Introduction: The critical thinking disposition and related factors as one of the professional competencies of faculty members have attracted many educational researchers᾽ attention. Teaching styles are also effective factors in developing skills and tendency of critical thinking that can be effective in strengthening critical thinking. The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship ...

Introduction: Motivation and job satisfaction of faculty can play a fundamental role in their performance. Inattention to staff’s job satisfaction causes cessation, relative stagnation and evanescence of them. Therefore this study aimed to determine job satisfaction of academic members in two selected Tehran’s military universities in year 2010. Methods: In this descriptive, cross-sectional st...

recent studies in scientific education as well as foreign and second language instruction suggest that thinking has rarely been an integral part of education and training in classroom. some scholars decried the lack of emphasis on thinking in the institutes and schools. they noted that memorization and drills were rewarded,while inquiry, reflection, and consideration of alternatives were frowne...

Background and Objective: Faculty Members of the university have a fundamental role in education and its quality. Working conditions of the faculty members have made them face severe musculoskeletal disorders. The spread of the COVID-19 virus, the closure of universities and the virtual education have made working conditions of the faculty members more difficult than before. This study was cond...

Introduction: Metacognitive awareness is crucial to the adoption and application of proven educational initiatives. The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between meta-cognitive awareness of faculty members, and higher order thinking instruction to students in Isfahan University of Medical Science within 2009- 2010 academic years. Methods: This descriptive- correlation stud...

in this project, 4,4?-methylenebis(3-chloro-2,6-diethyl trimellitimidobenzene) as a diacid, was prepared by the reaction of trimellitic anhydride (tma) with 4,4?-methylenebis(3-chloro-2,6-diethylaniline) (mcdea). the novel poly(amide-imide) (pai) was synthesized from the reaction of 4,4?-methylenebis(3-chloro-2,6-diethyl trimellitimidobenzene) as a diacid with mcdea under green condition using ...

abstract in written mode of language, metadiscourse markers are used commonly to help writers in general and academic writers in particular to produce coherent and professional texts. the purpose of the present study was to compare introduction sections of applied linguistics and physics articles regarding their use of interactive and interactional metadiscourse markers based on the model pro...

the extent to which written corrective feedback on linguistic errors can play a role in helping l2 writers improve the accuracy of their writing continues to be an issue of interest to researchers and teachers since truscott (1996) mounted a case for its abolition. while there is growing empirical evidence that written corrective feedback can successfully target some types of linguistic error (...