Every year in each university many students are graduated holding a first university degree. For example Bachelor degree in Computer Science. Most of those students have a motivation to continue with further studies to get higher education level degree in universities. However, some other students may have enthusiasm towards working based on their skills that they got during their life of studi...

Abstract In Iran, most English teachers’ method of teaching writing is merely to have students do some writing exercises or simply to give them writing tests without any instruction, but writing is not an easy task for students, and teachers should be able to do more to facilitate their students’ writing. One of the ways to aid writing is dynamic assessment via graduated prompt. The graduated p...

AIM To investigate if students' grades at the Zagreb University School of Medicine increased since the establishment of the School in 1917. METHODS In this retrospective descriptive study, we analyzed student sex, the length of studying, average of all grades, and grades from 5 major courses--anatomy, physiology, pathology, internal medicine, and surgery. The passing grades at the Zagreb Univ...

AIM To assess whether extended medical school duration, block/modular structure of subjects, not allowing students to transfer exams into the higher course year, and curriculum implementation in line with the Bologna Accord are associated with lower attrition and better academic outcomes of medical students. METHODS We retrospectively investigated curricula at the University of Split School o...

Reduced caries rates and an increased percentage of children with dental insurance have made it more difficult for dental schools to provide undergraduates with sufficient numbers of pediatric dental patients requiring restorative procedures. This may result in graduates who are not competent and are reluctant to treat children after graduation. To ensure the quality of the undergraduate clinic...

BACKGROUND Most medical schools in Japan have incorporated mandatory courses on medical ethics. To this date, however, there is no established means of evaluating medical ethics education in Japan. This study looks 1) To develop a brief, objective method of evaluation for moral sensitivity and reasoning; 2) To conduct a test battery for the PIT and the DIT on medical students who are either cur...

The aim of this study was to investigate the existence of correlations between dental admissions criteria, including a chalk carving exercise, and students' subsequent academic performance. The retrospective cohort study examined the records of dental students at Louisiana State University Health Science Center School of Dentistry for the years 1998 to 2008. Only those students who could be cat...

AIM To determine attrition and predictors of academic success among medical students at University of Split, Croatia. METHODS We analysed academic records of 2054 students enrolled during 1979-2008 period. RESULTS We found that 26% (533/2054) of enrolled students did not graduate. The most common reasons for attrition were 'personal' (36.4%), transfer to another medical school (35.6%), and ...

Nonconvex nonsmooth potential functions have superior restoration performance for the images with neat boundaries. However, several difficulties emerge from the numerical computation. Thus the graduated nonconvex (GNC) method is suggested to deal with these problems. To improve the performance of the GNC method further, a class of nonconvex nonsmooth approximate potential functions have been co...