This research aims to investigate the contributions of KARDS (knowing, analyzing, recognizing, doing, and seeing) to Iranian English as a foreign language (EFL) institute teachers’ professional identity reconstruction. The researchers employed purposive sampling to choose twenty teachers. A KARDS questionnaire (Hassani, Khatib, & Yazdani Moghaddam, 2019a, 2019b) was used to classify the teacher...

School teaching is regarded as a stressful occupation. The present study aimed to compare the likelihood of having minor psychiatric disorders (MPD) among school teachers with that among civil servants, and to investigate what factors were specifically associated with MPD in teachers. We conducted a questionnaire-based survey of 403 teachers employed at state schools and 611 civil servants as a...

The present study set out to compare the effectiveness of psychological training based on Olson and McMaster models in enhancing family functioning of female teachers. This quasi-experimental research had a pretest-posttest control group follow-up design. The statistical population of the study was comprised of 550 married female teachers in the Khorramdarreh County in school year 2016-17. The ...

This paper provides new evidence on gender bias in performance evaluations of university teachers. We exploit a quasi-experimental dataset on 19,962 teaching evaluations, where students are randomly allocated to female or male teachers. Despite the fact that neither students’ grades nor self-study hours are affected by the teacher’s gender, we find that in particular male students evaluate fema...

The present study attempts to uncover language teachers’ beliefs about oral corrective feedback. It also explores the role of teachers’ experiences in their choice of error correction techniques. To achieve the purpose of the study, 137 foreign language teachers were asked to fill out the developed questionnaire and follow-up interviewed were conducted with 10 teachers, five novice and experien...

introduction:  vasectomy is a simple and highly effective contraceptive method. comparing with tubectomy, vasectomy is much less likely to have serious complications, failure and costs. the knowledge and attitude play an important role in approving and using vasectomy. this study was designed and conducted in zahedan high schools in 2002, to investigate the knowledge and attitude of male and fe...

AIM To develop a questionnaire on harassment in the workplace among teachers at primary and secondary schools. METHODS We analyzed the existing questionnaires on harassment in the workplace and developed a new one was to specifically address harassment of teachers in the public education sector. The questionnaire was then experimentally applied to a sample of 764 primary and secondary school ...

A model explaining several causes and consequences of negative teacher–pupil relationships was developed. Data from 109 teachers and 946 high school pupils was analyzed using path analysis. The results suggest that teachers who prefer a custodial approach of controlling pupils, who have lower morale due to school climate conditions and who are less likely to burn out, tend to adopt conflict-ind...