On March 3, 2013 the National Academy of Sciences will be 150 years old. Its creation in 1863 represents part of a dramatic series of federal actions that positioned the United States of America for a bright future. In 1862, Congress passed and President Lincoln signed the Morrill Act, creating Land Grant Colleges, providing federal land grants for the use of the new colleges and allowing the l...

normal 0 false false false en-us x-none ar-sa background: assessing educational environment is vital in determining the success or failure of any institute. a positive environment leads to achievements of students in learning while a negative one would hinder their accomplishments. the aim of this study was to evaluate the medical students’ perceptions of their educational environment and to id...

Occupational science is a new scientific discipline that is defined as the systematic study of the human as an occupational being. A doctoral program in occupational science has been established at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. With its emphasis on the provision of a multidimensional description of the substrates, form, function, meaning, and sociocultural and historical c...

This paper reports the findings from an online survey administered to 593 science teachers including heads of science departments in 2004. This survey is part of a study initiated in December 2003 to examine the implementation, efficacy and use of dataloggers in Singapore science curricula. Dataloggers were introduced to all Singapore schools during the First Masterplan for IT in Education (199...

Data visualization is a very important research topic of current computer science and technology. It theoretical method technology that uses the processing massive complex data to transform results produced in daily life production into graphics or images show information receiver, carry out human-computer interaction. hotspot field Computer Science recent years. mainly used Applied Mathematics...

p0180 Medical educators have a major responsibility to evaluate the clinical skills of trainees and to provide them with timely, useful feedback to ensure continued progress and correction of deficiencies. Despite tremendous advances in technology, the basic clinical skills of interviewing, physical examination, and counseling remain essential to the successful care of patients. The Association...

Valuing faculty as educators is essential for medical schools to fulfill their unique mission of educating physicians. The 2006 Consensus Conference on Educational Scholarship, sponsored by the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) Group on Educational Affairs, provided educators seeking academic promotion with a portfolio-based format for documenting activities in five domains, using...

Abstract Background At King Abdulaziz University, medical and health science schools depend on admission exams (aptitude achievement) preparatory year scores in their students’ selection. However, with the growing number of applicants drastic changes teaching assessment these colleges, continuous development criteria are needed. In this study, we aimed to evaluate correlation exam scores, addit...