Academic medicine comprises education, research, and medical care, respectively provided by medical schools, research institutions, and teaching hospitals. Thus far, academic medicine has been unsuccessful in establishing, protecting, promoting, and improving the quality of care. Its role in that area should therefore be reconsidered. Quality improvement activities require constant planning and...

When higher education adopted total quality management in the 1980s, changes were made primarily in business and service departments. Some curricula were revised, and a few instructors made changes in what they did in their classrooms, but most continued to teach the way they had always taught. This research is specifically concerned with the applicability of TQM to teaching, as opposed to acad...

The present study examines the moderating role first grade classroom quality may have on the relations between children’s difficult temperament (assessed in infancy) and their academic and social outcomes in early elementary school (first grade). Using data from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development’s Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development, 1032 children were rat...

Web-sites are domain intensive and some important domains are social, cultural, entertainment, e-commerce, e-government, museum, tourism, academic, etc. It is obvious that domains of Web-sites differ significantly, and hence a common yardstick can not be applied to measure quality of all Web-sites. Signore, Loranca et al, Olsina et al, Tripathi & Kumar and others have tried to define quality ch...

This study investigated the role of emotion regulation in children's early academic success using a sample of 325 kindergarteners. A mediational analysis addressed the potential mechanisms through which emotion regulation relates to children's early academic success. Results indicated that emotion regulation was positively associated with teacher reports of children's academic success and produ...

Epistemic governance and epistemic innovation policy formulate a critique against too-narrowly defined approaches to governance, where governance follows onesidedly bureaucratic or technocratic considerations. Instead, epistemic governance (also quality management and quality enhancement) and epistemic innovation policy should be regarded as a plea for a more comprehensive understanding, where ...

Executive Summary There is growing evidence that children who enter kindergarten ready for its academic, socio-emotional, and physical demands are more likely to achieve future academic success (Duncan et al., 2007; Hair et al., 2006). In contrast, children who enter kindergarten behind their peers in these areas are at risk for academic underachievement (Cabell, Justice, Logan, & Konold, 2013)...

Constructing a rigorous identification strategy based on a unique educational reform involving preference-based random assignment of students to different middle schools in Beijing, this paper examines how school and teacher characteristics affect student academic performance. Results show that school matters for test scores at the High School Entrance Examination. Teachers’ comprehensive quali...

This study aimed to analyze the academic standards of teaching physical education methods according to competencies fields, identify student/teacher teaching competencies in motor expression teaching methods syllabus according to quality academic standards and designing teaching competencies evaluation form for student/teacher in fourth grade, Education Department, Faculty of Physical Education...