background and purpose: internal evaluation has been a growing trend as the first step improvement in higher education specially in medical universities of iran. however, the results of this time consuming process of internal evaluation seems to be underused. we provide a description of anesthesiology department of shaheed beheshti university of medical sciences where the results were used to i...

background: the increased concern for accountability and quality improvement is inducing universities throughout the world to evaluate and control performance. hence, this study was conducted to assess basic science department of sabzevar medical school to improve the quality of the department. methods: this study is a descriptive cross sectional study. we asked faculty members, managers, inter...

in this study the effectiveness of accounting information systems of finance managers of listed companies at tehran stock exchange is evaluated. the results indicate that implementation of accounting information systems at these companies caused the improvement of managers’ decision-making process, internal controls, and the quality of the financial reports and facilitated the process of the co...

ABSTRACT This study aimed to analyze the association between Internal Control Weaknesses (or Deficiencies - ICDs) and Audit Quality (AQ). The article fills a gap in national literature, as it provides evidence of an reported ICDs main AQ proxies. is relevant because evinces lack contemporary listed Brazilian companies, but found lagged these variables. Unlike prior studies, was observed that pr...

Automotive quality demands are getting higher every year. Aluminium die-castings are especially important components in the automotive industry because of their light weight, rigidity, good corrosion resistance and heat dissipation. Since the pressure die-casting process is a very complex procedure, there must also be a number of quality controls to avoid dimensional, internal and surface defec...

this article elaborates on the experience of higher medical education evaluation in iran. although institutional evaluation in iran started in about a decade ago, recent policies of the government to increase quality of higher medical education have contributed to a special effort in designing and implementing evaluation mechanisms in university systems in iran. among these a process of interna...

aim and background: the aim of this study was to examine the quality curriculum of the department of clinical psychology of tehran university medical science.  methods and materials: it is a descriptive case study and the sampling comprises ma, phd students and attending professors of the department of clinical psychology tehran university of medical sciences in the academic year of 2010-2011 e...