Online diagnostics & assessment tools: waste of time?
Blog Sometimes I get the feeling that online diagnostic & assessment tools of any kind are about as intuitive and insightful as one of those fairground, “place your finger on the pad to get your ‘sexy’ rating,” machines.
[October 6, 2009, 7:28]
Using Identity Authentication and Eligibility Assessment to Mitigate the Risk of Improper Payments
White Papers This paper addresses strategies for mitigating risk of improper payments through identity authentication and eligibility assessment. The "Improper Payments Information Act of 2002" requires agencies to assess the risks of making improper payments.
[September 1, 2005, 3:00]
Work in Progress - 'Real World Problems' as Assessment of Software Engineering
White Papers This project evaluated the effectiveness of using certification-like real-world problems for regular assessment of student performance in a software engineering content course. The preliminary results indicated that the method was not useful for...
[November 29, 2008, 23:00]
Risk Assessment as a Business Process
White Papers The risk assessment is a classic process, originally developed by the Defense Department, to not only assess the risk of SOMETHING - a process, a facility a data center, a system; but to also detail cost effective solutions to whatever problems...
[April 22, 2009, 1:24]
Nursing and Physical Assessment Quick Study Guide. FREE Vital Signs and Basic Biometrics in trial
Downloads Detailed coverage of nursing duties including analysis and assessment techniques. Detailed coverage of nursing duties including analysis and assessment techniques. Annotations and drawings are also synchronized.Table of ContentsVital Signs...
[February 23, 2007, 6:00]
Technology in E-Assessment: Focused on the Performance of eLearning
Blog From the definition of E-assessment from Wikipedia, we can see the advantages of deploying an e-testing system are obvious: lower long-term cost, instant feedback, great flexibility, improved reliability and enhanced question styles.
[August 28, 2008, 15:15]
Online Training Needs Assessment: Measure Learning Performance Effortlessly
Blog Instructors should carefully select the assessment authoring tools, according to the usages. At the end, assessment in traditional way also makes sense with maximum efforts. However, this assessment approach needs to be changed, as it only...
[July 23, 2008, 10:03]
Research on the mCLASS Handheld Platform and Prior Research on Handheld Assessment Devices
White Papers Studies examining the affordances of PDA assessment devices have looked primarily at reading tools. Handheld assessments tools have been in use for approximately 5 years. Their use has been heavily stimulated by the federal requirement that all...
[April 22, 2009, 1:24]
IBM Energy Efficiency Self-Assessment Tool
White Papers This self-assessment tool is designed to identify areas where you can improve the operational effectiveness of your systems. Take the Energy Efficiency Self-Assessment now. How energy-efficient is your data center?
[September 2, 2008, 7:34]
Sarbanes-Oxley Section 404: Management's Assessment Process - Frequently Asked Questions
White Papers It is designed to help clarify a number of key issues related to management's assessment process as required by S-O 404. KPMG LLP has prepared this paper for management, members of corporate teams working toward Sarbanes-Oxley Act (the Act) section...
[March 24, 2005, 2:00]
Security Assessment for GLBA Compliance
White Papers NMI provided a full security assessment of the Client's Internet presence and internal network, consisting of over 220 servers running Windows, Novell Netware, multiple versions of Unix, and VAX/VMS. The client's goal was to achieve compliance with...
[September 15, 2005, 0:00]
Security Risk Assessment and Management in Web Applications
White Papers Security risk assessment and security risk management have become vital tasks for security officers and IT managers. An ever-growing list of government regulations aimed to secure the confidentiality, integrity and availability of many types of...
[June 20, 2009, 1:21]
Data Leak Assessment
White Papers The Trend Micro Data Leak Assessment Practice, developed by Trend Micro-certified data leak prevention consultants, will provide you with a detailed, written analysis of your data leak risks. The assessment includes a pilot installation of Trend...
[June 18, 2009, 1:21]
Aggregating Assessment Tools in a Service Oriented Architecture
White Papers Until recently assessment and other eLearning systems have tended to adopt monolithic architectures and this has restricted integration with other tools. In order to help co-ordinate the design of the ELF, JISC has recently sponsored a number of...
[March 22, 2007, 0:00]
IT Services Management Service Brief: ITSM Assessment
White Papers The ITSM Assessment service is a necessary first step in achieving ITSM and best practice implementation. A primary focus of IT Service Management (ITSM) is the application of IT best practices (founded in ITIL) to enable IT to be a more effective...
[April 19, 2006, 1:01]
How an effective Vulnerability Assessment process can help me with this!
Talkback Within a vulnerability assessment process, the best way to guarantee vulnerabilities are identified, is by defining the system configurations within the assessment. Network discovery solutions shed light into the risk areas that are often not...
[November 27, 2008, 16:53]
IT Service Management: A Business Based Assessment Approach to ITIL Maturity
White Papers At present, the majority of ITIL and ITSM Maturity Assessment methods focuses on people, process, technology/tools, organizations and information factors and typically uses a derivative of the IT Service Capability Maturity Model (CMM) with...
[April 19, 2006, 1:01]
TechNet Webcast: Security Risk Management (Part 2 of 3): Risk Assessment (Level 300)
White Papers This webcast examines the processes of the Security Risk Management Guide, designed by Microsoft to help users to establish a process for risk assessment, cost benefit analysis, and implementation of security countermeasures.
[April 5, 2006, 0:00]
Network Assessment Helps Colorado Hospital Sort Out Application Issue, Plan for Expansion
White Papers As a solution Longmont United Hospital's Network Assessment pointed to vendor platform as source of application issue and provided recommendations for network optimization. Like many healthcare organizations in the U.S.
[July 18, 2008, 1:01]
Performing a Cyber Security Risk Assessment: Why? When? and How?
White Papers This webcast discusses about developing a common language, explains the importance of performing Cyber Security assessments, when to perform a Cyber Security risk assessment and how to perform a Cyber Security Risk assessment.
[January 17, 2005, 23:00]



