Little change (41% to 43%) in the proportion of Canadian physiotherapists using "published measurement scales" was reported by Kay et al. [ 17] after physiotherapists were surveyed in 1992 and 1998, despite the publication of a battery of rehabilitation instruments and introductory outcome measures workshops.
Another way may be to focus on protection against passive smoking as an introductory activity, thereby encouraging measures to reduce opportunities to smoke before a more strict smoking ban could be applied.
Throughout one semester of introductory biology, the authors measured the effects of their new textbook on the students by comparing students in the revised course with students in two sections using a traditional text (Barsoum et al., 2013).
But the way excellence will be measured after the introductory three years is uncertain, and that could have implications for the role of universities as vehicles of social mobility.
The students were novices in the genomics field as measured by an introductory quiz of the students' knowledge (Additional file 1: Table S2).
During this introductory exercise, blood pressure was measured after every weightlifting series at each machine to detect potential blood pressure peaks.
Some of the measures taken, such as introductory material (e.g., advance letter, brochure) or the use of incentives (Martin et al. 2014; Zabal et al. 2014), addressed the respondent directly.
The impact of redesigning our introductory biology course for majors was measured by comparing pre/posttest exam scores as well as grade distributions and student satisfaction.
This paper is an introductory prospect and experiment of generated force measuring of applying two-phase nozzle and an impulse turbine design for trilateral flash cycle heat engine.
One hundred and forty-five college students (74% female; mean age = 19) from three sections of introductory psychology taught by JG completed all measures during the course of a semester.
The Physics Force Concept Inventory (FCI; Hestenes, 1992) is generally acknowledged as the first of these assessments used to provide instructors with a measure of student conceptual understanding in introductory mechanics courses.
