Effective and meaningful interprofessional education opportunities for prospective health sciences students are important to prepare students for the work environment they will encounter after training. This article briefly describes the Summer Academic Enrichment Program, a programme for students pursuing entry to dentistry, medicine, pharmacy, and physical therapy schools. The programme evalu...

This study aims to determine the attitudes of individuals towards computer programming in terms of various variables. The study group consists of the students of Kastamonu University Department of Computer Education and Instructional Technologies Teaching (CEIT), Department of Computer Engineering, and Department of Computer Programming. Data were collected via Attitude towards Computer Program...

This paper focuses on differences of attitudes related to information and communication technologies among Czech university students. Students’ attitudes were evaluated summatively and with respect to gender, grade, and residence. The sample consisted of a total of 316 university students. The data analysis included factor analysis, ANCOVA, ANOVA, and t-test. The factor analysis yielded five di...

INTRODUCTION Negative attitudes between pharmacists, doctors and nurses can impact adversely on patients' medicines management. A seven-week interprofessional learning (IPL) intervention was delivered to foster positive attitudes. METHODS First-year pharmacy, nursing and medical students' attitudes were assessed using the Attitudes to Health Professionals Questionnaire before and after IPL in...

Following the growth of online, higher-education courses, academic institutions are now offering fully online degree programs. Yet it is not clear how students who enroll in fully online degree programs are similar to those students who enroll in in-person ("traditional") degree programs. Because previous work has shown students' attitudes toward science can affect their performance in a course...

The aim of this study was investigating Iranian female students’ attitude towards CALL and its relationship with their level of education, computer ownership, and frequency of use. One hundred and forty-two female students (50 junior high-school students, 49 high-school students and 43 university students) participated in this study. They filled in A-CALL questionnaire that assessed their attit...

In this study, the attitudes, expectations and views of 206 students in four high schools within the scope of the FAT_ IH project in Turkey were assessed regarding tablet PC technology after six months of a pilot plan that included the distribution of tablet PCs to students. The research questions of this study are whether there is a meaningful difference between tablet PC use by male and femal...

Cheating behavior has been a serious problem in dental institutions across the globe. Attitudes of dental students have an impact on the quality of health care provided to their patients. This descriptive cross-sectional study had the following objectives: to assess and compare the attitudes of dental students and teachers about cheating behaviors, to assess students' opinions of various justif...

College students of Food and Beverage Management related disciplines in southern Taiwan were surveyed in order to investigate the influencing factors of students’ nutritional knowledge, behaviors and attitudes. Eight hundred and fifty questionnaires were given with 723 returned and of which 584 were valid. Results showed that the overall percentage of correct answers on nutritional knowledge, a...

OBJECTIVES To determine pharmacy faculty members' and students' attitudes and perceptions regarding the use of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). METHODS A survey was used to obtain data on the following information concerning CAM: general attitudes, perceived barriers to use, training received and desired, personal use, and information sources used. RESULTS In general, attitudes...