Double Standards in Educational Standards - Are Disadvantaged Students Being Graded More Leniently?

National Educational Technology - Standards for Students

Why Educational Standards Are Not Truly Objective

Educational standards have become a popular choice for setting clear educational targets for students. The language of standards is that they are “objective” as opposed to typical tests which may suffer from bias. This article seeks to further analyze the claims that standards are objective and fair to all. The author focuses on six issues which illustrate the problematic nature of educational ...

Measuring educational standards

Every Summer, when English public examination results appear there is a debate within the media about whether ‘educational standards’ are changing. The above remarks are typical; the first reflects the suspicions of those who believe in a professional conspiracy to prove that standards of performance are rising, and the second reflects a politician’s determination to pretend that everything has...

Herbal drug leaflets: are they in compliance with standards?

Leaflets inside pharmaceutical packages should include focal points about medicines being used by patients. The current study was designed to assess the compliance of information cited in herbal medicine leaflets with the standards released by the Ministry of Health and Medical Education of Iran (MHMEI). Leaflets of commonly used herbal pharmaceutical products sold in pharmacies of Iran were co...

Herbal drug leaflets: are they in compliance with standards?

Leaflets inside pharmaceutical packages should include focal points about medicines being used by patients. The current study was designed to assess the compliance of information cited in herbal medicine leaflets with the standards released by the Ministry of Health and Medical Education of Iran (MHMEI). Leaflets of commonly used herbal pharmaceutical products sold in pharmacies of Iran were co...