background and purpose: consideringbackground and purpose: considering the importance and necessity of competency-based education at a global level and with respect to globalization and the requirement of minimum competencies in medical fields, medical education communities and organizations worldwide have tried to determine the competencies, present frameworks and education models to respond t...

introduction: establishing improvement in every organization requires assessment of organizational performance, planning and goal-setting to improve the performance. despite remarkable progresses occurred in recent years on designing the frameworks and performance evaluation systems, many organizations still rely on traditional criteria. therefore, according to the importance of performance eva...

evaluation soil erosion is an important matter to protecting it from destroying in future due to the excessive use of the inherent capacity of soil and also improper management. therefore, in this study land vulnerability related to water and wind erosion of abyek for crops and pasture land has been evaluated, using raizal model as one of the microleis sub-models. morphological and physical and...

web 2.0 is not a single technology or standard but rather a set of concepts and features. web 2.0 concepts and features call for further attention. since, previous studies have only addressed only some of these concepts and features. in order to give a comprehensive view of web 2.0, these features are collected through literature review and a framework of web 2.0 features is presented. also, du...

Review of theoretical models for cost-effectiveness and of procedures currently being used by different levels of decision makers to evaluate the projects or alternatives is the main objective of this article. To come to some conclusion that which theoretical model would be more effective to be applied for allocating the limited resources among different projects. the performance evaluation pro...

This article explains the impetus in the United States behind the drive to extend test-based accountability to teachers and the growing interest in employing valueadded models to generate the indicators to be used in teacher evaluation. The empirical literature finds that teaching quality is the most important school-related determinant of student. Yet, in the main, teacher evaluations are done...

This survey investigates the relationship between exposure to television portrayals of Latinos and real world perceptions of Latinos in the U.S. To aid in this assessment, contributions from the research on mental models were incorporated into a cultivation framework. From this mental models-based cultivation perspective, it was expected that amount of television exposure and existing cognition...

BACKGROUND Orthopedic surgical education in Canada has seen major change in the last 15 years. Work hour restrictions and external influence have led to new approaches for surgical training. With a change toward competency-based educational models under the CanMEDS headings there is a need to ensure the validity of modern assessment methods. Our objective was to evaluate the reliability of a cu...