OBJECTIVE To examine the impact of sexuality education practices on adolescent birthrates while controlling for demographic characteristics and religious/political factors at a state level. DESIGN Prospective cohort study. SETTING Twenty-four states, from 1997 through 2005. PARTICIPANTS Girls aged 15 to 17 years. MAIN EXPOSURE The state sexuality education practices (ie, sexually transm...

The paper shows how the Theory and Philosophy of Science may contribute to a discipline specific higher education development with focus on the academic teachers' concepts about knowledge, teaching, and learning. It will be reasoned that a thorough reflection on essential scientific traits of any discipline has a purposeful impact on those concepts as well as on the practice of teaching and lea...

social capital is a new concept that’s been important in management literature in recent years. the importance of this concept has led to increase the researchers’ trends to develop models and diagnose new indexes. the main object of this research is exploring and designing a model to achieve foregoing goal. social capital development in universities and higher education centers as fundamental ...

Background: Considering the importance of observing research ethics in the research process and the need for its teaching in curricula, the present study was conducted to design a research ethics curriculum model for graduate students of humanities in higher educative centers in Iran. Method: This research was conducted in terms of applied purpose and in the framework of a qualitative approach...

Purpose: The main purpose of this study was to provide a model for promoting theorizing chairs (free thinking) in universities and higher education centers in the country. Method: This researcher was a mixed type and the statistical population of the present study included members of the faculty of Tehran province, 343 people (male and female) were selected as a sample. The data collection too...

entrepreneurship courses had a tremendous potential to improve the knowledge and skills of thestudents in agricultural applied-scientific education centers (aasecs) to make a business aftergraduating. this study was designed to analyze barriers of entrepreneurship education coursesdelivering in aasecs in fars province. the population of the study consisted of all 1018 students infour aasecs in ...