background: nutritional education is a necessity in diabetic patients to better control of the disease. the aim of this study was to determine the effectiveness of educational programs to promote nutritional knowledge in type ii diabetes patients using the health belief model (hbm). methods: this was a quasi-experimental study which was performed among type ii diabetic patients referred to rura...

background: to compare the effectiveness of basnef and classic educational models to improve the assertion skill level of high school boy students. methods: the 60 high school male students from shiraz city, fars province iran, were participated in this study. they were randomly divided in two groups (groups a and b). the group a attended in designed educational planning based on basnef model a...

The Cognitive Science Research group at ETS conducts research and development at the forefront of educational assessment, using cognitive theory in the design of assessments, building cognitive models to guide interpretation of test-takers’ performance, and researching cognitive issues in the context of assessment. Moving beyond traditional (e.g., multiple-choice) tests, the group investigates ...

Educational Multimedia (EMM) is becoming a mature and integral part of teaching and learning systems, mainly due to its ability improve teaching and learning. However, EMM selection and evaluation for higher education is a complex and interdisciplinary problem characterised by uncertainty, dynamics, explicit and implicit knowledge and constraints, and involvement of different stakeholders. In t...

This paper presents a WWW-based Group Support System (GSS) to facilitate the teaching/learning process. This paper also describes our experiences over four successive editions of a pilot course offered using the GSS. We show the methodologies used and draw some results, experiences and impressions from this experience. We further describe planned future research, including discussion of the pos...

This booklet consists of a collection of essays by various authors. Each essay is complete in itself but the collection read in the presented sequence gives the reader a quite comprehensive idea of the theory, practice and uses of group discussion. The essays range over so wide a field of human activities and interests that it would be difficult to find a literate group (after reading the bookl...

A brief psychosocial intervention model for alcohol and drug dependence recovery has been evolved in the form of psycho-educational group therapy. The package comprises of eight sessions conducted thrice a week over a period of about three weeks following detoxification. It aims to equip the patients with information and knowledge relevant to the needs of recovery. The program covers topics suc...