The purpose of this paper was to investigate first-year undergraduate engineering students’ awareness and conceptual understanding of environmental issues and to examine how effective a participatory game design strategy was to elicit their understanding. Respondents (n=1,394) completed baseline environmental awareness surveys and 24 respondents participated in the game design process consistin...

Students seldom think about language unless they are instructed to do so or are made to do so during learning activities. To arouse students’ awareness while learning English for Specific Purposes (ESP), this study formed a computer-supported collaborative learning (CSCL) community to engage teachers and students from different domains and countries in intercultural communication. Participating...

This study investigates the ethical awareness of computer use among undergraduate computer science students at two public Malaysian universities. One hundred and fifty-nine students were asked to evaluate the code of ethics pertaining to computer ethics. A comparison of undergraduate computer science students between two public universities was done to determine the level of ethical awareness o...

Metacognitive awareness has been shown to be a critical skill for academic success. However, students often struggle to regulate this ability during learning tasks. The current study investigates how features designed to promote metacognitive awareness can be built into the game-based intelligent tutoring system (ITS) iSTART-2. College students (n=28) interacted with iSTART-2 for one hour, comp...

Introduction: Osteoporosis has increased the burden of diseases worldwide and in all populations. It is far more common among women than among men. The current research tried to investigate the health faculty students' awareness of osteoporosis (calcium intake and physical activity). Materials & methods: A descriptive-analytical research was conducted on 239 students in the health faculty, who ...

Background: In India, cervical cancer is the single largest killer of middle-aged women, followed by breast cancer. Though the effective screening test is available, most of the women in developing and underdeveloped countries do not have access to Pap (papanicolou) smear screening due to poor literacy and low level of awareness both early detection and screening remain a major area of concern ...

BACKGROUND Human Papillomavirus (HPV) -associated cervical cancer is the second-most common cancer in women worldwide but it is the most frequent gynaecological cancer and cancer associated death in India women. The objective of this study was to assess knowledge about cervical cancer, HPV, HPV vaccine, HPV vaccine acceptance among school and undergraduates students and their parent's perceptio...

Internet banking is becoming one of the important services to many consumers. Most of the banking transactions can now be done online regardless of time and place. Information security is one of the crucial components in Internet banking where it ensures the confidentiality of bank users’ information. It was found that there is lack of empirical studies on awareness of information security in I...

INTRODUCTION Evidence-based care helps dentists provide quality dental services to patients, and such care is based on the use of reliable information about treatment and patient care from a large number of papers, books, and published textbooks. This study aimed to determine the knowledge, awareness, and attitude of dentistry students towards evidence-based dentistry. METHODS In this cross-s...

Background and Aims: Today, smoking is recognized as a major health problem and an impediment to development in many developing countries. This is the reason of early deaths and disabilities which leads to death of about 4 million people around the globe annually. This study aimed at assessing the awareness and attitude among the students last years dental at Yazd Shahid Sadooghi Medical School...