Academic Optimism, Occupational Goal Orientation, and Job Satisfaction among Teachers R. Badri Gargari, Ph.D. M. Beyraami, Ph.D. S. Gholaami Job satisfaction is a function of many socio-cognitive factors among which are those measured in this study. A sample of 274 teachers randomly selected from among all elementary school teachers in Tabriz was given three questionnaires ...

Academic rankings today are the backbone of research governance, which seem to fit the aims of “new public management” on the one side and the idea of the “republic of science” on the other side. Nevertheless rankings recently came under scrutiny. We discuss advantages and disadvantages of academic rankings, in particular their unintended negative consequences on the research process. To counte...

We present the development of a Norwegian Academic Wordlist (AKA list) for the Norwegian Bokmål variety. To identify specific academic vocabulary we developed a 100-million-word academic corpus based on the University of Oslo archive of digital publications. Other corpora were used for testing and developing general word lists. We tried two different methods, those of Carlund et al. (2012) and ...

To determine the relationship between perceived goal structure and academic resilience mediated by academic motivation, a cluster sample of 461 high school students in Tehran was administered three instruments measuring the said constructs. Assuming the validities and reliabilities of the instruments, data analyses revealed that external motivation mediates the relationship between performance ...

background: different postdesigns and materials are available; however, no consensus exists regarding superiority for stress distribution. the aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of design and material of post with or without ferrule on stress distribution using finite element analysis. materials and methods: a total of 12 three‑dimensional (3d) axisymmetric models of postretained cent...