Acute assessment unit

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kindergarten student. Before I presented the four assessments, my student and I got to know each other well. I told her some background information about me and she did the same in return. She told me her name is Ally. She is a five year old. Her birthday is October 14. She also stated she liked the color blue along with arts and crafts. Letter identification, phonemic awareness, sentence dictation and concepts of print were the four assessments given. The reason for assessing is to determine…

the number correct by the total number of items on an exam and give the proportion of items that were answered correctly using criterion-referenced scoring. Subscale scoring represent a student’s performance on a single exam or across multiple assessments and can be…

Hello Dr Buxbaum, Below is my weekly update for this week from 3rd Aug '16 to 5th Aug '16. 1) FMR1 5-choice training: - At the end of the 6th week of the Fmr1 rat training, we have one rat that will be presented with the challenge trials in the upcoming week. The rat running on the challenge schedules for one week performed at around 67% accuracy rate with less than 16% omissions on the baseline schedules. This performance was observed after subjecting the rat to a long ITI (8sec) schedule, a…

opinion of assessment has changed because having to learn and research about different types of assessment open my eyes to a different opinion. Reading the lecture for the week, reading Mueller’s website, learning about authentic assessment versus traditional assessment, learning about standardized test in general and in our state, and reading about different opinions of people involved in the process has contributed for my reflection. To be clear in what I want to express about assessment, I…

she noted that assessments only give one perspective. Assessments should not be used as the only criteria to diagnosis or define a behavior, “never use a test in isolation” was a statement by Wendy (personal communication, July 7, 2015). Wendy’s opinion on the isolated use of assessment is valid. Wendy described a strength of assessment is a way to provide helpful and objective information. This is something she is in need of when working with students. She will not use an assessment to tell her…

condition such as leg amputation, swollen or sore feet or negligence of the patient or carer including nurses. However, whatever is the cause of fall it can be reduced or prevented by appropriate assessment and interventions. In relation with the situation I experienced the incident can be prevented by proper assessment and good communication with the patient (Lovallo, Rolandi, Rossetti, & Lusignani, 2010). In the future, I will assess my patients properly, check their mobility status before…

critical that an assessment instrument to be the valid test for people from diverse ethnocultural background. Hays (2001) asserted considerations for the client’s ethnocultural and linguistic background as essential to the assessment process. People from various cultures express themselves differently. Various bio-psycho-social-spiritual factors influence cognition and individual expression (Hays, 2001; Akin & Turner; 2006). Therefore, in this increasingly diverse society, an assessment…

by the outcome number and course outcomes chart on the original syllabus. Dr. Fink (2003) stated that the key components of integrated course design were to “analyze the situational factors, formulate the learning goals, design the feedback and assessment procedures, and select the teaching/learning activities” (p. 2). And it is important to put these components together and show their inter-relationship (Fink, 2003). Therefore, I summarized the outcomes #1, #2, and #3 from the original syllabus…

different types of assessment, their primary uses, and the methods by which they can be carried out. Additionally, we have focused on the pros and cons of different methodologies, and extinguished any misconceptions in the surrounding realm. Co-creating quizzes allowed each member of the class a hands-on experience working with assessments in the way of creating questions that will provide a means to measure and judge outcome achievement. Snowman and McCown (2013) suggest that assessment is one…