This study is the first that longitudinally examined change in occupational self-efficacy (OSE) through individual and shared participation in occupational stress management courses (SMC). Applying the framework of social cognitive theory (Bandura, 1986, Social foundations of thought and action: A social cognitive theory. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall), we assumed that participation in SM...

Introduction This study aims to explore the impact of Parent Participation Program on the development of developmental delay children. Methods Pretest-posttest equivalent-group experimental design study was used in this paper. A total of 30 pairs of developmental delay children aged 0-72 months and their parents participated into this study. They were divided into two groups, namely control g...

There is a growing number of courses delivered using e-learning environments and their online discussions play an important role in collaborative learning of students. Even in courses with a few number of students, there could be thousands of messages generated in a few months within these forums. Manually evaluating the participation of students in such case is a significant challenge, conside...

the purpose of this study was to investigate and analyze factors influencing farmers’ participation in irrigation networks management, with an approach to compare two groups of farmers (one in irrigation networks with wua (water users' association), and the other in networks lacking wua). the methodological approach was a descriptive-correlational and causal-comparative study of the survey...

The purpose of this descriptive-correlation study was to investigate effective factors on rural people’s non-participation of Mahabad’s dam catchment in Watershed Management Projects. The research instrument was structural questionnaire with close-ended questions, which its validity confirmed by panel of academic staff and reliability of questionnaire was confirmed. The target population of thi...

Internet-based instruction is gaining acceptance as an alternative to the traditional classroom setting. However, since it is a relatively new means of communicating knowledge, research on its effectiveness is still in its infancy. This means that questions that have been thoroughly studied for traditional classrooms may need to be revisited for internet-based courses. One question is: Do men a...

to present a multiple-instructor, active-learning strategy in the undergraduate medical curriculum. this educational research is a descriptive one. shared teaching sessions, were designed for undergraduate medical students in six organ-system based courses. sessions that involved in-class discussions of integrated clinical cases were designed implemented and moderated by at least 3 faculties (c...