BACKGROUND Most UK medical schools use aptitude tests during student selection, but large-scale studies of predictive validity are rare. This study assesses the United Kingdom Clinical Aptitude Test (UKCAT), and its four sub-scales, along with measures of educational attainment, individual and contextual socio-economic background factors, as predictors of performance in the first year of medica...

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The purpose of this study was to explore secondary school teachers’ perceptions of interactive whiteboard (IWB) training workshops in Taiwan. This study also sought to identify potential problems associated with the design of IWB training workshops in order to improve their effectiveness. This research employed observations and interviews to collect research data. Observations were made at the ...

any states are considering programs that would provide vouchers for (low-income) children to attend private schools because policymakers believe that traditional reforms—such as reducing class sizes—will not fix an educational system that is “broken.” Advocates of vouchers argue that teachers’ unions and bloated bureaucracies impede such reforms from reaching the classroom and increasing studen...

BACKGROUND Our study aims to follow this effort and to explore the association between health, socioeconomic background, school-related factors, social support and adolescents' sense of coherence and educational aspirations among adolescents from different educational tracks and to contribute to the existing body of knowledge on the role of educational aspirations in the social reproduction of ...

This article was written to provide a brief history of the medical educational system in the USA, the current educational structure, and the current topics and challenges facing USA medical educators today. The USA is fortunate to have a robust educational system, with over 150 medical schools, thousands of graduate medical education programs, well-accepted standardized examinations throughout ...

________________________ Date i ABSTRACT Environmental education: improving student achievement Oksana Bartosh The present research, being one strand of the Environmental Education Consortium's longer research effort, aims to study the impact of environmental education (EE) programs on student achievement in traditional subjects such as math, reading and writing. By comparing " environmental sc...