Right © The Author 2014. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the British Society for Rheumatology.; This is a pre-copyedited, authorproduced PDF of an article accepted for publication in Rheumatology following peer review. The version of record Rheumatology, 54(1), pp.5-6; 2014 is available online at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/rheumatology/keu282 NAOSITE: Nagasaki University's Aca...

One focus of educational measurement has been the examination of the relationship between students' entering academic characteristics and their subsequent achievement outcomes. In the case of admissions tests, an important consideration is that test scores predict later achievement similarly for all groups of students who take the test. The purposes of this study were to: (1) assess the validit...

Background & objectives: The Integrated Health System (SIB) is the latest electronic health record system in Iran, officially began in Iran in March 2016, with the goal of integrating health information and providing health services. This study aimed to design a model for establishment of the electronic health record in family physician program of Guilan university of medical sciences. Method:...

This study presents a customized academic e-advising service by using rule-based technology to provide each individual learner for recommending courses for college students in Taiwan. Since academic advising for taking courses is mostly by advisors to assist students to achieve educational, career, and personal goals, which made it important in the higher education system. To enhance the counse...

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The Bologna Process aimed to build a European Higher Education Area with the objective of promoting students mobility. The adoption of Bologna Declaration directives requires a decentralized approach that accelerates student's mobility, based on frequently updated legislation. This paper proposes a student personal system to manage student's academic information. This system is supported by a f...

This meta-analysis addresses the question of whether 1 general cognitive ability measure developed for predicting academic performance is valid for predicting performance in both educational and work domains. The validity of the Miller Analogies Test (MAT; W. S. Miller, 1960) for predicting 18 academic and work-related criteria was examined. MAT correlations with other cognitive tests (e.g., Ra...