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Teachers’ Professional Competencies: Past, Present, and Future

Teachers’ Professional Competencies: Past, Present, and Future   M. Rezaai, Ph.D.*   The purpose of this paper is to review the expected professional competencies throughout the history of teacher training in Iran. As such it covers both the past, covering the period from teacher training inception in 1918 to the Islamic revolution in 1979; and the present, since the revolution. Of course t...

A Meta-Analysis of the Effectiveness of Solution-Based Group Counseling in Iranian Schools over the Past Decade

A Meta-Analysis of the Effectiveness of Solution-Based Group Counseling in Iranian Schools over the Past Decade   E. Mohammadyaari* S. Hosseyniyaan, Ph.D.**   During the past decade many researchers have studied the effectiveness of solution-based group counseling in improving characteristics such as self-efficacy, social adaptation, and academic motivation among school age children. Many ...

Learning Causality from Textual Data

We present a new methodology for modeling and predicting future events through machine learning and data mining techniques from textual data. Modeled events span across varied domains including politics, economy and society. The model employs human-style prediction techniques such as causality inference, generalization and projection based on past experience. For this purpose, we use news archi...