Educational assessment is an official activity that is done for determining quality, effect or value of a program, process, or goal (1). The major purpose of educational assessment is to determine the value of the underassessment phenomenon so that it can help the interested and responsible people to make correct decisions about that phenomenon. Educational assessment is the best criteria of ac...

Computer use draws on linguistic abilities. Using this medium thus presents challenges for young people with Specific Language Impairment (SLI) and raises questions of whether computer-based tasks are appropriate for them. We consider theoretical arguments predicting impaired performance and negative outcomes relative to peers without SLI versus the possibility of positive gains. We examine the...

OBJECTIVE Women of lower educational attainment have less balanced and varied diets than women of higher educational attainment. The diets of women are vital to the long-term health of their offspring. The present study aimed to identify factors that influence the food choices of women with lower educational attainment and how women could be helped to improve those choices. DESIGN We conducte...

background: brief family interventions may have a positive impact on family caregivers of mental disorders. this study aimed to evaluate the effect of family psycho-education on depression, anxiety and stress in family caregivers of patients with mental disorders. methods: this randomized controlled trial designed and evaluated the effectiveness of a group psycho-educational program on 100 care...

data envelopment analysis (dea) was developed to help compare the relative performance of decision-making units. it is a non-parametric method for performing frontier analysis. it uses linear programming to estimate the efficiency of multiple decision-making units and it is commonly used in production, management and economics [3]. dea generates an efficiency score between 0 and 1 for each unit...

the vast world of pictures has enjoyed a great significance during the whole history. if yesterday’s world was the world of oral literature, the world of pictures and visual literacy for children was only a small part of today’s world of pictures. the purpose of this article is to examine the effect of fundamentals of psychology on illustrating children’s educational books in the first age grou...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effects of a multi-professional educational program in patients with knee osteoarthritis (KOA) . METHODS Prospective randomized controlled trial with 195 KOA patients. One group was submitted to two-day lectures and received educational material about KOA (Class group), and the control group received the educational material only. Patients were evaluated at baseline,...

abstract background: people working in professions such as nursing have a lot of stress and are at risk for anxiety disorders. the aim of the present study was to evaluate the effect of applied relaxation educational program based on precede model on decreasing anxiety of nurses. methods: in this interventional study with a control group, 40 nurses of vali-asr hospital as intervention group and...