Basis Of Self-assessment Research Articles

Functioning of Academic Teachers in the Conditions of the COVID-19 Epidemy in Poland in 2020 (Qualitative Test on the Basis of Self-Assessment)

Functioning of Academic Teachers in the Conditions of the COVID-19 Epidemy in Poland in 2020 (Qualitative Test on the Basis of Self-Assessment)

APPROACHES TO DEVELOPING AND IMPLEMENTING CLINICAL AND ORGANIZATIONAL REGULATIONS ENSURING INFECTIOUS SAFETY AND EPIDEMIOLOGICAL RESPONSE IN THE WORK PROCESS (THE CASE OF COVID-19)

The aim: Of the work was to develop clinical and organizational regulations ensuring infectious safety and epidemiological response in the work process (the case of COVID-19) based on the current legislative acts of Ukraine to combat the spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19), as well as on the data from international practices. Materials and methods: The research objective was carried out in accordance with the Methodology for the development of medical and technological documents for the standardization of medical care. Results: The Protocol includes organizational elements to prevent the spread of coronavirus disease, such as "The development of general provisions on infectious safety and antiepidemic measures during the COVID-19 pandemic in the company's workplaces, taking into account the legislative acts of Ukraine and international practices", which include: the development of "Health Questionnaire" (epidemiological data questionnaire) for daily monitoring of the company employee health; the development of "Checklist for self-assessment of the workplace", "Checklist for self-assessment of the public space"; the development of "Analytical report on compliance with the infectious safety rules in the workplace and in the public space on the basis of self-assessment", thirteen Appendices. Conclusions: "The Protocol for infectious safety and antiepidemic measures in the work process" is a detailed instruction that provides a balance of compliance with medical standards and reasonable needs of employees and employers through the implementation of scientific evidence base in antiepidemic and infectious safety measures in the workplace.

Evaluation of Oral Health Status and Oral Care of Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis.

Objective Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and periodontal disease (PD) are common chronic, immunoinflammatory, destructive, and progressive diseases; however, the correlations between those two are not yet widely discussed. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the relationship between the selected demographic and clinical parameters of RA patients and oral health status parameters, on the basis of self-assessment. Materials and Methods Three hundred patients under treatment were included in the study. Questionnaires were completed by 164 out of 300 patients. Results A total of 100 females and 64 males took part in the study, with a mean age of 65 ± 11.1 years. In younger patients, the disease activity score (DAS28) was higher, and it was associated with pain or discomfort in the oral cavity and with difficulties in toothbrushing. Discomfort or pain in the oral cavity was to a significant extent associated with the poor gingival state, gingival bleeding, and difficulties in biting or chewing. Conclusions In RA patients, difficulties in biting or chewing, discomfort or pain in oral cavity, feeling of the presence of movable teeth, and gingival bleeding are indications of periodontal infection. Maintaining awareness of oral health and RA is a key issue in the simultaneous management of proper oral care and RA due to the mutual influence of those two factors.

Strategiczna rola inteligencji wielorakich w procesie zarządzania wiedzą

CEL NAUKOWY: Celem naukowym niniejszego artykułu jest przedstawienie rozkładu inteligencji wielorakich studentów pierwszego roku w dwóch grupach o profilach: analityka biznesu oraz logistyka.
 PROBLEM I METODY BADAWCZE: Główny problem badawczy pod­jęty w niniejszej pracy dotyczył istnienia korelacji pomiędzy profilem inteli­gencji a profilem grupy oraz istnienia podobieństw wśród profili studentów pierwszego roku. Postawiono kilka pytań szczegółowych m.in. po to, by znaleźć uśredniony rozkład inteligencji, inteligencje dominujące, korelacje między po­szczególnymi inteligencjami oraz ewentualne różnice pomiędzy grupami. Wstę­pem do realizacji badań były studia literatury przedmiotu. Metodą badawczą wykorzystaną do przeprowadzenia badań był kwestionariusz ankiety. Badania przeprowadzone były w warunkach pełnej dobrowolności i na zasadzie samo­oceny według pytań sugerowanych w jednej z pozycji literaturowych. Badaną grupą byli studenci pierwszego roku w liczbie 79.
 PROCES WYWODU: Istnieje wiele teorii na temat inteligencji, sposobów jej mierzenia oraz czynników ją determinujących. W niniejszym artykule, poza przedstawieniem głównych teorii, będzie opisana szerzej teoria inteligencji wielorakich Howarda Gardnera. Według niej istnieje nieznana liczba ludzkich zdolności, od inteligencji muzycznej zaczynając, a na inteligencji, która wy­maga zrozumienia siebie kończąc. Każdą inteligencję uruchamia lub wyzwala pewien rodzaj dostarczonych z wewnątrz lub zewnątrz bodźców. Diagnoza jest podstawą skutecznego nauczania. Dla studentów świadomość rodzaju ich efektywnego stylu uczenia się jest bardzo ważna. Pozwala zidentyfikować mocne strony oraz oprzeć się na nich w procesie zdobywania wiedzy.
 WYNIKI ANALIZY NAUKOWEJ: Analiza przeprowadzonych badań wy­kazała interesujące korelacje pomiędzy występującymi inteligencjami, a także podobieństwa pomiędzy profilami grup.
 WNIOSKI, INNOWACJE, REKOMENDACJE: Badania mają charakter pilotażowy i powinny być pogłębione oraz rozszerzone w przyszłości. Zdaniem autora powinny wpłynąć na sposób zarządzania wiedzą zarówno przez prowa­dzących zajęcia, jak i samych studentów.

О МЕТОДАХ ДОСЛІДЖЕННЯ ЕМОЦІЙНО-ВОЛЬОВОГО ПОТЕНЦІАЛУ ВИСОКОКВАЛІФІКОВАНИХ СПОРТСМЕНІВ-ВЕСЛУВАЛЬНИКІВ

The article presents the results of theoretical and empirical study of the issue of diagnosing the level of development of emotional and volitional potential of highly qualified rowing athletes in kayaking and canoeing. The relevance of the research topic is determined by the importance of emotional and volitional training of athletes to achieve maximum results in sports competitions. The psychological diagnosis of emotional and volitional potential is a necessary component of such training. The aim of the article is to explore the possibilities of psychological diagnosis of the development level of emotional and volitional potential of highly qualified rowing athletes. It is proposed to use four types of methods to study the emotional and volitional potential. The first one includes methods for determining the values of the available emotional and volitional potential on the basis of self-assessment and expert assessment and those which are based on certain specific test to determine the data of its reserve. The second one is focused on the diagnosis of various emotional and volitional personality traits such as emotionality, emotional maturity, anxiety, emotional stability, confidence, perseverance, self-control, etc. The third one includes methods of assessing such personal characteristics as achievement motivation; the level of development of cognitive processes, characterological features, as well as certain individual and dynamic data. The fourth one includes means of assessing the skills and abilities of self-stabilization in the prestarting situation and in the process of solving a competitive issue. The results of approbation the first type of methods showed that the data obtained through expert assessment of emotional and volitional potential of athletes, selfassessment of athletes` own potential and testing the emotional and volitional capabilities during physical exercises correspond to the objective achievements of rowers in sporting competitions and their sport qualifications. However, most of all it concerns the expert assessment.

Self-assessment of the corporate social responsibility in the area of postal company

The process of globalization and the pressure to achieve and maintain the competitiveness of the enterprise on domestic and international market have in recent years underlined a sharp increase in the need to evaluate Corporate Scoial Responsibility (CSR). The aim of the paper is to propose a self-assessment of socially responsible business in the postal environment. The folloving research methods were used to fullfill the aim of the paper: methods of obtaining and collecting information (compilation, selection), methods of information processing (excerption, analysis, synthesis, comparison, concretization) and methods of evaluation and interpretation of results (abstraction, induction, deduction, determination, generalization). Taking into account the theoretical definitions, the specifics of the postal company and the findings of secondary research, an evaluation sheet (checklist) can be proposed as a basis for self-assessment of CSR in four areas - economic, social, environmental and legal. The main component of the checklist is a self-assessment questionnaire, consisting of 62 questions. The questions are grouped under four items: economic, social, environmental and legal. Summary score of a specific area of CSR is an indicator of categorizing postal company into one of the four developmental stages of applying the principles of CSR.

Death by Disowning: An Account of Words and Expressions That Will Die

The research on language endangerment has witnessed two strikingly different approaches. In one, the language in concern is taken in its entirety. Accordingly, the language is categorized as safe, endangered or extinct. This approach may be called ‘Whole Language Approach.’ In the second approach, certain aspects of a language that are undergoing changes / loss are studied. It may be called ‘Part Language Approach.’ The first one presents a macroscopic view of the language while the second presents a microscopic view of it. In this paper, we adopt the second approach to study the language endangerment, shift and loss in Magadh region of Bihar. It has been observed that the linguistic heterogeneity of the speech community in Magadh region of Bihar is undergoing changes. Consequently, hundreds of indigenous words and expressions and those genetically related to Magahi, Bangla and Odia are gradually disappearing from the verbal repertoire of this speech community. In this paper we look at the nature and pattern of words and expressions that are disappearing and examine the internal and external forces that are causing this loss. Three observations have been made regarding the currency of the words and expressions that are threatened: The older generation (40 years and above) uses them, the middle generation (20-40 years old) understands them but does not use them. While the younger generation (20 years and below) does not know them at all. In some cases these word forms and expressions get replaced by their counterparts from Hindi-Urdu while in others nothing comes in exchange. In some cases they exist as distortions of their older or standard forms while in others they simply cease to be. The use of these expressions has been falling and their transmission across generation has been shrinking. We arrive at these observations on the basis of self-assessment, grading, peer-interaction and a survey conducted across various age groups. This paper is at first an attempt towards developing a first-hand account of what is endangered / lost with respect to this language. It also attempts to analyze the nature and pattern of loss and tries to reason out the forces that are resulting in this kind of situation.

Improved self- and external assessment of the clinical abilities of medical students through structured improvement measures in an internal medicine bedside course.

Background: Bedside courses are of outstanding importance when training medical students. The fact that less and less teaching is taking place nowadays at the patient's bedside makes it all the more important that the available time be put to effective use. The aim of this study was to check whether structured improvement measures in the course (scripts, lecturer briefing, e-learning cases) would improve the abilities of the students on the basis of a subjective self-assessment as well as an external assessment by the lecturers with respect to clinical abilities. Methods: Bedside teaching takes place in the fourth study year in the Medical Clinics of the TU Munich. Both students and lecturers had the chance to hand in an anonymous, quantitative self- and external assessment of the clinical abilities of the students (German grading system) after every course date. This assessment took place online in the three categories "Medical history & examination", "Diagnosis" and "Therapy". An overall period of four semesters, each with 6 course dates, was investigated. After two of the total of four semesters in the study, the course was changed by introducing scripts, lecturer briefing as well as interactive e-learning cases. The self- and external assessment was compared both within the semester (date 1-3: A; date 4-6: B), during the course as well as before and after introducing the improvement measures ("before" (T0): SS 2012, SS 2013, "after" (T1): WS 2013/2014, SS 2014).Results: There was a significant improvement in one's own abilities on the basis of the self-assessment within each semester when comparing the first (A) and the last (B) course dates. Moreover, there was a significant improvement in the performances in all three categories when T0 was compared with T1, from both the point of view of the students ("Medical history & examination": T0 =2.5±0.9, T1=2.2±0.7, pp<0.001; "Diagnosis" T0=3.1±1.0, T1=2.8 ±0.9, pp<0.001; "Therapy": T0=3.8±1.3, T1=3.5±1.2, pp<0.018) and in two of the three categories from the point of view of the lecturers ("Diagnosis": T0=3.0±1.0, T1=2.7±0.7, p.=0.028; "Therapy": T0=3.8±1.1, T1=3.1±1.0, p<0.001). Summary: The structured measures to improve the course including the interactive e-learning cases could have contributed to improved practical abilities with respect to the medical history and examination techniques as well as diagnostic and therapeutic thinking. The external evaluation by lecturers confirmed the improvement with respect to the diagnostic and therapeutic abilities. They only saw no dynamic change in the student's taking histories and clinical examinations.

Mogućnosti primene instrumenata upitničkog tipa namenjenih samoproceni kapaciteta za samozastupanje osoba sa intelektualnim teškoćama

U poslednjih desetak godina, u skladu sa filozofijom inkluzije, sve veća pažnja posvećuje se mogućnosti upitničke samoprocene osobama sa intelektualnim teškoćama u pogledu različitih psiholoških konstrukata. Međutim, podaci su različiti, od onih koji ukazuju na nemogućnost dobijanja pouzdanih i validnih odgovora na upitnicima, do onih koji pokazuju da upitnici namenjeni samoproceni OSIT mogu imati adekvatnu pouzdanost i validnost. Osnovni cilj ovog istraživanja ticao se ispitivanja mogućnosti dobijanja pouzdanih i validnih podataka na osnovu samoprocene osoba sa intelektualnim teškoćama na setu različitih instrumenata namenjenih ispitivanju kapaciteta za samozastupanje. U tom smislu, na uzorak od 35 osoba sa intelektualnim teškoćama različitog pola, starosti, tipa i stepena teškoća, primenjen je set od 6 instrumenata namenjenih samoproceni: samopoštovanja, samoodlučivanja, vršenja izbora, rešavanja problema, poznavanja prava i samoodređenja. Podaci su obrađeni analizom glavnih komponenti, kao i programom RTT10G za utvrđivanje metrijskih karakteristika instrumenata. Rezultati pokazuju da, uprkos blagom narušavanju pri drugom merenju, instrumenti poseduju adekvatne metrijske karakteristike (reprezentativnost, homogenost i pouzdanost), te da se radi o jednodimenzionalnim instrumentima. Stoga, može se reći da postoji mogućnost pouzdane i validne upitničke samoprocene različitih dimenzija samoodređenja i samozastupanja kod osoba sa intelektualnim teškoćama.

ECOLOGICAL AND EDUCATIONAL POTENTIAL OF TRANS BOUNDARY REGION: THE TRAINING NEEDS

The need in information and training of specialists of environmental organizations in the Baikal transboundary region are studied in the article. On the basis of self-assessment of ecological and educational potential (matrix needs) of interviewing and conducting polls of specialists and managers, the strengths and weaknesses of the organization, the level of professional competence of the target audience, knowledge and skills in the field of environmental protection are revealed. The needs of professionals in additional education in the control of the quality of the environment, using of new methods and technologies, knowledge of geographic information systems, cartographic information, modeling of the dynamic processes of environmental components, the development of implementation mechanism of international normative documents are revealed. The results of the research were used by the UN Office for Project Services, the Global Environment Fund.

Jezikovne spretnosti madžarske manjšine v Sloveniji

Since March 2011, the Department of Hungarian Language and Literature, Faculty of Arts, University of Maribor has participated as a partner in the international project ELDIA (European Language Diversity for All), undertaking studies of the Hungarian language and its speakers in Slovenia. The Maribor project group has investigated the linguistic situation of the Hungarian-speaking minority in Slovenia from the various perspectives determined within the project. The present article consists of two parts. In the first, shorter part, the ELDIA interdisciplinary project is presented, along with its goals, the languages investigated and the new approaches . The second part contains an analysis of the initial data obtained from a large corpus that was assembled by collecting data through surveying and interviewing members of the Hungarian-speaking minority in Slovenia and members of the majority population of Slovenia. After presenting the basic demographic data on the respondents, there is an analysis of the four basic language skills of the respondents in both groups. The level of language skills for each language (native tongue, second language, foreign languages , the mother tongue of indigenous minorities in Slovenia) was marked by the respondents themselves on the basis of self-assessment on a five-point scale. The analysis of the results according to language and individual language community pinpoints tendencies that, in times of economic and social globalisation, determine the use of languages in a variety of language venues in the multilingual and multicultural world.

A participatory and capacity-building approach to healthy eating and physical activity – SCIP-school: a 2-year controlled trial

BackgroundSchools can be effective settings for improving eating habits and physical activity, whereas it is more difficult to prevent obesity. A key challenge is the “implementation gap”. Trade-off must be made between expert-driven programmes on the one hand and contextual relevance, flexibility, participation and capacity building on the other. The aim of the Stockholm County Implementation Programme was to improve eating habits, physical activity, self-esteem, and promote a healthy body weight in children aged 6–16 years. We describe the programme, intervention fidelity, impacts and outcomes after two years of intervention.MethodsNine out of 18 schools in a middle-class municipality in Sweden agreed to participate whereas the other nine schools served as the comparison group (quasi-experimental study). Tailored action plans were developed by school health teams on the basis of a self-assessment questionnaire called KEY assessing strengths and weaknesses of each school’s health practices and environments. Process evaluation was carried out by the research staff. Impacts at school level were assessed yearly by the KEY. Outcome measures at student level were anthropometry (measured), and health behaviours assessed by a questionnaire, at baseline and after 2 years. All children in grade 2, 4 and 7 were invited to participate (n=1359) of which 59.8% consented. The effect of the intervention on health behaviours, self-esteem, weight status and BMIsds was evaluated by unilevel and multilevel regression analysis adjusted for gender and baseline values.ResultsProgramme fidelity was high demonstrating feasibility, but fidelity to school action plans was only 48% after two years. Positive and significant (p<.05) impacts were noted in school health practices and environments after 2 years. At student level no significant intervention effects were seen for the main outcomes.ConclusionsSchool staff has the capacity to create their own solutions and make changes at school level on the basis of self-assessment and facilitation by external agents. However these changes were challenging to sustain over time and had little impact on student behaviours or weight status. Better student outcomes could probably be attained by a more focused and evidence-based approach with stepwise implementation of action plans.

PENINGKATAN POTENSI DIRI MAHASISWA MELALUI KULIAH KEWIRAUSAHAAN

Students do not have much experience of entrepreneurship in the meantime. Itindicates their weakness of practical application toward community problem. Specificpurpose of this activity is to enhance student’s self-potency through entrepreneurshipsubject in order to be a successful entrepreneur. The teaching methods of this subjectare lecturing, product-making, presentation, direct visit, and written test. Theentrepreneurship subject focuses on problem-solving of small industry. Givingcomprehension and a little experience will help to form their sincerity to start andmanage a business. Statistically, there is a significant difference in entrepreneurialspirit between the initial condition and final condition, either on the basis of selfassessment or peer assessment. Based on the result gained from this activity, it can beconcluded that student’s self-potency can be enhanced through entrepreneurshipsubject. It is suggested to students of Semarang State University to keep on doingbusiness development to be a successful entrepreneur.Kata Kunci:Pengembangan, potensi, wirausaha

Visual functioning in cataract patients. Methods of measuring and results.

An Index for measuring Visual Functioning on the basis of self-assessment is presented and evaluated clinically and statistically. The construct validity and the reliability are shown to be sufficient. The 'Visual Functioning Index' has been applied to a group of cataract patients. In bilateral cataract patients visual functioning is, of course, correlated to visual acuity in the best eye, but this correlation is not straight forward. So, for the assessment of visual impairment both visual acuity and visual functioning must be measured. Application of the Index to a group of monaphakic cataract patients indicates a good improvement of visual function obtained even by first cataract extraction. Ideally cataract surgery should be performed before the total visual functioning and social integration is severely damaged. On this basis about 20% of the patients in this study should have been operated at an earlier stage, which among other things suggests a need for additional surgical capacity.