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OBJECTIVES The Clinical Education Workload Management Initiative (the Initiative) is a unique, multiprofessional, jurisdiction-wide approach and reform process enshrined within an industrial agreement. The Initiative enabled significant investment in allied health clinical education across Queensland public health services to address the workload associated with providing pre-entry clinical pla...

This paper reports the relationship between student performances evaluated using computer-based assessment (CBA) tools in large (500+ students) and small (35 students) classes. While large classes allow an efficient use of limited university resources, they are sometimes perceived as diluting the richness of a small classroom learning process, resulting in poorer student performance. Computer-b...

Introduction. Education as a pre-determined process to cause new behavioral changes demands a major concern. The authorities are putting a great effort to increase the quality of education, but whether this has been achieved or not, we have tried to seek the opinions. Methods. 413 tutors and students from Hamadan, Kermanshah, Booshehr and Ahwaz universities, randomly were selected and filled o...

background & aim : universities should play an important role in education commensurate with the expectations of stakeholders and of the community as well. the university professors and teachers have critical positions in education. this research aimed to explore the perspective of students in tehran university of medical sciences (tums) about characteristics of a model teacher. methods & mater...

Understanding how different types of molecules move through cell membranes is a fundamental part of cell biology. To identify and address student misconceptions surrounding molecular movement through cell membranes, we surveyed student understanding on this topic using pre-class questions, in-class clicker questions, and subsequent exam questions in a large introductory biology course. Common m...

OBJECTIVE College students who study abroad may represent a subgroup at risk for increased drinking while living in foreign countries. The present study explores this idea as well as the extent to which students' pre-abroad perceptions of study-abroad student drinking are related to actual drinking while abroad. METHOD Ninety-one students planning to study abroad completed an online survey of...