In order to decrease inequalities in tertiary education attendance, many Brazilian public institutions implemented affirmative action policies the last decades. particular, a bonus policy was at UFMG 2009, which substituted by quota 2012. Besides, other also this and universities Brazil may have had an indirect effect of promoting increase minorities’ such as Restructuring Expansion Federal Uni...

Abstract Background The excessive use of Internet-based technologies has received a considerable attention over the past years. Despite this, there is relatively little research on how general Internet usage patterns at and outside school as well weekends may be associated with mathematics achievement. Moreover, only handful studies have implemented longitudinal or repeated-measures approach th...

This paper aimed to determine the differences in achievement at entrance exam between candidates who attended preparatory classes (PC) and those independently prepared for enrollment University of Criminal Investigation Police Studies (UCIPS). The study included 599 respondents (257 women 342 men) were divided into subsamples: 132 (WPC) 158 men (MPC) PC 125 (WNPC), 184 (MNPC) UCIPS. exam, addit...

1 Department of Reproductive Health, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran 2 Department of Psychiatry, Roozbeh Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran 3 Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran 4 Iranian National Center of Addiction Studies (IN...

My interest in the department of medical education started in the year 1955 when about 900 high school graduates in Shiraz, participated in the “Konkoor”, an Iranian University entrance exam. Of these 900 graduates, 42 passed and gained admissions into Shiraz University Medical School and six years later, 32 graduated and received a medical degree from Shiraz University Medical School. I was on...

Two laboratory and two randomized field experiments tested a psychological intervention designed to improve students' scores on high-stakes exams and to increase our understanding of why pressure-filled exam situations undermine some students' performance. We expected that sitting for an important exam leads to worries about the situation and its consequences that undermine test performance. We...

A strong body of evidence reveals that quizzing students using low stakes assessments enhances learning and retention compared to not quizzing. In regards to learning and retention, the way in which students are quizzed is also important. Recall or retrieval practice has shown to enhance learning and increase retention compared to recognition quizzing. The current study evaluated the used of lo...

The purpose of this study was to investigate how reciprocal teaching and self-regulation affected reading comprehension of EFL learners at the high school level. 60 participants were selected and randomly assigned into two groups: an experimental group and a control group. The experimental group was taught through reciprocal teaching while the control group was taught through skill-based teachi...