A avaliação institucional como instrumento de gestão e consolidação do projeto pedagógico institucional na educação superior

O presente artigo relata evidências a partir dos processos de avaliações externas que demonstram o quanto a avaliação institucional subsidia a gestão e a consolidação dos Projetos Pedagógicos Institucionais nas IES. Aborda as possibilidades de articulação entre a autoavaliação e o planejamento institucional, mediante processos de regulação e/ou emancipação. Trata-se de um relato de experiência, fundamentado nas avaliações in loco vivenciadas pelas pesquisadoras como avaliadoras ad hoc do INEP-MEC. O estudo traz breves considerações acerca das percepções das avaliadoras sobre a concepção e prática da avaliação institucional, o que implica afirmar que neste processo evidencia-se ainda práticas mais voltadas para a regulação do que a emancipação. This article reports evidence from external evaluation processes that demonstrate how institutional evaluation subsidizes the management and consolidation of Institutional Pedagogical Projects in HEIs. It approaches the possibilities of articulation between self-assessment and institutional planning, through processes of regulation and/or emancipation. This is an experience report, based on the on-site evaluations experienced by the researchers as ad hoc evaluators for INEP-MEC. The study brings brief considerations about the perceptions of the evaluators on the conception and practice of institutional assessment, which implies affirming that in this process it is still evident practices more focused on regulation than emancipation.

Grey wolf optimization algorithm for hierarchical document clustering

In data mining, the application of grey wolf optimization (GWO) algorithm has been used in several learning approaches because of its simplicity in adapting to different application domains. Most recent works that concern unsupervised learning have focused on text clustering, where the GWO algorithm shows promising results. Although GWO has great potential in performing text clustering, it has limitations in dealing with outlier documents and noise data. This research introduces medoid GWO (M-GWO) algorithm, which incorporates a medoid recalculation process to share the information of medoids among the three best wolves and the rest of the population. This improvement aims to find the best set of medoids during the algorithm run and increases the exploitation search to find more local regions in the search space. Experimental results obtained from using well-known algorithms, such as genetic, firefly, GWO, and k-means algorithms, in four benchmarks. The results of external evaluation metrics, such as rand, purity, F-measure, and entropy, indicates that the proposed M-GWO algorithm achieves better document clustering than all other algorithms (i.e., 75% better when using Rand metric, 50% better than all algorithm based on purity metric, 75% better than all algorithms using F-measure metric, and 100% based on entropy metric).

Global Health Security Preparedness and Response: An Analysis of the Relationship between Joint External Evaluation Scores and COVID-19 Response Performance

ObjectivesThe COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the importance and complexity of a country’s ability to effectively respond. The Joint External Evaluation (JEE) assessment was launched in 2016 to assess a country’s ability to prevent, detect and respond to public health emergencies. We examined whether JEE indicators could be used to predict a country’s COVID-19 response performance to tailor a country’s support more effectively.DesignFrom April to August 2020, we conducted interviews with Centers for Disease Control and Prevention country offices that requested COVID-19 support and previously completed the JEE (version 1.0). We used an assessment tool, the ‘Emergency Response Capacity Tool’ (ERCT), to assess COVID-19 response performance. We analysed 28 ERCT indicators aligned with eight JEE indicators to assess concordance and discordance using strict agreement and weighted kappa statistics. Generalised estimating equation (GEE) models were used to generate predicted probabilities for ERCT scores using JEE scores as the independent model variable.ResultsTwenty-three countries met inclusion criteria. Of the 163 indicators analysed, 42.3% of JEE and ERCT scores were in agreement (p value=0.02). The JEE indicator with the highest agreement (62%) was ‘Emergency Operations Center (EOC) operating procedures and plans’, while the lowest (16%) was ‘capacity to activate emergency operations’. Findings were consistent with weighted kappa statistics. In the GEE model, EOC operating procedures and plans had the highest predicted probability (0.86), while indicators concerning response strategy and coordination had the lowest (≤0.5).ConclusionsOverall, there was low agreement between JEE scores and COVID-19 response performance, with JEE scores often trending higher. JEE indicators concerning coordination and operations were least predictive of COVID-19 response performance, underscoring the importance of not inferring country response readiness from JEE scores alone. More in-depth country-specific investigations are likely needed to accurately estimate response capacity and tailor countries’ global health security activities.

Criterial framework for internal and external evaluation of the form tutor’s activity

Introduction. In modern conditions, the problem of setting the criteria for evaluating the effectiveness of the form tutors’ activity is becoming relevant in virtue of the importance of education and the absence of a unified methodology and techniques for evaluating the efficiency of the form tutor’s activity. The purpose of the study is to develop and substantiate the criterial framework for evaluating the efficiency of the form tutor’s activity. Materials and methods. A total of 230 form tutors from educational organisations representing 7 regions of the Russian Federation took part in the survey. The service record of 54% of the respondents was over 20 years, 30% – 11 to 20 years and 16% – less than 10 years. Methods: the key theoretical methods were system analysis, synthesis and generalisation of scholarly literature on the problem of developing the criteria and efficiency parameters of the form tutor’s activity, modelling the criterial framework of evaluation. The following was used as the main empirical methods: questioning of form tutors, method of observation, expert examination of the developed criterial framework. Results. A criterial framework for evaluation of efficiency of the form tutor’s activity, based on the selected theoretical and methodological foundations, was developed, being structured as three blocks: personality, process and efficiency. Certain criteria and of efficiency indicators were selected for each block with regard for the key invariant directions of the form tutor’s activity: work with the learner’s personality, learners’ stream, parents, subject teachers, social partners. It was revealed as a result of the empirical research that the most important component in the developed criterial framework, according to 41% of the respondents, is the efficiency block; it is followed in importance by the process block (39%) and the personality block (20%). The necessity to include invariant directions of the form tutor’s activity in each block was noted by 75% of the respondents. The rating results on the each block criteria showed that 67% of the respondents noted the foremost importance, when considering the processual aspect, of the criterion “Organisation and facilitation activity aimed at education and socialisation of learners in cooperation with all actors of the educational process” (KP-4); when considering the personality aspect, 75% of the respondents placed the criterion “Competence in organisational and pedagogical support of educational process” (KL-4) at the top. When assessing the criteria of the efficiency block, the respondents’ rating showed that 72% and 87% of the form tutors placed the criteria “level of cohesion of children’s team, parents, teachers, the staff, the level of development of children and adult community” (KR-6) and “level of learners’ mature experience as based on the system of values inherent in a Russian citizen” (KR-7), on the first place. Conclusions. The obtained results confirm the importance and necessity of creating a criterial framework that acts as an evaluation matrix of the form tutor’s activity efficiency. The personality, processes and efficiency aspects forming its basis take into account the complex of the form tutor’s invariant activity. The further research will be connected with the creation of methods for assessing efficiency of the form tutor’s activity and those related with automation of this process.

Improvement of Minimum KIA Service Standards through Participation of Health Care Community Groups, Lumajang District

The Community Cares for Health or abbreviated as KMPK is a forum that is an important slice of thepuzzle of an embodiment of governance in the health sector. The main idea is to provide a facilitatorbetween the service provider (supply side) and the service user (demand side) to create an increasein the quality of health services at the Public health services, especially during the pandemic. Thepurpose of the study: to improve services at the Public Health Center during the pandemic with theKMPK innovation. Research method: is descriptive through the KMPK program in 2020 internalevaluation indicators and external evaluation indicators). Results: there was an increase in Publichealth services activities throughout Lumajang Regency from before and after 2020. The increase inactivities assessed from an internal evaluation by the KMPK towards JPP and Rekomtek (coveringthe achievement of the realization of the Service Improvement Promise, the number of publiccomplaints, problems, and obstacles as well as solutions that have been implemented) taken). Meanwhile, the external evaluation was carried out by the Health Office using the Meeting method to evaluate the activities that had been carried out and the obstacles faced as well as the selected alternative solutions (including childbirth by health workers and births by traditional birth attendants, IMD achievements and exclusive breastfeeding achievements, Community Satisfaction Index). Conclusion: Through this KMPK innovation, provides significant added value to the improvement/improvement of services at Public health services throughout Lumajang Regency quickly, precisely, and according to community expectations.

Reply to Baklouti et al., “Why Is It Desirable To Do the External Evaluation of a Population Pharmacokinetic Model?”

We thank Baklouti et al. (1) for commenting on our population pharmacokinetic study of dalbavancin for optimal treatment of adult patients with staphylococcal osteoarticular infections (2) and for suggesting that our model tends to underestimate the concentrations observed in a group of French patients (French group).…

The Elderly Nutritional Index for Geriatric Malnutrition Assessment (ENIGMA): concurrent, construct and predictive validity in an external evaluation cohort of community-dwelling older persons

We previously developed a malnutrition risk index, the Elderly Nutritional Index for Geriatric Malnutrition Assessment (ENIGMA) with good predictive accuracy for mortality risk in an original population cohort (SLAS1). Herein, we further evaluate the concurrent and predictive validity of the ENIGMA construct in an external validation cohort (SLAS-2) of 2824 community-dwelling older adults aged 55+. They were assessed on the ENIGMA index, Mini Nutritional Assessment-Short Form (MNA-SF) and the Geriatric Nutritional Risk Index (GNRI), known correlates of malnutrition, and baseline and follow-up functional dependency and 10-year mortality risk. Higher ENIGMA risk categories were significantly associated (p<0.001) with lower education, living alone, smoking, low physical activity, BMI <18.5kg/m2, poorer muscle strength and functional mobility, exhaustion, physical frailty, homocysteine, eGFR, haemoglobin, red and white blood cell counts, platelets, systemic inflammation indexes, metabolic syndrome, cardiovascular disease, cognitive impairment and depressive symptoms (GDS≥5). ENIGMA scores showed statistically significant (p<0.001) correlations but low-to-moderate concordance with MNA-SF (r=0.148, agreement=45.9%, kappa=0.085) and GNRI scores (r=0.156, agreement=45.8%, kappa=0.096). Controlling for known correlates of malnutrition, only high-risk ENIGMA among the indexes significantly predicted baseline functional dependency (OR=1.64, 95%CI 1.01-2.65) and mortality (HR=1.65 (95%CI 1.04, 2.62). ENIGMA marginally out-performed MNA-SF and GNRI in predicting baseline functional dependency (AUC: 0.625 vs 0.584 vs 0.526), follow up functional dependency (AUC: 0.594 vs 0.525 vs 0.479) and 10-year mortality risk (AUC: 0.641 vs 0.596 vs 0.595). The concurrent and predictive validity of the ENIGMA construct is replicated in an external evaluation study of community-dwelling older persons.

Nutzungsstatistiken von linguistischen Online-Ressourcen: Potentiale und Limitationen

Dictionary usage research views dictionaries primarily as tools for solving linguistic problems. A large proportion of dictionary use now takes place online and can thus be easily monitored using tracking technologies. Using the data gathered through tracking usage data, we hope to optimize user experiences of dictionaries and other linguistic resources. Usage statistics are also used for external evaluation of linguistic resources. In this paper, we pursue the following three questions from a quantitative perspective: (1) What new insights can we gain from collecting and analysing usage data? (2) What limitations of the data and/or the collection process do we need to be aware of? (3) How can these insights and limitations inform the development and evaluation of linguistic resources?