Classroom management is a vital skill for all teachers. Special education teacher educators are tasked with ensuring that candidates prepared to implement evidence-based practices the prevention and intervention of challenging behaviors. Many taking their coursework in an asynchronous online format, which likely includes use discussion boards. In this article, we offer suggestions using four bo...

n engl j med 359;3 www.nejm.org july 17, 2008 221 changes have occurred in medical practice and health care delivery. In the face of these new realities, medical school curricula have had to adapt. Yet despite these sweeping changes, including the permeation of most areas of medicine by molecular and cellular biology and genetics, requirements for admission to medical school have remained virtu...

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Rapid prototyping (RP), also known as 3D Printing, has gained an important role in engineering education. It can be used to fabricate mechanical designs in a timely manner and hence is useful for design and manufacturing courses. In fact, many higher education institutions now have RP machines for research and teaching. Current literature reports that involving RP in design and manufacturing co...

BACKGROUND Emergency nurses play a pivotal role in disaster relief during the response to, and recovery of both in-hospital and out-of-hospital disasters. Postgraduate education is important in preparing and enhancing emergency nurses' preparation for disaster nursing practice. The disaster nursing content of Australian tertiary postgraduate emergency nursing courses has not been compared acros...

Washback refers to the influence of a test on teaching and learning. This study was an attempt to compare the influence of IELTS and TOEFL iBT on the expectations the students brought to their courses and to investigate how these expectations were fulfilled. To this end, 100 IELTS and 120 TOEFL iBT students attending preparation courses took a questionnaire survey, and a sample of their ten cla...

Failure on the National Board Dental Examination (NBDE) Parts I and II has troubling consequences for dental students, faculty members, and school administrators. Since the NBDE is a high-stakes exam for all involved, it is important to determine effective strategies to help students prepare. The purpose of this article is to describe the development and implementation of online NBDE Parts I an...

IELTS preparation courses have gained significant popularity in Iran in the past decade. Although teachers in such an exam-oriented context have started to use formative assessment to improve their writing instruction, their knowledge and beliefs about assessment for learning are still a myth. This mixed-methods study investigated Iranian IELTS teachers’ beliefs and knowledge about the four mai...

Academic advising plays a vital role in achieving higher educational institution’s purposes. is process where an academic advisor decides to select certain number of courses for student register each semester fulfil the graduation requirements. This paper presents Advising Decision Support System (AADSS) enhance advisors make better decisions regarding their students’ cases. AADSS framework div...