BACKGROUND Public reporting of institution- and individual-level performance data has recently become a popular topic in the health care field. This study (1) evaluated the perceptions of general practitioners on the public reporting of institutional and individual medicine prescribing data in primary care institutions, and (2) compared the difference among the perceptions of general practition...

After a sudden increase in most of the individual grades in a multiple-choice test, students were asked to rank the three most relevant factors responsible for this outcome. Among eight others, the availability of a test for self-assessment before the final test was by far the most frequently mentioned (82.4% of the students). Questions applied during different course activities did not have th...

The purpose of the study is to evaluate the service quality of Islamic Azad University of Mazandaran. The study was a descriptive survey. The statistical population consists of all Islamic Azad University students of Mazandaran and 373 students were chosen through stratified random sampling method as the sample of the study. The data were collected using the SERVQUAL standardized questionnaire....

Background As policy makers focus on the importance of higher education, college enrollment stands at an all-time high (National Center for Education Statistics 2015). This increased enrollment results in a rise in the number of students with disabilities. In higher education, freshman with disabilities increased fourfold between 1978 and 1994, changing from 2.6% of the freshman class to 9.2% (...

0092-6566/$ see front matter 2013 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jrp.2013.06.007 ⇑ Corresponding author. Address: Department of Psychology, Florida Atlantic University, 777 Glades Road, Boca Raton, FL 33431, United States. E-mail address: [email protected] (D.G. Serfass). 1 For our purposes here, we shall dispense with late comedian George observation that the gla...

BACKGROUND Consenting for retrospective medical records-based research (MR) and leftover tissue-based research (TR) continues to be controversial. Our objective was to survey Saudis attending outpatient clinics at a tertiary care hospital on their personal preference and perceptions of norm and current practice in relation to consenting for MR and TR. METHODS We surveyed 528 Saudis attending ...

The extrapolation of test scores to a target domain—that is, association between performances and relevant real-world outcomes—is critical valid score interpretation use. This study examined the relationship Duolingo English Test (DET) speaking university stakeholders’ evaluation DET performances. A total 190 stakeholders (45 faculty members, 39 administrative staff, 53 graduate students, under...

BACKGROUND The impact of staff perceptions of daily work pressures on burnout requires further exploration because both issues may be adversely affecting the quality of staff interactions with service users. OBJECTIVES To use a model of 'stakeholder involvement' to develop and test a self-report instrument capturing nursing staff perceptions of the daily pressures of working in acute in-patie...