Kambiz Diba; Davood Jabbari; Zahra Yekta; Shiva Roshan-milani
Volume 10, Issue 2 , August 2013, , Pages 211-217
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Background & Objective: In Iran evaluation is one of the most important bases of medical education and one of the best criteria for the categorization of medical universities Therefore we aimed to compare some methods of evaluation for medical students Methods: The target group included all basic ...
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Background & Objective: In Iran evaluation is one of the most important bases of medical education and one of the best criteria for the categorization of medical universities Therefore we aimed to compare some methods of evaluation for medical students Methods: The target group included all basic level medical students studying medical mycology during the fifth semester The tested methods of evaluations were: development test posttest class reports and final exam Three groups of evaluation were compared as a course plan of mycology for nine sessions Results: There was a significant direct relation between the midterm and final exam so that the increased midterm and posttest marks caused improvement in the final exam Moreover there was a relative correlation between the class reports and final exam Conclusion: The results of the present study showed that each tested continuous evaluation is able to improve the final exams
Shahsanam Gheibi; Rahim Mohammad Loo; Seyed Javad Moosavi Vaezi; Zahra Yekta; Reza Pour Ali; Mahnaz Kafili
Volume 7, Issue 2 , January 2011, , Pages 141-146
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Background & Objective : Academic failure in students of Medicine is one of the important educational issues that deserve serious attempts for the identification of its underlying factors and resolving This study was designed to find the rate of academic failure and its underlying causes in Medical ...
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Background & Objective : Academic failure in students of Medicine is one of the important educational issues that deserve serious attempts for the identification of its underlying factors and resolving This study was designed to find the rate of academic failure and its underlying causes in Medical students of Urmia University of Medical Science Methods : In this descriptive crosssectional study demographic and academic information of all students of Medicine in clinical setting who had been accepted in Urmia University of Medical Sciences in the academic years of 19992001 were collected from their academic files Data were analyzed through SPSS and using Chisquare and ttests Statistical significant level was considered 005 Results : A total of 176 academic files belonged to the entrant students in 2000 (n=71) 2001 (n=48) and 2002 (n=55) were studied The rate of academic failure was 223% in basic sciences period 07% in preinternship period and 265% in internship period Failure rate in preexternal examination was 1156% and in preinternal examination it was 56% Academic failure showed significant relationship with class nonattendance (p