scholarly journals The good practice portal in Germany and considerations towards integrating best evidence

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (Supplement_4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Y Shajanian Zarneh
Keyword(s):  
Good Practice ◽  
Community Setting ◽  
Quality Criteria ◽  
Evaluation Process ◽  
Federal State ◽  
Socially Disadvantaged ◽  
Potential Disadvantage ◽  
Set Up ◽  
The Moment

Abstract The good practice portal of the Federal Centre for Health Education / BZgA consists of a nationwide collection of projects and interventions to promote the health of socially disadvantaged groups at the community/setting level. Currently the portal includes 3067 practices, out of them 124 fulfil the good practice criteria and have been identified as such. The portal aims to disseminate (good) practice in Germany, promote its translation into action, create transparency in terms of quality criteria and make the diversity of practice more visible. A secondary aim is to promote regional networking and the exchange of experience. To this end, an exchange platform (inforo) is also offered via the operating agency, which however is still limited in use. The portal does not intend to identify the most effective practices, but to be a database of well-described interventions that were feasible to implement in Germany. Therefore, the evaluation process was designed as a mutual advisory process: Standardized description of project owners according to 12 good practice criteria- review by experts from the responsible coordinating offices of Equity in Health - peer evaluation by another coordinating body in another federal state - and finally evaluation by an expert from the nationwide working group at the BZgA. Thus, the evaluation process is also set up to promote mutual learning with the goal of in turn increasing quality of the practice nationwide, with the advantage of being close to the implementation needs and the potential disadvantage of lacking objectivity. At the moment, BZgA is assessing different possibilities to integrate evidence as criteria into its good practice portal. Therefore, this presentation will end with a discussion on possibilities to integrate the identification and selection of evidence-based/evidence-informed preventive interventions, including the use of evidence criteria and quality of evidence.

scholarly journals TINJAUAN KUALITAS PUPUK ORGANIK DAN PENGAWASANNYA BAGI KEAMANAN DAN KETAHANAN PANGAN DI INDONESIA

Jurnal Solum ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 67
Author(s):  
Agustian Agustian
Keyword(s):  
Organic Fertilizer ◽  
Quality Criteria ◽  
Organic Content ◽  
Organic Fertilizers ◽  
Growth Media ◽  
Valuable Product ◽  
Set Up ◽  
The Moment

The use of organic fertilizers in agricultural production can not only increase soil fertility but also at the same time improve soil quality. Organic fertilizer is a unique product because it can improve physical properties, chemical, and biological soil as plant growth media. These characteristics bring the organic fertilizers into a valuable product that can be used in a variety of use. Today in Indonesia, there are so many outstanding varieties of organic fertilizer products either refined or imported products. Monitoring of the quality and feasibility of organic fertilizer materials is needed, so they will not harm the farmers as consumers. Each country develops criteria standard of organic fertilizer valuing each country's interest. United States, Canada, Australia and Europe use different compost quality criteria tailored to the needs and environmental rules that apply. So far in Indonesia rules used in determining quality is Permentan No. 02/Pert/HK.060/2/2006 which was then updated with Permentan No.28/PERMENTAN/OT.140/2/2009 on Organic Fertilizers and Soil Ameliorant. Basically, the appraisal made on the maturity and quality of organic fertilizers is based on observation of physical, chemical, and biological parameters. Review of the criteria used in the Regulation of the Minister of Agriculture was necessary in considering the criteria used which are very harmful to consumers, such as if it is satated that C-organic content is approximately 12%, which is low, it means that there might exist some follow-up materials such as glass, plastic in the fertilizer about 2%. If the rules are maintained, it will be very detrimental to Indonesia because of invasion from over seas. Import organic fertilizers would be siege to Indonesian farmers. Permentan No.28/PERMENTAN/SR.130/5/2009 has also set up institutions in charge of monitoring the quality of organic fertilizers. However, the quality control must be carried out. It is not only at the level of the end product, but it must also begin from the moment of the production process by establishing a supervisory agency competent. Since organic fertilizers can be produced by large industries, small and medium-scale farmers, the level of supervision is needed with different approaches. Keywords: organic fertilizer, quality, processes and controls

scholarly journals EVALUATING THE QUALITY OF E-LEARNING MATERIAL

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 74
Author(s):  
Ilze Kazaine
Keyword(s):  
Quality Evaluation ◽  
Rating Scale ◽  
Quality Criteria ◽  
Evaluation Process ◽  
Learning Material ◽  
Material Quality ◽  
Electronic Learning ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Study Process

An increasing number of educational institutions in the study process uses one of the e-learning systems. Consequently, more and more students are offered learning materials in electronic format. E-materials in distance learning and e-learning is one of the most important elements, therefore much attention and enough time should be paid for their development. There are a number of studies on e-learning quality, where criteria of quality are discussed in the context of chosen e-learning environment and the process of implementation. This article examines only the quality of e-material. The aim was to find a way to reduce the effort and time of electronic learning material quality evaluation. The study used content analysis by summarizing the most important factors influencing the quality for teaching materials. Based on the quality criteria mentioned in the literature and personal experience, a criterion, which affects quality of e-learning material, were summarized and grouped. The criteria were grouped into four groups resulting from didactic, media, usability and formal quality. Quality evaluation is performed by using one of the methods used in software engineering - checklist. Based on the identified quality criteria a checklist was established. In order to facilitate the evaluation process a web-based tool is offered. The tool includes a defined checklist with assessment rating scale and three levels of impact. Evaluation of material quality is shown in the terms of percentage. After testing the tool, it could be used for course developers, program managers or other persons involved in evaluation process of e-learning resources.

scholarly journals Quality and integrity in scientific writing: prerequisites for quality in science communication

2009 ◽  
Vol 08 (02) ◽  
pp. A04 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marie-Claude Roland
Keyword(s):  
Practice Guidelines ◽  
Science Communication ◽  
Scientific Community ◽  
Good Practice ◽  
Quality Criteria ◽  
Scientific Writing ◽  
Writing Practices ◽  
Communication Practices ◽  
Explicit Criteria

Standards and Good Practice guidelines provide explicit criteria for maintaining quality and integrity in science. But research practices are now openly questioned. I defend the idea that the tension between norms and practices in scientific writing must be addressed primarily by the scientific community if quality of the sources in the process of science communication is to be guaranteed. This paper provides evidence that scientific writing and researchers’writing practices do not reflect expected quality criteria. Evidence is based on four complementary analyses of: (i) communication manuals, journals’ recommendations to authors and the norms they convey (ii) feedback given by reviewers (ii) interviews and questionnaires (iv) researchers’ written productions and writing practices. I show that researchers’ writing and communication practices are very often in total contradiction with the norms and standards the scientific community has established. Unless researchers can improve and guarantee quality and integrity of the sources, the whole system of science communication will be threatened.

Problems of Standardization and Designing Instruments of Mathematics Teachers� Professional Activities

10.12737/8539 ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 40-55 ◽  
Author(s):  
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V. Monakhov
Keyword(s):  
Mathematics Teachers ◽  
Educational Outcomes ◽  
Federal State ◽  
Module Structure ◽  
Professional Standard ◽  
Professional Activities ◽  
Educational Processes ◽  
Set Up ◽  
State Educational

The paper analyzes new types of professional activities of modern teachers, set up by the �Pedagogue� Professional Standard and the Federal State Educational Standard. Present-day teachers� work should meet such standardization requirements, as skills to design pedagogical objects and to employ pedagogical technologies; acquaintance with theories of educational processes management and ways to achieve relevant educational outcomes. The author suggests and considers the model of full-cycle technological textbook, where the above-mentioned innovative requirements get appropriate design and implementation. The tutorial shows how the overall process for developing the set of competencies, introduced by the Federal State Educational Standard of Higher Education, is modeled. The tutorial model also provides technological guidelines to monitor the quality of competences developed. Further, the paper describes the technological tutorial module structure, specifying that each module is oriented on developing certain professional competencies. Along with the tutorial the package includes DVD with the system for automatic processing of results obtained through diagnostics.

scholarly journals Community representation in hospital decision making: a literature review

2015 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 323 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zoë Murray
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Quality Of Care ◽  
Community Engagement ◽  
Good Practice ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Hospital Governance ◽  
Hospital Boards ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Community Representation

Objective Advancing quality in health services requires structures and processes that are informed by consumer input. Although this agenda is well recognised, few researchers have focussed on the establishment and maintenance of customer input throughout the structures and processes used to produce high-quality, safe care. We present an analysis of literature outlining the barriers and enablers involved in community representation in hospital governance. The review aimed to explore how community representation in hospital governance is achieved. Methods Studies spanning 1997–2012 were analysed using Donabedian’s model of quality systems as a guide for categories of interest: structure, in relation to administration of quality; process, which is particularly concerned with cooperation and culture; and outcome, considered, in this case, to be the achievement of effective community representation on quality of care. Results There are limited published studies on community representation in hospital governance in Australia. What can be gleaned from the literature is: 1) quality subcommittees set up to assist Hospital Boards are a key structure for involving community representation in decision making around quality of care, and 2) there are a number of challenges to effectively developing the process of community representation in hospital governance: ambiguity and the potential for escalated indecision; inadequate value and consideration given to it by decision makers resulting in a lack of time and resources needed to support the community engagement strategy (time, facilitation, budgets); poor support and attitude amongst staff; and consumer issues, such as feeling isolated and intimidated by expert opinion. Conclusions The analysis indicates that: quality subcommittees set up to assist boards are a key structure for involving community representation in decision making around quality of care. There are clearly a number of challenges to effectively developing the process of community representation in hospital governance, associated with ambiguity, organisational and consumer issues. For an inclusive agenda to real life, work must be done on understanding the representatives’ role and the decision making process, adequately supporting the representational process, and developing organisational cooperation and culture regarding community representation. What is known about the topic? Partnering community is recognised as a fundamental element of hospital quality improvement strategies and the implementation of the Australian agenda for advancing the quality of health service standards. It is also known that developing collaborative environments and partnerships can be a challenging process, and that it is good practice to consider the factors that will influence their success and develop an approach built on the identification of potential challenges and the incorporation of facilitators. What does this paper add? This paper draws out key obstacles that can challenge the process of involving community representation into hospital governance structures. What are the implications for practitioners? There is little published on the challenges to community engagement in the hospital governance setting. By doing this, this paper encourages the recognition that although partnering with the community is an essential aspect of achieving quality of care, it requires significant effort and support to be an effective aspect. The paper highlights challenges and facilitators that practitioners should consider if planning for successful community representation on hospital committees.

scholarly journals Focused interview according to Robert Merton: features and criteria of quality

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oleg A. Oberemko ◽  
Natalia N. Terentyeva
Keyword(s):  
Group Dynamics ◽  
Social Representations ◽  
Group Discussion ◽  
Quality Criteria ◽  
Interview Method ◽  
Personal Context ◽  
Two Phases ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Definition Of

The method of focus groups (FG) has become widespread in social studies. FG and similar terms denote a family of techniques for collecting qualitative data through a group discussion of a predetermined topic directed by a moderator. At the same time, these techniques often focus on different matters: researchers may be interested in social representations (the vocabulary of the transcripts and its structure), both about what actually (has) happened, and about the possible (what will happen, what’s to be done, how it should be); both ready-made representations and those developed in the course of group dynamics; representations both about a concrete real situation, and about an abstract one, etc. All these features should be reflected both in the instructions how to organize the data collection and in the criteria of quality of the issue. However, as we are able to see it, most methodological writings on FG prefer to take these features descriptively, with no strict and systematic operationalization into the quality criteria of the data being collected. The only exception is the pioneering writings by Robert Merton and his colleagues about a (group) focused interview (FI). The purpose of the article is to reconstruct the features of the FI method and the criteria for assessing the quality of its results in order to provide an opportunity for further systematic comparisons of various outwardly similar techniques and systematization of criteria for assessing the quality of their results. The article is devoted to a focused interview in the classic concept of Robert Merton. The specifics of a focused interview are analyzed in detail. We consider four key criteria for the effectiveness of a focused interview (completeness, specificity, depth, personal context), an attempt is made to group the criterion on two grounds. The first basis is the "quality of stimulus reflection", which includes such characteristics as completeness, specificity. The second basis is the "quality of the reflection of the stimulus image," which includes the following characteristics in Robert Merton's concept: depth, personal context. In a holistic process of focused interview, it is advisable to distinguish two phases: the phase of the organization of perception of the stimulus (situation) and the phase of reporting the results of the perception of the situation. In the phase of the organization of perception (the same) situation (the same referent), focusing (directionality) is encouraged, whereas in the phase of communicating response reactions to a single (objectively identical) stimulus, the defocusing is fundamentally encouraged for all stimuli. The author conclude that in analyzing the data of a focused interview, three components are distinguished: an objective situation, a subjective definition of the situation, reactions to the objective situation in accordance with its subjective definition. The author conclude that the "focused interview" method, with all visible pluses, has a number of limitations: (1) narrowness, in a focused interview, the most specific and specified stimulus is discussed, (2) the method is limited, a focused interview in the Mertonian sense is not applicable when discussion of topics that are not and cannot be the subject of a common, shared by all experience, (3) time constraints — the incentive can be forgotten, revised due to the passage of a large amount of time from the moment of its impact to the moment of its discussion.

scholarly journals Covering surgical instruments with single- or double-layer drape pending surgery: an experimental study in a perioperative setting

2020 ◽  
pp. 175717742097375
Author(s):  
Maria Qvistgaard ◽  
Sofia Almerud-Österberg ◽  
Jenny Lovebo
Keyword(s):  
Double Layer ◽  
Good Practice ◽  
Agar Plate ◽  
Single Layer ◽  
Surgical Site Infections ◽  
Surgical Instruments ◽  
Colony Forming Units ◽  
Key Factor ◽  
Set Up

Background: Surgical site infections (SSI) constitute a severe threat to surgery patients. The surgical environment must be as free of contaminating microorganisms as possible. Using sterile surgical instruments while performing surgery is an absolute necessity for ensuring quality of care in perioperative settings. Aim: To compare bacterial contamination of agar plates after 15 h on set surgical instrument tables covered with a single- or double-layer drape. Methods: An experimental design was used consisting of set instrument tables with six agar plates on each table: four instrument tables were covered with a single-layer drape and four instrument tables were covered with a double-layer drape. This set-up was repeated on nine occasions during the period of data collection, making 76 set instrument tables in total. As a control, one instrument table was uncovered on four of those occasions. Results: The double-layer drape cover showed a significantly ( P = 0.03) lower number of colony forming units (CFU) per agar plate than the single-layer drape covering. As expected, the uncovered instrument tables were highly contaminated. Discussion: Our results indicate that it is good practice to cover instruments properly with at least a single-layer drape before a surgical procedure. If there is difficulty achieving optimal conditions while setting the instrument tables (e.g. positioning the patient for general anaesthesia), it is a better option to set the instrument tables earlier and cover them with a double-layer drape. These precautions will help protect the patient from harm and unnecessary SSI by lowering microbiological burden, a key factor in developing SSI.

scholarly journals Factors Determining the Success in Self-Evaluation of General Education School: The Case of Lithuania

Pedagogika ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 137 (1) ◽  
pp. 105-116
Author(s):  
Jelizaveta Tumlovskaja ◽  
Romas Prakapas
Keyword(s):  
General Education ◽  
Organizational Development ◽  
Good Practice ◽  
Evaluation Process ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Self Evaluation ◽  
Response To Change

The self-evaluation of the quality of activities in general education schools in Lithuania was started in 2002. A number of scientific studies have been carried out during the process of design and application of quality self-evaluation tools; however, research showed that the essence of quality self-evaluation processes was not always understood. Meanwhile, there are examples of good practice in Lithuania that have been identified with an external quality evaluation of the schools. Therefore, this article addresses to the problem of the factors that determine the success of self-evaluation of quality in general education schools. The article is based on a case study strategy. Classical and content analysis methods were used to process the research data. The study concludes that the key factors of the success of quality self-evaluation in schools consist of a well-organized self-evaluation process, timely use of self-evaluation data, and an impact on organizational development in response to change challenges. Factors identified with the study are related to clear management decisions related to planning, responsible involvement of all community members, and integration of internal processes focusing on the challenges of educational process change. This helps to clearly understand the mission of the organization, and also provides a great foundation for the leadership of every member of the community and contributes to the development of their professional competencies.

The Vietnamese Version of the Health-related Quality of Life Measure for Children with Epilepsy (CHEQOL-25): Reliability

MedPharmRes ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-14
Author(s):  
Tri Doan ◽  
Tuan Tran ◽  
Han Nguyen ◽  
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◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Good Practice ◽  
The Self ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Health Related Quality ◽  
Life Measure ◽  
Related Quality ◽  
Health Related ◽  
Parent Proxy

Purpose: This study aimed to translate and culturally adapt the self-report and parent-proxy Health-Related Quality of Life Measure for Children with Epilepsy (CHEQOL-25) into Vietnamese and to evaluate their reliability. Methods: Both English versions of the self-report and parent-proxy CHEQOL-25 were translated and culturally adapted into Vietnamese by using the Principles of Good Practice for the Translation and Cultural Adaptation Process. The Vietnamese versions were scored by 77 epileptic patients, who aged 8–15 years, and their parents/caregivers at neurology outpatient clinic of Children Hospital No. 2 – Ho Chi Minh City. Reliability of the questionnaires was determined by using Cronbach’s coefficient α and intra-class correlation coefficient (ICC). Results: Both Vietnamese versions of the self-report and parent-proxy CHEQOL-25 were shown to be consistent with the English ones, easy to understand for Vietnamese children and parents. Thus, no further modification was required. Cronbach’s α coefficient for each subscale of the Vietnamese version of the self-report and parent-proxy CHEQOL-25 was 0.65 to 0.86 and 0.83 to 0.86, respectively. The ICC for each subscale of the self-report and parent-proxy CHEQOL-25 was in the range of 0.61 to 0.86 and 0.77 to 0.98, respectively. Conclusion: The Vietnamese version of the self-report and parent-proxy CHEQOL-25 were the first questionnaires about quality of life of epileptic children in Vietnam. This Vietnamese version was shown to be reliable to assess the quality of life of children with epilepsy aged 8–15 years.

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