Senior students in an information technology (IT) program at a university in southeastern United States participate in a capstone project management course to graduate. Student teams develop and manage information technology-related service learning projects for community partners who have needs for IT products such as websites, databases, computer training, etc. In spring 2008, one capstone te...

CONTEXT "Off-service" clinical rotations are part of the necessary requirements for many residency training programs. Because these rotations are off-service, little attention is given to their structure and quality of training. This often leads to suboptimal educational experience for the residents on these rotations. AIMS The aim of this study was to assess medical residents' perceptions, o...

This work describes a semantic service description model based on and inspired by existing service description approaches like WSDL-S and OWL-S and a service registry to support the creation of service oriented applications in the area of education and training. Our service description is based on an OWL ontology and combines a simple messageand state-oriented approach in order to reduce the ef...

patient satisfaction is one of the sensitive indicators in determining the effectiveness of service rendered in hospitals. the study focus on comparing the health care services of  two cardiology based corporate hospitals in hyderabad, andhra pradesh, india. the data for the study was collected through a questionnaire consisting of two sections. an attempt has been made to elicit the informatio...

Teachers’ judgments in their ability to motivate students and promote learning can play a vital role in determining a student’s performance in the classroom and once a belief has been held for a long time, it can become difficult to change. Utilising a sample of 467 beginner and final year pre-service teachers training to become primary (elementary) and secondary teachers, the aim of this study...

BACKGROUND To determine whether training of providers participating in franchise clinic networks is associated with increased Family Planning service use among low-income urban families in Pakistan. METHODS The study uses 2001 survey data consisting of interviews with 1113 clinical and non-clinical providers working in public and private hospitals/clinics. Data analysis excludes non-clinical ...

the aim of the current study was to investigate three volleyball skills in three training conditions of blocked, random and serial to reveal their effects in three phases of acquisition, retention and transfer. 60 amateur male students (mean age = 21.5 years, sd= 1.2) were voluntarily selected and randomly divided into three training groups (blocked, random and serial). a pretest was used to ma...

study in service training effectiveness in nurses group of imam reza hospital     zarparvar s [1] *,hassani m [2] , kabiri a [3] , sameri m [4]     received: 20 jun , 2013 accepted: 14 aug , 2013    abstract  background & aims : organizations, public and professional life much dependent on the skills and knowledge of their workforce. due to the advances in modern technology, and the unprecedent...