The development of software products in general and educational games in particular is a very demanding process involving costly resources for long periods of time. Evaluating its quality throughout the development lifecycle contributes to the early identification of imperfections and to improved efficiency. In this paper we discuss a set of quality criteria and a method to assess the quality o...

This paper combines the experiences of host country colleagues and U.S. education researchers to examine educational quality and the process of change. During the five years of the Improving Educational Quality (IEQ) 1 Project, education researchers worked collaboratively to examine issues related to quality in Ghana, Guatemala, Mali, South Africa, and Uganda. The principles which emerged from ...

introduction: the aims of the study were to investigate the health-related quality of life (hrqol) in students of shahid sadoughi university of medical sciences (iran) and to identify factors that might have associated with their hrqol. materials & methods: in 2010, 364 students with a cluster sampling method enrolled in the cross- sectional study. hrqol was assessed by using sf-39 questionnair...

background: the family caregivers of patients undergoing hemodialysis have a major role in the care of patients at home. the study results indicate that these caregivers face with multiple problems regarding responsibilities and issues arising from the care and treatment of the patients.these issues decrease their quality of lives. however, these caregivers are mostly neglected andno studies ar...

conclusions based on these findings, the use of self-empowerment regardless of the education program tools (workshop or training package), can promote self-care skills and thus improve the quality of life in diabetic patients. methods this study was a randomized clinical trial. diabetic patients referring to the diabetes center, affiliated to urmia university of medical sciences, participated i...

introduction: internal assessment is a part of accreditation process to improve the educational quality through academic members’ cooperation. this study aimed to determine the status of pharmacy curriculum through in isfahan school of pharmacy and pharmaceutical sciences (within 2008-2009) applying the internal assessment process. methods: this is a descriptive cross-sectional study. firstly, ...

objectives: the aim of this study was to investigate the efficiency of educational abstract  intervention based on precede educational method in the promotion of quality of life among the aged under the coverage of tehran cultural house of aged people 2009. the population of the aged [people] is increasing in all parts of the world even in developing countries. the increase of the number of the...