University Student Expectations of Confidentiality when Disclosing Information to their Professors

A Study of Student-Teachers’ Assertiveness From professors' view: Case Study of Farhangian University, Kermanshah Province

Assertiveness as a life skill is considered the core of inter-personal behaviors and key to human interactions, and is the result of social interaction which is produced and reproduced in socialization and re-socialization process. The current article, on the one hand, seeks to study the procedures that are asserted by student-teachers in their interactions with professors, staff and other stud...

Studying the Information Needs of Students and Professors of Birjand University and the Efficacy of the University’s Information Resources

Background: Awareness about the actual information needs is a necessity in correct decision making for developing or improvement of information centers. This study aimed on investigating the information needs of students and university professors of Birjand University of Medical sciences. Methods: In this descriptive-analytical study conducted in 2009, 422 students were selected based on syste...

The Ideological Orientations of Canadian University Professors

This paper analyzes the ideological orientations of Canadian university professors based on a unique 2000 study of a representative sample of Canadian academics (n=3,318). After summarizing methodological problems with extant research on this subject, and tentatively comparing the political views of Canadian and American academics, the paper demonstrates that Canadian academics fall to the left...

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Investigating the Effect of Gender Aspect on Virtual Education from the Perspective of University Professors and Student

Background: According to the situation of education in Iran it is clear that over the years, there has been no successful attempt to identify related challenges and problems to development and implementation of virtual training. In this regard, the effect of this type of training influenced by the role of hidden curriculum of education in the country.   Based on this, current study has investig...