The evaluation of teaching quality and practice is increasingly important in higher education usually done via student surveys (quantitative data) alone. Much less attention given to teachers’ self-evaluations (qualitative data). This emphasis on quantitative over qualitative data can result incomplete biased measures quality, inappropriate changes educational practice, which may, turn, negativ...

BACKGROUND The goal of this statement was to review the available literature on surveillance, screening, evaluation, and management strategies and put forward a scientific statement that would comprehensively review the literature and create recommendations to optimize neurodevelopmental outcome in the pediatric congenital heart disease (CHD) population. METHODS AND RESULTS A writing group ap...

Global developmental delay (GDD) is a chronic neurological disturbance which includes defects in one or more developmental domains. The developmental domain can be motor, cognitive, daily activities, speech or language, and social or personal development. The etiology for GDD can be prenatal, perinatal, or postnatal. It can be diagnosed early in childhood as the delay or absence of one or more ...

BACKGROUND The objective of this study was to determine the effect febrile convulsion (FC) on neuromotor development. METHODS Data 325 patients, who were followed up at our outpatient clinic and diagnosed with FC between January 2012 December 2018, retrospectively evaluated. Of these 203 underwent Denver Developmental Screening Test II (DDST II) included in as patient group 100 healthy children...

Developmental dyscalculia (DD) is a learning difficulty specific to mathematics learning. The prevalence of DD may be equivalent to that of dyslexia, posing an important challenge for effective educational provision. Nevertheless, there is no agreed definition of DD and there are controversies surrounding cutoff decisions, specificity and gender differences. In the current study, 1004 British p...

objective low birth weight (birth weight 2500 g) can be one of the serious problems in children. the purpose of this study was to evaluate the developmental status of lbw preterm neonates admited at neonatal intensive care unit (nicu) at the corrected ages of six and 12 months via the persian version of ages and stages questionnaires (asq). materials & methods in a follow up study, fifty lbw pr...

Developmental approaches have been introduced in Genetic Programming, one of the stated aims being to generate more regularly-structured solutions. The success has been limited. By contrast, natural biological systems are able to generate relatively high levels of regularity. Evaluation during the developmental process is argued as the missing link. Inspired by this, new developmental genetic p...