[Nursing student and teachers' viewpoints toward priorities in teachers evaluation]

Recognition of strengths and weaknesses of evaluation content will help the educational manager to provide the possibility of evaluation quality improvement. The aim of this study was to determine the most important priorities of teacher performance evaluation from within students' and faculties' perspective. It was a descriptive cross- sectional study. All of the students [n=245] and faculty members [n=26] of the School of Nursing and Midwifery affiliated with Zahedan University of Medical Sciences were recruited during the academic year 2008-2009. Data was collected using questionnaire with five subscales including teaching skills, individual characteristics of teachers, communication skills, evaluation skills, and educational principles and rules and analyzed by SPSS-PC [v.13]. The most important priorities from the teachers' and students' perspective were related to the domains of teaching skills, teacher mastery, creating motivation and students' participation respectively. There were significant difference in the mean scores of teachers mastery [p=0.02], students' participation [p=0.01], and presentation of new subjects [p= 0.007] between the two groups. There was also significant difference in the mean scores of teaching skills domains, individual characteristics domain and evaluation skills domain between two groups [p=0.01]. Considering the difference between the teachers' and students' perspective regarding some criteria of teachers evaluation, designing an evaluation tool according to the viewpoints of the two groups is recommended. Teachers' attention to the students' priorities in teachers' evaluation would help to promote teaching quality and students' satisfaction

[Applying pender's educational model in promotion of health behavior of workers]

Introduction: Conceptual models are important because they are used in education and research. Several models are discussed in health education. One of them is panders educational model, which has been applied in some research, and led to positive outcome too

Objective: This research was performed to study the application of pander's model in improving workers health behavior in Zahedan faculty of Nan Razawi

Materials and Methods: In this quasi- experimental study, 200 workers were selected randomly from population of workers and they were studied in two groups of case and control. Data gathering tool was a question pair. Date obtained before education and one month after education. For data analysis descriptive and analytical statistics were used

Results: Based on findings, the marks of cognitive - conceptual concepts such as health models, perception of health control and health importance increased after education and there was a statistically significant difference in case group after education [P=0.000]. There was a significant relation between health models and perception of health importance with health behavior too [P=0.02]. Also, there was a significant relation between income and health concept, perception of health control, and health behaviors [P=0.01]. ANOVA indicated effect of education on promotion of health behaviors and there was significant difference [P=0.005]. Findings revealed that there was a significant relation between cognitive - perceptual factors such as clinical models [P=0.04], adoption model [P=0.01] and demographic factors such as sex [P=0.03] and race [P=0.02] with health behaviors

Conclusion: Pender's educational model is effective in promotion of workers health behaviors