree to which they are equipollent, which indicates that they have the same number of elements. The concepts of fuzzy sets and fuzzy classes in the class of all countable sets are introduced, and several standard relations and constructions, such as the fuzzy power set and exponentiation, are defi...

recognizes both its diversity and unity; and uses scientific knowledge and ways of thinking for individual and social purposes.” ([2], p. ix) In traditional high school classrooms, learning science means reading textbooks, listening to lectures, and conducting a few disconnected, out-of-context laboratory experiments. If one of the goals of science education is to produce citizens who can respo...

OBJECTIVES Another one million community healthcare workers are needed to address the growing global population and increasing demand of health care services. This paper describes a cost comparison between two training approaches to better understand costs implications of training community health workers (CHWs) in Sub-Saharan Africa. METHODS Our team created a prospective model to forecast a...

Teaching and learning domain-specific language (DSL) engineering and model-driven software development (MDSD) concepts are difficult tasks: either it requires a deep understanding of the nature of a domain, students lack it in general or students are exercising only single technical aspects of MDSD, so that they don’t see the whole picture and are lost in the model-driven and tool “jungle”. Thi...

The need for clinicians to use evidence-based practices (such as cognitive behavior therapy [CBT]) is now well recognized. However, a gap exists between the need for empirically based treatments and their availability. This is due, in part, to a shortage of clinicians formally trained on CBT. To address this problem, we developed a Web-based therapist CBT training program, to increase accessibi...

Of late there has been a growing interest and effort toward meeting the requirements of persons with special needs. However, most of the accessibility standards and guidelines that have been proposed have been developed by adopting a domain independent and often ‘technical’ perspective. Such proposals are therefore often not sufficient to achieve accessibility goals in specific application area...

The purpose of this paper is to introduce an interpretation model for the deployment of new media in didactics, taking inspiration from theories coming both from Didactics and Semiotics. State of the art experiences are analysed, in order to evaluate and settle novelties and limits in an adequate context. Finally, the project of a new didactic system is described. This system takes advantage fr...