The present study is an investigation into the relationship between Iranian EFL teachers’ degree of creativity and language learners’ academic achievement. To this end, six female English teachers and 81 male and female advanced English learners from a private language institute were asked to take part in the study. Data were collected through Torrance Test of Creative Thinking (TTCT) and stude...

OBJECTIVE Sometimes the suspicion is put forward that nutrition students show more disordered eating patterns, which may be among the motivating factors to study nutrition. At the same time, it is not clear whether the students' increasing knowledge about diet and nutrition is associated with a more healthy eating behaviour or with an unhealthy obsession with food choices. DESIGN Cross-sectio...

D of nursing practice (DNP) students at the postmaster’s level bring unique opportunities to gerontological nursing at a critical point in time. With a rapidly increasing cohort of older adults, advanced gerontological and leadership expertise is needed. Opportunities exist for gerontological role development in education, advanced clinical care, and broad systems and population leadership. Gra...

CONTEXT Induced abortion is one of the most common procedures performed among women in the United States. However, 87% of all counties had no abortion provider in 2000, and little is known about the attitudes and intentions of future health care providers, including advanced clinical practitioners, regarding abortion provision. METHODS During March 2002, first- and second-year students in hea...

How language teachers talk is a key factor in organizing and facilitating learning specifically in language classrooms where the medium of instruction is also the subject matter. This study aimed to examine the extent and ways of teacher talk adaptation to students’ proficiency levels in the Iranian EFL context. Two EFL teachers who were teaching three different proficiency levels were observed...

OBJECTIVES To investigate the views of osteopathic medical students on their preferred learning methods, their current use of computers as an educational tool, and their attitudes regarding the role of computers in medical education, based on their skill level. METHODS A 27-item questionnaire was distributed to first-through fourth-year osteopathic medical students. Items asked students to as...