There is a need for interventions to promote breast cancer screening among high-risk population. This formative research is part of a pragmatic randomized trial being conducted in Santa Fe, Argentina, ...

The purpose of this paper is to summarize the formative research findings of newborn care practices in poor and rural districts of Bangladesh, Nepal, and Pakistan and to explain how these findings ...

Includes updates and/or revisions. As educators across the country focus attention on designing new and better ways to gauge what students are learning, they risk distorting the meaning and practice ...

Background. Communication campaigns offer a viable mechanism to promote suicide prevention and reinforce mental health for U. S. veterans in midlife, a group with a high suicide burden. However, ...

When designing formative assessments, instructors need to think about aligning the assessed knowledge and skills, as well the assessment format itself, with desired learning outcomes and with the ...

To understand formative assessment, it’s better to think of it less as a test, and more as good teaching practice. The papers—and the panel discussion—land at a particularly opportune time, since two ...

Everyone who cares, even modestly, about design can name a few decisive events that set them on that path. Steve Jobs was no different, but he was also extraordinarily lucky: The formative design ...

Drawing faculty from the diverse disciplinary traditions of history and philosophy, anthropology and humanistic psychology, design thinking and the learning sciences, this program prepares future ...

‘Aged 16 I “branded” a friend’s club night in our local disco. MELTDOWN! I hated dance music and was too boring to take drugs but said I’d do it anyway in return for a month’s free entry. I drove a ...