Objectives The aim of this research was to examine the reasons for the need to change and bring about integration in the dental curriculum in Iran and worldwide. Methods The qualitative method was used in this research. The real experiences of some reliable universities over the world and in Iran were studied on the necessity to change the dental curriculum and the integrated curriculum throug...

BACKGROUND South America has low research productivity. The lack of a structured research curriculum is one of the barriers to conducting research. OBJECTIVE To report our experience adapting an active learning-based research methods curriculum to improve research productivity at a university in Ecuador. DESIGN We used a mixed-method approach to test the adaptation of the research curriculu...

this article emphasizes the findings of a survey conducted to find out the views of students on the environmental education (ee) in iranian secondary school (ss) curriculum. a total of six hundred students from forty secondary schools, randomly selected ss from five zones in tehran city responded to the questionnaire. two research questions were asked while two hypotheses were tested in this st...

THE demonstration and descrip tion of effectiveness are principal concerns of every curriculum evaluation. The evalu ation designs constructed and used b> I'^e experimental curriculum developers to ac complish these purposes assume mony ^r,d varied modes. Examples of this variability are observable in the published literature describing experimental science curriculum projects such as the Ameri...

More than 15 years ago, we concluded that the preparation of teachers remains an unstudied problem in education (Sarason, Davidson, and Blatt, 1961). We later concluded that it is unsatisfac­ torily studied for the same reasons that curriculum and methods research is of little consequence, inadequate because for the most part their basic underpinnings are inadequate (Blatt and Garfunkel, 1973);...

Background: Teaching professional ethics in the ceramics branch requires using a standard system of integrating professional ethics components in the ceramics curriculum elements to determine the relationship between professional ethics and the curriculum components. The aim of the present study is a conceptual framework for integrating the elements of professional ethics in the ceramic’s curri...

Nontraditional manufacturing (NTM) involves nontraditional transport phenomena and often nontraditional media. Thermally based energy transfer is the main material removal mechanism for several nontraditional machining processes including electrical discharge machining (EDM) and laser machining (LM). Thermal phenomena are also central in processes such as laser forming and direct metal depositi...

1Learning Research andDevelopmentCenter, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA 2Educational Studies, GhentUniversity, Ghent, BE 3Department of Teacher Professional Development, University of Twente, Enschede, TheNetherlands Correspondence SusanMcKenney,DepartmentofTeacher ProfessionalDevelopment,University ofTwente, Enschede, 7500AE,TheNetherlands. Email: [email protected] Abstr...