Browsing by Subject "Evaluation"
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A program evaluation reporting student perceptions of early clinical exposure to primary care at a new medical college in Qatar
( BioMed Central Ltd , 2021 , Article)Background: Though common practice in Europe, few studies have described the efficacy of early clinical exposure (ECE) in the Middle East. The barriers to clinical learning experienced by these novice medical students have ... -
Application of a systematic approach to evaluating psychometric properties of a cumulative exit-from-degree objective structured clinical examination (OSCE)
( Elsevier Inc. , 2017 , Article)Background and purpose Objective structured clinical examinations (OSCEs) are considered gold standard performance-based assessments yet comprehensive evaluation data is currently lacking. The objective of this study was ... -
ArabicWeb16: A new crawl for today's Arabic Web
( Association for Computing Machinery, Inc , 2016 , Conference Paper)Web crawls provide valuable snapshots of the Web which enable a wide variety of research, be it distributional analysis to characterize Web properties or use of language, content analysis in social science, or Information ... -
Building a Test Collection for Significant-Event Detection in Arabic Tweets
(2016 , Master Thesis)With the increasing popularity of microblogging services like Twitter, researchers discov- ered a rich medium for tackling real-life problems like event detection. However, event detection in Twitter is often obstructed ... -
Comparing student self-assessments of global communication with trained faculty and standardized patient assessments
( Elsevier Inc. , 2018 , Article)Background and purpose: Assess the reliability of first year pharmacy student assessments completed by faculty members in comparison with a standardized patient (SP), and student self-assessments during a structured ... -
Crowd vs. Expert: What can relevance judgment rationales teach us about assessor disagreement?
( ACM , 2018 , Conference Paper)© 2018 ACM. While crowdsourcing offers a low-cost, scalable way to collect relevance judgments, lack of transparency with remote crowd work has limited understanding about the quality of collected judgments. In prior work, ... -
Evaluating the Palestinian's English as a Foreign Language (EFL) Textbooks of the Secondary Stage Using Textbooks Evaluation Standards
( Qatar University Press , 2023 , Article)The study aimed at evaluating the Palestinian EFL textbooks of the secondary stage in terms of standards for evaluating textbooks. In order to achieve the study objectives, the descriptive analytical approach was adopted. ... -
EVALUATION OF A CUMULATIVE EXIT-FROM-DEGREE OBJECTIVE STRUCTURED CLINICAL EXAMINATION (OSCE) IN A GULF CONTEXT
(2016 , Master Thesis)This study aimed to evaluate the psychometric properties of the 2nd iteration of an Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) for graduating pharmacy students in Qatar. A secondary objective of this study was to ... -
EveTAR: A new test collection for event detection in Arabic tweets
( Association for Computing Machinery, Inc , 2016 , Conference Paper)Research on event detection in Twitter is often obstructed by the lack of publicly-available evaluation mechanisms such as test collections; this problem is more severe when considering the scarcity of them in languages ... -
EveTAR: building a large-scale multi-task test collection over Arabic tweets
( Springer Netherlands , 2018 , Article)This article introduces a new language-independent approach for creating a large-scale high-quality test collection of tweets that supports multiple information retrieval (IR) tasks without running a shared-task campaign. ... -
High-sensitive detection and quantitation of thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) from capillary/fingerstick and venepuncture whole-blood using fluorescence-based rapid lateral flow immunoassay (LFIA)
( Elsevier , 2023 , Article)BackgroundIn the last decade, point of care testing (POCT) such as lateral flow immunoassays (LFIA) were developed for rapid TSH measurement. Most of these TSH-LFIAs are designed for qualitative measurements (i.e., if TSH ... -
Implementation and evaluation of a patient safety course in a problem-based learning program
(2017 , Article)Background: Since the development of the WHO patient safety curriculum guide, there has been insufficient reporting regarding the implementation and evaluation of patient safety courses in undergraduate problem-based ... -
Mix and match: Collaborative expert-crowd judging for building test collections accurately and affordably
( CEUR-WS , 2018 , Conference Paper)Crowdsourcing offers an affordable and scalable means to collect relevance judgments for information retrieval test collections. However, crowd assessors may showhigher variance in judgment quality than trusted assessors. ... -
Pass-fail decisions for borderline performers after a summative objective structured clinical examination
( American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy , 2019 , Article)Objective. To determine what expert assessors value when making pass-fail decisions regarding pharmacy students based on summative data from objective structured clinical examinations (OSCE), and to determine the reliability ... -
Pharmacoeconomics Evaluation of the Systemic Antifungal Posaconazole for Prophylaxis against Invasive Fungal Infections among Immunocompromised Cancer Patients in Qatar
(2018 , Master Thesis)The immunocompromised hematologic malignancy patients, at the National Center for Cancer Care (NCCCR) in Qatar, receive the antifungal posaconazole for prophylaxis as systemic prophylaxis against invasive fungal infections ... -
Qualitative evaluation of a cumulative exit-from-degree objective structured clinical examination (OSCE) in a Gulf context
( International Pharmaceutical Federation , 2017 , Article)Introduction: Cultural adaptation of assessments into new contexts requires extensive evaluation to ensure validity of examination methods. Aims: The study objective was to critically analyse a cumulative OSCE for graduating ... -
Re-ranking web search results for better fact-checking: A preliminary study
( Association for Computing Machinery , 2018 , Conference Paper)Even though Web search engines play an important role in finding documents relevant to user queries, there is little to no attention given to how they perform in terms of usefulness for fact-checking claims. In this paper, ... -
Student and graduate perceptions regarding Canadian-based accreditation of a pharmacy program in Qatar
( American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy , 2019 , Article)Objective. To determine student and alumni perceptions of a Canadian-based pharmacy degree accreditation in a Middle Eastern setting and to explore the impact on patient care practices. Methods. Current and former Doctor ... -
Toxicity evaluation of selected ionic liquid compounds on embryonic development of Zebrafish.
( Elsevier , 2018 , Article)Hydrate formation in seafloor pipelines is considered an economic and flow assurance issue for the oil and gas industries. Ionic liquids (ILs) have been recently used as potential hydrate inhibitors. Although branded as ... -
When rank order isn't enough: New statistical-significance-aware correlation measures
( Association for Computing Machinery , 2018 , Conference Paper)Because it is expensive to construct test collections for Cranfield-based evaluation of information retrieval systems, a variety of lower-cost methods have been proposed. The reliability of these methods is often validated ...