BACKGROUND Diabetes education presents two major challenges to the U.S. Cooperative Extension System. The first is that the majority of diabetes education services are provided in more populated areas, resulting in large nonurban areas being underserved. The second is that many individuals with diabetes find the meal-planning component of diabetes education confusing. CONTEXT The University o...

In academia, smooth progression of students significantly depends on the way curricula are developed and organized. Curricula or study plans with high degree of interconnectivity between courses, multiple prerequisites, and hierarchically structured courses tend to complicate the smooth progress of the enrolled students. In this work, a rigorous quantitative relaxation indicator, developed and ...

The Healthy Toddlers (HT) curriculum, a series of 8 weekly lessons available in English and Spanish, was designed to promote the development of healthy eating habits at an early age through effective nutrition and parenting education. Curriculum content was based on topics of interest to parents and research indicating that although most mothers knew that it was important to feed their children...

BACKGROUND Providing comprehensive emergency preparedness training (EPT) for patient care providers is important to the future success of emergency preparedness operations in the United States. Disasters are rare, complex events involving many patients and environmental factors that are difficult to reproduce in a training environment. Few EPT programs possess both competency-driven goals and m...

background: when the lesson plan is performed correctly in the classroom, the value of this program and the time spent for it are exactly clarified. the aim of this study is to survey the coordination of theoretical lessons teaching for the   students of dentistry in the ninth term in comparison with the lesson plans presented in 1388.      methods: a copy of all lesson plans offered in the nin...

this study aimed to investigate the program of translation studies, offered in iranian universities at the level of master, in terms of its curriculum through a needs analysis model offered by altschuld and witkin (1995). to do so, after a review of the related literature and conducting a documentary analysis, the researchers chose to look at the issue from different perspectives. current instr...

â  the aim of this study was to investigate the postgraduate students' views regarding their current and desired participation in curriculum development and compare their views with the curriculum experts' opinions. this study is a descriptive-analytical and both qualities and quantitative methods were used/ the population consisted of two groups. the first group consists of all curri...

In the context of new era and goal moral intellectual education, design ideological political education in curriculum holds significant importance for civil engineering majors. By incorporating into curriculum, students’ awareness, comprehensive qualities, innovative spirit, social responsibility, environmental consciousness, attention to development, technological innovation can be cultivated....

Within seconds of writing this sentence, the human population continues to grow, and hundreds species worldwide face extinction due actions towards environment. Individuals must change their behavior toward environment solve environmental issues. Successful educational programs achieve desired thoughts, behaviors, value judgments, knowledge, skills in people. Biology education is becoming incre...

Integrating environmental education into the school curriculum in South Africa remains a concern. Various and instructional design factors affecting have been explored. However, role of leadership is not well understood despite research that shows critical challenge facing system general. Poor has shown to contribute ineffective implementation poor quality education. In current research, we use...