The Predicament of Scholarship in America and One Solution.

The Concept of Scholarship: Educational Scholarship and Its Application in Iran

One of the notions entered in university fields in the last two decades is the concept of scholarship and especially educational scholarship. Due to the inclusion of this concept in the first article of faculty members' academic promotion bylaw and considering it as a mandatory component for academic promotion, great attention has been paid to this topic. Remarking the background and principles...

A Ghazalian Predicament Epistemology and Metaphysics of Causation in the Works of Ghazali

Designing a novel sheet to evaluate theoretical teaching quality of faculty members based on viewpoints of stakeholders and charles E. Glassick's scholarship principles

Introduction: Faculty's theoretical teaching quality is one of the main affecting factors in their academic performance evaluation and it is very important to evaluate it by an appropriate tool. Therefore, we decided to identify the best criteria (evaluation items) for designing a new improved tool by considering the viewpoints of all stakeholders based on E. Glassick's principles of scho...

Scholarship criteria in higher education from expert’s viewpoints: A qualitative study

Introduction: The scholarship domains based on Boyer’s definition includes discovery, teaching and learning, application, integration and engagement, but it is a main question that which criteria must a scholarship activities have? In this research, the characteristics of scholarship activities have been studied using a qualitative approach based on higher education experts’ viewpoints from fou...

Process of Scholarship of Teaching Has Been Successful in Mashad University of Medial Sciences

Background: Medical Education has dramatically evolved in the past decades, and scholarly behaviors have gained popularity. In this study, scholarship-of-teaching activities from Mashhad University of Medical Sciences (MUMS) were evaluated for the first time in this country. Methods: Data related to all applicants who were nominated for promotion to associate and full professor positions were s...