Jennifer Wallis, Jan Burns & Rose Capdevila a Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, CAMHS, 3 Craven Road, Reading, RG1 5LF, Berkshire, UK. email: [email protected]. b Clinical Psychology Programmes Director, Centre for Applied Social and Psychological Development, Salomons, Canterbury Christ Church University College, Kent, UK. c Lecturer, T...

delphi as a consensus development technique enables anonymous, systematic refinement of expert opinion with the aim of arriving at a combined or consensual position. in this study, we determined the criteria and their weights for iranian medical schools' ranking through a delphi process. an expert committee devised 13 proposed criteria with 32 indicators with their weights, which were arranged ...

after the introduction of postmethod pedagogy by kumaravadivelu with its three principles of particularity, possibility and practicality, a wave of attention was directed towards this so-called 'postmethod era' and its appropriacy and adequacy in satiating the demands of the language learners in this 'brand new world'. this situation has created a healthy debate among the iranian efl community ...

the patients’ rights status is one of the essential elements in defining norms related to the concept of clinical governance system. in addition, the patients’ rights status is an important index for quality of care offered in the health care system. however, the lack of a coherent instrument makes it difficult to evaluate patients’ rights status in hospitals and clinics. the aim of this study ...

One of the largest challenges facing educators teaching object-oriented courses is deciding how to evaluate each students programming skill. This research focus on how we addressed this challenge in object oriented programming course by proposing a new assessment method to assess students’ object-oriented programming skills. The process begins by identifying generic object-oriented skills that ...

This research studies heterarchical collaboration in logistical transport. Specifically, it utilizes a hybrid Delphi-Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) approach to explore the relevant criteria for the formation and maintenance of a strategic alignment for heterarchical transport collaboration. The importance of this work is that it applies a novel hybrid approach for identifying criteria for suc...

In the last 30 years, the application of the Delphi technique has been increasing. With the recent availability and established popularity of Internet-based research tools, the Internet has been identified as a means for mitigating Delphi limitations, maximizing its advantages, and expanding the breadth of its application. The discourse on the application of “e-Delphi” has been speculative in n...

the primary purpose of this research study was to determine the major factors affect-ing the implementation of national agricultural mechanization programs in iran. the sec-ondary purpose of this study was to assess the agricultural mechanization level practiced by farmers. this project consisted of two phases. in the first phase of the study, a delphi technique was used to gather experts' poin...