Organizations such as universities collect and use personal data about customers such as students. How do students feel about their university’s practices related to error in data and access to personal data? Using data collected via a survey of 187 students at a large U.S. university, we investigate the effects of these two privacy and security concerns on students’ feeling of alienation. Impl...

introduction: logbooks show whether medical students have been exposed to a particular disease and whether they are able to perform particular practices or not. to evaluate the training status of the medical students in the pediatric ward of shiraz university of medical sciences, the data about the students’ knowledge of different diseases in different parts of the pediatric ward in 2011 was co...

BACKGROUND AND AIM: The purpose of this study was assessing oral health status and dental anxiety differences between the freshman and senior dental students and the effect of awareness on dental practices. METHODS: Freshman (n =71) and senior dental students (n = 41) were included in this study. All participants were applied ...

BACKGROUND The incidence of HIV and AIDS continues to be a source of great concern within universities in South Africa. Furthermore, university students constitute an important community in the intervention against the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Students in the age group of 15-24 years are at a greater risk of HIV infection than any other group in the country; yet, little is known about why they contin...

In an effort to provide a fair and appropriate education for all, educational reformers and policy makers expect the majority of the 5.8 million school age children identified with disabilities to learn science in general education classrooms whenever possible (Caseau & Norman, 1997; IDEA, 1997). For this paper, students with disabilities [SWD] consist of high school students identified with no...

In order to evaluate the current effectiveness of nutrition and food safety education on the college taekwondo students in China, we analysed the difference of food knowledge, attitudes and practices among the Chinese college taekwondo students on the basis of local fraction algorithm who had or had not have food nutrition and safety education, in order to examine the necessarily of the provisi...

Background and aim Making a diagnosis and prescribing medicine is the most important skill required by any doctor in the colleges, hospitals or clinical practice. Prescribing is the intervention that has the greatest influence on patients' health requiring complex series of sub-competencies like making a diagnosis, setting a therapeutic goal, choosing the approach, choosing the best drug, route...

objectives: emotional intelligence skills begin at home, and with positive interactions with parents and other children. parents can help children recognize their emotions, name them, and learn how to respect their feelings and adapt to social situations. the aim of the present study was to investigate the effectiveness of emotional intelligence training on the communication skills of students ...

This study designed learning activities supported by a mobile learning system for students to develop listening and speaking skills in English as a foreign language (EFL). How students perceive learning activities and a mobile learning system were examined in this study. Additionally, how different practices relate to students’ language proficiency was also explored. It was found that students ...