This study investigated the effects of gender, academic performance and preschool education on mental rotation skills among Turkish prospective teachers. A total of 525 undergraduate students (364 female) from a government university located in western Turkey completed the Mental Rotation Test (MRT). A three-way [2 (gender) × 5 (academic performance) × 2 (preschool education)] between-subjects ...

background : depression is a mood disorder in which the individual experiences feelings of sadness, lack of pleasure, and discouragement. in light of the increasing rate of depression, especially among tertiary-educated individuals, this paper aims to investigate the effect of resistance exercises on occupational performance areas and depression score in individuals with academic education in i...

background: emotional intelligence (ei) has recently been considered as one of the necessary elements for success and achievement in medical fields. the present study was conducted in iran to compare the ei in medical and non-medical students adjusted for the other relevant factors. methods: this cross-sectional study was conducted from october 2011 to january 2012 on 872 students of medicine, ...

In 2011, the Medical Curriculum Committee appointed a new working group to revise the standards to reflect national trends and recent developments in medical education. In the process, we retitled our competency-based curriculum The Nine Abilities. A major goal of the revision was to clarify the domains of our curriculum that focus on patient-centered care, advocacy, and professional developmen...

The importance of early and developmentally appropriate science education is increasingly recognized. Consequently, creation of common guidelines and standards in early childhood science education has begun (National Research Council (NRC), 2012), and researchers, practitioners, and policy makers have shown great interest in aligning professional development with the new guidelines and standard...

The purpose of this study was to provide a profile of the public health education workforce in North Carolina. A survey was administered to all practicing health educators at local health departments (LHDs) in North Carolina. The study specifically attempted to answer four questions: (1) Who functions as health educators in LHDs in North Carolina? (2) What is the educational background and prof...

information technology (it) is now widely in use in social .economical and cultural domains all over the world. iran has a forty years long experience in academic computer science education besides more than seven years of experience in it education. due to increasing importance of it application in today's human life and its improving and dynamic nature, it seems to be necessary to consid...

Rapid advancements in hardware, software, and connectivity are helping to shorten the times needed to develop computer simulations for science education. These advancements, however, have not been accompanied by corresponding theories of how best to design and use these technologies for teaching, learning, and testing. Such design frameworks ideally would be guided less by the strengths/limitat...