BACKGROUND School climate has been linked with improved academic achievement and reduced discipline problems, and thus is often a target of school improvement initiatives. However, few studies have examined the extent to which student and teacher perceptions vary as a function of individual, classroom, and school characteristics, or the level of congruence between teachers' and their students' ...

introduction: the importance of optimal clinical nursing education in professional skills development is undeniable. in clinical education, nursing students are often faced with problems. recognizing nursing students’ perception on clinical education is the first step to remove the barriers of this challenge. methods: this descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted to determine the nursing...

BACKGROUND Educational environment hugely impacts the learning process. An assessment of perceptions of students about the educational environment at Qassim University College of Medicine (QUCOM) would assist educators and college administration in gauging the quality of the learning in this venue. The aim of this study is to see the educational environment of an innovative undergraduate medica...

While experiential projects have been documented as powerful pedagogical tools for linking theory to practice, it is unknown whether students prefer the experience to be real or hypothetical. This paper explores the impact of a real client-based project versus a simulated client project on students’ perceptions and ratings of the marketing project. Student perceptions of learning are also inves...

This study evaluated the effectiveness of a health promotion (HP) intervention program among physiotherapy undergraduate students in an academic institution by examining preand post-intervention health perceptions and behaviors compared to a control group (non-physiotherapy students). Participants completed questionnaires on their health perceptions and behaviors at T1 (April 2009–May 2009) bef...

Perceived usefulness and ease of use have proved to be key determinants of the acceptance and usage of e-learning systems. On the contrary, little is known about students‟ perceptions in Adaptive Educational Hypermedia Systems (AEHS). In this paper, the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) was utilized to investigate university students‟ attitudes towards AEHSs. The goal of the study was to invest...

INTRODUCTION The use of technology in education has facilitated many changes. Among those changes is the way instruction is delivered. Today's learning environments have the technological means to open learning to the world and support interaction styles that are fundamentally different from those of a traditional classroom environment and no longer need to conform to the traditional classroom ...

The purpose of this study was to use a cross-sectional survey design, with an integrated theoretical perspective, to examine clinical teachers' (n = 64) and nursing students' (n = 352) empowerment, teachers' and students' perceptions of teachers' use of empowering teaching behaviors, students' perceptions of nurses' practice behaviors, and students' confidence for practice in acute care setting...

ba ck g r oun d & aim: spiritual care is an integral part of a holistic nursing care. providing spiritual care has a positive impact on patients’ health outcomes. although nurses understand the importance of incorporating  patient’s  spiritual  beliefs  into the care practice,  understanding  their  spirituality before addressing the spirituality of patients is also important. therefore, the ai...