Recent educational research from a socio-cognitive perspective has validated students collaborative engagement with new technologies and heightened understanding of influential factors shaping the effectiveness of peer interactions, learning contexts and computer interfaces for enhancing learning. This paper focuses on an analysis of the complexity of knowledge in student-designed, electronical...

neopterin, apyrazinopyrimidine compound, is produced by macrophages after induction by interferon gamma (ifn-y) and serves as a marker of cellular immune system activation followed by oxidative stress. the aim of this study was to determine urinary neopterin to creatinine ratio (uncr) as a surrogate marker of cell-mediated immune activation in multiple sclerosis (ms). three weekly early morning...

the main purpose of this study was to identify factors affecting the validity of the results of the student evaluation. the research method was mixed method. participants of the qualitative part were masters of educational science and participants of the quantitative part were bsc students of psychology and educational sciences of state universities of tehran entered in 1389 and 1390. in the qu...

Introduction. In educational centers, evaluation of educational activities of teachers is done in different ways. One of the most common ways » nearly in all important universities « is student Evaluation of teaching (SET), which is done by questionnaires. Scientific evidences have showed that in spite of frequent usage of this kind of evaluation, opinions of students about teacher’s performa...

OBJECTIVES It is hypothesized that student and program characteristics will influence the probability of passing the national paramedic certification exam. The objective of this study was to utilize student and program characteristics to build a statistical model to determine the probability of success on the cognitive portion of the national paramedic certification exam. METHODS The study po...

OBJECTIVES Schools represent an important environment for physical activity (PA) promotion among youth. Schools can promote PA through policies and programs but our understanding of how these school characteristics associate with student PA levels is largely unknown. Developing this understanding is critical for implementing new prevention interventions. The aim of this study was to identify th...

—This article is focused on the study of Open Student Models, area that takes on the opening of Student Models' characteristics in Technology Based Learning Systems. In this work a review of the state of the art on Open Student Models is performed. Different approximations of the literature are compared against an opening guide that authors have defined. This guide is formulated on three main p...