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Identifying low test-taking effort during low-stakes tests with the new Test-taking Effort Short Scale (TESS) - development

Identifying low test-taking effort during low-stakes tests with the new Test-taking Effort Short Scale (TESS) - development and psychometrics: "Low-stakes tests are becoming increasingly important in international assessments of educational progress, and the validity of these results is essential especially...
Source: biomedcentral.com

www.bmj.com | 521: Web server is down

www.bmj.com | 521: Web server is down
Source: bmj.com

Everything You Wanted to Know About Lava Flows - The Scholarly Kitchen: Geologist Jerry Magloughlin looks at the different

Everything You Wanted to Know About Lava Flows - The Scholarly Kitchen: Geologist Jerry Magloughlin looks at the different ways that lava flows.
Source: sspnet.org

Why There Are No Bosses at Valve - that is what you need if you want to have a creative and agile business. Hire the right

Why There Are No Bosses at Valve - that is what you need if you want to have a creative and agile business. Hire the right people and give them 6 months to adjust. An article from 2012 on Valve Software—"the company behind the Half-Life, Counter-Strike, and Portal video game series—released its...
Source: bloomberg.com

France to ban all oil, gas production by 2040: French President Emmanuel Macron said he's "very proud that France has become

France to ban all oil, gas production by 2040: French President Emmanuel Macron said he's "very proud that France has become the first country to ban new oil exploration licenses"
Source: cbsnews.com

Special Report: Top Tech 2018: Here are some of the technologies you’ll be reading about this year

Special Report: Top Tech 2018: Here are some of the technologies you’ll be reading about this year
Source: ieee.org

Facebook’s News Feed Algorithm Is Completely Busted: Facebook serves many useful functions. It helps you set up events,

Facebook’s News Feed Algorithm Is Completely Busted: Facebook serves many useful functions. It helps you set up events, send messages to friends and family, and even organize groups. These are all side benefits, though. The main feature—the real thing Facebook wants to sell you—is the News Feed....
Source: reviewgeek.com

2018 eLearning Predictions: Updated Hype Curve - Web Courseworks: "The annual Hype Curve evaluation each year is to speak

2018 eLearning Predictions: Updated Hype Curve - Web Courseworks: "The annual Hype Curve evaluation each year is to speak from our experience as a learning technology partner to organizations that provide continuing education and professional development. We use our knowledge of practical use cases to...
Source: webcourseworks.com

Robotic Pelvic Assist Device Helps Parkinson’s Patients Improve Their Stability While Walking |: Researchers at Columbia

Robotic Pelvic Assist Device Helps Parkinson’s Patients Improve Their Stability While Walking |: Researchers at Columbia University have developed a system called the Tethered Pelvic Assist Device (TPAD), which can help Parkinson’s patients to improve
Source: medgadget.com

MedEdPublish Article: Using the Smiley Faces task to teach the fundamentals for good clinical trials Helen McAneney. Lisa

MedEdPublish Article: Using the Smiley Faces task to teach the fundamentals for good clinical trials Helen McAneney. Lisa Maguire. Mike Clarke. MedEdPublish.
Source: mededpublish.org

The state of medical education and practice in the UK. GMC's SoMEP 2017 report raises four concerns. The supply of new

The state of medical education and practice in the UK. GMC's SoMEP 2017 report raises four concerns. The supply of new doctors into the UK medical workforce has not kept pace with changes in demand Our dependence on non-UK qualified doctors has increased in some specialties The UK is at risk of becoming...
Source: gmc-uk.org

Content validation of an interprofessional learning video peer assessment tool: Large scale models of interprofessional

Content validation of an interprofessional learning video peer assessment tool: Large scale models of interprofessional learning (IPL) where outcomes are assessed are rare within health professional curricula. To date, there is sparse research describing robust assessment strategies to support such activities....
Source: biomedcentral.com


Source: arxiv.org

An Implementation Guide to Reducing Overtreatment of Asymptomatic Bacteriuria: This article proposes an evidence-based implementation

An Implementation Guide to Reducing Overtreatment of Asymptomatic Bacteriuria: This article proposes an evidence-based implementation guide to aid clinicians in reducing inappropriate treatment of asymptomatic bacteriuria. Michael Daniel. Sara Keller. Mohammad Mozafarihashjin. Amit Pahwa. Christine Soong....
Source: jamanetwork.com

APOD: 2017 December 10 - In Green Company: Aurora over Norway

APOD: 2017 December 10 - In Green Company: Aurora over Norway
Source: nasa.gov

Bronze Age iron: Meteoritic or not? A chemical strategy. Journal of Archaeological Science.

Bronze Age iron: Meteoritic or not? A chemical strategy. Journal of Archaeological Science.
Source: sciencedirect.com

The Strange Art of Writing App Release Notes: What makes a great release note, according to the authors

The Strange Art of Writing App Release Notes: What makes a great release note, according to the authors
Source: ieee.org

Team-based learning (TBL) in the medical curriculum: better than PBL?: Internationally, medical schools have long used a

Team-based learning (TBL) in the medical curriculum: better than PBL?: Internationally, medical schools have long used a variety of approaches to develop hybrid Problem based learning (PBL) curricula. However, Team-based learning (TBL), has gained recent popularity in medical education. TBL maintains...
Source: biomedcentral.com

Early phase drug trial claims a breakthrough in Huntington disease. IONIS-HTT is an antisense "gene-silencing" compound,

Early phase drug trial claims a breakthrough in Huntington disease. IONIS-HTT is an antisense "gene-silencing" compound, injected in to CSF and designed to reduce the production of all forms of the huntingtin (HTT) protein, which in its mutated variant (mHTT) is responsible for Huntington's Disease....
Source: reuters.com

DeepMind AI needs mere 4 hours of self-training to become a chess overlord: AlphaGo Zero needed three days to train up in

DeepMind AI needs mere 4 hours of self-training to become a chess overlord: AlphaGo Zero needed three days to train up in Go; AlphaZero needed just eight hours.
Source: arstechnica.com