Competitive computer gaming or eSports is a phenomenon that has become a fundamental element in today’s digital youth culture. So far very little effort has been made to study eSports in particular with respect to its potentials to positively influence research developments in other areas. This paper therefore tries to lay a foundation for a proper academic treatment of eSports. It presents a s...

Some consider assessment in terms of a systematic way of gathering and evaluating information within educational system and particularly higher education. Since, the term ‘’assessment’’ refers and relates to administrative processes, this paper has shed light some consideration on how it can benefit the members of department and program. Program assessment ultimately emphasizes on direction for...

introduction: high quality of care is one of the requirements of nursing which depends on the nursing competency. in this connection, the aim of this research was to determine the problems related to the academic training (nursing’ educational program) and clinical practice to achieve competency from the viewpoint of nurses, faculty members, and nursing students. methods: the study was an analy...

Introduction: The present study aimed to find an appropriate method toinform senior high school students to correctly select their academic field ofstudy and their intentions.Methods: This is a descriptive-analytic and cross-sectional study. A verifiedquestionnaire was given to a total of 2600 students selected by stratified random sampling method (ten different colleges and entrance year from ...

Background: Each year many universities are admitting and graduating students, and in this perpetual cycle, paying attention to the quality of education and the environmental conditionsare of prime importance. Lack of academic success not only leads to waste of time and cost of training centers, but also causes psychological , familial, and community problems for students and their families. In...

Hedging academic claims has been recognized as one of integral pragmatic features of academic writing in which most EFL academic writers seem to face substantial problems. Explicit instruction has been proposed by some scholars as an effective approach to make EFL writers aware of the importance, different forms, and pragmatic functions of hedging devices some of which are polysemous and polypr...

Hedges, as tools to express tentativeness and doubt, have been studied in plenty of research papers in the Iranian EFL research setting. However, their use in a learner corpus, portraying Iranian learner English, is in need of more research attention. With this end in view, this study aimed at investigating how Iranian EFL learners who have majored in English-related fields in Iran deployed hed...