This paper explores the criterion validity of stated preference methods through experimental referenda that capture key characteristics of a stated preference survey for a proposed environmental program. In particular, we investigate whether advisory referenda, where participant votes have either known or unknown weight in the policy decision, can elicit values comparable to that of a standard,...

Abstract This article examines the changes taken place over decades after a test-based accountability system was in and proposes an agenda for consequential research of testing program. The starts with review theories (Supovitz, Journal Educational Change 10:211–227, 2009) socially grounded, integrated approach to test validation (Chalhoub-Deville, Language Testing 33:453–472, 2016; Chalhoub-De...

Extension is sometimes viewed globally as less important than academic research and innovation, even though these networks are crucial to agricultural development. Using Lewin’s (1947) organizational change theory a conceptual background, an instrument measure advocacy capacity within international extension was developed. The resulting scale analyzed for content validity, response process inte...

Though this text raises several important issues, there is one aspect that I want to particularly interact with. It has do with a mode of valorizing anthropological inquiry in relation certain socio-political function it invited perform. While stressing they not imply “research should respond only current events,” Gupta and Stoolman nonetheless argue “the chase for novelty, which so often eleva...

background and objectives: one of the latent and consequential factors of facilitation of organizational justice is staff members’ level of organizational commitment. the present study aimed at surveying the relationships between various dimensions of organizational justice with organizational commitment and job satisfaction of staff of a medical university. methods: 263 staff members were elig...

Objectives To evaluate the merit of the Clinical Audit Project (CAP) in an assessment program for undergraduate medical education using a systematic assessment validation framework. Methods A cross-sectional assessment validation study at one medical school in Western Australia, with retrospective qualitative analysis of the design, development, implementation and outcomes of the CAP, and qua...

BACKGROUND There are several ways to conduct a job task analysis in medical work environments including pencil-paper observations, interviews and questionnaires. However these methods implicate bias problems such as high inter-individual deviations and risks of misjudgement. Computer-based observation helps to reduce these problems. The aim of this paper is to give an overview of the developmen...