OBJECTIVE Teachers' attitudes toward inclusion are often based on the practical implementation of inclusive education rather than a specific ideology and understanding of inclusiveness. This study aimed to identify the factors associated with primary school teachers' attitudes towards inclusion of students with all disabilities in regular schools. METHOD Seventy four primary school teachers p...

Teacher candidates should be prepared to integrate information and communication technology (ICT) into their future teaching practices. Despite the increased availability and support for ICT integration, relatively few teachers intend to integrate ICT into their teaching activities. The available research has thus far focused on isolated teacher related variables to explain the weak level of IC...

The aim of this study was investigating Iranian female students’ attitude towards CALL and its relationship with their level of education, computer ownership, and frequency of use. One hundred and forty-two female students (50 junior high-school students, 49 high-school students and 43 university students) participated in this study. They filled in A-CALL questionnaire that assessed their attit...

Currently, politicians, university representatives, scholars and leading NGOs share a strong belief in the ability of educational systems to generate positive attitudes to sustainable development (SD) among citizens, with the idea of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) as perhaps the most apparent expression of this conviction. The aim of this paper is to investigate whether ESD might h...

Questionnaire Data from the PIRLS 2006 study in Italy provided a number of indices in order to summarize factors of educational context influencing reading achievement. The aim of the present secondary study is to explore the relationship between these indices at school as well as pupil levels and the Rasch-scaled score for overall reading achievement. A multilevel analysis was conducted using ...