Programming as Pedagogy in the Academic Library

the relationship between academic self-concept and academic achievement in english and general subjects of the students of high school

according to research, academic self-concept and academic achievement are mutually interdependent. in the present study, the aim was to determine the relationship between the academic self-concept and the academic achievement of students in english as a foreign language and general subjects. the participants were 320 students studying in 4th grade of high school in three cities of noor, nowshah...

Business As Usual : Amazon . com and the Academic Library

Mary K. Van Ullen is the Bibliographer for Business, Economics, and Geography, University at Albany, University Library, LI-328, Albany, New York 12222 [email protected] ; and Carol Anne Germain is the Networked Resources Education Librarian, University at Albany, University Library, LI-128, Albany, New York 12222 [email protected] . S teve Coffman proposed that libraries emulate Amazon.com, t...

Academic literacies: a pedagogy for course design

This article examines how research findings from the field of academic literacies might be used to underpin course design across the broad curriculum of higher education. During the last decade this research has unpacked the complex relationship between writing and learning, and pointed to gaps in students’ and tutors’ understanding of what is involved in writing for assessment. The article tak...

Evolving academic library specialties

Quality assessment of academic library performance: the case of an Iranian academic library

The present research aims to assess the performance of libraries at the Islamic Azad University, Sciences and Research Branch (IAUSRB) through gap analysis. To do this, a researcher-developed questionnaire which is based on available standards and quality assessment tools including ACRL standards, LibQUAL and ISO 11620, and some criteria included in the related literature was designed and distr...