A True Scholar, Teacher and Friend

Comparative evaluation of teaching by scholar and teacher self-assessment

Introduction: Teacher appraisal is an issue which is becoming increasingly important in educational system. The results of evaluation of teaching and teacher self- assessment can look for the strength and weakness of teaching and improving the quality of education delivered. This study was aimed to determine the proportion between the student's opinions about teaching performance of teacher s...

James L. Flanagan: A Scholar and a True Gentleman [Reflections]

James L. Flanagan J ames (Jim) L. Flanagan was born 26 August 1925 and grew up on a cotton farm in Greenwood, Mississippi. He graduated from high school in 1943 and completed his freshman year at Mississippi State University before joining the U.S. Army at age 18. He returned home about three years later, picked up his studies with the help of the G.I. Bill, and graduated with a B.S. degree in ...

Internet, a True Friend of the Translator

In practice of manual translation, most problems can be reduced to the word choice problem and to the problem of understanding of an unknown foreign word. We show how the lexical richness of Internet can be used to semi-automatically solve these problems. Namely, Internet search engines provide useful statistics on word usage frequencies, word combinability, and word usage context. However, the...

a comparison of teachers and supervisors, with respect to teacher efficacy and reflection

supervisors play an undeniable role in training teachers, before starting their professional experience by preparing them, at the initial years of their teaching by checking their work within the proper framework, and later on during their teaching by assessing their progress. but surprisingly, exploring their attributes, professional demands, and qualifications has remained a neglected theme i...

Ross D. Crosby: Scholar, teacher, mentor, and friend. Introducing a virtual issue honoring the contributions of Ross D. Crosby to the field of eating disorders.