Background Currently, one of the most difficult problems facing students, teachers and their parents in educational settings is the high and growing incidence of bullying. A plethora of materials has been developed to assist people to deal with bullying but a review of the literature reveals that most approaches are didactic in nature. That is they take the teacher’s, parent’s or designer’s (ex...

Iraq is abundant with natural resources and its geographical location makes it strategically important. It is composed of a mountainous region in the northeast and the vast Syrian Desert, inhabited by a few nomadic shepherds. In the southwest lies the heart of the country which is a fertile lowland region watered by the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. Most of the population is Muslim Arabs, divide...

During the last eight years, interest in assessing the comparative performance of teachers, schools and educational policies has greatly increased in the USA, the UK and other countries. Particularly in the context of declining budgets for education, a serious concern for accountability and effectiveness of the school systerr1 has led to attempts to rate teachers, schools, education authorities...

The main objective of an Adaptive System is to adequate its relation with the user (content presentation, navigation, interface, etc.) according to a predefined but updatable model of the user that reflects his objectives, preferences, knowledge and competences [Brusilovsky, 2001], [De Bra, 2004]. For Educational Adaptive Systems, the emphasis is placed on the student knowledge in the domain ap...

In recent years, there has been an increasing interest in the development of Liberia’s educational system. Although the educational system was designed to accommodate everyone, Liberia’s illiteracy rate is still estimated at fifty-three percent (53%) as of 2015 [1]. With a current population of approximately 4.6 million [2], 33.2% of Liberians have had no education, 31.1% have had only primary ...

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conics or the science of conic sections is one of the highest theoretical topics of geometry in classical antiquity and the middle ages. it was also studied for its practical applications. in this paper, we first present a short history of conics in antiquity and the islamic civilization, then we show how this discipline was introduced in persian textbooks in the qajar period and a little after...

the aim of this study is the evaluation of gender equality in iran's educational system, as it is regarded as being one of the most important national and international goals. an evaluative research method, along with a secondary analysis method of iran's 2011 census analysis, have been employed for this purpose.results show that, in total, the age group of up to 34 years old, those i...