Author: Committee on Assessment and Teacher QualityCenter
Publisher: National Academies Press
Keywords: teacher, improving, quality, tests, role, candidates, testing, licensure
Number of Pages: 360
Published: 2001-10-19
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 0309074207
ISBN-13: 9780309074209

Americans have adopted a reform agenda for their schools that calls for excellence in teaching and learning. School officials across the nation are hard at work targeting instruction at high levels for all students. Gaps remain, however, between the nation’s educational aspirations and student achievement. To address these gaps, policy makers have recently focused on the qualifications of teachers and the preparation of teacher candidates. This book examines the appropriateness and technical quality of teacher licensure tests currently in use, evaluates the merits of using licensure test

Author: ASTM Committee E-11 on Quality and Stati
Publisher: ASTM International
Keywords: chart, analysis, control, data, presentation, manual
Number of Pages: 135
Published: 2002-02-01
List price: $41.00
ISBN-10: 0803120931
ISBN-13: 9780803120938

This comprehensive manual assists in the development of supportive data and analysis when preparing standard test methods, specifications, and practices. It provides the latest information regarding statistical and quality control methods and their applications. This is the 7th revision of this popular manual first published in 1933 as STP 15 and is an excellent teaching and reference tool for data analysis and complements work needed for ISO quality control requirements.PART 1 discusses frequency distributions, simple statistical measures, and the presentation in concise form, of the essentia

Author: Committee on Air Quality Management in the United
Publisher: National Academies Press
Keywords: states, united, management, quality, air
Number of Pages: 426
Published: 2004-08-27
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 0309089328
ISBN-13: 9780309089326

Author: Committee on Quality of Health Care in America In
Publisher: National Academies Pre
Keywords: system, century, health, new, quality, chasm, crossing
Number of Pages: 360
Published: 2001-07-18
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 0309072808
ISBN-13: 9780309072809

(Institute of Medicine) The second in a series of texts from the Institute of Medicine’s Quality of Health Care in America project, making an urgent call for fundamental change to close the gap in quality of health care. Documents the causes of the quality gap, identifying current practices impeding quality health care today. DNLM: Health Care Reform--methods--United States.Book DescriptionSecond in a series of publications from the Institute of Medicine’s Quality of Health Care in America projectToday’s health care providers have more research findings and more technology av

Author: Committee on Quality of Health Care in America In
Publisher: National Academies Pre
Keywords: health, system, safer, building, human, err
Number of Pages: 287
Published: 2000-04-15
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 0309068371
ISBN-13: 9780309068376

Committee on Quality of Health Care in America. Reveals the truth of medical error and the disparity between the incidence of error and public perception. Examines how surrounding forces of legislation, regulation, and market activity influence the quality of care provided and handling medical mistakes. For policymakers, regulators, and clinicians.Book DescriptionExperts estimate that as many as 98,000 people die in any given year from medical errors that occur in hospitals. That’s more than die from motor vehicle accidents, breast cancer, or AIDS--three causes that receive far more publ

Author: Committee to Design a Strategy for Quality Review
Publisher: National Academies Press
Keywords: methods, volume, sources, assurance, strategy, quality, medicare
Number of Pages: 476
Published: 1990-01-01
List price: $118.00
ISBN-10: 0309042380
ISBN-13: 9780309042383

Volume II of "Medicare: A Strategy for Quality Assurance" provides extensive source materials on quality assurance, including results of focus groups with the elderly and practicing physicians, findings from public hearings on quality of care for the elderly, and many exhibits from site visits and the literature on quality measurements and assurance tools. The current Medicare peer review organization program and related hospital accreditation efforts are comprehensively described as background for the recommendations in Volume I of this report. Like the companion volume, this substantial book

Author: Committee on the National Quality Report on Health
Publisher: National Academies Press
Keywords: quality, report, care, health, national, envisioning
Number of Pages: 234
Published: 2001-04-15
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 030907343X
ISBN-13: 9780309073431

(Institute of Medicine) Report of the IOM Committee on the National Quality Report on Health Care Delivery, which was charged with laying out a vision of the Quality Report, including its content and its presentation. Report will be published annually beginning in 2003 and will make year-to-year comparisons of how the healthcare system is doing. Softcover.