today, through out the world, medical education has two critical needs: need for structural reform and innovative plans and then need for social accountability in terms of educational program quality and its effectiveness. educational assessment and accreditation could be considered as operational (executive) strategy to meet both needs. of outmost important as the first toward educational asse...

background: today, moving toward high quality and efficient education is essential in educational systems. to achieve it, management, research and educational programs should evolve consistent with the produced knowledge, professional developments and standards. regarding the important role of midwifery education in improvement of social health, the current study was carried out to identify the...

Eğitim sisteminin bir alt sistemi ya da birimi olarak okulların, öngörülen amaçları gerçekleştirebilmelerinde ve okulun çıktıları üzerinde eğitim lideri okul müdürlerinin çok yönlü etkileri vardır. Bu nedenle müdürlerinden, okuldaki gündelik rutinleri gerçekleştirmenin ötesinde gerek toplumu gerekse çevresi yönünden bazı liderlik davranışlarına özelliklerine sahip olmaları beklenmektedir. Küres...

Following the long tradition of attending to the importance of educational opportunity in the understanding of educational progress, 1995 TIMSS International Curriculum Analysis (ICA) was designed to capture country’s curriculum standards as intended curricula and their textbooks as potential implemented curricula. The vision of education opportunity was that of the IEA Tri-Partite Model of Cur...

background     method.     results.     conclusion     edical education , e valuation , a ccreditation , s tandardization . regarding the importance of quality improvement in medical education, it is expected that even if this process would not lead to international accreditation acquisition, it will result in improvement and essential changes in basic medical education. keyword: m   having pri...

Every Summer, when English public examination results appear there is a debate within the media about whether ‘educational standards’ are changing. The above remarks are typical; the first reflects the suspicions of those who believe in a professional conspiracy to prove that standards of performance are rising, and the second reflects a politician’s determination to pretend that everything has...