background and purpose: undergraduate education presents a period of transition and growth and requires the ability to adapt to many life changes. many applicants admitted to a nursing program, but high rates of attrition have been experienced. this study is an attempt to assess the nursing students’ need on their nursing education. methods: focus groups were used to investigate nursing student...

the objective of the current study is to identify the role of professional development components in developing organizational entrepreneurship in agricultural extension management of kermanshah province. the study was fulfilled by using correlation method and relational-causal model. all the agricultural extension agents in kermanshah province equal to 456 people formed the population of this ...

Albeit from varying perspectives, multiple stakeholders (i.e., policy makers, researchers, administrators, teachers, parents) call for teacher professional development as a means of fostering and/or enacting educational reform (Borko, 2004; Cochran-Smith, 2004; CochranSmith & Fries, 2005; Darling-Hammond, 1996, 2000; Little, 2001; Timperley & Phillips, 2003; Zeichner & Noffke, 2001). But tensio...

Effective educational leadership can make a difference in the resolution of complex issues that impact today’s demand-driven educational marketplace. The ongoing professional and skill development needs of human health resources may be best managed through distributed strategic leadership blended with servant leadership. Together these two approaches may offer the critical bridge for effective ...

agricultural applied-scientific education that develops the practical skills of students to getter with theoretical education can development of job skills take steps with development of job skills in educational programs in reinforcing the specification, abilities and skills of students. the aim of the study was to investigate the rate of the business and the development of job skills of agric...

one of the most important factors in the development of societies, consider to traning. identification and training needs analysis, is a prerequisite for a successful educational system and determine the training needs is considered the first step of educational planning. the purpose of this study was to investigate educational needs of engineers, rice supervisors engineering agricultural engin...

background clinical judgment development is necessary because it leads to appropriate nursing diagnoses, clinical decision-making and health promotion. objectives in this study we explored the process of iranian nurses’ development in clinical judgment. patients and methods this qualitative study was conducted in 2013 at hospitals of kurdistan university of medical sciences, located in the sana...

This background paper was commissioned by AITSL in April 2011 to inform the development of a national professional development framework for Australian teachers and school leaders. The views, findings, conclusions and recommendations herein are those of the authors ad do not necessarily represent the official positions or policies of AITSL or the educational institutions of the authors. 1 A bac...