Item ranking and selection plays a key role in constructing concise and informative educational tests. Traditional techniques based on the item response theory (IRT) have been used to automate this task, but they require model parameters to be determined a priori of each item and their application becomes more tedious with larger item banks. Machine learning techniques can be used to build data...

School Administrators’ Approach to Cooperation and Its Impact on Development of Cooperative Programs M.H. Hasani Shalmaani, Ph.D. Teachers as the main element in the educational system require more attention. However, the added attention needs not to be in the form of additional pay or welfare programs. What needs to be done is delegating power and allowing them to decide on...

BACKGROUND Ethiopia is one of the six centres of biodiversity in the world with several topographies, climatic conditions and various ethnic cultures. Ethnobotanical study is a real and encourageable in rich biological resource areas for medicinal plant identification, documentation, ranking, conservation and sustainable usages. The purpose of this study was to identify the most effective medic...

conclusion the use of ahp method can be promising for fostering the evaluation method and subsequently promotion of the efficiency and effectiveness of the radiology departments. the present model can fill in the gap in the accreditation system of the country’s hospitals in respect with ranking and comparing them considering the significance and value of each individual criteria and standard. a...

Educational reform is a dynamic process that continues to haunt small island developments. After the two bold steps taken recently in Mauritius, namely regionalisation and the abolition of ranking at CPE level, there now seems to be a pause except for continued construction of schools. Whilst these developments seemed to be initially welcomed by the population in general, it has raised a number...

OBJECTIVES This study aimed to identify how undergraduate students perceive learning opportunities available to them and to determine whether students with an interest in trauma and orthopaedic (T&O) surgery have different perceptions and attitudes towards learning. METHODS All fourth year medical students from the University of Birmingham Medical School (UK) were surveyed regarding their car...

The displacement argument is the dominant explanation for thephenomenonof trained individuals out-qualifying the less educated in job competition.Decreasing employment opportunities are seen asa labour-marketmatchingproblem.Theexplanationgiven inthispaper is‘stigmatizationbynegative selection’. It takes into account that educational expansion has not only changed the number of less-educated peo...

Introduction. A safe and effective transition from hospital to post-acute care is a complex and important physician competency. Milestones and Entrustable Professional Activities (EPA) form the new educational rubric in Graduate Medical Education Training. "A safe and effective discharge from the hospital" is an EPA ripe for educational innovation. Methods. The authors collaborated in a qualita...

BACKGROUND The study aimed to assess interdisciplinary communication among various Educational and Research Departments of Isfahan University of Medical Sciences (IUMS) in clinical medical sciences using social network analysis. MATERIALS AND METHODS The study was carried out using scientometrics method and interdisciplinary communication network analysis. Interdisciplinary network of 1298 ar...