abstractthe present research was conducted to compare the efficiency of 3 groups of esp instructors: content teachers, language teachers, and professional esp teachers. the main question was aimed to investigate whether there was a significant difference between the 3 mentioned groups of esp teachers and if there was, who was more qualified to teach esp. to find the answer, a questionnaire was ...

OBJECTIVE To compare the effectiveness of two speech therapy interventions, vocal warm-up and breathing training, focusing on teachers' voice quality.METHODS A single-blind, randomized, parallel clinical trial was conducted. The research included 31 20 to 60-year old teachers from a public school in Salvador, BA, Northeasatern Brazil, with minimum workloads of 20 hours a week, who have or have ...

background: incivility among nursing students is a common academic problem. knowing the causes of students’ incivility will enable the faculty members and academic institutions to select correct strategies to deal with this problem. this study was conducted to explore the causes of incivility among nursing students from both educators’ and students’ points of view. methods: this qualitative con...

Teacher competency standards are the main guidelines for assessing initial academic qualification of teachers. The basis assessment teacher performance is sustainable development their professional career. This research reassesses teachers' in vocational high schools (VHSs) to sufficiently explain competence teaching tailored needs industrial world. aims at an structure established on Analytic ...

BACKGROUND Diabetes mellitus (DM) may increase the risk of depression as a result of a sense of threat of debilitating complications or because of associated lifestyle changes. Depression may increase the risk of type 2 diabetes as a result of poor health behaviours. OBJECTIVE To determine the association between diabetes mellitus, depression and psychological distress in a cohort of South Af...

Previous research has examined factors influencing teacher decisions to integrate technology using between-teacher designs. This study used a within-teacher design to compare students who were assigned multi-media learning objects for learning fractions with students taught by the same teachers who were not assigned to the technology. There were two conditions: (1) teachers were asked to limit ...