Introduction: University is a formal education opportunity and because the students to be successful in this position, they must have effective learning. In terms of training, motivation is a multi-faceted structure that is associated with learning and academic achievement. Also there is a positive correlation between the motivations of students with health risk behaviors. Accordingly, we dec...

Introduction: Academic performance is not a univalent construct hence planning for its promotion among university students necessitates vast educational emprises. This study addresses factors such as quality of life, the students' use of internet, and their attitudes toward addiction and drugs which potentially play a role in academic performance of students, and represents a model. Methods: I...

burnout is a response to the chronic work stress which is prevalent mostly among the people who do people job, like teaching. the purpose of this study was to develop a valid and reliable instrument that can measure burnout in foreign language teachers. although some widely used instruments were developed before which measured burnout in teachers, a specific instrument which include specific sy...

during the process of reading, sometimes learners use ineffective and inefficient strategies and some factors may influence their use of strategies. perhaps critical thinking is one of these factors. this study aims to identify those categories of reading strategies that are mostly used by iranian efl learners and to see if there is any significant relationship between the critical thinking abi...

Introduction: Students’ academic motivation is one of the most important challenges of universities, and has great effects on the outputs of educational systems. The aim of this study was to investigate of academic motivation status among students of Golestan University of Medical Sciences (GOUMS). Methods: In this descriptive- analytical study, 275 students of GOUMS were selected via stratifi...

Background and Objective: Quality of education is the main characteristic of higher education and its improvement depends on the mechanisms of evaluation. Evaluation is also a systematic process for collection, analysis and interpretation of information to study achievement of educational goals. Regarding the necessity of improvement of educational quality especially in medical sciences, the au...

as far as bandura’s (1977) conceptualization of the sense of self-efficacy is concerned, it is argued to be context- and even task-specific, compared to other concepts like self-esteem (brown, 2000); therefore, upon the previous research studies, related theories and definitions, and the ideas and views obtained from the interviews conducted with the scholars, the current research study aimed a...