An exercise in course-book evaluation: Strengths, weaknesses, and recommendations regarding New English File: Elementary

new perspective in prospect: an assessment of strengths and weaknesses of iranian second year junior high school english textbooks

abstract textbook design and evaluation has recently turned into a very important area in english language teaching. this paper evaluates the english textbooks taught in iranian junior high schools: right path to english which was the medium of instruction until 2013 and the recently designed textbook-prospect- which replaced it. for this purpose, tucker’s (1975) textbook evaluation model was e...

CBR: Strengths and Weaknesses

There is considerable enthusiasm about Case-Based Reasoning as a means of developing knowledge-based systems. There are two broad reasons for this enthusiasm. First, it is evident that much of human expert competence is experience based and it makes sense to adopt a reuse-based methodology for developing knowledge based systems. The other reason is the expectation that using Case-Based Reasonin...

Self-Assessment as a New Challenge in Iranian Context: Its Strengths and Weaknesses

Evaluation of an ESL English Course Book: A Step towards Systematic Vocabulary Evaluation

This study was an attempt to evaluate English Pre-University text book of Karnataka state in India with respect to general criterion as well as vocabulary teaching. To this end two types of evaluation were performed. First a questionnaire was made with reference to some critical features extracted from different material evaluation checklists in addition to, a part related to different strategi...

Comparing Strengths and Weaknesses of Learning Theories

Introduction: Medical education is changing. Therefore, teachers need to evaluate their performance and try to maximize learning. Learning theories can provide insight in this important issue. This study aimed to review the strengths and weaknesses of learning theories including behavioral, cognitive and humanistic theories. Methods: In this study, some literatures related to learning theories...