This study explored both teachers’ and learners’ perceptions of teachers’ pedagogic strategies which may engender willingness to communicate (WTC) in an English as a foreign language class and the difference between their perceptions to detect how convergent or possibly how divergent these are. The project used a convenience sample of 300 students taking an intermediate English course and their...

performance evaluation is one of the important components of each organization, and educational organizations are not the exceptions. teachers are believed by many researchers as the single most important factor influencing student academic success or failure. therefore, they need to be at the center of attempts to improve or reform the educational system of any country. considering the pivotal...

Applying a modified-Delphi technique, this research study sought consensus from business education mentor teachers regarding the top three areas in which business education student teachers were prepared as well as underprepared for their roles as teachers. Further, the mentor teachers provided recommendations for business education teacher preparation programs to implement to better prepare th...

INTRODUCTION We developed "Case-Based Integrated Teaching (C-BIT)" in our medical school to integrate the content of various disciplines through a core patient design that introduces major diseases to students. This article presents the concepts, development and initial evaluation of the teachers' and students' responses to C-BIT. MATERIALS AND METHODS Teachers' manuals for 18 major diseases ...

ion levels, 4, 7Accelerating factors for development, 80, 81;See also TransportationAction-at-a-distance neighbourhood, 41–42Agent-based models, 17, 18–19Aggregationdiffusion-limited (DLA), 17–18spatial data, 22Aggregative approach, modelling, 11Agricultural location, Von Thünen model, 4, 7,8, 11Analogue models, 4Analytical capabilities, 20Ana...