background & aim : universities should play an important role in education commensurate with the expectations of stakeholders and of the community as well. the university professors and teachers have critical positions in education. this research aimed to explore the perspective of students in tehran university of medical sciences (tums) about characteristics of a model teacher. methods & mater...

The purpose of this study is to reveal the relationship between the levels of loneliness and internet addiction in teacher candidates. The research group of this study is formed with 347 teacher candidates who were attending Pedagogical Formation Program at Ankara University and Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University. In the study, two different data collection tools were used. One of them was “UCLA ...

introduction: over the past 30 years, recognizing the need and importance of training residents in teaching skills has resulted in several resident-as-teacher programs. the purpose of this study was to explore the impact of this teaching initiative and investigate the improvement in residents’ teaching skills through evaluating their satisfaction and perceived effectiveness as well as assessing...

The SPOC model (Small Private Online Course) is a new teaching first proposed by Professor Armando Fox from the University of California, Berkeley. application can supplement shortcomings original choral conducting course system, refine knowledge points, expand practices, enrich learning and evaluation, facilitate internalization knowledge, teacher-student interaction, student-student while for...

In spite of increase in resources and expenditure on education sector, it is still struggling with declining education outcomes. In the last few decades, Teacher quality/Effectiveness through national and international researches has emerged as a shaft of light to attain educational aims. On the parallel lines, Teacher management has emerged as flaming issue from past few years throughout the g...

Introduction. The most important aim of teacher evaluation by students is feedback to teachers in order to inform the negative and positive points of their lectures and manners. The aim of this study was to investigate teachers’ attitudes towards the report of their evaluation results and effective factors in assessment variation. Methods. The research was a descriptive study using a questionn...

This paper describes two studies of class size effects on achievement and dropout rates in (traditional) calculus at the university level. The first involved one teacher in both a large and a small section of calculus. The second included four teachers, each in both large and small sections of calculus. After accounting for other significant factors, we found that class size itself was not a st...

AIM Student tutorials are now firmly anchored in medical education. However, to date there have only been isolated efforts to establish structured teacher training for peer tutors in medicine. To close this gap, a centralized tutor training program for students, culminating in an academic certificate, was implemented at Heidelberg University Medical School. The program also counts within the sc...