Measurement Tool

Nowadays, information and communication technologies are incorporating extremely rapidly to the individual's education and training. This trend lead the European academic research to focus on key terms like open distance learning or lifelong learning. In this context, there are a large number of past and actual projects and researches concerning the content, methodologies, technologies and new pedagogical challenges - all parts of so-called e- learning environments. There are a lot of achievements from this work but there is still a significant work left for the process of building a reliable and efficient learning process capable of satisfying the end user needs and meet the necessary requirements imposed by the educational organizations (content, standardization, measurement tools, ratings, etc.). This article reveals the components of an e-learning environment, the present trends in this research field and some conclusions.

This paper proposes a conceptual model for assessing information culture. It aims to define more specifically what is information management and to enable evaluation of an organization's information culture. Factors pertaining to both information and organizational culture are highlighted, ...

This paper introduces the WANDA Measurement tool (WAM) for forensic document examination. The WAM is an essential component of WANDA, a workbench that supports the user in the complete task flow of processing documents, measuring characteristic features in handwritten documents, and writer search. By using technologies like plug-ins. XML, and client/server modularity, a system was created that is easy to maintain. portable, and highly adaptable. Within WANDA, the WAM is the tool for interactively measuring handwriting features. The WAM was developed based on recommendations from a comparison study between two forensic writeridentification systems, Script and FISH. It incorporates nine measurements identical to those of FISH, and a new allograph measurement that is discussed in this paper. Furthermore, its intuitive new user-interface reduces the steep learning curve and streamlines the working process. A comparison of features previously measured by forensic experts using FISH, with...

PRÉFACE La question de l'évaluation et de la prise en charge d'auteur potentiel d'acte de terrorisme constitue un enjeu sociétal majeur. Le présent travail représente selon moi, une importante recherche-action de par l'examen de la littérature internationale et la rencontre de nombreux participants concernés. Cette tentative d'opérationnalisation de critères qui est indispensable aux plans évaluatif et motivationnel, constitue une avancée importante. La poursuite d'un tel travail devrait envisager l'approfondissement des liens entre les critères définis, leur consistance interne, les recouvrements des profils chez un même individu, ainsi que les comparaisons de genres, souvent négligées au plan international. Ces analyses conjointes avec les facteurs de rechutes décrits au sein de la littérature internationale, dégageront les domaines de surveillance spécifique et les cibles pour un accompagnement individualisé. Professeur ierry Pham, Service de Psychopathologie Légale, UMONS, Belgique. FOREWORD e question of assessing and taking charge a potential perpetrator of a terrorist attack forms a major societal issue. According to me, the present work represents an important action research given an examination of the international literature and the meeting of numerous concerned participants. is attempt of operationalisation of criteria which is compulsory in terms of evaluation and motivation, constitutes an important advance. e pursuit of such a work should foresee the deepening of relations between the defined criteria, their internal consistency , the recoveries of profiles in a same individual, as well as gender comparisons, often neglected internationally speaking. ese joint analyses with relapse factors described in the international literature, will clear the specified fields of surveillance and the targets for an individualized support". Professor ierry Pham, Department of Legal Psychopathology, UMONS, Belgium

Ever shrinking measurement uncertainty requirements are difficult to achieve for a typical metrology toolset, especially over the entire expected life of the fleet. Many times, acceptable performance can be demonstrated during brief evaluation periods on a tool or two in the fleet. Over ...

The study was conducted to see the managerial skills and knowledge of all first line managers working in cellular companies like Mobilink, Telenor and Warid etc. The purpose of this study is to highlight the significance of the requirement of basic and essential managerial skills like conceptual, human & technical for a manager especially in this high and intense competition

PurposeFacing the multiplication of entrepreneurship education programmes (EEP) and the increasing resources allocated, there is a need to develop a common framework to evaluate the design of those programmes. The purpose of this article is to propose such a framework, based on the theory of planned behaviour (TPB).Design/methodology/approachTPB is a relevant tool to model the development of entrepreneurial intention through pedagogical processes. The independent variables are the characteristics of the EEP and the dependent variables are the antecedents of entrepreneurial behaviour. To illustrate and test the relevance of the evaluation methodology, a pilot study is conducted.FindingsData are consistent and reliable, considering the small scale of this experiment. The EEP assessed had a strong measurable impact on the entrepreneurial intention of the students, while it had a positive, but not very significant, impact on their perceived behavioural control.Research implications/limi...

The paper aims to propose a novel tool in the form of a questionnaire that will measure flexibility of building. The tool designed to measure the flexibility of building will help in identifying flexible building structures. In the recent past the importance of flexibility and adaptability in construction building projects has increased. The reason for it can be rapid change and involvement of both private and public organizations in construction projects, new ways of working where client is asking for more innovative and flexible work place designs, high renovation costs due to changing user demands and more focus on the environmental costs. A survey method including experts from construction industry is used for this work to design a tool that can measure the flexibility of buildings. Flexibility becomes inevitable for environment where the environment is dynamic. For a ready adaptation to market fluctuations it would be good to impose the condition that the building, along with i...

A new measurement tool for individualism and collectivism has been developed to address crit-ical methodological issues in this field of social psychology. This new measure, the Auckland Individualism and Collectivism Scale (AICS), defines three dimensions of individualism: ...

The growing language technology industry needs measurement tools to allow researchers, engineers, managers, and customers to track development, evaluate and assure quality, and assess suitability for a variety of applications. The TSNLP (Test Suites for Natural Language Processing) project has investigated various aspects of the construction, maintenance and application of systematic test suites a diagnostic and evaluation tools for NLP applications. The paper summarizes the motivation and main results of TSNLP: besides the solid methodological foundation of the project, TSNLP has produced substantial (i.e. larger than any existing general test suites) multi-purpose and multi-user test suites for three European languages together with a set of specialized tools that facilitate the construction, extension, maintenance, retrieval, and customization of the test data. The publicly available results of TSNLP represent a valuable linguistic resource that has the potential of providing a w...

The Stroke Rehabilitation Assessment of Movement (STREAM) is a new clinical measurement tool for evaluating the recovery of voluntary movement and basic mobility following stroke. This article presents the results of 3 substudies examining the reliability (interrater and intrarater) and internal consistency of STREAM scores. A "direct-observation reliability study" was conducted on 20 patients who had strokes and were in a rehabilitation setting. Pairs of raters from a group of 6 participating therapists provided data to judge interrater agreement. A "videotaped assessments reliability study" was done to assess intrarater and interrater agreement on the scoring of videotaped performances using the STREAM measure and involved 4 videotaped assessments that were viewed and rated on 2 occasions by 20 physical therapists. The internal consistency of the STREAM scores was evaluated for 26 patients who had strokes and who demonstrated the full range of motor ability. Th...

Purpose – Facing the multiplication of entrepreneurship education programmes (EEP) and the increasing resources allocated, there is a need to develop a common framework to evaluate the design of those programmes. The purpose of this article is to propose such a framework, based on the theory of planned behaviour (TPB). Design/methodology/approach – TPB is a relevant tool to model the

This study was an application of a communication measurement tool, Communication Satisfaction Questionnaire (CSQ), to hotel employees in Malaysia. The aim of this study was to assess the effect of the CSQ factors on overall communication satisfaction. The direct relationship ...

We present an implementation-independent methodology for measuring, analyzing, and comparing Distributed Virtual Environment (DVE) system performance. The methodology comprises of a process of requirements elicitation and their conversion into measurable objectives. The process for determining quality requirements for a DVE is discussed, with a focus on interaction-based scenario analysis. A measurement tool is introduced to provide the low-overhead, high-rate metric data required for measuring DVEs while running under simulation or production operations. An example measuring a DVE's primary loop is presented.