the aim of this study was comparative evaluation of iran scientific output in the field of food science and technology with five countries including ireland, turkey, egypt, argentina and malaysia during 1990-2010 in the web of science. the number of indexing scientific outputs in this database show that ireland, argentina and turkey ranked sequentially. articles have the largest share of scient...

based on personal and professional characteristics, the present study compares the research performance among faculty members of agricultural colleges in west part of iran. the statistical population of this study consisted of all faculty members in the agricultural colleges of universities of ilam, razi and kurdistan at iran, which 116 faculty members were selected as the sample using the prop...

Based on analyzing characteristics of innovative teaching teams in colleges and universities, the paper elaborates the construction principles of innovative teaching teams in colleges and universities, puts forward the “Four, Three, Four, One” organizing mode of innovative teaching teams in colleges and universities, and can be consulted while establishing current innovative teaching teams in c...

PURPOSE The medical student performance evaluation (MSPE), a letter summarizing academic performance, is included in each medical student's residency application. The extent to which medical schools follow Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) recommendations for comparative and transparent data is not known. This study's purpose was to describe the content, interpretability, and tran...

In spite of best efforts by the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), the American Medical Association (AMA), and other national groups, entering medical students remain a relatively homogeneous group, with many backgrounds underrepresented. Although the combined percentage of people in the US from African American, Native American, and Hispanic backgrounds is 31 percent [1], only ro...

n engl j med 368;17 nejm.org april 25, 2013 1565 as the core of medical education.1 Admissions committees at U.S. medical schools have, for the past century, focused their attention largely on predictors of success in the foundational science curriculum, relying heavily on academic performance in the biologic and physical sciences and scores on the Medical College Admission Test (MCAT) in selec...

radial models of dea to measure the efficiency of dmus assumed an inefficient unit to be efficient must decrease (increase) proportional all inputs (outputs) as the same. this assumption is absolutely false, unnecessary and unrealistic, therefore, to address this deficiency, and raise awareness of how to use resources, it is so realistic that expect the various inputs have different efficiency....

The lack of academic engagement in introductory science courses is considered by some to be a primary reason why students switch out of science majors. This study employed a sequential, explanatory mixed methods approach to provide a richer understanding of the relationship between student engagement and introductory science instruction. Quantitative survey data were drawn from 2,873 students w...