This paper mainly focused on environmental awareness and practices related to various factors like causes of pollution, conservation of soil, forest, air, etc., energy conservation, conservation of human health, conservation of wild life and animal husbandry. It also discusses environmental practices among college students with regard to the usage of plastic and its disposal, alternative for pl...

Introduction / objectives Hand hygiene (HH) compliance reduces the incidence of nosocomial infection, however, little research has been conducted on factors that influence healthcare students’ HH practices. The study aims were to examine the relationships between healthcare students’ HH knowledge, beliefs and practices, the ways they were educated and assessed on HH, and their perceptions of th...

INTRODUCTION Poor quality of sleep is a distressing and worrying condition that can disturb academic performance of medical students. Sleep hygiene practices are one of the important variables that affect sleep quality. The objective of this study was to assess association between sleep hygiene practices and sleep quality of medical students in Qazvin University of Medical Sciences. METHODS I...

This study reported the research ®ndings on improving programming skills of novice programmers by way of debugging practices. There were two objectives of the debugging training: (1) to uncover and to correct any misconceptions of the programmers; and (2) to improve the debugging abilities of the programmers. To meet these objectives, a model of debugging practices, DebugIt, was presented. The ...

This brief is directed to researchers and adds to the research base about instructional practices that are related to student achievement. Additional evidence on these relationships can suggest specific hypotheses for the future study of such instructional practices, which, in turn, will provide research evidence that could inform professional development of teachers and the writing of instruct...

This paper summarizes variations in instructors’ implementation practices during Peer Instruction PI and shows how these differences in practices shape different norms of classroom interaction. We describe variations in classroom norms along three dimensions of classroom culture that are integral to Peer Instruction, emphasis on: 1 faculty-student collaboration, 2 student-student collaboration,...

Thesis projects are a challenging task for students as well as their supervisors. In most cases, students have not managed such large projects before. Many supervisors are good researchers, but have not received training in pedagogy and project management. This means that students as well as supervisors often lack best practices in managing thesis projects. This paper fills this gap by providin...