introduction: the goal of training activities is to grow potential abilities and intelligence in human. evaluation of training service has main role in achieving qualified educational activities and increasing students’ skills. therefore, this study evaluated the performance of training educators from points of view of medical record students in kashan university of medical sciences in 2005-6. ...

In this study, we investigated whether the understanding of the particulate nature of matter by students was improved by allowing them to design and evaluate molecular animations of chemical phenomena. We developed Chemation, a learner-centered animation tool, to allow seventh-grade students to construct ßipbook-like simple animations to showmolecular models and dynamic processes. Eight classes...

The Open University is a distance-based higher education institution. Most of our students are in employment and study from home, contacting their tutor and fellow students via e-mail and discussion forums. In this paper, we describe our undergraduate and postgraduate modules in the software systems area, how we teach them at a distance, and our focus on shifting our students’ minds into a refl...

This paper describes a computerized collaborative testing environment in which students can take an assessment session in groups. For each question, an individual response is firstly requested, then students are allowed to view the answers of the others and discuss the question. After that a final response is requested. This collaborative environment has been used to measure the effect of colla...

We examined student support for a policy that would allow carrying of concealed handguns on university campuses. Large percentages of students at 2 universities expressed very low levels of comfort with the idea of permitting concealed handgun carrying on campus, suggesting that students may not welcome less restrictive policies. Students held slightly different opinions about concealed handgun...

This paper presents a reflection on using an Enterprise Architecture approach to develop in graduate students a holistic and integrated view of complex enterprises. It presents the unit rationale and design. The paper details the authentic assessment used to engage the students in the learning process. Student performance results are shown. Changes to the unit design are presented, emphasizing ...

The Open University is a distance-based higher education institution. Most of our students are in employment and study from home, contacting their tutor and fellow students via e-mail and discussion forums. In this paper, we describe our undergraduate and postgraduate modules in the software systems area, how we teach them at a distance, and our focus on shifting our students’ minds into a refl...

M students’ and physicians’ training is oriented toward rapid retrieval of information and the development of those clinical skills needed to make immediate interventions. Medical students’ education in the area of psychiatry is usually limited to a sixto eight-week rotation, where they are most often exposed to a view of mental function as a simple epiphenomenon of the activity of neurotransmi...

background : one of the essential components of learning and educational program is evaluation or examination. there are various methods for evaluating clinical skills among which objective structured clinical examination (osce) has been recognized as the most reliable method for evaluation of the clinical skills. methods : this was a one-step single-group descriptive study which was conducted ...