BACKGROUND Updated standards for meals sold through the USDA's National School Lunch Program took effect at the beginning of the 2012-2013 school year. The current study assessed the perceptions of school staff regarding student reactions to these changes in school lunches and how perceptions varied across schools. METHODS Mailback surveys were gathered from administrators and food service st...

Fast food is popular among children and adolescents; however, its consumption has often been associated with negative impacts on nutrition and health. This study examined current fast food consumption status among middle school students and explored factors influencing fast food consumption by applying Theory of Planned Behavior. A total of 354 (52.5% boys) students were recruited from a middle...

  Objective: Numerous studies have emphasized on the importance of developing an ideal educational system for high-quality dental education. The present study sought to assess the perception of dental students on operative dentistry education in Department of Restorative Dentistry, Shahid Beheshti Dental School, Tehran, Iran.   Methods: In this descriptive cross-sectional study, 220 students we...

The learning tools of the biodiversity practicum e-module in lectures using can be useful and serve as a guide or for science process skills activities. purpose pelitian is to study matter Creating Designing Products Learning Tools E-Module Local Biodiversity improve Science Process Skills Conduct Feasibility Practical Testson e-Modules Practicum Biodiversitas terms Cover, Module Design, Langua...

This paper presents results from a recent classroom study using Betty’s Brain, a choice-rich learning environment in which students learn about a scientific domain (e.g., mammal thermoregulation) as they teach a virtual agent named Betty. The learning and teaching task combines reading and understanding a set of hypertext resources with constructing a causal map that accurately models the scien...

Reading comprehension is one of the essential skills for learning in every language and in Iranian educational system, there seems a need to make some revisions in teaching reading comprehension. In an attempt to address this problem, this research set out to utilize Directed Reading –Thinking Activity (coined by Stauffer, 1969) as a teaching comprehension model which was expected to enhance st...