Although grades are the most ubiquitous currency of educational measurement around the globe, their meaning, particularly in understudied settings as in Iran, is still shrouded in mystery. The purpose of this study was to investigate EFL teachers’ class grades by focusing on the less verbalized aspects of grading to see what a grade means. Five Iranian English language teachers working ...

Organizations are increasingly using the Internet to manage activities through geographically dispersed teams. This is particularly appropriate for knowledge acquisition where input from appropriate experts is vital, and placing constraints of time and location on the knowledge engineering process can undermine effective access. This article reports on WebGrid-III, a system using extended reper...

Employed individuals from a range of jobs (n=18) were interviewed using a repertory grid technique, to explore the criteria they used to distinguish between different jobs. The concepts of 'a good job' and 'a job good for health' were also discussed. Interactions with others and the job itself were the most commonly used criteria and were also the most common features of a 'good job'. Pay and s...

Seventy-six people (aged 18-62 years) diagnosed with either a chronic tic disorder or a habit disorder, entering a treatment study, kept a baseline daily diary for at least ten days, noting tic frequency and activity at time of onset. Together with an evaluator, participants completed a form ranking three high-risk activities where the tic or habit was likely to appear, and three low-risk activ...

Due to the knowledge explosion, the new objects will be evolved in a dynamic environment. Hence, the knowledge can be classified into static knowledge and dynamic knowledge. Although many knowledge acquisition methodologies, based upon the Repertory Grid technique, have been proposed to systematically elicit useful rules from static grid from domain experts, they lack the ability of grid evolut...