Syed Sameer Aga
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3052152 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Syed Sameer Aga |
| NOMBRES | Syed Sameer |
| APELLIDO | Aga |
| FIRMA | AGA S S |
| AFILIACIONES | King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8186-1149 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 21 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 3 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 6 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 15 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2020 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Effect of Phonological and Phonetic Interventions on Proficiency in English Pronunciation and Oral Reading
The current research aimed to know the effect of phonological and phonetic interventions in enhancing proficiency in English pronunciation and oral reading among teacher trainees. This study was of single-group pretest and posttest intervention designs. The sample size was selected through a stratified random sampling technique from teacher training colleges in Bengaluru. Two hundred and seven teacher trainees with L1 proficiency were chosen prop…
Evaluation of Problem-Based Learning in College of Medicine
Background. A culture of quality is believed to drive institutes toward excellence through feedback. Multiple surveys at educational institute help to get a deeper insight into institutional performance and curricular execution. Since problem-based learning (PBL) is an important component of the hybrid curriculum, thus stakeholders’ opinion on PBL satisfaction is worth discussing. This study intended to determine the trends in students’ satisfact…
Evaluation of Perceived Competency of Dental Graduates of Saudi Arabia
Background. Dental professional’s competency comprises a comprehensive management of the oral health care of their patients, and an evaluation of competence level is an important step towards assessing the quality of the graduating dentists. This study assessed the level of self-rated competencies of dental graduates from Saudi dental colleges. Methods. A cross-sectional study was conducted online through a structured questionnaire that consisted…
The Development of the Framework of Effective Teaching-Learning in Clinical Education
Teaching as the center of every curriculum is a set of actions undertaken to create and facilitate student learning. In recent years, the number of qualitative studies of effective teaching in clinical education of undergraduate medical education has increased. As the number of research studies grows, it is necessary to aggregate them. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to synthesize effective teaching-learning factors through the meta-synt…
How to Write a Contemporary Scientific Article
Today, scientists are drowned in information and have no time to read all publications, even in a specific area. Information is sifted and only a small fraction of articles is read. Under these circumstances, scientific articles have to be properly adjusted to pass through the superficial sifting. Here, I present instructions for PhD students with almost serious advice on how to write (and how not to write) a contemporary scientific article. I ar…
Criteria of Formality and Structural Elements of Research Proposals
The preparation of research proposals is a challenge faced by anyone who wants to contribute to scientific research, since the specific requirements of different fields of study often cause technical or management aspects of research, such as obtaining funds to carry out research efforts, to be intermingled. The basis of a research proposal is the presentation and substantiation of the necessity of studying a particular problem, as well as the pr…
Associations between Students’ Test Preparation Strategies and Test Anxiety
Although students’ test preparation tendencies are related to their test-taking confidence, empirical evidence on how students’ test preparation strategies relate to their test anxiety is still lacking. Framed within the skills deficit model, we examined the associations between students’ test preparation strategies (cognitive, metacognitive, and social preparation strategies) and their test anxiety (worry, cognitive, tension, and physiological t…
Cervical Cancer and Its Screening
Background. Cervical cancer (CC) is the fourth most common cancers affecting women. It being preventable, a robust and effective national education cum screening program is the key to curb its increasing incidence. Objectives. This cross-sectional study was designed to investigate the knowledge, awareness, and perceptions (KAP) towards CC etiology, its signs and symptoms and risk factors among Health Professions Students’ (HPSs) in King Saud Bin …
Psychometric Properties of Cognitive Behavioral Scientific Insight Questionnaire
Scientific insight is a cognitive and behavioral task. Although as a concept or a measure that sounds very familiar, so far not even one tool was found to measure the cognitive behavioral scientific insight (CBSI). Due to the lack of a questionnaire in this field, the researchers aimed to design a cognitive behavioral scientific insight questionnaire (CBSIQ) and to determine its validity. Therefore, the researchers designed the CBSIQ with 105 que…
Comparing the Effectiveness of Massive Open Online Course (Mooc) and Flipped Instruction on EFL Learners' Reading Comprehension
This study investigated the effects of massive open online course (MOOC) and flipped instruction on enhancing Iranian EFL learners' reading comprehension. For that purpose, the Oxford Quick Placement Test (OQPT) was given to 123 Iranian EFL students, 90 of whom were chosen and separated into different experimental groups (EGs)-MOOC (n = 30) and flipped (n = 30)-and a control group (CG) (n = 30). As a pretest, all chosen groups were given a readin…
Conceptions and Viewpoints of English as a Foreign Language Undergraduate Students towards Flipped Instructed Classroom
There have been extensive studies that have investigated the favourable impacts of flipped classroom instruction regarding the introductory language/first language (i.e., L1) setting. However, there is limited research about the effect of flipped classroom instruction in foreign language backdrop in Asia, particularly in Bangladesh. The purpose of this study is to investigate the perceptions and attitudes of the undergraduate Bangladeshis learner…
Magic of Choosing Suitable Course Coordinator Based on Students' Feedback
Background. Medical education is an unusual field whereby a teacher does not receive formal training to become a teacher and is usually marred by quality and effectiveness in imparting the curriculum. To add to the insult, the additive burden of administrating the implementation of the courses does affect the teaching capabilities of a particular teacher. At the College of Medicine (COM), a rigorous procedure for selecting suitable "course coordi…
E-Learning in Saudi Electronic University, KSA
Employability skills and job opportunities are major factors for addressing employment and national development. Rapid changes and enhancements in technology have forced universities to prepare students to compete in the changing workplace environment. This study tries to analyze the impact of E-learning on the employability skills and job opportunities of students. The mixed approach method was adopted. Three hundred eighty-seven students for qu…
Perceived Need to Counseling Service and Associated Factors among Higher Education Institutions
In the university academic atmosphere, guidance and counseling practices are an efficient and effective way of supporting and helping students deal with problems and issues in educational, career, and personal/social areas. This study aimed to assess the magnitude, perceived need, and associated factors to counseling services of students in Dilla University, Southern Ethiopia. A mixed-study design was employed with both quantitative and qualitati…
Stress, Anxiety, and Depression among Medical Undergraduate Students and Their Coping Strategies
Background. Students’ mental health deteriorates after they enter medical school and continues to deteriorate throughout their training. Every individual has a certain number of coping resources, and once these coping resources are challenged, mental illness usually results. Objective. We aimed to determine the prevalence and severity of depression, anxiety, and stress as well as coping strategies used by medical undergraduate students enrolled i…
Medical Students’ Perception of the Educational Environment at College of Medicine
Dundee Ready Education Environment Measure (DREEM) inventory has been exhaustively used to evaluate the education environment (EE), especially in the health sector to identify the strengths and weaknesses of the program. This study was designed to investigate the medical students’ perceptions about the education environment (EE) of the College of Medicine (COM), Jeddah. This cross-sectional study was carried out on medical students and conducted …
Perceptions of Residents on the Microlearning Environment in Postgraduate Clinical Training
Background. Teaching hospitals are the primary locus of training for residents, and the afforded microlearning environments can affect their level of satisfaction, competence, and learning processes. Since limited attention has been directed towards evaluating the microlearning environment, how Saudi postgraduate residents perceive it remains unknown. Objectives. This study evaluated the microlearning environments for major clinical specialties i…
Effects of Bilingualism on Reading Fluency
Fluency is one of the most important components of oral proficiency, which can be affected by a number of variables including frequency, duration, and place of pause phenomena. The present study aimed at investigating the effect of bilingualism on learning a foreign language from the angle of fluency and pausing patterns by comparing the pausing patterns of monolingual (Persian speakers) and bilingual (Iranian Turkish speakers; L1: Turkish and L2…
Integrating Educational Games into College English Learning
Currently, the application of educational games is becoming a hot topic, but the application of educational games in college English learning is scarcely explored. To explore the integration of educational games into the college English teaching and learning process, this study adopted a rapid evidence evaluation review (Yu et al. 2020). Since the literature review is an important approach in qualitative sampling techniques, we have conducted a r…
Knowledge, awareness and attitude of health profession students of KSAU-HS towards euthanasia
Assessment of Mental Health and Various Coping Strategies among general population living Under Imposed Covid-Lockdown Across world
Comparing the Effectiveness of Massive Open Online Course (Mooc) and Flipped Instruction on EFL Learners' Reading Comprehension
This study investigated the effects of massive open online course (MOOC) and flipped instruction on enhancing Iranian EFL learners' reading comprehension. For that purpose, the Oxford Quick Placement Test (OQPT) was given to 123 Iranian EFL students, 90 of whom were chosen and separated into different experimental groups (EGs)-MOOC (n = 30) and flipped (n = 30)-and a control group (CG) (n = 30). As a pretest, all chosen groups were given a readin…
Perceived Need to Counseling Service and Associated Factors among Higher Education Institutions
In the university academic atmosphere, guidance and counseling practices are an efficient and effective way of supporting and helping students deal with problems and issues in educational, career, and personal/social areas. This study aimed to assess the magnitude, perceived need, and associated factors to counseling services of students in Dilla University, Southern Ethiopia. A mixed-study design was employed with both quantitative and qualitati…
Knowledge, awareness and attitude of health profession students of KSAU-HS towards euthanasia
Assessment of Mental Health and Various Coping Strategies among general population living Under Imposed Covid-Lockdown Across world
Stress, Anxiety, and Depression among Medical Undergraduate Students and Their Coping Strategies
Background. Students’ mental health deteriorates after they enter medical school and continues to deteriorate throughout their training. Every individual has a certain number of coping resources, and once these coping resources are challenged, mental illness usually results. Objective. We aimed to determine the prevalence and severity of depression, anxiety, and stress as well as coping strategies used by medical undergraduate students enrolled i…
Medical Students’ Perception of the Educational Environment at College of Medicine
Dundee Ready Education Environment Measure (DREEM) inventory has been exhaustively used to evaluate the education environment (EE), especially in the health sector to identify the strengths and weaknesses of the program. This study was designed to investigate the medical students’ perceptions about the education environment (EE) of the College of Medicine (COM), Jeddah. This cross-sectional study was carried out on medical students and conducted …
Perceptions of Residents on the Microlearning Environment in Postgraduate Clinical Training
Background. Teaching hospitals are the primary locus of training for residents, and the afforded microlearning environments can affect their level of satisfaction, competence, and learning processes. Since limited attention has been directed towards evaluating the microlearning environment, how Saudi postgraduate residents perceive it remains unknown. Objectives. This study evaluated the microlearning environments for major clinical specialties i…
Effects of Bilingualism on Reading Fluency
Fluency is one of the most important components of oral proficiency, which can be affected by a number of variables including frequency, duration, and place of pause phenomena. The present study aimed at investigating the effect of bilingualism on learning a foreign language from the angle of fluency and pausing patterns by comparing the pausing patterns of monolingual (Persian speakers) and bilingual (Iranian Turkish speakers; L1: Turkish and L2…
Integrating Educational Games into College English Learning
Currently, the application of educational games is becoming a hot topic, but the application of educational games in college English learning is scarcely explored. To explore the integration of educational games into the college English teaching and learning process, this study adopted a rapid evidence evaluation review (Yu et al. 2020). Since the literature review is an important approach in qualitative sampling techniques, we have conducted a r…
Evaluation of Perceived Competency of Dental Graduates of Saudi Arabia
Background. Dental professional’s competency comprises a comprehensive management of the oral health care of their patients, and an evaluation of competence level is an important step towards assessing the quality of the graduating dentists. This study assessed the level of self-rated competencies of dental graduates from Saudi dental colleges. Methods. A cross-sectional study was conducted online through a structured questionnaire that consisted…
The Development of the Framework of Effective Teaching-Learning in Clinical Education
Teaching as the center of every curriculum is a set of actions undertaken to create and facilitate student learning. In recent years, the number of qualitative studies of effective teaching in clinical education of undergraduate medical education has increased. As the number of research studies grows, it is necessary to aggregate them. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to synthesize effective teaching-learning factors through the meta-synt…
How to Write a Contemporary Scientific Article
Today, scientists are drowned in information and have no time to read all publications, even in a specific area. Information is sifted and only a small fraction of articles is read. Under these circumstances, scientific articles have to be properly adjusted to pass through the superficial sifting. Here, I present instructions for PhD students with almost serious advice on how to write (and how not to write) a contemporary scientific article. I ar…
Criteria of Formality and Structural Elements of Research Proposals
The preparation of research proposals is a challenge faced by anyone who wants to contribute to scientific research, since the specific requirements of different fields of study often cause technical or management aspects of research, such as obtaining funds to carry out research efforts, to be intermingled. The basis of a research proposal is the presentation and substantiation of the necessity of studying a particular problem, as well as the pr…
Associations between Students’ Test Preparation Strategies and Test Anxiety
Although students’ test preparation tendencies are related to their test-taking confidence, empirical evidence on how students’ test preparation strategies relate to their test anxiety is still lacking. Framed within the skills deficit model, we examined the associations between students’ test preparation strategies (cognitive, metacognitive, and social preparation strategies) and their test anxiety (worry, cognitive, tension, and physiological t…
Cervical Cancer and Its Screening
Background. Cervical cancer (CC) is the fourth most common cancers affecting women. It being preventable, a robust and effective national education cum screening program is the key to curb its increasing incidence. Objectives. This cross-sectional study was designed to investigate the knowledge, awareness, and perceptions (KAP) towards CC etiology, its signs and symptoms and risk factors among Health Professions Students’ (HPSs) in King Saud Bin …
Psychometric Properties of Cognitive Behavioral Scientific Insight Questionnaire
Scientific insight is a cognitive and behavioral task. Although as a concept or a measure that sounds very familiar, so far not even one tool was found to measure the cognitive behavioral scientific insight (CBSI). Due to the lack of a questionnaire in this field, the researchers aimed to design a cognitive behavioral scientific insight questionnaire (CBSIQ) and to determine its validity. Therefore, the researchers designed the CBSIQ with 105 que…
Comparing the Effectiveness of Massive Open Online Course (Mooc) and Flipped Instruction on EFL Learners' Reading Comprehension
This study investigated the effects of massive open online course (MOOC) and flipped instruction on enhancing Iranian EFL learners' reading comprehension. For that purpose, the Oxford Quick Placement Test (OQPT) was given to 123 Iranian EFL students, 90 of whom were chosen and separated into different experimental groups (EGs)-MOOC (n = 30) and flipped (n = 30)-and a control group (CG) (n = 30). As a pretest, all chosen groups were given a readin…
Conceptions and Viewpoints of English as a Foreign Language Undergraduate Students towards Flipped Instructed Classroom
There have been extensive studies that have investigated the favourable impacts of flipped classroom instruction regarding the introductory language/first language (i.e., L1) setting. However, there is limited research about the effect of flipped classroom instruction in foreign language backdrop in Asia, particularly in Bangladesh. The purpose of this study is to investigate the perceptions and attitudes of the undergraduate Bangladeshis learner…
Magic of Choosing Suitable Course Coordinator Based on Students' Feedback
Background. Medical education is an unusual field whereby a teacher does not receive formal training to become a teacher and is usually marred by quality and effectiveness in imparting the curriculum. To add to the insult, the additive burden of administrating the implementation of the courses does affect the teaching capabilities of a particular teacher. At the College of Medicine (COM), a rigorous procedure for selecting suitable "course coordi…
E-Learning in Saudi Electronic University, KSA
Employability skills and job opportunities are major factors for addressing employment and national development. Rapid changes and enhancements in technology have forced universities to prepare students to compete in the changing workplace environment. This study tries to analyze the impact of E-learning on the employability skills and job opportunities of students. The mixed approach method was adopted. Three hundred eighty-seven students for qu…
Perceived Need to Counseling Service and Associated Factors among Higher Education Institutions
In the university academic atmosphere, guidance and counseling practices are an efficient and effective way of supporting and helping students deal with problems and issues in educational, career, and personal/social areas. This study aimed to assess the magnitude, perceived need, and associated factors to counseling services of students in Dilla University, Southern Ethiopia. A mixed-study design was employed with both quantitative and qualitati…
Evaluation of Problem-Based Learning in College of Medicine
Background. A culture of quality is believed to drive institutes toward excellence through feedback. Multiple surveys at educational institute help to get a deeper insight into institutional performance and curricular execution. Since problem-based learning (PBL) is an important component of the hybrid curriculum, thus stakeholders’ opinion on PBL satisfaction is worth discussing. This study intended to determine the trends in students’ satisfact…
Effect of Phonological and Phonetic Interventions on Proficiency in English Pronunciation and Oral Reading
The current research aimed to know the effect of phonological and phonetic interventions in enhancing proficiency in English pronunciation and oral reading among teacher trainees. This study was of single-group pretest and posttest intervention designs. The sample size was selected through a stratified random sampling technique from teacher training colleges in Bengaluru. Two hundred and seven teacher trainees with L1 proficiency were chosen prop…
Psychology (19 obras) · Medicine (12 obras) · Mathematics education (10 obras) · Medical education (9 obras) · Pedagogy (8 obras) · Computer Science (7 obras) · Curriculum (5 obras) · Innovations in Medical Education (5 obras) · Anxiety (4 obras) · Family medicine (4 obras)