In India, a single national level entrance examination for admission to undergraduate and postgraduate medical courses has been introduced. This is largely an effort towards alleviating financial corruption in admission process, improving logistics and ease of examination for students, and resource-efficacy in conduct of examination. Unfortunately, the possible educational impact of such single...

my interest in the department of medical education started in the year 1955 when about 900 high school graduates in shiraz, participated in the “konkoor”, an iranian university entrance exam. of these 900 graduates, 42 passed and gained admissions into shiraz university medical school and six years later, 32 graduated and received a medical degree from shiraz university medical school. i was on...

1. Student Research Committee, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Shahroud University of Medical Sciences, Shahroud, Iran 2. Center for Health Related Social and Behavioral Sciences Research, Shahroud University of Medical Sciences, Shahroud, Iran 3. Dept. of Reproductive Health, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran 4. Reproductive Studies and Women...

While it has been shown that university attendance is strongly predicted by parental education, we know very little about why some potential ‘first in family’ or first-generation students make to and others do not. This paper looks at the role of non-cognitive skills participation this disadvantaged group England. We find conditional on national, high-stakes exam scores various measures socioec...

Abstract By magnifying gender‐ and socioeconomic status‐based inequalities, the COVID‐19 pandemic caused stress disrupted career progress for professional students. The present work investigated impact of pandemic‐related prevailing barriers on structurally disadvantaged women preparing a high‐stakes exam. In Study 1, we found that among US law students October 2020 California Bar Exam—the exam...

Although some piecemeal efforts have been made to investigate the validity and use of the Iranian PhD exam, no systematic project has been specifically carried out in this regard. The current study, hence, tried to attend to this void. As such, to ensure a balanced focus on test interpretation and test consequence, and to track evidence derived from a mixed–method study on the validity of Irani...

Introductory level courses in many Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) disciplines require students to acquire an enormous new disciplinespecific vocabulary in preparation for future courses. Students are often not prepared for the amount of selfdirected studying they must do to be successful in these types of courses, particularly in their first year of college. To assist student...

This research addresses the change in how the Spanish University Entrance Examination can be delivered in the future. There is a wide acknowledgement that computer tests are very demanding for the delivering institutions which makes computer language testing difficult to implement. However, the use of tablet PCs can facilitate the delivery at even lower cost than the regular computer based lang...

Background: A considerable percentage of school-age children and adolescents have signs symptoms mental health problems. Gender differences can also be important in status. In Iran, talented students are selected through an entrance exam to enter special schools called SAMPAD. Mental problems school affected by gender. Objectives: This study was conducted determine the prevalence Iranian studyi...