Background and Purpose: Teaching is a mutual and cooperative process in which the learner and teacher both get affected, thus its effectiveness should be studied from the viewpoint of students and teachers so that by approximating the viewpoints, more effectiveness can be achieved in education, therefore we aimed to study the characteristics of effective teaching from the viewpoint of students ...

This paper deals with the relationship between teaching methods and techniques on one hand and critical thinking on the other hand, with special emphasis on laboratory method and practical work in teaching physics. Classroom lecture with memorizing facts and recall information does not develop critical thinking. But, is the laboratory practice appropriate method in terms of fostering critical t...

Throughout the 25-year history of research on stimulus equivalence, one feature of the training procedure has remained constant, namely, the requirement of operant responding during the training procedures. The present investigation compared the traditional match-to-sample (MTS) training with a more recent respondent-type (ReT) procedure. Another consistent feature of the equivalence paradigm i...

Background Some children with severe learning difficulties fail to begin word recognition. For these children there is a need an effective and appropriate pedagogy. However, conflicting advice can be found regarding this derived from teaching approaches which are not based on a shared understanding of how reading develops or the skills which the non-reader needs to master Purpose In this resear...