this study aimedat investigating the difference between male and female iranian upper-intermediate efl learners in terms of critical thinking, meta-cognitive awareness listening strategies, and selection of meta- cognitive listening strategies. to this end, one hundred and fifty language learners (including males and females with average age of 26.5) were selected through homogenised process to...

background: cognitive and metacognitive learning strategies are identified as important solutions for improving academic achievement. this study aimed toevaluate the effect of teaching cognitive and metacognitive learning strategies on academic achievement among nursing students. methods: this study was an experimental with pretest and posttest and follow-updesign.  the study population include...

comparison of the effect of concept mapping and nursing process on self-regulated learning, self-efficacy and cognitive strategies in nursing students     rezaei k [1] *, kouhestani h [2] , nejat n [3] , ebrahimi fakhar h [4]     received: 12 oct , 2011 accepted: 20 jan , 2012     abstract   background & aims : the success of nursing students depends on the understanding of complex concepts and...

Objective: The main aim of this study was to examine the cognitive emotion regulation strategies among prisoners with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) and compare those with the normal population, by achieving the patterns of the implemented strategies between the BPD prisoners. Methods: Ninety prisoners with BPD and 92 non-clinical individuals participated in this study. A Structured Cli...

To achieve overall business goals, GQM+Strategies® is an approach that aligns the business goals at each level of an organization to strategies and assesses the achievement of goals. Strategies derived from business goals are based on rationales (context factors and assumptions). Because extracting all rationales is an important process in the GQM+Strategies approach, we propose Context-Assumpt...

the aim of this study was to determine the role of attachment styles and cognitive emotion regulation strategies in adolescents' social anxiety. 430 iranian high school students (200 boys and 230 girls) were selected by multistage cluster sampling method from high schools in isfahan city and completed a battery of scales including attachment styles scale (collins and read, 1990), cognitive...

Predicting Test Anxiety Based on the Use of Cognitive and Metacognitive Strategies among Female High School Students G. Ahghar, Ph.D. The use of cognitive and metacognitive strategies can reduce test anxiety. To determine the extent to which this is done, a random sample of 610 female high school students was given two questionnaires on anxiety and learning/studying strategies. Da...