I started school in a one-room school house with nine grades but just six students. I was the entire kindergarten (called ‘primary’ in Iowa). The teacher would call us one by one to sit in the chair next to her desk. In my case, it was always a pleasant interlude. There was never a sense in my mind that she wanted me to do something. She would often mention something interesting and let it go a...

the relationship between types of thinking styles and academic adjustment among nursing students     zarei ha [1] *, mierhashme m [2]     received: 18 feb, 2012 accepted: 30 may, 2012     abstract:   background & aims : adjustment and its different aspects is considered as a basic and extensive discussions in psychology, therefore identifying of related factors –apart from increasing domains of...

networking and entering into official and unofficial networks is the main way for individuals to get promoted in organizations. so entering into academic networks at universities has become a challenge for people who would like to promote their academic position. in iran despite a notable increase in the women’s presence in universities, their entrance into academic networks and promoting their...

the present study is an investigation into the relationship between iranian efl teachers’ degree of creativity and language learners’ academic achievement. to this end, six female english teachers and 81 male and female advanced english learners from a private language institute were asked to take part in the study. data were collected through torrance test of creative thinking (ttct) and stude...

objective: this research was conducted to study the effectiveness of self-regulation training among female students’ academic achievement motivation in birjand city, iran. methods: in this interventional comparative study (pretest-posttest design with control group), 84 eighth grade students (from public intermediate schools) in birjand were selected through multi-stage cluster sampling. they w...

Background: With regard to research evidence, moral incivility has expanded in the educational environment one of these incivilities can be called academic incivility. The aim of present research was to investigation the mediating role of academic engagement in the relationship between academic motivation and academic incivility. Method: The present study is descriptive-correlational, that fro...