Medical education institutions usually adapt industrial quality management models that measure the quality of the process of a program but not the quality of the product. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the impact of industrial quality management models on medical education and students, and to highlight the importance of introducing a proper educational quality management model. Indust...

Recent discussions with Guanzhong Luo helped in the articulation of the model for this Report. The research reported in this Report was supported in part by an Australian Research Council Linkage grant with the Australian National Ministerial Council on Employment, Education, Training and Youth Affairs (MCEETYA) Performance Measurement and Reporting Task Force; UNESCO’s International Institute ...

Educational video games and simulations hold great potential as measurement tools to assess student levels of understanding, identify effective instructional techniques, and pinpoint moments of learning because they record all actions taken in the course of solving each problem rather than just the answers given. However, extracting meaningful information from the log data produced by education...

introduction. as english is today's dominant language of science and technology (est), students having passed general and est courses need to interact primarily with the scientific community specially in their field of study for various purposes, including the use of educational films. this study specifically aims to evaluate the proficiency of iranian students of dentistry in understandin...

industrial organizations are complex systems` where the interactions among the various functions such as sales, distribution, manufacturing, materials, finance, human resources and maintenance have to be man-aged towards a common purpose of delivering the customers satisfaction. however, since most of these or-ganizations have a `functional structure`, each function or department works towards ...

The Technological, Pedagogical, and Content Knowledge (TPACK) framework – a framework which proposes a set of knowledge domains that are essential for effective teaching with technology – has gained considerable attention in the domain of education and technology. With the efforts to conceptualize these knowledge domains comes the question to what extent they can be distinguished empirically. H...

the purpose of present research was studying the educational need assessment of greenhouse holders growing ornamental plants and flowers about applying alternative energies. this research is application with descriptive- correlative method. statistical community was 499 subjects of greenhouse holders of ornamental plants and flowers in tehran province. by using simple random sampling method and...

The study aims to develop a comprehensive set of input and output factors for educational services. In the frame of the study, a set of input, throughput and output factors is presented. These factors were collected in a workshop with lecturers having a long-time experience in teaching, since the authors assume that they have a great amount of implicit knowledge about the productive delivery of...