of higher education into focus in the past few years. they have tried to improve the quality of their own higher education. the studies show that iranian universities are not at an accepted level in terms of quality. they have encountered several problems which have diminished their quality level. this study aimed at assessing the quality of medical education program as viewed by general practi...

background and objective: one way to promote education quality is to evaluate faculty activities by students, departmental heads, and the dean. the degree of correspondence between students' and departmental heads' evaluation shows how honest they are in their assessment. the current paper intends to find the truth.     materials and methods : questionnaires were used to conduct the s...

The number of underrepresented minorities (URMs; black or African American, Hispanic or Latino, American Indian or Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander) among US medical school faculty is markedly low when compared with their respective percent representation of the US population. Women URMs are doubly underrepresented, particularly as the academic rank advances from the ins...

introduction. evaluation as one of the university management functions plays an important role in correct planning, successful execution of educational programs and improvement of educational quality in universities. since continuing evaluation of the faculty members by students is one of the duties of the evaluation unit and on the other hand, knowledge of students about the importance of eval...

humanism and socio-constructivism have entailed drastic developments in education including that of foreign/second language. incorporating teachers and learners in all areas of education including materials development and evaluation, focusing four-pairs of binoculars on evaluating efl materials can be taken amongst the outcomes of this trend.  this study is a report of an evaluation of the esp...

background: due to unpredictability of events in psychiatry environment and replacement of routine clinical experiences with some assignments such as therapeutic communication with patients, clinical training in such environments has been associated with many problems which require continuous review and evaluation.  the purpose of the present research was to determine the effect of applying por...

student evaluation of the quality of instruction is considered as one of the most widely used methods for assessing faculty in universities. this study aimed to identify and compare faculty and students' views about the evaluation system of the quality of faculty teaching in 2011-2012 in ilam university of medical sciences. in this descriptive – analytical study, statistical population was incl...

teachers are evaluated in different ways. however, the most prevalent and controversial method is teacher evaluation by students. the present study was targeted at the examination of students’ view on the teachers’ evaluation criteria. methods: the population of this descriptive cross-sectional study was 107 students of paramedical faculty of urmia university of medical sciences that two of the...

objective: numerous studies have emphasized on the importance of developing an ideal educational system for high-quality dental education. the present study sought to assess the perception of dental students on operative dentistry education in department of restorative dentistry, shahid beheshti dental school, tehran, iran.   methods: in this descriptive cross-sectional study, 220 students were...