56% were left-brain oriented. However, when the same methods were applied to 180 students in various, specialized upper-level courses, the range of left brain students ranged from 38% to 65%. This difference indicated that something about a person's brain hemispheres was associated with spreading students out over a variety of college degrees and interests. Second, and more revealing, Morton em...

Effective resource planning incorporates people-place relationships, allowing these efforts to be inclusive of the different local beliefs, interests, activities and needs. 'Geovisualizations' can serve as potentially powerful tools for facilitating 'place-conscious' resource planning, as they can be developed with high degrees of realism and accuracy, allowing people to recognize and relate to...

Interest is a powerful motivational process that energizes learning, guides academic and career trajectories, and is essential to academic success. Interest is both a psychological state of attention and affect toward a particular object or topic, and an enduring predisposition to reengage over time. Integrating these two definitions, the four-phase model of interest development guides interven...

evaluation of the factors affecting students’ academic failure in urmia university of medical sciences in 1390   rahimi b [1] , kazemi n [2] , mohammadpour y [3] , rahmatnejad l [4] , jabbari n [5] *      received: 1 jul , 2013 accepted: 3 sep , 2013      abstract   background & aims : academic failure of the students in higher education is one of the major problems. this study aims to examine ...

background: academic failure of medical and medical sciences students is one of the major problems of higher education centers in many countries. this study aims to collect and compare relevant researches in this field in iran. methods: the appropriate keywords were searched in the national and international databases, and the findings were categorized into related and non-related articles acco...