Teacher training programs should provide evidence that they are preparing teacher trainees for their teaching career. However, the literature contains few evaluation reports of the layout of the pre-service EFL teacher training program in Iranian EFL context, a gap which this study tries to fill. The participants of the study were high school EFL teachers (n = 346), teacher trainees (n = 97) an...

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...

The purpose of this study is to determine the impact madrasah principal leadership and discipline on teacher performance at Baitul Muslim Integrated Islamic Elementary School Way Jepara, Lampung Timur, Indonesia. Correlational research design used test strength or weakness relationship between perceptions leadership, work discipline, with performance. a population study. data were collected usi...

Introduction: Over the past 30 years, recognizing the need andimportance of training residents in teaching skills has resulted inseveral resident-as-teacher programs. The purpose of this studywas to explore the impact of this teaching initiative and investigatethe improvement in residents’ teaching skills through evaluatingtheir satisfaction and perceived effectiveness as well as assessingmedic...

We distinguish two types of metric for the evaluation of rule-based learning systems: performance metrics are derived from the feedback to the learning agent from its teacher or environment, while population state metrics are derived from inspection of the rule base used for decision making. We propose novel population state metrics for use with learning classifier systems, evaluate them using ...

We investigated the effects of teacher human and social capital on growth in student performance in a sample of 1,013 teachers organized into 239 grade teams. We found that teacher human capital that is specific to a setting and task, and some indicators of teacher social capital, predicted student performance improvement. At the team level, average educational attainment and horizontal tie str...

With the increase of ubiquitous data all over the internet, intelligent classroom systems that integrate traditional learning techniques with modern e-learning tools have become quite popular and necessary today. Although a substantial amount of work has been done in the field of e-learning, specifically in automation of objective question and answer evaluation, personalized learning, adaptive ...

this paper discusses the performance evaluation and availability analysis of ammonia synthesis unit of a fertilizer plant. the fertilizer plant is a complex and repairable engineering system comprises of various units viz. shell gasification and carbon recovery, desulphurization, co-shift conversion, decarbonation, nitrogen wash and ammonia synthesis etc. one of the most important functionaries...