scholarly journals Survey the Researches of "Programming Curriculum" and Evaluation with Outcome Criterion

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (5) ◽  
pp. 235-244
Author(s):  
JiSoo Kim ◽  
JeongAh Kim
Keyword(s):  
Outcome Criterion

Development of Faculty Course Assessment Reports for ME Program ABET Accreditation

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shanzhong Shawn Duan ◽  
Kurt Bassett
Keyword(s):  
Student Performance ◽  
Assessment Tool ◽  
Program Assessment ◽  
Program Outcomes ◽  
Engineering Programs ◽  
Course Assessment ◽  
Course Objectives ◽  
Program Outcome ◽  
Outcome Criterion ◽  
Assessment Reports

The assessment of program outcomes for ABET accreditation has become a challenge for engineering programs nationwide. Various methods and approaches have been investigated to develop good practices for program assessment. At South Dakota State University (SDSU), an approach called Faculty Course Assessment Reports (FCAR) has been explored for mechanical engineering (ME) program assessment. FCAR provides an assessment tool to correlate the ME program outcomes with the outcomes of the core ME courses, and to evaluate student performance at the course level based on ABET outcome criterion. This process begins with the development of course objectives and outcomes. Then these course objectives and outcomes are directly mapped with the ME program objectives and outcomes respectively. Further the quantitative and qualitative details generated in the FCAR are lined up directly to ABET program outcome a to k criterion through FCAR rubrics. By use of the FCAR process, all ME program outcomes are evaluated at the course level based on the ABET program outcomes. The assessment results are being used for improvement of the ME curriculum. The process was developed to provide an effective tool for the ME program outcome assessment at the course level with reasonable effort.

Quality of life in terminally ill patients – a challenge for future research

2013 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Cornelia Meffert ◽  
Gerhild Becker
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Palliative Care ◽  
Clinical Studies ◽  
Palliative Medicine ◽  
Pain Therapy ◽  
Unsolved Problem ◽  
Terminally Ill ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Outcome Criterion

SummaryRecent statistics reveal a substantial and even growing need for palliative care in present-day society. Providing adequate pain therapy remains a largely unsolved problem, mainly because of the small number of clinical studies in palliative medicine. Hence, clinical research is urgently needed – and therefore suitable tools to measure outcomes must be developed. Contrary to typical clinical studies, the usual outcome parameters such as decreased mortality and/or morbidity are unsuitable. Future research should focus on developing an instrument which allows to measure quality of life as the central outcome criterion of clinical studies in palliative medicine.

scholarly journals The assessment of quality of life in clinical practice in patients with schizophrenia

2014 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 185-195 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Clinical Practice ◽  
Negative Symptoms ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Affective Symptoms ◽  
Outcome Criterion ◽  
Pubmed Search

The aim of the present article is to review QoL scales used in studies investigating patients with schizophrenia over the past 5 years, and to summarize the results of QoL assessment in clinical practice in these patients. Literature available from January 2009 to December 2013 was identified in a PubMed search using the key words "quality of life" and "schizophrenia" and in a cross-reference search for articles that were particularly relevant. A total of n=432 studies used 35 different standardized generic and specific QoL scales in patients with schizophrenia. Affective symptoms were major obstacles for QoL improvement in patients with schizophrenia. Though positive symptoms, negative symptoms, and cognitive functioning may be seen as largely independent parameters from subjective QoL, especially in cross-sectional trials, long-term studies confirmed a critical impact of early QoL improvement on long-term symptomatic and functional remission, as well as of early symptomatic response on long-term QoL. Results of the present review suggest that QoL is a valid and useful outcome criterion in patients with schizophrenia. As such, it should be consistently applied in clinical trials. Understanding the relationship between symptoms and functioning with QoL is important because interventions that focus on symptoms of psychosis or functioning alone may fail to improve subjective QoL to the same level. However, the lack of consensus on QoL scales hampers research on its predictive validity. Future research needs to find a consensus on the concept and measures of QoL and to test whether QoL predicts better outcomes with respect to remission and recovery under consideration of different treatment approaches in patients with schizophrenia.

Maternal Satisfaction as an Outcome Criterion in Research on Labor Analgesia

2015 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 235-246 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian Dualé ◽  
Aurélie Nicolas-Courbon ◽  
Laurent Gerbaud ◽  
Didier Lemery ◽  
Martine Bonnin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Labor Analgesia ◽  
Maternal Satisfaction ◽  
Outcome Criterion

Knowing that Versus Knowing How

1987 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 320-331 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samuel D. Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Culturally Diverse ◽  
Evaluation Criteria ◽  
Multicultural Training ◽  
Diverse Populations ◽  
Intercultural Effectiveness ◽  
Knowing How ◽  
Knowing That ◽  
Outcome Criterion ◽  
Culturally Diverse Populations ◽  
And Training

Methods of training counselors and others for intercultural effectiveness are examined as a vehicle for addressing the question of how cultural expertise is utilized in multicultural training. The notion of expertise is explored as a content issue and an outcome criterion in efforts to train counselors to be more widely effective with culturally diverse populations. Operational concepts of expertise are illustrated and suggested as evaluation criteria in research and training for intercultural effectiveness in counseling.

scholarly journals Patients' views of involuntary hospital admission after 1 and 3 months: prospective study in 11 European countries

2010 ◽  
Vol 196 (3) ◽  
pp. 179-185 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefan Priebe ◽  
Christina Katsakou ◽  
Matthias Glöckner ◽  
Algirdas Dembinskas ◽  
Andrea Fiorillo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Hospital Admission ◽  
Prospective Study ◽  
Psychiatric Hospital ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Living Alone ◽  
Confounding Factors ◽  
International Differences ◽  
Outcome Criterion ◽  
Involuntary Hospitalisation ◽  
A Prospective Study

BackgroundLegislation and practice of involuntary hospital admission vary substantially among European countries, but differences in outcomes have not been studied.AimsTo explore patients' views following involuntary hospitalisation in different European countries.MethodIn a prospective study in 11 countries, 2326 consecutive involuntary patients admitted to psychiatric hospital departments were interviewed within 1 week of admission; 1809 were followed up 1 month and 1613 3 months later. Patients' views as to whether the admission was right were the outcome criterion.ResultsIn the different countries, between 39 and 71% felt the admission was right after 1 month, and between 46 and 86% after 3 months. Females, those living alone and those with a diagnosis of schizophrenia had more negative views. Adjusting for confounding factors, differences between countries were significant.ConclusionsInternational differences in legislation and practice may be relevant to outcomes and inform improvements in policies, particularly in countries with poorer outcomes.

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