background: measurement of patients’ satisfaction as a reliable indicator of quality of hospital service shows the ability of care providers to meet patients' expectations. this study was conducted to assess patients’ satisfaction in hospital services. methods:  this cross-sectional study was carried out at the zanjan university of medical sciences in 2013 -2014. a total of 486 were select...

Scientists play an important role in framing public engagement with science. Their language can facilitate or impede particular interactions taking place with particular citizens: scientists' "speech acts" can "perform" different types of "scientific citizenship". This paper examines how scientists in Australia talked about therapeutic cloning during interviews and during the 2006 parliamentary...

Many graduate and professional programs include Problem Based Learning (PBL) as a mainstay in their curricula. For many undergraduate students, this is a change from a teacher-centered to a student-centered learning method. This study was undertaken to learn about perceptions and test performances of college students (N=116) enrolled in liberal education classes when PBL is used vs. traditional...

As an interdisciplinary discipline, data mining (DM) is popular in education area especially when examining students’ learning performances. It focuses on analyzing educational related data to develop models for improving learners’ learning experiences and enhancing institutional effectiveness. Therefore, DM does help education institutions provide highquality education for its learners. Applyi...

In this paper we utilising some popular educational data mining (EDM) methods to explore and mine educational data resulted from a system that supports reflection for learning called Reflect. Our objective is to study whether using the Reflect helps students learn better in the subject. First, we explore data by means of statistical analyses. Then, we used clustering and classification techniqu...