Many dental schools consider the successful completion of a state or regional dental licensure examination as one of the significant benchmarks for assessing effectiveness of the curriculum. At the University of Florida College of Dentistry (UFCD), performance on the state dental licensure examination is monitored and compared with senior year mock board performance and clinical productivity to...

performance   evaluation in regular periods is one of the ways in which organizations can   evaluate their performance as well as weak and strong points unifiedly and   precisely. these days, mathematical models are also used to evaluate the   efficiency and productivity of various units. these units are a collection of   education, research and service activities as input and output factors an...

This article is based on an exploratory study on the use of blogs to support learning in an online MBA school. In this paper, the authors examine students’ perceptions toward blogs and their effectiveness. The study finds that although students are open to the idea of using blogs to enhance presentation and reflection of their learning, concerns exist on their suitability for threaded discussio...

In this article, we share findings from an analysis of Ontario Catholic school board policy documents (N = 179) containing Canada’s newest human rights grounds: gender expression and identity. Our major finding may be unsurprising—that boards are generally not responding to Toby’s Act (passed in 2012) at the level policy, as few have added these grounds a way that enacts spirit legislation. Whi...

Learning communities, i.e. school boards, administrators, curriculum designers, teachers and support staff, try to respond to the public's desire for learning involving digital document technology and to their own beliefs and intuitions about appropriate roles for that technology in learning. They are deluged with digital possibilities. We studied one school's experience of changing and expandi...

This study investigated the image of school nursing in the American press during 1978 and 1980. Content analysis of newspaper articles yielded specific measurements of the extent to which school nursing is visible via the press, the content of messages disseminated to the public about school nursing issues and two year changes in newspaper treatment of this topic. The mean number of articles pu...

For those unfamiliar with it, the sci.math newsgroup hierarchy is a collection of thread-based bulletin boards dealing with all aspects of mathematics. Of that hierarchy, the group sci.math is devoted to the discipline in general. On any given day, topics posted there might be by high school or college students looking for help with homework, people suggesting solutions to classical conjectures...

Thomas E. Starzl is Professor of Surgery at the University of Colorado School of Medicine and Chief of Surgery a t Denver V.A. Hospital. He is also a member of the staff of Colorado General (University] Hospital in Denver. He received his M.D. and Ph.D. from Northwestern University and his surgical training at Johns Hopkins Hospital, Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami, and the V.A. Research Hos...

Nikos Karamanos is a Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Patras. He has carried out predoctoral and postdoctoral research at Karolinska Institute (School of Medicine, Sweden). Currently he is on the editorial boards of several journals among them the Journal of Biological Chemistry and Current Medicinal Chemistry, and serves as Academic Editor of Plos One. His research is focused on ...