To the best of our knowledge, this study is the first one to investigate the relationship between health literacy and comorbid chronic diseases using a population-based sample in Ningbo, China, which might shed light to future work in this direction. At the same time, the findings should be ...
Morocco is a multilingual country with a diverse culture. When it participated in the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) for the first time, its reading literacy scores ranked relatively low in the test. Employing hierarchical linear mod
As one of the invited presenters, my focus was on creativity and the use of images. This is based on the fact that I want teachers to understand remix culture (when it comes to images); use of creative commons and various sources of free images; image attribution; and visual presentation...
“In today’s media-saturated environment, where we are pelted with many compelling images, we need to be shocked before we perk up and pay attention,” says Matthew Felling, media director for the Center for Media and Public Affairs in Washington, D.C. “Anything that violates your eyes ...
To further examine an interdisciplinary interest in science, an open-ended question asked for students’ ideas of any non-science subjects that are related to building a sustainable future. Before the intervention, free-writing answers indicated that students were restricted by disciplinary boundary. Th...
"I chose to use a paper-based form of writing rather than e-mail because at the start, some of the children were still drawing images as placeholders for words, and because their pictures sometimes carried more meaning than the words they could write," Pole said. "We looked for opportuniti...
The Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare and Japan Society for the Promo- tion of Science had no role in the design, collection, analysis, interpretation, or writing of this article. Availability of data and materials The datasets generated and analysed during the present study are not ...
3 Functional health literacy goes beyond proficient reading and writing; it involves the ability to accurately interpret images and oral communication provided by health care professionals. The real question is how health literacy translates into patient outcomes. To the average person it may seem that...
Homework is big topic for debate in recent years. Parents, administrators and teachers have their perspectives and during our chat Sam shed light on the issue of homework from the eyes of a student. Sam reminds us that students need to understand the rationale behind homework. Our students know...
Funding Funding for the study was provided by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (Foundation Grant #143350; PI: D Menzies). The funding body had no role in the design of the study and collection, analysis, and interpretation of data and in writing the manuscript. Availability of data...