The importance of using culturally sensitive educational materials in HIV-related interventions with racial and ethnic minority groups is widely recognized. However, little empirical research has been conducted to assess the relative effectiveness of different techniques for creating culturally sensitive AIDS educational videos. Two field experiments with three samples of African American adult...

the sources of output growth of iranian agriculture over the years 1986-2001 has been examined, using a decomposition method within the input-output (io) framework. the three comparable io tables of 1986, 1991, and 2001 have been employed as the main data sources. output changes from a demand side perspective, and decomposition of the growth of output into components attributable to consumption...

The purpose of the paper is to review some previous research examining ICT efficiency and the impact of ICT on educational output/outcome as well as different conceptual and methodological issues related to performance measurement. Moreover, a definition, measurements and the empirical application of a model measuring the efficiency of ICT use and its impact at national levels will be considere...

background. teaching assessment is a process of collecting and analyzing data in order to make a judgment on merits and limitations of a teaching program. thus, assessment would be an important and practical instrument to improve teaching quality. purpose. the main objective of the research is quality improvement of medical education, and specific objectives are set as study of output factors o...

Introduction: Computation and Real-World Materials In debates over the role of technology in education, computers have traditionally been cast as the cause of a malign “virtualization” of children’s experience—a means by which children lose, to an ever greater extent, the pleasure and feel of work with real materials. One widely-cited cover story in U.S. News and World Report sounded this theme...

This research is concerned with harnessing collaborative approaches for the authoring of Adaptive Educational Hypermedia (AEH) systems. It involves the enhancement of Semantic Wikis with pedagogy aware features to this end. There are many challenges in understanding how communities of interest can efficiently collaborate for learning content authoring, in introducing pedagogy to the developed k...

background: faculty development programs have received considerable investment of resources from medical institutions, though the effect and output of them has been infrequently studied. this study was design to measure the effect of the mashhad university of medical sciences’ faculty development workshops. methods: three faculty development workshops on educational research were conducted to i...