BACKGROUND Being exposed to good teachers has been shown to enhance students' knowledge and their clinical performance, but little is known about the underlying psychological mechanisms that provide the basis for being an excellent medical teacher. Self-Determination Theory (SDT) postulates that more self-regulated types of motivation are associated with higher performance. Social Cognitive The...

This study was conducted to examine the relationship between the family emotional atmosphere, perceptions of classroom activities, and academic engagement among female high school students. The research design was descriptive- correlational. The statistical population of the study was comprised of all female high school students in District 4 of Ahwaz from among whom 341 students were selected ...

Most studies examining influences on parent involvement focus on common demographic factors, such as social class or gender, and on elementary grades. In the present study, we investigated a more malleable influence, perceptions of ability, in the context of middle school. We examined how perceptions held by parents, teachers, and students concerning students’ academic abilities affected parent...

It is the aim of this study to investigate EFL (English as a Foreign Language) students’ perceptions of teacher/learner responsibilities and learner decision-making abilities at tertiary level questioning whether motivation has a role in these perceptions. To this end, 144 students who studied in the preparatory school of a state university took part in this study. In a mixed-methods research d...

Introduction. In 2000, the Dunedin School of Medicine (one of Otago Medical School's 3 clinical schools) introduced 7-week rural placement. A survey of students conducted before attending the placement showed that most students did not perceive faculty to have a positive view of rural health. In 2007, we explored whether students' perceptions had changed. Method. All 5th year medical students a...

Using basic psychological needs theory (BPNT; Ryan & Deci, 2000) as our guiding framework, we explored cultural differences in the relationships among physical education students' perceptions of teacher autonomy support, psychological need satisfaction, subjective vitality and effort in class. Seven hundred and fifteen students (age range from 13 to 15 years) from the U.K. and Hong Kong, China,...

perceptions of first and last year nursing bachelor students about their own profession: a qualitative study    zamanzadeh v [1] , valizadeh l [2] *, nasiri kh [3]     received: 2 jul , 2013 accepted: 9 sep , 2013     abstract   background & aims: nursing has considerable progresses towards becoming professional in recent decades in comparison with previous decades. it seems that researches on ...

PURPOSE To determine the impact of an emergency medicine (EM) clerkship on senior (4th year) medical students' perceptions of the EM specialty. SUBJECTS AND METHODS This was a pre/posttest observational study in a mandatory 4-week EM clerkship. Students were anonymously surveyed pre- and postclerkship regarding perceptions of EM. The survey used 24 statements grouped across four domains: 1) s...

Introduction The use of robots in our daily life is becoming more and more popular. For example, robots can be used to serve the human beings, in teaching children language or in assisting the disabled. The learning of robotics maybe a trend and can give students an opportunity to design and create new applications (Resnick, Ocko & Papert, 1988). Many researchers have attempted to probe the fac...

Attempts to demonstrate a relationship between students’ approaches to studying in higher education and their perceptions of their academic context have been bedevilled by limitations of the research instruments and the problem of aggregating students’ perceptions and approaches across different course units. The extended version of the Course Experience Questionnaire (Wilson et al., 1997) and ...