Background and Aim: Increasing nurses' participation in policy, planning and decision making of their organizations is a new priority in capturing and disseminating knowledge, and from frontline nurses it is expected that they will produce and manage their professional knowledge as active employees of knowledge. The purpose of this study was to design a nursing knowledge management questionnair...

Background and aims: The Symbolic signs are important tools, designed to convey a message and can transmit a lot of information to the viewer at a glance. Understanding of symptoms is very important especially when they transmit safety information. Signs and symbols have characteristics which affect understanding of them. McDougall et all) 1996(introduced the five key cognitive features of...

Introduction: Changing the national System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals to Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals (GHS) is beneficial for all the industries of the countries, their workers and the general public. Increasing the awareness of chemical hazards, improving the safety uses, reducing chemical accidents, and providing better conditions f...

why some learners are willing to communicate in english, concurrently others are not, has been an intensive investigation in l2 education. willingness to communicate (wtc) proposed as initiating to communicate while given a choice has recently played a crucial role in l2 learning. it was hypothesized that wtc would be associated with language learning orientations (llos) as well as social suppo...

Background and Objective: A scientific questionnaire for assessing the knowledge, attitude and judgment of people on waste management by municipalities has not been developed so far. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to design and validation of an instrument to assess the knowledge, attitude and judgment of people on waste management by municipalities. Materials and Methods: This analyt...

abstract listening is a key and main tool in second language skill and its development is of prime concern to teachers and learners. furthermore, the application of technology in language classrooms has become more commonplace in the last fifty years. computer and the internet have made foreign language materials easy to access and use. so, the present study is an attempt to examine the effec...

ABSTRACT Due to the increasing use of chemicals in academic laboratories, a tool to measure awareness of students regarding labeling, hazards and characteristics of chemicals is still needed. The aim of  this study was to design and validate a questionnaire to the assessing student’s knowledge about chemical hazards. The present study was conducted in two stages of design and evaluation of val...

abstract the aim of the present study is to explore the impact of the cognitive reading strategy instruction on learners reading self-efficacy and their reading achievement. in order to fulfill this purpose, from 120 participants, 90 intermediate efl learners as an experimental group were chosen from three different educational settings namely, yazd university, yazd science and art un...