Educators are increasingly interested in applying neuroscience findings to improve educational practice. However, their understanding of the brain often lags behind their enthusiasm for the brain. We propose that educational psychology can serve as a bridge between basic research in neuroscience and psychology on one hand and educational practice on the other. We evaluated whether taking an edu...

Compared to natives, young adults with an immigrant background are more likely choose academic education over vocational and training (VET). Our study investigates ethnic choice effects at different stages of the educational system. Based on longitudinal data from German National Educational Panel Study (NEPS), we found that youths–when controlling for achievement social background–were attend ...

The process of creating effective educational materials that fully utilize electronic media can be greatly improved. The goal of using instructional technology is, of course, to provide students with better quality educational experiences. Among other things, this means that educational materials should be provided in a way that matches the individual student’s learning style, in a variety of s...

Factors such as increasing class sizes, expanding curriculum, added time pressure on students and lecturing staff, contention for library resources and study space as well as the cost of educational administration have prompted the application of advanced technology to both enhance the pedagogical aspects of teaching and relieve administration and management resources. However, no single techno...

BACKGROUND Course failing and delayed graduation are important concerns in educational systems. The reasons of these educational failures need to be clarified. OBJECTIVES This study was designed to determine the academic failure rate and its predictors in Nursing and Midwifery Students in Kashan University of Medical Sciences. MATERIALS AND METHODS In this cross-sectional study, the records...