the aim of this study was to determine the effectiveness of physical practices on the reduction of slow-pace children's aggression. for this purpose, 20 guidance school students with slow pace were selected through simple random sampling. they were divided into experiment (10 persons) and control (10 persons) groups. rosenzweig frustration scale was administered to both groups as the prete...

Abstract Background: This study aimed to investigate the effects of addiction to computer games on physical and mental health of students. Methods: The study population includes all students in the second year of public guidance schools in the city of Isfahan in the educational year of 2009-2010. The sample size includes 564 students selected by multiple steps stratified sampling.  De...

This paper provides the first combined theoretical and empirical analysis of the impact of private school entry on private schools’ strategic choices of quality, addressing the concern that school competition can harm poorer students. I develop a model where schools select their quality when (1) the match between a school and a student affects test scores, and (2) wealthier students’ enrollment...

11 Abstract In this paper, we present the results of an exploratory study into the relationship 12 between student self-efficacy and guidance use in a Multi-User Virtual Environment 13 (MUVE) science curriculum project. We describe findings from a sample of middle school 14 science students on the combined impact on learning of student self-efficacy in scientific 15 inquiry and use of individua...

Objective: Nurse practitioner (NP) students at our graduate school of nursing use WISE-MDTM simulation modules in the curriculum. This prospective randomized controlled pilot study was undertaken to evaluate critical-thinking outcomes associated with adding metacognitive deliberate-reflection guidance to the learning strategy with WISE-MD simulation modules. Methods: Of 33 NP students randomly ...

objectives: the prevalence of consanguineous marriage is about 30 % in iran and this can increase the probability of incidence of genetic impairments such as hearing impairments. hearing impairment in comparison with other hereditary disorders is the most incident. the purpose of this survey is to identify the prevalence of consanguinity among the parents of sensoryneural hearing impaired stude...

Context-aware ubiquitous learning has been recognized as being a promising approach that enables students to interact with real-world learning targets with supports from the digital world. Several researchers have indicated the importance of providing learning guidance or hints to individual students during the context-aware ubiquitous learning process. In this study, an expert system-based gui...