Neonatal circumcision is one of the most common procedures performed by family physicians and is a recommended procedure for resident training. Few models or simulators exist. A model of neonatal genitalia was constructed using a cocktail wiener covered by a surgical glove finger. A competency checklist was used to review the steps of the procedure. Posttest/pretest-posttest assessment found si...

Learning progressions (LPs) are a recent educational theory pertaining to student modeling. LPs argue that students with equal test scores may nonetheless have different conceptualizations of the material, with varying degrees of maturity. However, there is little empirical validation for LPs. To this end, we mapped two physics LPs (one predefined, one described in the paper) onto the answer ch...

Preservice teachers' prior knowledge about teaching and learning may di!er substantially from the theories and ideas presented in their education courses. In the present study, a refutational (conceptual change) text on motivation was used in an e!ort to address preservice teachers' conceptions of motivation. Results indicated that preservice teachers who read the refutational text performed si...

BACKGROUND Early HIV diagnosis, linkage and engagement into care are vital to improved personal health outcomes. The initiation of antiretroviral therapy, with retention in care and drug adherence leads to viral load suppression, a significant decrease in HIV transmission rates and ultimately a reduction in HIV incidence rates. In the U.S only 51% of those diagnosed with HIV infection are retai...

180 J Clin Psychiatry 74:2, February 2013 CME Background Articles are selected for credit designation based on an assessment of the educational needs of CME participants, with the purpose of providing readers with a curriculum of CME articles on a variety of topics throughout each volume. Activities are planned using a process that links identified needs with desired results. Participants may r...

The purpose of this quasi-experimental research study was to determine the effectiveness of an education session on community-dwelling elders' knowledge of drug-to-drug interactions. A total of 82 subjects were divided into experimental and control groups. The pretest/posttest questionnaire was used to measure the difference in their knowledge. Descriptive statistics were used to organize and s...

computer-supported collaborative learning (cscl) is a new trend in educational sciences. this study investigates how knowledge sharing and transferring can be facilitated by using cscl in a problem-solving setting. intervention of research is education regarding sustainable water resources management (swrm) by computer-supported collaborative learning (cscl). the purpose of this research was to...

This was a descriptive study investigating the potential positive effect of metacognitive ability on learning achievement and skill performance. The participants’ average metacognitive ability score was 3.40, with 24 participants having high ability (29.6%), 25 moderate ability (30.9%), and 32 low ability (39.5%). At posttest, no significant differences in learning achievement by metacognitive ...

the present study investigated school general english achievement and group work among iranian junior high school students. the main question this study tried to answer was whether group work could enhance a higher general english achievement among junior high school students. to answer this question, 60 female learners were divided into experimental and control group randomly with 30 members i...