the applicability of second language instruction to various situations including academic settings provides great opportunities for students and researchers to access fresh sources of knowledge. this is extended to the majority of iranian students receiving courses such as english for specific purposes (esp) and english for academic purposes (eap) who may not find instruction compatible with th...

Performance standards have important consequences for all the stakeholders in assessment of L2 academic writing. These not only describe level writing performance but also provide a basis making evaluative decisions on Such high-stakes role requires enhancement objectivity standard setting procedure. Accordingly, this study aims to shed light upon usefulness Objective Standard Setting (OSS) met...

The purpose of this study was to locate the common discrepancy sites in a periodontal examination by new student dentists in a dental school setting and to evaluate student progress after one year of clinical training. Sixty-nine patients were enrolled in the initial phase of this study. Periodontal probing examinations were performed by both dental students and calibrated faculty members. A to...

Team work is an important training element of future software engineers. However, the evaluation of the performance of collaboration among individuals is very subjective. Meanwhile, how to effectively promote the collaboration in an academic setting is an even more challenging task. The lack of a common standard or method for the assessment is a practical issue in software engineering projects....