How to Evaluate Searching as Learning

How to Implement P.B.L. in Traditional Medical Education

 SUMMARY Problem based learning as an innovation in education specially medical domain has been used since few decades and its positive effect in improving learning outcome bas been proved in several investigations. There are some obstacles that prevent shifting from traditional medical education, toward P.B.L. in medical school, so there has been several efforts managed by educationists searc...

How does Doodling Effects on Students Learning as an Artistic Method?

The main purpose of this study was to assess the effects of doodling on learning performance of high school male students in Tehran. The design of this research was a pre-test–post-test with a control group. A group of 175 junior high school 12 -13 year old students was chosen for this study. After being taught a section of Natural Science course, the students were asked to...

Using Concept Map to Evaluate Learning by Searching

We defined learning while searching and browsing on the Web as ”learning by searching.” We used concept map to evaluate how users’ knowledge structure changed as a result of their learning by searching. The influence of different topics and different scenarios was also investigated. In the experiment, participants were divided into divergent and convergent scenario groups. They were asked to as...

Active Learning: An Approach for Reducing Theory-Practice Gap in Clinical Education

Introduction: The gap between theory and practice in clinical fields, including nursing, is one of the main problems that many solutions have been suggested to eliminate it. In this article, we have tried to investigate its solution through active learning. Methods: In this review article, searching articles published during 2000-2012 was done through library references, scientific databases. ...

How to Teach The Suprasegmentals of English To Farsi-speakers Learning English as a Foreign Language

A Probabilistic Bayesian Classifier Approach for Breast Cancer Diagnosis and Prognosis

Basically, medical diagnosis problems are the most effective component of treatment policies. Recently, significant advances have been formed in medical diagnosis fields using data mining techniques. Data mining or Knowledge Discovery is searching large databases to discover patterns and evaluate the probability of next occurrences. In this paper, Bayesian Classifier is used as a Non-linear dat...