Purpose Despite the ever-growing number of PhD students all over the world, there remain significant doubts about whether entering students in business and management disciplines fully understand the process of producing a PhD thesis, defending it and developing a coherent publication strategy. Hence, this viewpoint article aims to offer some guidance on what it takes to successfully complete a...

This study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of an intervention to reduce bicycle injuries among rural middle school students in China. A one-year cluster-randomized controlled trial was conducted with seventh grade students from six middle schools in two towns in rural Chaoshan, China. The two towns were randomly assigned to either the intervention or control group. Road safety education mat...

background and purpose: communication skills play an important role in diagnosis, effective treatment, and patient satisfaction. we aimed to determine the attitudes of medical students towards learning communication skills in order to design related educational programs for them. methods: this was a cross-sectional study with a sample of 200 medical students of yazd that were selected using cla...

Teaching college students about the nature of science should not be a controversial exercise. College students are expected to distinguish between astronomy and astrology, chemistry and alchemy, evolution and creationism. In practice, however, the conflict between creationism and the nature of science may create controversy in the classroom, even walkouts, when the subject of evolution is raise...

teachers are responsible for teaching the students, and improving the teaching quality plays an essential role in the efficiency of the student and teacher. the present study was a descriptive cross-sectional study with a total research sample of 220 people that investigated the characteristics of the capable teacher from the viewpoint of the students at faculty of health, guilan university of ...

The importance of considering usability in the design and development of educational websites is well recognised. However, there is a lack of research which has exposed the design features students prefer on an educational website. This research developed specific criteria for evaluating the usability of educational websites consisting of 25 design issues distributed into five major categories:...

background: over the past decade, new dynamics have emerged in each of the key domains of higher education, research and innovation; therefore, considering effective factors on performing research activities is so necessary. the aim of the present study was to determine the factors influencing on postgraduate students’ interest and participation in research activities. methods: this cross-secti...

background: in the present study, we studied the clinical students’ viewpoints toward traditional and case study training methods. methods: this analytical descriptive study was conducted in cardiac ward of valiasr hospital in birjand from 1389 to 1390. 5 training sessions in the form of case presentation were held during a one-month course in cardiac ward. the trainer prepared a powerpoint fil...