background: using thinking-based scientific methods such as paper-based and electronic nursing processes in nursing education can lead to education of skilled and efficient experts that can affect students’ satisfaction in addition to their quality of care. the present study aimed to compare the effects of recording and implementing the nursing process based on two methods (paper-based and elec...

owever, to acknowledge that educators at all levels could do a better job of using data is only the first step. The articles that make up this newsletter show that there are almost as many ways of using data as there are people with different interests. Each article is rich in examples of how to use data for decisions involving instruction, alignment, school improvement, and policy development....

Higher education, science, and technology have always been international endeavors, but have acquired new dimensions and features in recent years. This paper describe these features in terms of some key characteristics of American higher education – general education at the undergraduate level, organized graduate schools, and the expansion of the private sector. As these features spread through...

This paper estimates the monetary return to quality in U.S. graduate education, controlling for cognitive ability and self-selection across award level, program quality, and field-of-study. In most program types, I cannot reject the hypothesis of no returns to either degree completion or program quality. Important exceptions include master’s programs in health science, where completion substant...

Since applicants are generally hard-put to know just how much they are really learning, let alone how much they can expect to learn at a school they have never seen, they do not make enlightened choices. They rarely possess either the time or the information to explore all the promising options available to them and usually have only a limited basis for comparing the options they do consider. U...

In this paper, quality is examined from three dimensions design, conformance, and performance. However, the primary focus is on the performance quality of distance education. Previous works have mostly focused on the design and conformance quality. This research is proposing that the true measure of distance education or e-learning should be on the performance quality. This is more important if...

The Pan American Federation of Associations of Faculties (Schools) of Medicine FEPAFEM/PAFAMS is a non-governmental, nonprofit academic organization that joins the National Associations of Medical Schools for the Hemisphere. For some countries the growth in the number of schools and colleges has been explosive in recent decades to where now there are, in fact, about 706 medical schools in the A...