Did the Cypriot Students Really Cheat on TIMSS?

Did Mendel cheat?

Why Do College Students Cheat

More is known about the pervasiveness of college cheating than reasons why students cheat. This article reports the results of a study that applied the theory of reasoned action and partial least squares methodology to analyze the responses of 144 students to a survey on cheating behavior. Approximately 60% of the business students and 64% of the non-business students admitted to such behavior....

the impact of morphological awareness on the vocabulary development of the iranian efl students

this study investigated the impact of explicit instruction of morphemic analysis and synthesis on the vocabulary development of the students. the participants were 90 junior high school students divided into two experimental groups and one control group. morphological awareness techniques (analysis/synthesis) and conventional techniques were used to teach vocabulary in the experimental groups a...

Did Brouwer Really Believe That?

This article is a commentary on remarks made in a recent book [12] that perpetuate several myths about Brouwer and intuitionism. The footnote on page 279 of [12] is an unfortunate, historically and factually inaccurate, blemish on an otherwise remarkable book. In that footnote, in which Ok discusses Brouwer (who, incidentally, was normally known not as “Jan” but as “Bertus”, a shortening of his...

A Remedial Action Based on Taiwanese Students’ Results of Timss

Shrinking achievement gaps is very important in educational and social progress. The TIMSS provides information on the achievement gaps among different countries in mathematics and science. For Taiwan, Based on the result of TIMSS 2003, there was an excellent average performance in Taiwan. However, the proportion of low achievers was high and the overall students’ learning interest and self-eff...