the Food Stamp Nutrition Education Program (FSNEP). UC Cooperative Extension specialists need dependable and consistent evaluation data to develop curriculum and staff training materials. Evaluation tools can also demonstrate the effectiveness of such programs, and can help nutrition educators tailor them to the specific needs of diverse populations. For example, if evaluation data indicates th...

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Current research shows that computer games were integral to the life of young learners across the globe. Hence, educators were looking at opportunities to use computer games in teaching and learning in order to address the needs of young learners. Meanwhile, learning needs and expectations were varied depending on the culture of a particular individual. Researches show that there were compellin...

The field of Recreation and Leisure has a history of advocacy and social reform. In recent history, there have been spirited dialogues, beginning with the 1991 SPRE Teaching Institute, about the role of recreation and leisure educators in facilitating social responsibility, and by extension, social change. The purpose of this paper is twofold: first, we will explore the topics of critical think...

Understanding and designing appropriate educational youth safety programs for the Amish requires an appreciation of their history, their distinctiveness in an American society built on economic, social and cultural change, and how the Amish themselves have changed over the years. The qualitative research study highlighted in this paper sought to determine culturally and age-appropriate curricul...

1 Malgorzata S. Zywno, Ryerson University, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, T217, Eric Palin Hall, 350 Victoria St., Toronto, ON, M5B 2K3, Canada, Phone: 416-979-5000 ext. 6105, Fax: 416-979-5280, Email: [email protected] Abstract  Poor teaching, especially in math, engineering and science programs, is the most common complaint among students, contributing to dropout rates....

Over the past few decades, the widespread phenomenon of Internet abuse has gained attention from the public, academia, and the media. In a departure from this negative viewpoint, however, researchers and educators have devoted considerable effort in attempting to understand the influence of online communication on people's psychological well-being. This study focuses specifically on Facebook, a...

This opening lecture is intended to serve as a propaedeutic for the papers to be presented at this conference whose nonhomogeneous audience includes scientists, mathematicians, engineers and educators. This expository and developmental lecture, a case study of mathematical growth, surveys the origin and development of a mathematical idea from its birth in intellectual curiosity to applications....

This study was undertaken to study the level of job satisfaction of teacher educators, to compare the level of job satisfaction of female and male teacher educators as well as to compare the level of job satisfaction of teacher educators in relation to private teachers’ training institutions of University of Gour Banga and University of Kalyani. The data was collected randomly by using job sati...

OBJECTIVE This study evaluated weather educational outcomes of nurse education meet the requirements of nursing practice by exploring the correspondence between nurse educators' and nurse managers' assessments of novice nurses' professional competence. The purpose was to find competence areas contributing to the acknowledged practice-theory gap. DESIGN A cross-sectional, comparative design us...