BACKGROUND There is a high unmet need for sexual and reproductive health (SRH) information and services among youth (ages 15-24) worldwide (MacQuarrie KLD. Unmet Need for Family Planning among Young Women: Levels and Trends 2014). With the proliferation of mobile technology, and its popularity with this age group, mobile phones offer a novel and accessible platform for a discreet, on-demand ser...

An evaluation of two websites with the same content but different interface styles (traditional menu-based and interactive metaphors) is described. A formative usability evaluation was carried out with heuristic assessment of aesthetics followed by post-test memory. The subjects had more problems with the metaphor-based site, but rated it more favourably on the aesthetics heuristics. There was ...

BACKGROUND Abnormal test results do not always receive timely follow-up, even when providers are notified through electronic health record (EHR)-based alerts. High workload, alert fatigue, and other demands on attention disrupt a provider's prospective memory for tasks required to initiate follow-up. Thus, EHR-based tracking and reminding functionalities are needed to improve follow-up. OBJEC...

a r t i c l e i n f o Keywords: Formative evaluation Translational research Cultural exchange Foster care Evidence-based interventions Social–emotional well-being Placement stability This study examined measures of placement stability and social–emotional well-being for a federally-funded demonstration project of inhome Parent Management Training-Oregon model (PMTO) for children in foster care ...

Recent work demonstrates that process data from intelligent tutoring systems (ITSs) can be used to predict student outcomes on high-stakes, standardized tests. Such models are important if ITSs are to be used for formative assessment and as replacements for external assessments. Recent work used various measures of learning efficiency and performance from problem-level, aggregate data from Carn...

Progress testing in the Netherlands has a long history. It was first introduced at one medical school which had a problem-based learning (PBL) curriculum from the start. Later, other schools with and without PBL curricula joined. At present, approximately 10,000 students sit a test every three months. The annual progress exam is not a single test. It consists of a series of 4 tests per annum wh...

Formative assessments are systematically designed instructional interventions to assess and provide feedback on students' strengths and weaknesses in the course of teaching and learning. Despite their known benefits to student attitudes and learning, medical school curricula have been slow to integrate such assessments into the curriculum. This study investigates how performance on two differen...

This article hands us information about formative assessment in biological class's subjects. So, we conducted a research it. Formative is not sort of the which students are given score or they graded by, but it used to engage high qualitative and elite learning. It actually happens while lecturer teaching. doesn't have specific time. The can easily be applied through four popular methods: 1- me...