The number of women studying STEM careers and pursuing graduate degrees has not changed in the last decade (National Student Clearinghouse Research Center, 2015; Science & Engineering Degree Attainment: 2004–2014). Most prior research to explain this problem has focused on the topics of identity, access, pedagogy, and choice (Brotman &Moore, 2008; Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 45, 97...

This article presents suggestions and recommendations for teaching students programming languages forming their competence based on the competency approach.

The ADEA Competencies for the New General Dentist contain a significant number of practice management-related competencies. To date, these have been taught primarily in a lecture format in the third and fourth years of the dental curriculum. Presenting information in this way only satisfies the lower level learning skills, not the skills needed to become a competent general dentist. This articl...

In this paper we propose the architecture of an Intelligent Tutoring System that considers the student's learning style and the competency-based education. We also describe the processes that have been implemented so far. Our architecture presents innovations in the representation of the tutor module and in the knowledge module; the tutor module incorporates a selector agent, which will choose ...

Objective evaluation of medical student clinical skills is difficult. In this study, medical students and neurology faculty independently completed a form on new clinic patients documenting anatomic localization, diagnosis, diagnostic tests, and management. We found students and faculty agreed significantly more often in anatomic lesion location and diagnosis than in ordering diagnostic tests o...

Understanding what is lacking in the online teaching literature is critical to helping researchers and practitioners develop programs and support mechanisms for online teachers in higher education. This review formulates a critique of the standardsand competency-driven vision of online teaching from the perspective of transformative learning theory, in order to offer an alternative exploration ...

Twenty years ago JAMA published an article describing a “new approach to teaching the practice of medicine”: evidence-based medicine. The ability to apply research to practice is a licensing requirement at both the undergraduate and postgraduate level and an ongoing practice competency requirement. The EBM process of assessing the patient, asking the question, acquiring the evidence then assess...

An attempt of Russian universities to move forward to the leading positions in the world rankings has resulted in some initiatives to enhance their activities on the market of education services. Under these conditions, foreign language proficiency is no longer a luxury and it is becoming an important tool to implement goals of university development. In this regard, new methods and techniques ...

YES Better training produces better doctors. That is what the Triple C curriculum is all about—graduating family physicians who are better equipped to deal with the evolving requirements and realities of practice in the coming decades.1 These realities include the following2: • quality and accountability requirements; • interprofessional collaborative practice models; • advances in information ...

It delivers an expansive and innovative approach to devising practical methods of optimizing technology to foster quality of patient care and support population health initiatives. Based on the requirements of the DNP Essential IV Core Competency for Informatics and aligning with federal policy health initiatives, including the Affordable Care Act, the book describes models of information techn...