Researchers in the area of EFL learning have tried to put the way(s) by which EFL learners learnEnglish vocabulary into some frames and present them as strategies. This paper reviewsdescriptive research on vocabulary learning strategies in English as a foreign language. Thereview focuses on common strategies that learners use in vocabulary learning such as dictionarystrategies, note-taking stra...

BACKGROUND Medical competence is a central concept in medical education. Educational efforts in medical training are directed at the achievement of a maximal medical competence. The concept of the structure of medical competence (multidimensional or one-dimensional with strongly interrelated competences) therefore affects the educational developments and assessment procedures. PURPOSE To exam...

background: considering the occurrence of medical emergencies in dental practice, and the essential need of acquiring competency in basic life support (bls), the aim of the present study was to evaluate the effect of bls workshop on the skills of dental students in the cardiopulmonary resuscitation. methods: in this switching replication experimental study, students in the 5th year of mashhad d...

Note taking is a fundamental activity for learning, and many software tools which enable students to take digitized notes have been proposed. Digitized notes are advantageous because they can be easily edited, rearranged, and shared. Although many note-taking tools have been proposed, there has been little research to examine the effect of note annotation and rearrangement with a digitized tool...

This paper argues that the traditional version of the ‘copy and paste’ function used in many computer-mediated learning environments is a flawed cognitive tool for learning applications and may in fact subvert the constructivist philosophy of many learning packages. An initial study was conducted, using distributed cognition theory to redesign the interface of the ‘copy and paste’ function, to ...

Note taking and note reviewing are essential college student learning activities. A large number of carefully controlled studies have evaluated student effectiveness in implementing each of these skills and have found that both can be improved by providing instructor notes.While the Internet now offers a practical method for providing notes, some instructors are reluctant to offer notes because...

Although digital devices are replacing paper and pencil in ever more domains, class notes have so far resisted this trend. In part this is because class notes and the note-taking process are unique and different from the tasks supported by existing software. A system to support classroom note-taking should embody seven design principles. A prototype system based on these principles was used in ...