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Reza dihim; younos vakil alroaia
Volume 30, Issue 1 , May and June 2023, , Pages 1-12
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Introduction: By increasing competition and expanding the development of human resources development strategies, the Ministry of Cooperation, Labour, and Social Welfare experts are working to maintain talented employees and raise entrepreneurial spirit among their employees to achieve the best performance ...
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Introduction: By increasing competition and expanding the development of human resources development strategies, the Ministry of Cooperation, Labour, and Social Welfare experts are working to maintain talented employees and raise entrepreneurial spirit among their employees to achieve the best performance in the implementation of justice as one of the basic human needs. This study aimed to investigate the strategic role of the seven organizational justice aspects in enhancing entrepreneurial expertise.Materials and Methods: The method of implementing the present study is a descriptive - survey using a questionnaire. The research population consists of managers and experts of the ministry of cooperation, work, and social welfare as a number of 600. In this study, the sample size of managers and experts was measured by the Cochran formula and the number of 234 people were selected. Reliability and validity of tools were investigated using Cronbach's alpha coefficient, composite reliability, and confirmatory factor analysis, which had the reliability and validity required for instruments.Results: Findings showed that the procedural, interactive, distributive, informational, linguistic, emotional, and observational dimensions of organizational justice enjoy a significant effect on promoting entrepreneurial skills (technical, managerial, innovative, and personal maturity) of human resources.Conclusion: The results suggest that entrepreneurship education is increasingly important in shaping society in emerging economies by empowering people to advance in their careers and lives.
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asiyeh namazi; Marzieh Masjoudi
Volume 30, Issue 1 , May and June 2023, , Pages 51-63
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Introduction: The covid-19 pandemic caused many changes in the educational methods of the country's universities, and many educational institutions created and launched virtual classes or developed their traditional systems. The present study was conducted with the aim of comparing the satisfaction of ...
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Introduction: The covid-19 pandemic caused many changes in the educational methods of the country's universities, and many educational institutions created and launched virtual classes or developed their traditional systems. The present study was conducted with the aim of comparing the satisfaction of virtual education and its relationship with academic enthusiasm in the students of the Azad University of Rasht during this pandemic.Materials and Methods: The present study was a cross-sectional descriptive study in which 425 students were in two medical and non-medical sciences groups by stratified random sampling and completed a self-report questionnaire on satisfaction with virtual education and Fredericks' academic enthusiasm. The data were analyzed using SPSS software, an independent t-test, one-way variance, and Pearson's correlation.Results: The average score obtained from the satisfaction scale was 78.70±22.89 and academic enthusiasm was 51.12±11.58. The least satisfaction was found in the medical sciences group and also their academic enthusiasm was reported to be lower than others. The level of satisfaction with the virtual education method was higher among non-native and graduate students than among other students. Also, a statistically significant correlation was observed between the satisfaction score and the academic enthusiasm of students (p=0.004).Conclusion: Considering the importance of academic enthusiasm, especially in the fields of medical sciences, which work by saving people's lives, there is a need to empower and train the skills of using virtual education to increase the satisfaction and proper communication between professors and students to improve the situation of creating caused by the epidemic.
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Fatemeh Gholami; Nematullah Shomoossi; ABDURRASHID KHAZAEI FEIZABAD; Farahnaz Yousefi
Volume 30, Issue 1 , May and June 2023, , Pages 78-87
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Introduction: Following the announcement of Covid-19 as a pandemic. High authorities of world health systems including the Minister of Health in Iran shared their findings and achievements with public through media. The present qualitative study aimed at analyzing the news reports of the minister of ...
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Introduction: Following the announcement of Covid-19 as a pandemic. High authorities of world health systems including the Minister of Health in Iran shared their findings and achievements with public through media. The present qualitative study aimed at analyzing the news reports of the minister of Health on Covid-19 focusing on word collocation and discourse and communicative strategies.Materials and Methods: This review study was conducted on news reports released from December 11, 2019 till January 20, 2021 (end of the third rise) on Mehr News Agency. The extracted data were chronologically ordered in 316 reports (155800). Then the frequency of the related expressions was checked. The themes were extracted in following six steps using Clark and Braun Model (2013): familiarity with data, encoding, searching the themes, reviewing the themes, introducing and naming the themes, and finally rounding out and writing the final analysis.Results: The concepts were put in nine categories: clarifying the duties of the Health Ministry, assignment for people, uniting the public forces, hope creation, focusing on the ideological foundations, expressing virtual education methods, using metaphors, expressing international dimensions, and using emotional devices.Conclusion: The extracted concepts show the efforts of the Iranian Corona National Headquarters to clarify the issue, attract the public cooperation and accompaniment.
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maryam vafakhah; mehdi salimi; mina mostahfezian; reza shajie
Volume 29, Issue 5 , November and December 2022, , Pages 683-696
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Introduction: This study aimed to provide a thematic network of systematic HSE management elements in sports places.Materials and Methods: This study was an applied, qualitative, and thematic analysis research in terms of purpose, strategy, and implementation, respectively. The participants in this study ...
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Introduction: This study aimed to provide a thematic network of systematic HSE management elements in sports places.Materials and Methods: This study was an applied, qualitative, and thematic analysis research in terms of purpose, strategy, and implementation, respectively. The participants in this study were pundits and informed persons in the field of sports facilities management. The maximum variation sampling was conducted and the total number of participants was 11. Semi-structured interviews were used to collect the required data and Lincoln and Cuba's (1985) assessment criteria including credibility, transferability, dependability, and conformability were used in the present study to check the validity.Results: The findings of this study indicated that the illustration of the elements in HSE management in sports facilities includes 6 global themes (occupational health activities, active planning and prevention, requirements, projecting, participation and monitoring, resource provisioning), 16 organizing themes (environmental health, Personal hygiene, hardware, risk management, incident management, safety requirements, legal requirements, environmental requirements, standardization, waste management, supervision, system integration, stakeholders engagement, financing, human resource provisioning (recruitment), and facilities/ equipment), and 75 basic themes. Conclusion: The thematic network provided in this study does not support the existence of any hierarchy among the elements of systematic HSE management; instead, it supports thematic buoyance that is necessary to emphasize the interdependence and interrelationship between them.
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masoud sabaghi nia; mehdi rabiei; hamid sadeghi
Volume 29, Issue 4 , September and October 2022, , Pages 475-484
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Introduction: The advent of technology and mass media, including virtual social networks, has led to changes in traditional education and educational interactions. Therefore, the present study aimed to investigate the relationship between the use of virtual social networks in educational interactions ...
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Introduction: The advent of technology and mass media, including virtual social networks, has led to changes in traditional education and educational interactions. Therefore, the present study aimed to investigate the relationship between the use of virtual social networks in educational interactions and students' academic performance with the mediating role of the quality of learning experiences of students at the Sabzevar University of Medical Sciences.Materials and Methods: In this descriptive correlational study, 327 students of Sabzevar University of Medical Sciences in 2020 were surveyed by stratified relative sampling. In order to collect data, questionnaires were used on the use of social networks in educational interactions in Klimshastani (2016) and the quality of learning experiences of Newman (1990), and the criterion for measuring academic performance was students' Grade point average. Data were analyzed using SPSS 16 software and pearson correlation tests, multiple regression analysis and Sobel test.Results: The mean score of students in using social networks was in educational interactions (3.45± 0.88), learning experiences (3.65± 0.71) and academic performance (17.05± 1.42). Findings showed that there is a significant positive relationship (Z= 2.41, p <0.05) between the use of virtual social networks in educational interactions with students' academic performance with the mediating role of the quality of learning experiences. The use of these networks in educational interactions has a significant positive relationship with their academic performance (r= 0.72, p<0.05). There is a significant positive relationship (r = 0.61, p <0.05) between the use of virtual social networks in educational interactions with the quality of their learning experiences and the quality of learning experiences has a significant positive relationship with students' academic performance (r= 0.587, p <0.05).Conclusion: Due to the significant relationship between research variables, it is suggested that in addition to face-to-face training, virtual education should be used to improve education.
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arezoo davarinia; fatemeh borzoee; Zohreh Mohammadzadeh Tabrizi; Roya Akbarzadeh; Hamideh Yazdimoghaddam
Volume 29, Issue 2 , July and August 2022, , Pages 195-205
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Background & Objective: Using novel methods of clinical evaluation is an important policy of educational institutions. Logbooks are among the most effective, novel techniques of clinical activity evaluation. The present study aimed to design, implement, and evaluate an electronic logbook to enhance ...
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Background & Objective: Using novel methods of clinical evaluation is an important policy of educational institutions. Logbooks are among the most effective, novel techniques of clinical activity evaluation. The present study aimed to design, implement, and evaluate an electronic logbook to enhance the quality of evaluating operating room and anesthesiology field apprentices.Materials and Methods: This was a combined research. In the qualitative stage, field apprenticeship logbooks were developed using the Delphi method in a purpose-based manner. Following that, the web-based electronic version was designed for Android. In the quantitative stage, clinical evaluation was performed on 30 BSc students of operating room and anesthesiology at Sabzevar School of Paramedical Sciences, Iran. At the end of the semester, a satisfaction scale was completed by the students and analyzed using descriptive statistics.Results: In total, operating room students of the seventh semester (n=18) and anesthesiology students of the eighth semester (n=12) were enrolled in the study. The mean age of the participants was 21-22 years. The operating room and anesthesiology students had favorable and excellent satisfaction with all the items of the clinical apprenticeship evaluation using the electronic logbook. Conclusion: According to the results, using an electronic logbook by clinical professors could enhance the performance of students and motivate students to increase their clinical competence in conducting various procedures in the operating room during the apprenticeship period.
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Mousarreza Mohagheghnejad; Amir Ashkan Nasiripour; Rouhollah Zaboli; Hossein Damghanian
Volume 28, Issue 6 , January and February 2022, , Pages 959-969
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Background: Hospitals, as an important unit in the modern treatment system, using various sources, are responsible for providing, maintaining and promoting health for individuals in the community. In order to perform this important service, it is necessary to meet their needs properly. This study was ...
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Background: Hospitals, as an important unit in the modern treatment system, using various sources, are responsible for providing, maintaining and promoting health for individuals in the community. In order to perform this important service, it is necessary to meet their needs properly. This study was conducted to design a model of factors affecting hospital services supply chain.Materials and Methods: This is a combined (qualitative-quantitative) research in which the opinions of fifteen experts about the hospital supply chain from six provinces of the country were used. After conducting a semi-structured interview, their opinions were collected until saturation and then analyzed. The framework analysis approach was used to determine the effective factors. Using Delphi method, the level of agreement of experts was evaluated.Results: After analysis and coding, finally seven main topics including financial resources, human resources, technologies, induced demand, management, supply and distribution, and construction and equipment were identified. Meanwhile, management (mean 4/42±0/46 and mean rank 5/56) was identified as the most important factor.Conclusion: Although financial or human resources and other factors inside or outside the organization affect the hospital services supply chain, but investing to improve management prevents or reduces the impact of many challenges.
Educational
Mostafa Rad; mojtaba rad
Volume 27, Issue 4 , November and December 2020, , Pages 578-584
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Introduction: Anxiety affects learning. It causes of many physical, and psychological problems. No qualitative study was seen in this matter.Therefore, the purpose of this study was to explain the students' experiences about the test anxiety and the anxious factors associated to the teacher.
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Introduction: Anxiety affects learning. It causes of many physical, and psychological problems. No qualitative study was seen in this matter.Therefore, the purpose of this study was to explain the students' experiences about the test anxiety and the anxious factors associated to the teacher.
Materials and Methods: This was a qualitative content analysis study, which was conducted in 2016. Participants were 25 students from Sabzevar University of Medical Sciences who had at least two semesters of study and participated in the final exam. The sampling method was initially goal oriented. The data were collected using a semi-structured interview with a presence in the field. Data analysis was carried out using conventional content analysis.
Results: 5 main categories and 14 sub-categories explored that main categories including the consequences and complication of test anxiety, teacher's teaching and evaluation strategy, teacher - student interaction strategy, the supportive role of teacher at the exam session, and learning self-management and control of anxiety were extracted from the data.
Conclusion: Using methods such as relaxation and resorting, the more recognition of teachers, the use of young faculty members from the experience of skilful teachers, the use of new educational methods, identifying sufficient references and asking questions from the same references, teacher’s attending in test session from the first to the end of the exam, and distributing the grade score during the term, are of the factors that can reduce student anxiety.
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homyra vahdati; Ali mohammad Naemi
Volume 27, Issue 3 , September and October 2020, , Pages 441-451
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The present study examine The relationship between Information and Communication Technology and Organizational Agility with the mediating role of Targeted Organizational Forgetting among the employees of Sabzevar University of Medical Sciences. The method of research is descriptive and its type is correlation ...
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The present study examine The relationship between Information and Communication Technology and Organizational Agility with the mediating role of Targeted Organizational Forgetting among the employees of Sabzevar University of Medical Sciences. The method of research is descriptive and its type is correlation with an emphasis on structural equations. The population consisted of all employees of Sabzevar University of Medical Sciences (205 persons) that 134 peoples were selected using on cochrane formula based.That sample was selected by Systematic sampling. The data was collected through ict Muharrampor, Organizational Agility by Sharifi & Zhang,Targeted Organizational Forgetting by Mahmoudvand questionnaires. To evaluate validity and reliability of the questionnaires we used Cronbach Alpha coefficient The Pearson correlation and structural equation modeling (SEM) was used for data analyzing. The results showed that:1) There is a significant and positive relationship between the Ict and Organizational Agility. 2) There is a significant and positive relationship between the Ict and Targeted Organizational Forgetting. 3) There is a significant and positive relationship between the Targeted Organizational Forgetting and Organizational Agility. 4) Targeted Organizational Forgetting playing a mediating role in relationship between Ict and Organizational Agility and 45% of Organizational Agility was predicted by Ict with the mediation of Targeted Organizational Forgetting.
Educational
Nasrin Mircholi; Reza dihim
Volume 27, Issue 2 , July and August 2020, , Pages 202-209
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Background and objective: The current study aimed to design and explain the communication model of ISO role in human resource education quality.Materials and Methods: This study was cross-sectional (quantitative and qualitative) that was done via Grounded theory. The statistical population of the study ...
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Background and objective: The current study aimed to design and explain the communication model of ISO role in human resource education quality.Materials and Methods: This study was cross-sectional (quantitative and qualitative) that was done via Grounded theory. The statistical population of the study in the qualitative section included professors and experts (n=10) who were selected by purposive sampling method and in the quantitative section, the statistical population was all employees of Tehran Amir al-momenin Hospital (n=370) in the year 2019 that based on the Cochran formula, 226 people were selected by random sampling. Data were collected using a researcher-made questionnaire on the quality of human resources education (40 items). The face and content validity of the instrument was confirmed by experts and its reliability was confirmed by Cronbach's alpha method. The data were analyzed by exploratory factor analysis and structural equation modeling via PLS software.Findings: The results showed that the quality of human resources education had five components of educational needs analysis, curriculum design, and implementation of the training process, evaluation of the training process and monitoring of the training process.Conclusion: In this model, the mentioned components had the most impact on the quality of human resources education with 11.83%, 8.79%, 7.84%, 6.72% and 6.72% variance, respectively. Also, the components were able to explain 77.70% of the variance in the quality of human resources training and had a good fit model.
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Zahra Keyvanlo; Alireza Ghorbani; Hossein Tireh; Ramezan Tazegole
Volume 26, Issue 5 , November and December 2019, , Pages 619-626
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Backgrand: The relationship between job satisfaction and organizational commitment is as most important factor in the management science. One of the basic factors influencing commitment is employee's job satisfaction. The purpose of study was investigate the relationship between job satisfaction with ...
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Backgrand: The relationship between job satisfaction and organizational commitment is as most important factor in the management science. One of the basic factors influencing commitment is employee's job satisfaction. The purpose of study was investigate the relationship between job satisfaction with organizational commitment and its influential factors in staff working in Sabzevar University of Medical Sciences.Materials and Methods: This cross-sectional study was carried out on 288 employees from different fields. The instrument was a Demographic information, Job Satisfaction Questionnaire (JDI) and organizational commitment of Allen & Meyer. The collected data were analyzed by descriptive statistics, Spearman, Naparametric Test and with SPSS24.Results: Results showed that job satisfaction and organizational commitment of employees in all dimensions were higher than the average level. The highest level of job satisfaction was observed in the dimension of the co-worker and the highest organizational commitment of the employees in emotional dimension. There was a positive and significant relationship between job satisfaction and organizational commitment of employees.(r=0.32-p
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Amirhosein Kayzouri; Hamid Yaghoutimoghaddam; Hamid Sadeghi; Mohammad Hoseinzadeh Hesari; Mahnaz Haghnazar
Volume 26, Issue 4 , November and December 2019, , Pages 487-493
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Background and aim: The training is a series of activities that the teacher does to facilitate the learning of learners on their own or with the help of educational materials.the purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of peer-to-peer education methods on clinical learning of anesthesia students ...
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Background and aim: The training is a series of activities that the teacher does to facilitate the learning of learners on their own or with the help of educational materials.the purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of peer-to-peer education methods on clinical learning of anesthesia students in Sabzevar University of Medical SciencesMaterials and methods: This experimental study was a post-test pre-test. The statistical population of this study consisted of 48 students of anesthesiology students of the Bachelor of Science from 95-96. According to the characteristics of the statistical society, all anesthesia students of Sabzevar University of Medical Sciences were selected as samples,and simple random sampling method was chosen. They were randomly assigned to peer and non-peer groups.The data gathering tool was a multi-part questionnaire. content validity was used and Their reliability was estimated through Cronbach’s alpha. SPSS16 software and descriptive and analytical statistics (covariance) were used to analyze the data.Results: The analysis of covariance showed that learning from their peers had a positive and significant effect on students' clinical performance (F = 295 / 68, T =17.19 P
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Reza Aletaha; Negin Jabbary; Niaz Azari
Volume 26, Issue 1 , March and April 2019, , Pages 13-23
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AbstractIntroduction: Universities and higher education institutions, as knowledge-based institutions, play a key role in the development of countries and their performance in different domains should be evaluated. Ranking is one of the tools for assessing the performance, competitiveness and success ...
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AbstractIntroduction: Universities and higher education institutions, as knowledge-based institutions, play a key role in the development of countries and their performance in different domains should be evaluated. Ranking is one of the tools for assessing the performance, competitiveness and success of universities. It is desirable to rank as one of the key missions of the higher education system, so that, with its implementation, we can see the change in the behavior of institutions on the path to the goals of the macro.Methods: In this paper, we identified the ranking indixes of the Northeast Universities of Medical Sciences, which extracted from 119 citations of the 27 original codes and categorized into 7 branches. For the ranking of the medical sciences university, the main functions were considered. Is taken to select appropriate criteria based on content analysis and the most important concepts of each criterion were introduced.Results: The results show that the most influential codes of each criterion were standardization, training factors, governance index, research, quality development index.Keywords: ranking, medical sciences, standardization, qualitative development
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maryam karimi; maryam kazerani
Volume 24, Issue 6 , March and April 2018, , Pages 121-130
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Background: Abstracts are valuable tools in assessing the relevance of documents during information retrieval. Determination of abstract compliance with international standards is one of ways of generating qualified information, reducing costs and establishing aligned coordination with international ...
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Background: Abstracts are valuable tools in assessing the relevance of documents during information retrieval. Determination of abstract compliance with international standards is one of ways of generating qualified information, reducing costs and establishing aligned coordination with international standards. this study aims to assess persian theses abstracts of different educational levels with ANSI/NISO Z39.14 standard at Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences (SBMU) from 2010-2014. Material and methods: This analytical survey consists of 386 titles of Persian abstracts of master’s, professional doctorate ,and specialized medicine theses abstract of different schools at SBMU from 2010-2014. Standard text of ANSI / NISO Z39.14 is used as a research tool which includes 5 content elements. Stratified sampling using random number table (commensurate with the size) was the method of this study. Descriptive statistics along with Anova test, Chi2 and Tukey’s HSD tests of SPSS 19 software were used for data analysis. Results: Results showed that there is a significant difference among the consistency of content elements of the standard with theses abstract of different educational levels in different schools using ANOVA and chi-square test while there was insignificant difference between the years 2010 to 2014. Conclusion: The findings suggest that writing style of thesis abstracts at SBMU, in some content elements, is not in accordance with the standard ANSI/NISOZ39.14 (R2015). Therefore, it is recommended to develop an instruction and a coherent model based on international standards which are mandatory to be followed by all centers in order to improve the writing style.
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Amirhossein Kayzouri; Mohsen Sadeghpour
Volume 24, Issue 2 , May and June 2017, , Pages 127-123
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Background and aims: An increasing trend in the use of ICT in the present time has caused some changes in the educational system and its methods so it has doubled the need for researches and studies to be done in this domain. So, this study was to compare three methods: e-learning, Traditional-E learning ...
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Background and aims: An increasing trend in the use of ICT in the present time has caused some changes in the educational system and its methods so it has doubled the need for researches and studies to be done in this domain. So, this study was to compare three methods: e-learning, Traditional-E learning and traditional learning in the pharmacology lesson of nursing student to move forward for changing the educational system to an effective one.
Methods: In this quasi-experimental study, 90 nursing students that have entered university during educational years of 2014 and 2015 and have passed the pharmacology lesson in their second semester were selected, based on purposive sampling methods, and agreed to participate in the study. They were then assigned to three groups that each had 30 students in it (e-learning, Traditional-E learning and traditional learning). By the end of examination they were compared on the mean results of their final tests and the impact of the three different methods were examined.
Findings: Based on the results of the mean final scores of the students at the end of test we found out that the difference between the three methods was significant. It was concluded that the Traditional-E learning method was successful for students due to an increase in their final results.
Conclusions:Traditional-E learning method can be used as an alternative in teaching pharmacology for nursing.
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Pezhman Bagheri; Abulqasim Avand; Amin Kouhpayeh; Reza Homayounfar; Mojtaba Farjam; Fatemeh Avand
Volume 24, Issue 1 , March and April 2017, , Pages 51-53
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Background & Objectives: Authority means referring a person to an individual or organization due to the capabilities of that person or organization. For example, an increase in the number of citations represents the authority of the author or a country or even a university or research institute and ...
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Background & Objectives: Authority means referring a person to an individual or organization due to the capabilities of that person or organization. For example, an increase in the number of citations represents the authority of the author or a country or even a university or research institute and a special journal on that particular topic. From this point of view, production of knowledge is a necessary item but not sufficient for the scientific authority. Medical students can play an important role in the scientific authority. Materials & Methods: A summer school was administered by Fasa University of Medical Science with the subjects of innovation in medical education and transformation plan, for elite medical students from all universities in Iran. Results: The results of student and teachers’ discussions in the scientific authority workshop affirmed thatforesight and conceptualization along with preliminary studies, feasibility in expression of view points and survey of present approaches, and breaking out of scientific borders by student researches are three major steps in the realization of scientific authority. Conclusion: There are several steps which should be considered in the realization of scientific authority.