The present study was an attempt to investigate the validity of the English section of Iranian Universities PhD Entrance Exam in TEFL. To this end, 15 EFL learners from university of Isfahan who were in their last semester of that MA education were invited to contribute to the study. A group of 5 university lecturers were also asked to support the study as expert judges. A TOEFL reading paper w...

This study tried to examine EFL translators’ uncertainty and uncertainty management strategies through employing think aloud procedures. The participants of this study were some MA andBA translators selected from several universities in Iran. To this aim, a proficiency test was firstly administered among the volunteers. Then, think aloud protocol and retrospective interview were used to collect...

Think Aloud (TA) has been used as a tool to promote self-regulation and reflection in coaches, yet it not employed the same context support athletes. The aim of present study was understand golfers’ perceptions using TA at two time points: immediately postperformance after 6- 8-week period. Six golfers (five male, one female; age: M = 30.8 years, SD 14.8; handicap: 6.92, 3.9) during performance...

<p><strong>Abstract:</strong> This study aims to find out the misconceptions experienced by students during learning process using <em>think aloud protocol (TAP) </em>and physics multiple choice tests (TPGF) on hydrostatic pressure materials. research design uses <em>mixed method </em>with <em>embedded experimental design.</em> Quantitative ...

In this paper, review and research is made on usability testing in the Geo-information environment, as used in modern digital cartographic visualization. Modern Cartography is more than the presentations of geographical information in a map form. Nowadays, it is seen as Geo-visualization, involving the visual exploration of data by an individual scientist as well as the final presentation to a ...

This study demonstrates that explicit metacognitive training appear to benefit lower achievers’ mathematical word problem solving in a computer environment. 11 to 12year-old Singaporean students in collaborative pairs were assigned to two word problem solving groups. The first group received explicit metacognitive training before word problem solving with WordMath (treatment); and the second gr...

Chapter 1: Introduction: A Hidden World of Nonformal Expert Reasoning This chapter motivates the study of nonformal methods experts use during the process of creative theory formation rather than those they display in polished articles after the fact, and describes the method of video taped think aloud protocols used in this study. The tapes capture scientists in the act of: mentally performing...

EQUALIZATION REVISITED: ITS ROLE AND DESIGN BY ROBIN BOADWAY QUEEN’S UNIVERSITY Introduction Equalization is very much in the news these days. The program is the last vestige of the 1970s’ federal-provincial fiscal arrangements to remain more or less intact over the period of federal retrenchment. As such, it seems to be a sitting duck, a target for potshots from think tanks, pundits, ex-politi...

Users involved in task fulfillment during usability testing undergo layers of affective and cognitive processing which has been of interest to the community of interaction designers. The iterative cycles of User Centered Design process utilize this information from users for the redesign process. Think Aloud, which is the most prevalent Usability evaluation method in practice, has been criticiz...