17 18 This could be improved by molecular biomarkers that could provide more objective scores and cut-off values.
Nearly all studies describing communication skills training include role playing [ 5]; however, neither the reliability of perceived self-efficacy nor the correlation between self-efficacy scores and more objective scores are known.
It also offers a more objective EMT scoring in vitro as opposed to estimations by visual inspection or marker assessment.
Our study would have benefited from a more objective cough score as opposed to a subjective scoring system that has not undergone extensive validation.
Although ants clearly became disoriented before losing mobility, we found the loss of mobility to be a more objective criterion for scoring heat tolerance.
This subjective impression seems to be supported by the more objective group scores for interaction, elaboration and group activity in the online questionnaires, although analysis of student participation in the weekly learning activities still showed individual variation in the use of the student discussion boards as previously discussed.
Furthermore, development of computerized image recognition based scoring of quantitative OCT images could aid surgeon to achieve more objective and reproducible scoring.
A more objective neurological assessment score, the SHIRPA protocol, has been developed for rodent models [33], [34], [35], [36], and has been applied to the MCM [9], [10], [11], [37], [38], involving a maximum of 12 to 18 animals per experiment [9], [10], [11].
The evaluation of radiological studies is more objective when using a scoring system than simply describing the abnormal imaging findings.
