Considering the paramount importance of writing logical arguments for college students, this study investigated the effect of dynamic assessment (DA) of Toulmin model through teacher- and collective-scaffolding on argument structure and overall quality of argumentative essays of Iranian EFL university learners. In so doing, 45 male and female Iranian EFL learners taking part in the study were r...

Protein Phosphatase 2A (PP2A) plays an essential role in many aspects of cellular physiology. The PP2A holoenzyme consists of a heterodimeric core enzyme, which comprises a scaffolding subunit and a catalytic subunit, and a variable regulatory subunit. Here we report the crystal structure of the heterotrimeric PP2A holoenzyme involving the regulatory subunit B'/B56/PR61. Surprisingly, the B'/PR...

The widespread use of mobile devices, particularly by young people, offers new and exciting possibilities for learning. The mobility and pervasiveness factors inherent to mobile technologies allow learning at any time and in any place. This has led to some new developments in educational pedagogy based on the affordances that mobile technology brings to learning. “Mobile scaffolding” is a new r...

Students can create products that take the form of instructional materials. A scoping review was carried out to map research field student-generated teaching materials, focusing on product types, information sources, learning-related matters, and researchers’ explanations. Based 280 articles, four types were identified: audio/visual questions, texts, educational games. Studies gathered from cre...

Due to the importance of digital multimodal composing (DMC) in current educational context, researchers this study implemented infographic tasks an English for Specific Purposes (ESP) course at a Vietnamese university and examined EFL students’ perceptions on individual collaborative infographics using Visme. The responses open-ended questions suggested that Visme is convenient suitable tool wh...

background: the purpose of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of peer education among university students for reproductive health promotion based on researchers' experiences. methods: this interventional study was conducted in qazvin university of medical science during 2002 to 2004 through stakeholders' partnership and selection of 24 volunteer students according to their knowledge, ...