Frontiers in Theory and Practice

Frontiers in Sociological Practice

Schwab's Practical Theory: Integrate of Theory and Practice

The emergence of re-conceptualism in the field of curriculum studies caused a large rotation of identity in this field. The book titled "understanding of curriculum" by William Pinar may be considered the most outstanding work in the field. In this book, movement which affected pre re-conceptualist, are introduced as the traditional type and it is believed the new curriculum discourses should b...

Competency-Based Curriculum: Linking Theory and Practice

Background and objective: Most higher education curricula do not provide the competencies graduates need in the occupational fields, resulting in waste of money and lower effectiveness while increasing the number of unemployed graduates. Competency-based education is an innovative educational model that can solve such problems and lead education activists to design competency-based curricula. T...

1995 Institute: Frontiers in Laboratory Practice Research

Quality assurance implies making certain, guaranteeing the attainment of quality. Do laboratories actually guarantee the quality of testing services today? If not, what is the purpose of quality assurance plans, programs, and practices? Have laboratories even defined the quality to be achieved for each test? If not, how can quality be guaranteed? Do current efforts in assessing quality provide ...

1995 Institute: Frontiers in Laboratory Practice Research

A major clinical use of laboratory tests is for classifying patients into diagnostic and treatment categories. Multiple factors influence the decision limits used for these decisions; however, the analytic performance of the assays seldom is explicitly considered in these decisions, even though both imprecision and bias may significantly alter the decisions. Of these two factors, changes in ana...