Many factors have been proposed to explain the attrition of women in science, technology, engineering and math fields, among them the lower performance of women in introductory courses resulting from deficits in incoming preparation. We focus on the impact of mixed methods of assessment, which minimizes the impact of high-stakes exams and rewards other methods of assessment such as group partic...

Introduction: Clinical reasoning as a critical and high level of clinicalcompetency should be acquired during medical education, and medicaleducators should attempt to assess this ability in medical students. Nowadays,there are several ways to evaluate medical students’ clinical reasoningability in different countries worldwide. There are some well-known clinicalre...

Received: 28 March 2012 First Revision: 25 April 2012 Accepted: 25 July 2012 Ali Yoonessi1,3, Mojtaba Hajihasani4, Shahriar Gharibzadeh4, Mohammadreza Zarrindast1,3, Ahmad Yoonessi5 1. School Of Advanced Medical Technologies, Tehran University Of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. 2. Eye Research Center, Tehran University Of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. 3. Iranian National Center For Addiction ...

University of Tehran administers a test known as The University of Tehran English Proficiency Test (the UTEPT) to PhD candidates on a yearly basis. By definition, the test can be considered a high-stakes one. The validity of high stakes tests needs to be known (Roever, 2001). As Mesick (1988) maintains, if the validity of high stakes tests are not known, it might have some undesirable consequen...

AIM To determine attrition and predictors of academic success among medical students at University of Split, Croatia. METHODS We analysed academic records of 2054 students enrolled during 1979-2008 period. RESULTS We found that 26% (533/2054) of enrolled students did not graduate. The most common reasons for attrition were 'personal' (36.4%), transfer to another medical school (35.6%), and ...

This paper presents an analysis on the specific evaluation of Visual Arts Undergraduate Course at Institute Unicamp, as a fundamental part national entrance exam organized by University. To do so, it proposes survey information and agents constituting history Arts, well guidelines adopted group teachers-artists who founded course its Department, which implemented this evaluation, considered imp...

although some piecemeal efforts have been made to investigate the validity and use of the iranian phd exam, no systematic project has been specifically carried out in this regard. the current study, hence, tried to attend to this void. as such, to ensure a balanced focus on test interpretation and test consequence, and to track evidence derived from a mixed–method study on the validity of irani...