background: influenced by several factors, c ollaboration among nurses is a complex and multifaceted process. considering constructive effects of this process, it is important to identify its motivational factors. this study aimed to investigate motivational factors for collaboration among nurses.   methods: the data were collected through unstructured and in-depth interviews with 18 purposivel...

I work in Machine Learning, a field at the intersection of Statistics and Computer Science. The field is concerned with the design of learning algorithms which automatically adapt to new scenarios by learning from past observations. Application domains abound in engineering and scientific fields; some examples are speech recognition, computer vision, genomics, medical diagnosis, web mining, and...

the goal for this research is to study the relationship between locus of control and achievement motivation with test anxiety among the master students of the azad university, olum tahghighat unit in 2010-2011. considering the morgan table the number of sample individuals for this research was 370. also cluster double sampling method was used. for collection of data three questions and theories...

man's instinct for exploring is the most natural way to enhance motivation and, consequently, cognition. in the research-centered teaching method, developed after many y ears of teaching experience, the principles mentioned in textbooks are not presented directly instead, the lecture begins by posing an initial question about how scientists have discovered a certain principle. students are...

Introduction From Guesswork to Inquiry: A Rationale “Why am I learning this language? How is my language learning affected by my attitudes and my context?” For the average second language (L2) learner, these questions are probably not often considered in such an explicit fashion. For L2 educators and L2 motivation researchers, however, these student-centered questions are urgent and ever-presen...