introduction: the phenomenon of knowledge explosion has led teachers to feel the necessity of training students so that they become reflective thinkers. this issue is more important for nursing students who are responsible for providing care for patients.this study is a part of another study arming at exploration of nursing students’ views on reflection on practice. methods. 20 senior nursing s...

Do students activate conceptual and procedural knowledge simultaneously when learning fraction addition? In grounded feedback, student actions on a target, to-be-learned representation are reflected in a more familiar feedback representation to promote conceptual learning within procedural practice. An experiment with 163 4th and 5th graders shows improved learning with a grounded feedback tuto...

OBJECTIVE This study aimed to explore the value of individualized feedback on performance, flow and self-efficacy during simulated laparoscopy. Furthermore, we wished to explore attitudes towards feedback and simulator training among medical students. METHODS Sixteen medical students were included in the study and randomized to laparoscopic simulator training with or without feedback. A teach...

Previous research reveals that older adults sometimes show enhanced processing of emotionally positive stimuli relative to negative stimuli, but that this positivity bias reverses to become a negativity bias when cognitive control resources are less available. In this study, we test the hypothesis that emotionally positive feedback will attenuate well-established age-related deficits in rule le...

Nowadays, there has been an increasing interest in the integration of technology in pedagogical purposes. This study was an attempt to delve in to the impact of a mobile application (Cushy Grammar) on the learning of conditional sentences (type1, 2 and 3) among Iranian intermediate EFL learners in Rooyesh institute in Isfahan. To this end, a group of 75 intermediate EFL learners were non-random...