This study aimed to identify the psychological and social effects of distance education from viewpoints students’ guardians in Jordan. The sample comprised 1206 guardians, whom 71% have completed their undergraduate studies or a higher level. Furthermore, 62% participants aged more than 35 years. Results also indicated that 34% children studying primary education, 21.9% secondary 13.4% all leve...

A proposal scheme to personalize students’ learning based on her learning aim in an e-learning environment. The system acknowledges a distinct set of students' aims that prioritize various Learning Objects (LOs) such as theory, case studies etc. according to student's Learning Aim (LA). We also propose a new way to model the course as a directed acyclic graph in which nodes at each level repres...

This paper discusses the need for a systematic framework which can be used to analyse software processes and derive process models. We propose the idea of process viewpoints which have associated process models and which incorporate questions about process and potential process improvement. The questions associated with each process viewpoint are derived from organisational concerns which must ...

Although several cross-sectional surveys have shown that certain traits such as extraversion and neuroticism are related to emotion regulation, few studies have explored the nature of this relationship. The present study tried to explore the longitudinal relation between traits and emotion regulation strategies. The Interpersonal Self-Support Scale for Middle School Students (ISSS-MSS) and the ...

The purpose of this study was to determine the recognition of body image and food behavior factors according to the BMI. The subjects of this study were 242 7th grade students resided in San Francisco area. The degree of recognition for self-estimated physique of subjects by gender and by race showed no significant differences by gender but significant differences by race, showing that 20.0% wa...