BACKGROUND Cardiovascular diseases are important causes of death, morbidity, and years of potential life lost in most developed countries. AIMS The purpose of this study was to assess trends in knowledge of cardiovascular risk factors among patients five years after coronary angiography and to investigate the impact of educational level on knowledge level. METHODS The study included 1289 of...

background: hospital is a place to provide medical services. it is affected by noise pollution sources that can be associated with negative impacts on health and comfort status of the staff members and patients. the aim of this study was to measure noise levels in different wards of hospitals and to determine the irritation caused by noise among the hospital staff members in hamadan, iran. meth...

The design of educational software must be based on clear pedagogical objectives. In this article we introduce two interactive assistants, each one intended to assist in a specific greedy algorithm: AMO for the knapsack problem and SEDA for the activity selection problem. We describe their educational objectives by means of the levels in Bloom’s taxonomy and the functions these assistants provi...

This literature review highlights the tension between cohesiveness and incoherence in operationalizing categories of educational technology professionals. Literature on learning technologists, educational technologists, e-learning technologists, information and communications technology coordinators and information technology coordinators was analyzed through a multilevel model of comparative e...

purpose: this study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of training courses for the librarians of the librarians association of iran, khorasan branch, implementing the kirkpatrick model. methodology: the method is based on the applied researchand the nature of the survey and analysis. the population consisted of 156 librarian members of the association who had participated in the training cours...

We study the performance of national education systems along two important dimensions: The degree to which they help individuals develop capabilities necessary for their successful social integration (educational quality) and the degree to which they confer equal opportunities for social advancement (educational equality). To investigate how educational quality and equality relate to each other...

following the widespread acceptance of multiple intelligences theory, thomas armstrong (1984), in the initiative action, integrated it with bloom's taxonomy and enriched the theory. actually, armstrong helped remarkable by this integration to classify each of multiple intelligences in each of the six levels of cognitive domain, as well as better planning and targeting and designing curricu...

in this research anxiety and depression and their association with 32 different factors in students of hamedan university of medical sciences were measured. levels of anxiety and depression were assessed by state-trait anxiety inventory (from 2, trait) and beck depression inventory. a questionnaire made of demographic data, educational and noneducational activities, the presence of medical or p...

This study examines the relationship between economic resources, psychosocial well-being, and educational preferences of AIDS-orphaned children in southern Uganda. We use baseline data from a sample of 1410 AIDS-orphaned children (defined as children who have lost one or both biological parents to AIDS) enrolled in the Bridges to the Future study, a National Institute of Child Health and Human ...

The primary purpose of this study is to examine science student teachers' experience with educational technology, their intentions for their own use, their intentions for their students’ use, and their beliefs in the value of educational technology in science instruction. Four-hundred-forty-eight science student teachers of different disciplines and levels participated in the study. A questionn...