The number of white males of college age, who have been the dominant participants in the fields of science and engineering, is predicted to drop significantly in the future. Rapid increases in the participation of women offer some hope of filling anticipated vacancies in the ranks of scientifically trained personnel, although this rapid growth has reached a plateau in many fields. Most studies ...

background: although many countries had improvement in heath system in last twenty years but expense of research and its difficulties does not allow managers to solve their problems by doing research. if we accept that biostatistics is one of the scientific tools for research, we imply that in all domains of health system research applying statistical techniques is essential. this study was per...

Information literacy instruction for graduate students has historically been limited to orientations for new students Some of the reasons for this limited instruction have been faculty members' assumptions that graduate students already possess Information Literacy skills or should be able to figure out the process of finding, accessing and evaluating information on their own (Hardesty, 1995), ...

Although the importance of reading in higher education as an index of success has been highlighted, the metacognitive knowledge or beliefs of graduate students have remained under-researched. This qualitative study reports on a study that, first, examines how graduate students of applied linguistics conceive of academic reading and academic readers in their graduate programs; second, wh...

The primary purpose of conducting an interprofessional education (IPE) experience during the renal physiology block of a graduate-level course was to provide basic science, physical therapy, and physician assistant graduate students with an opportunity to work as a team in the diagnosis, treatment, and collaborative care of a patient with acute kidney injury. The secondary purpose was to enhanc...

Undergraduate biology education reform aims to engage students in scientific practices such as experimental design, experimentation, and data analysis and communication. Graphs are ubiquitous in the biological sciences, and creating effective graphical representations involves quantitative and disciplinary concepts and skills. Past studies document student difficulties with graphing within the ...

The present study has aimed to review the relationship between infomorphology of graduate students of educational sciences in the Islamic Azad University of Shiraz and their learning style. This study is an applied research in terms of its objectives and it is a descriptive – correlational research in terms of the process of the study. The statistical population of this study consists of gradua...