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An Alternative Decision-Making Procedure for Performance Assessments: Using the Multifaceted Rash Model to Generate Cut Estimates
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Kozaki, Yoko – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2010
This article describes an alternative approach to setting standards for performance assessments. The procedure was designed for use in low-budget, relatively low-stakes contexts where it is not possible to bring expert judges together. The procedure that allowed participant judges to work individually throughout the process was an effort to…
Descriptors: Performance Based Assessment, Standard Setting, Decision Making, Certification
Technology Transfer: Learning from Lost Opportunities and Sharing Best Practices--Experiences at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, USA
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Vari, Sandor G.; Laur, James D. – Industry and Higher Education, 2006
One significant aspect of Cedars-Sinai Medical Center's charitable mission is to ensure that its research results benefit society at large. This is accomplished through researcher education, securing appropriate intellectual property protection and licensing so that inventions are developed into useful products. The Swan-Ganz and Barath balloon…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Intellectual Property, Technology Transfer, Case Studies
Medicine's Library Lifeline.
Shipman, Jean; Homan, Michael – Library Journal, 2003
Discusses how librarians in the new role of "informationist" can help doctors and researches of medical information. Describes existing models of the informationist; potential benefits of working across professional boundaries outside the library; professional requirements; and unresolved issues for the new role, including potential…
Descriptors: Certification, Information Scientists, Information Services, Library Development
A Second Exploratory Analysis of the Relations Among Institutional Variables. Final Report.
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Sherman, Charles R. – 1977
This is one of five studies performed in 1976 to examine the characteristics of U.S. medical schools and the interrelationship among variables that describe them. A principal components analysis was performed and interpreted exploring the interrelationships of 33 selected variables that describe the faculty, student, curriculum, and other…
Descriptors: Certification, Educational Finance, Enrollment Projections, Factor Analysis
Program Review Report on the College of Dentistry, University of Florida.
Christiansen, Richard – 1986
The programs offered by the College of Dentistry at the University of Florida (UF) were reviewed by an outside consultant in order to provide information on the State University System's vision of the college and its mission for Florida, the support base for the program, and current directions and anticipated fiscal and human forces that help…
Descriptors: Certification, Curriculum Development, Delivery Systems, Demand Occupations
Dental Education at the Crossroads: Challenges and Change.
Field, Marilyn J., Ed. – 1995
This study examined the status of dental education and oral health in the U.S.; considered future scientific, demographic, economic, organizational, and other developments that may affect oral health status and the system for educating dentists and other dental personnel; developed a statement of how, over the next 25 years, oral health and oral…
Descriptors: Certification, Change Strategies, Dental Health, Dental Hygienists