In 2003 a working group established on the initiative of the Centre of Information Technology of Education under the Ministry of Education and Science, has been reviewing regulations for the assessment and certification of educational software. This article analizes the main aspects of the proposed orders. It discusses general structure of quality assurance system, the procedures for the certif...

1 1 This is an updated version of the guidelines presented to the Committee for the Coordination of Statistical Activities (CCSA) at its meeting in September 2009 [CCSA, 2009]. It takes into account comments received from members of the CCSA and as well recent developments on quality. The aim of the document is to further support the work of the CCSA for enhanced quality assurance of statistica...

Models have begun to play an important role in environmental assessment and urban climate studies. Their increasing use, however, is paralleled by a growing awareness that the majority of these models have never been the subject of rigorous evaluation. Consequently there is a lack of confidence in the modelled results. The paper reports on a European initiative (COST 732) which was launched 200...

Many of the early quality models have followed a hierarchical approach in which a set of factors that affect quality are defined, with little scope for expansion. More recent models have been developed that follow a 'Define your own' approach with locally tailored factors. The aim of this study is to present a new model to software quality assurance which addresses the problems of theses approa...

Nowadays, software organisations need to develop excellent and reliable products. This scenario has helped to increase the relevance of quality assurance activities, especially the testing discipline. However, sometimes the time and resources are limited and not all tests can be executed, demanding organisations to decide what use cases should be tested, to guarantee the predictability of the p...

molecular diagnostic methods have played and continuing to have a critical role in clinical laboratories in recent years. therefore, standardization is an evolutionary process that needs to be upgrade with increasing scientific knowledge, improvement of the instruments and techniques. the aim of this study was to design a quality assurance program in order to have similar conditions for all med...

this article elaborates on the experience of higher medical education evaluation in iran. although institutional evaluation in iran started in about a decade ago, recent policies of the government to increase quality of higher medical education have contributed to a special effort in designing and implementing evaluation mechanisms in university systems in iran. among these a process of interna...

background and objective: quality control is one of the most important components in order to improve quality assurance in laboratories during analytical steps. for this purpose, coefficient of variation plays an important role. due to the fast improvement in technology, application of inferential statistics for the comparisons of laboratory techniques, including instrument and chemicals and fa...