this study was conducted to investigate the impact of portfolio assessment as a process-oriented assessment mechanism on iranian efl students’ english writing and its subskills of focus, elaboration, organization, conventions, and vocabulary. out of ninety juniors majoring in english literature and translation at the university of isfahan, sixty one of them who were at the same level of writing...

The aim of the present study was to validate the Pathological Narcissism Inventory (PNI) in a sample of Iranian university students. The PNI was developed using a rigorous translation/back-translation process. Participants consisted of 473 (195 female, 278 male) university students in Tehran, Iran including, University of Tehran, Tehran Medical University of Tehran, Allameh Tabata’ei University...

abstract this study evaluated and compared medical terminology and english for the students of medicine (ii) as two representatives of the textbooks available on the iranian market for teaching english to the students of medicine. this research was performed on the basis of a teacher’s and a number of students’ attitudes and the students’ needs analysis for two reasons: first, to investigate...

learning-oriented assessment seeks to emphasise that a fundamental purpose of assessment should be to promote learning. it mirrors formative assessment and assessment for learning processes. it can be defined as actions undertaken by teachers and / or students, which provide feedback for the improvement of teaching and learning. it also contrasts with equally important measurement-focused appro...

The aim of this study was to analyze difficulties and solutions of teamwork in faculty members' research activities. This applied research used qualitative method as the research strategy. The data collection tool was semi-structured interview. For this study, four comprehensive universities in Tehran including University of Tehran, Shahid Beheshti University, Kharazmi University and Tarbiat Mo...

  Tree uprooting creates multiple microsites that can be effective on soil heterogeneity. In order to investigate the soil features in pit and mound location, twenty hectare areas of Tarbiat Modares University Experimental Forest Station studied that is located in Mazandaran province, in the north of Iran. Numbers of thirty four uprooted trees were found in study areas. Five microsites were con...

The Effect of Socio-Economic Situation on Smoking in Urban Households of Iran Mohsen Hasani 1, Bahram Sahabi 1, *, Sajjad Faraji Dizaji 1, Gharaman Abdoli2 1Faculty of Management and Economics, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran 2Faculty of Economics, Tehran University, Tehran, Iran Abstract Background: To adopt the best strategies to reduce smoking, identifying the factors that affect ...