Black–white test score gaps form in early childhood and widen over elementary school. Sociologists have debated the roles that socioeconomic status (SES) and school quality play in explaining these patterns. In this study, I replicate and extend past research using new nationally representative data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study–Kindergarten Class of 2010–2011. I find black–white ...

health systems across the world are concerned with the quality and safety of patient care. this includes investing in research and development to progress advances in the treatment and management of individuals and healthcare organisations. the concept of evidence- based healthcare has gained increasing currency over the last two decades; yet questions persist about the time it takes for new re...

Seedlings of 11 species of forest maples (Acer L.) were grown outdoors from budburst to senescence under three light regimes: ‘gap centre under clear skies ’ (approx. 20% open sky irradiance; red:far-red ratio ̄ 1±12) ; ‘gap centre under cloudy skies ’ (1±5%, ratio ̄ 1±03) ; and ‘gap edge’ (2±5%, ratio ̄ 0±6). Seedlings grown under the gap centre (clear sky) regime had significantly greater height...

Higher education is growing fast and every day it becomes more and more exposed to globalization processes. The aim of this study was to determine the quality gap of educational services by using a originally SERVQUAL instrument among students in Faculty of Law Osijek. In this study, a total of 479 students were selected randomly and asked to complete a questionnaire that was designed according...

BACKGROUND Higher education is growing fast and every day it becomes more and more exposed to globalization processes. The aim of this study was to determine the quality gap of educational services by using a modified SERVQUAL instrument among students in Hormozgan University of Medical Sciences. METHODS A cross-sectional study was carried out at Hormozgan University of Medical Sciences in 20...

background and purpose: the office of educational services at universities is a very important division and it is necessary for employees to strive towards providing suitable services to students. the quality of educational services has always been a major concern for higher education managers. interviewing stakeholders and experts increases our understanding of different aspects of the subject...

Software quality is a complex concept containing a large number of quality attributes. These attributes often have different meaning for different people and different attributes are not of equal importance. Moreover, the actual relations between the attributes are mostly poorly understood. Companies have to cope with these relations in their daily software development. On the one hand, compani...

introduction: patient satisfaction is crucial to the long-run success in health care center. with regard to the highest patients’ referral to the emergency department and the existing challenges due to the patient’s need to urgent care, we aimed to evaluate health care services quality in this unit to find out whether the patients have different expectations from health care providers and if th...