The role of education services in the global competitiveness of Ukraine was shown. A specific of educational services, educational services market structure and characteristics of its subjects was reviewed. Analysis of survey results on the effect of different channels of knowledge enrollees on the university was held. The advantage of impact the social of the channel from the inner circle of e...

Wikis are interactive Web 2.0 tools that enable collaboration and knowledge sharing. Wiki-enabled collaboration is ideal in an educational setting, yet is prone to free-riding. This study examined the impact of the relational social capital of undergraduate students on their wiki usage and free-riding in a group project. Preliminary findings reveal that characteristics of relational social capi...

OBJECTIVE To determine the professional values of Turkish nursing students, and to explore the relationships between their characteristics. METHODS The cross-sectional study participants consisted of 416 nursing students who were studying in a nursing faculty in Western Turkey. A questionnaire was used to identify socio-demographic and educational characteristics and the Nursing Professional ...

There is much interest in explaining the persistent ethnic gaps in education among Israeli Jews; specifically, the much lower attainments of those from Asian and African countries compared to the rest—Mizrahim vs. Ashkenazim, respectively. Some explanations (especially early ones) have stressed premigration immigrant characteristics, particularly the relatively lower level of educational attain...

Introduction 1 A Primer on Retrieval-Based Learning 2 Direct Versus Mediated Effects of Retrieval Practice 2 Balancing Retrieval Success and Retrieval Effort 4 Theories of Retrieval-Based Learning 5 Transfer-Appropriate Processing 5 Strength and Retrieval Effort 5 Elaborative Retrieval Account 6 Episodic Context Account 7 Manipulations of Initial Retrieval Practice Conditions 7 Retrieval Practi...

Multiple diagnostic tools are used by emergency physicians, every day. In addition, new tools are evaluated to obtain more accurate methods and reduce time or cost of conventional ones. In the previous parts of this educational series, we described diagnostic performance characteristics of diagnostic tests including sensitivity, specificity, positive and negative predictive values, and likeliho...