The purpose of this paper is to report on the development of the on-line performance assessment instrument--the Assessment of Motor and Process Skills (AMPS). Issues that will be addressed in the paper include: (a) the establishment of the scoring rubric and its implementation in an extended Rasch model, (b) training of raters, (c) validation of the scoring rubric and procedures for monitoring ...

This document contains supplementary material for a systematic review on software architecture knowledge management approaches submitted to Elsevier Information and Software Technology (IST). This includes a short description of each of the identified approaches, the quality assessment results for the identified primary studies, a table showing focus and support for each of the identified appro...

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...

List of Tables Table 1 Advantages and disadvantages of sediment toxicity tests (modified from ASTM 2003a). Table 2 Rating of selection criteria for estuarine or marine amphipod sediment toxicity testing (ASTM 2003a). Table 3 Comparison of habitat characteristics and other life history parameters of four estuarine or marine amphipod species used in sediment toxicity tests (ASTM Table 4 Recommend...

A comprehensive evaluation of 62 spirometers from 37 different sources was performed using a two-part protocol: calibrated syringe, and dynamic waveform testing. All testingwas done with ambient air. Calibrated syringe testing examined the ability of the spirometers to accurately measure the output of a 3 L calibrating syringe under varying conditions. The accuracy, FVC volume linearity, and st...

ion (Shaft and Vessey 2006). The task of evaluating ideas is represented by the mechanism that is provided to the user. Thus, mechanism accuracy is, all else being equal, a function of how well a mechanism supports decision-making of its users. The performance of such decision processes is generally referred to as decision quality, defined as the “correctness” or “goodness” of decisions (Dennis...

This paper develops a framework to analyze the value of information in the context of health plan choice. We use a Bayesian learning model to estimate the impact and value of information using data from a large employer, which started distributing health plan ratings to its employees in 1997. We estimate the parameters of the model with simulated maximum likelihood, and use the estimates to qua...

Many address lookup methods for use on IP routers to improve their packet-forwarding capability have been proposed. However, their performance prediction ability is poor because actual traffic characteristics are not considered in their evaluation processes. The actual traffic must be considered in order to predict router performance more accurately, especially for layer 3 and 4 address lookups...