Nowadays, there are several programming languages, which are found to be difficult for a novice programmer to understand. According to Robins [RRR03], students have often difficulties in building mental model of computer programs, since a programming language differs from the structure of natural language. Even when the students have learned the programming concepts and languages, they may stil...

Accountability of educational institutions is a current trend in academia. Outcomes assessment provides a method of evaluating educational programs to ensure they are meeting their objectives. This paper presents an overview of outcomes assessment and describes its relationship to and integration with program evaluation. It also describes the implementation of an outcomes assessment program at ...

Teacher training programs should provide evidence that they are preparing teacher trainees for their teaching career. However, the literature contains few evaluation reports of the layout of the pre-service EFL teacher training program in Iranian EFL context, a gap which this study tries to fill. The participants of the study were high school EFL teachers (n = 346), teacher trainees (n = 97) an...

background performance evaluation is essential to quality improvement in healthcare. the current study has identified the potential pros and cons of external healthcare evaluation programs, utilizing them subsequently to look into the merits of a similar case in a developing country.   methods a mixed method study employing both qualitative and quantitative data collection and analysis techniqu...

Introduction: Teaching medical professionalism is increasinglyacknowledged as an important aspect of medical education.The Professionalism Mini-Evaluation Exercise (P-MEX) is anassessment tool for evaluating medical professionalism, butno studies using it as a self-assessment instrument have beenreported. This paper reports on a preliminary investigation of theFinnish version of the P-MEX instr...

1 Computer and Information Science Department, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210; email: [email protected] Abstract  Recent revisions in the Computer Science Accreditation Commission's criteria for accreditation of Computer Science programs have introduced specific requirements for programs to have precisely defined objectives and outcomes, as well as suitable assessment mechan...

This article presents additional necessary measures that enable us to use Pict as an object-capability programing language. It is desirable to be able to assess the worst possible threat that we—users— risk if we run a given program. If we know the threat, we are able to decide whether or not we are willing to risk running the program. The cost of a security audit that reveals such an assessmen...

Self-assessment is an integral component of learning and developing decision making and critical thinking skills in the practice of dental hygiene. Dental hygienists must think critically and develop problem-solving strategies during their formal education to ensure lifelong quality and ongoing development of their personal knowledge and skill as related to providing comprehensive, evidence-bas...

Demonstration of achieved competencies is critical in the pharmacy workplace. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the quality of the competency assessment program for pharmacy residents at an academic medical center. The competency assessment program (CAP) survey is a validated, 48-item instrument that evaluates the quality of an assessment program based on 12 criteria, each measured by f...