Teacher questions are claimed to be constitutive of classroom interaction because of their crucial role both in the construction of knowledge and the organization of classroom proceedings (Dalton Puffer, 2007). Most of previous research on teachers’ questions mainly focused on identifying and discovering different question types believed to be helpful in creating the opportunities for learners’...

A survey regarding upper-extremity steroid injection practices was distributed to all active members of the American Society for Surgery of the Hand (ASSH) and American Shoulder and Elbow Surgeons (ASES) using SurveyMonkey. Response rates for the ASSH and ASES were 26% and 24%, respectively. The potency-adjusted dose of steroid injected for common hand and wrist injections ranged from 0.375 to ...

The gap between known benefits of socio-constructivist pedagogies to online instruction, and schoolteacher practices has been widely documented. To better understand the gap this research characterizes the range of schoolteachers’ online practices and the relation between their pedagogical perceptions and these practices. Two groups of teachers were studied: Novices and leaders in online instru...

This study investigated the effect of Narrow Reading (NR) on learning mid-frequency words. Vocabulary Size Test (VST) designed by Nation and Beglar (2007) was administered as the first pre-test to 196 students, from among whom 91 students whose vocabulary size ranged between 2100- 3500-word families, , became the target of this study and were randomly c...

This paper sets out an approach to conceptualizing, planning and implementing science instruction, based on a sociocultural perspective, which recognizes the central importance of carefully identifying learning goals during the different phases of a teaching sequence and addressing these through different kinds of classroom talk. Two key planning tools are introduced. Firstly there is the conce...

background and objectives: diabetes mellitus is among the most common causes of mortality in the world and an important risk factor for chronic kidney disease, foot amputation, ischemic heart disease and blindness among older adults. diabetic patients mostly develop hyperlipidemia, which can result in cardiovascular diseases. patient’s knowledge, attitude and practices toward diet are the core ...

In the present research, we evaluated the effectiveness of a multi-year professional development program in mathematics for elementary teachers. Each year the program focused on a different domain of mathematics. We found the program increased teachers’ knowledge of (a) number and operations, (b) measurement and geometry, and (c) probability and statistics. We also examined the relation between...