Search results for "ASSESSMENT"

Adaptation and Measurement Invariance by Gender of the Flourishing Scale in a Colombian Sample

2021

There is increasing interest in the study of flourishing as an indicator of subjective wellbeing. The objective herein was to adapt and study the psychometric properties of Diener’s Flourishing Scale (FS) among the Colombian population. Accordingly, a cross-sectional study was conducted with a non-probability sample of 1255 Colombian adults. The scale’s structure, invariance by gender, and convergent and concurrent validity were studied from a confirmatory perspective using structural equation models. The confirmatory factor analysis showed excellent fit indicators for the one-dimensional structure (CFI = 0.985, RMSEA = 0.039, SRMR = 0.020) as well as for the convergent (CFI = 0.909, RMSEA …

Safety of Dietary Guanidinoacetic Acid: A Villain of a Good Guy?

2021

Guanidinoacetic acid (GAA) is a natural amino acid derivative that is well-recognized for its central role in the biosynthesis of creatine, an essential compound involved in cellular energy metabolism. GAA (also known as glycocyamine or betacyamine) has been investigated as an energy-boosting dietary supplement in humans for more than 70 years. GAA is suggested to effectively increase low levels of tissue creatine and improve clinical features of cardiometabolic and neurological diseases, with GAA often outcompeting traditional bioenergetics agents in maintaining ATP status during stress. This perhaps happens due to a favorable delivery of GAA through specific membrane transporters (such as…

Evaluation of the risk factors of asymptomatic vertebral fractures in postmenopausal women with osteopenia at the femoral neck

2016

To identify risk factors of asymptomatic vertebral fracture (aVF) in postmenopausal women with osteopenia at the femoral neck and to evaluate the association between the number of aVFs and the risk of major and hip osteoporotic fracture calculated with the FRAX(®) algorithm.Epidemiological case-series study with data collected transversally.728 postmenopausal women with osteopenia were included: 284 (39.0%) had aVF, of whom 200 (70.4%) had prior fragility fractures (FF). The likelihood of having an osteoporotic fracture in the next 10 years increased significantly with the number of aVF. The percentage of women with height loss, which was assessed as the difference between the greatest heig…

Efficacia del tirocinio per lo sviluppo di consapevolezza critica in futuri insegnanti di sostegno

2018

Nel presente contributo sono analizzati e discussi gli esiti di un percorso di tirocinio organizzato presso l’Università di Palermo per la specializzazione all’insegnamento di sostegno nella scuola primaria e dell’infanzia. La proposta formativa, realizzata da settembre 2017 a giugno 2018, ha mirato allo sviluppo di abilità di pensiero critico in 450 insegnanti in formazione. Abbiamo ipotizzato che attraverso le attività di progettazione didattica, di valutazione e di riflessione sulla pratica sperimentata in classe, avrebbero migliorato le capacità critiche previste all’interno di un modello definito ed essenziale per la competenza professionale del docente. I risultati mostrano un’interes…

"The thing… is kinda complicated" : What and how do you assess in CLIL?

2021

“Every teacher is a language teacher” has almost become a mantra in educational systems throughout the world. However, what does it mean in practice? If language learning and teaching is a part of any classroom, how do you teach and assess both content and language simultaneously? This question inspired a collaboration of teachers and researchers from all around the world which we reflect on in this paper. nonPeerReviewed

A convergent validity test within the payment card format using simulation techniques

2019

International audience; A convergent validity test is performed between two groups of versions of the payment card format. The first group, the classic payment card (CPC), asks respondents to report their willingness to pay (WTP) as a point from a list of amounts, and then treats each WTP response as an interval. The second group generates WTP data that may contain both single point and interval values. It includes the two-way-payment ladder (TWPL) (respondents have to tick amounts they would definitely pay and cross amounts they would definitely not pay), and point-interval payment card (PIPC) (respondents have to tick their WTP as either a point or an interval). The test is conducted usin…

Innovació en la manera d'avaluar de treballs en grup per motivar l'atenció dels alumnes

2014

En el nou escenari educatiu de l'Espai Europeu d'Educació Superior (EEES) cobra gran rellevància l'aprenentatge dels alumnes alhora que desenvolupen competències que els ajudin en el seu futur exercici professional. Entre aquestes habilitats es troben la capacitat de treball en equip i la capacitat d'exposar els resultats d'aquest treball d'una manera clara, concisa i rigorós. Per això el professor ha d'incentivar als alumnes a que es prenguin aquesta activitat amb la suficient motivació i fomentant la dedicació de la mateixa. Tradicionalment, l'exposició d'aquests treballs només interessava als propis membres del grup mentre que els seus companys veien aquesta activitat de forma passiva qu…

Shared Situational Awareness in a Professional Soccer Team: An Explorative Analysis of Post-Performance Interviews

2020

Sport science research has done little to elaborate on the cognitive factors that turn a collection of individual players into a coordinated elite team. The purpose of this paper is to clarify if the players and coach of an elite soccer team express shared situational awareness. Ten players and one coach were exposed to twelve video pictures from a previous soccer match, and their statements for each picture were recorded and analyzed using a qualitative approach. Two of five game situations were with ball possession and three out of seven were without ball possession

Un possibile approccio "Social LCA" per le coperture a verde

2010

Assessment and strengthening of reinforced concrete bridges with half-joint deterioration

2022

Existing Niagara-type concrete cantilever bridges, which in Italy are called Gerber bridges, suffer from degradation due to reinforcement corrosion and a consequent reduced load-bearing capacity. The assessment of these structures is therefore an important part of the procedures for analyzing the state of existing bridges and any interventions required for their retrofitting. In particular, safety against failure of the half-joint must be evaluated with respect to the behavior of the entire bridge and its state of conservation, determining what the conditions are that lead to failure, in terms of loads, state of stress, and possibly cracking state. This evaluation has to be carried out cons…