This cross-sectional study evaluated knowledge and acceptability of prenatal diagnosis among 500 pregnant women at the University College Hospital, Ibadan. Most participants were aged 25-34 years, self-employed, Muslim, monogamy, secondary school leavers, on income of < naira10,000.00 (US$ 67.00)/month. Attitudinal mean score was dependent on age (p = 0.006), educational attainment (p = 0.001),...

BACKGROUND Our study aims to follow this effort and to explore the association between health, socioeconomic background, school-related factors, social support and adolescents' sense of coherence and educational aspirations among adolescents from different educational tracks and to contribute to the existing body of knowledge on the role of educational aspirations in the social reproduction of ...

Introduction: In the recent years different studies have been performed to determine attitude of different groups of the society towards psychiatric disorders , that their results could develop positive changes to improve the attitude of society with proper planning in this respect. Materials & Methods: This descriptive cross – sectional study has designed to determine the attitude of 600 high...

This study examined the usefulness of applying the Rasch rating scale model (Andrich, 1978) to high school grade data. ACT Assessment test scores (English, Mathematics, Reading, and Science) were used as " common items " to adjust for different grading standards in individual high school courses both within and across schools. This scaling approach yielded an ACT Assessment-adjusted high school...

Introduction. As English is today's dominant language of science and technology (EST), students having passed general and EST courses need to interact primarily with the scientific community specially in their field of study for various purposes, including the use of educational films. This study specifically aims to evaluate the proficiency of Iranian students of dentistry in understanding edu...

objective: this survey aimed at studying the effects of socioeconomic and family factors in adolescents’ tendency towards smoking, alcohol consumption, and drug abuse. methods: using multistage sampling, 3530 high school students were selected in tehran, iran. they completed the iranian adolescents risk behavior scale questionnaire (iars) and demographic questionnaire with the main focus on the...

1 Slavko Kocijancic, University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Education, Dept of Physics and Technology, SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia, [email protected] Abstract  The attitude of pupils at secondary school level towards science and technology is significantly influenced by their teachers. Since studying engineering and science has become less popular in recent years it is important to make scien...