there is a growing interest among the higher education principals and policy makers to improve teacher evaluation methods and more important than that to use the evaluation data. a number of research studies implied the ineffective instruction of esp courses in iran (atai, 2002; eslami, 2005; hayati, 2008; ahmadi, 2008; sherkatolabbasi & mahdavi, 2012; boniadi, ghojazadeh & rahmatvand, ...

BACKGROUND Remarkable advances in educational measurement have proved need to the implementation of modern and appropriate methods of clinical evaluation. This study was carried out to compare the effect of applying direct observation procedural skills and routine evaluation method on clinical skills of nursing students. METHODS This randomized clinical trial was conducted on students of Nurs...

A new experience teaching programming and numerical methods to engineering students, using Maple to implement the Chor-Rivest cryptosystem, is shown. The aim is to give the students a better understanding of cryptography by using Maple software. In this paper we discuss our attempts to structure an on-line course that required the students participation, interest, and evaluation by means of a new

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...

This research is endeavoring to design an elearning web site on the internet having the course name as "Object Oriented Programming" (OOP) for the students of level four at Computer Science Department (CSD). This course is to be taught online (through web) and then a programme is to be designed to evaluate students’ performance electronically while introducing a comparison between online teachi...

introduction. evaluation of medical students has been usually restricted to evaluation of their medical information rather than their clinical skills . meanwhile, perfect diagnosis and treatment of a medical illness is highly related to the quality of making therapeutic alliance and physical examination. this article is a trial study to investigate the quality of medical student's skill in...

This paper evaluates the eff ectiveness of the introduction of a Writing Center at a university. The center has the purpose to provide subject-specifi c courses that aim to improve students‘ abilities of scientifi c writing. In order to deal with presumed selfperceptional biases of students in feedback surveys, we use diff erent quantitative evaluation methods and compare the results to corresp...