this study was conducted to investigate the impact of portfolio assessment as a process-oriented assessment mechanism on iranian efl students’ english writing and its subskills of focus, elaboration, organization, conventions, and vocabulary. out of ninety juniors majoring in english literature and translation at the university of isfahan, sixty one of them who were at the same level of writing...

the present study set out (a) to examine the categories of pedagogical knowledge related to the act of teaching of novice and experienced teachers as gleaned from their verbal report of what they were thinking about while teaching and (b) to compare the categories of pedagogical knowledge of novice and experienced teachers. the aim of comparing these two groups of teachers was to see whether di...

Introduction: The effects of stimulation and inhibition of muscarinic acetylcholine receptors in the dorsal hippocampus on spatial learning and memory in male NMRI mice after acute stress were investigated. Materials and Methods: Animals were divided into two subsets of stress and non-stress. Each subset consisted of: saline, atropine (a muscarinic acetylcholine receptor antagonist) (1, 5, and ...

  The Effects of Caffeine on the Learning and Memory in Rats     AR. Vahidi PharmD1* , MH. Dasht i PhD2     1 - Academic Member, Dept. of Pharmacology, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical sciences, Yazd, IRAN   2. Assistant Professor, Dept. of Physiology, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical sciences , Yazd, IRAN     Background: Caffeine as a methyl xanthine compound inhibits the breakdown o...

Introduction: Epilepsy is the most common disorder of the central nerves system. Patients suffering from epilepsy can experience a wide range of neuropsychological disorders such as impaired memory, disturbances in attention and information processing. Due to the effect of anticonvulsant carbamazepine and its effect on the memory and learning, the aim of this study was investigating the effect ...