The touch-screen mode of administration can be a feasible and suitable alternative to the paper-and-pencil mode for assessment of patient-reported outcomes in patients with prostate cancer.
The interest in assessment for learning (AfL) has resulted in a search for new modes of assessment that are better aligned to students' learning how to learn.
While this study provides interesting insights into resident perceptions of the OSCE as a mode of assessment for procedural skills, perhaps the most enlightening comments from participants were their reflections on the acquisition of procedural skills.
Millecamps et al. [ 9] advocated the testing of spontaneous behaviors in rats with chronic inflammation as a new mode for global assessment of well-being in preclinical studies.
The use of ultrasound (brightness mode (B-mode) and motion mode (M-mode)) for the assessment of pneumothorax has been extensively studied in the ED and other acute care settings [ 3– 5].
The difference between modalities may, however, be less pronounced in the general practice setting where responses to either mode of assessment have potential repercussions; for example, are recorded in patient notes.
None of the endoscopic scoring systems take these factors into consideration but clearly the mode of assessment needs to be recorded for subsequent comparisons.
Finally, for KSPH, DRC, MakSPH, Uganda, and SPHUoN, Kenya, were at 30% for formative to 70% summative, indicating a more traditional mode of assessment.
Our results confirm the utility of FCSS for assessment of modes of reproduction (Matzk et al., 2000; Matzk, 2007; Hörandl et al., 2008).
This ratio is informative about reproductive pathways and has been used in numerous studies for assessment of modes of reproduction and quantification of progeny (Matzk et al., 2000; Cáceres et al., 2001; Barcaccia et al., 2006, 2007; Krahulcová and Suda, 2006; Hufft Kao, 2007; Matzk, 2007; Talent and Dickinson, 2007; Voigt et al., 2007; Hörandl et al., 2008).
