Undergraduate nursing students, as members of the health care team, must uphold patient safety as a professional and moral obligation during their clinical learning experiences. To address this imperative, in a humanistic paradigm, students engage in critical appraisal of self as a developing practitioner. Using Q-methodology, this study describes undergraduate nursing students' subjective unde...

In this chapter, we report five beginning undergraduate students' understanding of the 3-D structure of DNA, and the use of gesture and analogy to enhance their 3-D visualization of DNA structure. Through clinical interview-cum-teaching sessions we first recapitulated their background knowledge of basic biology and chemistry prerequisites. We then proceeded to a microgenetic study of the studen...

the aim of the present study was to evaluate the efficiency of the computer and internet training course from the viewpoint of dental students of kermanshah university of medical sciences in 2014. in this descriptive survey, the study sample included 39 dental students who entered university in 2011 and 2012. the required data were collected through a reliable and valid questionnaire using cens...

The present study focuses teaching reform of the history of psychology for applied psychology of 35 university students which largely pays attention to psychological theory and viewpoint and background story, and uses the critical thinking questionnaire for investigation before and after intervention, the purpose is to understand the students' critical thinking situation, and the relationship b...

Although several cross-sectional surveys have shown that certain traits such as extraversion and neuroticism are related to emotion regulation, few studies have explored the nature of this relationship. The present study tried to explore the longitudinal relation between traits and emotion regulation strategies. The Interpersonal Self-Support Scale for Middle School Students (ISSS-MSS) and the ...

The purpose of this study was to determine the recognition of body image and food behavior factors according to the BMI. The subjects of this study were 242 7th grade students resided in San Francisco area. The degree of recognition for self-estimated physique of subjects by gender and by race showed no significant differences by gender but significant differences by race, showing that 20.0% wa...

Nowadays most lecture classes in various institutions conducted using advanced computer technologies, with the purpose to enhance students learning and sustain interest in the topic. Nevertheless, does that really help them? To assess the viewpoint of medical students of acceptance and preferences of methodology of teaching, in our institution the study was undertaken. The three methodologies w...