The original MASS course on which this text is based ran for 14 weeks, with three 50-minute lectures in each week (given by the second author). This structure has been preserved in the present book and may be used as a rough guide if you wish to use this book as the text for a class. However, some circumstances of the original course are worth noting. As part of the MASS program, the students, ...

Little is known about incidents of bias specific to college classrooms or how they are handled by instructors. To learn more about this subject, professors, graduate instructors, and undergraduates (N ! 2,523) completed surveys assessing perceptions of classroom bias. Results indicated that about a quarter of instructors and half of students perceived an incident of bias in a classroom in the l...

The aims of this study were to assess agreement among instructors in scoring preclinical dental procedures, the effect of this agreement on grades, and factors associated with agreement and grades differences. Twenty-six instructors from five clinical specialties participated in a scoring exercise at the College of Dentistry, University of Dammam, Saudi Arabia, in January 2015. Instructors blin...

introduction. evaluation is one of the characteristic issues of education process and help us to assess deficiency and powerty of education programs and solve the problems of education. methods. in this study a proper questionnaire was distributed and answered by instructors. then information was analyzed by spss software. results. in this study 72.5% of instructors used formative evaluation an...

a. Cleavage In vertebrates, cell division is radial and indeterminate. The first mitotic cell divisions that follow fertilization occur rapidly and are not accompanied by cell growth. The In many animals (mammals are an exception), the zygote has a definite polarity. As a result, the cleavage divisions create cells that differ in their cytoplasmic contents (e.g., cytoplasmic determinants: mRNAs...