Today, great a number of assessment methods have been practiced in educational systems. However, Dynamic Assessment (DA), as the modern assessment method with its emphasis on improvement and development of learning through joining teaching and assessment, is of paramount significance. Thus, one can call DA as a major and revolutionizing factor in teaching and assessment. So far, some conducted ...

The present study is a research which explores the relationship between introversion/extroversion and the use of vocabulary learning strategies. The participants were 80 male and female EFL students of University of Sistan and Baluchestan who had studied EFL at the university for at least two years and were randomly selected. The participants were selected after excluding those who got L scores...

The study in this paper describes how we used a combination of interaction tracking data and stimulated-recall interviews to evaluate student engagement with two online chemistry modules. An engagement index (IE) was developed and tested for accuracy and validity. The students that appeared to engage well were more likely to be matureage and/or studying in external study mode, extroverts, and v...

in recent years, language-learning research has been more concerned with factors that may affect the choice of learning strategies among learners. in studies conducted by cohen (1990), ehrman and oxford (1995), macintyre and gardner (1989) and reid (1987), these factors have been identified as motivation, gender, learning style, previous experience, and personality type. this study attempts to ...

Gamification in education is being used as a way to increase the student's engagement and learning. While carrying a big promise, little is known about the influence of game elements and mechanics on different personalities, specifically extrovert and introverts, knowledge that is essential to ensure implementations that will not disengage part of the students. In a study performed in an academ...

Considering the importance of learners' characteristics in facilitating or hindering second language oral communication, two personality traits that have received a lot attention from researchers are extroversion and introversion. However, their findings been contradictory - some found correlates significantly with speaking skills while others disconfirm this finding. This study aimed to examin...

In this book Eysenck presents a solution to modern social problems, namely that his own particular branch of behaviourist psychology can offer modern civilization a way out of its social dilemmas. Education , psychiatry, sexuality, pornography and political attitudes are considered in turn. Social action, Eysenck argues, should take account of inborn differences of personality and intelligence....