Advancements in information and communication technology (ICT) allowed several tools and systems to be proposed for improving classroom experiences to both instructors and students. However, most of these tools were brand-new and stand-alone programs that require users to invest additional time and effort to become familiar with their use. This requirement could adversely affect the users’ moti...

a study on the academic motivation and its relation with individual state and academic achievement on basic medical students of urmia university of medical sciences     roshan milan s [1] , aghaii monvar i [2] , kheradmand f [3] , saboory e [4] , mikaili p [5] , masudi s [6] , motazakker m [7] *     received: 29july, 2011 accepted: 28august, 2011     abstract   background & aims : the learning ...

motivation is perhaps the most frequently used term for explaining the success and failure of educational tasks. numerous studies have shown that motivation is a key to learning (gardner and lambert, 1972). however, such experiments give us an understanding of what motivation is and what the components of motivation are. but they usually fail to reveal that someone is motivated or how we can cr...

Introduction Traditional teacher-centered methods of teaching and learning are passive and affected by teacher's functions and horizons. Today, active teaching methods include teaching  students to be able to observe the situation for exploring and thinking deeper about the issue or problem . So the aim of this study is to survey students' views about the advantages of quizzes  in studying micr...

The purpose of this study is to examine the link between learning motivation among teaching trainees and selfefficacy and the rate of participation in choosing the profession of teaching. The main assumptions: There will be a clear positive link between the rate of self-efficacy of students and academic motivation, with its various elements. There will be a clear positive link between the rate ...