Often, education regarding low volume and high-risk procedures, like tracheostomy, are ignored. Lack of experience, skills, and human resources can lead to decreases in confidence levels, diminished quality of care, and potentially an adverse event. The purpose of this DNP project was to prepare simulation-based education on the tracheostomy procedure and provide hands-on education to bedside nurses. The project answered the question: To what extent will a simulation-based teaching method adequately prepare staff nurses in a post-acute surgical unit to perform this high risk low volume procedure? The Johns Hopkins evidence-based model method was used to assist in translation of the practice change process. The International Nursing Association for Clinical Simulation and Learning standards were used to design simulation scenarios. Surgical acute care nurses (n = 35) including day and night shift nurses, new graduates, and experienced nurses participated. Groups of five to eight nurses participated in a two-hour simulation session at hospital simulation center. Pre- and post-surveys on confidence level data, and National League of Nursing evaluation tool data on educational practices and simulation designs were collected from all participants. Paired t-test statistics showed a significant increase in confidence level from pre to post education (p < .001). Because of the significant impact on patient care due to preventing complications and by improving nursing staff's level of confidence, the project may contribute to positive social change.

Web developers are confronted with evaluating the usability of Web interfaces. Automatic Web usability evaluation tools are available, but they are limited in the types of problems they can handle. Tool support for manual usability evaluation is needed. Accordingly, this research focuses on developing a tool for supporting manual processes in Heuristic Evaluation inspection. The research was conveyed in three phases. First, an observational study was conducted in order to characterize the inspection process in Heuristic Evaluation. The videos of evaluators applying a Heuristic Evaluation on a non-interactive, paper-based Web interface were analyzed to dissect the inspection process. Second, based on the study, a tool for annotating Web interfaces when applying Heuristic Evaluations was developed. Finally, a survey is conducted to evaluate the tool and learn the role of annotations in inspection. Recommendations for improving the use of annotations in problem reporting are outlined. Overall, users were satisfied with the tool. The goal of this research, designing and developing an inspection tool, is achieved.

The educational community is increasingly concerned about the limitations of traditional teacher education programs to support teachers&rsquo / professional development. Beside the theoretical knowledge, the importance of the experience cannot be debated. The main problem of the teacher education institutions is that they fail to close the gap between the theoretical principles taught in the faculties of education and the experiences of teachers in the classrooms. Microteaching is the most popular method to prepare the PSTs for real-world teaching profession. However, literature showed that there are some barriers that PSTs face during the microteaching process, including limited and unreflective peer-feedback (Huang, 2001). In order to facilitate PSTs&rsquo / peer-interaction and reflective thinking during their microteaching process, a web-based video analysis environment was designed. In addition, in teacher education observation has a critical place. The purpose of this study is to examine the effects of question prompts embedded within this environment on PSTs&rsquo / reflective thinking and self-efficacy levels. For this purpose, a true experimental study was designed and applied. 55 pre-service teachers were enrolled in this study. First finding of this study is that the use of question prompts embedded in a web-based video analysis system have a positive significant effect on pre-service teachers&#039 / reflective thinking level. Second finding of this study is that the use of question prompts embedded in a web-based video analysis system did not have a significant effect on pre-service teachers&#039 / self-efficacy. However, there was a significant linear trend indication for all types of self-efficacy factors for both control and experimental group over the time. For both groups this linear trend showed that self-efficacy scores of instructional strategies, classroom management, and student engagement developed over the time.

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No. of bitstreams: 1 braccialli_ac_me_mar.pdf: 1772445 bytes, checksum: 0a9885a81ed0897bfbd44e955872e2d4 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-12-01 / Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq) / O uso de tecnologia assistiva proporciona às pessoas com deficiência um maior grau de independência e autonomia, o que irá trazer benefícios, à medida que possibilita ao usuário fazer escolhas sobre como e quando ele quer participar de atividades, em sua vida. Apesar da importância da tecnologia assistiva, estudos têm apontado uma taxa de abandono de 30% dos dispositivos prescritos e adquiridos, no primeiro ano de uso. A partir dessas constatações, é importante disponibilizar instrumentos padronizados para indicação de tecnologia assistiva para os diferentes ambientes. O objetivo do estudo foi traduzir e adaptar culturalmente a versão para o português do Brasil do instrumento Educational Technology Device Predisposition Assessment - ET PA. Trata-se de estudo de natureza metodológica, com foco nas etapas previstas para a elaboração de versão adaptada de instrumentos de avaliação. Adotou-se a seguinte sistemática operacional: 1) tradução inicial e conciliada para o português do Brasil; 2) retrotradução e adequação do instrumento; 3) análise de equivalência dos itens do instrumento; 4) pré-teste e adequação cultural. Cada etapa tinha um objetivo, participantes, procedimentos e resultados específicos. Participaram do estudo dois professores de inglês, os quais tinham como língua nativa o português do Brasil; um tradutor nativo da língua inglesa e fluente em português do Brasil; dois pesquisadores com experiência em tradução e adaptação de instrumento, cinco juízes com doutorado em Educação ou Educação Física; cinco professores que atuavam no Atendimento Educacional Especializado e cinco alunos com deficiência. Na primeira etapa, foi realizada a tradução inicial e a conciliada. A análise efetuada pelos pesquisadores indicou frequência de 30% de concordância entre os tradutores e pesquisadores; 41% de concordância com o tradutor 1; 7% de concordância com o tradutor 2 e 22% recomendaram ser necessária a realização de uma nova tradução para a versão do aluno. Em relação à versão do professor, houve uma frequência de 26% de concordância entre os tradutores e pesquisadores; 31,5% de concordância com o tradutor 1; 31,5% de concordância com o tradutor 2 e 11% consideraram necessária a realização de uma nova tradução. No final dessa etapa, foi elaborada a versão 1 do instrumento, que foi retrotraduzida e encaminhada para a apreciação da autora. A análise da autora indicou a necessidade de modificação de quatro itens, sendo três itens do instrumento do aluno e um item da versão do professor. Foram feitas as modificações sugeridas pela autora, obtendo-se a versão 2 dos instrumentos. Na etapa 3, foi promovida a análise de equivalência de itens dos instrumentos por cinco juízes. Após a análise pelos juízes, apenas a equivalência semântica teve itens com indice de concordância inferior a 66%, os quais necessitaram de ajustes. Ao final dessa etapa, foi elaborada a versão 3 dos instrumentos. Na última etapa, foi realizado um pré-teste com cinco professores e cinco alunos com deficiência. Os resultados dessa etapa revelaram a necessidade de revisão e modificação de sete itens do instrumento do aluno e nenhum item do instrumento do professor. Após as adequações, obteve-se a versão final do instrumento ET PA - Br. / The use of assistive technology gives people with disabilities a greater degree of independence and autonomy, which will bring benefits, as it enables the user to make choices about how and when they want to participate in activities in their life. Despite the importance of assistive technology, studies have indicated a dropout rate of 30% of devices prescribed and purchased in the first year of use. From these findings it is important to provide standardized instruments to indicate assistive technology for the different environments. The purpose of the study was to elaborate the culturally adapted version for the Brazilian Portuguese of the instrument Educational Technology Device Predisposition Assessment - ET PA. Methodological study, focusing on the steps planned for the elaboration of an adapted version of evaluation instruments. The following operational system was adopted: 1) initial and reconciled translation into Brazilian Portuguese; 2) back-translation and adequacy of the instrument; 3); Analysis of equivalence of the items of the instrument; 4) Pre-test and cultural adequacy. Each step had a specific goal, participants, procedures and results. Two English teachers who had native Portuguese as the Brazilian language participated in the study; a translator native of the English language and fluent in Brazilian Portuguese; two researchers with experience in translation and adaptation of instrument; five judges with doctorate in Education or Physical Education; five teachers who worked in the Specialized Educational Service and five students with disabilities. In the stage the initial and reconciled translation was performed. The analysis performed by the researchers indicated frequency: 30% agreement between translators and researchers; 41% agreement with translator 1; 7% according to translator 2 and 22% it was necessary to carry out a new translation for the student version. In relation to the version of the teacher there was a frequency of 26% of agreement between the translators and researchers; 31.5% agreement with translator 1; 31.5% according to translator 2 and 11%, a new translation was required. At the end of this stage, version 1 of the instrument was elaborated, which was back-translated and sent to the author's appreciation. The analysis of the author indicated the need to modify four items, three items of the student's instrument and one item of the teacher's version. The modifications suggested by the author were made obtaining version two of the instruments. In step 3, the analysis of equivalence of items of the instruments by five judges was carried out. After the analysis by the judges only the semantic equivalence had items with agreement index less than 66% that needed adjustment. At the end of this stage, version 3 of the instruments was prepared. In the last stage a pre-test was carried out with five teachers and five students with disabilities. The results of this stage indicated the need for revision and modification of seven items of the student instrument and no item of the teacher's instrument. After adjustments, the final version of the instrument was obtained ET PA - Br. / 132914/2016-6

La concurrence industrielle pousse les entreprises à développer de nouveaux produits innovants. En outre, les industriels sont soumis à de plus en plus de contraintes issues des différents acteurs du processus de conception (fabricants, utilisateurs) ou liées aux évolutions de leur environnement (réglementations, technologies). Il leur est donc nécessaire d’adapter leurs activités de conception et plus particulièrement les étapes d’évaluation pour que les produits développés correspondent aux exigences multiples de toutes les parties prenantes. Ces contraintes se traduisent par l’intégration de nouveaux domaines ou l’évolution de domaines existants dans le processus de conception.Dans ce contexte, l’objectif de ces travaux de thèse est de formaliser et d’apporter des méthodes permettant l’évaluation multidomaine dans le processus de conception. Ce manuscrit s’intéresse donc à la problématique suivante : « Comment les phases d’évaluation dans un processus de conception multidomaine peuvent-elles permettre d’accroître les performances du produit à partir des représentations intermédiaires ? ». Pour cela nous proposons une méthodologie permettant d’améliorer le processus d’évaluation en créant un outil d’évaluation multidomaine et en formalisant les étapes du processus d’évaluation pour apporter des méthodes d’amélioration adaptées aux domaines concernés par le produit à concevoir. Des expérimentations sont menées afin de valider leurs apports dans le processus de conception en s’intéressant notamment à trois domaines : l’innovation, la prise en compte des impacts environnementaux et la fabrication additive. Ces expérimentations ont permis de valider la méthodologie de création de l’outil d’évaluation et l’apport des étapes d’amélioration. / Industrial competition is driving companies to develop new innovative products. In addition, industrial companies are increasingly subject to constraints from the various actors in the design process (manufacturers, users) or linked to changes in their environment (regulations, technologies). It is therefore necessary for them to adapt their design activities and more particularly the evaluation steps so that the products developed correspond to the multiple requirements of all stakeholders. These constraints result in the integration of new domains or the evolution of existing domains into the design process.In this context, the objective of this thesis work is to formalize and provide methods for multidomain evaluation in the design process. This manuscript therefore addresses the following question: "How can evaluation phases in a multidomain design process help to increase the performance of intermediate representations? ». To this end, we propose a methodology to improve the evaluation process by creating a multidomain evaluation tool and formalizing the steps of the evaluation process to provide improvement methods adapted to the areas concerned by the product to be designed. Experiments are being carried out to validate their contribution to the design process, focusing in particular on three areas: innovation, taking into account environmental impacts and additive manufacturing. These experiments made it possible to validate the methodology for creating an evaluation tool and the contribution of the improvement steps.

This master‘s thesis is a journey of generating a prototype evaluation tool for Sparbanken Rekarne, the aim was to contribute to the emerging field as an innovation and design and specifically pre-project management. The major stakeholder was Sparbanken Rekarne AB, they needed an innovation model and the research question formulated was: What are the perspectives and the process of an early stage tool for evaluating innovation project ideas? ‘The approach was gathering theoretical knowledge in the development of the evaluation tool using a systematic literature review. The theoretical knowledge building was done by carrying out a systematic literature review to inspect different credible evaluation tool to use. Focusing specifically on pre-project evaluation tools, a knowledge gap (Gap spotting) was soon discovered after reviewing some pre-project evaluation tools. Firstly needed to see what pre-project evaluation tools are available. One stood out with stages and that ended being the main inspiration for the early-stage evaluation tool. Still basing the tool on theoretical knowledge, the solution was to hybridizing existing pre-project evaluation tools and tools already developed. Merging interactive research with Agile principals was how the information was gathered and how the project was planned. The data gathered was dissected and used in developing the evaluation tool. Purpose of the pre-project evaluation tool is to bring clarity for Sparbanken Rekarne in making decisions about choosing pre-projects to invest in. This master‘s thesis gives a detailed description of how to implement the Early-stage evaluation tool (Chapter 4) from a Sparbanken Rekarne developer‘s perspective. Results, a contribution to innovation and design, specifically pre-project management. The early-stage evaluation tool can maturate idea‘s into concept pre-project that are measured. Involvement with all stakeholder makes sure the pre-projects entering the project planning phase has a market.

Nowadays Ground Source Heat Pumps (GSHP) are widely used to provide heating and/or cooling as well as domestic hot water in commercial and residential buildings. The Swedish GSHPs market is the first one in the European Union with more than 378,000 units installed until 2010 according to the Swedish Heat Pump Association (SVEP). This thesis focuses on the improvement of a Thermal Response Test (TRT) apparatus available at KTH Royal Institute of Technology – Energy Technology Department. This equipment aims at improving Borehole Heat Exchanger (BHE) design in terms of size. Its key purpose is to evaluate two main BHE properties: the ground thermal conductivity and the borehole thermal resistance. A new command software is developed in order to control the TRT equipment and run TRT measurements. This new software is developed using Python as programming language and replaces an older program which needed LabVIEW to run. The TRT command software designed in this thesis provides the user with a simple and user-friendly interface to control each device of the equipment. Measurements are exported and saved to files which can be open with both Microsoft Excel and the analysis tool also developed in this thesis. The stand-alone evaluation tool can be used to analyse TRT and/or DTRT measurements. This analysis tool helps the user to compute large amount of data with few data manipulation and low computation time. Model parameters and TRT/DTRT measurement can be imported from files into it and different fitting settings are available to run the optimization, i.e. account for baseline variations (early activities in the borehole, different optimization periods, analysis during thermal recovery of the ground, single/multi-sectional analysis along the depth, among others). This report covers a theoretical description of TRT experiments and its models, the objectives of such a project and the development of the control and evaluation tools.

In order for the collaborations to be fruitful and sustainable between organisations and open source software (OSS) ecosystems, maintainers need to understand if, and how it is possible to evaluate OSS ecosystem health in an effective manner. Understanding how OSS maintainers characterise ecosystem health and how they evaluate these health characteristics using digital evaluation tools is interesting to analyse since it could give insight in how ecosystem health in practice is evaluated, which health aspects can be evaluated with the help of digital tools, and what barriers exists in the evaluation processes. This qualitative study is based on semi-structured interviews and was conducted in order to answer two research questions regarding this topic. The answers which were produced by the semi-structured interviews were transcribed and coded to later be analysed where conclusions could be drawn. The research attempts to broaden the academic perspective on how ecosystem maintainers view health and how health evaluation digital tools can help maintainers understand the state of their ecosystem health, and what barriers exist. It became clear during the research that answering how ecosystem health is to be characterized is incredibly difficult since the answer might differ in many ways depending on the nature of the project, where the project is in its life cycle, and who is asking the questions. Two views surrounding the definition of ecosystem health are presented, one revolving around longevity and the other revolving around an ecosystem life cycle perspective. Furthermore, Diversity, Governance, Activity and Licensing seem to be the health characteristics maintainers find to be the most important for ecosystem health evaluation. Out of these, tools such as the ones offered by CHAOSS, seem somewhat geared towards assessing Activity, Licensing and Diversity. Saving time and finding trends when evaluating health are examples of how tools help maintainers however, barriers exist for maintainers in smaller or younger projects who have not practiced health evaluation for a very long time. Finally, another barrier is the amount of additional context and human judgment which is needed when using tools for the health evaluation. / För att samarbetet mellan organisationer och öppen källkod (OSS) ekosystem ska vara gynnsamma och hållbara, måste ekosystemsunderhållare förstå om och hur det är möjligt att utvärdera OSS-ekosystemhälsa på ett effektivt sätt. Att förstå hur OSS-underhållare karaktäriserar ekosystemhälsa och hur de utvärderar dessa hälsoegenskaper med hjälp av digitala utvärderingsverktyg är intressant att analysera eftersom det skulle kunna ge insikt i hur ekosystemhälsa i praktiken utvärderas, vilka hälsoaspekter som kan utvärderas med hjälp av digitala verktyg, och vilka hinder som finns i utvärderingsprocesserna. Denna kvalitativa studie är baserad på semistrukturerade intervjuer och genomfördes för att besvara två forskningsfrågor inom detta ämne. Svaren som producerades av de semistrukturerade intervjuerna transkriberades och kodades för att senare analyseras där slutsatser kunde dras. Forskningen försöker vidga det akademiska perspektivet på hur ekosystemsunderhållare ser på hälsa och hur hälsoutvärderingsverktyg kan hjälpa underhållare att förstå hälsotillståndet för deras ekosystem, men också vilka hinder som finns i processerna. Det blev tydligt under forskningen att det är otroligt svårt att svara på hur ekosystemhälsa ska karakteriseras eftersom svaret kan skilja sig åt på många sätt beroende på projektets karaktär, var projektet befinner sig i sin livscykel och vem som ställer frågorna. Två synpunkter kring definitionen av ekosystemhälsa tas upp, en som kretsar kring livslängd, och den andra som kretsar kring ett ekosystemlivscykelperspektiv. Dessutom verkar Mångfald, Styrning, Aktivitet och Licensiering vara de hälsoegenskaper som underhållare anser vara de viktigaste för hälsoutvärdering av ekosystem. Av dessa verkar verktyg som de som erbjuds av CHAOSS något inriktade på att bedöma Aktivitet, licensiering och mångfald. Att spara tid och hitta trender när man utvärderar hälsa är exempel på hur verktyg hjälper underhållare, men hinder finns för underhållare i mindre eller yngre projekt som inte har praktiserat hälsoutvärdering under en längre period. Slutligen är en annan barriär den mängden ytterligare kontext och mänskligt omdöme som behövs när man använder verktyg för hälsoutvärderingen.

The School-wide Evaluation Tool (SET) is a commonly used measure of the implementation fidelity of school-wide positive behavior interventions and supports (SWPBIS) programs. The current study examines the content and concurrent validity of the SET to establish whether an alternative approach to weighting and scoring the SET might provide a more accurate assessment of SWPBIS implementation fidelity. Twenty published experts in the field of SWPBIS completed online surveys to obtain ratings of the relative importance of each item on the SET to sustainable SWPBIS implementation. Using the experts' mean ratings, four novel SET scoring approaches were developed: unweighted, reweighted using mean ratings, unweighted dropping lowest quartile items, and reweighted dropping lowest quartile items. SET 2.1 data from 1,018 schools were used to compare the four novel and two established SET scoring methods and examine their concurrent validity with the Team Implementation Checklist 3.1 (TIC; across a subsample of 492 schools). Correlational data indicated that the two novel SET scoring methods with dropped items were both significantly stronger predictors of TIC scores than the established SET scoring methods. Continuous SET scoring methods have greater concurrent validity with the TIC overall score and greater sensitivity than the dichotomous SET 80/80 Criterion. Based on the equivalent concurrent validity of the unweighted SET with dropped items and the reweighted SET with dropped items compared to the TIC, this study recommends that the unweighted SET with dropped items be used by schools and researchers to obtain a more cohesive and prioritized set of SWPBIS elements than the existing or other SET scoring methods developed in this study. / School Psychology

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