In order to meet the expectations to act as an expert in the health care profession, it is of utmost importance that pharmacy education creates knowledge and skills needed in today's working life. Thus, the planning of the curriculum should be based on relevant and up-to-date learning outcomes. In the University of Helsinki, a university wide curriculum reform called 'the Big Wheel' was launche...

Statements of outcomes have recently become part of the educational agendas in many countries as a means of ensuring greater school accountability. This article accounts for the emergence of outcomes as the predominant statements of educational intent in Australian schools, and synthesises the findings of two studies which investigated the extent to which teachers are incorporating outcomes int...

CONTEXT At a time of significant changes in medical education world-wide, the international dimensions and global issues relating to the application of new learning technologies have been recognised. OBJECTIVE The aim of this paper is to describe the adoption and integration within the curriculum in one United Kingdom (UK) medical school of 'Harvey', the Cardiology Patient Simulator, and the ...

Segal, Marilyn Effects of Four Different Perceptual Training Programs on IQ and Reading Readiness in the Lower Socio-Fcononic Level Ksindergarten Child. Feb 71 /Up.: Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, New York, New York, 7ebruary 1971 EDPS Price Mr-$0.65 Auditory Perception, Auditory Training, Behavioral Obleotives, Curriculum Development, Cu...

The Government of Bangladesh recognizes that education is an important prerequisite for ensuring sustainable development. The country’s constitution obligates the State to provide basic education to citizens and eradicate illiteracy within a given time frame. As a signatory to the World Conference on Education For All (Jomtien, Thailand, 1990); World Conference on Children’s Rights (New York, 1...

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PURPOSE This study aims at to make intermediate-term evaluations of a curriculum by investigating its development, operation and outcomes 2 years after its revision. METHODS A survey using 5-point-Lickert scale questionnaires was given to the group of directors who developed the curriculum, instructors who only used it in their classes, and a student group from the first and second grades. Fo...

The ubiquity of parallel computing resources presents a pressing challenge to the entire computer science discipline. The thrust of this challenge is to find ways to better equip computer science students with skills to face an increasingly parallel world. Although there is general agreement that undergraduates should learn parallel computing concepts, there is debate about when parallel progra...