background: team-based learning is a structured type of cooperative learning that is becoming increasingly more popular in nursing education. this study compares levels of nursing students' perception of the psycho-social climate of the classroom between conventional lecture group and team-based learning group.   methods: in a quasi-experimental study with pretest-posttest design 38 nursing stu...

The CHANGE approach to capacity-building assistance (CBA), developed over 4 years by the Latino Commission on AIDS Manos Unidas' Program to assist Latino-serving community-based HIV prevention programs in eight northern U.S. states, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands, is a system for providing community-based organizations (CBOs) with not only the skills to implement interventions from th...

We propose a multiple instance learning approach to contentbased retrieval of classroom video for the purpose of supporting human assessing the learning environment. The key element of our approach is a mapping between the semantic concepts of the assessment system and features of the video that can be measured using techniques from the fields of computer vision and speech analysis. We report o...

Before implementing the Competency-Based Approach (CBA) in 2003, Algerian educational system was based on traditional teaching methods that focused mainly acquiring knowledge about language delivered by teacher and amount of information learner could accumulate to pass exams. Although CBA has shifted teacher’s role from a transmitter facilitator passive recipient an active participant, teacher-...

The Australian Government is committed to the use of cost-benefit analysis (CBA) to assess regulatory proposals to encourage better decision making. A CBA involves a systematic evaluation of the impacts of a regulatory proposal, accounting for all the effects on the community and economy: not just the immediate or direct effects, financial effects or effects on one group. It emphasises, to the ...