quality assurance as a comprehensive term encompasses all policies, processes and actions maintaining and developing higher education quality. quality assurance emphasizes on external goals of evaluation, one of which is to assure learners, public and government that each unit, department, program or institution manages its quality. thus quality assurance focuses on accountability. this article...

abstract health economic evaluation research plays an important role in selecting cost-effective interventions. the purpose of this study was to assess the quality of published articles in iranian journals related to economic evaluation in health care programs based on drummond’s checklist in terms of numbers, features, and quality. in the present review study, published articles (persian and e...

BACKGROUND With the increasing use of competency-based evaluations we now have more and better ways to identify performance deficiencies in our learners. Yet the emphasis placed on identifying deficiencies appears to exceed that given to improving these deficiencies. AIMS Here we describe the program at the University of Calgary for mentoring students with repeated performance deficiencies. W...

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Phallometry evaluations are of great value in sex offender treatment programs, in assessing for a deviant drive related to criminal offenses and in monitoring treatment results, especially in connection with cognitive behavioral techniques that teach skills for reducing deviant sexual interests. The research on phallometry, however, is fraught with methodological problems that limit its utility...