In this article the answer for the question ‘is education a scientific discipline?’ will be analyzed. Regarding this question, those who oppose the arguments that education is a scientific discipline and others who claim that education is not a philosophic discipline are both right. The question will be reviewed within the framework of philosophy’s and sciences’ basic structures. Those who clai...

Science has several dimensions. Traditionally, the overwhelming emphasis in the science curriculum has been on the content dimension. Consequently students obtained a narrow understanding of the scientific culture. The situation has improved somewhat in the recent years as a result of the development of modern science programmes. Greater attention is given to the nature of scientific enquiry th...

The purpose of this qualitative study was to produce an overview of topics and practical recommendations that have been presented for teaching for students with intellectual disabilities in educational research articles published from 2000 to 2013. The sample of peer-reviewed research articles considering this topic was selected using a database search of the Educational Resources Information C...

A study was conducted to determine if,increasing'the. ' redundancy of sectionsim scientific articles where typical' readers became bored or confused would have a desirable effect on other readers. Undergraduate journalism students aPPled R. F. Carter's /'signalled stopping technique to two different ience articles by indicating points where they stopped reading bec useof confusion, boredom, o e...

purpose: to develop strategic planning for ophthalmology education in iran from 2008 to 2010. methods: a qualitative investigation using focus group discussion was conducted during march, 2008 at the ophthalmic research center of shahid beheshti university. six to ten academic members of the ophthalmology department and other stakeholders participated in this study. strengths, weaknesses, oppor...

In this note we prove several inequalities for regular near polygons. ∗This work was partly supported by the Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (No 14740072), the Ministry of Education, Science and Culture, JAPAN. †This work was partly done when the author was at the ComMaC center at the Pohang University of Science and Technology. He would like to thank the ComMaC-KOSEF for its support.

The Vanderbilt-Northwestern-TexasHarvard/MIT Engineering Research Center for Bioengineering Educational Technologies (VaNTH) is an ERC aimed at developing a new approach to bioengineering education. The goal of the VaNTH ERC is to integrate learning science, learning technology, assessment and the domain subjects of bioengineering into a new paradigm for the education of bioengineers. VaNTH has...

1 Scientific Computing Key Laboratory of Shanghai Universities, Department of Mathematics, Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai 200234, China 2 Department of Mathematics, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh 202 002, India 3 Department of Mathematics and Statistics, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran 31261, Saudi Arabia 4 Department of Applied Mathematics, National Sun Yat-se...