In the past 40 years, the proportion of women in science courses and careers has dramatically increased in some nations but not in others. Our research investigated how national differences in women’s science participation related to gender-science stereotypes that associate science with men more than women. Data from !350,000 participants in 66 nations indicated that higher female enrollment i...

We sketch a pedagogical ‚theory‘ based on Bruner’s educational psychology that might set computer science education for students and teachers on a well-founded basis and integrate different approaches to teach it, stress its long-lasting fundamentals and give a feeling of its essence. For it we (1) define the notion of fundamental ideas more precisely by several criteria, (2) present a collecti...

Education is a complex topic for survey measurement, and the individual’s educational attainment is only a narrow snapshot of possible measures relating to an individual’s educational experience (Smith, 1995). It is, however, a pervasive concept in social science theories, and accordingly one of the most used variables in social science research using individual level data. Researchers are ofte...

BACKGROUND The academy movement developed in the United States as an important approach to enhance the educational mission and facilitate the recognition and work of educators at medical schools and health science institutions. OBJECTIVES Academies initially formed at individual medical schools. Educators and leaders in The University of Texas System (the UT System, UTS) recognized the academ...

the study of the relationship between memory and achievement motivation with gender and academic achievement of students of urmia medical sciences university     feizi pour h [1] *, farjah gh [2] , qaderneghad m [3]     received: 9 nov , 2011 accepted: 21 jan , 2012     abstract   background & aims : memory gives possibility to mental life of human including thoughts, perceptions, opinions, and...

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results of an evaluation of the impact of agricultural science and technology (as and t) policy system institutions on efficiency and technical change in kenyan and ugandan agriculture are presented here. data envelopment analysis was used to derive efficiency and technical change and logistic regression applied to delineate as and t institutions that induced efficiency and technical progress. ...

the term paradigm hase penetrated in the web of many fields form natural to social sciences. therefore, for each researcher, understanding it's concept and dimensions is necessary. it is become to a common term in philsophy of science. there are many definitions of paradigm, but we can define it as: a set of believes and basic assumptions that are reflected in the ontology, epistemology an...