Introduction. Considering rights of patients and presence of a need for a standard clinical skills learning setting in recent 3 decades, it seems necessary to encourage decision – makers of medical education to establish clinical skills laboratory, in order to minimize unnecessary practices and possible injuries and reduce stress over students. CLS in TUMS was established in 2001. In planning...

In today’s organizations it is a necessity to evaluate customer satisfaction with a proper method and improve according to the results. In this study we analyzed student satisfaction in a high education department. A survey was applied on 132 students of a department which has an average 180 students. Student satisfactions related to department services was evaluated. In the survey it was wante...

Traditionally, psychologists have differentiated three aspects of human learning: cognition, motivation and emotion. Research to date has tended to study these processes in isolation, and the role of emotions in learning has been regarded as a less significant factor in affecting successful learning outcomes than cognition or motivation. More recently the importance of emotion is being emphasis...

In a Finnish study of four different academic disciplines, Ylijoki (2000) found that in Computer Science there was a disparity between the conceptions held by undergraduate students and staff about their discipline; students viewed it as being far more pragmatic and results focused than did their instructors. Not surprisingly, here at our Australian university where the undergraduate Computer S...

The ability to monitor students’ academic performance as well as their participation in other events and managing a record for the same is a critical issue to the staff members. Encouraging the students to improve in the area were they are lacking behind is necessary. In this paper we propose a system where the staff members can update the student records in areas like academics, technical skil...

The supervision of undergraduate student dissertations is an area in need of research. Although some studies have already addressed this, these are primarily based on academic staff responses. This study contributes to knowledge by gathering the responses of students and focusing on formative electronic assessment. Data was collected using a student focus group and student questionnaire. The fi...

This paper describes the implementation and evaluation of a comprehensive Department-based training and support program for casual tutors and laboratory demonstrators at the University of Melbourne. The program provides a structured approach to help casual staff develop an understanding of what is involved in high quality teaching and student learning, which can be applied in a computer science...

background: the preventive measures against h1n1 influenza are vitally important. the aim of the present study was to assess the knowledge, attitude and performance of academic hospital staff about h1n1 influenza. methods: this study was carried out on ali-ebne-abiltaleb hospital staff in rafsanjan, iran. the data gathering tool was a researcher made questionnaire comprised of 38 questions on d...