aims: nowadays, the widespread use of new technologies and the need for more education and expense, force the educational and economical centers to use the new educational approaches. one of these approaches is e-learning. knowledge management seeks to increase the information processing capacity through innovation and creative power of human beings. this paper aimed to investigate the effect o...

OBJECTIVES To determine learning strategies, study habits, and online social networking use of undergraduates at an Irish medical school, and their relationship with academic performance. METHODS A cross-sectional study was conducted in Year 2 and final year undergraduate-entry and graduate-entry students at an Irish medical school. Data about participants' demographics and educational backgr...

The present study examined the incremental validity of Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale-4th Edition (WAIS-IV; Wechsler, 2008a) factor index scores in predicting academic achievement on the Wechsler Individual Achievement Test-2nd Edition (WIAT-II; Psychological Corporation, 2002a) and on the Wechsler Individual Achievement Test-3rd Edition (WIAT-III; Wechsler, 2009a) beyond that predicted by t...

OBJECTIVE To examine the NEO Personality Inventory (NEO PI) Openness to Experience (O) domain and its facets as predictors of cardiac deaths and all-cause mortality. METHODS The NEO PI was administered to a sample of 977 coronary catheterization patients with significant coronary artery disease. Over an average 15-year follow-up period, 266 cardiac deaths and 463 total deaths occurred. The re...

In a course in elementary statistics for psychology students using criterion-referenced achievement tests, the total test score, based on dichotomously scored items, was used for classifying students into those who passed and those who failed. The score on a test is considered as depending on a latent variable; it is assumed that the students can be dichotomized into the categories “mastery” (w...

background & aim : students’ academic achievement is one of the important indicators in the assessment of higher education. applying critical thinking in education is a significant factor affecting the growth and development of the students. this study was performed in an attempt to determine the relationship between critical thinking dispositions and academic achievement in midwifery students ...

It was decided that a study of the cold chain should be conducted in Chile in an effort to identify situations that could be corrected and to improve the technical and administrative development of the program. Specifically, study objectives were as follows: to determine the degree to which the EPI standards for procurement, receipt, transfer, control, maintenance, and distribution of vaccine...

task-based learning is a teaching method that focuses onmeaningful learning through completely student-centered homework assignment.the present study investigated the effects of task-based teaching throughdrawing the concept map as homework on the academic achievement and easier andmore effective learning of metabolic pathways of biochemistry course inpharmaceutical students. having examined th...