Assessment of gender divide in scientific communities

Facebook's gender divide

Online social media are information resources that can have a transformative power in society. While the Web was envisioned as an equalizing force that allows everyone to access information, the digital divide prevents large amounts of people from being present online. Online social media in particular are prone to gender inequality, an important issue given the link between social media use an...

Issues and Challenges to Socialization of Academic Norms in Scientific Communities in Iran

An evolving gender digital divide?

This Issue Brief takes a fresh look at the factors surrounding what has appeared to be a closing of the gender divide among those using the Internet and other information and communication technologies (ICTs). Empirical evidence based primarily on the Oxford Internet Survey (OxIS) is used to identify key dimensions of ‘access’ whose measurement can help to reveal some detailed emerging differen...

The Gender Digital Divide in Developing Countries

Empirical studies clearly show that women in the developing world have significantly lower technology participation rates than men; a result of entrenched socio-cultural attitudes about the role of women in society. However, as studies are beginning to show, when those women are able to engage with Internet technology, a wide range of personal, family and community benefits become possible. The...

the role of application of dynamic assessment approach in improvement of iranian efl writing performance at different language proficiency levels

the present study sought to investigate the role of dynamic assessment (da) in improvement of iranian efl writing performance at different language proficiency levels. to this end, after conducting the quick placement test, 60 iranian efl learners were assigned to two groups with different language proficiency levels. in both groups each participant wrote two compositions, one before and one af...