testing as a general trait of social life has received a great deal of attention by many language teachers and scholars. throughout history, people have been tested to prove their abilities and experiences or to confirm their capacities. many authorities have said that assessment and instruction should be integrated as a single and inseparable activity which seeks to understand development by a...

alternative assessment approaches received considerable attention soon after a discontent with traditional, one-shot testing. these approaches, however, have been used only to improve learners’ linguistic ability despite communicative models of language which pointed that knowledge of language also involves pragmatic ability (bachman, 1990; bachman & palmer, 1996). the present study tries t...

A study was conducted to assess how a new metric, average in-home gait speed (AIGS), measured using a low-cost, continuous, environmentally mounted monitoring system, compares to a set of traditional physical performance instruments used for mobility and fall risk assessment of elderly adults. Sixteen participants were recruited from a local independent living facility. In addition to having th...

Recent educational developments such as constructivism and multiple intelligence theories as well as society requested new trends engendered to radical change in traditional approaches of instruction and assessment. For this reason, alternative assessment approaches are needed in assessing both learning process and learning product. Nowadays, one of the alternative assessment techniques used in...

Environmental researchers in Iran have encountered serious and new challenges about the methods that responding to research demands for development, because of the rapid economic and social development of Iran during the last decades. On one side, traditional methods of environmental impact assessment have been criticized severely by specialists. On the other hand, theoretical bases and practic...

1 Ladimer S. Nagurney, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Hartford, West Hartford, CT 06117 [email protected] Abstract  This paper reports our experiences in teaching introductory programming for engineers in an interactive classroom.. We describe how the course has evolved from the traditional course, the structure of the classroom, the choice of softwar...

Accountability concerns in language education call for the development of more valid and authentic measures of assessment. In light of these concerns, performance assessment has received increasing interest in the context of teacher education programs and teacher licensing over the last decade. In Iran, a recent policy adopted by Farhangian University aims at assessing the professional competen...