The purpose of this study was to identify the performance differences between two groups of Austrian dental students (one with a prior medical degree and one without a medical degree) during their dental school training and final dental licensure examination. A specific aim was to determine if having a medical degree is a predictive factor for dental students' scores on the Austrian Dental Admi...

the purpose of this study was to expose a group of iranian students to an e-learning program and find out the effects of this exposure on their learning and motivation strategies. this study made an attempt to evaluate the degree of strategy use in both traditional and e-learning modes of learning. moreover, the effects of the e-learning program of the participants of the study on learning stra...

Higher Education institutions strive to continuously improve meet students’ expectations. Thus, it is vital understand the factors involved in perceptions on their degree and quality of teaching received. Engineering degrees require specific conditions due complex practical lessons need for high applicability, our aim identify what affects delivered engineering students. Previous research focus...

objectives: the present study was designed to investigate and compare the degree of suffering and severity of psychiatric symptoms among senior students of medicine and of other fields. method: the subjects were 126 senior students of medicine and 84 senior students of science, technology and art at two tehran universities. they were matched in terms of demographic factors. they were administra...

Every year in each university many students are graduated holding a first university degree. For example Bachelor degree in Computer Science. Most of those students have a motivation to continue with further studies to get higher education level degree in universities. However, some other students may have enthusiasm towards working based on their skills that they got during their life of studi...

nearly three decades ago, the master of public health (mph) academic degree was introduced to tehran university of medical sciences' school of public health, tehran, iran. a new program for simultaneous education of medical, pharmaceutical and dental students was initiated in 2006. talented students had the opportunity to study mph simultaneously. there were some concerns about this kind of adm...

In educational data mining, identifying academic courses that contribute significantly to students’ class of degree and predicting students’ performances can help in the choice and improvement of intervention and support services for students whose performances are poor. Experience shows that graduates with weak class of degree find it difficult to gain employment, hence, the need to identify a...

background and objective: one way to promote education quality is to evaluate faculty activities by students, departmental heads, and the dean. the degree of correspondence between students' and departmental heads' evaluation shows how honest they are in their assessment. the current paper intends to find the truth.     materials and methods : questionnaires were used to conduct the s...

In this study we investigate women’s pathways to a selection of degree programs in the oldest and largest institution of higher engineering education in Finland. We concentrate on eight degree programs in two categories: four degree programs with a relatively high concentration (over 43 %) of female first-year students and four degree programs with a relatively low concentration (below 15 %) of...