Employee portals are utilized by many companies to improve information exchange and communication between their employees as well as to better support business processes. Assessing the benefits of employee portals has become important, owing to limited IT budgets and the need to justify investments in portals. In this paper, we propose a conceptual model for measuring the effectiveness of emplo...

The present research-in-progress makes significant contribution to the research in the e-enabled supply chain management (eSCM) area by extending the DeLone and McLean information systems success model and e-commerce success model to an eSCM success model. It also extends the earlier Mahmood et al. (2005) eSCM success model by incorporating the service quality construct introduced in the DeLone...

Evaluation of the success of professional virtual communities (VCs) has been the focus of many organizations. However, there are still few empirical studies conducted to examine online knowledge sharing behavior that has been thought as the most important element for VC success. In this study, by integrating two schools of thoughts (trust theory and self-efficacy expectation) with IS Success Mo...

Understanding the opinions of major role players in education (i.e. teachers, students, and policy makers) on all aspects of learning and teaching is influential to the success of the educational process. The purpose of this study was to investigate EFL (English as a Foreign Language) teachers' views on measuring reading comprehension. A cohort of 50 Iranian EFL teachers teaching at university,...

AIM Using the data from graduate surveys, this study aims to analyze which factors related to teaching and learning at the Freiburg Faculty of Medicine can influence study success. BACKGROUND Study success and the factors influencing it have long been the subject of investigation, with study success being measured in terms of easily quantifiable indicators (final grades, student satisfaction,...

As part of a broader study of the impact of teaching environment and preparation on the conceptions of teaching and learning expressed by our graduate Teaching Assistants (TAs) and undergraduate Learning Assistants (LAs), we track shifts in instructor awareness of student ideas over the course of a week of preparing for and teaching in the Tutorials in Introductory Physics. Since TAs and LAs in...

This paper discusses the process by which graduate teaching assistants (TAs), participating in a longitudinal study, used their graduate TA experience to successfully survive the transition from being a teaching assistant to becoming a faculty member. A theoretical framework is presented that describes how individual characteristics of the TAs worked together with disciplinary, institutional, a...

clinical learning occurs in the context of a dynamic environment. learning environment found to be one of the most important factors in determining the success of an effective teaching program. to investigate, from the attending and resident's perspective, factors that may affect student leaning in the educational hospital setting at shiraz university of medical sciences (sums). this study comb...