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Fariba Arbooni, Abbasali Nourian, Seyed Noradin Mousavi Nasab,
Volume 1, Issue 1 (2-2009)
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Background and Objective: Faculty evaluation by students is the most common method of educational quality assessment. Through such evaluation, faculty strengths and weaknesses can be revealed. In the current study, the domains on the evaluation forms used in faculty of Medicine, Paramedical and Nursing faculties are studied through students' eyes.
Materials and methods: In this descriptive study, 1683 faculty evaluation forms (73 people) were considered. They included 15 items for students of medicine, 21 items for paramedical and nursing students. The Liker scale was used to find out students' attitude towards education, rules and discipline at the university. The maximum score was 100. Data was analyzed by SPSS software.
Results: Results showed that on average paramedical faculty performed better than other faculties (M=85.5O SD= ± 3.61). Regarding rules observance, Paramedical faculty had a mean of 91.01 (SD= ± 3.89) 0n the attitude domain Medical faculty had a mean of 90.48(SD= ± 5.45) and Nursing faculty had the highest mean of rules observance domain (M=88.34 SD= ± 4.25). Education domain showed lowest level in all faculties. The produced mean results were significant (P=0.001).
Conclusion: It seems that holding workshops, improving teaching methods, granting sabbatical leave, and encouraging research work com promote educational level in different faculties and improve faculty activity.
Abbas Ezzatshokati, Abbas Ali Nourian, Seyed Noradin Mousavi Nasab ,
Volume 1, Issue 1 (2-2009)
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Background and Objective: One way to promote education quality is to evaluate faculty activities by students, departmental heads, and the dean. The degree of correspondence between students' and departmental heads' evaluation shows how honest they are in their assessment. The current paper intends to find the truth.
Materials and Methods : Questionnaires were used to conduct the study. It included 18 questions for the faculty, 16 for the students and 28 for the residents. The validity of the questionnaires was already established. Also, reliability of the tests was proved by retests. Opinions were rated on the liker scale. 106 (32 females and 74 males) faculty members, 25 departmental heads and qzl out of lloo students filled out the questionnaires. Spss software was used to analyze the data.
Result: In 61% of cases, correspondence was found between students' and departmental heads' evaluation of the faculty. As departmental heads' expectations differ from those of the students, lack of total correspondence is not unusual. However, in final analysis, 61% correspondence is optimal and acceptable.
Conclusion: It seems that holding workshops, providing material and spiritual support, reducing work load, granting sabbatical leave, and reducing conflict of interest between departmental heads and the faculty can increase the degree of correspondence of evaluation. Also, using maximal adjustment correspondence technique can make the results more accurate.
Mohammad Masod Vakili, Abbas Ali Nourian, Seyed Noradin Mousavi Nasab ,
Volume 1, Issue 1 (2-2009)
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Background and Objective : Although educational conditions and facilities play an important role in learning process, human power, in particular the teacher is one of the key components of educational environment. The teacher is central to create ideal situations in order to achieve educational goals. The teacher can compensate for the subject matter and educational equipment deficiency and by contrast he/she might change an ideal teaching condition and subject into a passive and boring environment due to inability in establishing a favorable emotional rapport. Not only the skills and knowledge of the teacher but also his/her overall personality contributes to learning process and change.
Materials and Methods: This cross – sectional study was carried out to determine the attitude of students and teaching staff towards a good teacher. The studied community included the whole teaching staff (144 people) and 50% of 850 students of university of medical sciences of zanjan who were selected through random sampling.
Means of data collecting were two separate questionnaires which were filled out by studied individuals. The collected data were extracted through excel statistical software and analyzed by SPSS.
Results : The results showed that in educational regulations domain from the students’ viewpoints, the accessibility of the teacher and from the teachers’ viewpoints punctuality of the teacher were important while in scientific – educational domain from both students’ and teachers’ viewpoints mastery was important and in evaluation and monitoring domain from the students’ viewpoints responsibility to answer students’ questions and from the teachers’ viewpoints putting forward questions in each session and in behavior – ethics domain eloquence were the most important characteristics of a good teacher.
Conclusion : We can conclude from the research findings that a good teacher is required to have skills in teaching style, behavior and ethics, assessment and evaluation as well as scientific expertise and the learner pays careful attention to those abilities.
Fariba Arboni, Abbasali Nourian, Hajar Bakhshodeh,
Volume 3, Issue 5 (2-2011)
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A Survey of Students and Academic Members' Views about Marters Evaluation Regarding the Quality of Teaching
Arboni F1, Nourian A1, Bakhshodeh H2
Corresponding Author: Arboni F, Zanjan University of Medical Sciences, Zanjan, Iran
Email: arbooni@hotmail.com
Background and Objective: The goal of evaluation is to promote and correct the teaching methods and activities of academic members. The results of evaluation as feedback for teachers to learn their strengths and weaknesses are necessary. Thus, we conducted this study
to understand the impact of assessment on the improvement of teaching medical students and professors
Materials and Methods: This is a descriptive study. We used opinions of 276 students and 123 faculty members for this research. Data collection instrument consisted of a questionnaire with demographic questions and 25 phrases based on the goals of study. Grading was based on Likert Scale. The data was analyzed by descriptive statistics.
Results: Majority of samples were medical students and academic members. The results showed that teachers (50%) and students (39%) agreed on the evaluation of the performance of professors. There was a significant difference between the five dimensions among students and faculty members (p=0.05).
Conclusion: The findings confirm the view that teachers and students evaluation largely improves teaching in various aspects. Evaluation can be used as a criterion for professional growth and advancement of teaching and learning process the evaluation.
Keywords: Evaluation, Students, Teachers, Quality of education
Alinaghi Kazemi, Abbasali Nourian, Noureddin Mosavinasab, Mona Eskandari, Maryam Ghaffari,
Volume 6, Issue 12 (12-2013)
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Background and objective: There are many accredited free open access journals in medical subjects. We do not know how much researchers in this country are aware of them. The aim of this study is to learn about the knowledge of faculty members of Zanjan University of Medical Science about such journals.
Materials and methods: This is a descriptive cross- sectional study. The questionnaires were made after a pilot study to check the validity of the questions. Of 189 faculty members 95 filled out the questionnaires. Data were analyzed using the Chi-Square testes. The frequencies and the means were also calculated.
Results: 34.7% of the participants were familiar with free open access journals, but most of them were unaware of the following points: validity of articles, suitability of reviewers, copyright declaration, and financial resources. However, most faculty members believed that free electronic information sources provide the opportunity for high citation . There are high impact factor journals which are widely available and publish articles earlier than others. Most of the participants believed that two important benefits of e-journals are easy accessibility and being free of charge.
Conclusion: Most participants of our study were not fully familiar with free open access journals. It is recommended that faculty members be made more aware of such journals.
Samira Bassir Shabestari, Iman Shirinbak, Abbas Ali Nourian, Maryam Rastegar, Fatemeh Sefidi,
Volume 7, Issue 15 (Autumn 2014)
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Background and Objective: According to increase in quality and quantity of Continuing Medical Education(CME) Programms, assesment of educational needs is a part of research priorities in Education Development Centers(EDC).Due to lacking studies in this field among dentists, we decide to evaluate dentists opinion regarding qualiy and quantity of current Continuing Medical Education program. Materials and Methods: This descriptive study was done Among Zanjan providence General Dentists. 60 dentists fill the questionaire regarding qualitative and quantitative assesment of Continuing Medical Education.The data was analyzed by SPSS 20 . Results: This study was conducted on 64% male and 36% female with mean age of 41.49±7.49. They(52.5%) claimed that the most effective way to increase efficacy of these courses is to ask great instructors to do the courses and also the best method of performance is patient based method .The main problem of the dentists attending courses was thelong interval between the CME courses.Most of the dentists agreed to have 5-10 programms in a year.59.8 percent of them was agree with virtual internet based continuing education programms.they also claimed that there is a great balance between their educational needs and the programms. Conclusion: Because of the acceptance of virtual programms among most of the dentists,it is recommended to have virtual programms base on their educational demands
Sh Moradi, D Hasani, M Bahrami, Aa Nourian,
Volume 9, Issue 24 (Winter 2017)
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Background and Objective: Among the human sciences, medicine is superior to all other sciences. One of the effective factors in education, especially in medical education is using appropriate textbooks. This study aims to consider a classic book of medical education and find its relevance to modern medicine.
Materials and Methods: Reviewing and analyzing parts of Kamel Al-Senaat Al-Tebieh medical textbook.
Results: This book has about four hundred thousand words and it was divided into twenty articles, each consisting of several chapters, first ten topics of which are about theoretical medicine, and others are information related to practical medicine.
Conclusion: One of the most important obligations of every nation is to protect and preserve written and unwritten cultural and scientific resources Kamel Al-Senaat Al-Tebieh was written in one of the glorious periods of Iranian Medical History by Ali Ibn Abbas. It has a dignified position because of its recording method. This method is one of the best methods that is used after Ahvazi. Even today it is a valuable source of medical education.
Abbasali Nourian, Fariba Arbooni, Saeedh Mazloomzadeh, Reza Shervin Badv,
Volume 11, Issue 29 (Spring 2018)
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Azin Nourian, Somayeh Akbari Farmed, Nima Motamed,
Volume 13, Issue 38 (11-2020)
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Background: one of the most important individual factors that affect the acceptance and effectiveness of mobile learning is readiness. The aim of this study is to assess the Mobile Learning Readiness in dental students of Zanjan University of Medical Sciences in 2018-2019.
Methods: In this descriptive crosssectional study, a total of 355 dental students at Zanjan University of Medical Sciences completed 279 questionnaires. Data were collected using the standard translated version of Mobile Learning Readiness (MLR) questionnaire after determination of its validity and reliability. SPSS software was used for data analysis.
Results: The mean(±standard deviation) score of mobile learning readiness in three dimentions of self-efficacy, optimism, self directed learning were 3.89±0.71, 3.82±0.71 and 3.57±0.81, respectively. Total mean (±standard deviation) score of mobile learning readiness was 3.80±0.65.
Conclusion: The results of this study showed that Level of Mobie learning readiness was higher than moderate and there is a positive attitude toward mobile learning in dental students. Mobile learning technology is very useful to enhance education of students.
Leila Sadati, Zahra Nouri, Marjan Hajfiroozabadi, Rana Abjar,
Volume 14, Issue 42 (9-2021)
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Background & Objective: The necessity of virtual learning during the COVID-19 epidemic has caused serious challenges due to the lack of preparedness of educational centers, regarding the provision of appropriate educational infrastructure and the unfamiliarity of teachers with virtual learning methods. Over time, some educators have turned threats into innovative opportunities in learning and have improved education in some cases. Without a doubt, studying these challenges and understanding teachers’ experiences in this field can help better arrangement for the growth and excellence of virtual learning.
Materials & Methods: In this qualitative research, 11 semi-structured interviews were made with the faculty members of Alborz University of Medical Sciences in 2020. The texts of interviews were analyzed by conventional content analysis method using MaxQDA software.
Results: In this study, two main classes of “individual barriers to virtual learning efficiency” were extracted, which encompassed the sub-classes of personality traits and family factors, and “organizational management”, comprised of the sub-classes of infrastructure provision, management and leadership, training and supervision, ethics and law and evaluation.
Conclusion: Given the continuity of the Corona crisis, each university must specifically evaluate teachers’ challenges and experiences in the field of virtual learning during the COVID-19 pandemic in order to find effective solutions to tackle them.
Dr Zahra Nouri Khaneghah, Mr Eshagh Moradi, Dr Sohrab Nosrati, Dr Elham Ramezanpour, Dr Elham Karimi, Dr Shoaleh Bigdeli,
Volume 17, Issue 53 (4-2024)
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Dear Editor
Evaluating faculty performance is essential for promoting effective education in academic environments. This process faces significant challenges due to factors such as the diversity of faculty roles, the subjectivity of evaluations, and potential biases (1). Various evaluation methods have been developed to address these challenges, including administrator observations, student academic progress, teacher portfolio, self-evaluation, and peer- and student evaluation (2). However, controversies still arise from differences in the evaluation process, attitude and characteristics of raters, methods, and tools used in the evaluation process (3, 4). To overcome these challenges and provide a more comprehensive picture of teacher performance, studies suggest using multiple evaluation methods simultaneously, which can reduce errors and increase the validity and reliability of the collected results during the evaluation process (1).
Students and peers play a significant role in evaluating professors' performance (2). There are two main perspectives regarding student evaluations of professors: (a) student evaluations are essential for the official faculty evaluation process, as students have direct experience with the professor's knowledge, skills, and teaching abilities; (b) faculty tenure and promotion committees should not rely solely on students' opinions, as students might favor more popular professors who focus on entertaining rather than educating (5). It is important to note that younger students may focus on the personal traits of professors instead of their actual performance, leading to a halo effect in teacher evaluations. This effect can also be seen in peer evaluations, as personal relationships may influence the evaluation scores (6-8). This cognitive bias, the halo effect, affects evaluations by students and peers, and can be considered as the "Dr. Fox Effect."
The Dr. Fox Effect, first identified by Naftulin et al. in 1973, occurs when a charismatic speaker despite delivering low-quality content, receives high evaluation scores. In their study, a professional actor, Myron Fox, posed as an invited professor and delivered a lecture filled with contradictory statements, fake words, and irrelevant content. Surprisingly, he received high scores from the audience, who were unaware that it was an experiment (9). Later studies addressing the initial study shortcomings confirmed the Dr. Fox Effect. These studies found that an engaging speaker using enthusiasm, varied voice and tone, humor, and other teaching techniques could create a halo effect on evaluation scores, even when the content quality is poor (10-12).
Students and peers are essential resources in the faculty member evaluation process, and to prevent the "Dr. Fox effect," an appropriate evaluation tool is required. Additionally, it is recommended to educate faculty members through faculty development programs and inform students about the Dr. Fox effect as a prerequisite to the faculty member evaluation process. Professors should aim to deliver their content expressively without compromising quality. In this regard, we offer four types of content coverage and teacher expressiveness (Table. 1): Type A represents the best mode, in which the professor presents high-quality content with engaging expressiveness. Type B occurs when the professor is an expert in the relevant content but has weak expressiveness. Type C (Dr. Fox Effect) refers to situations where the professor presents poor content with engaging expressiveness. Lastly, Type D represents the worst possible mode for the teacher, which consists of both vague content and weak expressiveness.
Table. 1. Four types of content coverage and teacher expressiveness
|
Rich Content Coverage |
Poor Content Coverage |
| Strong Teacher Expressiveness |
Type A |
Type C (Dr. Fox Effect) |
| Weak Teacher Expressiveness |
Type B |
Type D |
In conclusion, it is essential for faculty and student development programs to educate stakeholders about the Dr. Fox Effect. The faculty promotion and recruitment committees should consider teacher expressiveness, content knowledge proficiency, and the potential impact of the Dr. Fox Effect when making decisions about teacher promotion, tenure, and recruitment policies.
Dr Zohre Sohrabi, Ms Elham Ramezanpour, Ms Neda Rashidi, Ms Zahra Nouri Khaneghah, Mr Sohrab Nosrati, Ms Azizeh Barry, Dr Akram Zhianifard,
Volume 17, Issue 54 (7-2024)
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Background & Objective: Reflective learning is one of the most important learning models because it is based on the student's own experiences and is based on self-directed learning. This study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of reflective learning on scrub and circular skills in operating room students at the Iran University of Medical Sciences.
Material & Methods: The current research is a quasi-experimental pretest-posttest control group design. The research population consisted of 60 students in the 3rd and 5th semesters of their bachelor's degree in the operating room who were randomly assigned to two training groups: one that used the reflective learning approach and the other that used the conventional university method. The skills of the correct principles of scrub and circular were measured in both groups before and one week after the intervention using an objective structured clinical test (three stations). The research instrument was a researcher-made questionnaire that was valid and reliable. The data were analyzed by SPSS version 22.
Results: The two intervention and control groups were homogeneous and similar in terms of demographic characteristics (p > 0.05). The intervention group (reflective learning) demonstrated a significantly higher mean score in scrub and circular skills compared to the control group (traditional learning) (p < 0.05).
Conclusion: The results of the present study showed that the reflective learning teaching method has been able to significantly improve post-test scores. So that, with a structured and coherent guide for reflection, students can move beyond the description process to deeper levels of reflection and, thus, learning.
Saman Jalali, Dr Omid Saed, Dr Kamyar Mansori, Dr Azin Nourian,
Volume 17, Issue 55 (6-2024)
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Background & Objective: Non-cognitive and personality variables, such as grit, have been shown to play an important role in medical science education. In order to facilitate studies in this field, it is necessary to have a reliable and valid instrument. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the factor structure and psychometric properties of the short Grit Scale (Grit-S) for Iranian dental students.
Material & Methods: For this psychometric study, the short Grit-S was administered to a sample of dental students (n = 226) during the first semester of the academic year 2022-2023 at the School of Dentistry of Zanjan University of Medical Sciences. First, the questionnaire was translated, and then the psychometric properties of the Short Grit-S were evaluated. Descriptive statistics and Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) were performed using SPSS 26, while Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) was conducted through AMOS 24.
Results: The results of this study provide evidence for the validity and reliability of the Short Grit-S as a measure of grit among Iranian dental students. The internal consistency coefficient (Cronbach's alpha), split-half reliability, and test-retest were 0.80, 0.82, and 0.84, respectively. The Short Grit-S was found to be a valid and reliable instrument with good factorial validity, internal consistency, convergence, and criterion validity. The Short Grit-S was found to be useful for finding out how persistent Iranian dental students were in their efforts (Eigenvalue 3.53; variance explained 50.44) and how interested they were in learning (Eigenvalue 1.16; variance explained 16.55). The two-factor model with 7 items (item 2 was omitted) was found to be the best factor structure for the Persian version of the Short Grit-S.
Conclusion: In conclusion, the study found that the Persian version of the Short Grit-S with 7 items was a reliable and valid instrument for measuring grit among Iranian dental students.
