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The shift from behaviourism to cognitivism in educational physiology has replaced an increasing responsibility on learners for their own learning and self regulated learning has become a frequent area of educational research. In this context, the study conducted a Quasi-Experiment to examine the efficiency of task-based learning (TBL) and traditional instructional approaches on various facets of students self regulated education, including motivation and learning strategies with help of MSLQ. Participants included 61 Periyar University PG students from 2 Intact classes (TBL&non-TBL) Instructed by the same environmental economics teacher. Non-TBL group with teacher-centred, text bookoriented traditional instruction; they taught the experimental group with task based learning in which students worked with ill-structured problems. Results revealed that TBL students had higher levels of intrinsic goal orientation, task value, use of elaboration learning strategies, critical thinking, metacognitive self-regulation, effort regulation and peer learning compared with control-group students.

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Task Based Learning, Problem Based Learning, Self Regulation, Motivated Strategies Learning Questionnaire(MSLQ)

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Quantum of Ebola Virus Disease Occurrence and Quantum of Research Publications: A Scientrometric Analysis

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Authors

P. Ramkumar ¹, B. Suresh ²

Affiliations
1 AMET University, Chennai - 603112, Tamil Nadu, IN
2 Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai - 625021, Tamil Nadu, IN

Source

Indian Journal of Science and Technology, Vol 8, No 14 (2015), Pagination:

Abstract

Ebola virus in humans causes hemorrhagic fever with a case fatality rate of 50% to 90%. So far, there is no specific treatment or vaccine for the Ebola virus. Patients experience uncontrollable bleeding from all body orifices, with intravenous fluid replacement therapy offering little consolation. World Health Organization (WHO) declared this epidemic as an international public health emergency. Moreover, there is now considerable concern that this Ebola outbreak will threaten world security. The proliferation rate of the disease since 2013 is at an alarming rate and is simultaneously found reflected in an abnormal research literature output. A sum total of 2172 publications were captured from the PubMed covering a longer period spanned between 1985 and 2014. While tracing the development trend in both the frequency distribution of the disease and countries affected, the data of research publications in Ebola were subjected to a Scientrometric study to find out if there exists a correlation between the countries affected by a specific disease and countries contributing to Ebola research. As usual in the case of any epidemic, USA leads in Biomedical research nullifying the hypothesis of the present study while the mostly affected African countries were poor in Ebola research contributions.

Keywords

Biomedical Research, Ebola Research, Ebola Virus Disease (EVD), PubMed, Scientrometric

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