OBJECTIVES This longitudinal study was aimed to investigate the association between didactic grades and practical skills for dental students and whether didactic grades can reliability predict the dental students' practical performance. MATERIALS AND METHODS Didactic and practical grades for graduates from the Faculty of Dentistry, King Abdulaziz University, between the years 2009 and 2011 we...

Since all doctors at some point in their career will be faced with their role as a teacher, it appears desirable that future doctors are educated in didactic skills. At present, however, there are no formal opportunities for developing didactic skills at the majority of Dutch medical faculties. The main question of this study is: How do medical interns perceive the quality and quantity of their...

The evaluation and reevaluation of the fundamental didactic principles suppose the acceptance at the level of an instructive-educative activity of a new educational paradigm. Thus, its understanding implies an assumption at a conceptual-theoretical level of some approaches where the didactic aspects find their usefulness by relating to value principles. This situation expresses in fact focus on...

OBJECTIVES The objective of this study is to investigate the correlation between the psychomotor skills and the academic performance of dental students. METHODS Didactic and preclinical scores were collected for students who graduated from the Faculty of Dentistry, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, in 2011. Three courses (Dental Anatomy, Removable Prosthodontic Denture, and Ort...

Finnish mathematics teaching: a case of uniquely implicit didactics: Keynote presentation. This paper reports on a qualitative analysis of video-taped mathematics lessons taught by four case study teachers, defined locally as effective, in a provincial university city in Finland. The aim was to examine how teachers conceptualise and present mathematics to their learners and, in so doing, unders...

The teaching innovation project "Network of Education, Communication and Cooperation the University Seville" (RECCUS) created a network between Seville various NGOs, mainly with didactic social purposes. included several actions such as preparation notes educational videos, visits by communication professionals working for design training itinerary proposal specialized course on in third sector...

This paper and its companion form an extended version of notes provided to participants in the Valencia September 2004 summer school on Data Analysis in Cosmology. The papers offer a pedagogical introduction to the problem of estimating the power spectrum from galaxy surveys. The intention is to focus on concepts rather than on technical detail, but enough mathematics is provided to point the s...

IONUT VALENTIN LEDETI1,2, VASILE NICOLAE BERCEAN1*, IONUT MIHAI TANASE1, ANDREEA ANDA CREANGA1,3, VALENTIN BADEA1, CAROL CSUNDERLIK1 1Politehnica University Timiooara, Faculty of Industrial Chemistry and Environmental Engineering, 6 Carol Telbisz, 300001 Timiooara, Romania. 2“VICTOR BABEa” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Faculty of Pharmacy, 2 E. Murgu Square, 300041, Timiooara, Romania 3“...

AIM To analyze the type, severity, location, and timing of casualties in a Croatian Army brigade during an offensive action against enemy forces of about two infantry battalions timely prepared for defense. METHODS Casualties were analyzed according to bilateral manpower and equipment conditions, morale, time of the day, weather conditions, type of ground where the action took place, quality ...