background and aim: job satisfaction represents individuals' positive or negative attitude towards their occupation. job satisfaction is of high significance in health care field and could affects the quality of patients' health care and satisfaction. every organization should pay considerable attention to job satisfaction and performance and continually monitor these indices. therefo...

The performance in higher secondary school education in India is a turning point in the academic lives of all students. As this academic performance is influenced by many factors, it is essential to develop predictive data mining model for students’ performance so as to identify the slow learners and study the influence of the dominant factors on their academic performance. In the present inves...

Although medical professionalism is a fundamental aspect of competence in medicine and a distinct facet of physicians' competence, evidence suggests that the subject of professionalism is not taught or assessed as part of medical students' curricula in Iran and many other countries. Assessing the knowledge of medical students and physicians about medical professionalism seems to be helpful in i...

The Boston mechanism is criticized for its poor incentive and welfare performances compared to the Gale-Shapley deferred acceptance mechanism (DA). Using school choice data from Beijing, I investigate parents' behavior under the Boston mechanism, taking into account parents' possible mistakes when they strategize. Evidence shows that parents are overcautious as they play "safe" strategies too o...

Models of student knowledge have occupied a significant portion of the literature in the area of Educational Data Mining. In the context of Intelligent Tutoring Systems, these models are designed for the purpose of improving prediction of student knowledge and improving prediction of skill mastery. New models or model modifications need to be justified by marked improvement in evaluation result...

Citation: Gucciardi DF (2018) Commentary: Mental Toughness and Individual Differences in Learning, Educational and Work Performance, Psychological Well-being, and Personality: A Systematic Review. Front. Psychol. 8:2329. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.02329 Commentary: Mental Toughness and Individual Differences in Learning, Educational and Work Performance, Psychological Well-being, and Personality: ...

The field of educational data mining has been paying attention to Knowledge Tracing (KT) for a long time. Corbett and Anderson assumed the amount of learning that students do does not depend on whether students get items right or wrong. Ohlsson and others argued that the student should learn more from a previous incorrect performance. We decided to investigate a Bayes Network similar to KT but ...