Enhancing Performance in Co-Curricular Activities Through Structured Approach in Minor Projects

Analyzing Retention from Participation in Co-curricular Activities

The impact of student retention is widely recognized by colleges and universities as extending well beyond financial, and retention is an issue that researchers have increasingly been turning to. Recently many have been focused on analytic methods, especially predictive models based on data mining techniques. Generally, these models use data on demographics, academic performance, socio-economic...

Extra-curricular activities and academic performance in secondary students

Enhancing Metaphoric Competence through the Cognitive Approach

Studies in cognitive linguistics have highlighted the importance of metaphors for language teaching. Metaphoric competence, as an important aspect of intelligence, can contribute to the learning of languages. Most textbooks in ESL/EFL avoid the issue of figurative language and concentrate only on the denotative aspects of language. This article reports a study conducted at the Islamic Azad Univ...

Work in progress - Developing engineers for 2020 - An innovative curricular and co-curricular approach

The E2020 Scholars Program is a National Science Foundation Scholarships in STEM (S-STEM) Program providing scholarships for cohorts of first-year and transfer undergraduate engineering students. The conceptual framework of the E2020 Scholars Program is designed to advance the academic and professional development of the scholar using the college’s learning community infrastructure and building...

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...