The purpose of this national survey was to explain the relationships between professors’ contextual characteristics, teaching conceptualizations and motivation, and the use of learnercentered teaching (LCT) methods in colleges of environmental, agricultural, applied, and life sciences. Three hundred and twenty-nine professors from land-grant universities (1862 & 1890) and state colleges partici...

In the first part of this work, a brief literature review is made on the issue of what is meant by “successful teaching experience”. Research has provided evidence for specific components that influence “success” namely beliefs for self-efficacy, feedback, possibility for student self-regulation and active participation, possibility for inquiry, collaboration, differentiation in ways of student...

Background: Patient simulations have become a basis of training for numerous health care professions. In the field of Respiratory Therapy (RT), it has been proven to influence and motivate the students in proactively participating in learning through the use of clinical demonstrations and technology. However, there remains a limited number of studies that investigate the impact of simulation in...

Supervision of Midwives is a statutory responsibility which provides a “mechanism for support and guidance to every midwife practising in the United Kingdom” (Nursing and Midwifery Council, NMC and The Local Supervising Authority Midwifery Officers National Forum, LSAMONF, 2008). To become a SoM requires a midwife to be nominated by her peers and to undertake a course at Masters Level over two ...

The traditional Self-Organizing Map usually considers the whole data set in one go, whereas the dominative representative data are not well utilized. The learning process is found to be rigid and time-consuming when one is dealing with large data sets. In this paper, we propose to apply density based data reduction method as preprocessing. The proposed method extracts representative data prelim...

BACKGROUND Passing the emergency medicine internship is an essential process for all graduates of medical schools. The main purpose of this study was to evaluate validity of current criteria for judgment passing ER rotation among internee medical students. METHODS In this cross-sectional study, a total of 200 students in the emergency departments (ED) of the teaching hospitals at Tehran Unive...

Abst"'uct-Self-organizing neural network solutions to control problems are described. Conlpetitive networks �reate spatial filters and geonletry connedion� in a �elf-organizing fa�h­ ion. The goal position, the obstacles and the object under control all create neural activi­ ties through the filters. Spreading activation that discriminates between the controlled ob­ jectl the goal position and ...

Although many teachers now have access to computers for teaching and learning and profess a belief in the value of computers for education the impact on the day to day work in classrooms is still limited. Even where teachers believe in the use of computers and have the necessary technical skills they may be reluctant to implement them in their classrooms. Increasing teachers' self-efficacy beli...

BACKGROUND Children suffering from thalassemia have higher levels of depression and lower levels of self-concept. OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to determine if group play therapy could significantly increase self-concept among children with thalassemia major ages 7 to 11 years old in teaching hospitals of Golestan province, Iran, in 2012. PATIENTS AND METHODS In this randomized, cont...