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Promoting Learning Outcomes Assessment in Higher Education : Factors of Success
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Penn State University Press
, 2013 , Article)
This article presents results of a study on factors that contribute to successful learning outcomes assessment practices. This qualitative study uses the case study method to analyze factors of success in higher education ...
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 ...
Optimizing assessors’ mental workload in rater-based assessment: a critical narrative review
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Bohn Stafleu van Loghum
, 2019 , Article Review)
Introduction
Rater-based assessment has resulted in high cognitive demands for assessors within the education of health professionals. Rating quality may be influenced by the mental workload required of assessors to ...
Assessing general education learning outcomes at Qatar University
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Emerald Group Publishing Ltd.
, 2016 , Article)
The purpose of this paper is to assess the effectiveness of a new general education program at Qatar University (QU) in achieving English writing and critical thinking outcomes.
Design/methodology/approach
Collegiate ...
Measurement of Clinical Pharmacy Key Performance Indicators to Focus and Improve Your Hospital Pharmacy Practice
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Canadian Society of Hospital Pharmacists
, 2016 , Article)
This article aims to address questions about cpKPI adoption and measurement from multiple perspectives (including those of front-line pharmacists, leadership, external stakeholders, and the public), supplemented by examples ...
Design for sustainable manufacturing: Approach, implementation, and assessment
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MDPI AG
, 2018 , Article Review)
The implementation of sustainable systems is an essential requirement in modern manufacturing, in order to minimize the environmental and health concerns, and conserves energy and natural resources. The sustainable ...
University faculty?s perceptions and practices of student centered learning in Qatar: Alignment or gap?
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Emerald Group Publishing Ltd.
, 2018 , Article)
Purpose: Although student-centered learning (SCL) has been encouraged for decades in higher education, to what level instructors are practicing SCL strategies remains in question. The purpose of this paper is to investigate ...
Pass-fail decisions for borderline performers after a summative objective structured clinical examination
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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 ...
Exploring the influence of cultural orientations on assessment of communication behaviours during patient-practitioner interactions
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BioMed Central Ltd.
, 2017 , Article)
Background
Research has shown that patients’ and practitioners’ cultural orientations affect communication behaviors and interpretations in cross-cultural patient-practitioner interactions. Little is known about the effect ...
Reliability of narrative assessment data on communication skills in a summative OSCE
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Elsevier Ireland Ltd
, 2019 , Article)
Objective: To quantitatively estimate the reliability of narrative assessment data regarding student communication skills obtained from a summative OSCE and to compare reliability to that of communication scores obtained ...