Seied Mohammad Mehdi Hazavehei; Mohammad Hosein Taghdisi; Hamid Reza Mohaddes; Akbar Hasanzadeh
Volume 3, Issue 2 , January 2007, , Pages 126-133
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Background : Suitable nutrition is an important aspect in every stage of life particularly in puberty stage of females One of the important priorities of medical education is improving the quality of educational programs in regard to the puberty nutrition in middle school girls Objective: The aim of ...
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Background : Suitable nutrition is an important aspect in every stage of life particularly in puberty stage of females One of the important priorities of medical education is improving the quality of educational programs in regard to the puberty nutrition in middle school girls Objective: The aim of this study was to determine and compare the effects of three teaching methods of lecture training games and role playing on knowledge and practice of middle school girls in regard to puberty nutrition Methods : In this quasiexperimental research six first grade classes from girls middle schools of four distracts in Mashhad were selected randomly The students of these classes (n=174) were randomly divided into three groups of lecture (taught by giving lecture) game (taught by playing games) and role playing (taught by role playing) Each group participated in two 45minute training sessions about puberty nutrition The students knowledge and practice were evaluated by acceptable valid and reliable questionnaire and checklist before immediately after and one month after the training sessions Results : According to the results mean (±standard deviation) knowledge scores of students immediately after intervention were 499 (±115) in lecture group 57 (±89) in game group and 61 (±12) in role playing group that showed significant increase [respectively 201 (±116) 29 (±11) and 305 (±115)] compared to before the intervention Mean knowledge score immediately after and one month after holding training sessions were significantly different in all three groups (P
Seyyed Mohammad Mehdi Hazavehei; Yadollah Fathei; Mehri Shamshirei
Volume 3, Issue 1 , July 2006, , Pages 33-42
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Background: One of the priorities of research in education is study about the causes of students failure during their academic work Objective: To investigate the causes of students academic failure and probation Methods: In this casecontrol study 761 volunteer students in Hamadan University of Medical ...
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Background: One of the priorities of research in education is study about the causes of students failure during their academic work Objective: To investigate the causes of students academic failure and probation Methods: In this casecontrol study 761 volunteer students in Hamadan University of Medical Sciences during fall and spring semesters of 20012002 were participated Students were divided into two groups Case group consisted of 43 students who had academic failure leading to their probation and control group consisted of 718 students who were successful in their study program Data collection was done by a questionnaire designed based on eight main factors in learning process including: method of teaching evaluation educational materials planning for the semester courses personal characteristics environmental problems academic environment and accessibility of academic advisors The questionnaire was used after reliability and validity evaluation Results: The percentage of academic probation was higher in boys (94%) compared to girls (43%) Among eight factors affecting learning process there was a significant difference (P= 0014) between the two groups in their mean score of opinions about the method of teaching (356 ± 116 in the case group vs 359± 098 in the control group) There was also significant difference between the two groups in regard to mean score of the personal characteristics (436 ± 126 in case group vs 476 ±108 in control group P= 0023) The obtained mean scores for method of teaching and personal characteristics of the students was significantly higher according to the students who had a score below 10 for at least 1 course Mean scores of method of teaching and environmental & educational problems were significantly higher according to the students who had a score between 1012 in at least one course (P
Seyyed Mohammad Mehdi Hazavehei; Yadollah Fathi
Volume 1, Issue 2 , January 2005, , Pages 85-93
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Background: According to the educational policy and regulation offering academic advising to the students is one of the essential faculty members responsibilities and medical universities must guide the students during their education in order to prevent any academic problems and barriers and improve ...
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Background: According to the educational policy and regulation offering academic advising to the students is one of the essential faculty members responsibilities and medical universities must guide the students during their education in order to prevent any academic problems and barriers and improve academic achievement Objective: To Compare the effect of two educational methods on academic advisors knowledge attitude and practice Methods: Eightyseven advisors participated in this experimental study The participants were randomly divided into two groups The first group (N=43) receiving selflearning educational materials participated in a oneday workshop The second group only received selflearning educational materials A reliable and valid questionnaire was distributed to gather data Results: The findings indicated the knowledge of the advisors about advising and counselling in the first group ( =1477 SD=31) was higher than the advisors in the second group ( =1154 SD=276) so that a significant difference was observed between the two groups (P