Background and Objective: Affective factors teaching and learning can improve the quality of education and educational evaluation to determine the success rate in achieving goals of the faculty. This study examines the views of Lorestan University of Medical Sciences faculty about the practices, processes and quality of teaching performance in 2013. Material and methods: This study is a descri...

abstract the purpose of this study was to find out the effect of applying the principles of group-dynamic assessment (g-da) on learning of conditional structures in english by iranian efl learners at the intermediate level, which according to the formal educational system in iran, includes students who are in their second year of studying in high schools of koohdasht city. this study was a qua...

plagiarism in esl/efl learning contexts has been established as a dynamic and multi-layered phenomenon and has become a topic engaging many researchers in a heated debate in recent years. comparisons of student-generated texts with their source texts have shown that students rely on source texts in their writings and copying is a major strategy used by both l1 and l2 writers. in our country a...

the major purpose of this study was to develop the translation teacher competency test (ttct) and examine its construct and predictive validity. the present study was conducted in two phases: a qualitative phase as well as a quantitative phase. in the first phase of the study, the author attempted to find out the major areas of competency required for an academic translation teacher. the second...

the purpose of this study is to investigate the relationships between teachers’ immediacy behaviors and iranian students’ willingness to talk in english classes. analysis of the results from willingness to talk scale represents a relatively high level of willingness to talk in english classrooms among iranian language learners. the total mean score of students’ willingness to talk was 66.3 ou...

Introduction: The promotion of teaching quality in the universities is an important issue that has been emphasized in recent years. Professors’ evaluation is one of the common methods to determine the professors teaching purposes achievement. Therefore this study presents the importance of medical universities’ professors in Iran. Methods: Documents in the libraries and internet were revi...

Introduction: Comparing the results of students' evaluation and faculty members' self-evaluation can reveal the strengths and weaknesses of faculty members in teaching. The aim of this study was to compare students' evaluation of teaching and faculty members' self-evaluation in School of Health in Bandar Abbas. Methods: The population under study in this cross-sectional survey was faculty memb...

  Background & Aim: Recognition of strengths and weaknesses of evaluation content will help the educational manager to provide the possibility of evaluation quality improvement. The aim of this study was to determine the most important priorities of teacher performance evaluation from within students’ and faculties’ perspective.   Material & Methods: It was a descriptive cross- sectional study....