background: dental students’ attendance in community fields prepares them to get involved in oral health promotion programs.  the aim of this study was to evaluate dental students` attitude toward education in community dentistry fields at an iranian dental school. methods: 125 dental students participated in a questionnaire survey.  the questionnaire included questions regarding students’ back...

background: although nursing faculties may believe that they possess a core of knowledge about ethical interactions with students, they may unwittingly risk crossing an ethical boundary in the learning environment. the ethical dimension in education exists because the instructor has authority to contribute to or impede the students’ acquisition of knowledge. therefore, this study aimed to deter...

This article applies Casual Layered Analysis (CLA) (Inayatullah, 2004) as a framework to examine factors that affect applying a student-centered learning approach in Vietnam. The Four layers of CLA help disclose weaknesses in the current traditional learning approach, causes that create the problems and hidden beliefs that keep traditional perceptions about learning permanent. The results revea...

background: sufficient and thorough knowledge in early recognition of symptoms and proper management of asd is of utmost importance to medical graduates in the initial years of their learning in medical school. their knowledge regarding asd will be helpful when they become health care professionals as it will be easy for proper management of asd. our aim is to evaluate and analyze medical under...

conclusions existences of gap in dimensions indicated that expectations of students are not met and it indicates their dissatisfaction, and thus it is a necessity for improvement in all dimensions. results in overall, 80% of educational expectations were not meet; there was a negative gap at all phrases and dimensions and the gap was more negative for educational experts (-1.45 ± 0.89) compared...

Increasingly, higher education institutions are exploring the potential of learning analytics to predict student retention, understand learning behaviors, and improve student learning through providing personalized feedback and support. The technical development of learning analytics has outpaced consideration of ethical issues surrounding their use. Of particular concern is the absence of the ...

aims: although several studies have confirmed the validity and the strength of the student-centered approach and most training centeres have put it as the heading of their agenda, there are still problems in the method of implementation, increasing the need for further research to review the mode of implementation. in this regard, the present study has been conducted to investigate students’ an...