Students’ moral reasoning was assessed at a religiously affiliated liberal arts university. Cohort data were collected from undergraduate students who had entered the university as freshmen: 364 students in 2007 and 264 students in 2009. The results indicated that there was a significant increase in students’ post-conventional moral reasoning scores between freshmen and seniors and a significan...

PURPOSE Patient-centred care can increase patient satisfaction and lead to better clinical outcomes for them, such as improved physical status and higher health-related quality of life. However, doctors' and patients' views on patient-centred attitude might differ and could be affected by culture and the community environment. To clarify the differences in primary care patients' and senior medi...

The authors analyzed self-reported SAT scores and actual SAT scores for five different samples of college students (N = 650). Students overestimated their actual SAT scores by an average of 25 points (SD = 81, d = .31), with 10% under-reporting, 51% reporting accurately, and 39% over-reporting, indicating a systematic bias towards over-reporting. The amount of overreporting was greater for lowe...

The authors analyzed self-reported SAT scores and actual SAT scores for five different samples of college students (N=650). Students overestimated their actual SAT scores by an average of 25 points (SD=81, d=0.31), with 10% under-reporting, 51% reporting accurately, and 39% over-reporting, indicating a systematic bias towards overreporting. The amount of over-reporting was greater for lower-sco...

The Script Concordance Test (SCT) has been used successfully in medical schools to assess clinical reasoning in medical students, but it has not been widely used in nursing education. The purpose of this study was to provide additional evidence of the validity and reliability of the SCT in evaluating clinical reasoning in nursing students by replicating a previous study. The test was administer...

BACKGROUND Evidence suggests that poor performance on standardized tests before and early in medical school is associated with poor performance on standardized tests later in medical school and beyond. This study aimed to explore relationships between standardized examination scores (before and during medical school) with test and clinical performance across all core clinical clerkships. METH...

BACKGROUND For future physicians, residency programs offer necessary extended training in specific medical specialties. Medical schools benefit from an understanding of factors that lead their students to match into certain residency specialties. One such factor, often used during the residency application process, is scores on the USA Medical Licensing Exam (USMLE). OBJECTIVES To determine t...

PURPOSE To construct a new measure to assess students' perceptions of the medical school learning environment (LE). METHOD In 2012, students at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine completed a survey containing 32 LE items. Additional questions asked about overall perception of the LE, personal growth, and recommending the school to a friend. Validity evidence for content, response pro...

abstract introduction: nowadays, a variety of different methods are employed to improve learning particularly in teaching to medical students. one of the factors affecting in learning is making the students active in teaching activities. preparation of question through students is one of these ways to make the students active in learning, which was the main aim of this study. methods and materi...

In this paper, we describe a data mining study of the mental health of undergraduate Engineering students in a large Canadian university. We created a survey based on guidelines from the Canadian Mental Health Association, and applied classification and regression algorithms to the collected data. Our results reveal interesting relationships between various aspects of mental health and year of ...