Accounting Students’ Motivation for Getting Professionally Qualified

Using simulation to prepare students for their qualified role.

It is important that qualified nurses are able make decisions and solve problems, so a group of 10 BSc adult branch nursing students undertook a ward simulation exercise in preparation for their role as qualified nurses. This article describes the planning, design, implementation and evaluation of the simulation day.

Educational Motivation Improvement Strategies for Postgraduate Students: Nominal Group Technique

Introduction: One of the most important factors in studentschr('39') learning process is academic motivation that can affect different aspects of studentschr('39') performance in educational environments and directly affects their academic success. Motivation is also considered as the key to learnerschr('39') learning. The main goal of this study is to provide ways to increase educational motiv...

Open Access... but Professionally

1 Content Open Access... but Professionally. OA journals need not be poor cousins of commercially published journals. Open Access has become a valid electronic publishing option for institutions that own academic journals. Many of them however still believe that because they offer their content at no cost for the reader they can publish their journals at no cost. As a result, most open access e...

Stay Professionally Fit, Always

Motivation of medical students: selection by motivation or motivation by selection

BACKGROUND Medical schools try to implement selection procedures that will allow them to select the most motivated students for their programs. Though there is a general feeling that selection stimulates student motivation, conclusive evidence for this is lacking. The current study aims to use the perspective of Self-determination Theory (SDT) of motivation as a lens to examine how medical stud...