Using a variety of approaches, I work to characterize student conceptions, design assessment instruments to help instructors diagnose confusions and assess instructional approaches, and assess the effectiveness of computer-based instruction in evolution.
Recently in the New York Times, Professor Sonja Starr defended Attorney General Eric Holder's expressed hesitation about relying on risk assessment instruments to assist at sentencing, arguing that sentences based on such instruments are probably unconstitutional and likely to be discriminatory.
Whether the use of risk assessment instruments to inform sentencing decisions exacerbates, ameliorates, or has no effect on existing racial and socioeconomic disparities is an open question — one that we can and should address with research.
The different socio-health care programs have designed different assessment instruments to measure the needs of health care of elderly persons, and within these, there is also the concern for quality measurement.
There is a need for screening and brief assessment instruments to identify primary care patients with substance use problems.
Aggressive programing must start on day one, Schriro insisted, explaining that what is needed is "a system of objective or science-based assessment instruments to best determine the risk of return and needs of each individual that comes into the jail". In the past, she said, a self-evaluation was taken and a uniform set of programs might have been offered.
Based on a reflection of Uitterhoeve and colleagues [ 27] we aim to adapt our assessment instruments to the teaching content of our training.
