Generally, program evaluation is of prime importance to check the workability of a course. In this way, it can be made sure that the course achieves its intended goals and objectives, and consequently fulfills the learners’ needs, wants, and aspirations. Therefore, an attempt was made to evaluate the instructional functioning of the Simple Prose and Newspaper Articles course which is offered to...

This paper present highlights of the results of a survey of instructors of the introductory Artificial Intelligence course at colleges and universities throughout the United States. Particularly notable results were seen in the Syllabus and Teaching Techniques sections of the survey, and those are reported here. Comparing responses from Doctoral-Extensive universities with other responses, the ...

As the last paper in a series aiming at innovating engineering education to face the post-industrial era, the paper continues the previous six, focusing on a fourfold innovative educational experiment. It describes a syllabus for agent-orientation dedicated to PhD students in computer science and information technology, defending its four unconventional facets: a) post-objectual content; b) pos...

This study aimed to analyze the academic standards of teaching physical education methods according to competencies fields, identify student/teacher teaching competencies in motor expression teaching methods syllabus according to quality academic standards and designing teaching competencies evaluation form for student/teacher in fourth grade, Education Department, Faculty of Physical Education...

Clinical relevance in the teaching of biomedical sciences within health care courses presupposes that there is internationally agreed core material within the curricula. However, with the exception of a syllabus for neuroanatomy and gross anatomy of the head and neck for medical students, core syllabuses within many of the specialized anatomical sciences have yet to be developed. The Internatio...

English is undoubtedly an important language for educational and socio-economic mobility in numerous countries including Malaysia. Regardless of its importance, studies to document acquisition among Malaysian children acquiring the local context remain scarce. This normative data imperative syllabus-designers, policymakers, teachers linguists understand develop materials that are developmentall...

the present study was aimed at examining concerns about the social effects of efl learning, a challenging area of research which has not been discussed sufficiently. it tried to investigate the relationship between efl learning and national identity. in addition, attempt was made to find a relationship between language motivation types and national identity. furthermore, the role of two demogra...

abstractthis study aimed to determine the relationship between l2 learners' autonomy and their cognitive style focusing on reflectivity. it was conducted with 140 iranian m.a. efl learners from department of english at islamic azad university of najafabad. in order to have a homogeneous sample, the second version of quick placement test (qpt) was administered. then, 85 lower and 50 higher profi...

abstractthe present study investigated the effect of blended online and face-to-face instruction on the use of reading strategies by iranian efl learners. out of 100 pre-selected learners, 60 homogeneous participants were identified as intermediate, according to their scores on the oxford placement test. the participants were assigned to experimental (n=30) and control (n=30) groups. then, a pr...

the notion of genre has received a great deal of attention both in discourse analytic studies as well as in the field of esp/eap course design. the present paper has attempted to use genre analysis to account for the rhetorical features of research article introductions written by iranian academics in two disciplinary fields of education and economics. the corpus comprised 40 research article i...