Identification of the students who are most likely to succeed in the nursing programmes has always remained an important goal of nursing schools and nurse educators. This study was conducted to identify predictors of academic performance of the students in the first year of basic nursing diploma programme in the province of Sindh, Pakistan. For this descriptive study, data was collected from Si...

the academic achievement of students has been a focus of social research for decades. yet little attention has been paid to social capital and its importance as a university context factor for academic success. we examine whether social capital has effects on students’ academic achievement. the population of this study consisted of all senior agricultural students of razi university at iran (n=...

Educators developing data mining courses face a difficult task of designing curricula that are adaptable, have solid foundations, and are tailored to students from different academic fields. This task could be facilitated by debating and sharing the ideas and experiences gained from the practice of data mining as well as from teaching data mining. The shared body of knowledge would be a valuabl...

IN A QUALITATIVE STUDY, the researchers documented the perceptions of deaf and hearing ethnically diverse university faculty and staff regarding issues related to the education of ethnic-minority deaf college students. These experienced educators commented on the importance of ethnic-minority role models for deaf college students, the academic preparedness of ethnic-minority deaf students, thes...

A task-oriented questionnaire was designed, aiming to quickly assess competence with the use of computers. The questionnaire consisted of distinct computer-related skills, representing various competences in educational computer use. A total score from 0 to 49 was calculated upon completion of the questionnaire, based on the sum of all the positively identified competences. The questionnaire wa...

This paper examines how students from different cultural backgrounds use email to communicate with other students and lecturers. The South Pacific region, isolated, vast, and culturally diverse, was selected as an excellent research environment in which to study the effect of cultural differences and educational technology on distance learning. The context of the research was two competing dist...

Contemporary distance education schools are striving to have the most effective educational programs that encourage a dynamic combination of being flexible, individualized, personally and professionally challenging. As distance education schools grow in popularity, distance educators and their learners are raising important instructional questions about the quality of these computer mediated ed...

T he aim of scholarship of teaching and learning can be simply stated as making transparent the process by which the educator has made learning possible. Schulman has extended this definition to include the essential aspects of professionalism, pragmatism and policy. Professionalism is the most important reason for engaging in the scholarship of teaching and learning. In this aspect of scholars...