accreditation survey of al-kindy teaching hospital during the months of february–may 2011 was performed as part of its technical assistance services to the management of the hospital. the hospital had formed an accreditation committee in october 2010 and began the process of self-assessment and implementation of the 2010 iraqi national accreditation standards for hospitals. as the hospital near...

not take the place of a standardized logistic regression coefficient for valuating the strength of the influences of the independent variables on the dependent variable, relative to one another.” The strength of each independent variable cannot be judged based on the magnitude of the OR, so that a larger OR for one independent variable might not have a stronger association than a smaller OR for...

The present study intended to evaluate EFL students' performance on a traditional method of writing assessment in comparison to an alternative assessment technique by taking into account the effects of teacher and peer feedback. Moreover, the attitudes of the participants regarding assessment procedures and activities were focused in this study. To this end, thirty male and female language lear...

The present study has explored how pairs of students deployed digital tools (spelling software) as resources in spontaneously occurring corrections of spelling errors. Drawing on the sociocultural theory of learning and ethnomethodological (Conversation Analytic) insights into social interaction, it has identified a range of consistent practices and uses of the spelling tools that were emergent...

One unique characteristic of learning systems that support peer collaboration is that these systems have the potential to supplement or replace softwarebased representations of domainand learner-models with the representations implicitly formed by peers. In order to realize this potential, a collaborative activity must sufficiently motivate peers to reflect, collect, and communicate these menta...

Purpose This study aims to investigate critical differences between police officer willingness use and recommend an employee assistance program (EAP) a peer, including the relationship perceptions of macro-level organizational support micro-level EAP support. Design/methodology/approach A survey 213 officers from large, urban department in Northeast United States America is used evaluate office...

Business and Management Studies (BMS) would like to acknowledge the following reviewers for their assistance with peer review of manuscripts this issue. Many authors, regardless whether BMS publishes work, appreciate helpful feedback provided by reviewers. Their comments suggestions were great help authors in improving quality papers. Each listed below returned at least one Reviewers Volume 7, ...

The present study intended to evaluate EFL students' performance on a traditional method of writing assessment in comparison to an alternative assessment technique by taking into account the effects of teacher and peer feedback. Moreover, the attitudes of the participants regarding assessment procedures and activities were focused in this study. To this end, thirty male and female language lear...