The purpose of this report is to clarify the issues and discongruities between educational preparation of doctoral program graduates and employer expectations (educational institutions), and to stimulate thinking concerning strategies that might be used by doctoral programs to more effectively prepare graduates to deal with an integrated professional role, including that of faculty.

INTRODUCTION Students and university community are social and human resources of the country. The students' viewpoints about the quality of educational services can be considered as a basis for planning quality promotion and improving organizational performance. This study was conducted to determine the quality gap in educational services by the students of Health and Nutrition School of Shiraz...

Female High School Teachers’ Opinion on Their Educational Role and the Extent to Which They Match the Expectations of the National Curriculum A. Ziyaa’ee Mehr, Ph.D. M. Hallaaji, Ph.D. To survey the opinions of female high school teachers on their educational role, initially a single-question questionnaire was distributed among 80 of them who were randomly selected. Then...

AIM This study aims to assess the educational needs of family practitioners and evaluate the efficacy of the ongoing "Maternal Health and Family Planning Distance Education" program conducted by the General Directorate of Health Research (SAGEM) of the Turkish Ministry of Health. METHODS This study consisted of three phases. In the first phase, an online survey on maternal health and family p...

In recent years, Taiji has been frequently investigated and considered as a stress management intervention. Although health care providers' appraisals and consumers' expectations are regarded as essential for treatment outcome, little attention has been drawn to this issue in Taiji research. In our study we have conducted two surveys to explore beginners' (n = 74) expectations and teachers' (n ...

The Chinese state's commitment to improve teaching quality in rural regions is a key component of national efforts to close the rural–urban education gap. In this paper, we investigate an understudied but critical dimension of quality teaching: teacher expectations. We employ longitudinal data gathered in Gansu Province in 2000 and 2007 to first examine whether teacher expectations for rural yo...

It has been recognised for some considerable time that cultural differences impinge on educational processes and outcomes. These differences relate to age, gender and ethnic diversity, the latter being increasingly obvious as greater numbers of students from different ethnic backgrounds have been appearing in Australian universities. However, there has been relatively little concern in the lite...

This paper investigates the ways in which the expectations and beliefs of academic staff about computerbased learning impact the design of learning media and their integration into the student learning experience. Moreover, it aims to ascertain how these expectations and beliefs have to be negotiated in a collaborative process between academics, educational advisors and multimedia producers, so...