AIM Health professionals seeking employment in foreign countries are commonly required to undertake competency assessment in order to practice. The present study aims to outline the development and validation of a written examination for Dietetic Skills Recognition (DSR), to assess the knowledge, skills, capabilities and professional judgement of overseas-educated dietitians against the compete...

Students are usually only marginally involved in the preparation of exams. They are passive peers who write an exam predefined by the lecturer. Studies in educational theory indicate, however, that active involvement instead of (passive) consumption should be adopted in learning since active learning proved to be superior to passive learning. One concept of active learning is student peer evalu...

AIM To investigate the influence of clinical site, student's and preceptor's sex, and preceptor's academic rank on grading in eight clinical subjects at the Zagreb University School of Medicine between 1999 and 2002. METHODS We analyzed oral exam grades from five fourth-year clinical courses (radiology, oncology, nuclear medicine, internal medicine, and psychiatry) and three fifth-year clinic...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to analyze opinions about the action plan for implementation of clinical performance exam as part of the national nursing licensing examination and presents the expected effects of the performance exam and aspects to consider regarding its implementation. METHODS This study used a mixed-methods design. Quantitative data were collected by a questionnaire s...

PURPOSE Oral cancer frequently goes undetected in its early and most curable stages because no clinical signs or symptoms usually exist. This study assessed the effect patient education had on the patient's decision to accept or refuse a fluorescence oral cancer examination. METHODS Along with providing a routine clinical and white light oral cancer exam, a Visually Enhanced Lesion Scope (VEL...

PURPOSE To prove the hypothesis that procedural knowledge might be tested using Key Feature (KF) questions in written exams, the University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover Foundation (TiHo) pioneered this format in summative assessment of veterinary medicine students. Exams in veterinary medicine are either tested orally, practically, in written form or digitally in written form. The only quest...

In this paper, the effect of high school students on mathematics achievement by taking active participation and absent was investigated using fuzzy logic modeling. The questionnaire prepared researcher is applied to determine students. These written exam scores are used in order evaluate absences achievements until end 1st semester exam. study, inputs absent, output achievement. data were tabul...