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The article discusses the use of the Perceptions of Assessment Tasks Inventory (PATI) in Secondary Schools in Great Britain. The article introduces and describes Perceptions of Assessment Tasks Inventory and gathers data to describe and group the views of students on the particular assessment tasks. Data where collected from 658 grades 9 and 10 students from 11 schools. The research resulted in four distinct clusters of characteristics of expectations from students.

Background and Purpose: The EuroQol and Medical Outcome Survey 36-item short-form health survey (SF-36) questionnaires have both been validated for the assessment of health-related quality of life after stroke. However, the relationship between these instruments has not been studied after stroke. We therefore sought to compare the responses of a group of stroke patients to both instruments., Methods: A total of 2253 patients with stroke entered by United Kingdom hospitals in the International Stroke Trial were randomized to follow-up with either the EuroQol or SF-36 instruments. We randomly selected one third of patients who had responded to the EuroQol for follow-up, again using the SF-36, and two thirds of patients who had responded to the SF-36 for follow-up, again using the EuroQol. We assessed the patients' mean score for each domain of the SF-36 categorized by their response to the corresponding EuroQol domain and the correlation between the domains of the 2 instruments., Results: The domains for both instruments, which assessed physical functioning, social functioning, bodily pain, and overall health-related quality of life, correlated closely. The mental health domain of the SF-36 correlated only poorly with the psychological functioning domain of the EuroQol., Conclusions: Both the EuroQol and SF-36 measure broadly similar domains of health. The weak relationship between the assessments of mental health may reflect a difference in content or more fundamental problems with the validity or reliability of the items in one of the instruments with respect to this domain. This study has provided the first empirical qualitative evidence by which the data on the SF-36 after stroke may be interpreted.

Background and Purpose: The reliability of the EuroQol and SF-36 questionnaires after stroke is not known. We therefore aimed to assess and compare the test-retest reliability of both instruments in a group of stroke patients., Methods: A total of 2253 patients with stroke entered by United Kingdom hospitals in the International Stroke Trial were randomized to follow up with either the EuroQol or the SF-36 instruments. For both instruments, we randomly selected one third of respondents and asked them to complete another, identical questionnaire. We assessed test-retest reliability using agreement statistics: unweighted kappa statistics for the categorical domains of the EuroQol and intraclass correlation coefficients for the EuroQol visual analog scale, utility scores, and SF-36., Results: For the five categorical domains of the EuroQol, reproducibility was generally good (kappa ranged from 0.63 to 0.80). The reproducibility of the domains of the SF-36 was qualitatively similar for all the domains except mental health (intraclass correlation coefficient=.28). However, the 95% confidence intervals for the difference in scores between test and retest were substantial. For both instruments, reproducibility was better when the patient completed the questionnaires than when a proxy did., Conclusions: Both the EuroQol and SF-36 have acceptable and qualitatively similar test-retest reliability. Therefore, either instrument might function effectively as a discriminatory measure for assessing health-related quality-of-life outcomes in groups of patients after stroke. However, our data do not support the use of either instrument for serial assessments in individual patients unless very large differences over time are expected.