BACKGROUND In 1989, the National Asthma Education and Prevention Program (NAEPP) convened an expert panel to develop a report that would provide a general approach to the treatment of asthma. Expert Panel Report: Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Management of Asthma, or EPR-1, was published in 1991 and was subsequently updated with 2 other reports, EPR-2 in 1997 and the EPR update in 2002. Adva...

Background Understanding environmental factors affecting the educational process and including them in educational planning will lead into increased outcome of education, mental health, reduced stress, and higher education performance. This study was conducted to investigate the impact of educational spaces coloring on learning and academic achievement of elementary school students in the acad...

The LSS Review is a product of the Mid-Atlantic Regional Educational Laboratory, the Laboratory for Student Success (LSS), one of ten regional educational laboratories funded by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Department of Education. LSS seeks to provide research-based information to significantly improve the educational capacity of the region, including Delaware, Marylan...

Online forestry education can serve large populations of woodland owners and managers. Cornell University's ForestConnect program initiated the nation's first woodlot management educational webinar series. We conducted an educational evaluation to determine: (1) the educational impact of the ForestConnect Webinar series, (2) the involvement of new audience members, (3) the advantages and disadv...

The number of technical aids now available has allowed severely multiply-handicapped children to better participate in their education. Project TEACH (Technical-Educational Aids for Children with Handicaps), a 3-year early childhood demonstration project of the Federal Office of Education, provided ten children with seating systems, mobility aids, feeding devices, and augmentative communication...

Research in simulations and their educational efficacy has had mixed success in the educational and cognitive sciences. There are challenges in understanding the complex nature of simulations, critical points of learner interactivity with computer simulations, and appropriate methods for testing and discovering potential benefits. The current research investigated learning from AutoTutor, an in...

H ealth education is a critical "therapeutic strategy" in asthma management.' Various teaching tools and educational programs play distinct roles in education. Table 1 outlines some educational tools on asthma. A program is a package of services or information intended to produce particular results (Table 2). Specific and clear goals, combined with appropriate methods for reaching the goals, ar...

OBJECTIVES Problems such as hospital malnutrition (∼40% prevalence in the UK) may be managed better by improving the nutrition education of 'tomorrow's doctors'. The Need for Nutrition Education Programme aimed to measure the effectiveness and acceptability of an educational intervention on nutrition for medical students in the clinical phase of their training. DESIGN An educational needs ana...

BACKGROUND CPAP is currently the treatment of choice for obstructive sleep apnea syndrome, but therapy adherence is poor. Many educational trials have been proposed to increase CPAP adherence. We tested the hypothesis that polysomnograph chart viewing by patients would improve CPAP adherence. METHODS A controlled parallel group study was performed with 206 newly diagnosed obstructive sleep ap...

Numerous research studies support the claim that affect plays a critical role in decision-making and performance as it influences cognitive processes [1] [2] [3]. Despite this body of research there is insufficient theory within educational pedagogy to recognize and address the role and function of affect. The innovative models and theories that have been proposed to facilitate advancement in t...