few, if any, studies have investigated the effect of professional experience as a rater variable and type of assessment as a task variable on raters’ criteria in the assessment of speech acts. this study aimed to explore the impact of nonnative teachers’ professional experience on the use of criteria in monologic and dialogic assessment of 12 role-plays of 3 apology speech acts. to this end, 60...

OBJECTIVE To determine the prevalence and patterns of alcohol consumption among the army personnel. MATERIAL AND METHOD A cross-sectional study was carried out during the annual health examination between 2000 and 2001 in two army units located in the central region of Thailand. A total of 843 active duty army personnel participated in the present study. Data on demographic characteristics, s...

Strategic priority setting and implementation of strategies to reduce maternal mortality are key to the post Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 2015 agenda. This article highlights the feasibility and the advantages of using a systematized tacit knowledge approach, using data from maternal health program personnel, to identify local challenges to implementing policies and programs to inform the ...

A survey was conducted of 157 Canadian Information Systems (IS) personnel in organizations throughout Canada using a modi®ed Delphi technique and follow-up interviews to identify the perceived critical issues in IS during the following 5 years. The important issues included: (1) building a responsive IT infrastructure; (2) improving IS project management practices and (3) planning and managing ...

This study examined the influence of attitudes and self-monitoring on leniency (elevation accuracy) of performance ratings and personnel decisions. In addition, moderating effects of self-monitoring on the relationship between attitudes and accuracy of ratings and decisions were investigated. Attitudes and self-monitoring tendency of 210 managers-professionals were measured, and ratings provide...

To investigate the anxiety, depression, fatigue and insomnia of entry quarantine personnel during COVID-19 pandemic, influencing factors psychological status were also explored. The Self-Rating Anxiety Scale (SAS), Depression (SDS), Fatigue severity scale (FSS) Insomnia Severity Index (ISI) 630 performed correlation analysis four types scales was performed. incidence rates 4.76%, 20.00%, 48.57%...

Employees’ tasks have been changing according to the current times by technical development and reform in complicated human relationships, and their capabilities and abilities are also continuing to improve. Therefore, the necessity for a competent rating to qualitatively understand relations between employees arises. In this paper, we select a model of a workplace where employees are sharing i...

Tornado ratings from the 1950s into the early 1970s were based almost entirely upon remote, post-event review of media articles and photographs (Schaefer and Edwards 1998). Starting in the middle 1970s, local National Weather Service (NWS) offices have assigned F-scale ratings to most tornadoes based on a blend of f irst-hand surveys by their meteorologists and anecdotal evidence from news medi...

The validity of student rating measures of instructional quality was severely questioned in the 1970s. By the early 1980s, however, most expert opinion viewed student rating measures as valid and as worthy of widespread use. In retrospect, older discriminant-validity concerns were not so much resolved as they were displaced from research attention by accumulating evidence for convergent validit...