background: continuous evaluation is required in order to ensure the university system’s efficiency. one of the important aspects of evaluating the educational system’s effectiveness is judging the system’s ability in meeting environmental needs. the present research’s goal has been to investigate nursing education’s efficiency through investigating the graduate’s condition and their views on e...

Although decades of research have well elaborated on teacher professional development, we still do not have a thorough picture about what teacher professional development could entail and what components it consists of. The present study aims to develop and validate a teacher professional development scale in an Iranian English foreign language context. An initial tentative model with 130 items...

continuing professional development in health sector

Coalition operations over the past decade exhibit a propensity towards collegial decision-making even in the presence of formal, normally hierarchical, decision-making apparatus. Meanwhile, the US military, especially the US Air Force, is adopting effectsbased operations (EBO) as a method of planning, executing, and assessing military operations that achieves desired effects that attain strateg...

The article deals with a postmodern approach to professionalization of practical psychologists at the initial stage their professional training, which requires new approaches. Also, considers training as systemic and focused on scientific spheres activities these specialists realize educational needs. A model includes competencies, activities, personalization, values. Besides, outlines some ess...

Over the past decades, peer review of teaching has become commonplace at many universities around world. Though research on topic is expanding, much literature composed qualitative studies that offer relevant empirical findings but often have limited foundations in theory. Using a framework synthesis approach, we synthesize 48 articles into comprehensive conceptual drawing sociocultural perspec...

This paper studies the applicability of theoretical models of university governance from the international research literature to the Polish system. In particular, it is to test the applicability of a collegial model in the Polish case. The research question was ‘to what extent is a collegial model reflected in actual governance patterns found in the Polish university sector’. This is based on ...