Exam scheduling is a very complex process done every semester in educational institution and usually manually. The limited resources these institutions make the preparation of exam program demanding inconvenient task. In addition, when examined detail, it seen that comprehensive task requires fulfillment many situations other than appointment appropriate course for time period. this study, solu...

introduction. the changes trend from traditional to community oriented medical education necessitates that the social medicine courses be more effective and presented at an appropriate time. the object of this study is the comparison between medical physiopathology and stager students’ competency in practical social medicine course. methods. all the medical students who entered the health appre...

We have implemented several research-based transformations in our introductory calculus-based physics course at CU Boulder. These include Peer Instruction with student response system in lecture, Tutorials with trained undergraduate learning assistants in recitations, and personalized computer assignments. In an effort to distinguish the effects of instructor, TA preparation, and particular res...

Richard Neville: Over the lecture period [semester 1] three laboratory components was undertaken. The results from my labs [lab1RN and Lab3RN] showed the students had a moderately good understanding of a subset of concepts presented during the lectures [prior to these laboratories]. The exam results enforced this view – with a good spread of results. The exam results show the module’s learning ...

Chen X, Graesser D, Sah M. Improving consistency in large laboratory courses: a design for a standardized practical exam. Adv Physiol Educ 39: 102–107, 2015; doi:10.1152/advan.00109.2014.— Laboratory courses serve as important gateways to science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education. One of the challenges in assessing laboratory learning is to conduct meaningful and standardized ...

Presented here is a useful guidebook to help prepare students for exams in the Life Sciences subject. The guidebook is divided into two sections: the first deals with basic exam preparation and the second specifically discusses Life Sciences exams. The introduction begins with an explanation of specific terminology, such as competence orientation, learning goals, and quality criteria. The compa...

Assessments have risen in prominence in colleges of business, in response to requirements of accrediting agencies. Among the forms of assessment are embedded exams within courses, often in the form of multiple-choice tests near the end of the semester. These tests can be stand-alone comprehensive exercises, or comprise a small portion of a larger exam. Performing well on exit exams such as the ...

In her article in this special issue, Catherine Wallace makes the case that the active reading of a text is tantamount to “authoring” a new text. As a reader engages with a given text, the reader is not only grappling with the content of the text, but is seeking to make sense of the text in the light of past experience, pre-existing ideas, and intertextual connections. As I read through these f...

The interplay among motivation, ability, attitudes, behaviors, homework, and learning is unclear from previous research. We analyze data collected from 687 students enrolled in seven economics courses. A model explaining homework and exam scores is estimated, and separate analyses of ability and motivation groups are conducted. We find that motivation and ability explain variation in both homew...