Aims: Nowadays the necessity of informing children of various ages about sexual issues is felt more than ever before. The present study has been conducted to determine the effect of the mothers’ education on the preschool children’s sexual training based on the health belief model. Methods: the present study is experimental intervention research performed on 144 mothers with preschool children...

In graduate class, education on shortening the lead-time in designing and developing products by various computer-aided systems in a network and applying virtual engineering was carried out. To accomplish such a purpose, network based education about engineering design was applied. Some laboratories consisting of various computer-aided systems were constructed and connected by a network. A samp...

1 Gender-based violence (GBV) is the most extreme expression of unequal gender relations in society and one of the most widespread violations of human rights. While GBV disproportionally affects women and girls, it also affects men and boys. These abuses take place all over the world in homes, schools, work-places and communities. But GBV is preventable and education and educational institution...

Previous studies have indicated that computerised assessment enables psychologists and teachers to carry out assessment of cognitive abilities and basic skills speedily and easily, and pupils generally have positive attitudes towards this type of assessment. To examine this view, 90 children aged 6–7 years were administered computer-delivered assessments of verbal ability (verbal concepts) and ...

Assessment, for both the improvement of performance and evaluating learners, is most effective when it reflects learning as "multidimensional, integrated, and revealed in performance over time" (Walvoord & Anderson, 1998). With that in mind, what do networks and new media have to offer that can assist and improve educational assessment? This paper asserts that network-based assessment offers fu...

The norm in teaching requirements engineering to undergraduates is to follow a prescribed set of topics, e.g., that proposed by IEEE/ACM task force on software engineering or that described in a suitable course text. There is no doubt that this teaches students about the established concepts in the field. In this position paper, we argue that there can be much added value to this baseline by in...

Historically, peer programs have been utilized in school and community settings to address a range of health issues such as HIV/AIDS, drug and alcohol abuse, and youth violence. However, in terms of offender rehabilitation, the change process has generally rested upon professional staff, with little formal consideration of the powerful positive influence that offenders can have on fellow offend...