BACKGROUND Research training is essential in a modern undergraduate medical curriculum. Our evaluation aimed to (a) gauge students' awareness of research activities, (b) compare students' perceptions of their transferable and research-specific skills competencies, (c) determine students' motivation for research and (d) obtain students' personal views on doing research. METHODS Undergraduate m...

BACKGROUND Climate change has emerged as one of the most devastating environmental threat and there is overwhelming evidence of wide range of implications for human health. To mitigate this, well-prepared medical man power is required. OBJECTIVES The objectives of this study were (1) to assess the awareness regarding climate change and its health hazards among the medical students and (2) to ...

This paper aims to investigate the effectiveness of three selected instructional approaches viz. selflearning material, audio-visual and fun activity approach in order to develop the environmental awareness among the IX grade students. A standardised questionnaire on environmental awareness was used as a research instrument. Environmental awareness scores were analysed using descriptive statist...

The flexibility and changing nature of loosely coupled work makes presence awareness crucial to promote interactions among collaborators. Undergraduate students, in their efforts to accomplish coursework-related tasks, must deal with having several available channels to interact with others, accessing and sharing educational material, and the need to optimize their time. Most of them work in a ...

In this study, we examined 5 grade students’ levels of vocabulary knowledge and syntactic awareness relative to their reading comprehension performance. The aim was to explore the contributions of vocabulary and syntactic awareness as potential sources of reading comprehension difficulty for these readers. Overall, we found that both vocabulary knowledge and syntactic awareness contributed in s...

Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women worldwide and its incidence is increasing in many countries. Nursing students are the future nurses who will have the opportunity to encourage and influence women to be breast aware. Breast-self examination is a simple and easy way to help women to detect any changes in the breasts. A quasiexperimental study was conducted to assess the effect of ...

Recognizing the need for a valid and reliable way to measure outcomes of a program to promote multicultural awareness among nursing faculty and students, the authors developed a cultural awareness scale. In the first phase of the study, a scale consisting of 37 items was generated from a literature review on cultural awareness, sensitivity, and competence in nursing. A Cronbach's alpha reliabil...

Mobile learning (M-learning) is the current technology that is becoming more popular. It uses the current mobile and wireless computing technology to complement the effectiveness of traditional learning process. The objective of this paper is presents a survey from 90 undergraduate students of Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS (UTP), to identify the students’ perception on Mlearning. From the resul...