Introduction: The essential problems in providing quality and safety services to patients, rapid changes in health care settings as well as information technology require educational revision. Competency-based curriculum focuses on set of skills that students should achieve. This study reviewed characteristics of competency-based curriculum in psychiatric nursing. Methods: A literature review a...

Background: The purpose of this study is to present an integrated model for the Iranian general dentistry curriculum. Methods: In this study, the qualitative method of focal groups was used. First, using library studies and analysis and interpretation of the resulted information, possible types of integration in the dental curriculum and real experiences of some of the world's leading universit...

the experienced curriculum” is one of the curriculums performed in the educational systems on which several different studies have been done. “the experienced curriculum” is of different levels whose first one is the hidden curriculum. this curriculum can be affected by different factors which have been categorized into four categories namely, educational, social, and geographical in this study...

The Developmental Path of Teacher Training Curriculum in Iran   A. R. Assaareh, Ph.D.* H. Bahaari BeygBaaghloo** A. Arabi Joneghaani***   The developmental path of Iranian teacher training curriculum, based on an analysis of the existing documents, consists of two tracts: one is influenced by the establishment of Daarolfonoon, the importing of scientific resources from Europe, and sending...

Curriculum-based measurement in reading (CBM-R) and the Measures of Academic Progress (MAP) are assessment tools widely employed for universal screening in schools. Although a large body of research supports the validity of CBM-R, limited empirical evidence exists supporting the technical adequacy of MAP or the acceptability of either measure for universal screening. Purposes of the current stu...

this study aimed to investigate the program of translation studies, offered in iranian universities at the level of master, in terms of its curriculum through a needs analysis model offered by altschuld and witkin (1995). to do so, after a review of the related literature and conducting a documentary analysis, the researchers chose to look at the issue from different perspectives. current instr...

Recent worldwide trends in curriculum policy have re-emphasised the role of teachers in school-based curriculum development. Scotland’s Curriculum for Excellence is typical of these trends, stressing that teachers are agents of change. This paper draws upon empirical data to explore school-based curriculum development in response to Curriculum for Excellence. We focus on two case studies – seco...

The terms “curriculum differentiation” and “School Based Curriculum Developemnt” occur frequently in the literature.The former is used to describe how individualised instruction can be developed for individual students. The latter refers to students too but in the wider context of the total school population. What has not been realized until quite recently is the overlap between the two terms a...

The ultimate purpose in designing a Curriculum should be to have an organized system of what is to be learned when an area of study is identified. The Curriculum Development should be designed in such a way that even the beginners are able to get a complete idea of the subject over a period of time on learning it. The curriculum should be as of that it should make him/her to get involved in kno...