Curriculum-based measurement (CBM) is an approach for assessing the growth of students in basic skills that originated uniquely in special education. A substantial research literature has developed to demonstrate that CBM can be used effectively to gather student performance data to support a wide range of educational decisions. Those decisions include screening to identify, evaluating prerefer...

background: revision and promotion of educational programs, as well as guiding such programs from the traditional to modern ones, have been one of the goals of educational planning in order to improve the educational status. the present study was performed based on the opinions of the cardiology assistants.   methods:  this research was a cross sectional study and all the participants included ...

introduction. the capability of the academic staff in teaching has a significant relationship with their awareness of educational process and curriculum. taking the necessity of the curriculum and precise implementation of its parts as a system into account, reveals the academic staff’s thinking system and educational process. education experts believe that the university student is the center ...

Problem-based learning (PBL) has swept the world of medical education since its introduction 40 years ago, leaving a trail of unanswered or partially answered questions about its benefits. The literature is replete with systematic reviews and meta-analyses, all of which have identified some common themes; however, heterogeneity in the definition of a 'problem-based learning curriculum' and its ...

Malaysia is currently a provisional member of the Washington Accord and the Engineering Accreditation Council (EAC) in the country is shifting its paradigm to an outcome-based approach instead of being prescriptive in the assessment. Although the EAC’s 1999 published manual listed the generic attributes for graduates, little effort was made to ensure engineering schools appreciate and implement...

It seems likely that the earlier application of the findings of high quality research may have reduced mortality and morbidity (a commonly cited example is the delay in implementing thrombolysis for acute myocardial infarction).' Evidence based practice seeks to improve the process and outcome of care by using high quality evidence together with clinical expertise and patient values and prefere...

this paper describes one university’s approach to improving the quality of teaching and learning at the institutional level, based on the premise of improving the design of curriculum rather than focusing on the skills of teachers as such. the paper describes the process by which university-wide principles of curriculum design were defined and agreed, as well as the parallel campaigns needed to...

This paper describes how and why our department chose to integrate a sophisticated visual programming environment (DELPHI) into the introductory programming course (CS101/2) of the first-year undergraduate engineering curriculum. It also reports on the outcome of this venture, which involved a switch from a conventional lecture-based approach to teaching CS102 to a project-based approach. While...

A literature review of the development of the information technology (IT) curriculum in recent decades in Hong Kong reveals that the aim of the curriculum has shifted from Computer Studies to the development of information literacy (IL). Based on a survey of all schools in Hong Kong and in response to the demand for IL in society, a curriculum framework is proposed that fosters the IL of studen...