ABSTRACT BACKGROUND: Learning styles of health care professionals are unique and tend to be profession- specific. This study aimed compare the learning undergraduate occupational therapy physiotherapy students determine relationship between preferred styles, demographic factors, academic performance METHOD: The design was a cross-sectional, descriptive study. Undergraduate completed self-develo...

Selection of medical students in the United Kingdom has come under intense scrutiny in recent years. Some authors have claimed that discrimination occurs in favour of white applicants, female applicants, and applicants from independent schools. High profile cases, such as that of Laura Spence, have led to a public questioning of the selection, training, and validation of doctors. The process of...

This paper solves the complex scientific and practical problem of developing critical thinking skills modern student. The solution indicated was accomplished by generalizing contemporary works conducting an empirical study (survey) university students. conducted research made it possible to distinguish students’ behavior styles according seven criteria: student’s level trust in higher education...

This experimental study investigated the relationship between font type, font size, and line spacing and legibility, as measured by speed of reading, comprehension, and recalling. Instruments for testing legibility and reading comprehension were presented in eight typographical styles in print. The study tested 90 students for legibility and 76 students for comprehension. The subjects were chos...

The aim of this study was to establish whether two lines of rainbow trout divergent for their plasma cortisol response to a standardized stressor would show consistent differences in their behavioural response to a range of challenging situations. Our results show that the high- and low-responding (HR and LR) lines of rainbow trout did not differ in the aggression shown towards an intruder or i...

We present a survey of the usage and style of identifiers and labels of named entities in a corpus of OWL ontologies. We investigated the frequency of use of both labels and meaningful or meaningless identifiers in those ontologies. We also surveyed common practices of lexical encoding styles for identifiers. We found that most ontologies do not use labels for named entities. When they do use l...

BACKGROUND The learning styles are the distinctive learners' strategies for information processing and discovering new concepts. One of the most important kinds of learning styles is the Witkin's theory of field dependence-independence cognitive style. OBJECTIVE This study seeks to find the relationship between field dependence -independence cognitive style and English text reading comprehens...