background: assessment of educational courses has a critical impact on quality improvement in all curricula. surveys aimed at alumni and graduating students may be useful for the evaluation of the program outcomes and revision. the aims of this study were to describe levels of competency of last year students of an iranian dental school in the major skills needed for a new dentist and to invest...

This cross-sectional study explored the reasons behind academic failure among Iranian students of teaching English as a foreign language. Interviews were used to collect data from 56 graduate (19 men and 37 women) three officials university. Results indicated that four main factors led students, namely, (1) student, (2) professor, (3) university, (4) source materials. Moreover, results chi-squa...

This paper provides a long-term follow-up of students who participated in the Tennessee STAR experiment. The Tennessee STAR experiment randomly assigned 11,600 elementary school students and their teachers to a small class, regular-size class or regular-size class with a teacheraide. The experiment began with the wave of students who entered kindergarten in 1985, and lasted for four years. Afte...

This study aimed at identifying the most frequent test-taking strategies used by successful Iranian male and female university entrance exam EFL applicants. To this end, 150 English major male and female freshman students who got admission to three reputable state universities of Isfahan, Shiraz, and Tehran were selected conveniently and purposively. The model used in this study was developed b...

BACKGROUND Multiple-choice questions (MCQ) are still widely used in high stakes medical exams. We wanted to examine whether and to what extent a national licensing exam uses the concept of pattern recognition to test applied clinical knowledge. METHODS We categorized all 4,134 German National medical licensing exam questions between October 2006 and October 2012 by discipline, year, and type....