This study was conducted in an attempt to investigate the effectiveness of an educational card game we developed for learning human immunology. Two semesters of evaluation were included to examine the impact of the game on students' understanding and perceptions of the game-based instruction. Ninety-nine senior high school students (11th graders) were recruited for the first evaluation, and the...

PURPOSE This study aimed to compare the effects of the problem-based learning (PBL) method with the traditional lecture method on learning in the cardiorespiratory nursing section of the Adult Health Nursing course. METHOD A pretest-posttest experimental design was used. A total of 71 second-year nursing students in a three-year nursing program in Korea participated: 35 students in the PBL gr...

PURPOSE This study was conducted to develop assertiveness training applying Dongsasub training for junior nursing students, and to verify effectiveness of the training on assertiveness behavior, self-esteem, clinical practice stress, and clinical competence. METHODS The study design was a non-equivalent control group non-synchronized design. Participants were 63 nursing students in clinical t...

objective: the purpose of the current research is to determine the impact of play therapy on academic achievement of students with mental deficiency of khorramabad exceptional elementary school. method: it was a pre-test, post-test study design. 60 students were selected and according to their mental deficiency characteristics were assigned to either experimental or control group. each group co...

This paper contr ibutes to the discussion on information and communicat ion technology ( ICT) for educat ional purposes. Research was done on the use a vir tual learning environment (VLE) based on Internet technology during a pract ical course for economic students at the Vri je Universi te i t Amsterdam. The VLE has been used f o r many dtferent purposes such as to support team learning, to in...

In order to read or publish in the medical research literature, students in the health sciences need a thorough understanding of confounding. However, research shows that confounding may be poorly understood by some students even after two courses in biostatistics at the graduate level. We introduce two problem-based guided examples to increase both the breadth and depth of students’ understand...

introduction: the purpose of this study was to investigate the role of patience and its components (transcendence, tolerance, contentment, persistence, and hesitation) in predicting bullying among primary school children in shiraz, iran. another purpose was to compare patience and bullying between male and female students. method: the participants were 317 elementary school students (169 female...