Leili Mosalanejad; Mehdi Dastpak; Fatemeh Kheshti
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Background: COVID-19 crisis has created special educational conditions. This challenge has brought about changes in students’ academic lifestyles.Objectives: We aimed to conduct a qualitative study on the students’ academic lifestyle and quality during the COVID-19 crisis.Methods: This is ...
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Background: COVID-19 crisis has created special educational conditions. This challenge has brought about changes in students’ academic lifestyles.Objectives: We aimed to conduct a qualitative study on the students’ academic lifestyle and quality during the COVID-19 crisis.Methods: This is a qualitative method with a phenomenological analysis. The research was conducted within the framework of logic sampling on 50 students with a phenomenological approach to Medical, Health, and Laboratory Sciences students. It was purposeful. Students were asked to describe the style and quality of their academic life in the form of expression of experience during their COVID-19 crisis and quarantine, and then the analysis of the students’ written work was performed using Colaizzi’s seven-step process. Four-dimension criteria were also considered to assess rigor of qualitative research (credibility, dependability, conformability, and transferability).Results: Of 64 codes obtained in the research, five themes and 11 sub-themes emerged. Themes included items such as 1) unknown stress and anxiety, vague future and professional problem, 2) cognitive burden (information literacy, bulk contents, need for self-paced, and need for mastery), 3) interests (following interest and compensation process), 4) skills (self-regulation, self-direction, and time management), and 5) security (available content, exercise, and practice).Conclusion: According to the results, it can be stated that changing the academic lifestyle can provide improved personal skills and information literacy, but changing the academic lifestyle in a negative direction with cognitive burden and fear of the unknown has created many problems in the process of this lifestyle.
Leili Mosalanejad; Sara Maghsodzadeh
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Background: Technology acceptance comprises cognitive and psychological elements about using technology.Objectives: This descriptive study evaluated the feasibility and applicability of the LMS acceptance questionnaire in medical sciences students using native LMS during the COVID-19 pandemic.Methods: ...
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Background: Technology acceptance comprises cognitive and psychological elements about using technology.Objectives: This descriptive study evaluated the feasibility and applicability of the LMS acceptance questionnaire in medical sciences students using native LMS during the COVID-19 pandemic.Methods: This study was conducted to assess LMS acceptance and the validity of the questionnaires in Iranian society. Ten faculty members and ten students reviewed and evaluated the questionnaires for the validity of translation (content validity). Exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis methods were used for questionnaire items to determine the constructive validity. Moreover, a technology acceptance questionnaire was distributed among 200 users to determine the convergence validity. Finally, the reliability of the questionnaire was assessed by 30 people before, after, and simultaneously.Results: The results of this descriptive study showed that the average scores of people in finding helpful content for lessons, having a support system for problem-solving, and being convenient to use were high. In another part, confirmatory factor analysis confirmed the criteria and items by four factors. Test reliability on 30 students before and after showed that the questionnaire has good reliability in all factors. Convergence validity with the technology acceptance questionnaire showed that there was a direct and positive relationship.Conclusion: The four factors questionnaire, which comprised performance expectations, effort expectations, facilitative situations, and social influence, with feasibility, and usability, can be used as a valid questionnaire in an Iranian population.
Leili Mosalanejad; Mehdi M Dastpak; Sedigheh Najafipour
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Background: Medical education professionally requires the development of analytical and diagnostic thinking skills, not just accumulation. It used to help the student from exposure to real estate problems by developing analytical skills.Objectives: This case study reports the process of design and educational ...
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Background: Medical education professionally requires the development of analytical and diagnostic thinking skills, not just accumulation. It used to help the student from exposure to real estate problems by developing analytical skills.Objectives: This case study reports the process of design and educational outcome of teaching medical etiquette from new student–center strategies by art.Methods: In this experience, the educational process started during the two courses of medical etiquette courses and is performed every semester from 2018. Combination casebased/ scenario-based teaching with art in education in traditional and virtual conditions during three concurrent years was a unique experience to teaching medical etiquette courses.Results: As a result, this program created fun, engagement, different teaching of lessons in interaction with teamwork, rethinking in performance, and student’s excitement and motivation in presenting the students’ learning products.Conclusion: This process is an active cycle of reflection on performance and program and can be used as a model by medical etiquette teachers. We suggest more research should be developed by researchers to access all aspects of program in students’ learning and indicators.
Leili Mosalanejad; Bahar Morshed Behbahani
Volume 10, Issue 2 , August 2013, , Pages 130-141
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Background & Objective: Hidden curriculum is a broad category that includes all of the unrecognized and sometimes unintended knowledge values and beliefs that are part of the learning process in schools and classrooms The hidden curriculum and ethical education have an integral relationship The aim ...
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Background & Objective: Hidden curriculum is a broad category that includes all of the unrecognized and sometimes unintended knowledge values and beliefs that are part of the learning process in schools and classrooms The hidden curriculum and ethical education have an integral relationship The aim of this study is the explanation of teachers experiences in shaping hidden curriculum in the form of a qualitative research Methods: This is a qualitative research and data were analyzed using content analysis was applied Data were collected using indepth semistructured interviews and focus groups with 22 teachers in each group The participants were recruited by purposeful sampling from a mixed group of basic clinical and nursing sciences majors Results: Qualitative content analysis demonstrated 4 themes and 26 subthemes of the role of the teacher in shaping hidden curriculum The themes consisted of: 1 factors related to teacher empowerment 2 interpersonal relationships 3 the teachers personality and ethical characteristics 4 educational characteristics of the teachers performance Each category contained subcategories Conclusion: The result showed the role of teachers in shaping hidden curriculum and the role of this subject in academic social ethical and educational aspects of students Therefore we recommend that all teachers managers and educational executive managers pay attention to this important program and that inservice training be considered for faculty members
Leili Mosalanejad; Saeed Sobhanian
Volume 5, Issue 2 , January 2009, , Pages 128-134
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Background & Objective : Developments in science and technology together with rapid obsolescence in findings and previous information necessitates a type of education in which students are continuously engaged in learning and problem solving and enjoy interfacing changes This study was aimed to assess ...
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Background & Objective : Developments in science and technology together with rapid obsolescence in findings and previous information necessitates a type of education in which students are continuously engaged in learning and problem solving and enjoy interfacing changes This study was aimed to assess critical thinking in students of virtual and traditional education Methods : In this crosssectional study two groups including 40 senior computer students from Shiraz University (virtual education) and 40 ones from Islamic Azad University (traditional education) participated Data was collected using Watson Glaser Critical Thinking Test including 80 questions in five subscales including inference recognition of assumptions deduction interpretation and evaluation of arguments Results : The mean score ( ± SD) of critical thinking which was 3677( ± 359) in virtual education happened to be higher than traditional educations mean score which was 3515( ± 694) while there was no significant difference In all five subscales of critical thinking the mean score of interpretation skill was significantly higher in virtual education (79) compared to 695 for traditional education (p=00001) Conclusion : Considering improvements of critical thinking in virtual education and according to its multiple advantages like adding to ones self confidence self esteem and independent learning it is suggested to use this type of education alongside the traditional method or as a replacement for teaching theoretical lessons in university courses
