Abstract The present study attempted to investigate the impact of cooperation versus collaboration on college students` reading ability. To fulfill the purpose of the study, 90 participants were chosen from among 140 by means of administering the Nelson Proficiency Test. They were divided into three groups: cooperative group, collaborative group, and control group. A fifty-item multiple-choice ...

Learning to learn and learning to cooperate are two important goals for individuals. Moreover, self regulation has been identified as fundamental to prevent school failure. The goal of the present study was to assess the interactions between self-regulated learning, cooperative learning and academic self-efficacy in secondary education students experiencing cooperative learning as the main peda...

A successful virtual educational environment must be able to emulate the kernel of traditional environment. That is, the interactions must be maintained to preserve the relationship between the teacher and learners in the on-line class, and the relationship among the off-line learners. We developed two systems to provide the needed functions which can provide on-line and off-line interactions. ...

So far various methods for optimization presented and one of most popular of them are optimization algorithms based on swarm intelligence and also one of most successful of them is Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO). Prior some efforts by applying fuzzy logic for improving defects of PSO such as trapping in local optimums and early convergence has been done. Moreover to overcome the problem of i...

in recent years, mathematics is an essential aspect of all areas of daily life and the best predictor of being successful in economic situations of society. for many students, the mathematics accompanied with frustration, anxiety and negative attitudes towards mathematics. these students believe their anxiety have been derived from their math teachers, math misconception and weakness in math as...

the present study is aimed at investigating the factors which influence cooperative managers’ awareness of the cooperative sector. methodologically, this is a descriptive-correlated survey. the study consisted of 498 managers of agricultural cooperatives in tehran(n=498), from among whom 72 were selected through random sampling (n=72). validity of the questionnaire used for collecting data was ...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of 2 concept map (CM) learning strategies on Iranian EFL learners’ reading comprehension ability and learner autonomy. To this end, 60 Iranian EFL learners at the preintermediate level of language proficiency were randomly assigned to 2 groups. Both groups received an 8-week instruction: one through teacher-constructed and the other throug...

The purpose of this study was to: determine the impact applying STAD learning model on outcomes students about economic activities through social studies; examine influence student motivation; and describe application model. This research conducted at SD Negeri 2 Aglik in first semester 2016/2017 academic year with fourthgrade students. classroom action method consisted cycles data were collect...

the present study aimed at investigating whether vocabulary-learning strategies had any impact on the vocabulary learning of iranian efl learners. the participants of the study were 67 male and female undergraduate university students, majoring in english translation and english literature at islamic azad university, north tehran branch, who were taking “reading comprehension ii” course. in ord...