background and purpose:  student assessment is an important issue in medical education. it is necessary to use objective, valid and reliable assessment methods that are appropriate to the learning objectives and domain.the objectives of this study were 1- development of the dops test (direct observation procedural skills) and identification of its validity, reliability and acceptability. 2- eva...

today, environmental crises that human beings are faced with such as global warming, destruction of natural habitats, decrease of natural resources, increase of different sorts of pollution, growth of population and some other cases which influence human life are not deniable. although human has tried to reduce these crises, it takes a long time to eradicate them. so, we have to become familiar...

background: it is known that basic science and general courses play a vital role in training of medical students. the medical students' comprehensive basic science examination (cbse) scores seem to be a potential tool for predicting their comprehensive pre-internship examination (cpie) scores. purpose: to evaluate the predictive validity of medical students' cbse scores for predicting their cpi...

BACKGROUND To determine the impact of oral diseases on everyday life, measures of oral quality of life are needed. In complementing traditional disease-based measures, they assess the need for oral care to evaluate oral health care programs and management of treatment. To assess the reliability and validity of the Oral Impact of Daily Performance (OIDP) and the short-form Oral Health Impact Pro...

Neutrices and external numbers were proposed as models of orders of magnitude within nonstandard analysis. We show that the external numbers form a commutative regular semigroup for addition and that the external numbers which are not neutrices form a commutative regular semigroup for multiplication. The validity of the distributive law is restricted, but it can be fully characterized. 2000 Mat...

The present investigation was undertaken to study the Environmental Awareness of secondary school students who had gone through SEED Project. The sample of the study comprised 193 boys, 207 girls, 196 rural, 204 urban, 204 aided and 196 government (total400) secondary school students. For the selection of sample, stratified random sampling technique was employed. The data were analysed by using...

Abstract Background Motivation is critical for supporting persistence and achievement in science, technology, engineering, mathematics (STEM) disciplines. In this study, we focus on the assessment of motivation among secondary school students. We provide validity reliability evidence Mathematics Questionnaire (MMQ)—adapted from Science designed college students—using data 2551 students seven st...

one of the main concerns of iranian students who learnenglish is the fact that they cannot learn the different english rules ofnegative and interrogative tenses and hence suffer from numerous grammar rules.the present study is based on the researchers' experiences, who have beeneducated in linguistics, in teaching english to persian students. they applieda new teaching method (the rule tea...

The concept of self -efficacy is based on the triadic reciprocality model symbolising a three way reciprocal relationship between: (a) personal factors i.e. cognition, emotion, and biological events (b) behaviour and (c) environmental factors (Maddux, 1995). Cognition, emotion and behaviour are the domains of personality which form the basis of research in self efficacy. Research has been exten...