abstract textbook design and evaluation has recently turned into a very important area in english language teaching. this paper evaluates the english textbooks taught in iranian junior high schools: right path to english which was the medium of instruction until 2013 and the recently designed textbook-prospect- which replaced it. for this purpose, tucker’s (1975) textbook evaluation model was e...

OBJECTIVES To test whether a summative workplace-based assessment (WBA) is feasible and acceptable for international medical graduates (IMGs). DESIGN, SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS A 6-month trial with 27 IMGs from teaching hospitals in Newcastle, Australia. IMGs were assessed by 65 trained assessors from different disciplines, using blueprinted, preset criteria. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Mini-clini...

This research deals with role playing (RP) aimed at assisting learners to optimize their managerial style. While RP is often used in training sessions, contributions on its evaluations have decreased since the beginning of the 1980s. Although RP as a training method had been criticized for several reasons, RP has the advantage to conciliate theoretical knowledge and practical construction of me...

Accurately assessing the quality of one’s work is a crucial skill for professional designers and design students alike. This paper describes teaching materials that help students self-assess their work in a design course at a large university in the US. Using these materials, students have been successful in evaluating themselves—in 69% of all weekly student submissions, self-assessed scores ma...

Accurately assessing the quality of one’s work is a crucial skill for professional designers and design students alike. This paper describes teaching materials that help students self-assess their work in a design course at a large university in the US. Using these materials, students have been successful in evaluating themselves—in 69% of all weekly student submissions, self-assessed scores ma...

BACKGROUND Medical professionalism helps physicians adopt a proper and good healing action for the patients based on their particular circumstance. This study was conducted to assess professionalism in surgical residents, using a 360-degree evaluation technique in several teaching hospitals in Tehran, Iran. METHODS This study was conducted on all the second and third year surgery residents fr...

In teaching epidemiology, confounding is a difficult topic. The authors designed active learning objects (LO) based on manipulable three-dimensional (3D) plots to facilitate understanding of confounding. The 3D LOs help illustrate of how confounding can occur, how it generates bias and how to adjust for it. For the development of the LOs, guidelines were formulated based on epidemiology and the...

From 2001-2006 we used a number of approaches to assess how well our first-year students learn statistics and mathematics when introduced to different teaching methods. The topics introduced in their two courses include those found in a standard applied probability and statistics course. For example, descriptive linear regression. Most of these assessments have been based upon analyses of opini...