As more Latinos experience upward social mobility, it is increasingly necessary to challenge oppositional cultural assumptions to explain how perceived minority status barriers may influence their academic achievement. The present study builds on previous work that identified 3 distinct minority status orientations among Latino college students entering elite colleges-which the authors call ass...

Despite considerable change in the content and structure of teacher education over the last 40 years, the pedagogical framework of most programs has remained remarkably consistent. Most programs involve three pedagogical phases: (1) studying about practice, (2) observing and trying out practice under simulated or actual classroom conditions, and (3) comparing and elaborating practice in classro...

To examine the correlations among environmental perceptions, motivational beliefs, and self-regulating learning of Tehran high school third-year boys, a causal model was used and 685 students were selected by multistage cluster-sampling method. The motivated Strategies for Learning Questionnaire (Pintrich & De Groot, 1990), Students' Achievement Goal Orientations (Midgley, Kaplan, Middleton, Ma...

This paper presents results from a study investigating the effect of a guided inquiry and modeling instructional framework and accompanying science methods instruction on preservice elementary teacher’s science pedagogy skills and teaching orientations. Analysis of pre-service teacher’s pre-post tests, classroom artifacts, peer interviews, and lesson plans throughout the semester, indicates the...

The purpose of this research was to investigate the associations between students’ bullying behaviors in Islamic private schools, Pattani province and classroom management factors (democracy, authoritarian, and permissive classroom management), family upbringing factors (strict, permissive, and democracy upbringing), environment violence factors (influence of peers violence, community violence,...

This study aims at empirically furthering awareness of the organization of interaction in EFL classes. Informed by the methodological framework of conversation analysis, it draws upon a corpus of 52 three-hour naturally-occurring classroom interaction to identify classroom interactional contexts based on the structuring of the pedagogic goals in turn-taking sequences. Conversation analytic proc...

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This study explored the relationship among EFL teachers’ self-efficacy, language proficiency, and classroom management. A total of 110 Iranian EFL teachers of different levels of high schools and private language schools in Tehran participated in this research. The data were collected through two questionnaires and one test: the Teacher Self-Efficacy Scale and a sample TOEFL were administered i...

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This paper presents web-based virtual laboratory system for electronic and digital circuit experiments. Through our virtual laboratory, the learners will be capable of learning the concepts and theories related to circuit experiments and how to operate the virtual experimental equipments such as multimeters, function generators, digital oscilloscopes, DC power suppliers and bread board etc. The...