This study aims to explore the missing link between English textbooks used in high schools (9th-12th grades) and university entrance exams (2010-2019) Turkey on lexical syntactic complexity levels by using corpus linguistics tools: AntWordProfiler, TAALED, L2 Syntactic Complexity Analyzer (L2SCA). Official complementary materials obtained from Ministry of National Education have been compared a...

Introduction The purpose of this study was to determine the associations of the demographic variables of gender, state of legal residency, student age, and undergraduate major with scores on the Medical College Admissions Test (MCAT) and the United States Medical Licensing Exam (USMLE) Step 1 and Step 2 Clinical Knowledge. Methods The researchers collected and analyzed exam scores and demogra...

Tuberculosis (TB) is an important health problem in developing countries, with varying clinical presentations depending on the organs/systems involved. To study the spectrum of clinical and paraclinical aspects of extra pulmonary TB in children suffering from pulmonary TB. This study has been carried out on 65 children with tuberculosis, admitted in TB wards of National Research Institute of Tu...

Introduction: This study examined the moderating effect of cultural contexts in the relationship between gender and academic stress among male and female Iranian and Swedish university students. Method: The Academic Stress Questionnaire (ASQ) was administered to 212 students (112 Iranian (32 male and 78 female) and 100 Swedish (29 male and 71 female)). Linear Regression analysis was used for da...

objective: dental profession is associated with a high level of stress experienced by clinicians in private practice as well as students and instructors in dental school environment. the purpose of this study was to detect the main stressors in dental students of school of dentistry, babol university of medical sciences in 2011-2012.   methods: in this descriptive, analytical study, data were c...

introduction. human resources are the most important source. it has a basic role in our country especially as a developing country. postgraduate entrance exams are difficult exams due to fewer universities’ capacity, its costs and length, it can train our future builders as well. this study will describe & explain the statistical and evaluation criteria of ph.d. entrance nursing exam in 1379. m...

BACKGROUND The assessment of the anesthesia course in our university comprises Objective Structured Clinical Examinations (OSCEs), in conjunction with portfolio and multiple-choice questions (MCQ). The objective of this study was to evaluate the outcome of different forms of anesthesia course assessment among 5(th) year medical students in our university, as well as study the influence of gende...

This study examined the substantive and predictive validity facets of the University Entrance Examination for English Major (UEEEM) students. To that aim, 111 English major students were recruited to report their scores on each of the subtests of the test as well as their grade point average. Sequential multiple regressions and factor analysis were used in the analysis of the data. Results ackn...