The relevance gap between academic research and the world of practice is a perennial topic of discussion in all fields, including the information technology disciplines. The common sense view of the issue concludes that academic research frequently fails to address the ‘street level’ problems that business information technology wrestles with, and so isn’t interesting to practice. This is prima...

EAP plays a highly important role in countries where English is used mainly for academic purposes. However, EAP programs have been developed without conducting a systematic needs analysis from both the students’ and instructors’ perspective. The purpose of this study is to describe the perception that EAP students and instructors have of the problematic areas in EAP programs. A total of 693 EAP...

This study aimed to analyze the academic standards of teaching physical education methods according to competencies fields, identify student/teacher teaching competencies in motor expression teaching methods syllabus according to quality academic standards and designing teaching competencies evaluation form for student/teacher in fourth grade, Education Department, Faculty of Physical Education...

The number of scholarly documents available on the web is estimated using capture/recapture methods by studying the coverage of two major academic search engines: Google Scholar and Microsoft Academic Search. Our estimates show that at least 114 million English-language scholarly documents are accessible on the web, of which Google Scholar has nearly 100 million. Of these, we estimate that at l...

This study focused on entry to and attainment of bachelor’s degrees in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields, by examining gender and race/ethnicity in an intersectional manner and paying particular attention to STEM subfields. The intersectional analysis extends previous research findings that female students are more likely to persist in college once they are in a ST...

Employing a nationally representative sample of science faculty in U.S. colleges, we investigate 3 explanations for persisting differences in women’s faculty representation across science fields even after adjusting for women’s variable representation among doctoral recipients. First, we examine labor market factors: (a) differential growth rates and “critical mass” in the supply of women docto...

This paper investigates the consequences of institutional changes on academic research practices in eight fields of natural science. We analyze the similarities and differences among the dynamics of these different fields and reflect on possible explanations for the changes observed. This study shows that the increasing pressure for productivity, as measured in bibliometric terms, can counterac...

Vince Graziano is a Reference Librarian in Webster Library at Concordia University; e-mail: [email protected]. © 2016 Vince Graziano, Attribution-NonCommercial (http://creativecommons.org/ licenses/by-nc/3.0/) CC BY-NC. Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer (LGBTQ) Studies and the broader discipline of sexuality studies are multidisciplinary fields that require a different app...

introduction: student admission indicators typically depend on either student fields or community current career needs. in addition, specific fields have particular needs. the main aim was to determine student admission indicators in medical records field in different degrees in isfahan medical sciences university in iran in 2007. methods: this study was analytical in which data were collected ...