Dissertations / Theses: 'The results of self-evaluation activities'

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Smith, Sherri, and Marc A. Fagelson. "Preliminary Psychometric Results of a Tinnitus Self-Efficacy Questionnaire." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2008. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/1630.

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Laflin, Karen S. "Results based evaluation of career activities for high school freshman in a comprehensive counseling program /." Search for this dissertation online, 2005. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ksu/main.

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Paukovičová, Monika. "Přezkoumávání hospodaření územních samosprávných celků." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2013. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-199536.

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This diploma thesis focuses on the review of economic activities of self-governing territorial units. Its aim is to outline the adjustment of the review of economic activities of self-governing territorial units in the Czech Republic. It shows the differences between the review of economic activities and audit of financial statements. It analyzes some of the results of the review of economic activities of self-governing territorial units in the period 2010 - 2012. Subsequently, the report seeks to clarify the differences in the outcome of the review of economic activities, the report on the results of the review of economic activities, prepared by civil servants (employees of regional authority) and auditors.

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Downs, Holly Elizabeth. "The Effects of Video Self-Evaluation on Skill Acquisition with Yoga Postures." Scholar Commons, 2013. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/4885.

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This study evaluated the use of video self-evaluation and video feedback procedures to enhance the accuracy of yoga poses. In the self-evaluation intervention participants watched their behaviors via video and scored task analyses for feedback for each pose. In the video feedback intervention, the participants and the researcher together scored the task analyses for the behaviors along with practice during video recordings. The interventions were assessed in a multiple baseline across behaviors design. Results showed that both video self-evaluation increased the accuracy of all poses and video feedback further increased the accuracy on one pose for one participant

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Schonwetter, Sara Wendi. "An Evaluation of Reactivity to Observer Presence While Self-Monitoring to Improve Swimming Performance." Scholar Commons, 2012. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/4221.

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The current study evaluated the effects of self-monitoring by swimmers to improve their performance at practice and assessed the effects of reactivity to observer presence on their performance. Additionally, it investigated the accuracy of the swimmers' self-reports. Seven public high school swim team members used program boards to self-monitor in order to increase the number of assigned laps completed at practice. Reactivity to observer presence was assessed by having a confederate record the number of laps completed during observer absent conditions. A series of AB replications and an ABAB reversal design were used. The percentage of assigned laps completed increased during the self-monitoring phases. The self-monitoring and feedback phase showed an additional increase in the percentage of assigned laps completed, and also showed an increase in the mean level of reporting accuracy by the participants. The effects from the reactivity assessment were mixed; the percentage of assigned laps completed was lower on days that the observer was absent compared to the days the observer is present for only some of the participants. More research is needed to examine reactivity effects in sport settings.

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Slattery, Lindsey C. "An Evaluation of Self Management to Increase On Task Behavior with Individuals Diagnosed with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactive Disorder." Scholar Commons, 2013. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/4946.

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Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is one of the leading diagnoses for children. Children diagnosed with ADHD often have difficulty in many settings including at school as well as in the home. Medication is often a common treatment for these children, however, it has been often shown ineffective when used alone. A review of behavioral interventions, including various self-regulation interventions has been studied. Self-regulation interventions have been shown to be effective for children diagnosed with ADHD primarily in school or academic settings. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effects of a self-management intervention on the on-task behavior of children diagnosed with ADHD. Specifically, this study aimed to examine the impact a self-management intervention would have on the on-task behavior of children during various routines, both academic and non-academic, in the child's home setting. Participants were trained to use a self-management intervention. As a result of the accurate use of the self-management intervention all three participant's on-task behavior increased. For one participant, the duration of the targeted routine also substantially decreased.

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Mims, Pamela J. "Preliminary Results of The Teacher Support Project: Increasing Self-Efficacy and Reducing Attrition of Special Educators." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2016. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/179.

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Presenters describe the content, procedures, and outcomes of a university-based project providing various supports via different delivery methods to early career special educators in rural northeast Tennessee. Participants will learn about the supports teachers selected, how teachers’ self-efficacy improved, and how this teacher-driven approach compared to district provided professional development.

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Fuesy, Samantha Lynn. "An Evaluation of Staff Reactivity Following Performance Feedback and Self-Monitoring Procedures in a Group home Setting." Scholar Commons, 2013. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/4891.

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Research has investigated staff management procedures that produce treatment adherence and maintenance over time. Treatment integrity is one of the most important aspects of staff management; without adequate treatment adherence, behavior analysts are unable to determine whether treatment is effective, function has been identified, or intervention revisions are needed. The literature on staff management procedures has demonstrated that performance feedback and self-monitoring are effective procedures for increasing treatment integrity of behavior plans in the presence of the observer, however, few studies have evaluated the effectiveness of these procedures when the observer is absent. This study evaluated the effectiveness of performance feedback and self-monitoring procedures and the level of reactivity to the presence of an observer exhibited by staff trained to implement individualized behavior plans. The results showed that staff performance increased with the intervention almost exclusively in the conspicuous observation condition.

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Ortega, Elizabeth. "The Effects of a Task Analysis and Self-Evaluation on the Acquisition of Yoga Postures." Thesis, University of South Florida, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10784301.

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There is a growing amount of research evaluating behavioral approaches for skill acquisition in sports. Few of these studies have focused on yoga and skill acquisition. There is a need for a low effort yet effective way to teach yoga postures to individuals who do not take private yoga classes and may practice at home. This study evaluated the effects of using a picture-based task analysis and self-evaluation on the skill acquisition of yoga postures. A multiple baseline across yoga postures was used. During the task analyses intervention, the participants received a task analysis, performed the posture, and scored the task analysis upon the completion of the posture. Results showed that the task-analysis and self-evaluation increased the accuracy of all the poses.

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Miller, Joelle A. "Predictors of Student Persistence in the STEM Pipeline| Activities Outside the Classroom, Parent Aspirations, and Student Self-Beliefs using NELS|88 Data." Thesis, Notre Dame of Maryland University, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3684530.

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Focusing on Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) literacy is a national priority for the United States. As competition increases internationally for scientific and technological innovations, the United States is concentrating on building its STEM capacity (Stephens, 2011). Despite the numerous STEM reform efforts there continues to be a decline in STEM graduates and STEM competencies (McNally, 2012; Langdon, Mckittrick, Beede, Doms, & Khan, 2011; Herschback, 2011). With attention focused on increasing STEM college majors and occupations among the student population, the current research investigation centered on the role of parent aspirations, student self-beliefs, and activities outside the classroom to determine the outcome of middle and high school students choosing a STEM college major. Research suggested that students formulate their degree attainment during their middle and high school years, and even earlier (Roach, 2006; Maltese & Tai, 2011); therefore, it was logical to investigate STEM persistence during middle and high school years.

The study analyzed NELS:88, a longitudinal national public data set created by the National Center for Educational Statistics that used 12,144 participants. The students' self-reported data spanned over a 12-year period. Students completed five surveys in the NELS:88 data collection (NCES, 2011). Binary and multivariate logistical regressions determined if activities outside the classroom, parent aspirations, and student self-beliefs influenced STEM college majors. Conclusions of the study found significant relationships between the variables and STEM persistence. Individuals who participated in STEM activities after school were more likely to major in STEM (p<.001,Exp(B)=1.106). There was a significant positive relationship between parent aspirations and increased odds of choosing a STEM major (p<.0001, Exp(B)=1.041). There was a significant relationship between student self-beliefs and choosing a STEM major as students with higher self-beliefs had a decreased odds of choosing a non-STEM major (p<.05, Exp(B)=.988). When all three variables were considered together, self-beliefs were no longer significant (p<.166) but parent aspirations, (p<.0001, Exp(B)=1.034) and activities outside of the classroom (p<.0001, Exp(B)=1.097), both significantly predicted STEM participation.

The results of the research inform policy makers in regard to funding decisions and the development of programs, especially ones that occur outside of the school day. The analysis may guide decisions for school administrators on how to influence student retention within the STEM pipeline. The findings add to existing research and provide a better understanding of predictors affecting student persistence in STEM.

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Smith, Melissa L. "Creating classroom community with diverse learners : ELL+SPED+TAG+ADD+"Average"=A class /." Click here to view full-text, 2006. http://sitcollection.cdmhost.com/u?/p4010coll3,304.

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Waehrens, Eva Ejlersen. "Measuring quality of occupational performance based on self-report and observation development and validation of instruments to evaluate ADL task performance /." Doctoral thesis, Umeå : Umeå university, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-33848.

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Bergeria, Cecilia L. "Evaluating The Utility Of The Modified Cigarette Evaluation Questionnaire And The Cigarette Purchase Task For Predicting Acute Relative Reinforcing Efficacy In Cigarettes Which Vary In Nicotine Content." ScholarWorks @ UVM, 2018. https://scholarworks.uvm.edu/graddis/924.

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Rationale: Nicotine is the addictive component in cigarettes which maintains cigarette smoking that subsequently leads to morbidity and mortality. There are growing regulatory efforts to lower the nicotine content in cigarettes so that they are minimally addictive. Valid methods for assessing the abuse liability of cigarettes are essential to these efforts. While subjective effect measures and hypothetical purchase tasks are appealing because they are far easier to administer, it is unclear whether these methods can be used to evaluate acute relative reinforcing, a critical component of abuse liability. This secondary analysis sought to evaluate the utility of one subjective effects measure, the modified Cigarette Evaluation Questionnaire (mCEQ), and one hypothetical purchase task, the Cigarette Purchase Task (CPT), for predicting acute relative reinforcing efficacy as measured by concurrent choice Self-Administration (SA) Method: Current smokers (N=169) belonging to one of three vulnerable populations (socioeconomically disadvantaged women of childbearing age, opioid-maintained individuals, or individuals with affective disorders) participated in a multi-site, double blind study evaluating research cigarettes with varying levels of nicotine content (0.4, 2.4, 5.2, 15.8 mg/g). In Phase 1 (4 sessions, 1 research cigarette per session) participants completed the mCEQ and CPT following ad-lib smoking of the research cigarette. In Phase II (6 sessions) cigarette preference was assessed using two-dose concurrent choice tests. Difference scores were calculated for each of the five mCEQ subscales and five CPT indices for all six possible dose comparisons evaluated in Phase II. We evaluated the utility of the mCEQ subscale and CPT index difference scores for predicting preference for the higher dose in a given dose comparison using a mixed-model of repeated measures analysis of variance. Finally, we used stepwise regressions to determine which subscales and indices served as independent predictors of concurrent choice SA. Results: Among mCEQ subscales, higher Satisfaction and Enjoyment of Respiratory Tract Sensation were independently predictive of higher dose preference in the choice testing regardless of dose comparison. There was a significant Satisfaction X Vulnerable Population interaction where increases in Satisfaction difference scores corresponded to greater changes in higher dose preference among socioeconomically disadvantaged women of childbearing age compared to other Vulnerable Populations. Among CPT indices, Elasticity was the only independent predictor of choice. However, there was a significant Elasticity X Dose Comparison X Vulnerable Population interaction associated with its predictive utility where the relationship between elasticity and choice differed by dose among opioid-maintained individuals. In a final model, including all subscales and indices, Satisfaction and Enjoyment of Respiratory Tract Sensations remained the only significant predictors of choice. Discussion: Concurrent choice testing, subjective effects and hypothetical purchase tasks capture some common features of abuse liability. Concurrent choice testing and the Satisfaction subscale were the most concordant measures. The observation that CPT indices are not robust predictors of choice in a concurrent arrangement suggests this measure may have greater utility for capturing individual differences as opposed to isolating the acute relative reinforcing effects of nicotine. Nevertheless, all three measures can contribute to efforts to assess the abuse liability of cigarettes varying in nicotine dose and important work aimed at regulating these products to improve human health.

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Lee, Jayeon. "The Effects of Journalists' Social Media Activities on Audience Perceptions of Journalists and their News Products." The Ohio State University, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1374158231.

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Bengtsson, Andreas. "Watching video or studying? : An investigation of the extramural activities and Japanese language proficiency of foreign language learners of Japanese." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Centrum för tvåspråkighetsforskning, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-104769.

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This study examined the extramural activities, that is, what a language learner does with the target language outside of class time, in Japanese of adult beginner level foreign language learners of Japanese studying at Stockholm University, Sweden, and how these activities relate to Japanese language proficiency. The study looked at both extramural activities and foreign language proficiency from a holistic and quantitative perspective. The participants' extramural activities were measured through self-reported data in a questionnaire, and several measures; a cloze test, earlier grades, and self-evaluations; were triangulated and used to provide an adequate measure of general Japanese language proficiency. The results indicate that extramural activities which provide a foreign language learner with enough time for thorough processing of input and support through the usage of several cooperating modalities seem to have a positive effect on general foreign language acquisition.

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Stapleton, Jerod L., Joel J. Hillhouse, Rob Turrisi, Katie Baker, Sharon L. Manne, and Elliot J. Coups. "The Behavioral Addiction Indoor Tanning Screener (BAITS): An Evaluation of a Brief Measure of Behavioral Addictive Symptoms." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2016. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/57.

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Fonseca, Fernanda Rodrigues. "Tradução, adaptação transcultural e validação da escala Self-Reported Functional Limitation para brasileiros com doença pulmonar obstrutiva crônica." Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina, 2015. http://tede.udesc.br/handle/handle/1847.

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Patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) have reduced level and intensity of daily physical activity. The physical activity is related to the COPD prognosis and, therefore, the functional performance of these patients should be routinely assessed. The Self-Reported Functional Limitation scale (SRFL) has been used in COPD patients cohorts to assess functional performance, but neither its classification (with or without self-reported functional limitation) measurement properties have been tested nor a translation into Portuguese and cross-cultural adaptation to Brazil have been done. The aim of this study was to translate the SRFL into Portuguese and cross-culturally adapt it to Brazil, to assign scores for its response categories and to test its measurement properties in patients with COPD. Initially, the scale was translated into Portuguese, applied in six patients with COPD, then backtranslated into English and sent to one of the original version authors to have her appreciation of the Brazilian version. Then, scores (from zero to four) were assigned to their response categories. Later, the Brazilian version was applied in thirty patients with COPD (mean ± standard deviation: age = 64 ± 8 years old; post-BD FEV1 = 38.9 ± 15.3 %pred; BMI = 25.7 ± 4.71 kg/m2) for its inter-rater and test-retest reliability analysis. Nutritional status assessment, spirometry, handgrip dinamometry, physical activity in daily life (PADL) monitorization, and the application of the COPD Assessment Test (CAT), the modified Medical Research Council scale and the London Chest Activity of Daily Living scale (LCADL) were performed for the validity analysis. There was inter-rater (κ=1.00; ICC=0.92 and CI95%=0.85-0.96) and test-retest (κ=0.79; ICC=0.92 and CI95%=0.84-0.96) reliability for the SRFL classification and score (p<0.01 for all). In the validity analysis, there were associations of self-reported functional limitation classification with the COPD impact on health status, risk and symptoms, fat-free mass (FFM) depletion and body composition impairment (p<0.05 for all) and correlations between SRFL score and total (r=0.75) and %total (r=0.77) LCADL scores, handgrip strength (r=-0.36), CAT score (r=0.80) and fat-free mass index (FFMI) (r=-0.49) (p<0.05 for all). It was also observed absence floor and ceiling effects. The translated and cross-culturally adapted SRFL version was reliable, when applied by different raters or in diferente moments, and valid for assessing the perception of functional limitation in patients with COPD, considering both its classification and score. In addition, the SRFL score had a missing floor or ceiling effect.
Pacientes com doença pulmonar obstrutiva crônica (DPOC) apresentam redução do nível e da intensidade de atividade física diária. A atividade física está relacionada ao prognóstico da DPOC e, portanto, a performance funcional desses pacientes deve ser avaliada rotineiramente. A escala Self-Reported Functional Limitation (SRFL) tem sido utilizada em coortes de pacientes com DPOC para avaliação da performance funcional, mas ainda não foram testadas as propriedades de medida de sua classificação (com ou sem limitação funcional autorrelatada) e nem foi realizada sua tradução para a língua portuguesa e sua adaptação transcultural para o Brasil. Assim, o objetivo deste estudo foi traduzir a SRFL para a língua portuguesa, adaptá-la transculturalmente para o Brasil, atribuir escores para as categorias de resposta da mesma e testar suas propriedades de medida em pacientes com DPOC. Inicialmente, a escala foi traduzida para a língua portuguesa, aplicada em seis pacientes com DPOC, retrotraduzida para a língua inglesa e discutida com uma das autoras da versão original para conclusão de sua versão brasileira. Em seguida, foram atribuídos escores (de zero a quatro) as suas categorias de resposta. Posteriormente, a versão brasileira da escala foi aplicada em trinta pacientes com DPOC (média ± desvio-padrão: idade = 64 ± 8 anos; VEF1 pós-BD = 38,9 ± 15,3 %prev; IMC = 25,7 ± 4,71 kg/m2) para análise de sua confiabilidade interavaliadores e teste-reteste. Para análise de sua validade, foram realizadas a avaliação do estado nutricional, a espirometria e a dinamometria de preensão palmar, monitorizadas as atividades físicas na vida diária (AFVD) e aplicados o COPD Assessment Test (CAT), a escala Medical Research Council modificada (mMRC) e a escala London Chest Activity of Daily Living (LCADL). Observou-se confiabilidade interavaliadores (κ=1,00; CCI=0,92 e IC95%=0,85-0,96) e teste-reteste (κ=0,79; CCI=0,92 e IC95%=0,84-0,96) para a classificação da SRFL e para o escore da mesma (p<0,01 para todos). Na análise de validade, observaram-se associações da classificação de limitação funcional autorrelatada com as classificações de impacto da DPOC no estado de saúde, de risco e sintomas, de depleção de massa livre de gordura (MLG) e de prejuízo na composição corporal (p<0,05 para todos) e correlações entre o escore da SRFL e os escores total (r=0,75) e em %total (r=0,77) da LCADL, a força de preensão palmar (r=-0,36), o escore do CAT (r=0,80) e o índice de massa livre de gordura (IMLG) (r=- 0,49) (p<0,05 para todos). Foram observados também efeitos chão e teto ausentes. A versão traduzida e adaptada transculturalmente da SRFL mostrou-se confiável, quando aplicada por diferentes avaliadores e em diferentes momentos, e válida para a avaliação da percepção de limitação funcional de pacientes com DPOC, considerando tanto a sua classificação quanto o seu escore. Além disso, o escore da SRFL não apresentou efeito chão ou teto.

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Giraldez, Dianna Isabel. "Using Interpersonal Process Recall (IPR) to Examine the Effects of Equine Assisted Activities on the Personal and Professional Development of Student Therapists." NSUWorks, 2015. http://nsuworks.nova.edu/shss_dft_etd/15.

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The Introduction to Equine Assisted Family Therapy course offered at Nova Southeastern University (NSU) provides Master’s and Doctoral level student therapists the opportunity to learn how to conduct an equine session and how to utilize horses as part of the therapeutic process. Students learn about the underlying theories and framework behind the equine activities and methodology, as well as participate in the equine activities themselves. For the purpose of this study, classroom discussions centered around processing the students’ experiences and were further enriched by viewing photographs and videos that had been taken of the students conducting the equine activities. The researcher utilized IPR as a qualitative methodology to create an improved perspective where students reflected on their experience and made connections with their professional and personal developments. The findings of this grounded theory study document how students reflected on their personal and clinical development. More specifically, the transcripts of the conversations that took place during class discussions and interviews from students who took the course a year earlier showed that students reflected on their personal awareness, created changes in their relationships, developed their self of the therapist, honed in on their clinical skills and started viewing therapy differently. This study confirmed the transformative nature that the Introduction to Equine Assisted Therapy course has on the students.

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Silvestre, Maria José Silveira Grave. "Avaliação das escolas. Avaliação nas escolas." Doctoral thesis, Universidade de Évora, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10174/10836.

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Avaliação das escolas. Avaliação nas escolas Este estudo versa sobre a área temática da avaliação, centra-se na dimensão organizacional, e aprofunda as duas vertentes que compõem a avaliação das organizações escolares: a interna e a externa. Partindo da questão inicial Quais os efeitos que a Avaliação Externa das Escolas operou nos resultados educativos e na qualidade do serviço educativo prestado?, traçámos os objetivos da investigação que suportaram toda a reflexão levada a cabo: (i) Conhecer as alterações que surgiram nas escolas, em consequência do processo de Avaliação Externa (AEE), no que concerne aos “Resultados” e à “Prestação do Serviço Educativo”; (ii) Identificar eventuais padrões de alteração registados nas unidades de organização alvo de estudo; (iii) Explicar as divergências ou similitudes encontradas nas eventuais alterações provocadas pelo impacto do processo de AEE. Centrámo-nos numa abordagem predominantemente qualitativa, que teve por base a análise discursiva (entrevistas a atores organizacionais) e documental (Relatórios de escola elaborados pela Delegação Regional do Alentejo da IGE no âmbito da AEE, legislação, páginas web das escolas e institucionais e bibliografia de autor). A investigação permitiu elencar as alterações que surgiram nas escolas, em consequência do processo de AEE, destacando-se a existência de uma estreita relação entre a AEE e a AI/AA e a adoção de uma postura organizacional aprendente em algumas delas. A investigação sublinha, porém, a existência de lentidão na alteração de práticas e culturas de escola e a necessidade de aquisição de competências avaliativas, por parte dos diferentes atores organizacionais, que parecem constituir fatores condicionantes da atual falta de sistematicidade nos procedimentos avaliativos organizacionais das escolas portuguesas. O estudo permitiu identificar aspetos que contribuíram para a melhoria dos resultados académicos e do serviço educativo prestado, onde se inclui: a existência de estratégias organizacionais visando assegurar a coerência entre as práticas de ensino e a avaliação; a valorização da AEE enquanto processo formativo; o papel desempenhado pelas lideranças; a integração de atores organizacionais não docentes na vida da escola e parceiros nas equipas de AA; o envolvimento e a responsabilização de todos os atores organizacionais em todas as fases da AA. A falta de sistematicidade nos procedimentos avaliativos organizacionais das escolas portuguesas permite inferir a necessidade da criação de mecanismos de apoio às escolas, dentro do próprio sistema educativo; ### ABSTRACT: Schools evaluation. Evaluation in schools This study is focused in the thematic area of evaluation, centered in the organizational dimension, and it analyses the two dimensions that compose the educative organizations evaluation: the internal and the external dimensions. From the initial question “Which are the effect that the External School Evaluation (ESE) operated in the educative results and the quality of the educative service, we traced the objectives of the inquiry that had supported all the reflection we carried through: (i) To know the alterations that had appeared in the schools, as a consequence of the External School Evaluation process, concerning the ‘results’ and the ‘the educative service’; (ii) To identify eventual standards of alteration in the studied schools; (III) To explain the divergences or similarity found in the eventual provoked alterations . We focus in a mainly qualitative approach, based in a discourse analysis strategy, essentially based on interviews (of the organizational actors), content analysis of de Regional Delegation of Alentejo IGE ESE Reports, legislation, web pages of schools and institutions and author bibliography. The study allowed enumerate the changes that appeared in some schools, as a consequence of the ESE process, to highlight the correlation between the ESE and the self-evaluation, as well as to point out some good intelligent-organizational position concerning self-evaluation procedures. The inquiry underlines, however, the slowness in slowness in the alteration of schools practical and culture and the needs of evaluative abilities acquisition as majors conditioning of the current lack of regularity in the self-evaluative procedures of the Portuguese schools. The study as identify some aspects that had contributed for the improvement of the academic results and educative service, which includes: the existence of organizational strategies aiming to assure the coherence between teaching and evaluation; ESE as a formative evaluation process; the integration of non-professors organizational actors in the school life and the inclusion of partners in the self-evaluation team; responsibility from all organizational actors in all phases of accountability process. The lack of regularity in the organizational evaluative procedures of the Portuguese schools allows the inference of the necessity to creating some mechanisms of schools support, inside the educative system itself.

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Thyberg, Ingrid. "Disease and disability in early rheumatoid arthritis : A 3-year follow-up of women and men in the Swedish TIRA project." Doctoral thesis, Linköping : Linköping ; Örebro : Dept. of Molecular and Clinical Medicine, Univ. ; Swedish Institute for Disability Research, 2005. http://www.bibl.liu.se/liupubl/disp/disp2005/sidr16s.pdf.

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Larabi, Islam Amine. "Nouveaux produits de synthèse : analyse, consommation et métabolisme ; Applications cliniques et médicolégales Rapid and simultaneous screening of new psychoactive substances and conventional drugs of abuse. A comparative study of Biochip Array Technology versus LC-MS/MS in whole blood and urine Development of a sensitive untargeted liquid chromatography– high resolution mass spectrometry screening devoted to hair analysis through a shared MS2 spectra database: A step toward early detection of new psychoactive substances Validation of an UPLC-MS/MS method for the determination of sixteen synthetic cannabinoids in human hair. Application to document chronic use of JWH-122 following a non-fatal overdose Development and validation of liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry targeted screening of 16 fentanyl analogs and U-47700 in hair: Application to 137 authentic samples Prevalence and Surveillance of Synthetic Cathinones Use by Hair Analysis: An Update Review Prevalence of New Psychoactive Substances(NPS) and conventional drugs of abuse (DOA) in high risk populations from Paris(France) and its suburbs A cross sectional study by hair testing(2012–2017) Evaluation of drug abuse by hair analysis and self-reported use among MSM under PrEP: Results from a sub-study of the ANRS-IPERGAY trial. Hair testing for 3‑fluorofentanyl, furanylfentanyl, methoxyacetylfentanyl, carfentanil, acetylfentanyl and fentanyl by LC–MS/MS after unintentional overdose Drug‐facilitated sexual assault (DFSA) involving 4‐methylethcathinone (4‐MEC),3,4‐Methylenedioxypyrovalerone (MDPV), and doxylamine highlighted by hair analysis Metabolic Profiling of Deschloro-N-ethyl-ketamine (O-PCE) and identification of new target metabolites in urine and hair using human liver microsomes and high-resolution accurate mass spectrometry." Thesis, université Paris-Saclay, 2020. http://www.theses.fr/2020UPASL029.

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L’objectif de ce travail a été de développer deux approches analytiques dédiées à l’analyse toxicologique des nouveaux produits de synthèse (NPS) dans différentes matrices biologiques (sang, urine et cheveux). La première est basée sur le criblage non ciblé par chimiluminescence sur biopuces et chromatographie liquide couplée à la spectrométrie de masse haute résolution (LC-HRMS) et la deuxième correspond à un criblage ciblé par spectrométrie de masse en tandem (LC-MS/MS). Ces deux approches ont ensuite été appliquées dans des études observationnelles pour évaluer la consommation de NPS dans des populations à risques de surdosage, de pharmacodépendance ou de soumission chimique dans un contexte clinique ou médico-judiciaire.La dernière partie a été consacrée au développement d’un nouvel outil analytique de traitement des données issues de la LC-HRMS qui a permis d’étudier le métabolisme de 9 NPS in vitro sur des cultures de microsomes du foie humain (HLM) et in vivo sur des échantillons biologiques d’usagers de ces drogues. Cette dernière approche a permis la création d’une bibliothèque de spectres de haute résolution composée de 228 métabolites dont certains ont été proposés comme marqueurs pertinents d’exposition aux NPS dont ils sont issus.Ce travail a été concrétisé par la rédaction de 10 publications scientifiques et a permis d’initier plusieurs collaborations pluridisciplinaires
The aim of the present work was to develop two analytical approaches dedicated to the analysis of new psychoactive substances in different biological matrices (blood, urine and hair). The first approach is based on untargeted screening by both biochip array technology chemiluminescence assay and liquid chromatography coupled to high resolution mass spectrometry (LC-HRMS) and the second corresponds to a targeted screening by liquid chromatography coupled to tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS). These two approaches were then applied in observational studies to assess the consumption of NPS in high risk populations (overdose, drug abuse, drug facilitated crimes) in clinical and forensic settings. The last part of the work was devoted to the development of a new analytical tool for LC-HRMS data processing which made it possible to study the metabolism of 9 NPS In vitro on human liver microsomes (HLM) and In vivo in biological samples from drug users. This approach has enabled the creation of HRMS spectral library containing 228 metabolites, some of which have been proposed as relevant markers of NPS exposure.This work has resulted on 10 scientific publications and allowed to initiate many multidisciplinary collaborations

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Glaserová, Barbora. "Autoevaluace školy a proměna školních vzdělávacích programů." Master's thesis, 2011. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-313093.

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The thesis "School self-evaluation and transformation of school education programmes" deals with elementary school self-evaluation. It is primarily focused on analyzing outcomes of self-evaluation activities that are indtended to develop schools and adjust school education programmes. The research is based on interviews with directors and teachers from elementary schools in Prague and could be used as an overview of the current state of Czech schools. It also offers recommendations for improving schools.

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Roorda, L. D., J. R. Green, Kluis K. R. De, I. W. Molenaar, Pamela J. Bagley, J. Smith, and A. C. Geurts. "Excellent cross-cultural validity, intra-test reliability and construct validity of the Dutch Rivermead Mobility Index in patients after stroke undergoing rehabilitation." 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10454/6161.

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OBJECTIVE: To investigate the cross-cultural validity of international Dutch-English comparisons when using the Dutch Rivermead Mobility Index (RMI), and the intra-test reliability and construct validity of the Dutch RMI. METHODS: Cross-cultural validity was studied in a combined data-set of Dutch and English patients undergoing rehabilitation after stroke, who were assessed with the Dutch version of the RMI and the original English RMI, respectively. Mokken scale analysis was used to investigate unidimensionality, monotone homogeneity model fit, and differential item functioning between the Dutch and the English RMI. Intra-test reliability and construct validity were studied in the Dutch patients by calculating the reliability coefficient and correlating the Dutch RMI and the Dutch Barthel Index. RESULTS: The RMI was completed for Dutch (n = 200) and English (n = 420) patients after stroke. The unidimensionality and monotone homogeneity model fit of the RMI were excellent: combined Dutch-English data-set (coefficient H = 0.91); Dutch data-set (coefficient H = 0.93); English data-set (coefficient H = 0.89). No differential item functioning was found between the Dutch and the English RMI. The intra-test reliability of the Dutch RMI was excellent (coefficient rho = 0.97). In a sub-sample of patients (n = 91), the Dutch RMI correlated strongly with the Dutch Barthel Index (Spearman's correlation coefficient rho = 0.84). CONCLUSION: The Dutch RMI allows valid international Dutch-English comparisons, and has excellent intra-test reliability and construct validity.

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Bartlett, Y. K., A. Haywood, C. L. Bentley, J. Parker, M. S. Hawley, Gail Mountain, and S. Mawson. "The SMART personalised self-management system for congestive heart failure: results of a realist evaluation." 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10454/11012.

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Background Technology has the potential to provide support for self-management to people with congestive heart failure (CHF). This paper describes the results of a realist evaluation of the SMART Personalised Self-Management System (PSMS) for CHF. Methods The PSMS was used, at home, by seven people with CHF. Data describing system usage and usability as well as questionnaire and interview data were evaluated in terms of the context, mechanism and outcome hypotheses (CMOs) integral to realist evaluation. Results The CHF PSMS improved heart failure related knowledge in those with low levels of knowledge at baseline, through providing information and quizzes. Furthermore, participants perceived the self-regulatory aspects of the CHF PSMS as being useful in encouraging daily walking. The CMOs were revised to describe the context of use, and how this influences both the mechanisms and the outcomes. Conclusions Participants with CHF engaged with the PSMS despite some technological problems. Some positive effects on knowledge were observed as well as the potential to assist with changing physical activity behaviour. Knowledge of CHF and physical activity behaviour change are important self-management targets for CHF, and this study provides evidence to direct the further development of a technology to support these targets.

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Lee, Kuangchien, and 李光千. "The Study of the Motivation / Self-Evaluation / Life Satisfaction of the Middle Aged and the Elderly’s Participating in Singing Activities in Nantou." Thesis, 2013. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/ccn3m3.

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The subjects of this study are 376 participants of the middle ages and the elderly in the singing classes of Nantou city. The study aims to know the subjects’ participating motivation, self-evaluation and life satisfaction and their relationship.The data were collected with a structured questionnaire which were based on background information, motivation of joining singing classes , self-evaluaton and life satisfaction. The data were analyzed with SPSS 17.0 statistical software. The results show that the personal interests and relieve stress are more satisfied in the subjets of fifty-five to fifty-nine ; the lower level of educated hoped to find the self-achievement by singing activity; the married hoped to make friends by joining singing classes; yet retirees are hoped to release working stress by joining singing activities; most participants, main source of economy is their own income.The relational analysis show: the overall participation motivational state and self-evaluation are significantly high positive. The highest of self-evaluation is to relieve stress ; the overall participation motivational state and life satisfaction is significantly low positive；and the correlation of the participation self-evaluation and life satisfaction also shows significantly low positive. The overall results show that joining singing activities can promote self-evaluation and life satisfaction.The conclusion is that participating in singing activities can relieve personal stress and improve physical and mental health with a full range. The study thus recommends communities to promote singing class/activity for the middle ages and the elderly to increase their life satisfaction. Keywords: Singing activities, Participation motivation, Self-evaluation, Life satisfaction

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Roorda, L. D., J. R. Green, A. Houwink, Pamela J. Bagley, J. Smith, I. W. Molenaar, and A. C. Geurts. "The Rivermead Mobility Index allows valid comparisons between subgroups of patients undergoing rehabilitation after stroke who differ with respect to age, sex, or side of lesion." 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10454/6162.

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OBJECTIVE: To investigate differential item functioning or item bias of the Rivermead Mobility Index (RMI) and its impact on the drawing of valid comparisons with the RMI between subgroups of patients after stroke who differ with respect to age, sex, or side of lesion. DESIGN: Cross-sectional study. SETTING: A rehabilitation center in the Netherlands and 2 stroke rehabilitation units and the wider community in the United Kingdom. PARTICIPANTS: The RMI was completed for patients undergoing rehabilitation after stroke (N=620; mean age +/- SD, 69.2+/-12.5y; 297 [48%] men; 269 [43%] right hemisphere lesion, and 304 [49%] left hemisphere lesion). INTERVENTIONS: Not applicable. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Mokken scale analysis was used to investigate differential item functioning of the RMI between subgroups of patients who differed with respect to age (young vs older), sex (men vs women), and side of stroke lesion (right vs left hemisphere). RESULTS: No differential item functioning was found for any of the comparison subgroups. CONCLUSIONS: The RMI allows valid comparisons to be made between subgroups of patients undergoing rehabilitation after stroke who differ with respect to age, sex, or side of lesion.

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Roorda, L. D., J. R. Green, A. Houwink, Pamela J. Bagley, J. Smith, I. W. Molenaar, and A. C. Geurts. "Item hierarchy-based analysis of the Rivermead Mobility Index resulted in improved interpretation and enabled faster scoring in patients undergoing rehabilitation after stroke." 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10454/6163.

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OBJECTIVE: To enable improved interpretation of the total score and faster scoring of the Rivermead Mobility Index (RMI) by studying item ordering or hierarchy and formulating start-and-stop rules in patients after stroke. DESIGN: Cohort study. SETTING: Rehabilitation center in the Netherlands; stroke rehabilitation units and the community in the United Kingdom. PARTICIPANTS: Item hierarchy of the RMI was studied in an initial group of patients (n=620; mean age +/- SD, 69.2+/-12.5y; 297 [48%] men; 304 [49%] left hemisphere lesion, and 269 [43%] right hemisphere lesion), and the adequacy of the item hierarchy-based start-and-stop rules was checked in a second group of patients (n=237; mean age +/- SD, 60.0+/-11.3y; 139 [59%] men; 103 [44%] left hemisphere lesion, and 93 [39%] right hemisphere lesion) undergoing rehabilitation after stroke. INTERVENTIONS: Not applicable. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Mokken scale analysis was used to investigate the fit of the double monotonicity model, indicating hierarchical item ordering. The percentages of patients with a difference between the RMI total score and the scores based on the start-and-stop rules were calculated to check the adequacy of these rules. RESULTS: The RMI had good fit of the double monotonicity model (coefficient H(T)=.87). The interpretation of the total score improved. Item hierarchy-based start-and-stop rules were formulated. The percentages of patients with a difference between the RMI total score and the score based on the recommended start-and-stop rules were 3% and 5%, respectively. Ten of the original 15 items had to be scored after applying the start-and-stop rules. CONCLUSIONS: Item hierarchy was established, enabling improved interpretation and faster scoring of the RMI.

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