The first one consist of a concise list of indicators (between 10 and 19, as for the cases of New York,12 Calgary and Greater Philadelphia); the indicators are put together without any form of classification (New York), or they can be grouped with the goals of the strategy (Calgary) or the themes of the assessment (Greater Philadelphia).
The interviews and focus group discussions were semi-structured and followed a topic guide with open-ended questions, which focused on the central research themes of needs assessment, management, organisation, resource mobilisation, and leadership.
Under the theme Assessing the main sub-themes related to types of assessment and risk management.
Charts allow differing perspectives and outcomes to be compared, pattern recognition, further interpretation, construction of higher level themes and concepts, assessment of theme saturation (no new data forthcoming) and identification of disconfirming data, as recommended by the constant comparative method in a grounded theory approach.
Review of assessment processes (Theme 2.3) tended to be ongoing with assessors encouraged to provide feedback and assessment data analysed after each examination.
In case the participants digressed from the central theme of the interview, language assessment in line with LAR, the talk was redirected to the main theme of the FGI.
This paper focuses on the emergent themes related to the use of assessment tools and pain intensity scores.
One main finding was that a first order theme shared across all TELTs was that of assessment preparation.
Main themes included assessment of child's weight status, the initiative, a sensitive topic, parental responses, actions and lifestyle patterns.
The sub-theme of a "fair assessment" was derived from views expressed by both students and teachers.
