background and purpose: considering the importance of comprehensive basic sciences exams in determining the academic level of medical students, this study was done to find the correlation between personal and academic characteristics of medical students entered the medical faculty of kermanshah university in 1379 and the results of the 28 th   comprehensive basic medical sciences exam. methods:...

conclusions results of this study indicated the better effect of osats on learning and its relative superiority in precise assessment of clinical skills compared with the traditional evaluation method. therefore, we recommend using this method in evaluation of students in practical courses. objectives the purpose of this study was to compare the effect of using osats and traditional methods on ...

Best practice communication between healthcare professionals and patients involves using quality patient information leaflets (PILs). We assessed medical and physiotherapy students' (N = 337) ability to appraise the readability, psychology theory content and quality of nine international smoking PILs. Flesch scores ranged from 52.8-79.7% (fairly difficult to fairly easy). Students identified co...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Self-directed learning (SDL) skills are thought to be associated with lifelong learning. This study assessed the degree of readiness for SDL in third-year medical students who participated in a problem-based learning (PBL) curriculum during thefirst 2 years of medical school. METHODS A total of 182 third-year medical students at the University of Texas Medical Branch...

The purpose of the present study was to investigate whether a specific testing accommodation (extended time) affects test scores for college students with and without ADHD. College students with ADHD (N=61) and without ADHD (N=68) took a math test, after having been told they had either standard time or extended time to complete the test. Results indicated that the testing condition (i.e., exte...

Yvonne Mery is Instructional Design Librarian and Jill Newby is Associate Librarian at University of Arizona Libraries; e-mail: [email protected], [email protected]. Ke Peng is Assistant Professor in Asian Studies at Western Kentucky University; e-mail: [email protected]. © 2012 Yvonne Mery, Jill Newby, and Ke Peng, Attribution-NonCommercial (http://creativecommons.org/licens...

using 3 psychological scales, this study examined the level of emotional intelligence, moral judgment, and leadership of more than 200 gifted high school students who participated in an accelerative academic program or an enrichment leadership program through a university-based gifted institute. Major findings include that on emotional intelligence, gifted males were comparable to students in t...

This study investigates the measurement invariance as a function of gender and educational level of the Homework Behavior Questionnaire (Ktpc), an instrument developed to assess students’ homework selfregulation strategies. A sample of 1400 elementary and middle school students was used. Results of confirmatory factor analysis indicated a good fit of the theoretical model composed of three dime...

In this paper we present a series of item response models of data collected using the Force Concept Inventory. The Force Concept Inventory (FCI) was designed to poll the Newtonian conception of force viewed as a multidimensional concept, that is, as a complex of distinguishable conceptual dimensions. Several previous studies have developed single-trait item response models of FCI data; however,...

This retrospective study compared the performance of preclinical medical students in the multiple-choice question (MCQ) and long essay question components of a comprehensive physiology final examination. During the 3 yr analyzed, 307 students had an average score of 47% (SD 9.9) in the long essay questions and 64% (SD 9.9) in the MCQs. Regression analysis showed a significant correlation (r = 0...