Abstract: In one embodiment, a computer implemented method for use in evaluating performance of one or more observed persons, the method comprises: providing a comment field on a display device for a first user to enter free-form comments related to an observation of one or more observed persons performing a task to be evaluated; receiving a free-form comment entered by the first user in the comment field and relating to the observation; storing the free-form comment entered by the first user on a computer readable medium accessible by multiple users; providing a share field to the user for the user to set a sharing setting; and determining whether to display the free-form comment to a second user when the second user accesses stored data relating to the observation based on the sharing setting.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a computer implemented method for customizing a performance evaluation rubric for evaluating performance of one or more observed persons performing a task comprises: providing a user interface for display on a computer device allowing entry of a custom performance rubric; receiving and storing first level identifiers belonging to a first hierarchical level of a custom performance rubric; receiving and storing lower level identifiers of lower hierarchical levels of the custom performance rubric, each lower level identifier associated with at least one of the first level identifiers or another lower level identifier; receiving a comment related to the observation of the performance of the task; outputting the first level identifiers for display; receiving a selected first level identifier and outputting a subset of the lower level identifiers; corresponding the comment to a selected lower level identifier; and assigning the selected lower level identifier to the comment.

Abstract: A method for decoding and displaying video signals using a memory buffer, in which a speed of a write operation for a memory buffer is adjusted to avoid overtaking a read operation for the same memory buffer. A display controller and a video MPEG engine contend for access to a DRAM memory buffer controller, and have their relative priorities set so that the video MPEG engine operates to write to the memory buffer at a relatively slow speed during a time period when the display controller is reading from that same memory buffer, and to write to the memory buffer at a relatively fast speed during a time period when the display controller is not reading from the memory buffer. The relatively slow speed is preferably much slower than the reading speed of the display controller, while the relatively fast speed is preferably much faster than the display controller.